🚫 Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th
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Yahoo Answers will be shut down forever on May 4th. Yahoo Answers, one of the longest-running and most storied web Q&A platforms in the history of the internet, is shutting down on May 4th. That’s the day the Yahoo Answers website will start redirecting to the Yahoo homepage, and all of the platform’s archives will apparently cease to exist. (Nick Statt via The Verge)
China Creates its Own Digital Currency, a First for Major Economy. A thousand years ago, when money meant coins, China invented paper currency. Now the Chinese government is minting cash digitally, in a re-imagination of money that could shake a pillar of American power. (James T. Areddy via Wall Street Journal)
Baseball card company Topps to go public through SPAC deal. Topps, which is best known for its baseball cards and Bazooka candy line, has agreed to go public through a merger with Mudrick Capital Acquisition Corporation II, a special purpose acquisition company, that values Topps at $1.3 billion. (Amelia Lucas via CNBC)
Credit Suisse Takes $4.7 Billion Archegos Hit, Replaces Warner. Credit Suisse Group AG emerged as the big loser in global investment banks’ race to the exits following the implosion of Archegos Capital Management, with the fiasco leading to a quarterly loss and a major shakeup at the top of the Swiss bank. (Marion Halftermeyer via Bloomberg)
Accelerating Learning As We Build Back Better. After a year of struggling with distance learning and hybrid models, parents, teachers, and policymakers across the country are concerned about “learning loss” and how to recover from the educational effects of the pandemic. (Linda Darling-Hammond via Forbes)
I Called Off My Wedding. The Internet Will Never Forget. I still have a photograph of the breakfast I made the morning I ended an eight-year relationship and canceled a wedding. It was an unremarkable breakfast—a fried egg—but it is now digitally fossilized in a floral dish we moved with us when we left New York and headed west. I don’t know why I took the photo, except, well, I do: I had fallen into the reflexive habit of taking photos of everything. (Lauren Goode via WIRED)
Taiwan-based MLOps startup InfuseAI raises $4.3M Series A led by Wistron Corporation. AI models not only take time to build and train, but also to deploy in an organization’s workflow. That’s where MLOps (machine learning operations) companies come in, helping clients scale their AI technology. (Catherine Shu via TechCrunch)
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