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Fnatic and New York Tech partner on performance sleeve research – Esports Insider

European esports organisation Fnatic has announced a partnership with the New York Institute of Technology (New York Tech). According to the release, the collaboration will see both parties work together on research regarding esports performance wear. RELATED: Fnatic raises $10m and launches new crowdfunding equity campaign New York Tech’s Center for Esports Medicine will work […]

AI-powered travel tech platform Hopper raises $175M

The Transform Technology Summits start October 13th with Low-Code/No Code: Enabling Enterprise Agility. Register now! Hopper, the heavily financed company best known for its AI-powered predictive airfare and hotel rate platform, has raised $175 million in a series G round of funding just five months after announcing an identical figure for its series F round. […]

Tech giants unite to drive ‘transformational’ open source eBPF projects

All the sessions from Transform 2021 are available on-demand now. Watch now. Let the OSS Enterprise newsletter guide your open source journey! Sign up here. Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Netflix have teamed up to launch the eBPF Foundation, which is designed to accelerate a “transformational” technology that will “redefine” networking, security, tracing, and observability. The new foundation’s membership […]

Disrupting tech hiring: How AI connects companies to talent

Presented by Hiretual Software’s dominance over our lives has accelerated in ways we may not have imagined before. Household names like Amazon, Google, Tesla, and Netflix have solidified technology’s unparalleled impact on consumer sentiment across different markets. More recently, some of the biggest IPOs of 2020 include companies, like DoorDash, AirBnB, Robinhood, and Snowflake, who […]

Breaking up Big Tech: A solution in search of a problem

Federal rulemaking must be based on facts, logic, and evidence. Both a 1993 Executive Order (#12866) and the 2003 Office of Management and Budget Circular A-4 require that executive agencies spell out a proposed regulation’s anticipated economic costs and benefits, explain the logic behind their interventions, and compare it to a “no regulation” alternative. These […]

AI Weekly: The future of tech policy after an attempted coup

On Wednesday, we witnessed a coup attempt fueled by racism, disinformation, and the President of the United States. Video of the U.S. Capitol breach shows that Trump supporters were permitted to violate multiple federal laws, desecrate the people’s house, undermine national security, and violently oppose the largest exercise of the right to vote since the […]

Tech that died in 2020

Even in a year like 2020, one thing didn’t change in the tech world: Certain devices, technologies, and services shut down. The causes vary, as does the level of regret. Some things we’ll miss; some things we never cared about; and others, we’re glad to show the door. This year, we’re dividing the departed by how […]