Several officials said the former South Bend, IN mayor’s experience in local government will serve him well, and have called on him to embrace innovations like autonomous and electric vehicles.
Cycling, e-biking, or walking can help tackle the climate crisis — even if you swap the car for active transport just one day a week — according to a new study led by researchers from the University of Oxford’s Transport Studies Unit
Sustainable Marine has unveiled its second generation tidal power platform which is being tested in the Bay of Fundy, Nova Scotia
Robert McMillan / Wall Street Journal:SolarWinds CEO says hackers had breached the company’s Office 365 email system for at least nine months starting December 2019 — Investigators still don’t know how the company was breached in attack that will cost millions — The newly appointed chief executive of SolarWinds Corp …
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:Deepgram, which builds custom speech recognition models, raises $25M Series B led by Tiger Global, bringing its total raised to $30M+ — Deepgram, a Y Combinator graduate building custom speech recognition models, today announced that it raised $25 million in series B funding led by Tiger Global.
BuzzFeed News:Facebook says it will try to protect posts that criticized Myanmar’s military and its coup and will remove content that praises or supports the coup — After failing to stem the hate speech and misinformation that fueled a genocide in Myanmar, Facebook now says it plans …
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:Granulate, which develops tools to optimize computing infrastructure with AI, raises $30M Series B, bringing its total raised to $45M — Granulate, a startup developing a platform that optimizes computing infrastructure, today announced it has raised $30 million, bringing its total raised to $45 million.
A Paris court said the French state had failed to meet its commitments on greenhouse gas emissions. The lawsuit is among a growing number of such legal actions internationally.
Matthew Ball / MatthewBall.vc:Apple’s iOS is inhibiting the growth of the future internet but regulators can remedy that by forcing Apple into competition in app distribution and payments — Chapter One: The Creation of Today’s Internet and the Needs of Tomorrow’s — One of the neat things about the internet is who created it, why,…
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Paul Sawers / VentureBeat:Scratchpad, which develops productivity tools in Salesforce for sales teams, raises $13M Series A led by Craft Ventures — If you work in sales, there’s a good chance that Salesforce will be a critical tool in your armory — the customer relationship management (CRM) platform claims nearly …