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DCVC Founder Matt Ocko on Investing for a ‘Star Trek’ Future

DCVC, a venture firm that specializes in what it calls deep-tech investments, this week jointly led a $430 million fundraising for Pivot Bio, an agricultural technology startup that has developed an alternative to conventional fertilizer. DCVC’s co-founder, Matt Ocko, talked with WSJ Pro Sustainable Business about how he sees the agtech industry developing, the role tech […]

How to deploy an Elasticsearch cluster on Ubuntu Server 20.04

Read Jack Wallen explain how you can deploy Elastic NV’s Elasticsearch cluster on Ubuntu Server 20.04 on the Tech Republic: Elasticsearch is a very powerful search and analysis engine that can scale extremely well. With this tool, you have the foundation for visualizing massive amounts of data. But when you start to scale Elasticsearch to […]

JPMorgan Pitching Bitcoin Fund to Wealthy Clients, CoinDesk Says

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is pitching a Bitcoin fund to wealthy clients, according to CoinDesk. The firm is offering customers of JPMorgan Private Bank a passively managed fund in partnership with NYDIG, CoinDesk said, citing two people familiar with the matter. It doesn’t yet have any investments from clients, but the bank held a call with […]

Eth2 will help Ether outpace Bitcoin, Pantera Capital CEO predicts

Amid the looming Ethereum London hard fork, Pantera Capital CEO Dan Morehead predicted that the upcoming upgrade would likely help Ether (ETH) outpace Bitcoin (BTC) as the largest cryptocurrency. As a newer cryptocurrency, Ether has more potential than Bitcoin, Morehead said at the Reuters Global Markets Forum on Monday, noting that the latest Ethereum Improvement Proposal […]

Nvidia GPUs in Cloudera: “Customers are screaming for this”

Nvidia GPUs in the Cloudera Data Platform (CPD) are now generally available for enterprise customers, meeting the timeline first announced in April, and providing acceleration support to enterprise data centers. The initial target of the offer is large on-premise data center customers who will be moved over to the CDP private cloud, according to Sushil […]

Anduril scores $99M contract with DIU for counter-drone tech

The Department of Defense has awarded technology startup Anduril a $99 million contract to provide a new automated counter-unmanned aerial system (C-UAS) capability. The Production Other Transaction (P-OT) Agreement was struck between the company and the Defense Innovation Unit, the DOD’s Silicon Valley outpost that uses non-traditional contracts to work with start ups. Read more about […]

Our View: The Metaverse is getting real, and it shouldn’t be Facebook’s to control

We really liked the way Fast Company captured thoughts on the importance of ensuring the coming Metaverse should NOT be controlled by Facebook . Read why says that even if Metaverse is built, no big tech company like Facebook, Apple, Microsoft, and Google should control it on Fast Company. Several upper-echelon tech companies announced earnings […]

Palantir Technologies Aspires To Be Top Vender of Data Analysis

Read Dana Blankenhorn explain how Palantir Technologies, Inc. aspires to become the top vender of data analysis products on Investor Place : Since its IPO last September, at $10 a share, the stock has more than doubled investors’ money. PLTR stock looks set to end the month at about $22 a share, it traded as […]

Bitcoin vs. Ethereum: Which One Is the Right Investment for You?

Read Katie Brockman explain which is a better investment option, Bitcoin or Ethereum on Motley Fool : Bitcoin (CRYPTO:BTC) and Ethereum (CRYPTO:ETH) have had a rollercoaster of a year so far. Over the past 12 months, Bitcoin’s price has surged by nearly 300%, and Ethereum is up by more than 900% — and that’s despite […]

Andreessen Horowitz taps 30-year-old partner Arianna Simpson to help run world’s largest crypto fund

Andreessen Horowitz is adding a new, high-profile partner to help deploy its $2.2 billion cryptocurrency fund. Thirty-year-old Arianna Simpson is being promoted to general partner from deal partner roughly a year after joining, the company announced Monday. Simpson has become somewhat of a celebrity in the cryptocurrency world. She left a global marketing job at Facebook and […]