Palantir
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America’s ICE Has Spent $4 Billion on Surveillance Tech Since 2008: Report
Immigration and Customs Enforcement is trying to give the NSA and FBI a run for their money as leading purveyors of U.S. surveillance. While ICE regularly made headlines during the Trump Administration for its involvement in the president’s at times ruthless so-called “zero-tolerance” immigration policy, a new report details the scale of the agency’s evolving…
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The Dream of Scooping Plastic From the Ocean Is Still Alive — and Problematic
This week, one of the world’s most-watched plastic clean-up projects will announce victory. The Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that has set out to solve the huge problem of plastics in the ocean, will hold a press event Wednesday where it will review the success of its latest system. The group has already said the contraption…
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Robinhood Has Privately Filed To Go Public
Commission-free stock trading app Robinhood said that it had confidentially filed for an initial public offering on Tuesday, apparently ready to capitalise on all of the positive buzz surrounding democratised finance.
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Palantir Is Looking To Go Public As Early As September
Palantir — a data crunching firm best known for its ties to Peter Thiel, the Pentagon, and police forces across the country — is apparently looking to finally go public, as people “familiar with the matter” told Bloomberg yesterday. Earlier today, the plans were confirmed by finance execs at Akita Michinoku Capital, a group of…