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"Daredevil" will not be renewed for a fourth season, the latest Marvel series cancelled by Netflix
Nov 30, 3:30AM
Despite strong reviews and a fan petition, Netflix said today that it is cancelling "Daredevil" after three seasons. This is the latest Marvel series, after "Luke Cage" and "Iron Fist," that Netflix has cancelled recently, and is a sign that Marvel TV and Netflix's multi-series agreement, signed in 2013, may be hitting some bumps. Centered […]
Insurance startup Bright Health raises $200M at ~$950M valuation
Nov 30, 12:33AM
Bright Health, another startup seeking to disrupt an antiquated industry, has raised $440 million since 2016.
Nine companies will compete to help NASA astronauts return to the moon
Nov 29, 10:51PM
NASA is ready to send astronauts back to the moon for the first time in more than 40 years. It won't be doing it alone, however. The agency is enlisting nine companies, large and small, to compete for a combined maximum contract value of $2.6 billion over the next 10 years. NASA released the list […]
New AWS tool helps customers understand best cloud practices
Nov 29, 10:19PM
Since 2015, AWS has had a team of solution architects working with customers to make sure they are using AWS services in a way that meets best practices around a set of defined criteria. Today, the company announced a new Well Architected tool that helps customers do this themselves in an automated way without the […]
The attributes that define the increasingly critical Data-as-a-Service industry
Nov 29, 10:00PM
It's now common in tech to describe data as "the new oil or electricity" -- a fuel that will power innovation and company growth for the foreseeable future. But data is far from a novel industry.
The White House will meet with tech execs to talk 'transformational ideas'
Nov 29, 9:25PM
Top tech executives from Google, Microsoft, Qualcomm and Oracle will head to the White House next Thursday to discuss "bold, transformational ideas" focused on U.S. innovation. The meeting, framed as a "roundtable discussion" by The Wall Street Journal, is expected to cover a broad range of emerging tech topics, from 5G to AI to quantum […]
AWS announces a slew of new Lambda features
Nov 29, 8:34PM
AWS launched Lambda in 2015 and with it helped popularize serverless computing. You simply write code (event triggers) and AWS deals with whatever compute, memory and storage you need to make that work. Today at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas, the company announced several new features to make it more developer friendly, while acknowledging that […]
Meet the five Startup Battlefield finalists at Disrupt Berlin 2018
Nov 29, 8:00PM
Thirteen companies took the stage today at Disrupt Berlin, delivering six-minute pitches and demos, then answering free-for-all questions from expert judges. Now that the judges have given us their feedback, we’ve chosen five finalists. These finalists will all take the stage again tomorrow afternoon to present in front of a new set of judges, who […]
Nintendo Switch forecasted to outsell the PS4 in 2019
Nov 29, 7:33PM
The Switch has been a monster hit for Nintendo by nearly every measure. The convertible console is precisely the success the company needed after a few years in the wilderness following the Wii U flop and smartphone foot-dragging. Strategy Analytics predicts more good things for the platform, predicting that Nintendo will surpass Sony in console […]
South Korea indicts group for allegedly leaking Samsung flexible display tech to Chinese company
Nov 29, 7:27PM
Prosecutors in South Korea have indicted the chief executive and eight other employees of Toptec Co for allegedly selling information about Samsung’s flexible OLED displays to a Chinese company. The charges detail that the company received more than $13.8 million for the information, Bloomberg reports. Toptec, a Samsung supplier that manufactures display-related equipment, has denied […]
Hulu with Live TV adds Discovery Networks programming to its core and add-on packages
Nov 29, 6:57PM
In September, Hulu and Discovery announced a partnership for live and on-demand programming that would see Discovery’s content coming to Hulu’s streaming service. Today, as promised, those channels are going live with the launch of Discovery Networks programming across all of Hulu with Live TV packages. That means Hulu with Live TV subscribers will now […]
AWS launches a managed Kafka service
Nov 29, 6:24PM
Kafka is an open-source tool for handling incoming streams of data. Like virtually all powerful tools, it’s somewhat hard to set up and manage. Today, Amazon’s AWS is making this all a bit easier for its users with the launch of Amazon Managed Streaming for Kafka. That’s a mouthful, but it’s essentially Kafka as a […]
Analysts are still bullish on wearables
Nov 29, 6:23PM
New numbers from Gartner this morning show solid projections for the wearable market, in spite of a few relatively lackluster years following the category's initial explosion. The drivers for the projected growth should be no surprise to anyone who has been following it of late — namely smartwatches and ear-worn devices (the unfortunately named hearables). […]
Cruise Automation taps GM president Dan Ammann as its new CEO
Nov 29, 6:01PM
Cruise Automation, the self-driving car subsidiary of GM, is getting a new CEO. The autonomous vehicle company, which was acquired by GM in 2016 and became subsidiary GM Cruise, has tapped Dan Ammann as CEO. Ammann (shown on the right in the photo above) will step down as GM’s president, a role he’s held since […]
Lyft's pink-wheeled shareable bikes will be available to rent soon
Nov 29, 5:54PM
Today marks the close of Lyft's acquisition of Motivate, the New York City-based mobility company that owns a number of shareable bike services, like Citi Bike, Ford GoBike, Divvy, Bluebikes and Capital Bikeshare.
The crusade against open-source abuse
Nov 29, 5:30PM
There's a dark cloud on the horizon. The behavior of cloud infrastructure providers threatens the viability of open source. Thankfully, several leaders have mobilized to propose multiple solutions.
Nielsen: Americans are streaming 8 billion hours of content per month on connected TVs
Nov 29, 5:23PM
With the rise of streaming services and the trend toward cord cutting, the way U.S. consumers are watching video is also changing. Today, more than two-thirds of U.S. homes have devices that are able to stream video, according to Nielsen . In a new report out this morning, the measurement firm looked at the impact […]
So crypto didn't kill venture capital after all
Nov 29, 5:17PM
Last year, $7 billion followed into ICOs. Combined with 2018, the cryptocurrency-based funding mechanism is estimated to account for $20 billion. ICOs threatened to disrupt venture capital more widely across the board, but the signs suggest that a relative status quo for investment is returning with VC capital a preferrable option once again. We’ve seen […]
Building a robot? Occipital wants to provide the eyes
Nov 29, 5:00PM
A few years back, Occipital released a sensor that turned your iPad into a portable 3D scanner. Called the Occipital Structure, it packed lasers and cameras into a snap-on package that let the iPad be used for anything from accurately measuring a room’s dimensions to building 3D models for building prosthetic limbs. The catch? For […]
YouTube rolls out Stories to creators with over 10K subscribers
Nov 29, 4:59PM
A year ago, YouTube launched its own take on Stories, with the addition of a new short-form video format called Reels. The feature, which was rebranded as “YouTube Stories” at last year’s VidCon, was initially available only to select YouTube creators. But in June, YouTube said it would later in the year expand Stories to […]
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