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French startup Swile has raised a $200 million Series D funding round led by SoftBank Group International. With this funding round, the startup has now reached unicorn status, meaning that Swile has a valuation of $1 billion or more. Swile provides a payment card for employee benefits, such as meal

Reddit announced today that it has hired Pali Bhat, the former vice-president of product and design at Google Cloud, as the company's first chief product officer. Bhat will be tasked with overseeing Reddit's product organization and leading the development of tools and features for the plat

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Let’s not discuss the Mustang Mach-E’s name. Not the Mach-E portion, the other part — the lineage of the pony car slapped onto an electric SUV. Those arguments are over. People have picked sides. The question of whether the Mach-E is a Mustang is irrelevant. A far more pressing qu

The former U.K. minster of state for what is now the digital and culture department, DCMS, has warned of the looming battle in parliament over the exact shape of incoming online safety legislation. In an interview with technewss, Ed Vaizey — a former Conservative Party MP, now Lord Vaizey of

Mono, an African startup that helps connect consumers' bank accounts to financial applications, has raised a $15 million Series A round, the company confirmed to technewss today. The round, led by Tiger Global — the VC firm's third major investment in Africa this year after Flutterwa

Just days after Voodoo acquired Beach Bum, another French mobile gaming company has news to share. Homa Games is raising a $50 million Series A round led by Northzone. The company partners with indie game studios and acts as a publisher. Other investors in today's funding round include Singular

Five months after announcing a deal with two of China's biggest two-wheel vehicle makers, Gogoro officially launched there today, opening 45 battery swapping stations in Hangzhou. The company's co-founder and chief executive officer Horace Luke told technewss that it targets 80 stations by

"speakable-summary" data-testid="paragraph-0">Tesla CEO Elon Musk threw a rager at the new Berlin gigafactory on Saturday — complete with bright lights, techno music, a Ferris wheel, carousel, arcade and vegetarian food trucks — to announce the start of production at the disputed site that’

We're just weeks away from COP26, the big environmental policy confab where scores of world leaders will descend on Scotland and determine the future of the planet, answering the question, “Should we all die or live?” That's meant a whole truckload of new books on the subject, as well a

Buckle up, it's going to be a wild ride. The pace of change over the last few decades is only set to accelerate in the coming years, as improvements in biology, medicine, spacecraft, manufacturing, software and more continue to transform the very foundations of society, economics and politics.

“The Ministry for the Future” by Kim Stanley Robinson isn't a book that lauds ecoterrorists. In fact, it mostly manages to avoid the subject across its many pages. Yet, at the center of its speculative account about the eponymous ministry and its leadership over the next few decades

Roughly two hours pass between my initial email and our first Zoom chat — on a Sunday, no less. I skip the post-gym shower and pop on a baseball cap, because I'm not sure when the opportunity will present itself again. After more than two decades of espousing the benefits of vertical farming

Climate change has been the deepest, most challenging cognitive puzzle for humans to untangle these past years. It's systems on top of systems, with emergent properties that can easily turn intuitive notions into catastrophic dead ends. Every action has a reaction or 10, and improving one part