News

At last year’s inaugural Sight Tech Global event, a virtual event dedicated to applications of AI and related tech to accessibility for people who are blind, one of the most popular sessions belonged to Saqib Shaikh. The Microsoft engineer co-founded and leads the Seeing AI mobile app, which embeds a remarkable number of services beneficial to people […]

September 30, 2021 DUBAI (Reuters) -Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid flew to Bahrain on Thursday on the highest-level Israeli visit to the Gulf state since the countries established formal relations last year. Lapid, who landed at Bahrain’s international airport in an Israir plane with an olive branch painted on its nose, met Bahrain’s King Hamad […]

September 30, 2021 By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia’s first public oxygen plant opened on Thursday, in a ray of hope for a country where a lifesaving treatment for the coronavirus has been largely unavailable to patients during the pandemic. Global demand for medical oxygen has surged with the COVID-19 pandemic, and many countries […]

September 30, 2021 LONDON (Reuters) – Anthony Joshua said on Thursday he knew where he went wrong in losing his world heavyweight boxing titles to Ukrainian Oleksandr Usyk, and had learnt his lesson. Usyk took the Briton’s WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO belts on a unanimous points decision at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last Saturday. […]

September 30, 2021 WASHINGTON (Reuters) – General Motors Co said Thursday it will extend by two weeks a halt to Chevrolet Blazer sport utility vehicle production at its Ramos plant in Mexico because of the ongoing chips shortage as it resumes production at other North American plants. The largest U.S. automaker said production will resume […]

Let’s talk about arms for a second. Or, rather, let’s talk about a lack of arms. It’s a common thread between Jibo, Kuri and now Astro. I suppose one could make the argument that Anki’s Cozmo had arms of a kind, but the overhead forklift wasn’t good for much beyond hooking into a proprietary block. […]

A UK law firm is bringing a class-action style claim over a patient health data scandal that dates back to 2015 and involves the Google-owned AI company DeepMind, after it was quietly passed medical information on over a million patients by an NHS Trust as part of an app development project. Law firm Mishcon de […]

September 30, 2021 IDLIB, Syria (Reuters) – In both the Syrian capital Damascus and parts of the country that have rebelled against its rule during a decade of war, people are facing the same enemy: COVID-19. Intensive care beds have filled up at hospitals across the fractured nation this month because of a COVID-19 surge, […]

Just six months after raising $3.3 million in seed funding, Mexico City-based Higo announced today it has raised $23 million in a Series A round led by Accel. Tiger Global Management also participated in the financing, along with existing backers Haystack, Homebrew, Audacious, Susa Ventures and J Ventures. A number of angel investors also put […]

September 30, 2021 By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) – Canada on Thursday held its the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation to honor the lost children and survivors of indigenous schools, following the gruesome discovery of more than 1,000 unmarked graves https://ift.tt/3usNOeQ at two former schools earlier this year. The so-called residential school https://ift.tt/39S1Zkw […]

September 30, 2021 By Marie-Louise Gumuchian LONDON (Reuters) – In a rehearsal room in west London, actor Derek Elroy delivers a powerful monologue about the devastating 2017 fire at Grenfell Tower, a social housing block just a short distance away. In the role of barrister Leslie Thomas, Elroy’s lines are taken from the public inquiry […]

September 30, 2021 MILAN (Reuters) – Italy’s Inter Milan doubled its loss in the 2020-21 financial year ending in June, to 246 million euros, as the soccer club was hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. Revenues edged down to 365 million euros ($422.82 million)from 372 million the previous year. The club said on Thursday it […]

September 30, 2021 By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Makiko Yamazaki NEW YORK/TOKYO (Reuters) -Hedge fund Elliott Management said it has built a stake in troubled Japanese industrial conglomerate Toshiba Corp, which is undertaking a strategic review amid pressure from other shareholders. Elliott, one of the world’s most powerful activist investors, which oversees some $48 billion in […]

September 30, 2021 MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia urged Tajikistan and Afghanistan to resolve any dispute in a mutually acceptable manner, saying it had heard reports they were sending troops to their common border, TASS quoted the Russian foreign ministry as saying on Friday. “We observe with concern the growing tensions in Tajik-Afghan relations amid mutually strong […]

September 30, 2021 By Alistair Smout LONDON (Reuters) -A police officer was jailed for life on Thursday for abducting marketing executive Sarah Everard on a London street as she walked home from a friend’s house then raping and murdering her in a case that shocked Britain and stirred protests over violence against women. Wayne Couzens, […]

September 30, 2021 By Foo Yun Chee LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) – A 4.34 billion euro ($5 billion) European Union antitrust fine was based on flawed calculations, Alphabet’s Google said on Thursday, urging Europe’s second-highest court to scrap or reduce what it said was not an appropriate penalty. Google was fined for using its Android mobile operating […]

September 30, 2021 AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Four Dutch political parties, including caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s conservative VVD Party, agreed on Thursday to hold talks on forming a new coalition government, a breakthrough more than six months after a national election. The four parties are the same as had formed Rutte’s previous government, though it had […]

EV startup Lordstown Motors made headlines when it purchased a 6.2 million-square-foot factory from General Motors in 2019. Now, it looks like the strapped-for-cash startup will likely sell that facility to Taiwan’s Foxconn Technology Group. The news was first reported by Bloomberg, who said unnamed sources suggested the deal could close as early as this […]

In 2019, Rivian showed up at the Overland Expo West in Flagstaff, Arizona with a prototype of what is now known as the camp kitchen. Now, with production ready 2022 Rivian R1T electric pickup trucks coming off the assembly line, the final version of the kitchen is ready for prime time. The automaker has made […]

Ola Electric announced this morning that it closed a $200 million round at a $3 billion valuation. The EV company’s parent, Ola, is best known as an Indian ride-hailing platform. Ola itself has raised more than $4.5 billion to date, per Crunchbase data, while Ola Electric is now over the $500 million fundraising mark, if […]