Verizon Ventures and R/GA are kicking off the first round of their digital media “venture studio” and unveiling the first lineup of startups. The program was announced back in March, with the goal of helping Verizon find innovation in media…
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Spin launches first city-sanctioned dockless bike sharing in Bay Area
Spin, a company focused on bringing the stainonless bike sharing model to the U.S. after its continued success in Asia, is launching in South San Francisco today (as it planned to last month), making it the first ever to get…
With $5.3 million in funding, CarDash wants to change how you get your car serviced
For car owners, getting their vehicle repaired or even dealing with routine maintenance can be a pain. Launching today, a company called CarDash wants to make auto service less painful and more transparent. Available initially in the Bay Area, CarDash works…
Oryx Vision raises $50M to build better LiDAR for self-driving vehicles
Israeli startup Oryx Vision has raised a $50 million Series B round led by Third Point Ventures and WRV to help continue to develop and commercialize its innovative LiDAR tech, which is designed to be as simple as a digital…
Salesforce AI helps brands track images on social media
Brands have long been able to search for company mentions on social media, but they’ve lacked the ability to search for pictures of their logos or products in an easy way. That’s where Salesforce’s latest Einstein artificial intelligence feature comes…
Lonely Planet launches an Instagram-like Trips app
Lonely Planet has a new app for travel enthusiasts. Called Trips, the app uses an Instagram-like design populated with beautiful images of far away places. Much like Lonely Planet’s website, the idea behind Trips is to offer travelers an easy…
UK to criminalize re-identifying anonymized personal data
A major update to the UK’s data protection rules will place new requirements and responsibilities on companies that process users’ personal data, including by making it easier for consumers to withdraw consent their data to be processed; view what data…
SparkLabs launches its latest accelerator program in Taipei
Accelerator network SparkLabs launches its newest program today in Taipei. Headed by managing partner Edgar Chiu (pictured above), SparkLabs Taipei will focus on preparing Taiwanese startups to enter other countries. Chiu was COO of Taipei-based app developer Gogolook when it…
IBM touts improved distributed training time for visual recognition models
Two months ago, Facebook’s AI Research Lab (FAIR) published some impressive training times for massively distributed visual recognition models. Today IBM is firing back with some numbers of its own. IBM’s research groups says it was able to train ResNet-50…
Former Rhapsody CEO and writer Rob Reid talks about fiction, finding an audience, and the future
It takes a lot of smarts to move from tech CEO to full-time novelist but Rob Reid pulled it off. The author of After On, Reid has spent years in the murk and mire of Silicon Valley and is ready…