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• This AI makes peanut butter and banana sandwiches that are fit for the King

  Data scientist Ethan Rosenthal has developed an AI system that calculates the optimal arrangements of banana and bread.

  • Thomas Macaulay

• Jack Dorsey created a $1B COVID-19 relief fund, now it’s got… $2.6B left?

  On April 7, Square (and Twitter) CEO Jack Dorsey announced he was setting up a charitable fund to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

  • Yaron Yitzhak

• PayPal stock at all-time high after payments surge during coronavirus lockdowns

  Despite attracting 7.4 million new accounts last quarter, PayPal proved its not immune to the effects of COVID-19 by falling ...

  • David Canellis

• Warren Buffett would've saved billions investing in fintech over banks

  A coronavirus financial crisis thought experiment.

  • Yaron Yitzhak

• Twitter posts first billion-dollar quarterly revenue despite political ad controversy

  Jack Dorsey's Twitter generated over a billion dollars in revenue for the very first time last quarter, as its monetizable ...

  • David Canellis

• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey attends Bitcoin meetup in Ghana

  Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey has attended a Bitcoin meetup in Ghana just weeks after he invested in a cryptocurrency ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey backs cryptocurrency startup after turning down Facebook’s Libra

  Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey, who recently said his company would never get involved with Facebook's Libra, has backed ...

  • Yessi Bello Perez

• Jack Dorsey told us about Square's plan to help refugee entrepreneurs

  Jack Dorsey: Empowering refugees isn't a tech problem, it's a policy problem

  • Matthew Hughes

• My family's happier since we traded movie night for video games

  If there's two things even the closest of families can have a hard time agreeing on, they're where to eat and what to watch. ...

  • Tristan Greene

• Facebook is hiring 22 people for its secretive blockchain division

  Facebook is currently seeking to hire a number of blockchain and cryptocurrency experts in the fields marketing, UX design, ...

  • Matthew Beedham

• Square launches SDK to help mobile developers take in-app payments

  Square wants to make it easier for mobile devs to deal with payments

  • Matthew Hughes