Rivian’s RJ Scaringe thinks we’re doing robots all wrong
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Recap: Europe’s top 10 funding rounds this week (9 -15 March)
From a record-breaking AI seed in Paris to Croatian drones and Lithuanian food tech, Europe’s startup ecosystem had a busy week. The week of 9-15 March was, by any measure, an exceptional one for European venture capital. Two deals alone, one in London, one in Paris,accounted for nearly three billion dollars. But beyond the headline […]This story continues at The Next Web
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Honda is killing its EVs — and any chance of competing in the future
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Spotify lets you edit your own algorithm with new Taste Profile feature
The feature, announced at SXSW by co-CEO Gustav Söderström, lets Premium listeners see and shape the data model powering their recommendations, starting with a beta rollout in New Zealand For a decade, Spotify’s recommendation engine has worked largely in silence. It watched what you played, noted what you skipped, inferred meaning from the time of […]This story continues at The Next Web