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The dystopian future you’ve been expecting is here now, at least if you live in New York City, which unveiled a trio of technology solutions to the city’s crime woes …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: April 16, 2023
New York City based startup NS1 got its start providing organizations with managed DNS services to help accelerate application delivery and reliability. With its new NetBox Cloud service that is being announced in preview today, NS1 is expanding its services into a new area beyond DNS. It can often be a challenging task for a […] Continue reading NS1 brings open-source service NetBox to the cloud
In spite of the pandemic, New York City remains the center of commerce and business, and over the last decade a robust startup community has developed there. Work-Bench, the NYC VC firm that concentrates on early stage enterprise seed investments, announced its $100 million Fund 3 this morning. The company started back in 2013 when […] Continue reading Work-Bench will continue supporting early stage enterprise startups with new $100M fund
There is an art to engineering and sometimes engineering can transform art. For Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis, the two worlds collided when they created the open-source graphics program, GIMP. Continue reading CockroachDB, the database that just won’t die
CockroachDB’s success is not guaranteed. It has to overcome significant hurdles to secure a profitable place among well-established database technologies owned by companies with very deep pockets. Continue reading Scaling CockroachDB in the red ocean of relational databases
Like “innovation,” machine learning and artificial intelligence are commonplace terms that provide very little context for what they actually signify. AI/ML spans dozens of different fields of research, covering all kinds of different problems and alternative and often incompatible ways to solve them. One robust area of research here that has antecedents going back to […] Continue reading Father and son duo take on global logistics with Optimal Dynamics’ sequential decision AI platform
Apparently, the internet is still popular. With the novel coronavirus marooning people at home for work and play, those “tubes” carrying our data back and forth have become ever more important to our livelihoods. Yet while we often as consumers think of the internet as what we buy from a service provider like Spectrum or […] Continue reading NS1 nets $40M “true coronavirus fundraise” amidst surging customer demand
Slack will make its pitch to prospective shareholders on Monday at an invite-only event in New York City. Continue reading Slack to live stream pitch to shareholders on Monday ahead of direct listing
NYC and Boston were handed huge setbacks this week when Amazon and GE decided to bail on their commitments to build headquarters in the respective cities on the same day. But it’s worth pointing out that while these large tech organizations were pulling out, Google was expanding in both locations. Yesterday upon hearing about Amazon’s decision […] Continue reading As GE and Amazon move on, Google expands presence in Boston and NYC
It’s a huge win for New Yorkers, but Amazon’s practice of extracting subsidies from state and local governments is still hugely successful all over the country. Continue reading Amazon Won’t Build HQ2 in New York, But it Will Continue Grifting Taxpayers Elsewhere