Manasi Vartak, founder and CEO of Verta, conceived of the idea of the open source project ModelDB database as a way to track versions of machine models while she was still in grad school at MIT. Afte
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The public markets are staying receptive to tech IPOs, and tech unicorns are trying to recover from pandemic damage, polish up their financials, and head back towards the starting gates. This week, it
FILE PHOTO: WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference on COVID-19 in Geneva, Switzerland, February 28, 2020. Denis Balibouse/Reuters The World Health Organizati
Palantir filed an S-1 confidentially to the SEC in early July, but we have so far been waiting for the final doc to be published for weeks now with nary a murmur. Now, thanks to some leaked screenshot
In the world of technology, online learning has been one of the bigger beneficiaries of the last several months, with people staying home and away from their normal routines because of the coronavirus
A California appeals court judge has granted Uber and Lyft’s emergency stay. This means the preliminary injunction that sought to force companies to reclassify their drivers as employees will no
Lyft has decided to suspend its ridesharing operations in California beginning tonight at 11:59 pm PT.“We don’t want to suspend operations,” Lyft wrote in a blog post. “We are going
After yesterday’s look into the somewhat lackluster pace of investment into e-commerce-focused startups this year, a few VCs sent in notes that added useful context. So this morning let’s
Dutchie, a nearly three-year-old, Bend, Ore.-based software company focused on connecting consumers with cannabis dispensaries that pay the startup a monthly subscription fee to create and maintain t
TikTok is right in the jaws of a thorny situation with the U.S. Government regarding its ownership, but it’s sending a clear message today that it is not sitting on its heels with big deals. Ye
Lyft is sticking to its previous target to hit quarterly adjusted profitability by the fourth period of 2021, a milestone it says it can achieve even with fewer rides.T
"I said that hard times were coming. And... hard times are here."That's the UK's finance minister, Rishi Sunak, reacting to the news the UK has fallen into recession after a second successive quarter
For writer-comedian Sarah Cooper, the pandemic hasn’t been so terrible. In fact, by making the best of a terrible situation — in this case, opening a TikTok account earlier this year, and
Until late last year social video app TikTok was using an extra layer of encryption to conceal a tactic for tracking Android users via the MAC address of their device which skirted Google’s pol
"China firmly opposes the U.S. move to unjustifiably suppress TikTok and other non-US companies."That's the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson in Beijing, reacting to the warning from t
As the saying goes, insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.And so we arrive at the news, put out yesterday in the horse la
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