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A Twitter employee groomed by the Saudi government prompted 2015 state-sponsored hacking warning
Oct 20, 5:25PM
An explosive report in The New York Times this weekend sheds new light on the apparent targeting of Twitter accounts by “state-sponsored actors” three years ago. It comes in the wake of the confirmed death of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi on Friday, two weeks after he disappeared in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Khashoggi […]
China is funding the future of American biotech
Oct 20, 5:15PM
Silicon Valley is in the midst of a health craze, and it is being driven by “Eastern” medicine. It’s been a record year for US medical investing, but investors in Beijing and Shanghai are now increasingly leading the largest deals for US life science and biotech companies. In fact, Chinese venture firms have invested more this […]
Early-stage SaaS VC slip snaps recovery as public software stocks soar
Oct 20, 5:10PM
Jason Rowley Contributor Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor International growth, primarily in China, fuels the VC market today Corporate venture investment climbs higher throughout 2018 A few months ago, Crunchbase News reported that a longstanding period of SaaS investment stagnation had come to an end. […]
Khashoggi's fate shows the flip side of the surveillance state
Oct 20, 5:00PM
It’s been over five years since NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden lifted the lid on government mass surveillance programs, revealing, in unprecedented detail, quite how deep the rabbit hole goes thanks to the spread of commercial software and connectivity enabling a bottomless intelligence-gathering philosophy of ‘bag it all’. Yet technology’s onward march has hardly broken its stride. […]
In State Tectonics, an explosive ending for the future of democracy
Oct 20, 4:35PM
An omnipotent data infrastructure and knowledge-sharing tech organization has spread across the planet. Global conspiracies to disseminate propaganda and rig elections are ever present. Algorithms determine what people see as objective truth, and terrorist organizations gird to bring down the monopoly on information. Malka Older faces a problem few speculative science fiction authors face in […]
Hackers breach Healthcare.gov system, taking files on 75,000 people
Oct 20, 2:29PM
A government system used by insurance agents and brokers to help customers sign up for healthcare plans was breached, allowing hackers to siphon off sensitive and personal data on 75,000 people. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services confirmed the breach in a late Friday announcement, but revealed few details about the contents of the […]
Free societies face emerging, existential threats from technology
Oct 20, 1:30PM
Bilal Zuberi Contributor Share on Twitter Bilal Zuberi is a partner at Lux Capital, and is on the boards of Evolv Technology, CyPhy Technologies, and Nozomi Networks, among others. Silicon Valley is currently, and correctly, under fire for the failure of leading platforms such as Facebook, Google and Twitter to protect against the spread of […]
Gearing up to step into virtual reality
Oct 20, 1:17PM
For the past two years, we've been closely following the advances of new VR experiences. Much of this gear is still in development, but if you're eager to dive in and get a sense of what's available right now, we've put together our current recommendations for mobile, PC, console and budget VR headsets.
Apply for free tickets to Startup Battlefield Latin America 2018
Oct 20, 12:00PM
We're just a few short weeks away from the inaugural Startup Battlefield Latin America 2018 that takes place November 8 at the Tomie Ohtake Institute in São Paulo, Brazil. That's when up to 15 of Latin America's exceptional early-stage startup founders will launch their companies to the world as they compete for cash, glory and […]
New 'Dark Ads' pro-Brexit Facebook campaign may have reached over 10M people, say researchers
Oct 19, 11:05PM
A major new campaign of disinformation around Brexit, designed to stir up U.K. ‘Leave’ voters, and distributed via Facebook, may have reached over 10 million people in the U.K., according to new research. The source of the campaign is so far unknown, and will be embarrassing to Facebook, which only this week claimed it was […]
Watch BepiColombo's twin spacecraft launch tonight on a mission to Mercury
Oct 19, 10:28PM
Humanity is about to return to the hottest planet in the solar system. BepiColombo is a mission to Mercury conducted jointly by the European and Japanese space agencies, due to launch in just a few hours aboard an Ariane 5 rocket. But while there's just the one launch, there are two spacecraft.
Convene uses landlord partnership model to outclass WeWork
Oct 19, 7:58PM
Recent reports that SoftBank may take a majority stake in WeWork has added fuel to the already hot market for startups in the workspace and property tech sectors. One of the more compelling companies that stands to benefit from this trend is New York-based Convene. Started by co-founders Ryan Simonetti (CEO) and Chris Kelly (president), […]
Domio just raised $12 million in Series A funding to build 'apart hotels' across the US
Oct 19, 7:45PM
Hotels can be pricey, and travelers are often forced to leave their rooms for basic things, like food that doesn’t come from the minibar. Yet Airbnb accommodations, which have become the go-to alternative for travelers, can be highly inconsistent. Domio, a two-year-old, New York-based outfit, thinks there’s a third way: apartment hotels, or “apart hotels,” […]
Lessons from building Brex into a billion-dollar startup
Oct 19, 7:30PM
When I think about my experience as an immigrant and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley, I remember growing up in Brazil and how we saw tech founders and CEOs as kings. We imagined what it would be like to assume the throne.
Alumni Ventures Group is the most active venture fund you've never heard of
Oct 19, 7:13PM
Alumni Ventures Group is investing upwards of $200 million a year in tech startups. Has anyone noticed?
Smart home tech makers don't want to say if the feds come for your data
Oct 19, 7:01PM
A decade ago, it was almost inconceivable that nearly every household item could be hooked up to the internet. These days, it’s near impossible to avoid a non-smart home gadget, and they’re vacuuming up a ton of new data that we’d never normally think about. Thermostats know the temperature of your house, and smart cameras […]
PlayStation Vue is first US pay TV provider to integrate with Apple's TV app
Oct 19, 6:40PM
Sony’s live TV streaming service, PlayStation Vue, announced this week it has become the first U.S. pay TV provider to integrate with Apple’s TV app in order to display content*. Until now, Apple’s TV app has featured content from both free and paid on-demand streaming apps like Hulu, Prime Video, HBO NOW, PBS Kids, The […]
Tesla is rolling out a cheaper, mid-range Model 3
Oct 19, 4:23PM
Tesla is now offering a new, cheaper mid-range battery version of the Model 3 that starts at $45,000 before federal tax incentives. CEO Elon Musk announced the new variant, which has an estimated battery range of 260 miles, via Twitter. The company’s website has already been updated. Customers in the U.S. can order the mid-range […]
Facebook launches 'Hunt for False News' debunk blog as fakery drops 50%
Oct 19, 4:19PM
Facebook hopes detailing concrete examples of fake news it’s caught — or missed — could improve news literacy, or at least prove it’s attacking the misinformation problem. Today Facebook launched “The Hunt for False News,” in which it examines viral B.S., relays the decisions of its third-party fact-checkers and explains how the story was tracked […]
Buggy software in popular connected storage drives can let hackers read private data
Oct 19, 4:00PM
Security researchers have found flaws in four popular connected storage drives that they say could let hackers access a user’s private and sensitive data. The researchers Paulos Yibelo and Daniel Eshetu said the software running on three of the devices they tested — NetGear Stora, Seagate Home and Medion LifeCloud — can allow an attacker to […]
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