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PayRewards launches in America with $28M and a 1.75% fee to earn points

An Australian payments company thinks American small businesses will pay for the privilege of earning points. PayRewards, the US arm of Pay.com.au, has launched with $28M in funding and a promise that bank transfers which currently earn nothing can earn something. The parent business is not speculative. Pay.com.au says it has processed more than $7bn […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/2CH3UsI Read full article: The Next Web

Parents can now watch their teen’s Uber ride live, through the driver’s phone

Uber is rolling out live video streaming of teen rides in the US, using the driver’s phone as the camera and sending the feed to linked parent accounts. Other passengers in the car appear on the stream and are given no way to opt out. Uber is putting a camera in the car, and it […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/K78Jelt Read full article: The Next Web

The company that just opened America’s newest battery plant says solid-state cars are a decade away

LG Energy Solution says the unsolved problem in solid-state batteries is making large cells at scale, and expects the technology to reach smartphones roughly a decade before electric vehicles. Europe’s first solid-state gigafactory broke ground in France in February. The company that has just opened America’s newest battery plant does not think solid-state cells are […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/lAdsNwq Read full article: The Next Web

Google wants publishers to install a button that makes readers pick them

Google is giving publishers a button to put on their own websites. Clicking it adds that publisher to a reader’s preferred sources on Google. It is one of three personalisation changes the company announced on Thursday. The other two are a chatbot for tuning the Discover feed, and topic controls for audio news briefings. Mrinalini […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/W1l8tFv Read full article: The Next Web

Milan’s Domyn raises over $1bn Europe’s largest AI round, mostly in debt

Domyn has raised more than $1bn, which makes it one of the largest financings a European AI company has ever announced, yet only about a tenth of it is equity. The Milan company took roughly $1.1bn in total, split about 10% equity and 90% debt, according to Sifted. That structure is the story, because it is […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/YQzU81R Read full article: The Next Web

Deutsche Telekom buys Macquarie’s Polish fibre and TV assets in a €1bn bet on convergence

Deutsche Telekom has agreed to buy two of Poland’s best-known fibre businesses, Fiberhost and INEA, from the Australian investment group Macquarie, in a deal worth roughly €1bn and aimed squarely at the country’s scramble to bundle mobile, broadband, and television into a single monthly bill. The German operator confirmed on Monday that its local arm, […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/GrYh7lq Read full article: The Next Web

LG’s humanoid robot arrives in 2027, running Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T

LG will unveil a bipedal humanoid robot in the first quarter of 2027, built on Nvidia’s Jetson Thor processor, Isaac GR00T foundation model and Halos safety system. The two signed the agreement at Nvidia’s Santa Clara headquarters on 13 August. LG will show a bipedal humanoid robot in the first quarter of next year. The […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/cu6o50i Read full article: The Next Web

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital Discloses $215 Million Amazon Stake

Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has bought roughly $215mn of Amazon shares, disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday. It lands in the same week the firm told investors it is selling part of its OpenAI stake, in a company Amazon now owns close to 5% of. Joshua Kushner’s Thrive Capital has bought roughly $215mn of […] This story continues at The Next Web https://ift.tt/ts4qzaw Read full article: The Next Web

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