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Watch Audi, Italdesign and Airbus design and test an autonomous flying taxi
Nov 28, 2:33AM
Germany automaker Audi, Airbus and Italdesign presented Tuesday a scaled-down version of its vision of the future: a drone that can pluck the cab off of an autonomous electric vehicle and then fly off to its intended destination. The companies showed off the flying taxi concept Tuesday during Drone Week in Amsterdam. You can watch […]
Rivian debuts an electric pickup and SUV designed to look good while getting dirty
Nov 28, 1:27AM
Rivian has kept a relatively low profile since the automotive startup with Midwestern roots launched in 2009. Those days are over. CEO and founder RJ Scaringe unveiled two all-electric vehicles this week at the LA Auto Show that boast some eye-popping battery ranges as well as some noteworthy performance and capability features. Rivian kicked off […]
Social music app Playlist lets you listen to music with others in real time
Nov 27, 10:13PM
A new app called Playlist aims to make music a more social experience than what’s offered today by the major music platforms like Apple Music, Pandora or Spotify, for example. In Playlist, you can find others who share your musical tastes and join group chats where you listen to playlists together in real time. You […]
The innovation supply chain: How ideas traverse continents and transform economies
Nov 27, 10:00PM
Realizing the true potential of any idea takes time and requires input from diverse cultures and perspectives. Technological innovation is no exception.
Khosla GP launches Bling Capital to help seed-stage startups build products
Nov 27, 9:52PM
Ben Ling, a Khosla general partner until next month, is closing in on $60 million for his debut fund.
Turo's new dongle will let customers instantly find and unlock cars
Nov 27, 8:46PM
Turo, the peer-to-peer car-sharing company described as the “Airbnb of cars,” is rolling out a new product that will let users locate and unlock cars right from the app. The new product, called Turo Go, is a dongle and an accompanying service that aims to bolster the number of cars and users on its platform. […]
AWS launches a base station for satellites as a service
Nov 27, 8:38PM
Today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, AWS announced a new service for satellite providers with the launch of AWS Ground Station, the first fully managed ground station as a service. With this new service, AWS will provide ground antennas through their existing network of worldwide availability zones, as well as data processing services to […]
For a small fee, entrepreneurs can now manage their own fleet of Bird e-scooters
Nov 27, 7:00PM
Bird wants to help you start your own electric scooter business.
Spaceflight's 64-satellite rideshare launch takes off tomorrow on a Falcon 9
Nov 27, 6:27PM
Seattle-based launch coordinator Spaceflight is gearing up for its biggest operation yet: Smallsat Express, deploying a staggering 64 separate satellites from 34 different clients — all from a single Falcon 9 rocket. It’s quite an endeavor, but the company believes that this kind of jam-packed “space bus” is the best way to make satellite deployment […]
Former Facebook manager says the company is failing black people
Nov 27, 6:15PM
Facebook “has a black people problem,” according to Mark Luckie, a now-former manager of partnerships at Facebook. Luckie, whose last day at Facebook was earlier this month, just posted an internal memo he sent to his colleagues that argues Facebook is failing its black employees, as well as its black users. At Facebook, Luckie served as strategic […]
Urban Massage exposed a huge customer database, including sensitive comments on its creepy clients
Nov 27, 5:27PM
Urban Massage, a popular massage startup that bills itself as providing “wellness that comes to you,” has leaked its entire customer database. The London, U.K.-based startup — now known as just Urban — left its Google-hosted ElasticSearch database online without a password, allowing anyone to read hundreds of thousands of customer and staff records. Anyone […]
Netflix will create a 'story universe' based on the work of Roald Dahl
Nov 27, 5:00PM
Netflix and The Roald Dahl Story Company announced today that they’ve signed a deal for the streaming service to create a slate of animated “event series” based on a long list of titles by the classic children’s author, including “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Matilda” and “The BFG.” All of those books have already been […]
Google's Pixel Slate arrives Thursday
Nov 27, 5:00PM
Update: Looks like the Slate is actually available now. Google's last major piece of hardware for the year is finally shipping this week. A number of pre-orders have already begun receiving shipping notifications for the Pixel Slate, and the company just popped up a blog post noting that the device will officially be available at […]
Google Pixel Slate review
Nov 27, 5:00PM
First, a dirty little secret about product reviews: You'd love to integrate every product into your daily use, but it just isn't possible. Especially when you're dealing with the volumes we deal with here. Every so often, however, the stars align. You find yourself days from a two-week trip through Asia, when Google overnights you […]
Meet 'Bitski', the single sign-on wallet crypto desperately needs
Nov 27, 4:54PM
The mainstream will never adopt blockchain-powered decentralized apps (dApps) if it’s a struggle to log in. They’re either forced to manage complex security keys themselves, or rely on a clunky wallet-equipped browser like MetaMask. What users need is for signing in to blockchain apps to be as easy as Login with Facebook. So that’s what […]
Robinhood hires 20-year Amazon veteran to CFO role as high-flying startup eyes IPO
Nov 27, 4:51PM
Robinhood, the zero-fee stock trading app and cryptocurrency exchange, is bringing on a former Amazon finance exec to help the company prepare for an eventual public debut. The startup has hired Jason Warnick, a former exec at Amazon who was with the company for nearly 20 years, most recently serving as the commerce giant’s VP of […]
'The problem is Facebook,' lawmakers from nine countries tell Zuckerberg's accountability stand-in
Nov 27, 4:39PM
A grand committee of international parliamentarians empty-chaired Mark Zuckerberg at a hearing earlier today, after the Facebook founder snubbed repeat invitations to face questions about malicious, abusive and improper uses of his social media platform — including the democracy-denting impacts of so-called “fake news.” The U.K.’s DCMS committee has been leading the charge to hold Facebook […]
Red Hat acquires hybrid cloud data management service NooBaa
Nov 27, 4:06PM
Red Hat is in the process of being acquired by IBM for a massive $34 billion, but that deal hasn’t closed yet and, in the meantime, Red Hat is still running independently and making its own acquisitions, too. As the company today announced, it has acquired Tel Aviv-based NooBaa, an early-stage startup that helps enterprises manage […]
YC alum Make School gains rare accreditation for 2-year applied CS bachelor's degree
Nov 27, 4:00PM
Higher education is a mess. College students spend years learning arcana and quaint academic theories, only to be thrust into the harsh light of the workplace where they are ill-equipped to handle even the most mundane task. A crisis, a moral failure or perhaps simply an expensive mistake, college is clearly in need of a […]
Amazon's Cyber Monday was the biggest shopping day in the company's history
Nov 27, 3:26PM
Amazon said on Tuesday it just had its biggest shopping day in the company’s history on Cyber Monday (Monday, November 26), based on the number of products sold worldwide. That means the shopping event topped Black Friday and even Amazon’s own sales event known as Prime Day, which this July had become the biggest sales […]
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