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You’re invited to a fireside with Baiju Bhatt on Sand Hill Road on June 18 at StrictlyVC We’re thrilled to announce that Baiju Bhatt, co-founder of Robinhood and founder and…
Meta conducts layoffs in Oculus Studios, impacting VR exercise app Supernatural Meta laid off employees on Thursday in its Reality Labs division, which encompasses various virtual and augmented reality projects.…
Parents who lost children to online harms protest outside of Meta’s NYC office Meta may have managed to kill a bipartisan bill to protect children online, but parents of children…
Threads officially moves to Threads.com and updates its web app Instagram Threads, Meta’s newest social network and X competitor, is officially relocating from the website Threads.net to Threads.com. The transition…
Pope Francis’ funeral to stream on YouTube The funeral of Pope Francis will be livestreamed on YouTube on Saturday. Pope Francis passed away earlier this week at age 88 due…
Flex acquires a16z-backed Maza for $40M as fintech M&A heats up Flex, a startup that offers personal finance software for business owners, has acquired Maza, a finance app aimed at…
Within six years, building the leading AI data center may cost $200B Data centers to train and run AI may soon contain millions of chips, cost hundreds of billions of…
Mark Zuckerberg really wants to make Facebook cool again In an ongoing antitrust case, the Federal Trade Commission says that Meta has a monopoly on “personal social networking services” and…
Netflix now offers dialogue-only subtitles Netflix just introduced a new way to experience subtitles that eliminates the need to read audio cues like “door slams” or “phone rings.” Announced on…
Chess.com reaches 200 million members Chess.com reaches a new membership milestone as it nears its 20th birthday. Chess.com, the online chess platform that was founded in 2005 and launched in…