Their romance began on a server at a San Francisco startup. Anna Wood had submitted a profile to the League, a dating app aimed at young professionals. She was the perfect prospect: Degree from a top university? Check. Management-track job at a marquee company? Check. Carefully selected profile pictures and a winning smile? Check and check.The League’s algorithm quickly matched Wood, who’d be...

BenevolventAI announced today that it has raised $115 million to continue developing its core “AI brain” as well as different arms of the company that are using it specifically to break new ground in drug development and more.In the ongoing race to build the best and smartest applications that tap into the advances of artificial intelligence, a startup out of London has raised a large round o...

Many crypto traders are gambling that the tax man will turn a blind eye to 2017 gains.Tax day is here, and a significant number of investors have decided not to report gains from digital currency trading.According to a recent survey from TeamBlind, an anonymous social app for tech employees, 46% of people who made money trading cryptocurrencies in 2017 will attempt to dodge the tax man.“We sur...

Let’s face it, flying is often a chore. Those tiny seats. That limited legroom. And airlines’ constant push to make the flying experience more miserable.That reality seems really far from the potential future presented at last week’s 12th annual Crystal Cabin Awards, a ceremony honoring innovative aircraft cabin concepts in Hamburg, Germany. These designs make today’s first class look total...

Bjarke ingels group has unveiled plans for a new hotel in switzerland, which will be embedded into the topography of the scenic vallée de joux. designed for audemars piguet, ‘hôtel des horlogers’ will be sited next to the luxury watch manufacturer’s museum — which is also being designed by BIG. As part of the hotel’s design, five zigzagging volumes, which contain hotel rooms, traverse a...

Our survey of 23,000 European shoppers reveals specific ways grocers can win in fresh fruits and vegetables, boosting sales by as much as 10 percent even in a flat market.If you’re a fresh-food retailer in Europe, your apples and bananas better be top-notch. European consumers tend to judge the quality of a retailer’s fresh-produce department based on those two particular fruits. Vegetable pr...

Nike’s successor to Flyknit is a brand-new material called Flyprint. The fabric looks like pearlescent mosquito netting or a screen door made of snakeskin. As it shimmers in an ever-changing array of pinks, oranges, and greens under the light, I can literally see right through it.This is Nike Flyprint, the first 3D-printed performance fabric in the world, which will debut on the feet of the el...

By most accounts, Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony last week was a resounding success. From beginning to end, Facebook’s market cap increased by $34 billion. There were few bombshell revelations. Zuckerberg got to roll out his well practiced contrition act again as Facebook’s apologizer-in-chief. Dozens of Congressional representatives got to look earnest, outraged and informed for...

In their article “Designing Line-Based Shape-Changing Interfaces,” researchers from Stanford and the MIT Media Lab start with an overview of work on shape-changing line interfaces in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI), including their previous work on actuated-line interfaces, LineFORM and ChainFORM.Then, several potential uses are compared and discussed in depth with regards to th...