Paul Scheer shares stories from new memoir "Joyful Recollections of Trauma"
Comedian Paul Scheer shares stories from a new memoir "Joyful Recollections of Trauma."
Comedian Paul Scheer shares stories from a new memoir "Joyful Recollections of Trauma."
Having stepped out as CEO in 2014, Helgason still sits on the board of the now-listed company he co-founded in Copenhagen in 2004; but most of his time is dedicated to Transition Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm he launched in 2021 to focus on the climate. It's a tell that the fund is called "transition" and not, say, "apocalypse." In an interview at his home near Reykjavík, the entrepreneur-turned-VC shared thoughts on his ventures and the journey that led him from Unity to climate tech, a homecoming of sorts.
Birmingham-Southern keeps its baseball season alive with a 9–7 walk-off win over Randolph-Macon in the Division III College World Series.
SPVs are generally formed by investors who have direct access to the shares of these startups and then turn around and sell a part of their allocation to external backers, often charging significant fees while retaining some profit share, known as carry. While SPVs aren’t new – smaller investors have relied on them for years – there’s a growing trend of SPVs successfully getting shares from the biggest names in AI. Rather than giving up the shares because the early investor can’t afford them, they’ll create the SPV, fund it by raising money from others, and, in most cases, charge additional fees.
Billionaire Lawrence Stroll put his money where his mouth is and believes others should do the same with his latest endeavor.
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The date for Tyson-Paul will be announced by next Friday.
Late Friday afternoon, a time window companies usually reserve for unflattering disclosures, AI startup Hugging Face said that its security team earlier this week detected "unauthorized access" to Spaces, Hugging Face's platform for creating, sharing and hosting AI models and resources. In a blog post, Hugging Face said that the intrusion related to Spaces secrets, or the private pieces of information that act as keys to unlock protected resources like accounts, tools and dev environments, and that it has "suspicions" some secrets could've been accessed by a third party without authorization. As a precaution, Hugging Face has revoked a number of tokens in those secrets.
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Instagram is testing a way for creators to experiment with reels without committing to having them displayed on their profiles, giving the social network a possible edge over TikTok and a way for creators to test new content without pressure to perform. The company this week began global tests of this new "trial reels" feature that aims to give creators a way to explore different types of content or be more creative by publishing reels that don't appear to their followers. After posting a reel using this feature, Instagram will share insights about the reel's performance with the creator, including things like plays, likes, comments and shares.
The video ends with the fake Plum stabbing Waller in the back.
Birmingham-Southern's run to the Division III College World Series amid the school itself closing because of financial woes is becoming a national story.
'Not too thick, not too light': The all-season bedspread is washer- and dryer-friendly, and it doubles as a duvet insert — save 45%.
Foot Locker seems to be impressing Wall Street as investments show early sign of return.
Android’s RCS message capabilities are inching closer to iMessage’s. Google said today that you can now edit RCS messages, bringing them into parity with the iMessage editing feature Apple added two years ago.
Autobiographer co-founder and CEO Matt Bowman sees the app as a way to leave behind a narrative for his godchildren. Before working at Facebook in the Bay Area, Bowman previously served in the Army Special Forces, where he was deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
In a bid to combat harassment on its platform, Instagram said on Thursday it is expanding the scope of its "Limits" tool specifically for teenagers that would let them restrict unwanted interactions with people. Once they turn the feature on, teens will only be able to see comments, messages, story replies, tags, and mentions from their "Close Friends" group, and interactions from other accounts will be muted. The company originally debuted the Limits feature as a test in 2021 after English footballers Bukayo Saka, Marcus Rashford, and Jadon Sancho were harassed online following the English team's loss to Italy in the Euro 2020 finals.
Skenes now has 30 strikeouts in 22 MLB innings.
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Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Fran Horowitz reveals the next pieces to her turnaround puzzle.
HBO’s new documentary, “MoviePass, MovieCrash,” tells a story that many of us know about: how MoviePass, the subscription-based movie ticketing startup, was a catastrophic failure. Mitch Lowe, a former Redbox and Netflix executive, and Ted Farnsworth, CEO of analytics and consulting company Helios & Matheson, are often considered the faces of MoviePass. MoviePass was originally co-founded by former Miramax exec Stacy Spikes and serial entrepreneur Hamet Watt.