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Recent departures hint at turmoil at Quartet Health, a mental health startup backed by GV
Oct 06, 1:21AM
Quartet Health, a startup backed with nearly $100 million from GV, Oak HC/FT and more, has quietly lost its COO, CPO and replaced its CEO this month.
How the 22-year-old founders of Brex built a billion-dollar business in less than 2 years
Oct 05, 11:26PM
Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi, the co-founders of Brex, have raised $125 million at a $1.1 billion valuation just four months after the startup's public launch.
Amazon Echo Dot 3 review
Oct 05, 10:10PM
Amazon has sold a lot of Echo Dots. Like a crazy, silly, unfathomable number of the things. Over the past two generations, it has arguably become the single-largest driver of the smart speaker craze. There's nothing exceptional about the product, of course. It's a simply designed hockey puck of a product, designed to mostly stay […]
Tesla cars are getting a big update today, but one feature got held back
Oct 05, 10:07PM
After a few months of hype, version 9.0 of the software that runs on Teslas is rolling out starting today. There’s a bit of a catch, though: one of the bigger expected features — one that would let Tesla’s autopilot handle passing cars and automatically make highway interchanges — is being delayed for now. So […]
Facebook Messenger internally tests voice commands for chat, calls
Oct 05, 9:44PM
Facebook Messenger could soon let you use your voice to dictate and send messages, initiate voice calls and create reminders. Messenger for Android’s code reveals a new M assistant button atop the message thread screen that activates listening for voice commands for those functionalities. Voice control could make Messenger simpler to use hands-free or while […]
We're talking AR with Snap's camera platform head at TC Sessions: AR/VR
Oct 05, 7:39PM
For a lot of consumers, Pokémon GO wasn’t their first exposure to augmented reality — it was the dog-selfie lens inside Snapchat. In the past few years, consumer use hasn’t evolved too heavily when it comes to what people are actually using AR for, even though technical capabilities have taken some giant leaps. Snap was an […]
D-Wave offers the first public access to a quantum computer
Oct 05, 7:14PM
Outside the crop of construction cranes that now dot Vancouver’s bright, downtown greenways, in a suburban business park that reminds you more of dentists and tax preparers, is a small office building belonging to D-Wave. This office — squat, angular and sun-dappled one recent cool Autumn morning — is unique in that it contains an […]
Reelgood's app for cord cutters adds 50+ services, personalized recommendations
Oct 05, 7:00PM
Reelgood, a startup aimed at helping cord cutters find their next binge, is out today with its biggest update yet. The company has been developing its streaming guide over the past year to solve the issues around discovery that exist when consumers drop traditional pay TV in favor of streaming services like Netflix, Hulu, HBO, […]
California passes law that bans default passwords in connected devices
Oct 05, 5:59PM
Good news! California has passed a law banning default passwords like “admin,” “123456” and the old classic “password” in all new consumer electronics starting in 2020. Every new gadget built in the state from routers to smart home tech will have to come with “reasonable” security features out of the box. The law specifically calls […]
Former Formation 8 GP Shirish Sathaye joins Cervin Ventures
Oct 05, 5:50PM
Shirish Sathaye has joined the enterprise-focused VC Cervin Ventures as a general partner. He remains a partner in Formation 8's second fund.
Bose hearing aid gets FDA approval
Oct 05, 5:41PM
For the 37.5 million adults who have trouble hearing without a hearing aid, Bose has a new product for you. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved audio technology company Bose to market a new hearing aid device. Dubbed the Bose Hearing Aid, it’s designed to let people with audio impairments fit, program and control the […]
The comic inspired by the podcast inspired by the comic
Oct 05, 5:30PM
It's 2018, and pop culture is one giant ouroboros. Exhibit A: Wolverine: The Long Night, the new comic miniseries inspired by the podcast that was inspired by the comics. Is this a first? Maybe? Who can say? Who really cares anymore? Comics are pop culture now, and the nerds have definitively won the war, and […]
Elastic closed 94% up in first day of trading on NYSE, raised $252M at a $2.5B valuation in its IPO
Oct 05, 5:07PM
When consumers think of search, they mainly think of Google, but under the hood of enterprises and other organizations, there are hundreds of other kinds of challenges that require search technology. Today, one of the bigger companies providing search functionality, Elastic, saw just how valuable that business can be, by way of a very strong […]
Study says the US is quickly losing its entrepreneurial edge
Oct 05, 5:06PM
According to a new study conducted by the Center for American Entrepreneurship and NYU's Shack Institute of Real Estate, the US may be losing its competitive advantage as the dominant nucleus of the startup and venture capital universe. The analysis, led by senior Brookings Institution fellow Ian Hathaway and "Rise of the Creative Class" author Richard Florida, examines the flow […]
Gillmor Gang: Sync or Swim
Oct 05, 5:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Michael Markman, Denis Pombriant, and Steve Gillmor . Recorded live Sunday, September 23, 2018. Turn out or turn off, media as anesthesia, what it is until it isn’t. G3: Believe Me — Elisa Camahort Page, Francine Hardaway, Maria Ogneva and Tina Chase Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, September […]
African financial technology startups move beyond payment services
Oct 05, 4:30PM
If mobile money was the first phase in the development of digital finance in Africa, the next phase of digital financial services on the continent will focus on lending, insurance and wealth management
Magic Leap buys mesh-computing startup Computes
Oct 05, 4:16PM
Magic Leap has announced they are acquiring Computes, a decentralized mesh computing startup. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. From Magic Leap’s blog post: From the beginning, Chris Matthieu and Jade Meskill started Computes, Inc. based on the principle of enabling the next generation of computing. We believe Magic Leap is the perfect home to […]
Scaleway adds object storage
Oct 05, 3:32PM
Cloud hosting company Scaleway is launching object storage in public beta. The company uses an Amazon S3-compatible API, which means you could easily replace your Amazon S3 bucket with a Scaleway bucket by changing the API end point. The basic object storage package starts at $5.75 per month (€5 per month), which includes 500GB of […]
Salesforce acquires Rebel, maker of 'interactive' email services, to expand its Marketing Cloud
Oct 05, 3:23PM
Salesforce’s Marketing and Commerce Cloud is the company’s smallest division today, so to help beef it up, the company is making an acquisition to add in more features. Salesforce has acquired Rebel, a startup that develops interactive email services for businesses to enhance their direct marketing services: recipients of interactive emails can write reviews, shop and […]
YouTube TV's DVR now lets you fast-forward through ads on more major channels
Oct 05, 3:21PM
Since its launch, one of the top complaints about YouTube’s live TV streaming service, YouTube TV, was that its DVR feature would often default users to the video-on-demand version of the show — which means you’d have to watch the commercials. It’s been one of the biggest drawbacks to YouTube TV, and a selling point for […]
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