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No gymnasiums, no cafeterias and no administrators. That’s school policy at AltSchools, a chain of private, for-profit schools backed by the likes of Andreessen Horowitz and Mark Zuckerberg. At the location I visited this October, the school schedule was written on a white board and could be changed in real time. Students flowed between grade levels and classes based upon what they… Read More... →

GUEST: In the 2014 movie Transcendence, Johnny Depp plays a super powerful virtual sentient being with limitless power. In one scene, scientists examine a sample of rainwater under a microscope only to realize that it is swarming with intelligent nano-robots. These nano-robots are connected to, and controlled by Depp’s character, allowing him to transform everything in […]... →

Издание Business Insider опубликовало фотогалерею, посвящённую жизни и биографии Марка Андриссена — основателя компании Netscape и фонда Andreessen Horowitz, одной из самых известных венчурных фирм Кремниевой долины.... →

Honestly, I am sad but not surprised. Google implied that they are not doing holiday decorations this year...... →

Бывший шеф-редактор русскоязычного сегмента «Живого журнала» Павел Пряников рассказал о будущем ЖЖ — оно есть. И ещё немного порассуждал про соцсети.... →

Создаетель сайта для путешественников Trip Secrets Алексей Игнатов написал для vc.ru колонку, посвящённую монетизации тревел-проектов, в которой он перечислил все возможные способы, их преимущества и недостатки.... →

Сооснователь венчурного фонда InVenture Partners Сергей Азатян подтвердил факт переговоров о покупке «Фэшн пресс» (издает Cosmopolitan, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, «Домашний очаг» и другие издания) у финской компании Sanoma. Об этом он сообщил Firrma. Сергей Азатян отметил, что переговоры о покупке «Фэшн пресс»ведутся уже больше полутора лет: «За это время я встречался с представителями нескольких медиакомпаний, в том числе и с Sanoma Independent Media, так как я рассматриваю возможность расширения сферы свои... →

Лидер рок-группы «Аквариум» спел в подземном переходе в рамках проекта «Дождя»... →

Drone Bird was selected out of 139 application entries for a project-collecting campaign on the ReadyFor crowdfunding site last year.... →

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GUEST: The rate of data creation today is already simply mind-boggling. And it’s speeding up more every day. IDC’s latest Digital Universe study predicts about 1.7 megabytes of new information will be created every second for every human being on the planet by 2020. Consumers create the vast majority of new data in the world today […]... →

One of the more interesting parts of the Microsoft’s HoloLens augmented reality initiative is the way Microsoft is listening to the public to direct some of its early-stage app development for the platform, through the Share Your Idea website launched earlier this month. One of the top three ideas on the site, based on votes, […]... →

Reminder: Almost 90 per cent of the revenue of the company formerly known as Google — grandly rebranded Alphabet this fall, even if everyone, including me, is still going to call Google Google — comes from advertising. Mountain View’s annual revenue is around $69 billion at this point. It makes almost all (89 per cent) of that money-mountain from ads. It might like… Read More... →

Google will remove YouTube’s Webcam Capture feature, which lets users record videos with webcams right on YouTube with no uploading required, after January 16, 2016. When you use Webcam Capture now, you’ll see a little warning near the top of the screen about the feature’s upcoming disappearance. Webcam Capture first showed up way back in […]... →

It’s taken long enough. Social news site Reddit has finally come up with a core app for Android. The company has begun taking requests for access to a beta version of the app. “As many of you know, the team here has been working hard to bring our official native Reddit app to Android for […]... →

Asia accounts for nearly half of the mobile learning revenues in the world. Thousands of hagwons, or “cram schools,” line the streets in South Korea, which has about 15 percent of the global tutoring market. Parents spend an average of $1,000 per month on private tutoring — an estimated 20 percent of the monthly cost to raise a child there. In India, 7.5 percent of… Read More... →

With the close of the Paris Climate Talks, tech titans pledging to invest in clean energy technologies, and Buffett’s Grandson starting a Berkshire Hathaway-like fund for impact investing, the question remains: how can tech solve climate change? Read More... →

GUEST: Virtually everyone is infatuated with Instagram and Snapchat. Few of us can remember the days before Facebook and Twitter. But email is still the best way to drive sales. In fact, a survey we conducted revealed that nearly 60 percent of Americans prefer brands contact them via email, and email marketing continues to yield higher ROI […]... →

Atlassian, the company behind enterprise software like HipChat, BitBucket, and JIRA, went public this week, raising $462 million in its initial public offering (IPO) and picking up a solid pop in its stock market debut. It was probably the last technology IPO of the year, and a big one at that. Established in 2002 and […]... →

GUEST: Dropbox’s surprise announcement Monday that it was shuttering two of its most popular applications, Mailbox and Carousel, was mostly matter-of-factly reported. Only a few articles even pointed out that Dropbox paid a reported $100 million to acquire Mailbox less than two years ago. As I tweeted, “$100M is a lot to write off – even […]... →