Month: February 2020
Is this what an early-stage slowdown looks like?
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Today we’re exploring some fascinating data from Silicon Valley Bank markets report for Q1 2020. We’re digging into two charts that deal with the early-stage funding market, and after we unpack…
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Lenovo may have just leaked a Ryzen 9 U-series chip that could make Intel squirm
AMD Ryzen 4000 processors for laptops are right around the corner, but that doesn’t mean the leaks and gossip have stopped. In fact, we just heard some whispers that a secret Ryzen 9 chip could be coming. Over on Lenovo’s German website, a listing for the upcoming Lenovo Yoga Slim…
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Tangerine’s pretty self-care app combines habit and mood tracking
Millennials’ interest in self-care has helped to fuel an entirely new market for mobile apps focused on health and wellness. Last year alone, the top 10 meditation apps pulled in $195 million — a 52% increase from 2018, for example. A newcomer to the self-care app market is Tangerine, an…
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Vulnerable Gigabyte driver allowed RobbinHood ransomware infections
A serious security flaw in Gigabyte drivers may have allowed hackers to take over entire computer systems, experts have warned. According to security firm Sophos, this vulnerability could have meant hackers gained backdoor entry to computers running on Windows 7 or a newer version of Windows OS to deploy the…
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Amazon wants to depose president and secretary of Defense as part of JEDI protest
Today, AWS made public its Motion to Supplement the Record in its protest of the JEDI contract decision. As part of that process, the company has announced it wants to depose President Trump and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. When Amazon announced at the end of last year that it…
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Max Q: A SpaceX spin-out sounds great
Max Q is a new weekly newsletter all about space. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Sundays in your inbox. Two rocket launches were set to take off Sunday, including one from Wallops Island in Virginia and another from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The first is a relatively…
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