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Thanks to an analysis of EEO-1 data by Reveal News, we have a clear picture of just how many women of color (Native American, black, Latina, Pacific Islander, or two or more races) work at major tech companies. When tech companies release their diversity reports, they rarely, if ever, report intersectional data such as the percentage of women of color they employ. In early 2016, Slack became… Read More... →

MongoDB made its public debut with a bang, with jumping more than 25%, today after spending the past several days revising up its expectations throughout the IPO process — which seems to have landed on the right spot. The company provides open-source technology that can be attractive for early-stage startups that want to get off the ground and then seeks to convert those companies to… Read More... →

Оценка всей компании Lyft составила $11 млрд... →

После того как 19-летняя владелица Tesla не справилась с управлением и влетела в дорожное ограждение машина вcпыхнула, как чучело Масленицы.... →

Городские материалы будут писать сотрудники из Москвы.... →

Фонд CapitalG, который вместе с Google входит в холдинг Alphabet, станет лидером раунда инвестиций в сервис Lyft, говорится в совместном объявлении компаний. Общая сумма сделки составит $1 млрд.... →

VidAngel, a streaming service that altered copyrighted works to edit out adult language, nudity and violence, has declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the company announced on Wednesday. The Utah-based service had been sued by major studios, including Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Disney, and others, who said VidAngel was operating as an unlicensed streaming service, and was offering films to… Read More... →

Netflix’s The Punisher finally has a solid release date: November 17. That’s not too far away, but in case you’re still impatient, check out this trailer for it, a brand new one released today that goes into the backstory of Frank Castle (aka The Punisher) in more detail than we’ve seen before, in either previous trailers or in his first appearance in season two of… Read More... →

«Cамая скучная кепка в мире», – представил новый продукт основатель SpaceX... →

Ride-hailing company Lyft has raised a new $1 billion funding round, putting its post-money valuation at $11 billion total. The round was led by Alphabet’s CapitalG, its growth-focused investment fund, and CapitalG partner David Lawee will join Lyft’s board as part of the transaction. Lyft shared the news in an official blog post, and noted that it has run over 500 million rides… Read More... →

Бывший сотрудник Google Ной Реди-Кэмпбелл (Noah Ready-Campbell) основал стартап по созданию самоуправляемых экскаваторов Built Robotics. Он привлек $15 млн, рассказал Кэмпбелл на странице проекта.... →

Местные новости северной столицы теперь будет писать московская редакция «Ведомостей».... →

Flickr, the once Yahoo-owned photo-sharing site that’s now a part of Verizon*, is getting out of the photo book printing business, and is shutting down the feature that allowed users to turn photos into professional-quality wall art. In an email sent to users this week, Flickr said that it was turning over photo books to publishing service Blurb as of October 16, 2017, but the wall… Read More... →

Руководство от директора клиентского сервиса Red Keds Алексея Тура.... →

Венчурный фонд Gagarin Capital инвестировал в индийского разработчика медицинского софта Cureskin из акселератора Y Combinator. Об этом в интервью Inc. рассказал сооснователь фонда Николай Давыдов. Условия и сумма сделки не раскрываются. Cureskin занимается дерматологической диагностикой при помощи смартфона, используя искусственный интеллект. «Представьте себе приложение, обученное на data-сете какого-нибудь профильного НИИ: подросток фоткает прыщи, и оно ему подбирает лосьон. В дерматологии люди очень мн... →

In what could amount to a sea change in the way we transmit data over fiber optics, researchers at University College London have found a new way speed things up by changing the color of the transmitted light. “To maximise the capacity of optical fibre links, data is transmitted using different wavelengths, or colours, of light. Ideally, we’d dedicate a wavelength to each subscriber… Read More... →

Boeing’s HorizonX venture arm has invested in Near Earth Autonomy, a Carnegie Mellon spin-out company that focuses on building autonomous aircraft systems for things including site inspection, defence and potentially automated cargo delivery and personal transportation systems – i.e., flying taxis. Near Earth Autonomy is led by CEO and co-founder Sanjiv Singh, along with his… Read More... →

Как бы ИИ поступил на месте среднестатистического человека?... →

Snaps has raised $6 million in Series A funding for what it calls its Conversational Marketing Cloud. By that, it’s referring to a suite of tools that allows businesses to to promote themselves through messaging. CEO Christian Brucculeri said Snaps is differentiated by its “write once and deploy everywhere approach,” allowing marketers to build things like chatbots and… Read More... →

Plenty of investors have broken their picks, trying to find gold in education technology. That doesn’t seem to concern the limited partners of Owl Ventures, a three-year-old venture firm that’s focused only on edtech, and which just closed on $185 million — nearly twice the $100 million it raised for its debut fund in $100 million. As the firm tells it, there’s never… Read More... →