An International Airline Is Starting to Weigh Passengers on an ‘Anonymous’ Basis
Finnair is set to roll out the option to passengers who volunteer.
Forging the digital future
Dan Huttenlocher, SM ’84, PhD ’88, leads the way up to the eighth floor of Building 45, the recently completed headquarters of the MIT Schwarzman College of Computing. “There’s an amazing view of the Great Dome here,” he says, pointing out a panoramic view of campus and the Boston skyline beyond. The floor features a…
PayPal suggests it will be ready to offer ‘offline’ payments when DMA goes into effect
PayPal is working on a new consumer app for its mobile customers, and suggested that it will be “ready” to take advantage of the new EU regulation, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), when it goes into effect next month for tech “gatekeepers,” like Apple. For PayPal, one of the significant changes coming in the DMA […]
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Upstash’s serverless data platform hits ARR of $1M just two years after seed funding
Upstash announced a $1.9 million seed round almost exactly two years ago, and an idea for building a serverless data platform for data-intensive applications built with Redis and Kafka. That doesn’t feel like that long ago, but a lot has changed in the data landscape since then. Fast forward to now and the company is […]
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A Beloved 130-Year-Old Small Business in California Is Seeking a New Owner — and It Won’t Sell to the Highest Bidder: ‘Everybody’s Talking About It’
Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena, a cherished cultural hub since 1894, is looking for someone to guide it into the future.
Lululemon stock is about to hit the rally button
For those of us on the sidelines, watch for shares to continue consolidating with a strong potential for a catch-up play to develop in the coming weeks.
Podcasters can now upload their RSS feed to YouTube
Podcast creators can now submit their RSS feed to YouTube and YouTube Music, the company revealed in a video uploaded to its Creator Insider channel. It was previously announced in August that support was coming for RSS feeds. The functionality was available as an invite-only beta test last year. The move to embrace RSS feeds […]
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Glass supercharges smartphone cameras with AI — minus the hallucinations
Your phone’s camera is as much software as it is hardware, and Glass is hoping to improve both. But while its wild anamorphic lens creeps to market, the company (running on $9.3 million in new money) has released an AI-powered camera upgrade that it says vastly improves image quality — without any weird AI upscaling […]
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Plaid’s new president hails from Cloudflare, has IPO experience
Plaid has named Jennifer (Jen) Taylor, who most recently served as Cloudflare’s Chief Product Officer, as its first president. The move is notable in that it comes just months after the fintech startup hired former Expedia CFO Eric Hart to serve as its first chief financial officer. The hiring of a CFO is a step […]
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Unlock Your Mind’s Potential With AI and Brainwave Training
Dr. Patrick Porter shares insights on brain frequencies and brainwave entrainment, explaining how they help us manage stress and anxiety.
Security flaw in a popular smart helmet allowed silent location tracking
The maker of a popular smart ski and bike helmet has fixed a security flaw that allowed the easy real-time location tracking of anyone wearing its helmets. Livall makes internet-connected helmets that allow groups of skiers or bike riders to talk with each other using the helmet’s in-built speaker and microphone, and share their real-time […]
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