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05:02 22.06.2016

NIH grants $2.3M to development of FeverPhone, a portable disease diagnosis kit

Quick diagnosis of bloodborne diseases can very much be a matter of life and death, but bouncing results off a hospital can take hours or days — so the NIH and Cornell University are working on a device called the FeverPhone that could cut that time to as little as 15 minutes. Read More... →

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04:48 22.06.2016

Austin police are now impounding drivers in the peer-to-peer ridesharing group

Austin’s transportation saga just keeps getting more interesting. Last week, we wrote about a 30,000 member Facebook group that had formed in Austin to help facilitate ride requests in the absence of Uber and Lyft. Riders posted requests, drivers responded, and people got where they needed to go. One problem – the drivers and riders were not using an official service to… Read More... →

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04:00 22.06.2016

Resolving homelessness in the digital era

The explosion of tech companies setting up headquarters in major cities has encroached on the homeless population. Like San Francisco, the tech industry is growing rapidly in Seattle, and we too have the same dilemma. But unlike San Francisco, we have the opportunity to get ahead of this issue and truly make a difference. Read More... →

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02:54 22.06.2016

An excerpt from Eliot Peper’s cyberpunk novel Cumulus

Eliot Peper has been lauded as the heir to William Gibson’s throne. He is a writer and entrepreneur based in San Francisco and is latest book, Cumulus, has become an online hit. The energy of his writing and the strength of his characters is palpable the story – a world in which surveillance is constant and inescapable – is fast coming true. What follows is an excerpt from… Read More... →

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01:58 22.06.2016

A federal safety board just OK’d the first CRISPR trial to genetically-alter humans

In the spring of 2015, a group of Chinese scientists modified the DNA of 54 embryos using CRISPR/Cas 9 technology. Twenty-eight of those embryos were successful, but 26 – nearly half of them – failed, setting off a heated debate throughout the scientific community on the ethics of altering human genes. Regulators don’t currently allow the use of CRISPR on human DNA in the… Read More... →

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01:55 22.06.2016

ISS installs networking tech that may soon connect the whole Solar System

When you really need to get a signal in from Pluto, a direct connection isn’t always possible. Oh sure, when it’s a big project like New Horizons, you can make sure the line is clear and someone’s listening — but for routine updates from a Neptune orbiter or power-starved comet lander, there’s Delay Tolerant Networking, which just got its first big installation on… Read More... →

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01:32 22.06.2016

These guys built the “World’s Largest Nerf Gun” and it shoots massive darts at 40 mph

Bigger isn’t necessarily better when it comes to Nerf battles — but… well, this one wins. It’s a four foot tall recreation of the Nerf N-Strike Maverick — one of the greatest Nerf guns of all time. Oh, and it works. It shoots massive darts* at around 40 miles per hour. Read More... →

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01:15 22.06.2016

Hardware Battlefield competitor Foobot wants to reduce pollution in your home

The last we heard from AirBoxLab, the company was presenting an indoor air quality monitor called Alima in the TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield at CES 2014. In the two years since that event, the company has rebranded the Alima as the Foobot, raised €2 million and shifted focus from simply monitoring air quality to improving it. When Foobot released a direct to consumer product back in… Read More... →

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00:54 22.06.2016

Columbus Ohio rumored to secure a total of $140 million in grants as the U.S. DOT Smart City winner

The Columbus Dispatch is reporting this afternoon that Columbus OH is the winner of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Smart City Challenge beating out San Francisco, Austin, Portland, Kansas City, Denver and Pittsburgh and will receive $140 million in grants and matches. I reached out to local and state offices for confirmation but have not received comment at this point. Read More... →

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00:43 22.06.2016

Tesla Motors предложила выкупить SolarCity Элона Маска за $2,8 млрд

Tesla Motors (основатель и гендиректор — Элон Маск) сделала предложение о покупке SolarCity, которая занимается созданием солнечных энергосистем. Контролирующим акционером и председателем совета директоров энергетической компании также является Элон Маск.... →

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00:19 22.06.2016

DFJ Growth Fund Targets New, $500 Million Fund

DFJ Growth, the 10-year-old growth stage arm of the 30-year-old Sand Hill Road firm, is raising a new $500 million fund, suggests an SEC filing first flagged by Fortune. The timing fits the narrative of many Silicon Valley venture firms, many of which have been returning to their LPs in two years’ time, rather than a more traditional three or four years. Indeed, the firm raised its… Read More... →

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00:19 22.06.2016

Elon Musk’s Tesla plans to acquire Elon Musk’s SolarCity

The great Elon Musk empire is consolidating. Today electric car and battery company Tesla announced its offer to acquire solar panel installation company SolarCity. Recently SolarCity had its value downgraded, making it an easier acquisition target. Together the companies could allow you to outfit your home with solar panels that power a giant battery for everything inside as well as your… Read More... →

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00:05 22.06.2016

Aphex Twin commissions 12-year-old YouTuber to direct first video since 1999’s ‘Windowlicker’

If you follow your dreams, and film it, and put it on YouTube, there’s a chance Richard D. James will see it and commission you to direct the first Aphex Twin video in 17 years. That’s the lesson learned by young Ryan Wyer, of outer Dublin, who was not even close to being born when the seminal “Windowlicker” came out in 1999. Read More... →

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23:57 21.06.2016

See Jane Go is bringing women-only ride hailing to the West Coast

Earlier this spring, Safeher (the ride-hailing service formerly known as Chariot for Women) established itself in the Boston area as a safer service for women drivers and passengers. Now See Jane Go is starting a similar service for women in the greater Los Angeles area this summer. Its public launch is today, with a commercial launch coming at the end of July. William Jordan founded the… Read More... →

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23:54 21.06.2016

Spell-checker — сервис для проверки орфографии на сайтах

Сегодня в рубрике «Стартапы» — сервис Spell-checker, который позволяет проверить сайт на наличие орфографических ошибок и получить отчет со ссылками на страницы, где нужно их исправить. Передаем микрофон.... →

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23:36 21.06.2016

Позиция «Яндекса» по закону Яровой (о сдаче «ключей» в ФСБ и архивировании переписки)

В текущем варианте законопроекта равных условий для интернет-бизнеса или не будет, или кому-то придётся уйти из России.... →

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23:29 21.06.2016

Gradifi partners with MasterCard to ease student loan debt

Gradifi founder Tim DeMello doesn’t have an outbound sales team. That’s how big the student loan problem is. When Boston based Gradifi first launched its student loan paydown plan, 456 companies reached out wanting to sign up for the benefit. Employers want to attract and retain employees and unfortunately one of the best ways to do that right now is by offering student loan… Read More... →

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23:26 21.06.2016

Verizon buys Telogis to drive deeper into the connected vehicle market

With a lot of tech companies and automakers staking their claims in the connected car space, now there are signs that others are looking to move in, too. Today, telecoms giant Verizon announced that it is acquiring Telogis, a California-based company that develops cloud-based solutions for mobile workforces, and specifically telematics, compliance and navigation software used by Ford, Volvo,… Read More... →

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23:24 21.06.2016

Цукерберг заклеил скотчем веб-камеру и микрофон ноутбука из соображений безопасности

Основатель Facebook Марк Цукерберг заклеил веб-камеру и микрофон рабочего ноутбука, чтобы лишить хакеров доступа к своей информации. На это обратило внимание издание Gizmodo.... →

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23:12 21.06.2016

Форрест Гамп интернета: как основатель Medium и Twitter Эван Уильямс борется за открытый веб

Журналист издания The Atlantic Робинсон Мейер, побеседовав с основателем Blogger и Medium и бывшим генеральным директором Twitter Эваном Уильямсом, описал биографию предпринимателя и его взгляды на развитие интернета. Редакция vc.ru публикует перевод материала.... →

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