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As courts grapple with how to apply the Fourth Amendment’s privacy provisions to online crime fighting, it may become difficult for law enforcement and technology companies to collaborate to fight terrorism and other crimes. Read More... →

GUEST: A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, something called Birdly Mobile used to exist. It was a mobile app: something you could download on an App Store and use on your smartphone just by tapping on an icon. The app did something really cool: You only had to take a snap […]... →

After a series of back-and-forths between Apple and Taylor Swift over royalties, a near-break up between the superstar and Apple Music and a final mea culpa between the two, Swift is now planning on releasing a documentary for her 1989 concert tour exclusively on Apple Music. Thank you so much for all the birthday wishes. I have a little surprise for you. #1989WorldTourLIVE… Read More... →

The way we do everything has been turned upside down: how we read, how we communicate, how we get from point A to point B, how we eat and how we get help when we need it. We are living through the “re-imagination — of nearly everything,” and we are seeing this re-imagination very clearly within the self-help industry. Read More... →

GUEST: One of the hardest days of my life was the day I decided to hire my own boss. I cofounded Looksharp six years ago and had been through the trenches. From cutting founder salaries and narrowly raising a seed round in 2010 to losing key employees at key moments, we had dodged more bullets than […]... →

When white people in tech open their mouths about diversity, I tend to brace myself. More often than not, it seems like they say something tone-deaf, outright offensive or lacking in an understanding of intersectionality. Intersectionality is the concept that people face multi-faceted layers of discrimination as a result of their intersecting identities relating to race, gender, class and… Read More... →

GUEST: The 2016 Consumer Electronics Show kicks off in just a few weeks, and we marketers will get a glimpse of new technologies that will impact how we talk to our audiences. Here are 5 trend territories to keep an eye on at this year’s expo: 1. Emotive robotics Emotive robotics is based on systems and […]... →

Самые популярные и обсуждаемые тексты уходящей недели на vc.ru — в традиционном воскресном дайджесте.... →

GUEST: When Apple Pay was first announced back in September 2014, I was very enthusiastic about it. Finally, a dream come true! Someone, and not just someone but the biggest company in the world, had come up with a new generation of payment technology that would combine mobile and biometric forces. The long chain of disappointments, […]... →

Издание Forbes опубликовало колонку медиаэксперта Грега Сателла, в которой он объясняет, почему успех известных людей часто зависит от того, как быстро они учатся восстанавливаться после крупных неприятностей в своей жизни. vc.ru приводит перевод заметки.... →

GUEST: Famo.us raised $25 million last year, bringing its total funding to over $30 million. Fifteen months after its most recent raise, the company “laid off a big chunk of the team, including its VP of Engineering, Head of Open Source, and a dozen engineers” and switched directions for the third time. Famo.us had started as […]... →

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.... →