PIxelz, a Danish provider of post-production photographic software and services, has raised  $7 million to build out its business in Europe. Read More
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A complex message designed for aliens on a planet 12 light-years away has started its journey into space.
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Bryan Johnson wants to build a “neuroprosthesis,” or a brain-computer interface, to help humans “coevolveâ€� with artificial intelligence.
Source: Wired
The transmission, Sónar Calling GJ273b, explains Earth’s concept of music, from basic addition up.
Source: Wired
Yes, it will probably run on batteries, but what is Elon Musk going to do about charging them? Here’s how to watch.
Source: Wired
Bike-sharing, the year’s hottest startup trend in China and beyond, looks like it is about to see the biggest casualty of its cut-throat competition. Bluegogo, which had raised $90 million from investors and operates around 700,000 bikes across China, seems headed for the deadpool after Technode, our Chinese partner site, reported that the company has lost a slew of top executives and is… Read More
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Bluegogo, which has 700,000 bicycles in China, appears to be on its last legs with employee cuts and complaints of unreturned deposits.
Source: CNET
Algorithmia started out as an online marketplace for — can you guess it? — algorithms. Many of these algorithms that developers offered on the service focused on machine learning (think face detection, sentiment analysis, etc.). Today, with the boom in ML/AI, that’s obviously a big draw and Algorithmia is now taking its next step in this direction with the launch of a new… Read More
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TechCrunch is proud to announce HealthMatch is the winner of the TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Australia and FluroSat is the runner up. A panel of expert judges picked the winner of out of the batch of five finalists that also included CancerAid, Life Whisperer and Spalk.
The startups from Australia and New Zealand were hand-picked to participate in our highly competitive startup competition. Read More
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Earlier this year, Duolingo launched its Japanese course, which marked the first time the popular language learning service offered support for an Asian language. Since then, it’s also launched support for Korean and starting today, you can use the services mobile and web apps to learn Chinese (or, to be more precise, Modern Standard Mandarin), too. The company notes that a Chinese… Read More
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