As open source database architecture continues to grow in popularity, one of the bigger developers in the area has picked up some funding to target the opportunity. MariaDB Corporation, the company that develops solutions and contributes to the open-source SQL fork managed by the MariaDB Foundation, today announced that it has raised €25 million ($27 million) from the European Investment… Read More
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The embattled ride-sharing giant is looking for a new way forward in self-driving cars. The post Uber Hires an AI Superstar in the Quest to Rehab Its Future appeared first on WIRED.
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Urtasun joins Uber in a senior role at Uber’s ATG, at a time when the organizational unit, which drives most of Uber’s work on autonomous driving, is in need of more stability at the top.
Urtasun’s work on self-driving technology in general, and specifically with perception algorithms that help autonomous vehicles take better measure of their surroundings, have made her an… Read More
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There’s good news for foreigners living in, or visiting, China after Didi Chuxing — the local ride-sharing leader — added support for English language and overseas credit cards to its service for the first time.
Didi, which processes more 20 million rides a day across its various services, has always been a tricky one for non-Mandarin speakers and visitors. Personally… Read More
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Seedrs, the U.K.-based equity crowdfunding platform that lets anybody invest in startups, is announcing plans to launch a secondary market later this Summer. Read More
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Roses are red, and so are eyeballs, chins, mouths and every other dripping body part in this not-for-kids new clip.
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CNET’s Dong Ngo tells us what really matters with the superfast and massive Thunderbolt 3 storage systems, the 6big and 12big, from LaCie.
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“It’s a VR play. That’s the frothiest space in the Valley right now. Nobody understands it but everyone wants in. Any idiot could walk into a fucking room, utter the letters ‘V’ and ‘R’, and VC’s would hurl bricks of cash at them. By the time they find out it’s vaporware, it’s too late.”
T.J. Miller’s Erlich Bachman… Read More
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You don’t need to be Facebook or Google to get a cool office in Asia, as Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Asia Pacific HQ shows.
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