Month: February 2020
Index Fund’s portfolio is driving long-overdue innovation in femcare
‘It’s a category that’s been underserved for a long time,’ says principal Hannah Seal Natasha Lomas @riptari / 11 hours U.K. startup Daye is rethinking female intimate care from a woman’s perspective, starting with a tampon infused with cannabidiol that tackles period pain. It’s also quietly demolishing the retrograde approach…
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After $479M round on $12.4B valuation, Snowflake CEO says IPO is next step
Snowflake, the cloud-based data warehouse company, doesn’t tend to do small rounds. On Friday night word leaked out about its latest mega round. This one was for $479 million on a $12.4 billion valuation. That’s triple the company’s previous $3.9 billion valuation from October 2018, and CEO Frank Slootman suggested…
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Oscars 2020: how to watch the Academy Awards online
The 92nd Academy Awards (also known as the Oscars) will broadcast tonight, February 9th. It’s a celebration of the industry and a showdown between the year’s biggest movies, filmmakers, and all of the people who make them special, including actors, screenwriters, and more. We’ll dig into when and how you…
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AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X overclocked at 5.5 GHz is setting world records
The impressive AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X, with its unprecedented 64-core count, is already setting world records not even 24 hours after its release. The latest and all-powerful release from AMD’s Threadripper 3rd Generation line is poised to become extreme onlookers’ new favorite toy after overclockers dropped world records around it…
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Watch two rocket launches live, including a Space Station supply flight and a mission to study the Sun
[embedded content] There are two – that’s right two – launches happening this Sunday, and both are set to broadcast live on NASA’s official stream above. The first is a NASA International Space Station resupply mission, with a Norhtrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft launching aboard an Antares rocket from Wallops Island in…
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New leaks hint at iPhone SE 2 price and launch date
We’ve heard so many leaks at this stage that it seems clear that Apple is planning an iPhone SE 2 device – which may well be called the iPhone 9 – and reports this weekend back up what we’ve already heard about its pricing and launch date. According to sources…
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