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First AI-Designed Drug Enters Testing, Raising Hopes for Faster, Cheaper Drug...
A drug developed using artificial intelligence will enter clinical trials for the first time, opening up the possibility of using machine learning...
Garbage Crisis Will Bury Companies That Don’t Adapt, TerraCycle’s CEO Says
Garbage has become such a crisis that companies that don’t invest in long-term ways to reduce waste won’t survive, warns the founder...
Miner Threats: Industry Not Addressing Global Warming, While Flooding, Drought Risks...
The world’s mining industry is doing little to curb greenhouse gases and combat global warming, raising the possibility of a backlash from...
Privacy, Civil Rights Advocates Urge U.S. Suspend Facial-Recognition Surveillance
Facial-recognition technology threatens “the precious liberties that are vital to our way of life” and its use should be suspended by the...
Timber’s Time? Wood Gets Fresh Look From Builders As Steel and...
Wood may be poised for a new role as a building material, thanks to technologies that permit raising higher structures using the...
Women-Led, Values-Based Investing Has Gotten Hot — and Now Men Want...
Values-based investing has long been relegated to a back office, the province of predominantly female junior staffers.
Now it’s...
Europe’s Unicorns Fly High As Fundraising Hit Record Last Year on...
Unicorns may still have wings, at least in Europe, as record funds were raised last year on rising demand for financial services,...
China’s Spreading Coronavirus May Ripple, Disrupting Global Supply Chains of Medicines...
The novel coronavirus that is spreading in China may harm the health of more than those who catch the respiratory illness —...
Buffett’s Footprint: Berkshire Trails Only Kochs, Saudi Royals in Fortunes Linked...
As investors and financial firms heed the call to cut fossil fuel holdings, others hang on: Warren Buffett holds the third-largest fortune...
Security Firm Cloudfare Provided Protection to Child Pornography Sites, Report Says
Network security behemoth Cloudflare may have to rethink its policy of taking on all customers after a report highlighted that the company...
Davos Day 4: Economic Policymakers Say Global Prospects Look Rosier, Echoing...
U.S. President Donald Trump and top economic policymakers were singing the same tune on the economy by the end of the World...
States Take Lead in Seeking Ways for Honey Bees and Solar...
Minnesota, New York and South Carolina are among the U.S. states working to protect the country’s shrinking number of honey bees as...
Robust PE Deals in Europe Cooled Last Year From 2018’s Blistering...
Europe’s private-equity market remained “robust” last year but the value of the deals done slipped from 2018’s record levels, according to Pitchbook.
Davos Day 3: FinTech Giants Take on Central Banks on the...
Tech giants and government officials brought their simmering dispute over the future of cryptocurrency to the World Economic Forum, arguing over whether...
Facebook’s New AI: Navigation Without Maps, En Route to Autonomous Delivery...
Trying to find the nearest Starbucks in a city without Google Maps might not cause a person to go caffeine free in...
Data Centers’ Growing Energy Consumption Gets Close Scrutiny From Swiss, HPE
Data centers account for an ever-growing share of global electricity demand, something that Hewlett Packard Enterprise and its partners are trying to...
Tencent to Acquire Norway’s Funcom, As ByteDance Rivalry Moves Into Gaming
Tencent is feeling challenged by ByteDance, grabbing every opportunity to go after the TikTok publisher.
In the latest salvo,...
As Drug-Resistant Bacteria Frustrates Big Pharma, Impact Investors See Opportunities
With more than 500,000 people dying each year due to their bodies rejecting currently available antibiotics, profits are drying up and the...
Cash Chases Trash as Investors Pour Money Into Startups Looking to...
Trash and cash go hand-in-hand, from John Waters films to garbage hauling.
Sustainable trash is also drawing interest, as...
Trump, With Eye on Impeachment and Election, Ignores No. 1 Concern...
President Trump kicked off the 50th annual World Economic Forum, the same day his impeachment trial was to begin, by ignoring climate...
Clearview AI Sets Off Alarms By Scraping Facebook, Venmo Photos for...
A startup is making a profit off the photos you post on Facebook by using them for a facial recognition app.
As Big Business Faces Climate Obligations, Microsoft Jumps in With $1B...
Big business is increasingly pointing the finger of blame back at itself regarding global warming -- banks are cutting loans to coal...
EU May Ban Facial-Recognition Software for Five Years Amid AI Privacy...
The European Union is considering banning facial-recognition software in public areas for up to five years so privacy issues surrounding artificial intelligence...
Low-CO2 the Next Gluten-Free? Quorn to Put Carbon Footprint of Products...
Is low carbon footprint a selling point for you? Quorn Foods is going to find out.
Just as we’ve...
Investors Poured Record $18.5B Into AI Firms as Tech Transforms Society
Artificial intelligence’s potential to revolutionize our lives is attracting record amounts of cash.Last year, 1,356 AI-related startups in the U.S. raised a...
Frazier Healthcare Tops Target for Life Sciences Fund, Grabbing $617M on...
Frazier Healthcare raised a greater-than-expected $617 million for its latest fund, as private investors’ appetite for healthcare innovation shows no sign of slowing.
Jack Ma, Dan Loeb Behind $2.6 Billion Fintech Deal Targeting International...
The latest fintech opportunity may be in international tourism.
With millions more people traveling internationally every year, heavyweight investors...
U.S. Renewable Energy Investment Surges to Record as Investors Shrug Off...
U.S. investors don’t appear to share President Donald Trump’s doubts about renewable energy and climate change, pouring a record amount of cash...
Growing in a Colorado Lab: Green Concrete Bricks That May Cut...
Bricks and mortar may never be the same, thanks to a group of scientists who have created a type of living concrete...
Death Toll From Heart Disease is Spiking, as Private Investors Race...
Once thought manageable, heart disease is making a dangerous comeback in the U.S., killing more than ever with a surprising toll on...