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Headroom launches AI-enhanced videoconferencing to bring humanity back to meetings
Headroom Inc., a startup that provides a videoconferencing platform, today announced the launch of its service to take on Zoom, Meet and Teams by using artificial intelligence to transform meetings and make them more human. With the global pandemic, more workforces have gone to remote and hybrid, making videoconferencing more of a norm. This also ...
TRM Labs raises $60M for blockchain forensics and risk management
Blockchain risk management startup TRM Labs today announced it has raised $60 million in new funding led by Tiger Global to support its mission to combat cryptocurrency fraud and financial crime. The Series B funding round also saw participation from a number of investors, among them credit card and payment processing companies including Visa Inc., ...
Binance Smart Chain and Animoca Brands launch $200M fund to boost blockchain gaming
Binance Smart Chain and Animoca Brands today announced the launch of a $200 million investment fund with the goal of incubating early-stage blockchain gaming startups built on the BSC blockchain. The two companies will co-invest up to $100 million each in the fund with the intent to accelerate the adoption and development of studios and ...
Blockchain.com opens waitlist for its NFT marketplace beta
Crypto finances company Blockchain.com Inc. announced Thursday that it’s launching a nonfungible token marketplace into beta along with a waitlist for users to sign up. This launch follows the ongoing surge in popularity in the NFT market that caused it to hit $10.67 billion during the third quarter of 2021, according to a report from DappRadar. ...
Rollbar announces real-time adaptive alerts feature for developers
Rollbar Inc. today announced an upgrade to its error monitoring platform for developers called Adaptive Alerts that adds real-time error alerts to warn about unexpected issues in monitored applications using anomaly detection to reduce false positives and false negatives. Ideally, developers and operations teams want to detect errors before they are deployed, but that’s not ...
Android debuts new features for family and autos in time for the holidays
Google LLC’s Android team today announced a lengthy list of new features for Android products that will help people schedule holiday time with family, access widgets and interact with their cars. In tune with the holiday theme, “Family Bell” is a new feature for Android that will help families stay on track with daily schedules. ...
CertiK raises $80M to keep up with increasing blockchain security demand
Blockchain security startup CertiK has raised an additional $80 million in fresh funding to expand its smart contract auditing and tracking services. This Series B2 round was led by Sequoia Capital, with participation from investors Tiger Global, Coatue Management, GL Ventures and Lightspeed Ventures. It’s the third such round of capital raised by the company ...
Amazon announces AWS Private 5G managed service preview
Amazon Web Services Inc. today announced the preview of AWS Private 5G, a new managed service that allows enterprises to set up their own private mobile networks and scale them up. Private 5G is a full-service feature, announced at the Amazon.com Inc. cloud unit’s annual re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, that’s capable of spinning up ...
Mainframe raises $23M led by a16z for a cloud-native multiplayer game
Mainframe Industries, the startup behind the first cloud-native massively multiplayer online game, today announced it has raised $23 million in new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. All previous investors including Riot Games invested in the Series B round and new investors included Twitch co-founder Kevin Lin, Huuuge Games founder and Chief Executive Aton Gauffin Cedric ...
Amazon updates CodeGuru to detect and secure secrets in code
Amazon is updating its automated code review and profiler platform, CodeGuru, to detect confidential secrets in source code with a feature called Secrets Detector. CodeGuru operates by scanning source code for defects and bugs using machine learning and suggests improvements to help developers overcome potential exploits and vulnerabilities to keep up with security best practices. ...