The recent killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police, has sparked outrage across cities in the United States and countries around the world. Given the minority underrepresentation in high tech industry and the fact […]
Late last year, we wrote a story about how electric scooters are going to transform the $7 trillion global mobility market. Electric scooter is a new mode of transportation and it’s rapidly changing how people navigate the urban space. The scooter […]
As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, unemployment rates in the U.S. have spiked to more than 14 percent, according to The Bureau of Labor Statistics. With the economy struggling and many businesses closing, more than 40 million Americans have […]
Back in April, we told you about Facebook after the social giant invested $5.7 billion in India’s Reliance Jio to enable people connect with small businesses. Now, the social giant is doubling down its investment in Asia. Yesterday, Indonesian ride-hailing […]
Last week, we told you about Surgisphere Corp, after the company was caught falsifying data on hydroxychloroquine. The revelation came after a group of Australian infectious researchers raised questions about a controversial study published in the medical journal The Lancet. The large observational study […]
Taimer, a Finland based tech startup and a provider of CRM software that replaces more than 10 apps with an all-in-one business management solution, today announced it has closed $1 million in its pre-seed funding round to accelerate product development and expansion in […]
As part of the effort to get people back to work, one of the proposal is idea of issuing digital COVID-19 immunity passports that would link your identity to a coronavirus test result so you can share your immune status with […]
With businesses and schools still in lockdown here in the United States, Europe took a different route by slowly reopening schools and allow children to go back to classrooms. After one month, it turns out that reopening schools does not […]
Google is in hot water again — this time for tracking ‘private’ internet use and violating federal wiretapping and California privacy laws. The company was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the search giant of illegally invading the privacy […]
For years, the private jet industry has lacked financial consistency and transparency, causing widespread confusion, inefficiencies, and avoidable costs. As economic uncertainties abound due to COVID-19, it has become increasingly important for the industry to standardize prices and establish order. […]
Neil Ferguson is a British epidemiologist and professor of mathematical biology at Imperial College in London. He’s known around the world for creating the infamous model that was used by government and policy makers to justify the lockdowns and stay-at-home orders in […]
As coronavirus pandemic rages on, eCommerce giant Amazon is joining other big tech companies by offering a temporary backup childcare benefit to employees who are struggling to keep up as they try to work from home while taking care of their […]
OurCrowd, a Jerusalem, Israel-based venture capital firm and the world’s largest crowdfunded-venture investment platform, today announced the launch of $100 million Pandemic Innovation Fund for investment in urgent technological solutions for the medical, business, educational and social needs triggered by […]
Yesterday, we wrote about how some of the big tech companies are responding to the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police. Since last week, tech executives have been speaking out forcefully against […]
InvestEco Capital, a Toronto, Canada-based venture capital firm with investment focus in high growth North American companies that promote health and sustainability in the food and agricultural sector, today announced it has closed $100 million in funding for its Sustainable Food […]
Just as we’re trying to put coronavirus behind them, protests erupted in cities across the United States after the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, at the hands of Minneapolis police. In response to the killing, tech giant […]
According to a study published in New England Journal of Medicine, “wearing a mask outside health care facilities offers little, if any, protection from coronanvirus infection.” So, the question is, why are we wearing face mask if it offers little protection from […]
Espo, the platform where esports fans can stake* world-class teams and players, today announced its official pre-launch and pre-registration of its eSports digital staking platform. Espo has created an answer to limitations and problems faced by fans, teams and players in the esports community. […]
The successful launch of SpaceX Dragon over the weekend has sparked interest among young people and others. Many people are asking how Apollo computers evaluated the transcendental functions like sine, arctangent, log? Thanks to NASA for sharing the source code and […]
Italy is one of the the most ravaged countries by the coronavirus pandemic. Now, it seems there are some good news stories coming out of the country. According to Italian doctors, coronavirus is now disappearing in the country. Alberto Zangrillo, who heads […]