David Lidstone, 81, known as “River Dave,” was arrested and jailed on July 15 for allegedly squatting on a property for nearly 30 years in Canterbury, New Hampshire. His shack was mysteriously burned down to the ground on August 4. The news of his […]
According to an estimate from the World Bank data, global remittances were estimated to be about $702 billion in 2020, down from $719 billion in 2019. Of that total, $540 billion are expected to have flown into low and middle-income […]
Yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot that runs on the same AI used by Tesla’s fleet of autonomous vehicles. The unexpected revelation came at the end of Tesla’s AI Day, during which engineers gave highly technical presentations […]
For months, Pfizer and Moderna had advertised their covid vaccines as having efficacy rates of over 90% against Covid-19 after two doses. In a statement on its website, Pfizer said “Analysis of 927 confirmed symptomatic cases of COVID-19 demonstrates BNT162b2 is highly […]
Back in April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky faced backlash after she said that “vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick. The CDC later walks back the claim that vaccinated people do […]
How effective is the vaccine in preventing the spread of covid-19? The answer depends on the type of variants. Late last month, a Pfizer-funded study found that Pfizer vaccine effectiveness drops to 84% after 4 to 6 months. The study also […]
Airlift, a Lahore, Pakistan-based transportation company has raised $85 million in the largest-ever funding round for a Pakistani startup. Co-led by Harry Stebbings’ 20 VC Explorer and Josh Buckley’s Buckley Ventures, the round is also the largest Series B ever raised by […]
The Taliban have seized U.S. military biometrics devices that could aid in the identification of Afghans who assisted coalition forces, according to a report from The Intercept, citing current and former military officials. As The Intercepts noted, the biometric devices […]
We all have people who helped make us who we are. Call them mentors, godparents, great bosses, or just wise friends; no one makes their way to success completely on their own. In business, this concept is similar. Incubators aren’t […]
Larry Dean Harmon, the founder of darknet search engine Grams and the operator of a money transmitting business and money laundering service called Helix, pleaded guilty in a money-laundering scheme in which he promised to move more than $300 million worth of bitcoin to […]
In May, a study conducted by crypto exchange company Gemini found that 14% of American adults — roughly 21 million people — now own cryptocurrency. The sudden rise in crypto ownership coincided with Elon Musk’s appearance on Saturday Night Live (SNL) […]
SenseTime, the AI facial recognition startup that is used by the Chinese government to surveil its citizens, is planning for an up to $2 billion initial public offerings (IPO) in Hong Kong stock exchange as soon as the end of […]
No day goes by without headlines on cyberattacks. But we’re now beginning to see a different type of attack, this time the attack on cryptocurrency. This morning, Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Liquid said in a Twitter post that it has been […]
Remember Second Life back in the dot com boom? There is a new virtual world with an immersive experience called Metaverse. It’s seen as the successor of the Internet from Second Life to Horizon. Metaverse is the rage these days, and every […]
“Don’t be evil” is a phrase used in Google’s corporate code of conduct since the company’s inception over two decades ago. Then in 2018, Google quietly removed the phrase from its code of conduct. During that year, some Google employees left […]
In the past decade alone, 1.7 billion consumers have joined the world’s middle class, with over 90% of the new middle class in emerging markets (Brookings Institute, 2020). Many of the world’s new middle class in Asia, Latin America, Africa, […]
Two years ago, we looked at Europe’s top-funded startups. Since our last story, thousands of European tech startups have been created, raising a collective of nearly $9 billion in disclosed equity funding as of October 8, 2019. Europe is also […]
If you don’t automate your critical lease accounting workflows and tasks, you run the risk of racking huge admin costs. You’ll also get stuck in inefficient workflows and complicate your Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) accounting standards compliance processes. The […]
According to Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), a branch of the United Nations, the global full costs of food wastage amount to about $2.6 trillion per year, including $700 billion of environmental costs and $900 billion of social costs. What if […]
Since the introduction of visual programming, developers and designers have been at loggerheads over user interface designs, user experience (UX), look-and-feel, among others. These days, more and more designers are being tasked with non-design-related tasks like frontend coding and UX designs rather than graphic […]
