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«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... →

Just a few days ago we wrote that new Pokémon were seemingly just about to land in Pokémon Go timed alongside a Halloween event — and hey, what do you know: Niantic has just confirmed it. The first Generation 3 Pokémon should start showing up as early as tomorrow, October 20th, at noon Pacific. As we figured initially, though, we’re not going to see the entire Gen 3 collection… Read More... →

A lot of the conversation today about on-demand transportation is focused on how new players like Uber and Lyft are rapidly expanding and disrupting the established transportation market (alongside whether they have been overvalued and overplayed in their rapid ascent), but today comes news about how one of those newer players is teaming up with a legacy transportation business as a route… Read More... →

Verizon’s* plans to launch a streaming service of its own to compete with the likes of Dish’s Sling TV, AT&T’s DirecTV Now, Sony’s PlayStation Vue, and others, have been pushed back to spring 2018, according to a report from Bloomberg on Wednesday. Citing unnamed sources, the report indicates the timing of the launch is still tentative and could be postponed… Read More... →

Over the past 18 months, investments in blockchain startups tackling a variety of problems have climbed. SparkChain Capital, a new $100 million early-stage fund launched by SparkLabs Group, wants to contribute by backing blockchain and cryptocurrency-related companies that are solving real-world issues. Read More... →

Разбираемся, что из себя представляет новая технология и как она угрожает маркетологам... →

Раньше тестирование проходило только на мобильных устройствах, теперь лента доступна в десктопной версии.... →

A new startup called Relativity Space founded by two aerospace engineers wants to use massive 3D printers to produce rockets without humans required on the factory floor, with the ultimate aim of driving the price of rocket launches down from their current rate of around $100 million to just about $10 million per launch. Bloomberg reports that Relativity’s founders think using 3D printing… Read More... →

Основатель стартапа по производству ДНК-тестов Titanovo Александр Савсуненко об управленческих ошибках, которые не позволили сохранить проект.... →