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Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. BuzzFeed expands into TV and movies with $200M NBCUniversal investment After weeks of rumors, listicle-loving BuzzFeed has confirmed that entertainment giant NBCUniversal is making a $200 million equity investment in the new media company. […]... →

Microsoft today announced support for backups of files and folders on PCs running Windows 10 through the Azure Backup cloud service. It’s a natural extension of Azure Backup following the launch of Windows 10 last month. Once you’ve connected a PC running Windows 10 to Azure Backup, you can back up data to the cloud […]... →

Today's guest on Hack the Entrepreneur is a serial entrepreneur, speaker, blogger, consultant, coach at Systems Scientist, podcaster, and author of Owning It: Embrace the Best and Worst Parts of You to Thrive in Life and Business . She is the founder of Mydzik Media, the host of The Off-Road Millenial podcast, where she talks about the future of work and millennial entrepreneurship, and she writes about personal branding and life-work balance for her personal site.... →

The space game is hot and only the strongest are going to survive. One Canadian company feels like its in a good spot to succeed, having just been awarded the patent for a “space elevator.” Back to the how’s and what’s in a second…the company, Thoth Technology, took an aggressive shot at Elon Musk’s SpaceX in the process of announcing the news by way of its… Read More... →

Sometimes a designer can get sucked so deeply into a project that they don’t even really know whether it looks good or not anymore. Feedback is an essential, yet strangely complicated, part of the design process. Wake, which is launching publicly today, aims to allow designers a more effective way to share their works-in-progress and get feedback from their teams. The… Read More... →

Your computer will recognize you in the future through your bracelet. Intel is keeping pace with the growing development of wearables for the workplace. At the Intel Developer Forum today the company announced work on an “enterprise wearable” that can authenticate a user to a computer, and even wake it up when the user comes […]... →

Dancing robot spiders may be coming your way. Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich closed his keynote speech with a demo of gesture-controlled robots dancing on stage at the Intel Developer Forum. We’re not sure what use these spiders will be. But Krzanich got a laugh when he joked, “I don’t think spiders are going to […]... →

Yesterday, Kim Dotcom tweeted an audio recording of a phone conversation between himself and Universal Music Group, about a potential deal between the music label and Megaupload. While the call was just two days before the 2012 raid and shutdown of Megaupload (and Kim’s home), it showed the label was trying to forge an ad sales deal directly with the company. These negotiations came… Read More... →

Slick is a new GoPro accessory launching today with an Indiegogo campaign. Instead of attaching your GoPro directly to something, you can put your GoPro into the Slick stabilizer and then attach the stabilizer to your helmet, drone or any other standard GoPro mount. And it costs $179. Read More... →

Imagine a company that installs an appliance to monitor your network for malicious activity, then broadcasts that security data to a cloud service and has experts watching and responding to any real threats. That’s what Traversal Networks, a member of the Summer Y Combinator 2015 class, is trying to do. In fact, the company was making its pitch at YC Demo Day shortly after I spoke… Read More... →

Microsoft today launched a new Windows 10 preview for PCs, the first build the company has released to testers since the operating system launched on July 29. The build includes new feedback features specifically for Windows Insiders, additional color options, memory management improvements, and the usual bug fixes. Microsoft is turning its OS into a […]... →

Now you can get your next bike with built-in electronics that monitor how well you do biking tricks. Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich showed a demo of a BMX bike with sensors attached to it that monitor the motion and position of the bike. It delivered real-time data about a stunt biker’s aerial moves. It […]... →

At its International Developers Conference in San Francisco today, Intel showed its work to make vending machines smarter, and, as it turns out, more sanitary. Intel announced an initiative in May with the vending tech company N&W in which it will deliver a low-energy Internet of Things chip for the vending machines. The chips can […]... →

Silent Circle showed off the second generation of its pro-privacy Android-hardened smartphone, the Blackphone, back in March at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow — touting a summer launch for the device. In the event, it’s still not launched, and the company has now quietly put up a pre-order page on its website, for a September release. Read More... →

So there's this new browser app that allows you to write/drop content into a text box and click "Edit" to determine if your writing is "bold and clear." It's called the Hemingway Editor. It's simple to use, but the questions remain: Does it work? And how does Hemingway actual stack up against his own app? That's what this episode is all about. In this 5-minute episode of Rough Draft with Demian Farnworth,... →

Креативное digital-агентство из Торонто 88 Creative опубликовало тест, в котором привело ряд названий, чтобы проверить, смогут ли пользователи угадать, какие из них принадлежат компаниям, а какие — фильмам для взрослых.... →

Japan’s mobile gaming market is huge, but just a few games take home a bulk of that spending. And one is making an extraordinary amount of cash on a daily basis. Developer Mixi, which produces the Japanese megahit Monster Strike for iOS and Android, reported that the game made $378 million from April 1 through […]... →

Misfit and Speedo have teamed up on the launch of a Speedo-branded activity, swim, and sleep tracker called the Speedo Shine. Misfit said the proprietary lap-counting algorithms embedded in the device’s firmware track a swimmer’s lap count accurately, and they work for all stroke types. The Speedo Shine syncs with the Misfit iOS and Android apps and displays laps […]... →

Соучредитель и глава по продукту сервиса личных водителей Wheely Павел Бочаров написал для ЦП колонку о процессе разработки нового приложения для iOS, Android и Windows Phone — как происходила разработка новой версии, каким образом разработчики планировали упростить заказ водителя и сделать приложение быстрее.... →

Intel chief executive Brian Krzanich announced an initiative today to make the Internet of Things more secure, starting at the chip level. Intel has created an industry standard dubbed the Enhanced Privacy Identification system that will make Internet of Things communication and transactions more secure. The Internet of Things is about making everyday objects smart […]... →