Government of Canada to invest $30 million in AI in robots
The federal Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, François-Philippe Champagne, recently announced an investment of $30 million in Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation, a Vancouver company specializing in AI and robotics.…
Fortnite and MrBeast will give away $1 million in a pop-up game challenge • TechCrunch
The world’s most popular YouTuber is taking over a corner of Fortnite and somebody will walk away with $1 million. Jimmy Donaldson, better known by the handle MrBeast, is partnering…
A Nonprofit Spent 5 Years Counting a Million Credentials. What Does It All Add Up To?
For the past five years, researchers have been carefully counting all the degrees, certificates and badges available for people to earn in the U.S., a figure they say now totals…
General Dynamics Awarded $695 Million U.S. Army Europe Contract for Enterprise Mission Information Technology Services
FAIRFAX, Va., Jan. 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT), a business unit of General Dynamics (NYSE:GD), announced today it has been awarded the United States Army Europe (USAREUR)…
How Elon Musk will award $100 million in carbon capture contest
WASHINGTON — How much would it take to spur the world’s craftiest engineers and entrepreneurs to develop elusive technology able to suck gigatons of heat-trapping carbon dioxide out of the…
Kong raises $100 million for software that scales cloud infrastructure
As APIs and microservices become critical tools to drive innovation and automation for a wider range of companies, they are also creating new management challenges. Enterprises are attracted by their…
Reddit, the Talk of the Internet, Raises $250 Million
SAN FRANCISCO — Fresh off a winning Super Bowl ad and a role at the center of a recent stock market frenzy, Reddit announced on Monday that it had raised…



