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5 Reasons Why Your Edtech Product Is Sitting On A Classroom Shelf
Forbes - 19 Nov 2019 17:04
How to make sure your edtech product does not sit on a shelf and collect dust.
HackNotice Premium taps machine learning to tell you exactly what was exposed for $50 per year
Venture Beat - 19 Nov 2019 17:00
HackNotice Premium can tag the specific personal identifier (email, credit card information, social media account, and so on) that was compromised.
Salesforce launches Cloud Voice, Einstein Voice Assistant, and Voice Skills
Venture Beat - 19 Nov 2019 15:00
At its annual Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, Salesforce announced several new products and services, including Einstein Voice Assistant.
Bill Gates Is Both Chief Funder And Fundraiser In Polio Fight
Forbes - 19 Nov 2019 22:01
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi convened the "Reaching The Las Mile Forum" in Abu Dhabi today to announce total pledges...
Pensa Systems raises $10 million to deploy inventory-tracking drones in retail stores
Venture Beat - 19 Nov 2019 21:55
Pensa Systems, an Austin-based startup developing an AI-powered, drone-based inventory tracking system, has raised $10 million more in seed funding.
Building A Carbon Neutral Digital Prints Company
Forbes - 19 Nov 2019 21:39
This Florida-based company is making prints with little waste, in a solar-powered facility, and investing in carbon credits. Could your holiday gift be carbon neutral?
How Women Entrepreneurs Are Breaking Free Of The Pay Gap (And The Best Cities To Be In)
Forbes - 19 Nov 2019 21:01
Research by Dell Women's Entrepreneur Network may suggest that women are poised to have a breakout decade starting in 2020. Released this past summer, the annual Women Entrepreneur Cities (WE Cities) Index tracks 50 glob...
Virtual Beings Summit LA to highlight Hollywood's view of artificial people
Venture Beat - 19 Nov 2019 21:00
The Virtual Beings Summit, which posits that artificial intelligence is the next great art form, holds its second event in Beverly Hills on Tuesday.
Techlash Backlash? Next Generation of Startups Infusing Ethics Into Its Roots
Forbes - 19 Nov 2019 20:54
Tech has come in for a beating this year that might still get worse, and that's influencing the next generation of entrepreneurs.
Why 'The Mandalorian' cites Fortnite dev Epic Games in its credits
Venture Beat - 19 Nov 2019 20:31
"The Mandalorian" is the first big Disney+ original, and creator Jon Favreau turned to Unreal Engine video game tech to help bring it to life.
Microsoft announces Confidential Computing for Kubernetes, IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack, and KEDA 1.0
Venture Beat - 19 Nov 2019 20:15
At KubeCon North America, Microsoft announced Confidential Computing for Kubernetes, IPv4/IPv6 dual-stack support, and the release of KEDA 1.0.
Strategies To Beat Today's Growing Backlink Competition
Forbes - 19 Nov 2019 20:00
More backlinks to a website increase its authority in the eyes of search engines, resulting in better placement on search results pages. But a recent trend could be making this harder than ever.
Jigsaw releases data set to help develop AI that detects toxic comments
Venture Beat - 19 Nov 2019 19:45
Jigsaw, a subsidiary of Google parent company Alphabet, released a data set intended to help train AI models that can detect toxic comments.
Using Blockchain To Make Fragmented Food Supply Chains Traceable
Forbes - 19 Nov 2019 19:05
Wholechain, a platform built on blockchain technology, aims to help fragmented food and agriculture supply chains trace products' steps from their source to their final destination.
Qualcomm: 5G will cover major metros in 2020, developing countries in 2021
Venture Beat - 19 Nov 2019 18:32
Qualcomm president Cristiano Amon provided an update on the next two years of 5G's rollout across the world, spotlighting major and smaller countries.
How To Evaluate Your Startup Idea With Simple Calculation
Forbes - 19 Nov 2019 17:51
Unit economics provides a framework for measuring the profitability of selling one unit of your solution. Knowing what it will take to profit from every transaction is key to evaluating the potential of the startup idea ...
The innovative entrepreneurs of the .CO generation
Venture Beat - 19 Nov 2019 17:50
Increasingly .CO has become the destination domain extension for a new generation of start-ups, innovators, and entrepreneurs.
AI, Solidarity And The Future Of Humanity
Forbes - 19 Nov 2019 17:44
AI expert Miguel Luengo on why outsourcing the moral responsibilities of AI is not an option.
Xiaomi's Xiao AI assistant passes 49.9 million users
Venture Beat - 19 Nov 2019 17:36
Xiaomi announced at its annual developer conference that its Xiao AI assistant now has more than 49.9 million users globally.
Method, Olly, now Welly. Eric Ryan reveals the secret behind his billion-dollar success story
CNBC - 19 Nov 2019 17:25
Eric Ryan, co-founder of Method and gummy vitamin and supplement brand Olly, is on a mission to reinvent the first-aid category with his newest company, Welly. In an interview with CNBC, he reveals how he spots niches ri...
Clumio raises $135 million for cloud data backup and recovery tools
Venture Beat - 19 Nov 2019 16:30
Data backup and recovery software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider Clumio raised $135 million in a series C fundraising round.
Detroit: Become Human comes to PC via Epic Games Store on December 12
Venture Beat - 19 Nov 2019 16:14
Quantic Dream announced today that Detroit: Become Human will be coming to PC on December 12, and it will be available on Epic Games Store.