- See you tomorrow in Wroclaw
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- See you tomorrow in Wroclaw
One more meetup in Poland! I’ll see you all tomorrow in Wroclaw and it’s going to be a hoot! Tomorrow’s meetup is after the IN-FERENCE conference on Friday, December 9 and it’s part of the IN-FERENCE conference. We’ll be talking medtech, biotech and anything non-fintech related. You can submit an a... - Sean Rad steps away from CEO role (again) to run Tinder’s new Swipe Ventures
Today, Tinder is launching a new M&A branch of the company called Swipe Ventures, which will be led by Sean Rad. As part of the launch, Rad will step down as Tinder CEO and become chairman of both Tinder and Swipe Ventures, with Match CEO and Chairman Greg Blatt swapping out as Tinder chairman ... - John Glenn, first American to orbit the Earth, has died at 95
- BuzzFeed hires Gilad Lotan as VP of data science
- Apple Maps adds EV charging station data from ChargePoint
- Sheryl Sandberg: “People don’t want to see hoaxes on Facebook”
- GIFs in space! NASA makes an official channel on Giphy
- Why edtech startups need to build for overlooked communities
- NBC is shuttering Breaking News, the Twitter-fuelled newswire it acquired in 2011
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Jim Kim, who most recently co-founded the venture firm Formation 8, is launching a brand-new venture firm called Builders that looks to be raising a $200 million fund, judging by a recent SEC filing. His co-founder is Paul Lee, who left the Chicago venture firm Lightbank in 2014 and last year launc... - Yahoo Answers makes its official mobile debut
- John Glenn
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- How our AI called a scenario for Trump being elected and the ‘why’ behind it
As the world was collectively watching results of the 2016 election , we got a barrage of emails from people congratulating our AI for predicting a Trump win. To be very clear, our AI did not call a Trump win, per se, but rather conditions that would support a Trump or a Hillary win. Read More - Obama orders review of Russian election hacking
President Obama has ordered intelligence agencies to conduct a complete review of the hacks and leaks that led up to and may have influenced the presidential election, according to White House homeland security and counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco. “The President has directed the Intelligence C... - Sixa secures $3.5M as it launches its cloud computer for developers
- New Michigan law prepares for autonomous future
- Verizon won’t push Samsung’s Note 7 bricking update, but the other carriers will
- Gamer chat app Discord hits 25 million users, can now be used in developers’ own games
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- 5 unexpected sources of bias in artificial intelligence
We tend to think of machines, in particular smart machines, as somehow cold, calculating and unbiased. For some of us, this is a bug: Machines should not be empathetic outside of their rigid point of view. For others, it is a feature: They should be freed of human bias. But in the middle, there is ... - Soccer fans can watch the MLS Cup live in VR tonight
Sure it’s sometimes tough being a soccer fan in America. For instance, the MLS Cup (the championship game for the major soccer league in America) hasn’t even been broadcast live on an English-language network since 2008! But tonight that changes. Fox is airing the MLS Cup tonight between Toronto FC... - Software is due for a bundling event
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