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Korean AI startup Skelter Labs is expanding to Southeast Asia
Nov 05, 3:50AM
Korean AI startup Skelter Labs is expanding to Southeast Asia after it pulled in undisclosed funding from Singapore-based VC firm Golden Gate Ventures. Skelter Labs was founded in 2015 by founded by Ted Cho, the former engineering site director at Google Korea. It started out developing apps and services that made use of AI but then […]
Make people valuable again
Nov 04, 11:30PM
David Nordfors Contributor Share on Twitter David Nordfors is the co-chair and co-founder of the i4j Innovation for Jobs Summit together with Vint Cerf. More posts by this contributor The future of business is good jobs as a service The future of work is 5 billion customers looking for a good job Vint Cerf Contributor […]
Female founders have brought in just 2.2% of US VC this year (yes, again)
Nov 04, 10:21PM
All-female founding teams have raised 2.2% of U.S. VC so far this year; mixed-gender teams have raised about 13%.
James Patterson released a work of interactive fiction on Facebook Messenger
Nov 04, 7:15PM
The book's characters have Instagram accounts, too.
What does SoftBank's Masayoshi Son plan to say or do about its ties to Saudi Arabia? We're about to find out
Nov 04, 6:04PM
Throughout October, it seemed that among others in tech, SoftBank might be forced to rethink its cozy relationship with Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, or MBS, who has charmed many captains of industry since rising to power, but whose dark side came into abrupt view over the murder and gruesome disposal of journalist […]
Why we lie to ourselves every day
Nov 04, 4:40PM
Human action requires motivation, but what exactly are those motivations? Donating money to a charity might be motivated by altruism, and yet, only 1% of donations are anonymous. Donors don't just want to be altruistic, they also want credit for that altruism plus badges to signal to others about their altruistic ways. Worse, we aren't […]
Boring Tunnel is on track for an "opening party" next month
Nov 04, 3:51PM
Last night, super entrepreneur and Twitter addict Elon Musk posted some mesmerizing footage of the tunnel that his nearly two-year-old infrastructure company, Boring Company, is creating in Los Angeles right now, the first of four planned projects that Musk promises will reduce congestion in car-choked city cities. Musk also tweeted — not for the first time […]
What if Google unionized?
Nov 04, 2:00PM
Last week more than 20,000 Google employees walked out of their workplace to protest, and demand major changes in, how the company handles harassment and discrimination. Mass employee organization, demands made of management — doesn’t that all vaguely remind you of some kind of old-fashioned twentieth-century concept? What was it called again? The name’s on […]
A blockchain firm bought asteroid mining company Planetary Resources
Nov 03, 7:26PM
Here's a match made in…I don't know, somewhere on the blockchain, I guess. Pioneering space startup Planetary Resources was acquired by, of all things, a blockchain firm this week. ConsenSys, a Brooklyn based firm that specializes in all things Ethereum issued an announcement noting that it has snagged the asteroid mining company. It's not entirely […]
Facebook reorganizes Oculus for AR/VR's long-haul
Nov 03, 6:48PM
Facebook is again looking to whip Oculus into shape for its 10-year journey towards making virtual reality mainstream. According to two sources, Facebook reorganized its AR and VR team this week from a divisional structure focused around products to a functional structure focused around technology areas of expertise. While no one was laid off, the […]
In a court filing, Edward Snowden says a report critical to an NSA lawsuit is authentic
Nov 03, 4:56PM
An unexpected declaration by whistleblower Edward Snowden filed in court this week adds a new twist in a long-running lawsuit against the National Security Agency’s surveillance programs. The case, filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation a decade ago, seeks to challenge the government’s alleged illegal and unconstitutional surveillance of Americans, who are largely covered under […]
Amazon reportedly in 'advanced talks' to open HQ2 in Virginia
Nov 03, 4:36PM
These sorts of major decision no doubt take some time. And, of course, Amazon is clearly milking the decision making process for all it's worth as cities across the States roll out the red carpet. According to a new report from The Washington Post, however, the big news surrounding where the company opens its second […]
The iPhone is reportedly getting 5G in 2020
Nov 03, 3:32PM
The first 5G phones are set to start arriving next year. Motorola plans to bring next-gen connectivity via a Mod for the Z3, and companies like LG and OnePlus have promised to deliver the tech baked into handsets at some point in 2019. iPhone users, on the other hand, may have to wait a bit […]
A long and winding road to new copyright legislation
Nov 03, 2:30PM
Dave Davis Contributor Dave Davis joined Copyright Clearance Center in 1994 and currently serves as a research analyst. He previously held directorships in both public libraries and corporate libraries and earned joint master's degrees in Library and Information Sciences and Medieval European History from Catholic University of America. More posts by this contributor How AI […]
Amazon is letting users choose the day packages are delivered
Nov 03, 2:18PM
Amazon Day looks like one of those options you'll wonder how you ever managed to live without. The new feature, which is currently being tested for select Prime users, offers up a choice of deliver day during the check out process. In addition to the standard options (one and two day, et al), most two-day […]
GM is getting into the electric bike business
Nov 03, 12:19AM
General Motors said it plans to bring two new electric bikes to market next year — one folding and one compact — as the automaker makes a broader push into electrification and other ideas that try to move beyond its traditional business model of producing and selling gas-power vehicles. The automaker didn’t have a lot […]
Twitter removes thousands of accounts that tried to dissuade Democrats from voting
Nov 02, 10:23PM
Twitter has deleted thousands of automated accounts posting messages that tried to discourage and dissuade voters from casting their ballot in the upcoming election next week. Some 10,000 accounts were removed across late September and early October after they were first flagged by staff at the Democratic Party, the company has confirmed. “We removed a […]
Sequoia leads $10M round for home improvement negotiator Setter
Nov 02, 8:21PM
You probably don’t know how much it should cost to get your home’s windows washed, yard landscaped or countertops replaced. But Setter does. The startup pairs you with a home improvement concierge familiar with all the vendors, prices and common screwups that plague these jobs. Setter finds the best contractors across handiwork, plumbing, electrical, carpentry […]
Elon Musk says Tesla won't make e-scooters, but might consider electric bikes
Nov 02, 8:08PM
Tesla won’t be joining the scooter wars. But electric bikes? Yeah, maybe. During a lengthy podcast with Recode’s Kara Swisher, Tesla CEO Elon Musk talked about everything from AI and his fights on Twitter with journalists to Saudi Arabia and Mars. Even scooters. Of course, scooters. But don’t get your hopes up for a Tesla […]
TikTok surpassed Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat & YouTube in downloads last month
Nov 02, 7:58PM
Beijing-based ByteDance’s 2017 acquisition of tween and teen-focused social app Musical.ly is paying off. The company this year merged Musical.ly with its own short video app TikTok as a means of entering the U.S. market. Today, the result of that merger is sitting at the top of the U.S. App Store, ahead of Facebook. More […]
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