British appliances firm Dyson says it will invest an extra £2.75bn ($3.67bn) in new technology over the next five years, as it aims to double the number of products it sells. The…
Musician Andrew Paley Creates AI Videos: “Collaborating with a Machine Fit the Moment”
Andrew Paley first appeared on music radars in 2002 with his Burlington, Vermont-based post-punk band The Static Age. But the musician has another life in tech – and this year he’s combined…
AI in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter: Reckoning or PR Stunt?
George Floyd’s death, and weeks of global protest against racial inequality that followed, have persuaded two of Silicon Valley’s biggest brands to rethink facial recognition technology. On Tuesday IBM announced it would…
AI Dental Tech Overjet Secures $7.85m Seed Round
Boston-based AI startup Overjet, which uses tech to help untangle dental scans, has raised $7.85 million of seed investment. The round, led by Californian VC Crosslink Capital, and MIT-focused E14 Fund—Overjet CEO…
How Will Europe Hold off the Chinese Tech Spending Spree?
In 2017 Canyon Bridge, a Cayman Islands-registered investor, bought Imagination Technologies, one of the UK’s premier chipmakers. Surprisingly, the deal didn’t incur the wrath of British politicians. Just weeks previous US President…
Graphics Duo Wins Turing Award, ‘Tech’s Nobel Prize’
A computer graphics pair whose breakthroughs enabled movies like “Toy Story” and other digital effects, won this year’s Turing Award, the tech world’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize. Edwin Catmull and Patrick…
Romanian Startup TypingDNA Wins $7m Funding from Google’s AI VC
Romanian typing biometrics startup TypingDNA has secured a $7 million Series A funding round, led by Google’s AI-focused VC firm Gradient Ventures. The 2016-founded company, based in Romania and New York City,…
Bias and Artificial Intelligence: Ghosts in the Machine
With a gigantic bottleneck in tech talent, companies are turning to tech to speed up the recruitment process. But baked into hiring startups’ algorithms are biases and prejudices as old as time…
“AI Goes Beyond Algorithmic Brilliance” – OurCrowd CEO Jon Medved
Jon Medved, CEO of equity crowdfund OurCrowd, is one of Israel’s leading AI investors. But, the enigmatic, Hawaiian shirt-loving VC says, deep tech brings its own deep and unique issues for entrepreneurs.…
Mapillary CEO and founder Solem: “It never really felt daunting…it just made sense”
Jan Erik Solem is CEO and founder of Mapillary, a Malmö-based street-level imagery platform that that uses computer vision to fix maps. Thus far the company has won almost $25 million in…