Ray Kurzweil, the pioneering AI scientist and Google researcher and “AI Visionary,” is joining a Silicon Valley startup developing a method to put computers in the brain by snorting nano particles. Subsense, a four-year old company developing brain computer interface technology, announced the news alongside Kurzweil at an event at its Palo Alto, California headquarters
Goodles, the mac-and-cheese brand co-founded by actress Gal Gadot, announced that it clinched a deal to be acquired by the Barilla Group, the world’s largest pasta company. Gadot, best known for portraying Wonder Woman in DC’s superhero films, and her husband, Jaron Varsano, were co-founders of the Goodles brand, marketed as a more nutritious alternative
David Head is CEO of Endorsed, a San Francisco identity verification startup that uses AI to screen candidates. That task includes detecting signs of potential imposters and fraudsters, which these days includes a torrent of North Korean operatives posing as IT workers, who over the past several years have snuck into hundreds of U.S. companies.
Prominent solo investor Lachy Groom has backed a Bengaluru startup attempting an ambitious feat: keeping an aircraft in the sky for more than a year by harvesting energy from ocean winds. Alteon, founded by 20-year-old Samay Sanghvi, announced Tuesday that it raised $2.5 million in a pre-seed round led by Groom, with participation from Together
D-shaped magnets form part of a tokamak that is being built for a nuclear-fusion pilot project. Credit: Commonwealth Fusion Systems About a dozen technicians, in hard hats and protective clothing, move around a large, double-height room. Some are checking pipes coming up through the floor into a raised, circular platform. Others work on instruments installed
A former Twitter trademark lawyer has launched a social network with a familiar name. Stephen Coates’ startup, Operation Bluebird, launched Twitter.now in early testing on Thursday. Coates, formerly Twitter’s head counsel for trademarks, domain names, and marketing, told Business Insider that the platform is experimenting with a twist on content moderation: Users, rather than the