Ilhan Omar’s campaign finance/tax issues just shifted gears
Freshman Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has landed in a bit of hot water with both the FEC and the IRS following an investigation by the Minnesota...
Swiftly raises $10 million Series A to power real-time transit data in your city – TechCrunch
Swiftly just raised a $10 million Series A round led by VIA ID, Aster Capital, Renewal Funds and Wind Capital to grow its software-as-a-service business...
Unmortgage, the ‘part own, part rental’ housing startup, loses founder and CEO – TechCrunch
Unmortgage founder and CEO Rayhan Rafiq-Omar (centre) has departed the companny Unmortgage, the London-based startup that wants to let people buy as little as five...
Landowners are earning millions for carbon cuts that may not occur
Under a California program aimed at curbing climate pollution, landowners across the US have received hundreds of millions of dollars for promised carbon dioxide reductions...
Facebook’s ad-serving algorithm discriminates by gender and race
Algorithms are biased—and Facebook’s is no exception. Just last week, the tech giant was sued by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development over...
The race to make a lab-grown steak
In 2013, the world’s first burger from a lab was cooked in butter and eaten at a glitzy press conference. The burger cost £215,000 ($330,000...
China’s Huawei has big ambitions to weaken the US grip on AI leadership
Ren Zhengfei, the reclusive founder and CEO of China’s embattled tech giant, Huawei, is defiant about American efforts to impede his company with lawsuits and...
A simple blood test to predict premature births could save babies’ lives
Fifteen million babies are born prematurely each year. Stephen Quake’s daughter, Zoe, was one of them: she arrived via emergency C-section after Quake and his...
Bill Gates explains why we should all be optimists
There are a lot of worries today about technology’s harmful effects. How do you retain your famous optimism about it? This story is part of...
Original Content podcast: Director Grant Sputore explains how ‘I Am Mother’ draws from real-world robots – TechCrunch
When I first watched the new Netflix Original film “I Am Mother,” I assumed that the robotic Mother (voiced by Rose Byrne) was a CG...