Byte Me #11: The Naked Philanthropist, Brofanity, And Muff Candles

The San Francisco-based AI-native search company will use the money to add new talent and continue developing its platform. The buzzy AI-native search company Perplexity has joined the Unicorn club. The company has raised another $62.7 million in its fourth round of funding, at a $1.04 billion valuation. The company’s total is now $165 million.

At the center of the tech giant’s latest internal turmoil is the $1.2 billion ‘Project Nimbus.’ Google fired at least 20 more workers in the aftermath of protests over technology the company is supplying the Israeli government amid the Gaza war, bringing the total number of terminated staff to more than 50, a group representing the workers said.

Rice paddies contribute 8% of all human-made methane in the atmosphere. There is one thing that distinguishes 60-year-old Vo Van Van’s rice fields from a mosaic of thousands of other emerald fields across Long An province in southern Vietnam‘s Mekong Delta: It isn’t entirely flooded.

Under the legislation, the same privacy measures that are extended to fingerprints and facial recognition software now apply to brainwave data. Lawmakers have long grappled with data privacy as it pertains to our devices and vehicles. But there’s a new battleground emerging in the privacy battles: our brains.

The new ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ first look fits the Ryan Reynolds formula like a skintight black and red superhero suit. It’s no secret that the narrative around the Marvel Cinematic Universe has been decidedly bleak since last fall when the release of The Marvels inspired major headlines like “How Marvel Lost Its Way,” “In Marvel we no longer trust,” and “The MCU isn’t dead but it’s hurting.”

Volume was down for the North American Quaker Food division after more than 60 products were recalled in December and January. This December, the U. S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a recall of more than 40 Quaker Oats products due to possible salmonella contamination. Then, in January, dozens of additional Quaker Oats products were tacked onto the original notice—including Cap’n Crunch bars and Quaker Cereal.