- Here’s why you should attend the Disrupt London Hackathon, more tickets now available
The Hackathon at Disrupt London 2016 is so close we can almost taste it. Soon, thousands of founders, investors and tech enthusiasts will storm London’s Copper Box Arena for the best startup show in Europe. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that the next wave of tickets to the hackathon is availabl... - Wynd grabs $31.7 million for its point-of-sale solution
French startup Wynd has raised a $31.7 million Series B round (€30 million) from Sodexo Ventures and Orange Digital Ventures, with Bpifrance also participating. Orange Digital Ventures had already invested in the Series A round with Alven Capital. Wynd is working on a software-as-a-service solution... - Reddit CEO admits he secretly edited comments from Donald Trump supporters
- Crunch Report | Facebook Builds a Censorship Tool
- China’s Ctrip is buying flight search company SkyScanner for $1.74 billion
- The tangle of the year
One of the primary reasons for Thanksgiving was always the celebration of the end of the harvest and the promise of new growth. Home gardens wilted in the first November rains and the apples and herbs died out around the ides. The land goes from oregano and blanched green bean to tan and dust and b... - Zvooq, Russia’s Spotify, sues Yandex for $29M after key staff were allegedly poached
Zvooq, a music streaming service in Russia and CIS countries backed by major Western labels, is suing Yandex for $29 million. It accuses the Russian search giant of poaching key Zvooq staff for its own music streaming service, in contravention of an NDA the two parties allegedly signed in February ... - Maserati plans an all-electric Alfieri for 2020
- LeEco’s Le Pro3 is cheap, fast and frustrating
- Watching Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in Daydream VR is actually fun
- Dyson’s V8 cordless is your best bet for ditching your heavy plug-in vacuum
- Strolling through the line at Snapchat’s NYC Spectacle store
- Anyone for quantifiable VR mindfulness?
- Autonomous robots and game-playing A.I. — Incredible demos at Disrupt London, Dec 5-6
- Tesla’s Autopilot and the double standard for automotive safety systems
This summer saw the inevitable controversy arise when a Tesla automobile was involved in a fatal traffic accident while operating in its headline-grabbing Autopilot mode. While early reports seem to point toward human error by both parties involved, many people are debating what responsibility fall... - Faraday Future’s factory construction paused; shipping timelines at risk
Electric vehicle maker Faraday Future may not be able to make its first cars in time to hits its 2017 shipping deadlines, according to a new report by the Financial Times on Thursday. It’s hard to ship a car when your factory itself isn’t finished, is the main issue – FF’s Nevada-based manufacturin... - Watch this $9K VR walking rig really put players into the game
- 11 smart gifts for the connected homebody
- GoCardless spies a glimmer of hope for UK fintech amid the Brexit gloom
- 2016 Thanksgiving on track to break $2B in online sales
- Seven principles to ignite a culture of innovators
- Virata is an automatic watch with a racing pedigree
- Big data company Palantir quietly raised another $20M in November
- Xiaomi admits it doesn’t make money on smartphone hardware sales
Xiaomi’s business model isn’t about selling handsets, except insofar as those handset sales lead to recurring service revenue later on. So said Xiaomi global VP and former Android VP Hugo Barra in an interview with Reuters. The executive for the device maker was commenting on a drop in its smartpho... - Sharp brings dark and light Star Wars phones to SoftBank in Japan
Around this time last year, Verizon celebrated the long awaited arrival of The Force Awakens fittingly with a couple of limited edition Motorola Droid Turbo 2 handsets with themes tied to the star of the upcoming film. No word on any sort of follow up promotion for Rogue One (though the Moto Z woul... - Mobile shopping hits record numbers over Thanksgiving and Black Friday
- Uber rival Grab’s first CFO is leaving the company after just seven months
- Level Frames launches AI photo filters so you can be artsy IRL
- Rogue One: A Star Wars Story advance ticket sales start November 28
- Payments provider Stripe has raised another $150M at a $9B valuation
- Black Friday Sale: 2-for-1 Disrupt London Tickets
- Blockchain has the potential to revolutionize the supply chain
- Jill Stein campaign files to recount votes in Wisconsin
Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, and independent party candidate Rocky De La Fuente, today filed for a recount of votes in the state of Wisconsin after Stein raised more than $5.2 million via NationBuilder.com to pursue “election integrity.” Stein’s crowdfunding campaign raised donati... - Giving corporate innovation a jolt
Today’s competitive business world demands innovation. Corporations need to innovate to inspire, compete and survive. However, the burden of innovation has largely rested on startups. Large corporations and established businesses are expected to out-think their rivals, but more often we see that th... - Watch Dogs 2 lampoons Silicon Valley with open-world hacking fun
- Salesforce serves as training ground for SaaS startup execs
- Mobile and enterprise are the keys to VR/AR scale
- Japan looks to create a superfast supercomputer for deep learning
- Peter Thiel taps a principal at Founders Fund for Trump’s transition team
- Inside Expa Labs, Uber co-founder’s take on the startup accelerator
- No more pastry panic: Alexa can now talk you through recipes
- Technology as a force for division — and unification — in politics
The functions of government outlined in the U.S. Constitution can be broadly broken down into the promotion of unity, justice, peace, defense and welfare. Nearly 230 years later, in an age when software rules the world, these principles remain constant — but the way in which the average citizen exp... - Become Michael Knight with Dashbot, an AI for your car
Who needs a smart car when you have a cool car? The Dashbot is a $49 add on for your vehicle that allows you to interact with your phone and Alexa while driving, thereby keeping your hands free to fend off pomaded villains and to swoop in an save innocent people before a helicopter explodes overhea... - Ears, hands or eyes
- Machine learning can fix Twitter, Facebook, and maybe even America
- Black Friday online sales to hit a record-breaking $3 billion, over $1 billion from mobile
- How to recruit, hire and retain female engineers
- Siren Care makes a “smart” sock to track diabetic health
- No Man’s Sky’s upcoming update paves the way for building bases
- Sphero’s BB-8 wearable brings Force control to home automation with IFTTT support
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