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Sagewise pitches a service to verify claims and arbitrate disputes over blockchain transactions

TechCrunch LA

All of the benefits of a cryptographically secured, publicly verified, anonymized transaction system can be erased by errant code, malicious actors, or poorly defined parameters of an executable agreement. Hoping to beat back the tide of bad contracts, bad code and bad actors, Sagewise , a new Los Angeles-based startup has raised $1.25

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Frameworks Round 6

TechEmpower

We caution all readers to review the source code of each test when interpreting the plaintext numbers. In preliminary tests, we experimented with more requests per pipeline but doing so caused socket write buffer overflows. In particular, a great deal of effort was provided in reviewing the ASP.NET MVC tests.

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How long can Zuckerberg afford to bankroll the AR/VR market?

TechCrunch LA

Hello friends, and welcome back to Week in Review ! Today, Apple News offers local news coverage in 11 markets, including San Francisco, the Bay Area, New York, Houston, Los Angeles, San Diego, Sacramento, Miami, Charlotte, San Antonio and Washington, D.C.,” ” my colleague Aisha notes.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. We hired IP specialists to review prior art. It was impressive.

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Ghost appears with new funding, marketplace to match buyers with unsold products

TechCrunch LA

Josh Kaplan and Dee Murthy, both founder and co-CEO of the Los Angeles–based company, started Ghost in 2021 after previously working together at Four Five Group, a men’s apparel business. to develop some sweet inventory-planning software. She went on to write, “Dee and Josh are the exact right team to tackle it.

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Burn the bridges behind.

Berkonomics

I had to be successful at my new software company. My sales tax payments were due in the next few days, and I didn’t have the money. An earthquake struck Los Angeles. In an hour I received a phone call from the friend who was in the office where I was due later that morning. And it wasn’t easy.

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Interview with Mike Macadaan, Urbandig

socalTECH

There are lots of knowledgeable people that we find to write these guides--people who grew up there, and who are experts in the area. They came down to Los Angeles, and we brainstormed ideas, and basically--in 24 hours-- we revitalized my original idea, but for the iPhone. That's really empowering. It's working out really well.

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