Plenty Unlimited has raised $140 million in new funding to build more vertical farms around the U.S.The new funding, which brings the company’s total cash haul to an abundant $500 million, wa
Just months after it announced a $33 million Series B, Chicago-based M1 Finance today disclosed a $45 Series C.The new financing event was led by Left Lane Capital, the same investor that led M1’
Cybersecurity giant Imperva will acquire jSonar, a database security startup that recently landed $50 million from Goldman Sachs.Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.The acquisition of
Pinterest is announcing its spin on the increasingly popular stories format today — Story Pins, which combine multiple pages of images, videos, voiceover and overlaid text.We wrote about Story Pins ba
Darkstore, the tech-driven fulfillment solution to enable e-commerce companies to offer same-day delivery, has just released a consumer-facing app called FastAF. Right now, the app is only available
Smart lighting company Philips Hue has a new product in its home entertainment catalog that should make a smart TV lighting setup much easier and more powerful. The new Philips Hue Play gradient ligh
“High Score” is a new Netflix documentary series that looks back at the early years of the video game industry.Across six episodes, key developers, artists, executives and even players di
San Quentin State Prison in California, U.S. /CFP Correctional facilities that resisted mass coronavirus testing for inmates erred in their decision to only test inmates with symptoms, leading
Students crowd a hallway at North Paulding High School in Dallas, Georgia, August 4, 2020. Hannah Watters/AP On her second day back at school, 15-year-old Hannah Watters took a photograph that
Uber and Lyft have lost their bid to delay a preliminary injunction that will force the two ride-hailing app companies to reclassify its drivers as employees. A California superior court judge denied
Uber could be forced to shut down its ride-hailing app in California for several months if a court doesn’t overturn a recent ruling that classifies its drivers as full-time employees, CEO Dara K
Microsoft founder Bill Gates, who warned about global pandemics in a TED Talk in 2015, shared his views on the U.S.' handling of the COVID-19 epidemic in an interview with WIRED on Friday."I'm sur
00:47 With strokes and flicks of his paintbrush James Lewis brings his artwork to life on TikTok which he finds more inspiring than other social media platforms.The lettering artist, f
The high-profile scientist’s comments join a wave of criticism that the UK government of Prime Minister Boris Johnson is facing over its response to the ongoing coronav
The research found that depression was reported up to 88% less often by patients treated with botox for six of eight conditions.
President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien has tested positive for the coronavirus — making him the highest-ranking official to test positive so
Snap debuted its developer platform two years ago, and though it’s amassed several hundred integrations inside third-party apps, the company is still looking to scale deeper relationships with t