Month: March 2021
Compass files S-1, reveals $3.7B in revenue on net loss of $270M
Compass, the real-estate brokerage startup backed by roughly $1.6 billion in venture funding, filed its S-1 Monday. The move comes just under one year after the New York-based company laid off 15% of its staff as a result of the shifting economic fortunes created by the global response to the…
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How China’s synthetic media startup Surreal nabs funding in 3 months
What if we no longer needed cameras to make videos and can instead generate them through a few lines of coding? Advances in machine learning are turning the idea into a reality. We’ve seen how deepfakes swap faces in family photos and turn one’s selfies into famous video clips. Now…
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‘Dota: Dragon’s Blood’ trailer gives a clearer view of Netflix’s new anime series
It's only been a couple of weeks Netflix and Valve revealed a teaser trailer for the anime series based on Valve's hit game Dota 2, but now they're back with a longer trailer showing off more of the characters and story elements. As we… Source
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Rudy Giuliani just lost his YouTube privileges for two weeks
YouTube has suspended Rudy Giuliani’s YouTube channel for the second time this year for making false claims of fraud in the 2020 US presidential election and has issued a strike against his channel. It’s Giulani’s second strike within 90 days, according to Bloomberg, meaning that Giuliani cannot upload videos for…
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Google Duo call quality improving for users with slow internet thanks to AI Google Duo
There’s a slim chance anyone has managed to avoid video or voice calling services that rely on internet connections by this stage, thanks in no small part to the global pandemic. There’s an even slimmer chance that these calls have been entirely free from dropouts, glitches, latency and other disruptive…
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The Cash app’s parent company is now running its own bank
Jack Dorsey, the CEO of both Twitter and Square, tweeted today that the "Bank now open." What he's referring to is that now, about a year after receiving FDIC approval, Square Financial Services has begun operations. Operating as a subs… Source
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