Can AI Be a Fair Judge in Court? Estonia Thinks So
by Eric Niiler | March 25, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
Government usually isn't the place to look for innovation in IT or new technologies like artificial intelligence. But Ott Velsberg might change your mind. As Estonia's chief data officer, the 28-year-old graduate student is overseeing the tiny Baltic nation's...JPMorgan awards research grants, deepening its AI push
by The Editor | March 25, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) - JPMorgan Chase & Co has awarded 47 financial grants to university faculty and PhD students for artificial intelligence research, ramping up its efforts in the emerging technology, the bank plans to announce later on Monday. A woman...How to watch the live stream for today’s Apple keynote – TechCrunch
by Romain Dillet | March 25, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
Apple is holding a keynote today on its campus in Cupertino, and the company is expected to talk about new services. Don’t expect any new device, today’s event should be all about content. At 10 AM PT (1 PM in New York, 5 PM in London, 6 PM in Paris), you’ll be...We Might Be Reaching ‘Peak Indifference’ on Climate Change
by Clive Thompson | March 25, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
Something weird is happening around climate change. Republicans are deciding it’s real. Three years ago, only 49 percent of Republicans thought so, but by last December it was 64 percent, as a Monmouth University poll found. That’s a huge jump in a short time...Omers Ventures outs €300M European fund — Q&A with Managing Partner Harry Briggs – TechCrunch
by Steve O'Hear | March 25, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
Omers Ventures, the venture capital arm of Canadian pension fund Omers, is officially launching a new €300 million fund aimed at European technology startups. Headed up by Harry Briggs, who was previously at BGF Ventures, Omers Europe will back companies at...Apple Event Liveblog: All the News, as It Happens
by Wired Staff | March 25, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
On Monday, March 25, Apple is expected to debut some new media distribution services. Not expected: new hardware announcements. Apple got all of those out the way last week. We saw new iPads, an AirPods update, and new iMacs—you can read about all of those in...Gjirafa raises a $6.7M Series B from Rockaway Capital to digitise the Balkans – TechCrunch
by Mike Butcher | March 25, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
There’s nothing like a niche language to create a sort of lock-in for a startup, and that’s exactly what’s happened with e case of Gjirafa. Focusing exclusively on Albanian-speaking countries, co-founder and CEO Mergim Cahani started out developing an Albanian...Apple invites Hollywood to Silicon Valley in TV push
by The Editor | March 25, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Apple Inc is expected to finally lift the curtain on Monday on a secretive, years-long effort to build a television and movie offering designed to compete with big media companies and boost digital services revenue as...China tech firms, seeking passion and energy, promote younger staff
by The Editor | March 25, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese tech giants are in the hunt for young, energetic staff to take the place, in some cases, of veteran managers. FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a poster showing the QR codes for job-seeking information during an internet expo at...South Africa’s Naspers plots Euronext flotation of e-commerce ventures
by The Editor | March 25, 2019 | News | 0 Comments
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Naspers will float its e-commerce ventures on the Euronext stock exchange in Amsterdam, it said on Monday, the latest move by South Africa’s biggest company to address a hefty discount in its shares. Founded more than 100 years ago in...