2026-08-13
How NASA, Copernicus, and Microsoft Mapped Destruction Following Venezuela’s Earthquakes
When the earth shakes, the clock starts ticking. For first responders in urban environments following an earthquake, the first minutes and hours are crucial for locating survivors and assessing damage. Following a pair of 7.2 and 7.5 magnitude earthquakes that struck northern Venezuela on June 24, emergency technology high above the earth snapped into action before the dust had settled to give off [...]
2026-08-13
“If AI Existed from Day One”: Cheaper Code Didn’t Make Deciding What to Build Easier
For most of the history of software, the expensive bit was building it. Teams spent months turning ideas into working code, and that scarcity shaped everything about how the work got organized. Roadmaps got sequenced around whatever engineering capacity was available; architects earned their seat at the table because they understood systems nobody else did; product managers spent their weeks trans [...]
2026-08-13
Accel raised $3.5bn. Europe now gets the same fund as the US
Accel is a venture capital firm. It gives money to startups early, usually before anyone else has, and takes a stake in return. It has done this since 1983, and it wrote the first institutional cheque into Atlassian, CrowdStrike, Flipkart and Slack. On Tuesday it said it had raised $3.5bn for four new funds, Bloomberg […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-13
Nebius revenue grew 454%. Most of the cash came from customers paying in advance
Nebius rents out computing power. It buys Nvidia chips, puts them in data centres, and charges companies to train and run AI models on them. The trade calls this a neocloud. It is based in Amsterdam, listed on Nasdaq, and was spun out of the Russian internet company Yandex in 2024. On Wednesday it reported […]<br /> This story continues at The Next Web [...]
2026-08-13
Good news, 4K Blu-ray fans: Dolby confirms that Dolby Vision 2 HDR can work on existing players and disc tech — bad news: it's up to the manufacturers, and Sony already said 'we do not plan to provide an update'
Dolby says all Dolby Vision 2 TVs will make regular Dolby Vision look better anyway — which is good, because it seems like we might not get the Blu-ray support we'd want. [...]