- Soylent founder’s abandoned “eco-living experiment” could land him in jail
Soylent’s Rob Rhinehart is facing criminal charges and fines up to $4,000 for allegedly refusing to remove a shipping container he placed on top of a hill behind his home in the Montecito Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. The head of the meal replacement startup weirdly named after a movie where... - Ticwatch 2 is a slick smartwatch that raised $500K on Kickstarter in just 3 days
If you haven’t been tempted to buy a smartwatch yet, or have been disappointed by your purchase of an Apple Watch, one of Samsung’s (many) Gear wearables or others, there may yet be salvation for you. Read More - Pokémon Go’s paying user base has reached a plateau
- The Freewrite is the ultimate distraction-free writing tool
- Square Enix’s new RPG comes to the Apple Watch
- A glimpse inside Tesla’s super secretive Gigafactory
Even having grown up in California, I’m realizing I’m not built for this heat. We’re 30 minutes or so outside of Reno, but it feels like I’m on the sun. I can feel my sunscreen baking off. Why the hell did I wear black today? It’s okay; it’s worth it. I’m out here for a glimpse inside Tesla’s Gigaf... - Charging startups to apply to an accelerator is exploitative and dumb
Yesterday, a little birdie told me about Nextt, an accelerator (probably more accurately referred to as an incubator) for early-idea-stage startups. The idea is to take a napkin-stage idea and turn it into an MVP of sorts in six weeks. Not a shabby idea, but the insidious thing here is that Nextt c... - Research shows deleted WhatsApp messages aren’t actually deleted
- Dedrone partners with Airbus to bring drone detection to wide open spaces including airports
- Microsoft awards hardware startup ENTy the 2016 Imagine Cup
- Clinton campaign breached by hackers
- There won’t be an ‘Uber for healthcare’ anytime soon
- Instagram to roll out anti-harassment tools
- Gilded as charged
- In what contexts should messaging be the UI?
The current messaging hype is overstated. There are certainly some interesting and unique opportunities for messaging as an interface, but I contend the number of practical use cases is a fraction of what the current hype cycle suggests. Read More - Serious privacy flaws discovered in Glow fertility tracker app
There are scores of startups making fertility tracker and family planning apps today, but a Consumer Reports investigation has singled out Glow Inc. for serious security and privacy flaws. First, Consumer Reports’ team was able to access very personal information including data and comments about u... - Here’s whats new in the latest Pokémon Go update
- Tech trends that will impact your home
- The human role in a bot-dominated future
- 10 most unlikely startup investments made by NBA legends
- Make your commute suck less
- VR needs a hit
- Indonesia will be Asia’s next biggest e-commerce market
- It’s a new era for female Israeli entrepreneurs
The Israeli startup scene has dramatically changed within a couple of years because of the significant increase in investment prospects, events, meet-ups, competitions, lectures, academic programs and more. Especially interesting are the recent alterations in the diversity of the entrepreneurs, wit... - Understanding Hillary Clinton’s innovation plan
So what will a Clinton presidency mean to Silicon Valley? And does she actually have a plan on innovation and technology? Read More - Virtual reality will not replay the 3D debacle
- BlackBerry’s security-focused Android identity crisis
- Gillmor Gang: Not Insane
- Here’s what your boring app would look like as a conversation
- BBC: And then we strapped a helicopter rig to an elephant
- The other pipeline
- It’s okay for Pikachu to watch you — as long as you want it to
- Video ad company Teads raises $47M in debt, plans acquisitions and further Asia expansion
Video advertising platform Teads has raised a further $47 million in debt financing. Providing the capital are a bank syndicate made up of BNPP, Bank of China, HSBC, Banque Palatine, and BPI. Read More - Confirmed: Didi buys Uber China in a bid for profit, will keep Uber brand
China’s Didi Chuxing has confirmed that it has agreed to buy Uber China in a deal that had been heavily speculated earlier today. Read More - Lumo Run’s new jogging sensor launches today – here’s how it stacks up
- In Kenya, Safaricom’s Little Cab app goes head to head with Uber
- Grab CEO: Didi victory shows we can beat Uber in Southeast Asia
- Uber China will reportedly merge with archrival Didi Chuxing
- Philips intros a smart health product ecosystem
- A Q&A with DFJ Partner, Bill Bryant, on “unicorn” valuations and startup investing
- Talking the future of education with Convergent Media founder Rob Anderson
- Third-party Pokémon Go tracking services get shut down
Pokévision, and other popular third-party tracking apps that helped Pokémon Go players discover which Pokémon were nearby and see their location on a map, have been shut down. The move follows comments from Niantic’s CEO John Hanke last week, where he referred to to the use of such sites as cheatin... - GlaxoSmithKline and Google’s life science wing form new bioelectronic medicine company
A fortnight after offering news that it will be using Apple’s ReasearchKit to conduct arthritis research, drug giant GlaxoSmithKline has announced that it will be teaming with Verily, the Alphabet-owned LLC formerly known as Google Life Sciences, to create Galvani Bioelectronics. The jointly owned ... - TCV closes $2.5B fund, TCV IX, for growth-stage investments
- Google is stepping up its game for the Rio Olympics
- Sioeye Iris4G is an action camera with built-in cell service for live streaming
- The highs and lows of the Cadillac CT6 Bose Panaray audio system
- Verizon buys Fleetmatics for $2.4B in cash to step up in telematics
- EU-US Privacy Shield open for sign ups from today
- HTC Vive now £70 more pricey in the UK, thanks to Brexit
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