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A growing number of venture firms may be uncorking champagne ahead of the New Year. Today, a handful of investment firms announced new funds: Artis Ventures, BoxGroup, Playground Global and Singular all closed on funds, while Partech said it was launching a €360 million venture fund. Against a backdrop of layoffs and continuing economic uncertainty,…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is gearing up to create a university in Austin, Texas, according to tax filings obtained by Bloomberg that revealed the educational institution is seeded with a $100 million gift from the world’s richest person. Musk has given an estimated $410 million to…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Elon Musk’s SpaceX is preparing an insider share sale that values the commercial rocket company nearly at $180 billion, Bloomberg reported Wednesday, capping off a year when the company has carried out multiple crewed launches for NASA while expanding the footprint of its Starlink satellite internet service. FILE…

E-commerce and fintech company Bolt, which was at one time the subject of a federal probe, confirmed it laid off 29% of its staff, according to a company spokesperson. In an emailed statement, the Bolt spokesperson said the one-click checkout company made the cuts to get Bolt to “an operating model optimized for sustainable growth…

The blue oval’s figurehead takes a stand on a convenient piece of tech…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinArmada founders Dan Wright and Jon Runyan are looking to bring compute to remote places: “Do that, and there’s a lot you can do with AI.” Armada Led by former DataRobot CEO Dan Wright, one-year-old Armada is leveraging a “close collaboration” with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to offer edge computing…

Tesla Chief Elon Musk is fed up with passive investors…

Ukraine’s largest telecommunications operator Kyivstar says it has been hit by a “powerful” cyberattack that has disrupted phone and internet services for millions of people across the country. In a Facebook post confirming the incident on Tuesday, Kyivstar wrote that the cyberattack has caused a “technical failure” that left customers without mobile connections or internet…

Google launched today a new feature for Classroom that allows teachers to turn any YouTube video into an interactive assignment by inserting questions for their students to answer throughout the viewing experience. With the interactive questions feature, teachers can create open-ended or multiple-choice questions, provide feedback on answers and access a dashboard of key insights…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinStarfield Bethesda Digging through the relative mess that was The Game Awards this year, there was a specifically noteworthy debut from Hello Games. That would be Light No Fire, a game that uses core tech and features of No Man’s Sky for a new experience, shrunk down into a…