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Marc Andreessen: audio will be "titanically important" and VR will be "1,000" times bigger than AR
Jan 06, 1:59AM
In a new a16z podcast with the venture firm’s founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, there’s a lot to enjoy, from Andreessen’s TV show recommendations to Horowitz’s secret to excellent barbecue. (It’s pretty much just “time,” as you might imagine.) More useful for our founder readers may be Andreessen’s predictions around tech and, because he’s […]
Elon Musk's vision of spaceflight is gorgeous
Jan 06, 1:51AM
The image here come from Elon Musk and is concept art of the Starship test vehicle SpaceX is currently assembling at its Boca Chica, Texas launch facility. The real thing will be even better. This test vehicle is shorter and lacks the windows of the production ship that will eventually go into production. Starship test […]
PSA: File your US tax return before scammers steal your refund
Jan 05, 6:37PM
It’s tax season! You know what that means? It’s scamming season, too. You might have heard this story before. A scammer starts by spoofing an email pretending to be the chief executive of a company, angrily demanding that someone in accounting or human resources immediately sends over their employees’ W-2 forms “or there will be trouble!” […]
Hire faster, work happier: Startups target employment with AI and engagement tools
Jan 05, 5:54PM
There's a good chance you reached out to your employer and interviewed with other humans to get your job. But if some startups have their way, your next employment experience could be quite different.
Security researchers find over a dozen iPhone apps linked to Golduck malware
Jan 05, 3:30PM
Security researchers say they’ve found more than a dozen iPhone apps covertly communicating with a server associated with Golduck, a historically Android-focused malware that infects popular classic game apps. The malware has been known about for over a year, after it was first discovered by Appthority infecting classic and retro games on Google Play, by […]
How Trulia began paying down its technical debt
Jan 05, 2:00PM
As every software company knows, over time as code ages and workarounds build on work-arounds, the code base becomes bloated. It becomes ever more difficult to get around the technical debt that you’ve built up over time. It’s really impossible to avoid this phenomenon, but at some point, companies realize that the debt is so […]
Startups Weekly: VCs celebrate the new year the only way they know how
Jan 05, 1:00PM
A dismal future for augmented reality businesses, VC subsidized vending machines and more this week in startup news.
Served a summons via tweet? It just happened to one allegedly elusive VC
Jan 05, 6:42AM
Jonathan Teo, long a Bay Area venture capitalist, might be regretting having a Twitter account tonight. The reason: it was used to serve a summons to Teo by the law firm Baker Curtis & Schwartz, which represents a former employee of the early-stage venture firm Teo had cofounded in 2014, Binary Capital. The plaintiff is […]
Disney's Star Wars Land could open in June, says CEO Bob Iger
Jan 05, 12:25AM
We know Disney’s Star Wars Land (or “Galaxy’s Edge,” if we’re being formal) is opening sometime in summer 2019. But that’s about as exact as anyone at Disney would get. The rumors said June. Now, it seems, so does Disney CEO Bob Iger. Iger casually dropped the June target in an interview with Barron’s (as […]
Elon Musk angles to keep his ex and '420' Twitter drama out of lawsuit
Jan 05, 12:22AM
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is looking to keep his ex-girlfriend Grimes and alleged acquaintance Azealia Banks out of the official record of a lawsuit concerning his "420" "joke" that brought the SEC down on him. An attempt to subpoena both Grimes and Banks was met with stiff opposition by Musk's lawyer, who accused the plaintiffs of attempting to sensationalize the case.
Another day, another reversal in the stock market
Jan 04, 11:34PM
Signs that the Federal Reserve could hold off on further interest rate hikes coupled with a booming jobs report sent stocks on Wall Street surging to close a volatile first trading week for the New Year. After yesterday’s Apple-induced slide, and in the face of economic indicators that signaled a potential slowdown in global and […]
Swarms of tiny satellites could act like one giant space telescope
Jan 04, 11:17PM
It won’t be long before the James Webb Space Telescope is launched, an enormous and complex feat of engineering — but all one piece. That’s a good thing for now, but new research suggests that in the near future giant telescopes like the Webb might be replaced (or at least augmented) by swarms of tiny […]
Up to $818 million deal between J&J and Locus Biosciences points to a new path for CRISPR therapies
Jan 04, 10:26PM
The up to $818 million deal between Locus Biosciences and Janssen Pharmaceuticals (a division of Johnson & Johnson) that was announced yesterday points toward a new path for CRISPR gene editing technologies and (potentially) the whole field of microbiome-targeted therapies. Based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., Locus is commercializing research initially developed by scientists at […]
More than 100 million Alexa devices have been sold
Jan 04, 10:10PM
More than 100 million devices with Amazon’s Alexa assistant pre-installed have been sold, the company said Friday. The new metric, revealed by Amazon devices SVP Dave Limp in an interview with The Verge, showcases just how quickly the company has crammed the voice assistant into disparate hardware devices and shoved them out the door. The […]
New Apple voice phishing scam looks just like a real support call
Jan 04, 8:16PM
A new voice phishing scam is going after iPhone users in a clever new way: by making calls seem like they are coming directly from Apple Support. Brian Krebs reported today that a user, Jody Westby, got a call from Apple Support asking for her to call back. The contact information that came along with […]
Taylor Swift's mobile app, The Swift Life, is the latest celebrity app to shutter
Jan 04, 8:09PM
Glu Mobile is mourning the loss of one of its celebrity-branded apps, Taylor Swift's The Swift Life.
Engineers can now reverse-engineer 3D models
Jan 04, 7:57PM
A system that uses a technique called constructive solid geometry (CSG) is allowing MIT researchers to deconstruct objects and turn them into 3D models, thereby allowing them to reverse-engineer complex things. The system appeared in a paper entitled “InverseCSG: Automatic Conversion of 3D Models to CSG Trees” by Tao Du, Jeevana Priya Inala, Yewen Pu, […]
TikTok's quietly launched 'Lite' app has reached over 12 million downloads since August
Jan 04, 7:46PM
Short-form video app TikTok has been growing in popularity across international markets, including in the U.S. where a merger with Musical.ly has seen the app topping the App Store charts. Facebook and Snapchat have been hastily trying to copy TikTok’s features as a result. A part of TikTok’s ambitious global expansion plan has been its […]
Boom Supersonic nabs $100M to build its Mach 2.2 commercial airliner
Jan 04, 6:21PM
One Denver-based startup’s long-shot bid to move today’s commercial jets beyond supersonic speeds just got a big injection of cash. Boom Supersonic, which is building and designing what it calls the “world's first economically viable supersonic airliner,” announced today that they’ve closed a $100 million Series B funding round led by Emerson Capital. Other investors […]
Marriott now says 5 million unencrypted passport numbers were stolen in Starwood hotel data breach
Jan 04, 5:11PM
Starwood’s data breach just got both better and worse at the same time. Marriott, which owns hotel chain giant Starwood, said it has revised the number of customers affected by its recently disclosed data breach from 500 million to “fewer than 383 million unique guests.” That doesn’t mean all those 383 million guests are affected, Marriott […]
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