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Rental attacks mean that blockchains must evolve or die

Jul 22, 10:30PM

Abraham Othman Contributor Abraham Othman is a visiting scholar in the Operations, Information and Decisions department of the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania). He is an advisor to a number of blockchain applications including Augur, Codex, and Decent. Blockchain technologies have a well-earned reputation for hacking and fraud, but the recent theft of more than […]


Inside the rise and reign of supergiant venture capital rounds

Jul 22, 6:00PM

There was a time not so long ago when nine-figure venture capital rounds weren't a near-daily feature of tech business news.


Snapchat will shut down Snapcash, forfeiting to Venmo

Jul 22, 6:00PM

Snapcash ended up as a way to pay adult performers for private content over Snapchat, not just a way to split bills with friends. But Snapchat will abandon the peer-to-peer payment space on August 30th. Code buried in Snapchat’s Android app includes a “Snapcash deprecation message” that displays “Snapcash will no longer be available after […]


Here are some of the movie and TV trailers to come out of San Diego Comic-Con 2018

Jul 22, 4:47PM

Over the course of a weekend we got a glimpse at some of the coming seasons and movies for various sci-fi, superhero, and other types of highly-anticipated fan-favorite franchises from the San Diego Comic-Con this year. Here’s a quick selection of some of the ones shown over the weekend: Aquaman Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of […]


Trill Project aims to be a safe community for people to express their true selves

Jul 22, 3:33PM

Trill Project, founded by three high school girls, recently launched out of private beta to help people safely express themselves online. For those unfamiliar with the word “trill,” it’s a combination of “true” and “real.” An investor described it to me as a positive Yik Yak . Trill Project began as a community for teenagers, […]


The blockchain begins finding its way in the enterprise

Jul 22, 1:00PM

The blockchain is in the middle of a major hype cycle at the moment, and that makes it hard for many people to take it seriously, but if you look at the core digital ledger technology, there is tremendous potential to change the way we think about trust in business. Yet these are still extremely […]


Information wants to be siloed

Jul 22, 1:00PM

Data, they say, is the new oil, and open public data is the new commons. Give the people the facts, and they will use them to make informed decisions. Right? Except that’s not the bureaucratic instinct. Bureaucrats fear the free flow of information. And all too often they’ll try to quench it by intoning the […]


The quantum meltdown of encryption

Jul 22, 7:30AM

Shlomi Dolev Contributor Shlomi Dolev is the Chair Professor and founder of the Computer Science department of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He is the author of Self-Stabilization. Shlomi also is a cybersecurity entrepreneur and the co-founder and chief scientist of Secret Double Octopus. More posts by this contributor The quantum computing apocalypse is imminent […]


Propelling deep space flight with a new fuel source, Momentus prepares for liftoff

Jul 22, 12:30AM

Mikhail Kokorich, the founder of Momentus, a new Y Combinator-backed propulsion technology developer for space flight, hadn’t always dreamed of going to the moon. A physicist who graduated from Russia’s top-ranked Novosibirsk University, Kokorich was a serial entrepreneur in who grew up in Siberia and made his name and his first fortunes in the years […]


Eventbrite is reportedly going public in the second half of this year

Jul 22, 12:10AM

Eventbrite, the 12-year-old, San Francisco-based event-planning company, has filed confidentially for an IPO and plans to go public later this year, according to a new report in the WSJ. The company’s lead underwriters are Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan Chase & Co., it says. The offering must seem a long time in coming for Eventbrite founders […]


Ellen Pao memoir adaptation among 7 new Shonda Rhimes projects for Netflix

Jul 21, 11:57PM

When Shonda Rhimes left ABC last August for Netflix, both she and the studio kept a tight lid on their plans. We could only imagine where the twists and turns that her future stories would take us. Well, now we know. This week, Rhimes's production company Shondaland and Netflix announced seven projects that she will make […]


Warner Bros. unveils the first trailers for 'Aquaman' and 'Shazam'

Jul 21, 9:42PM

Today at Comic-Con, Warner Bros . gave fans a peek at the first DC Comics films post-Justice League. Warner Bros. and DC had a bumpy 2017. There was the astonishing critical and commercial success of Wonder Woman, followed by the box office disappointment of Justice League — leading to an executive shakeup and a general rethinking […]


Weekly Roundup: July 21

Jul 21, 8:41PM

Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company, Blue Origin, performed its most critical test to date, Prime Day had some ups and downs but ultimately broke records and major tech companies are uniting to help you move data across apps. Here's your weekly roundup of the top stories from the tech world:  1. Blue Origin successfully lands both […]


Now is the time for Walmart to strike at Amazon Prime

Jul 21, 5:45PM

Amazon Prime has been an enormous influence on e-commerce, but this online juggernaut is beginning to show cracks. Now is the time for arch-rival Walmart to swoop in with a Prime-like offering that strikes at the weaknesses Amazon has introduced into its formidable loyalty program: price, a lack of focus, and competing subscription services.


While tech waffles on going public, biotech IPOs boom

Jul 21, 5:00PM

With our fixation on all things tech, we're missing out on the big picture -- there are actually more biotech and healthcare startup IPOs than tech offerings.


With its goofy video loops, YC backed Splish wants to be the 'anti-Instagram'

Jul 21, 5:00PM

Is there any space on kids’ homescreens for another social sharing app to poke in? Y Combinator backed Splish wants to have a splash at it (😊) — with a super-short-form video and photo sharing app aimed at the under-25s. The SF-based startup began bootstrapping out of their college dorm rooms last July, playing around with […]


Data breach exposes trade secrets of carmakers GM, Ford, Tesla, Toyota

Jul 21, 5:19AM

Security researcher UpGuard Cyber Risk disclosed Friday that sensitive documents from more than 100 manufacturing companies, including GM, Fiat Chrysler, Ford, Tesla, Toyota, ThyssenKrupp, and VW were exposed on a publicly accessible server belonging to Level One Robotics. The exposure via Level One Robotics, which provides industrial automation services, came through rsync, a common file transfer protocol […]


Indie gem Stardew Valley will get multiplayer on August 1st

Jul 20, 11:38PM

Stardew Valley, the popular indie farming simulator (it’s more fun than “farming simulator” makes it sound, I promise) is quite possibly the chillest game of all time. But, without any multiplayer aspect, it can get … a bit lonely. From farming, to fishing, to exploring mines, it’s always felt like a game that would be […]


CowryWise micro-savings service opens high-yield government bonds to everyday Nigerians

Jul 20, 11:16PM

In emerging market countries where economic volatility is a way of life, there aren’t a lot of relatively safe options for members of the burgeoning middle class to park their money. For instance, countries like Nigeria have experienced a tremendous growth in the number of citizens entering the middle class, which now accounts for about […]


What next? Oh yes, turning a luxury car into a non-fungible token

Jul 20, 10:13PM

We've seen more than one project use the immutability of blockchain to verify important physical things. So, for instance, a pioneer in the space, Verisart, has brought blockchain certification of high art to leading galleries worldwide, and other players are now entering this growing market. Codex Protocol is a new startup also putting art on […]



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