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Firewalla launches the Gold Plus, its new 2.5 gigabit firewall

August 31, 2022 Frederic Lardinois 146 Viewscomputing, ethernet, firewall, founder, gigabit, internet service, Jerry Chen, Networking hardware, Router, telecommunications 2 min read

Firewalla, maybe the only company that can say that its hardware firewalls have something of a cult following, today announced the latest addition to its portfolio: the $569 Firewalla Gold Plus. The Gold Plus will feature four 2.5 gigabit Ethernet interfaces and its deep packet inspection hardware can handle up to 5 gigabits at a […]

Mad Realities’ Devin Lewtan is onboarding crypto users through reality television

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Mad Realities’ Devin Lewtan is onboarding crypto users through reality television

August 24, 2022 Anita Ramaswamy 169 Viewsaudience, blockchain, Chain Reaction, Chain Reaction podcast, crypto, cryptocurrencies, dating, devin lewtan, ethereum, founder, Loyalty, mad realities, magazines, media, Netflix, New York, new york city, New York University, NFTs, podcast, podcasts, proof of love, publications, reality tv, Startups, TechCrunch podcasts, television, The Bachelor, web3 4 min read

Web3 doesn’t have the most inclusive reputation, yet so many crypto founders talk about onboarding the next 100 million users into the space. Statistically speaking, the next 100 million can’t possibly be comprised entirely of a homogenous group of white men who spend most of their waking hours coding and/or day trading (no shade, just […]

Safeheron secures $7M to make private keys safer for crypto wallets

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Safeheron secures $7M to make private keys safer for crypto wallets

August 19, 2022 Rita Liao 164 Viewschief technology officer, China, Co-founder, cryptocurrencies, cryptography, decentralization, digital currencies, digital wallet, e-commerce, economy, ethereum, founder, key, money, private key, rokid, Sequoia Capital China, venture capital, venture capital Firms, Wallet, yunqi partners 3 min read

Crypto enthusiasts promise to build a decentralized money system that allows people to freely trade without any intermediary intervention. It’s a rosy picture, but recent events of security vulnerability indicate that the decentralized world might not be working as well as the believers envision yet. That’s why entrepreneurs, infused with venture capital, are racing to […]

Here’s everything you missed at TC Sessions: Robotics 2022

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Here’s everything you missed at TC Sessions: Robotics 2022

July 22, 2022August 10, 2022 Matt Burns 193 Viewsadvocacy, Amazon, Angle, articles, artificial intelligence, Ayah Bdeir, ayanna howard, baxter, boston, brian heater, Bruce Leak, california, ceo, clara vu, Co-founder, covariant, dean kamen, e-commerce, E14 Fund, editor, Fetch, founder, FoundersX Ventures, General Partner, iRobot, Joe Biden, Kelly Chen, Kiva Systems, labor, littlebits, locus robotics, Marty Walsh, MassRobotics, Mayor, Melonee Wise, Milo Werner, MIT, oregon state university, pieter abbeel, playground global, rethink robotics, Rick Faulk, robot, robot operating system, robotics, rodney brooks, secretary, uc-berkeley, University of California, university of california berkeley, veo robotics, vp, Zebra Technologies 9 min read

In case you missed it, robots took over TechCrunch on Thursday, July 21. We played host to the robotic industry’s leading startups, researchers and academics at TC Sessions: Robotics. The event was a blockbuster success, and we hope you enjoyed the show. All the features, panels, interviews and podcasts are embedded below. TechCrunch Editor Brian […]

Robotics scene continues to be bullish, but layoffs are looming

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Robotics scene continues to be bullish, but layoffs are looming

July 21, 2022August 10, 2022 Natasha Mascarenhas 169 ViewsAmazon, artificial intelligence, Bruce Leak, business, CrunchBase, deep tech, DoorDash, EC Robotics, entrepreneurship, food processing, founder, FoundersX Ventures, Kelly Chen, playground global, Private Equity, real estate, robot, robot operating system, robotics, Skydio, Startup company, venture capital 0 min read

“In an economic downturn, the customers will be less willing to be experimental, so they’re thinking about cutting costs and then economics just becomes so much more important.”

Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states

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Runa Sandvik’s new startup Granitt secures at-risk people from hackers and nation states

July 15, 2022August 10, 2022 Zack Whittaker 200 ViewsChina, editor, Ford Foundation, founder, journalist, lawyer, new york city, operating system, roe, runa, schibsted, The New York Times, the-times, Tribune Publishing 12 min read

Few know the threats that journalists face better than Sandvik, a native Norwegian. She defended The New York Times newsroom from hackers and nation-state adversaries, trained reporters to cloak their online activity in anonymity at the Tor Project, and helped organizations like the Freedom of the Press Foundation to build tools that allow journalists, like […]

With maiden $42M fund, Bonfire Union wants to invest in web3 like Tencent does in Web 2.0

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With maiden $42M fund, Bonfire Union wants to invest in web3 like Tencent does in Web 2.0

July 6, 2022August 10, 2022 Rita Liao 169 Viewsalibaba, Andreessen Horowitz, Animoca Brands, Asia, blockchains, Bonfire Union, China, coinbase, computing, cryptocurrency, cryptokitties, decentralization, digital currency group, Fosun Group, founder, Japan, Mask Network, Opera, pinduoduo, Protocol Labs, silicon valley bank, Singapore, Softbank, Software, technology, Tencent, United States, web traffic, web3 3 min read

Mask Network, a Binance-backed startup that enables users to send cryptocurrencies and encrypted messages on established internet platforms like Twitter, has an ambitious goal: to become the corporate venture capital powerhouse in web3 as Tencent has done in Web 2.0. To that end, the five-year-old company recently completed the first close of its venture investment […]