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While many startups are looking to be the next Twitter, those targeting specific communities may find a better outcome. Go to Source Rebecca Szkutak

Businesses that run SQL queries may be about to get a massive boost thanks to a specialized semiconductor chip developed by Neuroblade – built specifically to handle this particular use case. Neuroblade’s SQL instruction processing chip – known as SQL processing units (SPUs) – can simply be plugged into a host server via PCIe to … Read more

Y Combinator continues to change shape under CEO Garry Tan, a founder-turned-investor and online influencer. While Tan and his colleagues have attracted media attention lately for quarrelsome social media posts that take on rivals and San Francisco city officials, Tan has more quietly been turning the dials inside the popular accelerator program since taking it … Read more

Dashlane and NordPass have both announced that they will be supporting passkeys on the newly-released Android 14 mobile operating system. The news follows hot the heels of both password manager‘s previous announcements to support passkeys on iOS 17 for iPhone, which began rolling out to users in September. Now mobile users of both platforms can … Read more

Instead of scrolling mindlessly through a social feed of updates, a new app called Thoughts offers a way to scroll through and collect inspirational content. Created by indie developer Henri Bredt, Thoughts is described as a “focused inspiration manager” that’s designed to help you remember things that inspired you, whether that’s hand-picked quotes, famous sayings … Read more

The criminal trial of former cryptocurrency magnate Sam Bankman-Fried completed its second day on Wednesday. The prosecution and defense both gave opening statements, and interviewed the first two witnesses, including a customer of FTX and Bankman-Fried’s former friend and ex-Alameda and FTX employee Adam Yedidia. The prosecution painted Bankman-Fried as someone who knowingly committed fraud … Read more