Sources: Tim Cook, Larry Page, Satya Nadella, Sheryl Sandberg, plus CEOs of Cisco, IBM, Intel, and Oracle to attend Trump's tech summit in NY
The gathering will take place Wednesday in New York. — Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Apple CEO Tim Cook and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg are among …
Bill Gates to lead $1B 20-year duration fund to fight climate change in energy, transport, agriculture, other industries; directors include Ma, Doerr, Khosla
Bill Gates is leading a more than $1 billion fund focused on fighting climate change by investing in clean energy innovation.
Twitter reinstates and re-verifies white nationalist Richard Spencer's personal account, says his accounts were banned for violating multiple accounts rule
Twitter banned Richard Spencer because he had too many accounts — not because those accounts promoted racism.
After California gives the go-ahead, Nvidia starts testing self-driving cars on public roads in the state
Nvidia has been granted a permit by the California Department of Motor Vehicles to start testing self-driving vehicle technology on the state's public roads.
Microsoft Ventures launches new fund for AI startups and backs Element AI, a new Montreal-based incubator co-founded by renowned AI expert Yoshua Bengio
Microsoft Ventures today announced two steps that point to how the tech giant's VC arm wants to get involved in artificial intelligence in a big way.
Mobile is eating the world, 2016 edition: how ~2.5B smartphones and mobile computing with AI, dominated by “GAFA”, reshape retail, cars, and everything else
As we pass 2.5bn smartphones on earth and head towards 5bn, and mobile moves from creation to deployment, the questions change.
With Pebble acquisition, Fitbit now has a software platform to build a smartwatch; CEO doesn't think any current offering has right feature-set and battery life
All signs point to an upcoming smartwatch from Fitbit — Following Fitbit's acquisition of smartwatch maker Pebble …
Kids are now emulating the child YouTubers they've grown up watching, by posting videos of themselves and performing even when they're not being recorded
always land their bottles perfectly upright. Max Cole has spent hours studying their routine, and now, his own viewers are waiting: Empty half the blue juice. Tweets: @bostonglobe , @sbb , @davechens...
AirDroid rolls out updates to Android and desktop apps, says it addresses security flaws recently made public, despite not heeding initial disclosures from May
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US Congress passes bill seeking to ban ticket-scalping bots by making it illegal to circumvent the security measures of ticketing websites
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Opendoor's business model of buying and flipping homes is risky, but the startup's streamlining of the home-selling process has great disruptive potential
I suppose I appreciate the efficiency with which Techcrunch expressed its skepticism for tech's latest unicorn, Opendoor … Tweets: @benthompson , @brianroemmele , and @nicholasbs Tweets: Ben Thompson ...
Nantero raises $21M for ultra-dense carbon nanotube NRAM memory, brings total raised to date to $110M+
Nantero has raised $21 million in funding for its carbon nanotube memory devices, which are an alternative to mainstream semiconductor chips. — The Woburn, Mass.-based company makes …
General Motors CEO Mary Barra on firm's path into self-driving era, how GM pilot programs will differ from competitors', future of personal car ownership, more
GM's CEO, Mary Barra, thinks your car could soon turn into a “second office.” — With autonomous cars on the horizon …
OpenAI's Jack Clark on where AI research is headed, how automation can affect white collar jobs, academia losing AI talent, how US can stay competitive, more
Jack Clark and I are both lapsed technology journalists, and he writes one of my favorite new newsletters of this year, Import AI … Tweets: @lewisshepherd Tweets: Lewis Shepherd / @lewisshepherd : “AI...
Jaap Haartsen on how he invented Bluetooth back in 1994, the protocol's future, the state of wireless audio now that Apple killed iPhone's headphone jack, more
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Facebook tightened controls on what collaborating researchers can publish after 2014 emotional contagion study backlash, hampering research on fake news today
but refuses to share it http://www.buzzfeed.com/... http://twitter.com/... Adam Singer / @adamsinger : “Our main goal at Facebook is to help make the world more open and transparent.” http://twitter.c...
Discord, a text and voice chat app for gamers with 25M registered users, releases GameBridge SDK to let developers integrate Discord's services into their games
Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat :
Google's self-driving car team is hiring executives as it prepares to spin out from Alphabet's X
Johana Bhuiyan / Recode :
a16z and USV invest $10M in Polychain Capital, a hedge fund started by the first Coinbase employee; the fund invests in Bitcoin, Ether, and other digital assets
Laura Shin / Forbes :
Imzy, founded by two former Reddit employees, launched in October to be a gentler version of Reddit; site has 50K members and $11M in seed funding
Joel Stein / Bloomberg : Tweets: @nkulw and @nkulw . Thanks: @yoda Tweets: Noah Kulwin / @nkulw : when i wrote about imzy in may, when the site was in beta, they had raised $3 million. now they have ...
Google's former car guru Chris Urmson is working on his own self-driving company
Sunday, December 11, 2016 Tweets: Ross Rubin / @rossrubin : Look forward to seeing number of self-driving cars in use exceed number of self-driving car companies. http://www.recode.net/... via @Recode...
Vesper, which builds always-on, low powered mics, raises $15M Series A led by Accomplice, with Alexa Fund, Hyperplane, Miraenano Tech, and others participating
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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