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Eazy Digital helps Southeast Asia’s small insurers digitize their operations Jan 31, 2023

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Founded by two insurance industry veterans, Eazy Digital wants to give small insurance companies in Southeast Asia the same advantage as their larger competitors.

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NASA’s ‘Mega Moon Rocket’ aced first flight and is ready for crewed Artemis II launch Jan 30, 2023

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The enormous Space Launch System passed its first test with flying colors, NASA’s preliminary analysis concludes, and the rocket and Orion capsule are good to go for their next mission.

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Hands on with Walmart’s new (but buggy) ‘Text to Shop’ feature Jan 30, 2023

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Walmart recently introduced a new way to shop: via text.

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Chrome for Android now lets you lock your incognito session Jan 27, 2023

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Chrome is rolling out an update for Android users that lets them lock their incognito sessions with a password code or biometric info when they exit the app.

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Hawk AI, an anti-money laundering and fraud prevention platform for banks, raises $17M Jan 27, 2023

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Hawk AI, a German company developing anti-money laundering (AML) and tangential fraud prevention smarts for financial institutions, has raised $17 million in a Series B round of funding.

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GitHub says it now has 100M active users Jan 26, 2023

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Code-hosting platform GitHub has announced that 100 million developers are now using the platform.

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After inking its OpenAI deal, Shutterstock rolls out a generative AI toolkit to create images based on text prompts Jan 26, 2023

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When Shutterstock and OpenAI announced a partnership to help develop OpenAI’s Dall-E 2 artificial intelligence image-generating platform with Shutterstock libraries to train and feed the algorithm, the stock photo and media giant also hinted that it would soon be bringing its own generative AI tools to users.

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Twitter won’t force you to the ‘For You’ timeline on web anymore Jan 25, 2023

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In another flip-flop move, Twitter says that it will now remember the feed — the algorithmic “For You” or chronological “Following” — its users have chosen on the web.

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Zillow introduces Calendly-like instant booking for rental property tours Jan 25, 2023

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Real estate marketplace Zillow has introduced an instant tour booking feature for renters on its platform.

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Forward Networks raises $50M for digital twin technology to help model, manage and secure complex enterprise networks Jan 24, 2023

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Digital twins — virtual representations of actual systems — have become an important component in how engineers and analysts build, visualize and operate AI projects, network security, and other complicated architectures.

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