World leaders predict 4-day work week owing to technology
We always dream about a three-day weekend, but it’s time to expect it, say Bank of England’s chief economist, Andy...
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NASA opens ISS for commercial opportunities as it moves towards privatization
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces it is opening the International Space Station (ISS) for commercial business so that US...
Sales veteran Jim Benton joins Apollo.io as CEO
San Francisco-based startup Apollo.io is announcing this week that sales veteran Jim Benton is joining the company as CEO. Benton was...
Oracle’s JEDI lawsuit shines light on DoD conflict of interest policy
Oracle’s latest lawsuit against the Pentagon claiming conflict of interest in the JEDI cloud contract, is based on Amazon allegedly...
In-Q-Tel taps Forge.AI to monitor, predict impact of world events for govt agencies
The defense and intelligence community funding arm, In-Q-Tel, partners with Boston-based Forge.AI to make sense of publicly available data for...
With ‘boundless potential,’ BMI shipments to reach 25.6M yearly by 2030: report
Devices that connect computers or machines to the brains, or BMIs (Brain-Machine Interfaces), have been creating headlines recently. The latest...
Launching in Qatar: market research, fierce competitors and big rewards
Launching a business in a new, unseen market like Qatar can be challenging, but with well-calculated ideas, such bold moves...
Google invests in gene editing as regulations tighten
Google is investing in gene editing with the aim of preventing heart diseases. Gene editing, while being a promising field,...
UK professor predicts ‘a legalised recreational market’ for marijuana in 3 years
Today’s entrepreneurs are seeing green, not only in their wallets but also in their industry. In fact, Angel now lists...
3 lessons learned about raising venture capital in China
China is a trade superpower and its investors are wooing new foreign startups. Yet, the mix of language, cultural, and...
Weight loss, diabetes will dominate digital therapeutics market: report
Digital therapeutics is booming with research and application. More and more patients, physicians, and health-aware citizens across the world are...
Vancouver’s race to become North America’s next big tech ecosystem
Vancouver's tech scene continues to develop. The city, ranked third for quality of living in the world by Mercer, the only North...
Electric vehicles and IoT revive copper, lithium, and cobalt mining demand
As a company that requires Earth's minerals for its tech, Tesla is voicing concerns over the shortage of battery minerals,...
Set to outrun the rest: South Korea’s race to lead the world in blockchain adoption
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If you read the headlines at the end of 2018 reporting on the ban on ICOs in South Korea, you...
In-Q-Tel partners with Outlier.ai to identify unexpected patterns in govt data sets
US intelligence community funding arm In-Q-Tel (IQT) announces a strategic partnership with Outlier to identify unexpected patterns in government agency...
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‘Tech should serve all of humanity’: Talov at Seedstars Summit
Talov Co-Founder and President Hugo Jácome talks with The Sociable at the Seedstars Summit in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he lays...
In-Q-Tel taps cloud security expert Sysdig to modernize govt agencies
Barely a month after announcing a new approach to cloud visibility and security, Sysdig is tapped by the Intelligence Community...
Fewer women in VC firms = lower returns from diverse investment teams
In spite of profits, efficiency, and innovation that gender diversity promises to bring, the gender gap is not being filled...
Unattended bots to take on govt jobs without ‘standard work hours’
Internal bots are a great success for organizations looking to speed up the organizational tasks, and soon unattended bots are...
Neurodivergents are the newest members of workplace diversity
Neurodiversity, a new trend in hiring is catching on. Companies across the world are leaning towards neurodiverse individuals because of...
