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Key Takeaways: Snap Alumni Powerhouse: A collective of 20 former Snap leaders and employees have launched Ghost Angels, an angel fund dedicated to backing the next generation of social media and consumer AI startups. Redefining Social & Media: Ghost Angels’ investment thesis hinges on the splitting of “social” and “media,” leveraging AI to foster authentic human connections and democratize…

Kentucky’s elimination from the men’s NCAA tournament in the second round on Sunday, courtesy of Iowa State, triggered a somewhat sarcastic social media update from a former Cyclones player, Tyrese Haliburton. Editor’s Picks 1 Related Iowa State decisively defeated Kentucky with a score of 82-63, fueled by Tamin Lipsey’s 26 points and Milan Momcilovic’s 20. Lipsey also tallied 10 assists and…

Former Dancing With the Stars pros Maksim Chmerkovskiy and Peta Murgatroyd didn’t dance around their feelings on the subject of Taylor Swift backup dancer Jan Ravnik being cast as a professional dancer on the show. On a recent episode of Murgatroyd’s The Penthouse With Peta podcast, she and Chmerkovskiy — who both previously served as resident pros in past seasons of the competition series and…

Silicon Valley is doubling down on protection as geopolitical tensions rise and urge for food for modernizing warfare grows. And whereas lots of the startups garnering giant valuations are targeted on {hardware} and weaponry – suppose Anduril, Protect AI, Skydio – Rune Applied sciences desires to sort out AI-enabled software program for navy logistics.  “The U.S. navy runs on Excel spreadsheets…

[TECH AND FINANCIAL] Heron Power, the electrical grid-focused startup founded by former Tesla executive Drew Baglino, announced Thursday it has raised $38 million in a Series A funding round. Heron Power is developing solid-state transformers, which promise to be more compact and responsive than the century-old analog models. Transformers are key parts of the electrical grid, stepping voltage up…