by Asmawisham | Jun 9, 2017 | Technology
Erica Baker, an engineer and outspoken advocate for diversity and inclusion in tech, is leaving her job at Slack, and moving from the San Francisco Bay Area to Brooklyn to work in an engineering leadership position at Kickstarter. Baker, who worked at Slack for about...
by Asmawisham | Jun 9, 2017 | Technology
Jason Rowley Contributor Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor: For most of the history of blockchain-based currencies and assets, the story has been all about Bitcoin. At a market capitalization...
by Asmawisham | Jun 9, 2017 | Media, Technology
Pandora today is rolling out a new feature to its Premium tier that will allow subscribers to continue to listen to music, uninterrupted, when their current track, album or playlist ends. Called, simply, “AutoPlay,” the feature works by shifting users to a...
by Asmawisham | Jun 9, 2017 | Technology
If you’re a child of the ’80s or ’90s, you probably remember QVC or the Home Shopping Network. Before every retailer had a website, and before Amazon became the “everything store,” people who wanted to shop without leaving the house would turn to one of those cable...
by Asmawisham | Jun 9, 2017 | Technology
Every minute spent training a deep learning model is a minute not doing something else and in today’s fast paced world of research, that minute is worth a lot. Facebook published a paper this morning detailing its personal approach to this problem. The company says...
by Asmawisham | Jun 9, 2017 | Technology
Yubico, the company behind the increasingly popular YubiKey two-factor authentication key, has raised a $30 million funding round. This marks the first major institutional funding round for Yubico, which had previously only raised $4.5 million from angel investors.New...