British engineering firm Rolls Royce is leading a mammoth analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on businesses worldwide, as the country’s politicians ponder how best to equip the private sector for a…
TwentyBN: A Robot That Can Push Your Buttons
In-store retailers are losing cash to e-commerce. Enter Millie, a life-size digital sales assistant whose computer vision pedigree is beyond compare. “You look like a rock star,” the sales assistant says, as…
AI Translator Unbabel Wins $60m Series C Funding Round
Unbabel, a Lisbon-headquartered “translation-as-a-service” platform that uses artificial intelligence and human translations, has won a $60 million Series C funding round that brings its total backing above $90m. The Portuguese firm, founded…
Honda Innovation’s Dennis Clark: “The Multinational-Startup Relationship is No Longer in Question”
As managing director of strategic partnerships at Honda Innovations, the venture capital wing of the world’s seventh-largest automaker, Dennis Clark is a keystone in the bridge between the corporation and its growing…
Cerebri AI Targeted Fortune 500 Early – And Succeeded
When it comes to a company’s customers, what does success look like? That is the question that has driven Cerebri AI to become one of the machine learning field’s most striking –…
Machine Learning: How to Better Understand the User Journey of Job Seekers
By Erol Gün, senior manager of businesses intelligence at Joblift Most people have looked for a job on the Internet at some point, either by perusing job boards or using a job…
Criticism of the UK’s Anti-Terror Tool is Shortsighted
Yesterday the UK government announced the development of a machine learning tool, with which it will seek out material from terror group ISIS before it is uploaded to the Web. The tool,…
Amazon Opens First Checkout-less Store in Seattle
Amazon Go, the supermarket with no checkouts, has opened to the public today for the first time. The store, which has been in testing for the past year, uses an array of…
Zuckerberg’s Universal Basic Income: Why the Next Wave of Tech Demands It
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s commencement speech at Harvard’s graduation ceremony on Thursday (May 25) was stacked full of memories from his time at the university–from which he dropped out a decade previous.…
Kreditech Learns to Innovate Like a Startup, and Work Like a Bank
Kreditech’s high-flung office offers a spectacular, 360-degree view of its hometown of Hamburg. That is, when it is sunny. When Red Herring visited the fintech firm’s HQ earlier this year, the German…