Meet Loctax, a company that wants to change how tax teams work in multinational companies. There are still many departments that rely on outdated tools and processes to get something done. According to this startup founded in 2020, tax reporting is currently a fragmented and error-prone process that could benefit from a software upgrade. Loctax…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Synthetic speech tech startup Murf gives a voice, literally, to content creators of all sizes. Murf, which now has a library of more than 120 human-parity AI voices across 20 languages, announced today it has raised $10 million Series A funding led by Matrix partners. Participation came from returning investors Elevation Capital and several prominent…
Meet Immortal Game, a startup that wants to turn chess into a web3 game with NFTs, play-to-earn rewards, quests, a marketplace and more. Online chess has never been so popular and Immortal Game wants to take advantage of that trend to modernize the game. The company has raised $15.5 million across two rounds, including a…
Twitch is updating its gambling policy to ban some gambling websites. The change was announced amidst an ongoing gambling controversy surrounding UK Twitch streamer Sliker, aka Abraham Mohammed. From Oct. 18, Twitch will no longer allow users to stream gambling websites that feature slots, roulette, or dice games, if the website doesn’t hold a license…
Oleg Vyugin, former Russian finance ministry and Bank of Russia official, said “sanctions work.” Maxim Shemetov/Reuters Sanctions against Russia have been 30% to 40% effective, a former finance official told Reuters. But the sanctions will interrupt Russia’s economic growth for several years to come, said Oleg Vyugin. Russia’s tech industry will also be impacted by…
Former President Donald Trump has been referencing the QAnon movement more frequently since the FBI raided his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida on August 8. Brandon Bell/Getty Images Some people close to Trump are confused as to why he is suddenly leaning hard towards QAnon.Some sources suggested to Rolling Stone that Trump was trolling for likes…
Another day, another new TikTok feature. Called TikTok Now, this one is particularly interesting because it’s a clone of BeReal, which is another app actively stealing attention away from TikTok. Plus, TikTok just spun off TikTok Now into its own app to download and use. Here is everything you need to know. What is TikTok…
Nearly three years ago, a special purpose acquisition vehicle (SPAC) spearheaded by investor Chamath Palihapitiya took the space tourism company Virgin Galactic public. It was the first human spaceflight company to trade on the NYSE — or any exchange, for that matter — and it was so successful that it almost immediately kicked off a…
TL;DR: A lifetime subscription to Speakly (all languages) is on sale for £60.90, saving you 82% on list price. It may be harder to learn a language as an adult than it was when you were a kid, but it’s not impossible by any means. Experts tend to recommend immersion in the language as the…
An enormous batch of leaked GTA 6 footage has appeared online, confirming numerous details about the much-anticipated crimefest. Spanning a huge array of work-in-progress gameplay, the leaked footage hands us our first glimpse of GTA 6 in action – albeit in a completely unpolished state. Gunplay and other gameplay features are shown, while character and…