Care2

MARCH 18, 2012

It’s been close to two weeks since Invisible Children released it’s "Kony 2012" video, which quickly spread across social networks, blogs, and made headlines across major news networks and newspapers like the NYT and the Washington Post. With over 80M views on Youtube, the video is still being shared and talked about.

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The Verge

JANUARY 16, 2021

The headliner, the Ryzen 9 5980HX, has eight cores, 16 threads, and high hopes. The ROG Zephyrus G15 wasn’t Asus’s headline CES announcement; the company didn’t spend much time talking about it at all. Honorable Mentions: Most Hype: Mercedes-Benz Hyperscreen. Su made some big claims. Ian Carlos Campbell.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

They’ll unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines and will wade through the hype to keep you up-to-date on the world of business, tech and VC. Come for the news and analysis, stay for the jokes — and for breakfast! Winning the War on Ransomware. Hiring is not easy, even in the best of times.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 27, 2023

Phil Haslett, co-founder and chief strategy officer of EquityZen, had this to say about the company’s choosing to move forward with its delayed SPAC despite all the negative headlines over the past 20 months. Via email, he wrote: “Senior leadership at Better.com (and its investors) are not surprised the stock is ‘down’ 90%. Register now !

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 11, 2022

I think one of the most startling things about the recent group of layoffs in the fintech space, though, is how many of them are taking place at some of the highest-valued startups out there. Optimistic or short-sighted? It seems there is a fine line. Klarna was valued at $45 billion last year. Brex was valued at $12.3

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Towards Data Science

OCTOBER 7, 2023

The hype around generative AI is real, and data and ML teams are feeling the heat. Despite those “anti-AI” headlines, the financial industry has made use of machine learning algorithms for years — powering fraud detection algorithms and instantaneous credit decisions. Getting started with LLMs? Image courtesy of author.

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The Verge

MAY 26, 2021

Watching this year’s I/O demos I was reminded of the hype surrounding self-driving cars, a technology that has so far failed to deliver on its biggest claims (remember Elon Musk promising that a self-driving car would take a cross country trip in 2018 ? These snippets have made headlines when users discover particularly egregious errors.

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The Verge

AUGUST 17, 2021

There are other places where, if you do that, you’re going to get honked at and run off the road. So this all depends on your frame of reference, Nilay, and I guess, which headlines you’re reading and believing. It has good weather, which is a good place to start. It has its place as a value-added part of the ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Instead of a collapse, the data suggests a healthy “reversion to the mean” following an astonishing and historic hype cycle in 2021. lockdowns and Russia’s war on Ukraine placed further pressure on an already strained global supply chain. More volatility. First, inflation soared as COVID stimulus money drove up demand.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

One key issue, according to Wired , is that Google may not have put as much investment in its internal studios as its much-hyped plans for Stadia may have suggested. When Stadia first launched, my colleague Sean Hollister said it was “still just a beta” right in the headline. Stadia employees said the tech felt like a beta.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

He said H could go in his place, and I could tag along as his plus-one. Hype drives value. It was more like a real-life version of those Twitter spam bots that promise that a certain cryptocurrency is “going to the moon” because NFTs are fundamentally about hype. Hype drives value. What the f**k? Holy s**t.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2022

Today in good headlines : Nothing is a startup working in the hardware space that may have product coming to light at a forthcoming event. Hit the link for more, and a very good headline. And why was TechCrunch so hype about the new iPhone SE ? Acorns raises a post-SPAC round : What happens after you call off your SPAC deal?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The startup feels low-key in a sector that has been full of hype and chest-beating in recent years. Worse, fintech didn’t escape the recent waves of tech layoffs , with high-profile companies like Brex, Chime and Stripe making headlines for this disheartening reason over the last few weeks.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

At ETHDenver, developers want a utopian future I knew I was in the right place when l saw a flier taped to a streetlamp advertising the “world’s first NFT bong.”. It was inspired by an Onion headline, Yang explained: “ American People Hire High-Powered Lobbyist To Push Interests In Congress.”).

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

We’ll unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines, and wade through the hype to keep you up to date on the world of business, tech and VC. What Does Product-Market Fit Mean When Hype Tanks? Few startups had as much hype — and early consumer buy-in — as Clubhouse. with TechCrunch Editorial Team.

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