Tag Archives: technology
Clearview AI’s facial recognition tool coming to apps, schools
By Paresh Dave (Reuters) - Clearview AI is expanding sales of its facial recognition software to companies from mainly serving the police, it told Reuters, inviting scrutiny on how the startup capital...
May 24, 2022
Global digital tax deal might not be ready until early 2024 – France
PARIS (Reuters) - A global digital tax deal might not be ready until the end 2023 or early 2024, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Tuesday, flagging a big delay to the reform's implementa...
May 24, 2022
Spain to spend 12.25 billion euros on microchip industry
MADRID (Reuters) - Spain's government has approved a plan to spend 12.25 billion euros ($13.12 billion) on the semiconductor and micro chip industry by 2027, Economy Minister Nadia Calvino said on Tue...
May 24, 2022
App to help blind people navigate public transit to debut in Washington
By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An app designed to help visually impaired or blind pedestrians use public transit will debut at a Washington subway station on Tuesday. Waymap aims to expand...
May 24, 2022
In a faceoff with Elon Musk, the SEC blinked
By Chris Prentice and Michelle Price WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. securities regulators have pulled their punches in dealings with Elon Musk largely because an April 2019 court hearing on a statement h...
May 24, 2022
Uber seals taxi deal to expand its business in Italy
MILAN (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc has clinched a deal to integrate its ride-hailing app with Italy's largest taxi dispatcher as it seeks to boost its presence in the eurozone's third-largest eco...
May 24, 2022
Central African Republic to launch bitcoin investment platform
BANGUI (Reuters) - Central African Republic will launch the continent's first legal cryptocurrency investment hub, the presidency said, extending the impoverished country's embrace of digital finance ...
May 24, 2022
Exclusive-Neumann-backed climate tech venture Flowcarbon raises $70 million
By Simon Jessop LONDON (Reuters) - Flowcarbon, a blockchain-enabled carbon credit trading platform backed by WeWork founder Adam Neumann, has raised $70 million in its first major funding round, its c...
May 24, 2022
Billionaire Styers backs climate tech firm Regrow Ag
By Simon Jessop and Karl Plume LONDON/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Billionaire Tom Styers and investment partner Katie Hall have led the latest funding round for technology start-up Regrow Ag, which aims to he...
May 24, 2022
‘Looty’ project launches digital art heists to reclaim African artifacts
By Angela Ukomadu and Estelle Shirbon LAGOS (Reuters) - A Nigerian man has launched a project called "Looty" to reclaim African artifacts stolen by European colonisers by creating 3-D images of them, ...
May 24, 2022
