Rajat Bhageria is the CEO of Chef Robotics, a San Francisco startup that has raised $20.6 million in a Series A round to continue building artificially-intelligent, food-assembly robots. Courtesy of Chef Robotics As the food service industry continues to struggle with labor shortages, a Silicon Valley startup has put together artificially-intelligent robots that are ready…
Researchers have discovered nearly 1.5 million pictures from specialist dating apps – many of which are explicit – being stored online without password protection, leaving them vulnerable to hackers and extortionists. Anyone with the link was able to view the private photos from five platforms developed by M.A.D Mobile: kink sites BDSM People and Chica,…
Covent Garden market in London Julian Elliott Photography | Stone | Getty Images Norway’s $1.8 trillion sovereign wealth fund — the largest of its kind in the world — on Thursday said that it struck a deal to buy a quarter of a property portfolio in London’s iconic Covent Garden, in its latest bet on…
The Greenpeace logo on the green ecological awareness stand of the association in Lyon, France, on Oct. 23, 2024. Elsa Biyick | Afp | Getty Images A jury on Wednesday ordered environmental campaign group Greenpeace to pay more than $660 million in damages to Texas-based oil company Energy Transfer, the developer of the Dakota Access…
On March 14, a jury awarded $50 million in damages to a Los Angeles delivery driver who was badly burned after hot tea spilled onto his lap in February 2020, reports the Los Angeles Times. The incident occurred at the West Adams Starbucks location at the corner of Western Avenue and Jefferson Boulevard. The Los…
Australian Red Cross Lifeblood James Harrison with his grandson, Trey, in an earlier picture One of the world’s most prolific blood donors – whose plasma saved the lives of more than 2 million babies – has died. James Harrison died in his sleep at a nursing home in New South Wales, Australia on 17 February,…
Perplexity AI logo is seen in this illustration taken January 4, 2024. Dado Ruvic | Reuters Perplexity AI, the developer of a popular artificial intelligence search engine, is close to raising a $50 million venture fund focused on early-stage AI startups, CNBC has learned. The company will be an anchor investor in the fund, but…
Anne Wojcicki attends the WSJ Magazine Style & Tech Dinner in Atherton, California, on March 15, 2023. Kelly Sullivan | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images 23andMe CEO Anne Wojcicki and New Mountain Capital have submitted a proposal to take the embattled genetic testing company private, according to a Friday filing with the U.S. Securities…
Philadelphia Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni and quarterback Jalen Hurts celebrate with the Vince Lombardi Trophy after winning Super Bowl 59. Mike Segar | Reuters The Philadelphia Eagles weren’t the only ones that scored big at the Super Bowl. The National Football League’s championship game attracted a record 127.7 million viewers on Sunday, according to…
Faisal Bashir | Lightrocket | Getty Images China’s DeepSeek became the biggest topic in tech this week, with many in the industry and on Wall Street focused on a single number: $6 million. In DeepSeek’s paper about its newest artificial intelligence model, the company said that its total training costs amounted to $5.576 million, based…
