Members of the United States Congress today submitted a bill The 2020 law on face recognition and biometric technologyThis would prohibit government officials from using federal funds to purchase facial recognition systems or "biometric surveillance systems". It would also hold back federal funding through the Byrne grant program for state …
Read More »Lyft Releases New Self-Driving Vehicle Record and Launches $ 30,000 Challenge
After the publication of the Perception record and completing his Object recognition competition 2019, Lyft shared a new one today Body – The prediction record – contains the logs of the movements of cars, pedestrians and other obstacles encountered by the fleet of 23 autonomous vehicles in Palo Alto. At …
Read More »The data warehousing startup Snowflake confidentially registers for an IPO and could reach a valuation of USD 20 billion
Frank Slootman, CEO of Snowflake. (Snowflake photo) Cloud computing launch Snowflake computing aims to go public. Bloomberg and the Financial Times reported that the company has confidentially applied to go public with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Snowflake of San Mateo, California, collected a round of $ 479 million in …
Read More »The Boeing CEO promises to increase volume and increase funds to combat racism
David Calhoun, CEO of Boeing, will speak at Virginia Tech, his alma mater, in 2018. (Virginia Tech Photo) In one Letter sent to employees todayBoeing CEO Dave Calhoun pledged to "increase the volume of dialogue on diversity and inclusion" – and said the company would increase its support for marginalized …
Read More »Tethers Unlimited provides hardware for NASA's PUNCH solar observation mission
Four microsatellites will investigate how the sun's outer atmosphere or corona gives energy and mass to the solar wind during NASA's PUNCH mission. (SwRI figure) Bothell, Wash. -Based Tethers Unlimited says it will provide important communication and driving skills Southwest Research Institute in support of a NASA mission to investigate …
Read More »Madrona, co-founder of Zillow, and others invest $ 4.5 million in the new Seattle startup Zeitworks
Ryan Windham, CEO of Zeitworks. (Zeitworks photo) temporary work, a start-up in Seattle at an early stage under the radar has completed a $ 4.5 million launch round. GeekWire uncovered the company last month. Zeitworks CEO Ryan Windham shared more details about his product and vision in an interview this …
Read More »Newzoo: There will be over 3 billion players by 2023
According to market researcher Newzoo, the number of players around the world will exceed 3 billion by 2023. It may sound crazy to expect 39% of people to play games, but Newzoo says we already have 2.69 billion players thanks to mobile devices. And whether you like it or not, …
Read More »Amazon is asking the court to prevent the former AWS Marketing Vice President from working on Google Cloud Next speeches
Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google, speaks on Google Cloud Next in 2019. Amazon and a former vice president of Amazon Web Services are arguing in court over their proposed mandate to review speeches for the upcoming virtual version of the conference this year. (Google photo) Amazon is seeking a court …
Read More »The startup uplevel in Seattle offers functions for measuring engineering productivity in remote work settings
Uplevel CEO Joe Levy. (Uplevel photo) How many startups Uplevel adapts to the economic crisis that changes the way its customers work. The Seattle-based company emerged from stealth mode earlier this year and introduced its software tools that measure developer productivity and happiness. For example, the platform can show whether …
Read More »Beyond a Steel Sky by Revolution Software brings new adventures to Apple Arcade
Revolution software debuts Beyond a steel sky, the long-awaited sequel to his 1990s cyberpunk adventure game, Beneath a Steel Sky. Why it took so long – and the company can finally launch the game on Apple Arcade today – is an educational story about how the game industry has changed …
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