Maine's facial recognition law shows bipartisan support for protecting privacy
Maine has joined a growing number of cities, counties and states that are rejecting dangerously biased surveillance technologies like facial recognition.
The new law, which is the strongest statewide facial recognition law in the country, not only received broad, bipartisan support, but it passed u
Intel’s Mobileye takes its autonomous vehicle testing program to New York City
Mobileye, a subsidiary of Intel, has expanded its autonomous vehicle testing program to New York City as part of its strategy to develop and deploy the technology.
New York City joins a number of other cities, including Detroit, Paris, Shanghai and Tokyo, where Mobileye has either launched testing
NewCampus wants to train the first-time managers within Southeast Asia's tech giants
The tech boom in Southeast Asia isn't just seeding a wave of new entrepreneurs building the next generation of unicorns, it's also ushering young talent into the roles of first-time managers. And NewCampus, a Singapore-based startup co-founded by Will Fan and Fei Yao, announced today that i
How we built an AI unicorn in 6 years
Today, Tractable is worth $1 billion. Our AI is used by millions of people across the world to recover faster from road accidents, and it also helps recycle as many cars as Tesla puts on the road.
And yet six years ago, Tractable was just me and Raz (Razvan Ranca, CTO), two college grads coding in
Litnerd streams live actors into the classroom to help kids better connect with reading
Our kids can’t read. As of 2019, roughly a third of U.S. fourth graders were unable to read at the level expected of them. The scores have barely changed in decades. Something isn’t working here.
Litnerd, a company out of New York City, wants to try something new. They’re writing
Marketing Cube founder Maya Moufarek’s lessons for customer-focused startups
Maya Moufarek, founder of Marketing Cube, spent more than 15 years working for companies like Google and American Express before launching her own growth consultancy. Today, her London-based firm works with startups around the world — and her startup clients have raved about the results, based on
Venmo removes its global, public feed as part of a major redesign
PayPal-owned payments app Venmo will no longer offer a public, global feed of users’ transactions, as part of a significant redesign focused on expanding the app’s privacy controls and better highlighting some of Venmo’s newer features. The company says it will instead only show u
Bezos and crew host a giddy press conference after Blue Origin’s inaugural crewed launch
Jeff Bezos was so triumphant he was practically glowing at a press conference following the Blue Origin's first crewed mission to space, 21 years after he founded the company in 2000. The billionaire talked about the future of the company and his role in it, and then casually gave away a couple
3 critical lessons I learned while scaling RingCentral’s customer support team
There are many things I wish I knew when starting out with my small customer support team at RingCentral, but in the end, we figured it out. I'm going to share some critical lessons I learned along the way that I wish I had known at the outset, so that when it comes to scaling your own support
Facebook onboards another 31 newsletter writers on Bulletin
Late last month, Facebook announced Bulletin, its newsletter platform. Unlike Substack, Medium and other competitors, Bulletin hand-picks its writers to curate a more controlled platform, with stars ranging from Mitch Albom, whose book “Tuesdays with Morrie” continues to break hearts in
RxAll grabs $3.15M to scale its drug checking and counterfeiting tech across Africa
Research says that counterfeit medication is the cause of 1 million deaths per year. One-tenth of this number comes from Africa. Counterfeiting is hard to detect, investigate, quantify or stop. It is a global problem, with annual earnings from substandard drugs standing at over $100 billion.
Some t
YouTube’s newest monetization tool lets viewers tip creators for their uploads
YouTube announced its latest feature, Super Thanks, on Tuesday. This is YouTube’s fourth Paid Digital Good, which is what the platform calls any product that lets fans directly pay creators. So far, these tools include Super Chat, Super Stickers and channel subscriptions — but Super Tha
HBO Max to stream free episodes inside Snapchat for co-watching with friends
In a bid to boost sign-ups to its streaming service, HBO Max is partnering with Snap to bring free episodes from its original programing to Snapchat users in the U.S. The episodes will stream via a Snap Mini — the company’s bite-sized third-party apps that live within Snapchat. The expe
ChargePoint to buy European charging software startup for $295M
ChargePoint struck a deal to buy European charging software company has·to·be for €250 million ($295 million) in cash and stock, the electric vehicle charging network’s first acquisition since it became a publicly traded company.
Through the deal, ChargePoint gains more than just 125 empl