Vancouver artificial intelligence startup Mundo has raised a $20 million Series A round to build the data and evaluation infrastructure needed for AI systems to better understand real-world sensory experiences.
The financing was led by GreatPoint Ventures, with participation from...
My phone is face down on the table, which is the lie I tell myself about being present.
I sent a message two hours ago. Nothing since. I have picked the phone up four times, and each time I framed...
A candidate in a job interview looked at the ceiling for four seconds before answering a question about her biggest professional failure. Two of the three people on the panel wrote something down. Afterwards, one of them described her...
Ask a married man who he feels closest to and there is a decent chance he says his wife, then attaches a small apology to it. Something like “which is probably a bit sad.” He says it the way...
Biotech startup, GonGlobal, is hoping to change that after raising $1.2 million to develop a new form of IVF treatment.
The raise was backed by Innovation Victoria – the newly merged Breakthrough Victoria and LaunchVic – via its University Innovation...
The round for Drumbeat was led by Icehouse Ventures, with support from Brand Fund. Prominent Australian marketers Adam Ferrier from Thinkerbell and Mutinex’s Henry Innis are also backers.
The cash will help scale the platform’s proprietary “awareness-building system”, which includes media...
We have quietly collapsed three things that used to be easier to tell apart: information, knowledge, and wisdom. The age of information has delivered an almost violent abundance of the first, more facts, papers, explainers and answers than any...
It doesn’t happen suddenly: how people in their 60s and 70s slowly find themselves alone, with no one to talk to
There is rarely a single day when a person becomes lonely.
It happens in smaller ways. You retire and no...
You have probably used the polite version. Someone disagrees with you about something that matters, and before you explain why they are wrong, you tell them you are sure they want what is best. It costs nothing, and it...
That reading makes us happier and smarter is repeated so often it has worn smooth, the sort of claim nobody bothers to examine because everyone already agrees with it. Underneath the slogan, though, there is real psychology, and it...
