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Lime hires its first chief business officer amid push into car-sharing
Oct 30, 2:49AM
Lime has tapped David Richter, Uber's former vice president, to lead its business operations.
Social commerce startup Goxip lands $1.4M investment to add flexible payments
Oct 30, 1:00AM
Social e-commerce startup Goxip raised $5 million in January, and now the Hong Kong-based business has brought in more cash with a strategic $1.4 million investment from financial services company Convoy. Existing backers including Chinese photo app company Meitu also took part. Convoy offers a range of services that include asset management, insurance and other […]
Google AI listens to 15 years of sea-bottom recordings for hidden whale songs
Oct 29, 11:26PM
Google and a group of game cetologists have undertaken an AI-based investigation of years of undersea recordings, hoping to create a machine learning model that can spot humpback whale calls. It's part of the company's new "AI for social good" program that's rather obviously positioned to counter the narrative that AI is mostly used for facial recognition and ad targeting.
iHeartRadio is coming to Mexico
Oct 29, 11:17PM
iHeartMedia announced today that its streaming radio app iHeartRadio is coming to Mexico. In fact, a beta version of the app is already live, with plans for an official launch on November 3. As part of this launch, the company is partnering with Mexican broadcaster Grupo ACIR, which owns the Amor, Mix and La Comadre […]
Another Kleiner investor has just raised her own fund
Oct 29, 11:00PM
She may not have the name recognition of former colleague Beth Seidenberg, but Lynne Chou-O’Keefe, who has spent the last five-plus years investing in healthcare on behalf of the venture firm Kleiner Perkins, is raising her own debut fund. According to a newly processed SEC filing, the firm is called Define Ventures, and it has […]
YC-backed Observant uses the iPhone's infrared depth sensors to analyze user emotions
Oct 29, 10:49PM
Observant has found a new way to use the fancy infrared depth sensors included on the iPhone X, XS and XR: analyzing people’s facial expression in order to understand how they’re responding to a product or a piece of content. Observant was part of the winter batch of startups at accelerator Y Combinator, but was […]
The corpse of Kodak coughs up another odd partnership
Oct 29, 10:47PM
Kodak isn’t feeling very well. The company, which sold off most of its legacy assets in the last decade, is licensing its name to partners who build products like digital cameras and, most comically, a cryptocurrency. In that deal, Wenn Digital bought the rights to the Kodak name for an estimated $1.5 million, a move […]
Europe's most popular ride-hailing service is launching e-scooters
Oct 29, 10:39PM
Daimler-owned ride-hailing company mytaxi will release a fleet of e-scooters in Southern Europe later this year.
Civil servant who watched porn at work blamed for infecting a US government network with malware
Oct 29, 10:11PM
A U.S. government network was infected with malware thanks to one employee’s “extensive history” of watching porn on his work computer, investigators have found. The audit, carried out by the U.S. Department of the Interior’s inspector general, found that a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) network at the EROS Center, a satellite imaging facility in South […]
iOS 12.1 arrives tomorrow with Group FaceTime and camera improvements
Oct 29, 9:57PM
Looks like Apple's not saving all of its news for the big event in Brooklyn tomorrow. The company just revealed that the latest version of iOS is arriving tomorrow in time for the iPad reveal. The biggest addition here is the long-awaited arrival of Group FaceTime, something the company's been talking up since WWDC. The […]
At long last, pet portraits with background blur are possible on the iPhone XR
Oct 29, 9:43PM
The new iPhones have some great new photography features, but the XR lacks a couple, for instance portrait mode for non-people subjects, owing to its sadly having only the one camera. So last year! Fortunately third party camera app Halide is here to help you get that professional-looking bokeh in your doggo shots.
Google employees will walk out on Thursday to protest company's handling of sexual misconduct
Oct 29, 9:39PM
The women's walk is planned for Thursday, according to a BuzzFeed News report.
Department of Justice launches a new hate-crime resource portal
Oct 29, 9:13PM
Following an alarming week of domestic terrorism, the U.S. Department of Justice has consolidated into a single online hub resources and reporting tools for hate crimes. According to a DOJ press release, the new portal is meant to “provide a centralized portal for the Department's hate crimes resources for law enforcement, media, researchers, victims, advocacy groups, […]
Failed drone startup Airware auctions assets, Delair buys teammates
Oct 29, 8:50PM
Airware desperately sought cash for 18 months before running out of money and shutting down last month, leaving about 120 employees without jobs after the startup had burned $118 million in funding. Bandaid strategic investments from construction company Caterpillar and others kept Airware alive as it looked for a $15 million round, according to a […]
Privacy group calls on US government to adopt universal AI guidelines to protect safety, security and civil liberties
Oct 29, 8:16PM
After months of work, a set of guidelines designed to protect humanity from a range of threats posed by artificial intelligence have been proposed. Now, a privacy group wants the U.S. government to adopt them too. The set of 12 universal guidelines revealed at a meeting in Brussels last week are designed to “inform and […]
A digital revolution is reshaping Democratic campaigns
Oct 29, 8:02PM
Two weeks before the 2016 election, Bloomberg's Joshua Green and Sasha Issenberg published a story about Trump's brash, self-aggrandizing digital team. Democrats treated the story as evidence of the Trump campaign's utter cluelessness, until he won.
Hidden files hint at a possible PC version of Red Dead Redemption 2
Oct 29, 7:58PM
At launch, the long-awaited (and much hyped) western adventure that is Red Dead Redemption 2 is only available on the PS4 and Xbox One. That might not be the case forever, though. Code hidden within the game’s mobile companion app suggests that a PC version could be in the works. Last week, we wrote about […]
Unu raises $12 million to build new electric scooter
Oct 29, 7:12PM
German startup Unu raised a $12 million funding round led by Ponooc, with existing investors Capnamic Ventures, Iris Capital, Michael Baum and NRW.BANK also participating. The company has been building electric scooters (the motorcycle kind) and is working on new products and services. For the past five years, Unu has sold 10,000 scooters. The market […]
Google Discover begins to replace the iconic search box on mobile
Oct 29, 7:04PM
It’s not broke, but Google is fixing it. As it announced last month, Google is rebranding Google Feed, its news landing page on Android and in the Google app, to be called Google Discover. Throwing minimalism out the window, Google Discover will replace the iconically spartan Google.com homepage on mobile. Discover is rolling out now […]
Assessing IBM's $34 billion Red Hat acquisition
Oct 29, 6:52PM
As you look at the $34 billion IBM-Red Hat deal announced yesterday, if you follow the enterprise closely, it seems like a good move, at least on its face. It could be years before we understand the true value of it for IBM (or lack thereof, depending on how it ultimately goes). The questions stands […]
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