Orchid Labs is in the process of raising $125 million for its surveillance-free layer atop the internet
Orchid Labs, a San Francisco-based startup that’s developing a a surveillance-free layer on top ...View More
Friday Night Lights is on Hulu now. You’re welcome.
Friday Night Lights, the football show that was never just about football (and one of the best shows ...View More
SmugMug acquires Flickr
Two photo-sharing services are teaming up, as SmugMug buys Flickr from Verizon’s digital media subs ...View More
Apple has a new iPhone recycling robot named ‘Daisy’
Meet Daisy. Apple’s latest recycling robot was revealed, not coincidentally, a few days before Earth ...View More
With loans of just $10, this startup has built a financial services powerhouse in emerging markets
Peris Kimeli and Betsy Cheruyot were students at Kenyatta University thinking about launching a busi ...View More
ZTE said to be meeting with Google over US export ban
Yesterday was a rough one for ZTE. A year after pleading guilty to violating sanctions with Iran and ...View More
TaskRabbit’s app is offline while it investigates a “cybersecurity incident”
TaskRabbit, the on-demand errand service acquired by IKEA last year, announced today that has taken ...View More
Judge says class action suit against Facebook over facial recognition can go forward
Whenever a company may be guilty of something, from petty neglect to grand deception, there’s usuall ...View More
The Eminem AR show
[embedded content]With the debut of his Eminem Augmented app at Coachella last night, hip hop’s ...View More
Tony Fadell is worried about smartphone addiction
This weekend, former Apple engineer and consumer gadget legend Tony Fadell penned an op-ed for Wire ...View More
The Skagen Falster is a high fashion Android wearable
Danish understatement meets Mountain View tech John Biggs 1 day Skagen is a well-k ...View More
Waymo reportedly applies to put autonomous cars on California roads with no safety drivers
Waymo has become the second company to apply for the newly-available permit to deploy autonomous ve ...View More
Elon Musk says ‘humans are underrated,’ calls Tesla’s ‘excessive automation’ a ‘mistake’
In a rare mea culpa for the mercurial billionaire, Tesla CEO Elon Musk acknowledged that the ...View More
Android Auto now works without wires if you have the right hardware
Android Auto — Google’s system for powering your car’s dash display from your phone, and the compan ...View More
Android Auto now works without wires if you have the right hardware
Android Auto — Google’s system for powering your car’s dash display from your phone, and the compan ...View More
Is Android Popsicle next?
Barring any sort of major shakeup at Google’s mobile division, there are two things we know for sure ...View More
Are hardware makers doing enough to keep Android phones secure?
For all the good of Android’s open-source approach, one of the clear and consistent downsides is tha ...View More
Twitter replaces its gun emoji with a water gun
Twitter has now followed Apple’s lead in changing its pistol emoji to a harmless, bright green wat ...View More
Reddit has banned 944 accounts linked to the IRA Russian troll farm
While much of the tech media has had their eyeballs glued to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimon ...View More
Tentrr is turning private land into glampgrounds, with the help of VCs
If you’ve ever gone camping and found yourself thinking it kind of sucks, likely because you’re too ...View More
App downloads and revenue again broke records in the first quarter of 2018
Global app downloads and consumer spending in apps had yet another record quarter, according to a ne ...View More
Scribd will get Veronica Roth’s ‘Fates Divide’ on launch day
Scribd is setting its sights on bigger, newer titles.E-book and audiobook versions of The Fates Divi ...View More
Facebook teams with nonprofits to launch election research commission
Facebook’s post-Cambridge Analytica apology tour continues this morning with the announcement of an ...View More
Apple releases a red iPhone 8
Apple is doing it again. The company just unveiled a new version of the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus. ...View More
Apple’s 2019 Mac Pro will be shaped by workflows
A year ago, I visited the Apple campus in Cupertino to figure out where the hell the new Mac Pro was ...View More
Benchmark just funded Chainalysis, the crypto intelligence company that helped crack the Mt. Gox case
When the virtual currency exchange Mt. Gox collapsed into bankruptcy in 2014 following the disappear ...View More
IMAX and Conversive launch a conversational AR app with chatty pandas
While IMAX has become synonymous with enormous theatrical screens, Chief Marketing Officer JL Pomer ...View More
Suplari raises $10.3M Series A round to bring AI to procurement
Procurement isn’t the most exciting topic in the world, but for large businesses, it’s an area where ...View More
Our digital future will be shaped by increasingly mobile technologies coming from China
Michael JaconiContributor Michael Jaconi is the co-founder and chief executive of Button, and form ...View More
iOS could detect when you hover your finger over the screen
According to a new report from Bloomberg, Apple could be working on new gestures for its iPhones. I ...View More
