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UK Council websites are letting citizens be profiled for ads, study shows
On the same day that a data ethics advisor to the UK government has urged action to regulate online targeting a…
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Nomagic, a startup out of Poland, picks up $8.6M for its pick-and-place warehouse robots
Factories and warehouses have been two of the biggest markets for robots in the last several years, with machines taking…
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Azimo, the money transfer service, secures €20M debt finance from the European Investment Bank
Azimo, the money transfer service that is HQ’d in London but has the majority of its staff based in based…
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Teller raises $4M to take on Plaid in the U.S. by providing API access to bank accounts
“They’re idiots, they’re really naive,” is how Stevie Graham, the co-founder of fintech Teller, once described Open Banking Limited, the…
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N26 reaches 5 million customers including 250,000 in the US
Challenger bank N26 has reached 5 million customers. In 2019 alone, N26 managed to add over 2.5 million customers. And…
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London’s Met Police switches on live facial recognition, flying in face of human rights concerns
While EU lawmakers are mulling a temporary ban on the use of facial recognition to safeguard individuals’ rights, as part…
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Dfinity launches an open source platform aimed at the social networking giants
When Dfinity raised $102 million in funding in 2018 at a $2 billion valuation in a round jointly led by…
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Launches from SpaceX, Boeing and the ESA
Typically, the holiday season is a slow one in the tech industry — but space tech is different, and this…
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Eddy Travels closes pre-seed round led by Techstars to scale its AI travel assistant
Eddy Travels, an AI-powered travel assistant bot which can understand text and voice messages, has closed a pre-seed round of…
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Curve, the ‘over-the-top’ banking platform, launches “Curve Send” for P2P payments in 25 currencies
Curve, the so-called “over-the-top” banking platform that lets you consolidate all of your bank cards into a single Curve card…
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