Tag: Google
Flying taxi startup Blade is helping Silicon Valley CEOs bypass traffic
One year after a $38 million Series B valued on-demand aviation startup Blade at $140 million, the company has begun taxiing the Bay Area’s...
How Nuro plans to spend Softbank’s $940 million
Autonomous delivery startup Nuro is bursting with ideas since SoftBank invested nearly $1 billion in February, new filings reveal.
A recent patent application details how...
Waymo plans to open 85,000-square-foot technical service center in Mesa, Arizona
Waymo, the self-driving car division of Google parent company Alphabet, today announced that it would open an 85,000-square-foot technical service center in the city...
Android Q’s hidden ‘bubbles’ suggest Google is rethinking notifications
Despite multiple redesigns and fundamental changes, one thing has remained true since the very first Android phone: you swipe down from the top to...
Flight-hailing startup Blackbird raises $10 million to replace driving with flying
The origin story of Blackbird, a startup that links travelers to planes and commercial pilots through an app, didn’t begin with air travel. It...
Google found it paid men less than women for the same...
The story we’re used to hearing is that women get paid less than men. In Google’s case, according to its own internal pay audit,...
Jupiter raises $23 million to tell businesses and governments how climate...
Whether it’s by flood, fire, or the fury of a storm, climate-related catastrophes are now impacting most cities and towns across the country. As...
Google’s new AI grammar checker is now live in Google Docs
Google today announced that its new machine learning-powered grammar checker is now live in Google Docs for G Suite users. The company first introduced...
Gradient Ventures, Google’s AI fund, leads $7M investment in English learning...
Google’s Gradient Ventures, the search giant’s dedicated AI fund, is casting its eye to Asia after it led a $7 million Series A round...
Something magical happens if you google Rihanna and your birthday
Seriously. Do it.
Go to Google.com, type in “Rihanna (your DOB),” you’ll get… a picture of Rihanna taken on the anniversary of your birth.
To Rihanna...
