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interview luke stark onezero Interview with researcher Luke Stark on the promises and pitfalls of emotion-sensing AI, and social media’s attempt to translate emotive expression into data  —  A conversation with the professor who just turned down a $60,000 grant from Google  —  Emotion A.I., affective computing … Source Keep visiting inflact.org for the latest news and updates. ...

londonbased banked 20m series edenredbutchertechcrunch London-based Banked, which lets merchants accept payments without users creating an account or sharing data, raises $20M Series A led by BOA and Edenred  —  Banked is a FinTech startup that offers an alternative to card schemes.  Consumers are able to pay without entering financial data … Source Keep visiting inflact.org for the latest news and ...

reprise 62m iconiq growthsawersventurebeat Reprise, a service used to create product demonstrations and tours, raises a $62M Series B led by Iconiq Growth  —  Reprise, a platform used by software companies such as Cloudera and ZoomInfo to create product demonstrations and tours, has raised $62 million in a series B round of funding. Source Keep visiting inflact.org for the latest news ...

levandowski fundkorosectechcrunch aifocused way the future Anthony Levandowski closed his AI-focused church, Way of The Future, in 2020 and donated the church’s ~$175K funds to the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Source Keep visiting inflact.org for the latest news and updates. ...

airbnb 73.4m qoq 75m q1 Airbnb Q4: revenue of $1.53B, vs $1.46 est., and 73.4M nights and experiences booked, down 8% QoQ, vs 75M est., but expects Q1’22 bookings to far exceed Q1’19  —  – Airbnb beat Wall Street estimates on earnings and revenue in its fourth quarter.  — The company reported 73.4 million nights … Source Keep visiting inflact.org for ...

indepth autostore ocadogapper An in-depth look at the ongoing patent battle over warehouse automation between Norwegian robotics company AutoStore and UK supermarket giant Ocado  —  In the village of Nedre Vats, on the edge of a 700m-deep fjord in the west of Norway, there is a white wooden house with a small red barn. Source Keep visiting inflact.org for the latest ...

look bell labs facebookthompsonstratechery A look back at tech’s three eras, from Bell Labs to Facebook, and why the metaverse is the fourth, defined by its bifurcation with the physical world  —  For the first several years of Stratechery I would write a year end article about “The State of Consumer Technology”; the last one I wrote … Source Keep ...

sources vcs clubhouse 10xinformation Sources: VCs have approached Clubhouse about investing in its next round at ~$1B valuation, a 10X increase from the previous round; a16z is expected to lead  —  The race to invest in social audio app Clubhouse is on again.  Venture capital firms have approached the startup’s founders … Source Keep visiting inflact.org for the latest news and ...

south koreabased kurly ipo h1 5.8b South Korea-based online grocery startup Kurly, which says it plans to IPO in H1 2022 at a ~$5.8B valuation, raises $210M at a $3.3B valuation  —  Just half a year after its last Series F round announcement, Korean online grocery startup Kurly has closed a $210 million in a pre-IPO round … Source Keep ...

market 200m series 1.1bshankerbloomberg Apple signed a Futuro Studios deal to fund podcast development and production in exchange for the first look to turn any podcast into a film or TV show  —  Apple Inc., stepping up its spending on original podcasts, signed an agreement with a Pulitzer Prize-winning studio … Source Keep visiting inflact.org for the latest news and updates. ...