European VC firm Octopus Ventures launches £83M growth fund
Octopus Ventures, the European venture capital firm that’s part of Octopus Group, is launching an £83 million growth fund to further invest in its most promising...
The fight for performance – Is reactive programming the right approach?
In the early days of Java, threading abstraction was a major advantage over other programming languages of that time. It still offers easy access to parallel...
Captain America: Beard or no beard? The ‘Avengers: Endgame’ cast voted.
Look, it’s a truth universally acknowledged that Captain America and the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe take things next-level with facial hair. But enough about our extremely...
Grab plans to raise $2B more this year to fund an acquisition spree in Southeast Asia
Always be raisin’. That appears to be the motto of Southeast Asia’s ride-hailing companies Grab and Go-Jek. Fresh from closing a near-$1.5 billion raise from SoftBank’s...
Pirated Promo Screeners of ‘American Gods’ and Other TV-Shows Leak Online
Roughly a decade ago, new episodes of TV-series regularly found their way onto the Internet, before appearing on TV. These leaks were often linked to promotional...
Weekly round-up: JDK 13 official schedule, Go’s growth, TypeScript, & more
JDK 13 schedule Just a few weeks ago, Mark Reinhold added a proposed schedule for JDK 13 to the JDK mailing list. It’s finally approved and...
Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin’s B Capital makes $406M first close of new fund
B Capital, the VC firm from Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, has made the first close of its second fund. The firm has closed out $406 million...
Geek Trivia: What Determined The Direction Of Clock Hand Movement?
What Determined The Direction Of Clock Hand Movement? Religious Tradition A Royal Decree Right-Handed Clock Makers Sundials Think you know the answer? Source : Geek Trivia:...
Shostakovich, My Grandfather, and the Chimes of Novorossiysk
Once, my grandfather telephoned Shostakovich to say he was in Moscow, with two bottles of Novorossiysk’s famous Abrau-Durso champagne and—no less famous, though in narrower circles—some...
UK looks to crack down on social media companies which don’t stop harmful content
The UK is set to unveil new measures against the spread of harmful and violent content on the internet. The Online Harms white paper, set to...
