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It’s easy to be skeptical of the big social media giants. They typically sell user data to advertisers and have been mired in controversy for their approach to content moderation.…

The race to build a social media platform on the blockchain

Roblox CTO Dan Sturman talks about how the company is building tools for developers, the challenges of building a tech stack for the masses and its foray into virtual currency.

Roblox beefs up its developer tools as it looks to a future beyond games

After it was rumored to be in play earlier this month, it shouldn’t come as a huge surprise that One Medical has found a new home. After a torrid public…

3 views on Amazon’s $3.9B acquisition of One Medical

This morning, let’s peek at One Medical’s latest financial results to both understand the deal and what Amazon is really buying.

What does Amazon get for the $3.9B it is paying for One Medical?

Google Cloud today announced plans for its first cloud region in Mexico, its third in Latin America after Santiago, Chile and São Paulo, Brazil. The new region, which will be…

Google Cloud announces its first region in Mexico

At its Inspire conference, Microsoft today announced the launch of the Microsoft Cloud for Sovereignty, a new solution for public sector customers — especially in Europe — who need to…

Microsoft launches its Cloud for Sovereignty

It’s been a long time coming, but Google Cloud today announced its first Arm-based VMs, following AWS, with its Graviton instances, and Azure, which also recently launched Arm VMs. But…

Google Cloud launches its first Arm-based VMs

Unlike soft drinks, startups are not a volume business, which means they must revisit their pricing models regularly.

TechCrunch+ roundup: Pricing strategy, technical due diligence, pitch deck appendix fever

Quantum computing has been making quantum leaps of progress in the last several years — going from theoretical concept to multiple testing environments, to help organizations prep for a time…

UK’s Oxford Quantum Circuits snaps up $47M Series A for ‘QaaS’

Incredibuild, an Israeli startup that has picked up a lot of traction in the worlds of gaming and software development for a platform that drastically speeds up (and reduces the…

Incredibuild powers up with $35M to boost its distributed, faster approach to games and software development

Jit, a startup that helps developers automate product security by codifying their security plans and workflows as code that can then be managed in a code repository like GitHub, today…

Security-as-code startup Jit comes out of stealth with $38.5M in seed funding
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AWS sent a Snowcone to space

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At its re:Mars conference, Amazon today announced that it quietly sent one of its AWS Snowcone edge computing and storage devices into space on the Axiom mission to the International…

AWS sent a Snowcone to space

At its re:Mars conference, Amazon today announced the launch of CodeWhisperer, an AI pair programming tool similar to GitHub’s Copilot that can autocomplete entire functions based on only a comment…

Amazon launches CodeWhisperer, a GitHub Copilot-like AI pair programming tool

It takes massive amounts of data to train AI models. But sometimes, that data simply isn’t available from real-world sources, so data scientists use synthetic data to make up for…

Amazon SageMaker Ground Truth can now create virtual objects for AI model training

Amazon today announced a new effort in bringing quantum computing to its cloud — at least in the long term. The company today launched the AWS Center for Quantum Networking,…

Amazon extends its quantum efforts with a focus on networking

RapidFort, a startup that helps developers reduce the potential attack surface of their applications by automatically removing unused software components from their containers, today announced that it has raised an…

Attack surface management platform RapidFort raises $8.5M seed round

Continual, a startup that focuses on simplifying operational AI on top of a modern data stack, today announced that it has raised a $14.5 million Series A funding round led…

AI platform Continual raises $14.5M Series A and comes out of beta

Metrics alone don’t help you build a business. They can help you set targets, but they do little to help you hit those targets.

The guide to great metrics: Product-led principles

A new report from Datadog has found that serverless computing could be entering the mainstream with over half of all organizations using serverless on one of the three major clouds…

Datadog finds serverless computing is going mainstream

Vendia, a blockchain-based platform that makes it easier for businesses to share their code and data with partners across applications, platforms and clouds, today announced that it has raised a…

Data-sharing platform Vendia raises $30M Series B

PlanetScale, the highly scalable MySQL database service founded by the co-creators of the increasingly popular Vitess open source project, today announced a series of updates that push the platform beyond…

PlanetScale expands its database service with built-in performance monitoring and more

At its virtual Build developer conference today, Microsoft announced the private preview launch of the Microsoft Dev Box, a new virtual developer workstation in the cloud. It’s no secret that…

Microsoft’s new Dev Box is a developer workstation in the cloud

Dig, a Tel Aviv-based cloud data security startup, has emerged from stealth with an $11 million investment to help organizations protect data stored in public cloud environments. It’s no secret…

Dig emerges from stealth to help organizations secure their data in public clouds

At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced the launch of Flutter 3, the latest version of its open source, multiplatform UI development framework for building natively compiled applications. It’s…

Google’s Flutter 3 adds support for macOS and Linux desktop apps

Google today announced the launch of AlloyDB, a new fully managed PostgreSQL-compatible database service that the company claims to be twice as fast for transactional workloads as AWS’s comparable Aurora…

Google Cloud launches AlloyDB, a new fully managed PostgreSQL database service

Arrikto’s mission is to enable data scientists to build and deploy their machine learning models faster. The company, which raised a $10 million Series A round in late 2020, is…

Arrikto expands its MLOps platform with Kubeflow as a service

Lumos, a startup that wants to provide an end-to-end solution for enterprises to manage all of the SaaS apps their employees use, is coming out of stealth today. The company…

Lumos wants to build an app store for the enterprise

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At its AWS Summit San Francisco, Amazon’s cloud computing arm today announced a number of product launches, including two focused on its serverless portfolio. The first of these is the…

AWS expands its serverless offerings

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Amazon is Primed for online domination

We talk about bulls in china shops, but what about bulls running through the streets of entire shopping districts, or other neighborhoods? This morning, Amazon unveiled a new feature that will test just how much of a bull it can be online — beyond its own china shop, so to speak. Prime — its membership-based…

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Amazon is Primed for online domination