(From left): 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winners Carolyn Bertozzi, Morten Meldal, and K. Barry Sharpless. Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach The 2022 Nobel Prize in Chemistry is all about “making difficult processes easier,” according to the judges. Earlier today, the 2022 distinction was awarded to a trio of chemists: Carolyn R. Bertozzi…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Spotify this morning announced it’s acquiring Dublin, Ireland-based content moderation tech company Kinzen, which had been working in partnership with the streamer since 2020. Deal terms were not disclosed. At Spotify, Kinzen’s technology will be put to use to help the company better moderate podcasts and other audio using a combination of machine learning and…
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In the United States, much of commerce relies on moving goods on trucks to market. The way it works is a manufacturer calls a shipping broker with instructions like ‘I need to get a load of beer to Dallas by Friday.’ They agree on a price and the broker finds a trucker to deliver the…
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where we niche down to a single topic, think about a question and unpack the rest. This week, Alex asked: How are platforms responding to the new creator…
Facebook is rolling out new ways for users to customize their feed, the social network announced on Wednesday. Beginning today, you will start to see new “Show more” or “Show less” buttons on posts from the people and communities that you’re connected to or on posts that are recommended to you. Facebook is also going…
Months after Sendy laid-off 10% of its workforce, the Kenyan logistics startup is at it again after sending more staff home, while announcing the decision to wind-down its Supply service. Sendy confirmed to TechCrunch that discontinuing the supply service affected 20% of its staff, which is about 54 employees – the latest casualties of the…
CommonSpirit, the second-largest nonprofit hospital chain in the U.S., has confirmed a cybersecurity incident that is disrupting medical services across the country. In a brief statement, Chicago-based CommonSpirit said the “IT security issue” is impacting some of CommonSpirit’s facilities and some patient appointments have been rescheduled as a result. “CommonSpirit Health is managing an IT…
Two widely-used Atlassian Bitbucket tools – Server and Data Center, carry a high severity flaw that allows remote attackers with read permissions to a public or private Bitbucket repository to execute arbitrary code, experts have warned. The flaw is being actively used in the wild, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has noted, urging…
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