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On: GetWhy Raised a $34.5M Series A

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GetWhy, a market research AI company that was founded in 2011 as UserTribe and extracts insights from video interviews, raised a $34.5M Series A — GetWhy, a consumer research tech company that helps businesses carry out market studies and extract insights from video-based interviews using AI …

On: Meta announces its next-generation Meta Training and Inference Accelerator chips

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Meta promises the next generation of its custom AI chips will be more powerful and able to train its ranking models much faster.

On: Decentralized exchange Uniswap tops $2T in all-time trading volume

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Fixed link: https://www.techmeme.com/240407/p1#a240407p1

On: "LibreOffice is better at reading old Word files than Word"

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Abiword does OK with old .doc files, if anyone was wondering

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Unfortunately, AbiWord is effectively abandonware on Mac and Windows.

I tried compiling it for Mac recently and there is code that was deprecated in 2016 with the release of macOS Sierra.