👤 Stripe goes beyond payments with Stripe Identity to provide AI-based ID verification for transactions and much more
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Stripe goes beyond payments with Stripe Identity to provide AI-based ID verification for transactions and much more. A number of startups (eg, here, here, here and here) have fashioned themselves as the “Stripe for identity verification”, providing an easy way for developers to integrate ID authentication into a… (Ingrid Lunden via TechCrunch)
Winners and losers of the work-from-home revolution. This year, two international teams of economists published papers that offer very different impressions of the future of remote work. The first team looked at an unnamed Asian tech company that went remote during the pandemic. (Derek Thompson via The Atlantic)
Jamie Dimon says JPMorgan is hoarding cash because 'very good chance' inflation is here to stay. JPMorgan Chase has been “effectively stockpiling” cash rather than using it to buy Treasuries or other investments because of the possibility higher inflation will force the Federal Reserve to boost interest rates, Dimon said Monday during a conference. (Hugh Son via CNBC)
Google's Nest Audio smart speaker hits new low of $75. At $100, Google's impressive Nest Audio was already good value for money, but a 25 percent discount has now brought it down to an even more affordable $75. Perhaps, it's a case of Google countering Amazon's early Prime Day deals on Echo speakers with a new all-time low price. (Saqib Shah via Engadget)
Airbnb Is Spending Millions of Dollars to Make Nightmares Go Away. The first-floor apartment on West 37th Street, a few blocks south of Times Square, was popular with tourists—so popular that a set of keys was left at the counter of a nearby bodega for Airbnb renters to pick up.(Olivia Carville via Bloomberg)
Bad blood? The Wall Street Journal apparently wants its reporters to pay to use their own reporting in books. For reporters, side gigs have long been a minefield. I don’t even mean the very real ethical issues that can come with $75,000 speeches, billionaire donations to your wife’s museum, or blogging for Facebook while also being paid to have opinions about Facebook and Facebook is funding your pet project. (Joshua Benton via Nieman Lab)
Lumber Prices Are Falling Fast, Turning Hoarders Into Sellers. Futures for July delivery ended Monday at $996.20 per thousand board feet, down 42% from the record of $1,711.20 reached in early May. Futures have declined 14 of the past 15 trading days, the last two by the most allowed by exchange rules.(Ryan Dezember via Wall Street Journal)
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