Johnie Gair

College football notebook: Protesters delay Harvard-Yale game A climate change protest got in the way of Harvard and Yale's historic Ivy League football rivalry game on Saturday, as activists delayed the start of the second half by running onto the field in New Haven, Conn.

Samasource raises $14.8M for global AI data biz driven from Africa AI training data provider Samasource has raised a $14.8 million Series A funding round led by Ridge Ventures. The San Francisco headquartered company delivers Fortune 100 compa feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tech…

Gravitational nabs $25M Series A to ease cloud deployment with Kubernetes As we move into an increasingly multi-cloud world, there is a portability problem moving applications between clouds. Gravitational wants to fix that, and today it announced feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tech…

Why Does Tesla's Cybertruck Look Like It Belongs In A Low-Res Video Game? Elon Musk unveiled his new Cybertruck, and boy does it look … unique.

How Airbnb handles discrimination claims When disability rights lawyer Haben Girma, who is blind and deaf, booked an apartment in London via Airbnb last month, she says the host cancelled her reservation after she disclosed that her guide dog wo feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tech…

Facebook’s latest experiment is a meme creation app, Whale Facebook’s NPE Team, a division inside the social networking giant that will build experimental consumer-facing social apps, has now added a third app to its lineup with the launch of meme cr feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tech…

Mimecast blocked 99 billion suspicious emails in third quarter computerweekly.com/news/2524…

Amazon’s new Fire TV Blaster works with Echo to control your TV, soundbar, cable box and more Amazon already offers Alexa voice control to TV owners through its Fire TV devices, by way of a voice remote or by pairing an Echo device with a Fire TV, fo feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tech…

Google Assistant introduces personalized playlists of audio news Starting today, when you say “Hey Google, play me the news” to a Google Assistant-enabled phone or smart speaker, you’ll get a tailored playlist of the day’s big headlines and stor feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tech…

The Cerebras CS-1 computes deep learning AI problems by being bigger, bigger, and bigger than any other chip Deep learning is all the rage these days in enterprise circles, and it isn’t hard to understand why. Whether it is optimizing ad spend, findi feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tech…

Model railway, rebuilt with Sir Rod's help, goes on display The Market Deeping club was inundated with donations after vandals ruined "a life's work".

Magical Magento figures out how to make and take I didn’t love Dries Buytaert’s article earlier this month (“ How takers hurt makers in open source ”), as I feel it sets up a misleading war between the “makers” and “takers” of open source. Every comp infoworld.com/article/345428…

Nanoracks just booked a SpaceX launch to demo tech that turns used spacecraft into orbital habitats SpaceX is going to launch a payload for client Nanoracks aboard one of its new rideshare missions, currently targeting late 2020, that will demons feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tech…

NASA adds SpaceX, Blue Origin and more to list of companies set to make deliveries to the surface of the Moon NASA has added five companies to the list of vendors that are cleared to bid on contracts for the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Se feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tech…

Steve Jang & Kanyi Maqubela form or fund as Kindred Ventures Venture capitalists often mutter, “I haven’t seen anything I like lately”. Founders frequently complain that “investors are back-seat drivers who won’t get their hands dirty.” A $55 million feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tech…

Logitech accessory kit makes the Xbox Adaptive Controller even more accessible Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Controller was a breath of fresh air in a gaming world that has largely failed to consider the needs of people with disabilities. Now Logit feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tech…

Microsoft announces changes to cloud contract terms following EU privacy probe Chalk up another win for European data protection: Microsoft has announced changes to commercial cloud contracts following privacy concerns raised by European Union feedproxy.google.com/~r/Tech…