Tesla’s decision to scrap its PR department could create a PR nightmare
A solid public relations team solves many issues within a company.
It helps spread important news announcements and topics integral to a company’s success. It communicates with the media in a timely manner to ensure accurate coverage and control the conversation. It builds a state of trust an
Cruise can now test driverless vehicles on the streets of San Francisco
Cruise, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM that also has backing from SoftBank Vision Fund, Honda and T. Rowe Price & Associates, has been issued a permit from California regulators that will allow it to test driverless vehicles on public roads in San Francisco.
The California DMV, the agenc
Nanoleaf adds large and small triangles to its revamped Shape product line
Nanoleaf launched the next generation of its light panels in July. Called Shape, this new product looks like the company's original offering, but sports better connectors, a simpler mounting solution, and most importantly, these panels can work with different shapes.
Today, Nanoleaf announced t
Google will let everyone migrate from Hangouts to Chat for free in 2021
Google’s strategy around its messaging apps is nothing if not messy right now (hello Hangouts, Meet, Chat, Duo and Co.), but it looks like things will get a bit easier come next year. We already knew that Hangouts’ time was coming to an end and as Google announced today, the company wil
New Oxford machine learning-based COVID-19 test can provide results in under 5 minutes
Oxford scientists working out of the school’s Department of Physics have developed a new type of COVID-19 test that can detect SARS-CoV-2 with a high degree of accuracy, directly in samples taken from patients, using a machine learning-based approach that could help sidestep test supply limit
Emerging companies thrive on data. Shouldn't they use it to improve hiring decisions?
"speakable-summary" dir="ltr">While emerging companies are often started by technically minded founders and funded by VCs for their data-driven approaches to product and growth, the irony is that these companies are often using less data and rigor when it comes to hiring talent than more traditional
Nabis raises $5m Series A to grow its cannabis distribution platform
The cannabis industry is quickly growing up, and companies like Nabis play a critical role. Today, the company is announcing it raised $5 million in Series A funding, which will help it grow and expand its offering.
Nabis is a business to business distributor, handling logistics, payment, and wareh
Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America
Over the last five years, Brazil has witnessed a startup boom.
The main startups hubs in the country have traditionally been São Paulo and Belo Horizonte, but now a new wave of cities are building their own thriving local startup ecosystems, including Recife with Porto Digital hub and Florianópol
Temporal raises $18.75M for its microservices orchestration platform
Temporal, a Seattle-based startup that is building an open-source, stateful microservices orchestration platform, today announced that it has raised an $18.75 million Series A round led by Sequoia Capital. Existing investors Addition Ventures and Amplify Partners also joined, together with new inve
Whisper announces $35M Series B to change hearing aids with AI and subscription model
A few years ago, Whisper president and co-founder Andrew Song was talking to his grandfather about his hearing aids. Even though he spent thousands of dollars on a medical device designed to improve his hearing, and in the process his quality of life, he wasn’t wearing them. Song’s co-f
Stellar blockchain will soon support USDC stablecoin
USDC, the stablecoin co-founded by Circle and Coinbase, first started as an Ethereum-based token. After adding support for the Algorand blockchain, Centre, the consortium that manages USDC, is announcing that Stellar will be the third blockchain that supports USDC. The rollout should happen at some
Nvidia will power world’s fastest AI supercomputer, to be located in Europe
Nvidia is is going to be powering the world’s fastest AI supercomputer, a new system dubbed “Leonardo” that’s being built by the Italian multi-university consortium CINECA, a global supercomputing leader. The Leonardo system will offer as much as 10 exaflops of FP16 AI perfo
YouTube bans videos promoting conspiracy theories like QAnon that target individuals
YouTube today joined social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter in taking more direct action to prohibit the distribution of conspiracy theories like QAnon.
The company announced that it is expanding its hate and harassment policies to ban videos “that [target] an individual or group
Bipedal robot developer Agility announces $20M raise
Agility, the Oregon State University spin-off behind Digit and Cassie, announced this morning that it has raised $20 million in funding. The latest round, led by DCVC and Playground Global, brings the startup's total funding up to $29 million. Other recent investors include TDK Ventures, MFV Pa