Innovation
Dave’s Hot Chicken Acquired for $1B By Roark Capital | Entrepreneur
Dave's Hot Chicken, which began in 2017, announced on Monday that it was acquired by private equity firm (and Subway owner) Roark Capital in a $1 billion deal.The chicken shop, which specializes in a hot, Nashville-style of...
Innovation
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman: AI Agents Are Like Junior Employees | Entrepreneur
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that companies are using AI agents (programs that run autonomously to perform complex tasks) as if they were junior employees."You hear people that talk about their job now is to assign work...
Technology
Super-invasive termites could spread from Florida around the world
Florida’s newest termite is two for the price of one, but nobody’s celebrating. Two species of globally invasive, timber-chewing...
Technology
Meta’s Going To Revive an Old Nuclear Power Plant – Slashdot
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Meta has struck a 20-year deal with energy company Constellation to keep the Clinton Clean Energy Center nuclear plant in Illinois operational, the social media giant's first nuclear power purchase agreement as it seeks clean energy sources for...
Gadgets
Pornhub pulls out of France over age verification law
Aylo, the company which runs a number of pornographic websites, including Pornhub, is to stop operating in France from Wednesday.It is in reaction to a French law requiring porn sites to take extra steps to verify their users' ages.An...
Technology
Who Gives a S#!t About Cursing Robots?
The robots that share our public spaces today are so demure. Social robots and service robots aim to avoid offense, erring toward polite airs, positive emotions, and obedience. In some ways, this makes sense—would you really want to have...
Technology
Speedata, a chip startup competing with Nvidia, raises a $44M Series B | TechCrunch
Speedata, a Tel Aviv-based startup developing an analytics processing unit (APU) designed to accelerate big data analytic and AI workloads, has raised a $44M Series B funding round, bringing its total capital raised to $114M.The Series B round was...
Innovation
5 Inspirational Quotes to Keep Every Startup Owner Motivated | Entrepreneur
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If you're building a business, regardless of your stage, you've undoubtedly encountered challenges and trials that test your mettle and make you question whether...
Gadgets
Apple and Google clash with police and MPs over phone thefts
Tom GerkenTechnology reporter"You could tomorrow stop phones that are on the IMEI blacklist connecting back to your services if you so wished, both of you, and you won't do it," Lib Dem MP Martin Wrigley said."I'm not saying that...
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Liberia Capitol fire: Ex-speaker Jonathan Fonati Koffa charged with arson
Liberia's former speaker of parliament has been charged with arson over a fire at the nation's House of Representatives,...