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Bill Gates to lead $1B 20-year duration fund to fight climate change in energy, transport, agriculture, other industries; directors include Ma, Doerr, Khosla — Bill Gates is leading a more than $1 billion fund focused on fighting climate change by investing in clean energy innovation.
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| Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: |
Microsoft Ventures launches new fund for AI startups and backs Element AI, a new Montreal-based incubator co-founded by renowned AI expert Yoshua Bengio — Microsoft Ventures today announced two steps that point to how the tech giant's VC arm wants to get involved in artificial intelligence in a big way.
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| Kara Swisher / Recode: |
Sources: Tim Cook, Larry Page, Satya Nadella, Sheryl Sandberg, plus CEOs of Cisco, IBM, Intel, and Oracle to attend Trump's tech summit in NY — The gathering will take place Wednesday in New York. — Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg are among …
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| Benedict Evans: |
Mobile is eating the world, 2016 edition: how ~2.5B smartphones and mobile computing with AI, dominated by “GAFA”, reshape retail, cars, and everything else — As we pass 2.5bn smartphones on earth and head towards 5bn, and mobile moves from creation to deployment, the questions change.
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After California gives the go-ahead, Nvidia starts testing self-driving cars on public roads in the state — Nvidia has been granted a permit by the California Department of Motor Vehicles to start testing self-driving vehicle technology on the state's public roads.| Aja Romano / Vox: |
Twitter reinstates and re-verifies white nationalist Richard Spencer's personal account, says his accounts were banned for violating multiple accounts rule — Twitter banned Richard Spencer because he had too many accounts — not because those accounts promoted racism.
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Opendoor's business model of buying and flipping homes is risky, but the startup's streamlining of the home-selling process has great disruptive potential — I suppose I appreciate the efficiency with which Techcrunch expressed its skepticism for tech's latest unicorn, Opendoor …
Tweets: @benthompson, @brianroemmele, and @nicholasbs
| Kim-Mai Cutler / Initialized Capital: |
OpenAI's Jack Clark on where AI research is headed, how automation can affect white collar jobs, academia losing AI talent, how US can stay competitive, more — Jack Clark and I are both lapsed technology journalists, and he writes one of my favorite new newsletters of this year, Import AI …
Tweets: @lewisshepherd
| Lauren Goode / The Verge: |
With Pebble acquisition, Fitbit now has a software platform to build a smartwatch; CEO doesn't think any current offering has right feature-set and battery life — All signs point to an upcoming smartwatch from Fitbit — Following Fitbit's acquisition of smartwatch maker Pebble … | Cadie Thompson / Business Insider: |
General Motors CEO Mary Barra on firm's path into self-driving era, how GM pilot programs will differ from competitors', future of personal car ownership, more — GM's CEO, Mary Barra, thinks your car could soon turn into a “second office.” — With autonomous cars on the horizon … | Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat: |
Nantero raises $21M for ultra-dense carbon nanotube NRAM memory, brings total raised to date to $110M+ — Nantero has raised $21 million in funding for its carbon nanotube memory devices, which are an alternative to mainstream semiconductor chips. — The Woburn, Mass.-based company makes … | Jessica Contrera / Washington Post: |
Kids are now emulating the child YouTubers they've grown up watching, by posting videos of themselves and performing even when they're not being recorded — always land their bottles perfectly upright. Max Cole has spent hours studying their routine, and now, his own viewers are waiting: Empty half the blue juice.
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