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How Ryan Reynolds and Mint Mobile worked without becoming the joke

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It’s been a little over a year since Ryan Reynolds bought a majority stake in Mint Mobile, a deal that has already had a dramatic impact on the the MVNO (mobile virtual network operator). It’s hard to imagine a string of words in the English language less sexy than, “mobile virtual network operator.”

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Intenseye raises $4M to boost workplace safety through computer vision

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Cofounder Sercan Esen says that one of the greatest challenges of the business is a technical one: Intenseye monitors workplace safety through computer vision to send EHS (employee health and safety) violation alerts but it also never analyzes faces or identifies individuals, and all video is destroyed on the fly and never stored with Intenseye. .”

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Reveal raises $50M to espouse the benefits of partner ecosystems

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But despite their growing importance, businesses haven’t necessarily adopted technology to foster partnerships, instead relying on spreadsheets and lengthy virtual or in-person meetings. Sadones was the CTO at Multiposting, while Gautier cofounded employee sourcing and hiring platform Work4.

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Synthesis AI raises $17M to generate synthetic data for computer vision

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Behzadi, of course, asserts that Synthesis has taken meaningful steps toward overcoming these technical hurdles. masks and glasses), and environmental aspects like the lighting and even the “lens type” of the virtual camera. And the quality of synthetic data is dependent on the quality of the algorithm that created it.

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A ‘Stripe for phone plans’: Gigs raises $20M to help any company be an MVNO

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What we’re talking about, of course, are mobile virtual network operators ( MVNO ), of which there are already plenty around the world. ” Gigs cofounders Dennis J. . ” Gigs cofounders Dennis J. In the U.S., for example, there’s Google Fi which is built atop T-Mobile and U.S. ” SIM city.

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Despite remote work and the economic downturn, some companies look to London for expansion

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virtual events platform Hopin serves as another example, rising from a seed-stage upstart at the pandemic’s outset to become a $6 billion juggernaut in just 12 months — before laying off a huge chunk of its staff in pursuit of more sustainable growth. . In the U.K., Liu said in a statement at the time.

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3 Conferences Organized by DevNetwork in August

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Jameson – Engineer manager at Monte Carlo Data Jiri Kobelka – CEO and founder at Tatum …and many more Developer Week Cloud X will have different stages that include live keynote talks, technical workshops, multi-speaker talks, panel talks, and interactive audience Q&A.