The world's strongest men must be shaking in their very large boots, because robots are here to steal their jobs. The HyQReal robot is a 'hydraulically powered quadruped' developed by a team in Italy at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT). It…
With a growing number of challenger banks taking on the U.S. market, one of the original startup banks, Simple — now owned by BBVA — has taken the unusual step of removing a core banking feature: bill pay. The company claimed the…
THE TEA BUILDING, in London's hip Shoreditch district, used to hold factories making biscuits and bacon. Now it is home to tech startups and media firms. Yet their ideas require space, too. In the outsized lifts, still operated by push buttons as…
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Amelia Heathman
– May 23, 2:03 AM
If you're going away on holiday or wanting to buy a house at some point, the hardest thing is always the saving. It becomes much easier to focus on a set goal when you're doing it with another person, though, and this is the thinking behind Revolut…
A few years ago, many credit card and bank executives were relatively dismissive about competition from online lenders like Lending Club and Prosper, saying they were not affecting their card portfolios because their volumes weren't high enough to…
