by Asmawisham | Apr 6, 2017 | Technology
The timing was perfect. Just as startups were settling into NYU and ffVC’s new brains-meet-money accelerator, “AI Nexus Lab,” Uber acquired Geometric Intelligence. In a stroke of luck, the startup that would become Uber’s AI lab happened to have been raised by NYU...
by Asmawisham | Apr 6, 2017 | Technology
Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, long had aspirations to become a player in the mobile phone and tablet world, too. You can’t easily buy an Ubuntu-powered phone today (at least not in the U.S.), but over the years, a few have come and gone....
by Asmawisham | Apr 6, 2017 | Technology
Uber admitted today that it had found one of the documents Waymo alleges was stolen by a former employee — who left its self-driving car effort to join Uber’s — on the employee’s personal computer.The document was found on a personal device belonging to Sameer...
by Asmawisham | Apr 6, 2017 | Technology
It’s actually a pretty great URL: Bus.com. It’s also a much better brand identity than Sharethebus, which is the old name of the company that just raised a $5 million Series A round from Jackson Square Ventures and BMW’s i Ventures investment arm. Bus.com is the...
by Asmawisham | Apr 6, 2017 | Technology
It’s no secret that Google has developed its own custom chips to accelerate its machine learning algorithms. The company first revealed those chips, called Tensor Processing Units (TPUs), at its I/O developer conference back in May 2016, but it never went into all...
by Asmawisham | Apr 6, 2017 | Technology
YouTube TV, YouTube’s streaming television service that was first announced in late February, is rolling out to five cities in the United States starting today.Priced at $35, the service is available in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York City,...