Here’s what’s on my mind.
Coming from a background as an academician, here’s where I provide insight into my career, my passions and my life.Suarez dive? Mascherano handball? Our verdict on the referee’s display
It’s the day after the night before and football fans are still wondering how Barcelona staged one of the greatest comebacks in Champions League history against PSG.
The Warm-Up: Cancel all future football; we’ve peaked
Jack Lang tries to get his head around the most astonishing night at the Nou Camp. It’s Thursday’s Warm-Up.
Solar-powered UK schools face an 800 percent tax increase
Solar technology could face a huge hurdle in the United Kingdom. Schools and certain businesses with solar panels installed may see a 800 percent raise in taxes when a law goes into effect this April, according to The Independent. It's a harsh blow t…
CurrencyCloud, maker of payment tools for fintech startups, raises £20M led by GV
Another fintech startup has raised a growth round to tap into the multi-billion dollar market for money transfers. London-based CurrencyCloud, which builds tools for payment companies to use by way of an API to enable money transfers, has raised £20 million ($25 million) in a Series D round of funding led by Google’s GV.
The news comes one day after U.S.-based Veem (formerly Align… Read More
China’s Didi Chuxing opens U.S. lab to develop AI and self-driving car tech
China’s Uber rival Didi Chuxing has officially opened its U.S.-based research lab. The new center is part of a move to suck up talent beyond Didi’s current catchment pool in China, particularly in the areas of AI and self-driving vehicles, but it doesn’t signal an expansion of its service into North America. The existence of the research center itself isn’t new.… Read More
Goldbely raises a $10M Series A to ship you food from America’s most popular restaurants
Goldbely, the speciality food delivery service, has closed $10M in Series A funding. The round was led by Global Founders Capital and Intel Capital (who also led the company’s seed round). As part of the investment Goldbely is joining the Intel Capital Diversity Fund. Goldbely’s goal is to send you the best food from cities around the U.S, no matter where you are based. So you could… Read More
Google can use machine learning to identify objects in videos
You've been able to use a reverse Google search to hunt down similar photos on the internet for years thanks to image recognition and processing tools, but only for static pictures. Today, at Google Cloud Next '17, the search giant unveiled a new API…
Crunch Report | The VIPs of Tinder
Tinder’s VIP version of its app, Google acquires Kaggle and Udacity launches a Robotics Nanodegree. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
Uber promises it won’t ‘Greyball’ law enforcement anymore
Nearly a week after a New York Times report exposed Uber's use of an internal tool to target and mislead local authorities the company says it's "expressly prohibiting its use to target action by local regulators going forward." According to Uber's p…
