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Katie Roof / Bloomberg: Farther, which makes software for financial advisers, raised $72M co-led by CapitalG and Viewpoint at a $542M valuation, bringing its total funding to $117M  —  Farther raised $72 million in the new funding round. … Farther Advisors LLC, a startup making technology for financial advisers … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Krystal Hu / Reuters: Suki, which makes AI voice assistants for health care providers, raised a $70M Series D, a source says at a ~$500M valuation, taking its total funding to $165M  —  Suki, a startup that offers to build artificial intelligence (AI) assistants in healthcare, has raised $70 million in a Series D round … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Victoria Song / The Verge: Garmin Fenix 8 review: the $1,000 smartwatch has excellent battery and fitness tracking and an OLED option, but costs $350 more than the Fenix 7 and lacks LTE  —  The Fenix 8 adds smarter features, but they don’t quite make up for the price hike or lack of LTE. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Gavin Bonshor / The Register: Intel unveils its Arrow Lake desktop processors, with an NPU, better power efficiency at higher clock speeds, and 2X the graphics performance vs. its 14th Gen  —  New silicon, new architecture, and loads of new motherboards rise to support it, but will power be anchored down? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Anna Heim / TechCrunch: Paris-based Qantev, which offers an AI-based claim management software for health and life insurance companies, raised a €30M Series B  —  Health and life insurance providers face a rising volume of claims due to chronic disease and aging populations, but their processes lack scalability. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Coco Feng / South China Morning Post: ByteDance debuts its first earbuds, open-ear wearables called Ola Friend that have audio access to its Doubao chatbot, shipping on October 17 in China for ~$170  —  The Ola Friend earphones are linked to ByteDance’s self-developed chatbot, Doubao, currently China’s most popular GenAI app Lees verder op Tech Meme

Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security: An investigation details a $243M crypto heist in August 2024 where attackers used a phone-based social engineering attack on a user of Gemini’s crypto exchange  —  The parents of a 19-year-old Connecticut honors student accused of taking part in a $243 million cryptocurrency heist in August … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Helen Reid / Reuters: Ecommerce Europe expects 2024 e-commerce turnover in Europe, including the UK, to rise 8% YoY to €958B, the first inflation-adjusted growth year since 2021  —  Recovering consumer confidence has boosted online shopping in Europe this year, industry group Ecommerce Europe said on Wednesday … Lees verder op Tech Meme

Victoria Song / The Verge: Garmin Fenix 8 review: the $1,000 smartwatch has excellent battery and fitness tracking and an OLED display, but costs $350 more than the Fenix 7 and lacks LTE  —  The Fenix 8 adds smarter features, but they don’t quite make up for the price hike or lack of LTE. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Joyu Wang / Wall Street Journal: Taiwan says China detained four employees at Foxconn’s iPhone factory in Zhengzhou and says Foxconn said it didn’t suffer a financial loss tied to their actions  —  Taiwan says investor confidence may be damaged after four Taiwanese are held  —  TAIPEI—Four Taiwanese employees … Lees verder op Tech Meme