Marissa Mayer’s new startup Dazzle raises $8M led by Forerruner’s Kirsten Green
Mayer launched Dazzle after shuttering her photo and contact management startup Sunshine.
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Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa+ now works with Angi, Expedia, Square, and Yelp
The new integrations join other services like Yelp, Uber, OpenTable and others.
Lemon Slice nabs $10.5M from YC and Matrix to build out its digital avatar tech
Digital avatar generation company Lemon Slice is working to add a video layer to AI chatbots with a new diffusion model that can create digital avatars from a single image.
Probability Concepts You’ll Actually Use in Data Science
How can we reason with uncertainty and make smarter decisions from data? This article explains the key probability ideas in data science.
France’s postal and banking services disrupted by suspected DDoS attack
France’s postal service, La Poste, said it was hit by a disruptive cyberattack that knocked its services offline.
Inside Uzbekistan’s nationwide license plate surveillance system
The Uzbek government’s national license plate scanning system was discovered exposed to the internet for anyone to access without a password.
There is yet another AI productivity gap
When I first started as a data scientist, there was a gap. I met with dozens of organizations who would invest time and resources into building accurate and tuned models…
Pirate group Anna’s Archive says it has scraped 86 million songs from Spotify
Spotify says it has identified and disabled the user accounts involved in the scraping.
The tooth fairy just got reimagined for the tech-savvy generation
Move over, Santa. Now there’s another magical character for kids to track: the Tooth Fairy. After making a personalized Tooth Fairy video for his nephew, Oliver Finel noticed a gap.…
5 Emerging Trends in Data Engineering for 2026
Looking ahead to 2026, the most impactful trends are not flashy frameworks but structural changes in how data pipelines are designed, owned, and operated.