Lifehacker.com
For every large purchase you have to pay for, there’s a trick to try to make it less painful. Some work better than others. Read more... more…
Engadget
Stop me if you've heard this one before. At E3 2013, Microsoft tripped over its shoelaces as it tried to justify the unexpectedly high price and complex ecosystem of its upcoming console, the Xbox One. It required an internet connection and locked purchases t… more…
Wired
Aurora hooked up with Chrysler on Monday, ditched VW on Tuesday, and doubled down with Hyundai on Wednesday. more…
Wired
SpaceX’s next Falcon Heavy launch will carry a satellite that will test, for the first time, a “green” fuel that is even less toxic than caffeine. more…
Wired
BetterUp wants to bring data to human resources, and create more fulfilled employees. more…
Wired
The number of female protagonists in games showcased at E3 has remained low for years. more…
Wired
The same hackers behind a potentially lethal 2017 oil refinery cyberattack are now sniffing at US electrical utility targets. more…
Wired
If you're still in the dark about the latest advancement in videogame graphics, we're here to show you the light. more…
The Verge
Defense contractor Raytheon is reportedly in advanced talks to merge with United Technologies, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. The deal could be announced as early as Monday. more…
The Verge
NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine claims “nothing has changed” after President Trump seemed to question the space agency’s plans to return humans to the Moon in a tweet on June 7th. While speaking at NASA Glenn Research Center, Bridenstine argued that the Mo… more…
TechCrunch
The travel tech industry has got another unicorn. Following the likes of Airbnb, OYO, Traveloka and Klook, Korea’s Yanolja said today it has closed a $180 million Series D round that takes it valuation beyond $1 billion. The investment is led by GIC, a Singap… more…
TechCrunch
Doubling down on comments he’s made throughout the years regarding AI’s potential impact on the medical industry, legendary Silicon Valley investor and Sun Microsystems founder Vinod Khosla said on Wednesday that he believes “any radiologist to plans to pract… more…
TechCrunch
Low code and no code are the latest industry buzzwords, but if vendors can truly abstract away the complexity of difficult tasks like building machine learning models, it could help mainstream technologies that are currently out of reach of most business user… more…
TechCrunch
Hyundai Motor Group has invested in Aurora, the latest sign that the scope of the year-old partnership between the automaker and self-driving car startup has expanded. Aurora and Hyundai didn’t disclose terms of the investment. However, picking part new detai… more…
TechCrunch
The UK government today announced a £153 million investment into efforts to commercialize quantum computing. That’s about $193 million and with additional commitments from numerous industry players, that number goes up to over $440 million. With this, the UK’… more…
TechCrunch
Zume Inc. (they of the robotic pizza) has acquired Southern California-based Pivot, designer of plant-based packaging material. Along with the deal, Zume will be opening up a 70,000 square foot manufacturing plant in the area. Zume notes that it has actually … more…
TechCrunch
NASA’s stated goal of sending the first woman ever, and the first man since the Apollo program to the Moon involves setting up a new space station that will orbit the Moon which is supposed to begin being built by the end of 2022 per current timelines. Today,… more…
TechCrunch
Just a few months ago, Innoviz became one of the better capitalized lidar startups when it announced it had raised $132 million in a Series C funding round. But that wouldn’t be the end of it. The company kept the funding doors propped open and ultimately cap… more…
TechCrunch
Holberton School, which sees itself as a college alternative for budding software engineers, today announced that it has opened a campus in Medellin, Colombia. With this, it now operates to schools in the country after opening its Bogota campus earlier this y… more…
TechCrunch
Growth Pilots is one of the more exclusive performance marketing agencies in San Francisco, but they know how to help high-growth startups excel at paid marketing. CEO and founder Soso Sazesh credits his personal experiences as an entrepreneur along with his … more…