Morgan Meaker / Wired: Just Eat outsources 6,000 of its riders and drivers working across six UK cities to Dutch staffing agency Randstad, to comply with stricter UK employment rules — A new subcontractor industry in Europe is benefiting from platforms’ efforts to clean up their image and comply with stricter employment rules.
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Dan Muse / VentureBeat: Chip startup Ceremorphic raises a $50M Series A and unveils QS 1, which is built on TSMC’s 5nm node and designed to excel at tasks like AI model training — Today, Ceremorphic, a startup, is coming out of stealth mode with $50 million of series A funding along with the announcement of the QS 1 chip …
Allison Johnson / The Verge: Sony unveils the $1,599 Xperia 1 IV, with a 6.5″ 120Hz OLED display, a Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 processor, and a continuous optical zoom lens, shipping in September — Smartphones have point-and-shoot cameras (remember those?) beat in a lot of ways, but there’s one thing traditional cameras still do better than phones: zoom.
Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Sourceful, which helps brands reduce supply chain emissions via its online marketplace of vetted suppliers, raises a $20M Series A led by Index Ventures — Sourceful, an Index Ventures backed supply chain transparency startup, has fast-fuelled with a $20 million Series A around half a year after it announced a $12.2M seed round.
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: WorkRamp, which offers digital workplace training tools, raises a $40M Series C co-led by Salesforce Ventures, Slack Fund, and Susa Ventures — WorkRamp, a provider of learning management systems (LMS), today announced that it has raised $40 million in a series C funding round co-led by Salesforce Ventures …
Mary Ann Azevedo / TechCrunch: Hometap, which lets homeowners get cash by taking on an investor in their house, raises $60M led by American Family Ventures, bringing its total funding to $95M — Hometap, a startup that offers people a way to borrow against the equity in their homes without taking out loans, has raised $60 million in new funding.
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat: Nvidia debuts Isaac Nova Orin, an autonomous mobile robot computing and sensor architecture powered by Jetson AGX Orin, and starts selling $2K Jetson dev kits — During its March 2022 GPU Technology Conference (GTC) this week, Nvidia unveiled Isaac Nova Orin, a computing and sensor architecture powered …
Jonathan Haidt / The Atlantic: Regulators and legislators should mitigate Instagram’s harmful effects on teen girls by toughening COPPA and forcing Facebook and others to share data — Social media gets blamed for many of America’s ills, including the polarization of our politics and the erosion of truth itself.
Richard C. Paddock / New York Times: War of Heroes, a game from Myanmar-born developers, lets opponents of the country’s military coup kill virtual soldiers and raise money for real-life resistance — Opponents of the coup in Myanmar have flocked to a new online game that lets players shoot virtual soldiers while raising money for the real-life resistance.
Emma Roth / The Verge: In iOS 16 beta 4, Apple Pay finally works in non-Safari browsers like Chrome and Edge, a move that may be in response to the EU’s Digital Markets Act — Not just Safari — Apple Pay could finally be compatible with Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox in iOS 16.