Stability AI, the company funding the development of open source music- and image-generating systems like Dance Diffusion and Stable Diffusion, today announced that it raised $101 million in a funding round led by Coatue and Lightspeed Venture Partners with participation from O’Shaughnessy Ventures LLC. The tranche values the company at $1 billion post-money, according to…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Adobe Express, the company’s template-centric tool for helping anyone quickly create logos, banners, flyers, ads and more, has always long offered a free version for schools. As the company announced today — one day before its annual MAX conference — Adobe Express for Education now has over 43 million K-12 users globally. With over 43M…
Over the summer, Joe Biden issued the “Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy.” Included in the legislation was a push to make more affordable hearing aids available without prescription. Following a final rule from the FDA, those products are finally arriving on store shelves. A number of major U.S. drugstore chains have…
As of Oct. 17, Samsung soundbars and speakers are on sale at Amazon for up to 37% off. Here are the best deals: BEST ALL-IN-ONE SOUNDBAR DEAL: Samsung HW-S60B 3.1ch Soundbar — $247.99 $347.99 (save $100) BEST MULTI-PIECE SOUNDBAR DEAL: Samsung HW-B650 3.1ch Soundbar with SubWoofer — $247.99 $397.99 (save $150) BEST SPEAKER DEAL: Samsung…
A quarter of a million US Army soldiers will be using collaboration tool Google Workspace after entering into a partnership with the tech giant. Google Cloud made its announcement last week, after the service was granted Impact Level 4 authorization by the Department of Defense in July, which sanctions its use for handling controlled unclassified…
In TV and movies, fighter-pilot jet ejections seem like a cut-and-dry procedure. Though it happens quickly, ejecting is a complex, violent process that relies on a lot of luck. Even in successful scenarios, 20% to 30% of fighter pilots suffer some sort of spinal fracture. Pete Smith: So I waited till about 2,000 feet, which…
(Photo by Scott Heins/Getty Images) The secular bull market that started in 2013 is still intact for the S&P 500, according to Bank of America.The bank said the secular bull just passed a major test when it bounced off of its rising 200-week moving average.Here’s what the stock market needs to do next to confirm…
Your browsers and devices have built-in tools that can check for compromised passwords. Bill Hinton/Getty Images A compromised password is still in the realm of possibility despite how careful you are with your online logins. You can check Have I Been Pwned to see if you’ve been compromised, or use a password checker built into…
LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault on board a private jet on October 11, 2004. Marc DEVILLE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images Bernard Arnault said LVMH sold its private jet after Twitter accounts started tracking it. The billionaire said he’s started renting private aircrafts for his trips instead. Arnault is one of many billionaires to express concern over jet-tracking…
“The big overarching problem, for the whole country, is that we don’t have enough homes to go around,” says economist and author Jenny Schuetz. John M Lund Photography Inc / Getty Images Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and the cohost of the “Pitchfork Economics” podcast. He recently spoke with economist and author…