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Amazon acquires podcast network Wondery

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Amazon just announced that it’s acquiring Wondery, the network behind podcasts including “Dirty John” and “Dr. At the same time, the announcement claims that “nothing will change for listeners” and that the network’s podcasts will continue to be available from “a variety of providers.”

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What is a liquid neural network, really?

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The initial research papers date back to 2018, but for most, the notion of liquid networks (or liquid neural networks) is a new one. It was “Liquid Time-constant Networks,” published at the tail end of 2020, that put the work on other researchers’ radar. Everyone talks about scaling up their network,” Hasani notes. “We

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Singapore-based Transcelestial uses lasers to build affordable internet networks

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Transcelestial is on a mission to make the internet more accessible by building a network of shoebox-sized devices that send lasers to one another, creating a fiber-like network. This brings Transcelestial’s total raised since it was founded in 2016 to $24 million. Investor In-Q-Tel was part of a previously disclosed round.

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Versa raises $120M for its software-defined networking and security stack

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Networking and cybersecurity firm Versa today announced that it raised $120 million in a mix of equity and debt led by BlackRock, with participation from Silicon Valley Bank. They came from Juniper Networks, where Apurva Mehta was the CTO and chief architect of the mobility business unit and Kumar Mehta was the VP of engineering.

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Cymulate snaps up $70M to help cybersecurity teams stress test their networks with attack simulations

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“We are providing our customers with a different approach for how to do cybersecurity and get insights [on] all the products already implemented in a network,” he said in an interview. Competitors include the likes of FireEye, Palo Alto Networks, Randori , AttackIQ and many more.).

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Event networking app Grip raises $13M, as pandemic forces events to stay virtual

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With offline events now firmly moved to online for the foreseeable future, startups in the networking space had to pivot fast in the face of the pandemic. One of those was Grip , previously better known as a networking app for physical conferences (including TechCrunch Disrupt, at one point). million people.

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Asia Venture Funding Continues to Struggle, Hits Lowest Level Since 2016

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The total represents the lowest amount of funding in the Asia region in a single quarter since Q4 2016. Also in February, China-based low-orbit broadband satellite network company Yuanxin Satellite raised a Series A of $943 million led by China Development Bank. Total venture funding in the region fell to $17.3