On Tuesday, LayerZero Labs announced the completion of a $120 million Series B financing, increasing the company’s valuation from $1 billion to $3 billion. LayerZero Laboratories is a web3 communications protocol. This messaging protocol eliminates the need for third-party middlemen for sending messages between blockchains, unlike Web 2.0 messaging applications …

A new DJ mode is being introduced to Tidal, allowing you to share your music selections with your pals. Live is included in both the standard HiFi plan ($9.99/month) and the premium HiFi Plus plan ($19.99/month) of the streaming service. It’s not quite like Spotify’s Group Sessions, where everyone can …

To join the growing list of Western countries that have banned TikTok on government-issued smartphones, Australia made the move today. Mark Dreyfus, the Attorney General, made the announcement and promised that the ban would be enforced “as quickly as practical.” According to Dreyfus, “input from intelligence and security services” was …

From video-recommendation engines and online banking to the developing AI revolution, data has become one of the world’s most valuable assets. Yet, consolidating data from disparate sources (e.g., databases, data warehouses, data lakes, and so on) into a format usable in real-time scenarios can be a monumental task in today’s …

The award in the racial bias lawsuit filed by Owen Diaz, a former Black elevator operator at Tesla’s Fremont facility, has been reduced from $15 million to $3.2 million. During a weeklong trial in San Francisco, a federal jury on Monday decided that Tesla had failed to prevent extreme racial …

Google has introduced three new Search capabilities that will make it simpler for consumers to find and book hotels, flights, and tourist attractions. The company is testing a new “price guarantee” logo for airline tickets, which is the most notable change. When you see the “Price Guarantee” label next to …

OpenAI’s ChatGPT’s extraordinary capabilities necessitate the use of massive language models. Text samples numbering in the billions, if not trillions, are used to teach these models. The goal of ChatGPT is to have such a deep understanding of language that it can quickly and accurately guess the next word in …

Users of Generation Z are increasingly jumping on the content creation bandwagon to supplement their income outside of the traditional 9 to 5 workday. Over 45% of Gen Z creators polled in 2022 stated they want to make money from their content, according to a study by Adobe. Many content …

On April 1, Twitter was set to formally begin removing legacy verification badges. Although it appears that these intentions have been put on hold for the time being, the social network has changed the label connected to the check mark such that it is now nearly hard to tell who …

Western Digital, a major provider of data storage solutions, has acknowledged that data was stolen from its servers by hackers in a “network security incident” last week. On Monday, the California firm claimed in a statement that on March 26, an outsider breached “a number” of the firm’s internal systems. …