Mirror Image She couldn’t move despite her heart speeding up in her chest. She pressed play, and the trailer began. She watched and suddenly saw herself, but it couldn’t be her. It had to be someone else, but someone who was the mirrored image of Anais. She felt overwhelmed with the questions racing in her…
Monthly Archives: September 2022
Sweat wallet is the wallet for the Sweatcoin app. Sweatcoin converts your steps into a currency called “Sweatcoins”. You can spend Sweatcoins on goods, services, and experiences. The marketplace contains high-tech shoes, iPhones, yoga classes, and more. The app uses your HealthKit step history data to improve its algorithms and provide you with offers. You…
The U.S healthcare system is infamously labyrinthine, with a lengthy claims process that results in frequent errors and high administrative costs. Based in Bangalore, CloudSelf is building a cloud-native platform to improve payment integrity (or the process of making sure healthcare claims are paid accurately) by being more transparent and customizable than legacy systems. The…
U.S. Congress is now represented by Indigenous people. Congressman Kaiali‘i Kahele Peltola is the first Alaska Native elected to Congress and was sworn in on Tuesday. Rep. Kaiali’i Kahele and Rep. Sharice Davids welcomed Mary Peltola to Congress in a tweet. “It has taken 233 years for the US Congress to be fully represented,” said…
Canva is further establishing itself as more than just a user-friendly graphic design tool. The Australian company announced at its Canva Create event that it will unveil a suite of new products to round out its product offerings: Canva Docs, Canva Websites, Canva Whiteboards and Data Visualization, which comes from its acquisition of Flourish. Canva…
Fazz, the Southeast Asian digital financial services group created by the merger of PayFazz and Xfers, announced today that it has raised a total of $100 million in Series C funding. This includes $75 million in equity and a $25 million debt facility. The equity investment came from returning investors Tiger Global, DST Investment, B…
The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II left Edinburgh for London on Tuesday. Andrew Matthews/WPA Pool/Getty Images Over 5 million people tracked Queen Elizabeth II’s final flight to London, per Flightradar24. A Royal Air Force flight was carrying the late monarch’s coffin from Edinburgh to London on Tuesday. For comparison, 700,000 people tracked US House Speaker…
GM’s Cruise division doesn’t want to rely on third-party manufacturers for the chips powering its autonomous vehicles — so, it’s making its own. Based on what Carl Jenkins, the company’s VP for Hardware Engineering, told Reuters, the main motivator for the switch is the lofty costs associated with paying for other companies’ chips. “Two years…
Google could be facing hefty fines in the British and Dutch courts in two suits set to be filed in the next few weeks. Between the two lawsuits, Google may need to pay out €25 billion (~$25.4 billion) in fines. According to Reuters, the lawsuits allege that Google has been employing unfair advertising practices. Geradin…
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