#Adam Neumann’s crypto comeback company is reportedly refunding investors

#Adam Neumann’s crypto comeback company is reportedly refunding investors

In a development that will surprise few, former WeWork CEO Adam Neumann’s climate/crypto/carbon-credit startup Flowcarbon appears to be in the process of curling up to die, Forbes reported today. Buyers of the outfit’s “Goddess Nature Token,” pitched as the first step in putting carbon credits on the blockchain, have reportedly been contacted about receiving refunds…

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#Heart disease is the world’s biggest killer — this Cambridge Uni spinout is using AI to find new treatments

#Heart disease is the world’s biggest killer — this Cambridge Uni spinout is using AI to find new treatments

While artificial intelligence (AI) promises to transform all manner of industries, the biggest game-changing breakthroughs in this new era of data-infused machine intelligence arguably lies in the field of drug discovery. By analyzing vast amounts of biological data, AI can help researchers predict how different chemical compounds will interact with specific targets in the body,…

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#YC alum Odigos aims to help enterprises find errors and stamp out latency in their systems

#YC alum Odigos aims to help enterprises find errors and stamp out latency in their systems

Companies’ data architecture today looks nothing like it did 20 years ago, but monitoring and tracing tools haven’t followed suit, making it difficult for engineering teams to identify the root cause of errors and latency issues.  Israeli developer Eden Federman thinks the solution is distributed tracing, a more advanced observability method, but he found adoption…

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#Bluesky grows to 9M+ users

#Bluesky grows to 9M+ users

Bluesky keeps growing: The company announced that as of Friday morning, it had added 3 million new users, bringing its total user count to more than 9 million. In other words, the social platform’s user base has grown by around 50 percent in the week or so since a Brazilian court banned X (formerly Twitter)….

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#Second Byju’s auditor exits in a year amid bankruptcy proceedings

#Second Byju’s auditor exits in a year amid bankruptcy proceedings

BDO, the auditor for Indian edtech startup Byju’s, has resigned with immediate effect, marking the second auditor departure for the embattled startup in about a year and further intensifying concerns about its financial health and governance. In a scathing resignation letter, BDO subsidiary MSKA highlighted multiple issues with Byju’s, including significant delays in financial reporting,…

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