Used car marketplace CarGurus spiked over 72% during its first day of trading.
The Cambridge, Massachusetts-based company had raised over $150 million after pricing its IPO at $16. By the end of trading Thursday, shares had gone up over 72%, closing at $27.58.
In a conversation earlier this morning with CarGurus CFO Jason Trevisan, he claimed that the business has become “the largest… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Waymo launched a campaign earlier this week alongside partners including the National Safety Council to help explain why it believes that its pursuit of autonomous driving is a means to safer roads. Now, it’s releasing its first ever Safety Report, which offers some more detail on the procedures and technology it uses to ensure safety in deploying its autonomous fleet. The 42 page… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
A security analyst spots malicious advertisements on the Equifax website, which could have tricked visitors into downloading unwanted software.
Source: CNET
The effort apparently shows how broadly Russian interference in the 2016 US election may have been.
Source: CNET
Atomic isn’t a household brand, but Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen know it fairly intimately. The two billionaire investors, along with the venture firm Felicis Ventures, were among the earliest investors in the four-year-old, San Francisco-based startup studio, which closed its debut fund with $20 million. Now Atomic is looking to raise five times that much capital for its… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Commentary: The absolute insanity surrounding the sauce briefly offered by McDonald’s is more proof we can’t have nice things.
Source: CNET
Who doesn’t want to have the scariest car in the mall parking lot?
Source: CNET
Sure, a keyword can find the right image, but where should that object be in the photo? Shutterstock compositional search makes it happen using computer vision and natural language processing.
The post Shutterstock now lets users search for photos with specific compositions appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital trends
A security researcher says a link from the Equifax site led to a malware installer.
Source: CNET
Sheryl Sandberg insists, again, that Facebook is not a media company, despite ample evidence to the contrary.
Source: Wired