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Remember Thunderstrike 2? Last summer, Xeno Kovah and Trammell Hudson unveiled a serious zero-day vulnerability in OS X letting malware creators completely brick your Mac without any way to reset it to its factory status. And it looks like Apple didn’t just fix the vulnerability — it has also hired the team behind this exploit to work on security. Read More... →

Texas Hold ’em is one of the most popular card games in the world. Yet one company is looking to shake up a formula that began more than a century ago. Earlier this week, Mediarex Sports & Entertainment launched a new poker site called HoldemX in an early testing phase. The company is using this […]... →

Trans*H4CK, a series of hackathons for transgender and gender non-conforming people, recently launched a Q&A web series featuring trans people in tech. I recently sat down with Trans*H4CK founder Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler to chat about diversity, racism, unconscious bias and more. Below is our conversation, which has been mildly edited for clarity. Megan Rose Dickey: What is diversity? Dr. Read More... →

Are you an undergraduate or graduate student looking to attend the hottest conference in startups and technology? We have set aside a number of tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt NY exclusively for students, and you can snag one for just $300 with a valid university ID and your current transcripts. Read More... →

Online real estate site Zillow today announced that it has acquired Naked Apartments for $13 million in cash. While the name makes it sound like some kind of kinky cleaning service, it’s actually an apartment rentals platform with a focus on New York City. The acquisition is expected to close in the next few weeks. This marks Zillow’s fifth consumer brand acquisition and the… Read More... →

Genentech is looking to reach out to the startup community with a new competition called the Quest Award offering $50,000 in prize money for technologies that are fighting cervical cancer. Read More... →

Another European startup exits to an American tech giant. Predictive keyboard app maker SwiftKey, based in London, confirmed today it has sold to Microsoft. Sources put a price-tag of $250 million on the deal, although neither SwiftKey nor Microsoft are confirming a figure. Read More... →

In the name of making Silicon Valley more transparent when it comes to diversity, Intel released a lot of data in its global diversity and inclusion report, building on its earlier report that 43 percent of the company’s new hires have been women and underrepresented minorities in the past year. Intel’s goal was to hit […]... →

Стартап Appnow.com, позволяющий компаниям создавать и продвигать мобильные приложения, привлек $2 млн от нескольких иностранных частных инвесторов, которые объединены под юридическим лицом голландской компании Maxforсing ВV. Источник, близкий к одной из сторон сделки, сообщил Firrma, что инвесторы получили от 5% до 7% сервиса. Привлеченные средства пойдут на диверсификацию рынков продаж. Планируется запустить 15 новых направлений и предоставлять услуги стартапа Appnow медучереждениям, отелям, фитнес-клубам ... →

YouTube will premiere its first original movies and series for YouTube Red on February 10. The main draws behind YouTube Red — the site’s recently launched subscription service — were always ad-free viewing and the promise of original content. Until now, though, there was no original content, so if you subscribed to Red, you basically paid Google $9.99 to remove ads (and… Read More... →

Another day, another 3D-printed gun. This one comes to us from a carpenter from West Virginia who calls himself Derwood. His gun is “95 percent” 3D printed which means the important bits – springs, firing pins, etc. – are handmade or repurposed (the barrel comes from a Glock) while the stock, magazine, and upper and lower receivers are printed on a Fusion F306 3D… Read More... →

YouTube, eager to capture cord cutters with original content since 2011, is about debut four shows exclusive to the company’s Red subscription service and Google Play. We’ve known this was coming since at least October and now, one week until release, YouTube has posted the final trailers for the shows to drum up hype. We present them to you below. A […]... →

Many traditional Hollywood execs may have missed news that Netflix, arguably their biggest bête noir, is creating a series with YouTube star Miranda Sings. Those execs should take a closer look and ask why one of the most analytical companies in entertainment just made this move. Read More... →

U.K.-based startup Sonovate announced today that it closed a $22 million (£20 million) series A round. Dawn Capital led a $5.5 million investment for Sonovate, while Shawbrook Business Credit provided the remaining $16.5 million in debt. The startup, which offers “contract management for recruitment businesses,” said it will use the capital to further develop its product […]... →

We’re a week and a half away from Valentine’s Day, one of the biggest days for flower purchases everywhere and probably the best time for The Bouqs, an on-demand-ish flower startup to announce it pulled in $12 million in Series B financing. The Bouqs is not a name that rolls off the tongue, but it promises better pricing and next day shipping with flowers that last longer. The… Read More... →

Over the weekend, Samsung added support for content blocking plugins to the browser preinstalled on its Android phones. The first plugin available for Samsung’s browser was Adblock Fast, a free and open source solution available on Google Play. Today, the Android plugin has disappeared from the app store. Ad blocking on mobile devices is gaining […]... →

С апреля по сентябрь 2015 года Adidas работал над проектом «Разбуди свой спальный район», мотивирующий жителей Москвы на пробежки. В кампании приняли участие больше 15 тысяч человек, а беговые кроссовки Adidas Ultra Boots удалось распродать в первый месяц проекта. Представители бренда и агентства TBWA\Moscow рассказали vc.ru, как проходила подготовка к проекту и каких бренд-результатов им удалось достичь.... →

EXCLUSIVE: China’s stock market has had a bad year, but the country’s game industry remains strong and on track to grow dramatically over time. That’s the underlying belief behind Chinese game market analyst firm Niko Partners’ annual predictions for the digital games industry in China for 2016. Lisa Cosmas Hanson, founder of Niko Partners, passed along […]... →

Handshake announced today that it has raised a $10.5 million Series A round for its college career network. Led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB), the investment will be used to help the company build additional university partnerships, as well as boost engineering and product support. Additional participants in the round include True Ventures, […]... →

Square has created a publication that’s not centered around payments, transactions, or commerce, but rather on women engineers. The company wants this “book” to be a guide for other businesses that have an interest in supporting a diverse workforce. But recognizing that it doesn’t have all the answers, Square has open sourced the handbook by […]... →