Monthly Archives: September 2022

Productivity platform Loopin helps work teams wrangle meetings

Meetings are essential to helping teams, especially remote or hybrid ones, stay in touch. But too many meetings can become unproductive, as shared information and action items get buried underneath all the other stuff workers have to do. Productivity platform Loopin wants to help by integrating with work apps and gathering information from across multiple…

Why Netflix’s ‘Dahmer’ series has sparked a backlash online

Netflix released its new true crime drama DAHMER – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story earlier this month. The 10-part series stars Evan Peters as Jeffrey Dahmer, the serial killer, pedophile, necrophiliac, and cannibal who murdered and dismembered 17 people over 13 years. Co-created by Ryan Murphy and Ian Brennan, DAHMER is far from the first…

Take a look at China’s fleet of destroyers, including the Type 055, which cost $920 million to build and is considered one of the country’s most powerful warships

The first Type 055, Nanchang (101) guided-missile destroyer. Xinhua/Li Tang/Getty Images The Chinese navy is the largest in the world in terms of number of vessels. It is estimated that the navy has 41 destroyers across eight classes. Its most powerful destroyer class, the Type 055 or Renhai, cost $920 million per unit to build….

Regate modernizes accounting and financial tools

French startup Regate has raised a $20 million Series A funding round (€20 million) led by Valar Ventures. The company has built a modern software-as-a-service product that integrates directly with your existing accounting stack and connects with your corporate bank account. This way, you can automate and simplify some of your financial and accounting tasks…

A group of young Ukrainians near the Donbas war front is making combat drones and bombs inscribed with messages for their Russian enemies: AFP video

A group of tech-savvy Ukrainian soldiers is making drones and explosives to be used at the front line of the conflict in the country’s Donbas region. JUAN BARRETO/AFP via Getty Images A team of young soldiers in Ukraine is building drones and explosives to be used on the front lines.They are creating drones loaded with…