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Threads nears its one-year anniversary with more than 175M monthly active users

Meta’s Threads now has more than 175 million monthly active users, Mark Zuckerberg announced on Wednesday. The announcement comes two days away from Threads’ first

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HealthEquity says data breach is an ‘isolated incident’

On Tuesday, health tech services provider HealthEquity disclosed in a filing with federal regulators that it had suffered a data breach, in which hackers stole

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Nano Dimension is buying Desktop Metal

Nano Dimension announced plans Wednesday to acquire Desktop Metal. The finer financial details are still being worked out, with the sale price ultimately ranging anywhere

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Roll20, an online tabletop role-playing game platform, discloses data breach

The popular online tabletop and role-playing game platform Roll20 announced on Wednesday that it had suffered a data breach, which exposed some users’ personal information.  

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Deep tech VC Sidney Scott explains why he’s closing his firm as this area booms

Sidney Scott decided to take himself out of the venture capital rat race and is now jokingly auctioning off his vests — starting at $500,000. 

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Amazon retires its Astro for Business security robot after only 7 months

Amazon has decided to discontinue its Astro for Business device, a security robot for small—and medium-sized businesses, just seven months after launch.  In an email

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Noplace, a mashup of Twitter and MySpace for Gen Z, hits No. 1 on the App Store

Aiming to bring the “social” back to “social media,” a new app called noplace has surged to the top of the App Store as it

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Twilio says hackers identified cell phone numbers of two-factor app Authy users

Last week, a hacker claimed to have stolen 33 million phone numbers from U.S. messaging giant Twilio. On Tuesday, Twilio confirmed to TechCrunch that “threat

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From burritos to biotech: How robotics startup Cartken found its AV niche

Cartken and its diminutive sidewalk delivery robots first rolled into the world with a narrow charter: carrying everything from burritos and bento boxes to pizza

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Fisker asks bankruptcy court to sell its EVs at average of $14,000 each

Fisker has a willing buyer for its remaining inventory of all-electric Ocean SUVs, and has asked the Delaware Bankruptcy Court judge overseeing its Chapter 11