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Data says there are only two seasons for fundraising and one secret window
Jul 02, 4:02PM
Russ Heddleston Contributor Share on Twitter Russ is the cofounder and CEO of DocSend. He was previously a product manager at Facebook, where he arrived via the acquisition of his startup Pursuit.com, and has held roles at Dropbox, Greystripe, and Trulia. Follow him here: @rheddleston and @docsend More posts by this contributor Data tells us […]
When is the right time to pitch VCs for funding?
Jul 02, 4:02PM
A compelling pitch deck that quickly and clearly presents your startup as an exceptional investment opportunity is a clear edge when raising a round. But could fundraising be more effective if you...
VizibleZone wants to make pedestrians more visible to autonomous cars
Jul 02, 4:00PM
Israel-based Viziblezone wants to make it easier for self-driving cars to spot pedestrians, even if they aren’t yet in the field of view of the car’s sensors. I haven’t heard of all that many pedestrian detection startups, but there is a first for everything and if nothing else, Viziblezone is tackling an important issue, with […]
MIT develops tiny 'walking' motor that helps more complex robots self-assemble
Jul 02, 3:51PM
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that robots of the future will be less ‘Wall-E’ and more ‘Voltron meets ant swarm’ – case in point, this new ambulatory motor created by MIT professor Neil Gershenfeld and his students at the school. The motor above is little more than a magnet and coil with some structural parts, but […]
U.S. retail group offers to help antitrust investigators in going after Amazon and Google
Jul 02, 3:31PM
A leading U.S. retail group, whose members including Walmart, Target, Best Buy and others, has penned a letter to the Federal Trade Commission that details its concerns over big tech companies’ dominance. The letter specifically calls out Amazon and Google for their control over the majority of internet product searches, how price and product information […]
Netflix is officially making a show based on Neil Gaiman's 'Sandman' comics
Jul 02, 3:08PM
Netflix has placed an 11-episode series order for “The Sandman,” a show based on the critically-acclaimed comics by writer Neil Gaiman. While there have been Sandman comic-book characters since 1939, Gaiman’s version (co-created by artists Sam Kieth and Mike Dringenberg) first appeared 50 years later. Instead of a costumed crimefighter, he was a brooding deity […]
Software development analytics platform Sourced launches an enterprise edition
Jul 02, 3:00PM
Sourced, or source{d}, as the company styles its name, provides developers and IT departments with deeper analytics into their software development lifecycle. It analyzes codebases, offers data about which APIs are being used and provides general information about developer productivity and other metrics. Today, Sourced is officially launching its Enterprise Edition, which gives IT departments […]
Fast Forward raises new war chest to fight Silicon Valley's inequality machine
Jul 02, 3:00PM
San Francisco is a city of extremes, with multi-billion dollar glass-cladded obelisks piercing the SoMa sky while thousands of the city's long-term residents fail to find even the basic rudiments of housing and other social services. The tech industry has created the world's greatest inequality machine, solving every one of our problems except the ones […]
A Cloudflare outage is impacting sites everywhere
Jul 02, 2:33PM
If you’ve been experiencing “502 Bad Gateway” notices all morning, for better or worse, you’re not alone. Cloudflare has been experiencing some major outages this morning, leaving many sites reeling in its wake. In fact, the company’s System Status page, which collects global incidents, reads like a laundry list of every major city across the […]
Only 2% of genomic material available for research comes from Africa, 54gene wants to change that
Jul 02, 2:02PM
New advances in genetic mapping and manipulation hold the promise of reshaping medical treatments in the 21st century, but thanks to a lack of sufficient infrastructure and apparent scientific disregard, an entire continent is at risk of being left out. Only 2% of genetic material used for pharmaceutical research comes from the African continent, while […]
Facebook News Feed changes downrank misleading health info and dangerous 'cures'
Jul 02, 2:02PM
No, drinking bleach is not a miracle cure for diseases and other conditions — but that’s the sort of bogus health claim that’s floating around the web these days, getting blocked by sites like Amazon and YouTube. Now you can add Facebook to that list of sites taking action — well, kind of! The social network […]
Security flaws in a popular smart home hub let hackers unlock front doors
Jul 02, 2:00PM
When is a smart home not so smart? When it can be hacked. That’s exactly what security researchers Chase Dardaman and Jason Wheeler did with one of the Zipato smart hubs. In new research published Tuesday and shared with TechCrunch, Dardaman and Wheeler found three security flaws which when chained together could be abused to […]
Loon breaks its stratospheric balloon flight record with 223 days aloft
Jul 02, 1:52PM
Alphabet’s Loon is gearing up for its first big commercial trial later this year, but it’s also breaking records in terms of pure performance. The company announced today that it just retrieved P-496, one of its balloon flight systems that earned the notable distinction of breaking the record for longest time spent continuously in the […]
Samsung shuts down its AI-powered Mall shopping app in India
Jul 02, 1:15PM
Samsung has quietly discontinued an app that it built specifically for India, one of its largest markets and where it houses a humongous research and development team. The AI-powered Android app, called Samsung Mall, was positioned to help users identify objects around them and locate it on shopping sites to make the purchase. The company […]
Nvidia's RTX GPUs get a speed boost with the new Super series
Jul 02, 1:00PM
Nvidia made a somewhat unusual announcement today: it’s launching a set of updated GPUs that will come in at the same price points as the existing GeForce RTC 2060, 2070 and 2080 GPUs with ‘Super’ variants that offer better performance at the same price and with the same power consumption specs. Prices for the GeForce […]
Polyrize raises $4M for its next-gen authorization platform
Jul 02, 1:00PM
In enterprise security, there’s been a slow but steady move toward implementing zero trust security models and moving away from trusting anybody solely based on the fact that they have access to the company VPN, for example. That, to some degree, shifts the line of defense to the authentication service, which has to ensure that […]
Alphabet's Loon balloons will get their first commercial trial in Kenya
Jul 02, 12:28PM
Google spin-out and now fellow member of the Alphabet family of companies Loon will get a big test in the coming months, as it begins its first commercial trial in Kenya in partnership with Telkom Kenya . Loon’s entire mission is to provide internet connectivity to areas that are typically underserved, using high-altitude balloons with […]
Kabbage secures $200M to fuel its AI-based loans platform for small businesses
Jul 02, 12:05PM
Kabbage, the AI-based small business loans platform backed by SoftBank and others, is adding more firepower to its lending machine: the Atlanta-based startup has secured an additional $200 million in the form of a revolving credit facility from an unnamed subsidiary of a large life insurance company, managed and administered by 20 Gates Management, and […]
NASA performs successful test of Orion spacecraft launch-abort crew-escape system
Jul 02, 11:41AM
NASA has completed a key test in preparing for its planned crewed space mission to return to the Moon, successfully testing the Launch Abort System (LAS for short) for its Orion spacecraft. This is the first full stress test of the LAS, which involved launching both an Orion test craft and the full LAS system […]
Sources: Currencycloud, the API for cross-border payments, has raised ~£32M in first part of a Series E round
Jul 02, 10:37AM
Currencycloud, the provider of an API and service for cross-border payments that is used by a host of fintechs and larger companies, including most recently Visa, has closed the first part in a round of Series E funding. According to sources, the over 10 year old London headquartered company announced internally that it was closing […]
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