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U.S. actor Kevin Costner: Trends make a lot of money, but original ideas “can live forever”
ShareShare Article via FacebookShare Article via TwitterShare Article via LinkedInShare Article via Email Academy Award winner Kevin Costner says “libraries of stories” are being contributed to HearHere, an immersive storytelling road-trip app that he co-founded. Source
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U.S. actor Kevin Costner on why he launched travel start-up HearHere
Academy Award winner Kevin Costner explains why he co-founded the road trip travel app HearHere, saying he gets “thrilled with the truth.” Source
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How robots and indoor farming can help save water and grow crops year round
Agriculture may feed the world, but it is also contributing to global warming. Agriculture production uses about 70% of the Earth’s fresh water and makes up about a third of greenhouse gas emissions. But it doesn’t have to. Farming is moving inside, and farmers aren’t exactly what they used to be. New forms of farming, […]
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Microsoft bought and shut down this entrepreneur’s app. But now he’s raised money for an unofficial successor
Wunderlist co-founder Christian Reber Pitch German entrepreneur Christian Reber sold his to-do list app Wunderlist to Microsoft in 2015 for a sum that was reported to be between $100 million and $200 million only to watch the U.S. tech giant shut it down four years later. Now he’s just raised funding for a follow-on app […]
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A VPN company just became Lithuania’s second tech unicorn
Network cables are plugged in a server room. Michael Bocchieri | Getty Images Cyber firm Nord Security announced Thursday that it has raised $100 million from investors at a $1.6 billion valuation, making it Lithuania’s second tech unicorn. The company is best known for its VPN product, NordVPN, which costs around $140 a year or […]
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Here are the 3 top trends for Asia’s start-up scene in 2022, according to Microsoft
For entrepreneurs in Asia, the future seems brighter than ever. More so than elsewhere in the world, Asia “leapfrogged other forms of connectivity” to become so-called “mobile-first,” said Jesus Martin, chief strategy at Microsoft Asia. “And because Asia went mobile-first, mobile became the platform that underpinned innovations and new business models.” Mobile first refers to the strategy […]
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Three former DeepMinders are developing A.I. to pick stocks and crypto
ArtBox Images | Getty Images Three former DeepMind employees are trying to train a machine to spot and invest in company stocks and cryptocurrencies before they rise. Martin Schmid, Rudolf Kadlec and Matej Moravcik left Alphabet-owned DeepMind in January to set up EquiLibre Technologies, relocating from Edmonton in Canada to Prague in the Czech Republic […]
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This daughter and father founded a company to bury nuclear waste by drilling deep boreholes
Zoom In IconArrows pointing outwards Elizabeth Muller, the CEO, and Richard Muller, the chief technology officer, of Deep Isolation, in Texas for their 2019 demonstration. Photographer: Roman Pino, Courtesy Deep Isolation There is no permanent nuclear waste depository in the United States. Instead, nuclear waste is stored in dry casks at the locations of currently […]
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Reid Hoffman’s new start-up poaches first staff from Google and Meta
Reid Hoffman, founder and Chairman, Linkedin, at 2015 WEF in Davos, Switzerland. David A. Grogan | CNBC Inflection AI, the start-up launched earlier this month by LinkedIn billionaire Reid Hoffman and DeepMind co-founder Mustafa Suleyman, has poached artificial intelligence gurus from Google and Meta, according to CNBC analysis. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Inflection’s aim is […]
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Sequoia leads $80 million funding round for Swiss expense management start-up Yokoy
Sequoia Capital is betting the next European tech giant will emerge in Switzerland. The Silicon Valley venture capital firm told CNBC that it led an $80 million funding round for Yokoy, a platform that helps large companies manage their expenses, invoicing and credit card processing. Previous investors Left Lane and Balderton Capital also took part […]
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