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I was shocked – shocked! – to find out there are tech startups in Portugal

The Next Web

I spent the past few days in the beautiful city of Lisbon, Portugal, to attend the annual Switch Conference and gain some insights into the Portuguese startup ecosystem (and to enjoy several local seafood dishes and pastries).

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VRAI wants to tackle the energy crisis by bringing VR simulation training to offshore wind sector

TechCrunch

Just yesterday, Los Angeles-based AmazeVR announced a $17 million tranche of funding to scale its virtual concert and “music metaverse” platform. And last week we saw the mighty Epic Games invest in U.K. metaverse infrastructure company Hadean, as part of the Fortnite-creator’s broader metaverse expansion plans.

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[VIDEO] Keeping Your Donor Database Healthy, Wealth, and Wise

Bloomerang

And then you may have something like scholarship funds, or the music fund, or something like that. Steven knows we live in a very highly descendants of Portugal here. And when you look at funds, we look at things like funds are to me, they’re these categories of restricted and unrestricted funds. So make sure you have that clear.

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Magic Eraser comes to more devices, Spotify gains an AI DJ, and Netflix decreases prices

TechCrunch

AI in my Spotify: Spotify this week launched a new AI feature called “DJ” to better personalize the music-listening experience for its users. ” Neat! Military secrets: On Monday, the U.S.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent. Our Right to Be Forgotten on the Internet.

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Elon Musk’s Twitter (now X): Everything you need to know, from layoffs to verification

TechCrunch

X takes over @music handle, hinting at future music plans The @music account was originally operated for 16 years by software developer Jeremy Vaught, who grew the @music handle to roughly half a million followers. Vaught posted in anger that X had commandeered the account for itself.

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