Category: Tech news

 Twitter released its first quarter financial performance this afternoon, reporting revenue of $250 million in the period, and earnings per share of $0.00 on a non-GAAP basis. The street had expected Twitter to report revenue of $241.5 million, and a three cent per-share loss. That non-GAAP $0.00 EPS is slightly occlusive — the company in fact had non-GAAP net income of $183,000 in the… Read More

 Lyft confirmed today that it is working on a new “premium” service. It also said that it’s looking for community members to test it out, which they can sign up to do through a landing page for early access. Read More

As a post-demo day celebration, we’ve decided to start with ERA to launch our “Day In The Life” series, where we visit NY-based accelerators, incubators, and even a few VC firms to make sure that you, as a young first-time founder in the big city, have a resource when you’re looking for the best place to grow your company. The video above goes through a full tour of the… Read More

 Apple will raise $12 billion in debt, paying a 0.77 percent premium over Treasuries on the component 10-year notes. The offering will contain seven parts, with maturities ranging from three years to 30. Apple’s recently enlarged shareholder return program is not cheap. By raising a fresh $12 billion via bond issuance, Apple is not forced to bring home foreign cash reserves, a process that the… Read More

Attention all night owls and Antarctic penguins: A annular solar eclipse will be turning the sun into a glowing ring of fire, the full extent of which will only be visible from a remote spot of Antarctica. Viewers in the U.S. can catch part of the action with this live show from the Slooh Space Camera, beginning at 11 p.m PT/2 a.m ET.

If you’ve never lost hours of your life to a mesmerizing nest cam, now is a good time to start. As of yesterday, Big Red and Ezra have two brand new, super fuzzy red-tailed hawk chicks in their nest with one more still to hatch.

On Monday, Microsoft announced it was making group calling on Skype, a feature typically reserved for Skype’s premium customers, free for everyone. Finally.

Sometimes things happen and they don’t need a lot of explanation. This is one of those things.

Don Draper’s in freeze frame at the moment, backgrounded as the world of SC&P moves on, but he’s still that stallion.

Until now, it was unknown if Warhol had made any digital artworks on his own time.

Scientists studying social learning in animals have shown how easy it can be to introduce a new behavior into a group and watch it spread from individual to individual. However, not nearly as many studies are devoted to following up on the establishment of new behaviors to see if those behavioral traditions persist. An experiment showed that wild marmosets can remember their preferences for completing a test up to two years after first learning it.

First off, I wanted to apologize for the paucity of posts as of late. We’re into the end of the semester and I have been buried in both preparing new lecture/labs for both of my classes and attempts to grade all said work. This has devoured the time I usually have to write posts. Combine […]

At its best, the Game of Thrones TV show is transformative. It takes the biggest limitation of the books–a very small number of point-of-view characters–and obliterates it, allowing secondary characters like Margaery, Missandei and Grey Worm to develop new depth and interact in entirely new ways. On rare occasions, it even gives us insight into […]

I love this experiment. It’s a classic really. Also, Destin (from Smarter Every Day) does a great job making it interesting to everyone. Using Fake Forces Let me point out one minor complaint. You have to be very careful with the words “move” and “fast”. Does the balloon lean forward when the car is going […]

 One of the hard things about being a VC today: You must give entrepreneurs more than just capital. In my experience as a founder and sometime investor, here are five hard things I’ve seen great VCs do for their companies, long after their checks have cleared. Read More