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...“They’re preparing for a music video,” says Iris Rocca, the pool’s press manager. Such is the demand for film shoots, she explains, that the pool now closes one day a week to accommodate them....
...He has sunk $375mn of his own money into nuclear fusion start-up Helion and has been closing in on a $100mn funding round for his iris-scanning crypto start-up Worldcoin....
...The OpenAI co-founder and former president of start-up incubator Y Combinator also helped to set up Worldcoin, which uses iris-scanning technology to create a secure global cryptocurrency....
...Last week, the FT reported that Altman was closing in on a $100mn funding round for his plan to use iris-scanning technology to create a global secure cryptocurrency called Worldcoin....
...Sam Altman, a former president of the Y Combinator start-up accelerator, is also an investor and co-founder of the project....
...That could contribute to aggression at home, Vasquez argues....
...Until 2019, when Under Armour got involved, Virgin Galactic had been working on prototype suits with Y-3....
...It was a very Third Man-y sort of place. There was an air of conspiracy about it. It was absolutely and completely a one-off.” It would provide inspiration in her later career....
...If so, the above will likely translate into 6.7-6.8 per cent y/y GDP growth for the quarter....
...Here’s a quick roundup of how analysts are responding: Iris Pang, greater China economist at ING, said: China's GDP grew strongly in 1Q18....
...Martinez is particularly well-suited to telling the tale given his experiences in Goldman Sachs, Y Combinator, Facebook and Twitter. Chaos Monkeys is this generation’s Liar’s Poker....
...In need of escapism, I took the advice of Nilanjana Roy, our new columnist, and turned to Reputations (Bloomsbury), by the Colombian Juan Gabriel Vásquez....
...This year will see exhibits from the French iris nursery Cayeux, the Dutch bulb firms Warmenhoven and JS Pennings, and horticultural societies from Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago....
...Songkick’s existing investors, Index Ventures and Y Combinator also participated....
...There are portraits of writers she knows – Iris Murdoch, Nancy Mitford – and she always signs with love. His diary entries more often consider his career or whether he should marry....
...Friends X, Y and Z were unknown to each other and unlikely ever to meet, but each was a close neighbour in my personal, improvised London community....
...About 60,000 people are now using the iris recognition service to pass through immigration at Heathrow....
...Lecce, with its rows of palazzi and outlying fortified villas, was the only truly aristocratic city in the Salento, and many of the names of its great families – Foscarini, Palladini, Lopez y Vasquez, Sanchez...
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