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Badi gets $30M for AI-aided room rentals

sudshr47 January 10, 2019

Should you let AI help you pick your roommates? Barcelona-based urban room rental startup Badi thinks so, and it’s just closed a $30M Series B funding round less than a year after a $10M Series A — suggesting algorithm-aided matchmaking is resonating with its target Millennial(ish) ‘Generation Rent’ demographic, as they hunt for their next flatmate. […]

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Rome spent $57,000 on the world’s saddest excuse for a Christmas tree

sudshr47 December 21, 2017

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Christmas trees come in all different shapes and sizes.

There are tall, bushy ones. Miniature ones that sit on your table top. Fake ones. Real ones.

Then there’s this 65ft one in Rome’s Piazza Venezia, which cost a solid €48,000 ($57,000) in transport fees and pretty much has more baubles than pine needles:

rest in peace😢💔 #Spelacchio pic.twitter.com/fPmktHp94J

— Leonardo◇Aslan. (@aslan_leonardo) December 20, 2017

Oh dear.

The tree has been drawing a mixture of criticism and pity since it was put up in the square earlier this month. Read more…

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