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Aileen Lee, co-founder of seed venture capital firm Cowboy Ventures, famously coined the term “unicorn” to describe tech companies with billion-dollar valuations back in 2013. Now she’s using “ZIRPicorns” to describe the hundreds of startups that haven’t raised money since the zero-interest rate period and whose valuations are likely wildly off base. In a blog post celebrating the 10th birthday of her famous term, she writes that 40% of the 532 U.S. unicorns are trading at valuations below $1 billion in the
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An East Bay apartment complex has been bought at a price that's well below its prior value. Read more ›
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A PG&E Corp. unit has bought a San Jose building in a move to bolster the utility's South Bay operations. Read more ›
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A suspected system failure froze Baidu’s robotaxis across Wuhan, trapping passengers and reportedly causing traffic disruptions and crashes. Read more ›
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Two Apache helicopters flew near Kid Rock's Nashville home over the weekend, triggering a suspension of the flight crews and an internal review. Read more ›
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Waymo takes great pains to never describe its vehicles as giving up autonomy completely. Tesla doesn't seem to care. Read more ›
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From rock band downloads to unreliable keyboards, here are the biggest Apple misfires in the last fifty years. Read more ›
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Alibaba rolls out autonomous digital workers to millions of Taobao and Tmall merchants. It bets the token economy, not the chatbot, is where AI value lands. The conversation surrounding AI agents has been running ahead of the evidence for some time now. Most enterprise deployments are still in pilot mode, confined to controlled workflows, narrow ... Read more ›
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Nike's Q3 2026 results show flat revenue and a stock drop. CEO Elliott Hill emphasized running growth amid challenges in digital and sportswear. Read more ›
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Samsung's blood pressure measurement is now available in the US for the Galaxy Watch4 and later models running Wear OS 4 and higher. The blood pressure monitoring and tracking is handled by the Samsung Health Monitor app. The only caveat is that, in order to ensure accuracy, you need to use an upper arm cuff every 28 days to calibrate the watch's readings. The Galaxy Watches measure systolic and diastolic... Read more ›
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As a DarkSword takeover technique spreads, Apple tells WIRED it will release fixes for millions of iPhone owners who remain on iOS 18 rather than force them to update to iOS 26 simply to be protected. Read more ›
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If you’re looking for the best time to get a deal this spring, it might very well be during Amazon’s Big Spring Sale, which runs through 11:59PM PT tonight. We’re still highlighting the best that the sale has to offer, including the many so-called “doorbuster” deals that will appear throughout the remainder of the seasonal […] Read more ›
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Transponders can make paying for a toll easy, automatically charging you when you pass through a toll. However, they don't always work as intended. Read more ›
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NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, and Christina Koch, together with the Canadian Space Agency’s Jeremy Hansen, are less than 24 hours away from flying to the moon. The Artemis II mission is on target to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, April 1. Once NASA’s powerful SLS rocket has lifted the crew […] Read more ›
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These cars combine comfort, safety, and ease of driving for mature motorists who value reliability and practicality for low-stress, confident driving. Read more ›
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Всем привет!Эта статья больше веха для себя, чем полезная информация для кого либо, но если вам близка тема парсинга API-ответов, то думаю вам будет интересно.Что получилосьОт базовой версии получилось ускориться в 4 раза, отставание от wplake/typed сократилось до "всего лишь" x2, если вам критична скорость вам к wplake/typed, если вам критична читаемость выбирайте sbwerewolf/language-specific. Читать далее Read more ›
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They may look the same, but when a new one goes missing you'll notice a difference in how much easier it is to locate. Read more ›
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Многие привыкли воспринимать VR и MR (смешанную реальность) как несерьезные инструменты. Для геймеров или 3D-художников. Но сегодня ночью разработчики LightBurn, популярного софта для лазерной резки и гравировки, выкатили релиз-кандидат версии 5.0.0a MR Edition. И это обновление полностью меняет подход к работе на лазерном станке.Добавлена поддержка Mixed Reality-режима современных VR-шлемов. В результате физическое железо станка становится нативным элементом пространственного интерфейса. Посмотрим, как уст Read more ›
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I used ChatGPT to find gigs near me, and ended up discovering a new favorite band. Read more ›
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Enterprise data resilience means ensuring the data AI systems act on is trustworthy. Infrastructure decisions will determine AI deployments hold up under real operating conditions. World Backup Day turns 15 this year. When it started, the message was simple: stop losing your files. That framing made sense in 2011. In 2026, it barely scratches the ... Read more ›
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With ice levels at an all-time low, sealife photographer Justin Hofman ventured into antarctica's south earlier than ever and had an encounter with a rare Ross seal. Read more ›
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Meta Platforms has agreed to dole out a bounty of new stock options to its top leaders that will pay out only if the company hits aggressive new share price goals. To collect the maximum amount of options included in those packages, Meta will need to hit a share price that translates to a more ... Read more ›
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Chinese AI company SenseTime said its earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization turned positive during the second half of last year, the first time since its listing in 2021. SenseTime, founded in 2014, is one of the pioneers among the last generation of AI companies in ... Read more ›
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Chinese authorities barred Manus’ cofounders from leaving the country while regulators review Meta Platforms’ $2 billion acquisition of the AI agent startup, the Financial Times reported. Cofounders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao were called to a meeting with the National Development and Reform ... Read more ›
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Vultr, one of the oldest independent cloud providers, is seeking to raise at least $1 billion in new capital so it can compete with a growing list of startups scrambling for cash to meet the surging demand for AI computing power. The company, which is backed by chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices, was founded in 2014 and didn’t raise any outside equity funding until 2024, a marked contrast to the latest... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms is launching Meta Small Business, a company-wide initiative to drive AI adoption and support entrepreneurship, Axios reported. In a memo sent to employees on Wednesday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told staffers that “it should be easier than ever for people to build new businesses” in the ... Read more ›
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Meta Platforms will lay off a few hundred people across the company on Wednesday, according to two people familiar with the matter, part of a broader effort to overhaul the company for work in the AI age. The cuts will affect staffers in Reality Labs — the division behind its hardware platforms and wearables — as well as across its social media teams, recruiting operations, and a smaller number in... Read more ›
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Before we get to today’s column, we wanted to flag OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s major reorg, the company’s new "Spud” model and its decision to shut down the Sora video app and application programming interface, which we scooped on Tuesday. (For what the company’s organizational structure looks like now after the changes, check out our updated OpenAI Org Chart.)The latter decision seems in line with product chief Fidji Simo’s mandate... Read more ›
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Please join The Information at the New York Stock Exchange on Monday, April 27, for The Information’s “Financing the AI Revolution” forum. Hear from top executives and investors on how the rapid build-out of AI is reshaping tech, finance and capital markets. Learn more here.There’s supply and demand for AI computing power and there’s supply and demand for AI itself. The two should be linked, but that hasn’t always appeared... Read more ›
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Shares of US space companies rose Wednesday after The Information reported Tuesday night that SpaceX is aiming to file its initial public offering prospectus with regulators as soon as this week. The report said that advisers involved in the preparation predict the company could try to raise ... Read more ›
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Amazon said customers can return items they bought on the commerce giant’s site at over 1,500 FedEx Office locations nationwide. Shoppers will be able to drop off unboxed items and won’t pay fees on the return. Encouraging customers to bring returns to drop-off points instead of having them ... Read more ›
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