Sunday, August 8, 2021
Does Bitcoin Make Payments Anonymous?
CB Insights: global corporate venture capital-backed funding reached $79B across 2,099 deals in H1 2021, up from $74B in all of 2020; GV had most deals with 64 (Kia Kokalitcheva/Axios)
CB Insights: global corporate venture capital-backed funding reached $79B across 2,099 deals in H1 2021, up from $74B in all of 2020; GV had most deals with 64 — With everything going up and to the right, it's only fitting that corporate venture capital investments did too during the past quarter.
A look at Metaphysic, a company which uses deepfake tech to create ads and restore old film; its founder went viral on TikTok for deepfaking Tom Cruise (Rachel Metz/CNN)
A look at Metaphysic, a company which uses deepfake tech to create ads and restore old film; its founder went viral on TikTok for deepfaking Tom Cruise — (CNN Business)Earlier this year, videos of Tom Cruise started popping up on TikTok of the actor doing some surprisingly un-Tom-Cruise-like stuff …
Call center operator Teleperformance, which counts Apple, Amazon, and Uber as clients, wants to monitor staff working from home in Colombia, via AI-powered cams (Olivia Solon/NBC News)
Call center operator Teleperformance, which counts Apple, Amazon, and Uber as clients, wants to monitor staff working from home in Colombia, via AI-powered cams — Colombia-based call center workers who provide outsourced customer service to some of the nation's largest companies …
Weibo pulls celeb ranking list after state media raps 'unworthy' stars
How cryptocurrency industry gained influence in Washington and has become one of the biggest stumbling blocks holding up the passage of the infrastructure bill (Washington Post)
How cryptocurrency industry gained influence in Washington and has become one of the biggest stumbling blocks holding up the passage of the infrastructure bill — The infrastructure bill is in part stalled as negotiations proceed on how closely to regulate the crypto industry
Analysis of e-receipts from 1M+ consumers shows that the average Uber and Lyft fares in the US were 50% higher in July 2021 compared with January 2020 (Preetika Rana/Wall Street Journal)
Analysis of e-receipts from 1M+ consumers shows that the average Uber and Lyft fares in the US were 50% higher in July 2021 compared with January 2020 — Data show average fares were at a record in July despite improvement in pandemic-driven shortage of drivers
As Cuba's government tightens its control on internet access, attempts from the US government to bolster connectivity on the island seem unlikely to succeed (The Guardian)
As Cuba's government tightens its control on internet access, attempts from the US government to bolster connectivity on the island seem unlikely to succeed — After Havana shut down online access for 72 hours, the battle is on to keep the country connected
Saturday, August 7, 2021
Toronto-based Smile CDR, which offers software for health and clinical data interoperability, raises $20M Series A led by 30 North Group and UPMC Enterprises (Fred Pennic/HIT Consultant)
Toronto-based Smile CDR, which offers software for health and clinical data interoperability, raises $20M Series A led by 30 North Group and UPMC Enterprises — What You Should Know: — Smile CDR Inc. (Smile CDR), a Toronto-based health data storage and integration company …
Retain.ai, a service that gives enterprises a view of customer engagement across teams, processes, and apps, raises $23M Series A led by Emergence Capital (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Retain.ai, a service that gives enterprises a view of customer engagement across teams, processes, and apps, raises $23M Series A led by Emergence Capital — All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. — Retain.ai, a platform that gives enterprises …
Scientists Give 'Brains' to Drone System to Detect Abnormal Behaviour
Siemens says that it has agreed to buy Netherlands-based Sqills, a cloud-based software suite for rail transport operators worldwide, for ~$650M (Sean O'Neill/Skift)
Siemens says that it has agreed to buy Netherlands-based Sqills, a cloud-based software suite for rail transport operators worldwide, for ~$650M — Sqills has won more contracts from railway operators to upgrade their inventory, booking, and ticketing software than any other tech vendor in recent years.
A look at India's draft DPDP rules, which require platforms to verify the age and identity of a parent when obtaining consent to process data of users under 18 (Kamya Pandey/MEDIANAMA)
Kamya Pandey / MEDIANAMA : A look at India's draft DPDP rules, which require platforms to verify the age and identity of a parent whe...
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Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist : Since October, the NYPD has deployed a quadruped robot called Spot to a handful of crime scenes and hostage...
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Lorena O'Neil / Rolling Stone : A look at the years of warnings about AI from researchers, including several women of color, who say ...
