Ercan Ersoy / Bloomberg: Banking and insurance startup Papara became Turkey’s first fintech unicorn after its Beka Finance deal; startups.watch: Turkish startups raised $111M in H1 2023  —  Turkey’s Papara became the country’s first fintech firm to reach unicorn status following a recent deal with Spain’s Beka Finance SV SA. Lees verder op Tech Meme

Shira Ovide / Washington Post: Travelers can say no to a TSA facial recognition scan, but some TSA agents tell travelers the scan is required or that refusing will cause a significant delay  —  Let’s ask two questions about airports’ use of facial recognition: Is it truly voluntary?  And is it worth it? Lees verder op Tech Meme

Andrew J. Hawkins / The Verge: Google establishes an independent advisory board to manage its open-source Travel Impact Model, used to predict the per-passenger emissions produced by a flight  —  Google is setting up an independent advisory board to manage its Travel Impact Model (TIM), an open-source tool for predicting … Lees verder op Tech Meme