It’s been less than a week since Tesla hosted its AI Day, a livestream event full of technical jargon designed to get the best AI and vision engineers to work for Tesla and help the company grow autonomously , and CEO Elon Musk already comes up with some hot takes on the “Full Self-Driving” (FSD) … Read more
Before the pandemic, Clara Miller had a secret that she kept from her dance world at the New York City Ballet. Well the caretakers knew. After dance performances, she went to empty studios to rehearse. But she didn’t dance. Armed with her voice and a piano, she wrote and sang songs – sometimes, as she … Read more
SAN FRANCISCO – In an announcement on Wednesday evening, the city of San Francisco told its 37,000 employees that they would either need to be vaccinated against COVID-19 or lose their jobs within 10 weeks of the Food and Drug Administration’s final approval of a coronavirus vaccine . This would make San Francisco the first … Read more
For this morning’s edition of The Exchange, Alex Wilhelm studied information recently released by mobile gaming studio Jam City as it prepares to go public in a $1.2 billion blank-check deal with DPCM Capital. “Jam City is a bit like Zynga, but unless you are a mobile-gaming aficionado, you might not have heard of it,” … Read more
MANCHESTER, England – Manchester City staff and substitutes have not been able to sit still for the final minutes despite the game being sealed and a place in the final. They pulsed with energy. They roared at every bad challenge. They asked the referee to take action for any violation. They cheered every pass that … Read more
TechCrunch is starting a new major project to survey European founders and investors in cities outside the larger European capitals. Over the next few weeks we will be asking entrepreneurs in these cities to speak in their own words about their ecosystems. This is your chance to put your city on the Techcrunch map! This … Read more
Panelists at GeekWire’s Civic Conversations event Thursday, clockwise from top left: Gordon McHenry Jr., United Way King County CEO; Chris Gregoire, CEO of Challenge Seattle and former Governor of Washington State; Kris Hermanns, Chief Impact Officer at the Seattle Foundation; and presenter Monica Nickelsburg, editor at GeekWire. (GeekWire photo) Even if the pandemic slows, a … Read more
Here’s what you need to know: Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. Credit…Frank Franklin Ii/Associated Press New York City has fewer than 1,000 Covid-19 doses on hand because of shipment delays caused by snowstorms across the country, the city reported on Saturday. The delays brought the city’s “entire vaccination effort” to a “standstill,” Avery Cohen, a … Read more
