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Many American Olympic athletes are using cutting-edge technology like motion tracking systems, wearable jump monitors and Doppler radar to help them jump higher and go farther before hitting Rio this August 5 for the Summer Games — and so can you! So fasten your joggers and come along as we take a look at the technology our Olympians are using to help them go for the gold. Read More... →

2 августа 2016 года Nike приобрела стартап Virgin Mega, который принадлежит Virgin Group Ричарда Брэнсона (Richard Branson), с целью доработать свои уже существующие приложения. Об этом сообщает Business Insider с ссылкой на сообщение компании.... →

After a relatively short beta, Microsoft today announced that the Excel API — a way for developers to programmatically use Excel for Office 365 for doing calculations, building dashboards and more — is now generally available. Microsoft first announced the API last November and then detailed its plans for turning Office 365 into more of a platform for developers at it Build… Read More... →

Finding life beyond Earth means combing through an incredibly vast array of potential planetary candidates, but one new study from a team of researchers led by San Francisco State University astronomer Dr. Stephen R. Kane hopes to add some additional specificity to the search. The international group of scientists behind the study examined the over 4,000 planets outside of our solar… Read More... →

After launching in Seattle in April, BMW’s car sharing service ReachNow is expanding down the I5 corridor to Portland, Oregon. In Seattle, more than 13,000 people signed up in the first month, and ReachNow was able to add 150 vehicles and expand its service area by late June. It’s likely the Portland expansion will follow the same plan, with a fleet of vehicles in the city center… Read More... →

25 июля 2016 года генеральный директор продуктового ретейлера «Магнит» Сергей Галицкий сообщил о грядущем масштабном редизайне своих магазинов. Представители торговой сети не смогли предоставить редакции vc.ru фотографии, иллюстрирующие редизайн магазинов. Фотограф Юлия Семенченко отправилась в первый обновлённый магазин сети в Краснодаре и подготовила собственный репортаж.... →

YouTube Kids, the child-friendly version of YouTube’s service launched last year which faced criticism for the way it handled advertisements, has today launched a version of the service that will offer parents the option to pay for an ad-free experience. Now, YouTube Kids will be bundled into the YouTube Red subscription program, a paid membership that offers a variety of features… Read More... →

Comma.ai, the startup that George Hotz (aka Geohotz) founded to show that making driverless vehicles could done relatively cheaply using off-the-shelf components and existing vehicles, has open-sourced a dataset of 7.25 hours of highway driving. Read More... →

This is going to be fun. I’ll be in Columbus, Ohio next week, Wednesday, August 10, and I’ll be holding a night of pitches and open mic shenanigans so bring your guitar. The event will be at O’Toole’s 4796 W Broad St, right off I-270. We’ll start at 7pm sharp with pitches so get there after work and at 8pm we’ll have an open stage with live music –… Read More... →

Take a tour of Facebook’s new 22,000 square foot hardware lab where it’s building drones, satellites, lasers, VR headsets, and the machines that store the world’s biggest collection of photos. Click the arrow to the right or scroll down on mobile to see what’s behind the Area 404 security doors. Read More... →

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There is much talk of “cloud native” these days, and people are taking liberties with the interpretation — as they do with everything else associated with the cloud. Cade Metz put it right: “The term has taken on so many meanings in recent years. But keep in mind: most of these meanings come from IBM, HP, EMC, Dell, Cisco and other companies that don’t want to… Read More... →

About one year ago, Apple unveiled a diversity site featuring its employee representation data and a letter from Apple CEO Tim Cook about the company’s commitment to diversity and inclusion. Today, Apple has revealed its latest diversity numbers, showing slight but consistent improvement year over year. Worldwide, Apple is 68% male and 32% female (last year, Apple was 69& male and… Read More... →

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Венчурный фонд AltaIR Capital Игоря Рябенького и компания Millhouse Capital Романа Абрамовича инвестировали в израильский стартап Spot.IM, который занимается построением децентрализованных социальных сетей. Spot.IM привлекла $13 млн в раунде А. В сделке также  участвовали Джеймс Хилтон (генеральный директор M & C Saatchi Mobile), Авишай Абрахами (соучредитель и генеральный директор Wix), Гиора Каплан (соучредитель и технический директор компании Wix), Нир Зохар (президент и главный операционный директор ком... →

Ассоциация по защите авторских прав в интернете (АЗАПИ) собирается подать в Мосгорсуд иск к компании Яндекс, с требованием удалить из поисковой выдачи ссылки на портал Rutracker, заблокированный навечно за пиратство. Об этом сообщает «Газета.ру», со ссылкой на заявление главы АЗАПИ Максим Рябыко. Правозащитники собираются доказать в суде, что демонстрация ссылок на нелегальный контент сама по […]... →

Издание Codesign выбрало лучшие книги для дизайнеров, вышедшие в 2016 году. Среди них биографии архитекторов, сборник обложек издательства Pengium и комикс о том, какой на самом деле вкус у хот-дога. Редакция vc.ru публикует перевод заметки.... →

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — проект «Школа актуального кодинга», где обучают создавать интерфейсы и приложения для iOS, Mac, Apple TV и Apple Watch. Передаем микрофон.... →

Car component supplier Lear is hoping to ride the wave of connectivity to new heights, with plans to develop and ship a unit for its car-maker customers that lets their vehicles communicate with other cars on the road, city infrastructure including connected roads and traffic lights, and with cloud-based services. The part would also be modular, letting OEMs easily install physical upgrades.… Read More... →

Following yesterday’s launch of a new version of the Skype Windows 10 application, Microsoft today announced an expanded collection of its “Skype bots,” the automated chat assistants that it introduced earlier this year in a limited preview. The new bots include those that can help you find travel, locate concert tickets, pull in information from other applications and… Read More... →