Category: Tech news

 While it’s always fun to quibble with the story selection and headlines, Techmeme remains one of the best ways to get caught up quickly on the latest tech news. Starting today, it’s going to try delivering something similar in audio form. This is Techmeme’s first podcast, but it may not be as big of a stretch as it seems — founder Gabe Rivera described the show (via… Read More

 If you’ve ever been stuck in a boring meeting, chances are you might spend the time busy answering messages from email or Slack — or even just browsing around the Internet while you wait for it to finally end. And there are a lot of factors that go into making that meeting boring, from the content to the person actually delivering it. Phillip Arkcoll knows that problem quite well,… Read More

 What’s better than building a company in a fast growing industry? Building a service provider for all the other companies in that fast growing industry. While Mighty started as a plaintiff financing platform it’s shifted to a software company that’s building an “operating system for legal and medical founders”. Essentially the startup has created a CRM-like tool… Read More

 ELSA, an app whose name stands for “English Language Speech Assistant” (and not the popular Disney character!), has raised $3.2 million for its A.I.-assisted language learning platform that teaches people how to speak English. Unlike other courses that focus mainly on teaching grammar and vocabulary, ELSA uses artificial intelligence and speech recognition technology to help… Read More

It turns out that kleptopredation is an environmentally friendly strategy. Perhaps there really is honor among thieves.

At the ultra-flashy Geneva Motor Show, the revived Polestar, VW, and other automakers showed off cars they hope will let them dominate the growing electric car market.

And the ride-hailing giant is hard to beat when it comes to piling up data about where and when things go.

To understand Bernoulli’s principle, it helps to think of air as a bunch of tiny balls.

Radiosonde enthusiasts use a software and huge antennae to track balloons that have parachuted back to earth.

First Moore, now Lass: As machinery gets cheaper and more digitized, could the number of fab labs, or such tools, really double every year and a half?

WIRED columnist Felix Salmon on how Serial paved the way for a new generation of daily news podcasts.

It teaches readers about the volatile compounds in food, and how to combine them in their cooking.

Washington governor Jay Inslee on Monday signed the nation’s first state law intended to protect net neutrality.

Pennsylvania’s attorney general filed a lawsuit against the ride-hailing giant Monday for failing to disclose a massive hack for more than a year—and it might not be the last.

Women helped create web domains and bookmarks, a neglected history explored in Claire L. Evans’ new book “Broad Band.”