Joining the circulation of two mice weakened the younger one, but didn’t do much for the old one. Go to Source Author: TechReview Powered by WPeMatico
Aye Finance raises $10.3M to supply micro-loans to small companies in India
Aye Finance, a startup that specializes in micro-loans in India, has landed $10.3 million in new funding of its own led LGT and existing investors SAIF Partners and Accion. Read More Go to Source Author: Jon Russell Powered by WPeMatico
IBM expands its UK presence with 4 new data centers
IBM today announced that it is launching four new data centers in the U.K. This brings IBM’s total data center footprint in the U.K. to six, in addition to 16 other locations across Europe. This is yet another example of the company’s increasing infrastructure investment. The first of these new U.K. locations in Fareham will […]
Facebook plans to boost UK headcount by 50% as gov’t signals corporate tax rate cut
Facebook has followed Google’s lead by trumpeting plans to expand its presence in the UK — despite ongoing uncertainty over the impact of this summer’s Brexit vote for the country to leave the European Union. Read More Go to Source Author: Natasha Lomas Powered by WPeMatico
Canada Moves Ahead on Carbon Taxes, Leaving the U.S. Behind
The defeat of carbon pricing in Washington State contrasts with its northern neighbor, where carbon taxes are now the rule. Go to Source Author: TechReview Powered by WPeMatico
China’s Driverless Trucks Are Revving Their Engines
Several companies are taking advantage of the lack of restrictions on testing autonomous vehicles in China. Go to Source Author: TechReview Powered by WPeMatico
Why nature is our best guide for understanding artificial intelligence
In living organisms, evolution is a multi-generational process where mutations in genes are dropped and added. Well-adapted organisms survive and those less fortunate go extinct. This is Natural Selection. Resilience is great, but if you don’t grow gills in time for the flood, then tough luck. Read More Go to Source Author: David Cheng Powered […]
Beyond Nokia: A love story
It was October 2011. Verena Rentrop and Elsie Parumog, two Nokia staff stationed on opposite sides of the world, were having a routine work chat when something more pressing came up. With another wave of restructuring underway, which would see Nokia lay off thousands of employees over the next few years, the close but remote relationship that […]
Amazon’s Next Big Move: Take Over the Mall
Unable to resist any opportunity to sell you something, the e-commerce leader is opening up brick-and-mortar bookstores. But its online prowess doesn’t yet translate into a very good retail experience. Go to Source Author: TechReview Powered by WPeMatico
Snapchat Spectacle vending bot lands at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena
Another day, another Spectacles vending machine location. This is the fifth place the Snapbot has appeared, to sell its first-person video capturing sunglasses to droves of willing Snapchat fans (or at least people hoping to turn a tidy profit by reselling them on eBay). Today’s spot is in Pasadena, at the Rose Bowl Stadium where […]