Watch Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City
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Europe offers tepid set of political ads transparency rules
www.techcrunch.com It’s been almost a year since the EU’s executive announced it would propose rules for political ads transparency in response to concern about online microtargeting and big data techniques making mincemeat of democratic integrity and accountability. … Read More
Why SoundHound is valued at 5 Shazams
www.techcrunch.com Voice AI company SoundHound is set to go public on the Nasdaq via a SPAC transaction at a nearly $2.1 billion valuation in early 2022, blank check company Archimedes and its target announced. … Read More
Vauban, an AngelList-like platform for VCs and angels to run and raise funds, closes $6.3m
www.techcrunch.com It’s always been a slight puzzle why AngelList never really properly took off in Europe, especially when, a few years ago, there was such a dearth of funding options for poorly served European startups. But the reasons are fairly simple when you look at them. For starters, the US tech industry boomed in the…
The tech we're thankful for: 2021 edition
www.mashable.com Two years ago, I wrote a Thanksgiving list acknowledging the tech I was grateful for in a pre-pandemic era while Trump was the president. I was a tech cynic, I said, but I could still make space for gratitude. Nice one, past simple, ignorant me. Now — one presidential election and subsequent insurrection, one pandemic,…
Disguised People Reveal Who They Dread Seeing At Thanksgiving In Brutal 'Kimmel' Bit
www.huffpost.com The “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” segment is a lesson in not giving thanks.… Read More
Astroscale raises $109M for its on-orbit services technology
www.techcrunch.com Japanese space startup Astroscale has raised $109 million in a new Series F round of financing, bringing the company’s total funding raised to date to $300 million. The company specializes in on-orbit servicing technology, designed to help reduce the amount of debris that exists in operating orbital altitudes, and also to extend the life…
Uber to shutter most of its service in Belgium tomorrow after court ruling
www.techcrunch.com Uber will halt its ride-hailing service in most of Belgium tomorrow following a court ruling Wednesday that extends a 2015 order banning its p2p UberPop service to also cover professional drivers providing its ride-hailing service. … Read More
Politicians are failing to deliver climate justice. Lawyers and scientists could do it in court
www.cnn.com There were few memorable moments at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow earlier this month, but a video address by the foreign minister of Tuvalu, speaking in a suit while knee-deep in tropical waters, is a hard one to forget.… Read More
Milo Ventimiglia’s best movie doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page
www.mashable.com Welcome to No Shame November! This week we’re diving into the pop culture we love (or hate) that society tells us we shouldn’t. Hear me out. The finest work of Milo Ventimiglia — everyone’s favorite short-shorts-wearing, Instagram rule-breaking, Crock-Pot advocate — is most definitely not This Is Us, the show that earned him three Emmy nominations. Nor…