Reuters: São Paulo-based Nomad, which offers Brazilians access to financial services in the US, raised a $61M Series B led by Tiger Global at a ~$361M valuation — Brazilian financial tech firm Nomad raised $61 million in an investment round led by Tiger Global Management … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Brody Ford / Bloomberg: Dropbox ends its unlimited option, capping its highest tier “all the space you need” storage plan to 5TB, after some abused it to resell the storage and more — – Company says some abused ‘all the space you need’ policy — Majority of users will see storage capped at 5 terabytes Lees verder op Tech Meme
Emilia David / The Verge: Meta debuts Code Llama, which can generate code and debug human-written work, under the same community license as Llama 2, free for research and commercial use — Meta has released a tool called Code Llama, built on top of its Llama 2 large language model, to generate new code and debug human-written work, the company said. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Tom Phillips / Eurogamer.net: Q&A with Phil Spencer on Game Pass, Microsoft’s mobile focus, streaming story-based games like Starfield on mobile, Xbox generations, console prices, and more — Phil Spencer on new hardware, price drops, mid-gen refreshes – and why the company won’t ditch Series S. — Interview by Tom Phillips Editor-in-Chief Lees verder op Tech Meme
Abraham Augustine / TechCabal: Toronto-based LemFi, which offers immigrants remittances and other payment services, raised a $33M Series A led by Left Lane, taking its total funding to ~$34M — On the back of successfully serving African migrants in Canada and the UK, LemFi has raised $33 million in Series A funding … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Bloomberg: Study: 30 sites showed nearly 150K nonconsensual porn deepfakes in May 2023, up 9x since 2019, totaling 3.8B views, enabled by services from Big Tech companies — To stay up and running, deepfake creators rely on products and services from Google, Apple, Amazon, CloudFlare and Microsoft Lees verder op Tech Meme
VideoCardz.com: MSI shares an unlisted video confirming Intel’s upcoming 14th Gen CPUs will see no major core count upgrades and will be 3% faster on average than 13th Gen CPUs — MSI unimpressed with 14th Gen Core series — MSI made a mistake of sharing an unlisted video which has now leaked out. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Reuters: Nomad, which provides Brazilians access to financial services in the US, such as an investment platform, raised $61M led by Tiger Global at a ~$361M valuation — Brazilian financial tech firm Nomad raised $61 million in an investment round led by Tiger Global Management … Lees verder op Tech Meme
Nathan McAlone / Insider: OnlyFans reports revenue up 17% YoY to $1.1B in the FY to November 30, 2022, profit up 24% YoY to $404M, creators up 47% YoY to 3.2M, and users spent $5.6B — – The OnlyFans business is still booming. — OnlyFans users spent $5.6 billion on the platform in 2022, up from $4.8 billion in 2021. Lees verder op Tech Meme
Associated Press: Uber raises the minimum age requirement for new ride-hailing California drivers to 25, but not Uber Eats, citing the rising costs of commercial auto insurance — Uber raised the minimum age requirement for most of its new drivers in California to 25 on Thursday under rules the company … Lees verder op Tech Meme