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A UK High Court judge has granted permission for a class-action style privacy lawsuit to proceed against TikTok over its handling of children’s data. The lawsuit was filed back in December 2020 by a then 12-year-old girl who has been granted anonymity by the court to bring the claim that the

Procuring items to fill the shelves of local stores is not an easy task in Latin America. Orders are mostly still done on paper or over the phone, and sometimes store owners have to drive to the wholesaler to get their orders. Cayena founders Gabriel Sendacz, Pedro Carvalho and Raymond Shayo believ

According to a recent Bloomberg Intelligence report, the metaverse is an $800 billion market. Still others argue about what the metaverse actually is, but with so much money and curiosity surrounding it, it has everyone talking. Undoubtedly, AI will play a huge role in the metaverse, especially as

When Microsoft announced its intent to buy Nuance Communications last year for $20 billion, it marked a hard move into healthcare for the company. But the deal was not a slam dunk by any means in an increasingly tight regulatory environment. After finally clearing all the regulatory hurdles, howeve

The explosion in audio and video content and interfaces over the last few years has been plain to see, but ways of dealing with all that media behind the scenes hasn’t quite caught up. AssemblyAI, powered by $28 million in new funding, is aiming at becoming the go-to solution for analyzing sp

I'm writing this fresh off hosting technewss Live this week with Jonathan Hurst of Agility Robotics and Bruce Leak of Playground Global. I'll be posting more about the session later this week, but in the meantime, it's got me thinking about carts, horses and the inherent ordering syste

Verbit, a Tel Aviv- and New York-based AI-powered transcription and captioning service platform, has acquired Take Note — the U.K.-based company that provides transcription, captioning and note-taking services for the market research sector. This acquisition marks Verbit's entrance into t

Now that a lot of transactions take place in e-commerce, tapping into the community is something merchants are finding is a necessity to continue engaging with customers. However, that community can live in a bunch of different places online, and Archive is working to harness that community, wherev

UK-based TrueCircle, a computer vision startup founded just last year, has nabbed $5.5 million in pre-seed funding in a bid to bring data-driven AI to the recycling industry to improve recovery rates and quality — with the overarching goal of transforming the economics of waste reuse to shrin

Advances in natural language processing are making it possible for companies to gather and learn from customers in new and better ways to help product development teams with their product roadmaps. Enterpret is emerging onto the scene with its take on building analytics on natural language so that

Agtech startup Source.ag today announced it harvested a $10 million investment to make greenhouses smarter. The founders have set their eyes on a horizon where, driven by climate change and a rapid increase in global food demand as population continues to increase, more crops are being forced indoo

We've all seen a product on social media that looks interesting, so you click the “shop now” button and are taken over to a new site. But wait, you weren't finished on the social media site, and when you go back, everything has refreshed. Ownit unveiled a checkout experience today, afte

As I noted last year, we're ramping up to return to Boston this July for our TC Sessions Robotics event. Our March 2020 event on the Berkeley campus was the last major in-person technewss show before everything shut down. For what should probably be self-evident reasons, we decided that roboti

Applying for a frontline job can be a game of hurry-up-and-wait, and communication is not always the best when a company is trying to fill dozens of positions at the same time. Enter Emi, the latest company targeting technology to this portion of the workforce with a conversational artificial intel