College football notebook: Protesters delay Harvard-Yale game
A climate change protest got in the way of Harvard and Yale's historic Ivy League football rivalry game on Saturday, as activists delayed the start of the second half by running onto the field in New Haven, Conn.
Samasource raises $14.8M for global AI data biz driven from Africa
AI training data provider Samasource has raised a $14.8 million Series A funding round led by Ridge Ventures.
The San Francisco headquartered company delivers Fortune 100 compa https://t.co/yZX7bkSqQl
Gravitational nabs $25M Series A to ease cloud deployment with Kubernetes
As we move into an increasingly multi-cloud world, there is a portability problem moving applications between clouds. Gravitational wants to fix that, and today it announced https://t.co/BmrMsn6fBb
How Airbnb handles discrimination claims
When disability rights lawyer Haben Girma, who is blind and deaf, booked an apartment in London via Airbnb last month, she says the host cancelled her reservation after she disclosed that her guide dog wo https://t.co/uZ7gBpMKCm
Facebook’s latest experiment is a meme creation app, Whale
Facebook’s NPE Team, a division inside the social networking giant that will build experimental consumer-facing social apps, has now added a third app to its lineup with the launch of meme cr https://t.co/qaUS1ocEgO
Amazon’s new Fire TV Blaster works with Echo to control your TV, soundbar, cable box and more
Amazon already offers Alexa voice control to TV owners through its Fire TV devices, by way of a voice remote or by pairing an Echo device with a Fire TV, fo https://t.co/C82I61WWTp
Google Assistant introduces personalized playlists of audio news
Starting today, when you say “Hey Google, play me the news” to a Google Assistant-enabled phone or smart speaker, you’ll get a tailored playlist of the day’s big headlines and stor https://t.co/zNZUDGinaL
The Cerebras CS-1 computes deep learning AI problems by being bigger, bigger, and bigger than any other chip
Deep learning is all the rage these days in enterprise circles, and it isn’t hard to understand why. Whether it is optimizing ad spend, findi https://t.co/KSC0MIg5tQ
Magical Magento figures out how to make and take
I didn’t love Dries Buytaert’s article earlier this month (“ How takers hurt makers in open source ”), as I feel it sets up a misleading war between the “makers” and “takers” of open source. Every comp https://t.co/CqBIl4Ha8r
Nanoracks just booked a SpaceX launch to demo tech that turns used spacecraft into orbital habitats
SpaceX is going to launch a payload for client Nanoracks aboard one of its new rideshare missions, currently targeting late 2020, that will demons https://t.co/nKbNA3Zb3t
NASA adds SpaceX, Blue Origin and more to list of companies set to make deliveries to the surface of the Moon
NASA has added five companies to the list of vendors that are cleared to bid on contracts for the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Se https://t.co/0oGpbxCP5m
Steve Jang & Kanyi Maqubela form or fund as Kindred Ventures
Venture capitalists often mutter, “I haven’t seen anything I like lately”. Founders frequently complain that “investors are back-seat drivers who won’t get their hands dirty.” A $55 million https://t.co/3CqahbkHXW
Logitech accessory kit makes the Xbox Adaptive Controller even more accessible
Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Controller was a breath of fresh air in a gaming world that has largely failed to consider the needs of people with disabilities. Now Logit https://t.co/b8fjXUnEyn
Microsoft announces changes to cloud contract terms following EU privacy probe
Chalk up another win for European data protection: Microsoft has announced changes to commercial cloud contracts following privacy concerns raised by European Union https://t.co/nFGOpypcNj