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Medal.tv, a video clipping service for gamers, enters the livestreaming market with Rawa.tv acquisition

TechCrunch

Medal.tv, a short-form video clipping service and social network for gamers, is entering the livestreaming market with the acquisition of Rawa.tv, a Twitch rival based in Dubai, which had raised around $1 million to date. CEO Pim de Witte, as to his company’s interest in Rawa. Image Credits: Medal.tv.

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FPGA startup Rapid Silicon lands $15M to bring its first chip to market

TechCrunch

Field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA) , or integrated circuits sold off-the-shelf, are a hot topic in tech. The global FPGA market size could reach $14 billion by 2028, according to one estimate, up from $6 billion in 2021. ” Rapid Silicon is developing two products at present: Raptor and Gemini. .

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Ameelio’s free video calling service for inmates goes live at first facilities

TechCrunch

Ameelio , a nonprofit startup that intends to replace inmate-paid video calling in prisons with a free service, is making inroads against the companies that have dominated the space for decades. “We maybe had 8,000 users when we spoke to you, and a few months later we launched our mobile app.

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Nvidia offers retail loss prevention software to accelerate accelerator chip sales

CIO

One tracks shoppers and objects across multiple camera views as a building block for cashierless store systems; one aims to prevent ticket-switching fraud at self-service checkouts; and one is for building analytics dashboards from surveillance camera video. Nvidia isn’t packaging these workflows as off-the-shelf applications, however.

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Daily Crunch: In latest earnings release, Twitter admits to miscounting users for the second time

TechCrunch

We kicked off a series of pitch deck teardowns, and we are looking for startups that want to have their pitch decks reviewed. More news than you can shake a cap table at: Shuffle off your mortal oil : BlocPower wants to evict fossil fuels one building at a time , replacing them with greener alternatives. Friday tomorrow, woohoo!

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VIDEO: How does your technology choice today impact your custom software profitability tomorrow?

Praxent

Video Transcript. B) Having more off-the-shelf solutions instead of having to invent everything ourselves, and. Plus, he shares his recommended technologies today. ?. Hi, my name is Ryan Ostrom, and I’m the Director of Engineering here at Praxent. From time to time, folks ask us: how important is my technology decision?

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Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory

Erik Bernhardsson

It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe I'm an optimistic person, because my viewpoint is the complete opposite! I used to write custom mapreduce jobs to pull basic stats, then wait for hours for those jobs to finish. I once ran a web shop and spent a week implementing credit card payments.