Category: Tech news

Frances McDormand’s acceptance speech was just one of the moments that made last night’s Oscars feel like real change was happening.

A clever system uses lasers and algorithms to map out-of-sight objects in 3-D. That could be great news for self-driving cars.

Privacy advocates and venture capitalists want to circumvent the tech giants with apps using encrypted data stored on networks of computers.

When you’re sending a $500,000 vial of genetically engineered, cancer-fighting cells, a safe delivery can mean the difference between life and death.

WIRED columnist Maryn McKenna on how offshoring drug and medical supply manufacturing puts patients and hospitals at risk.

Huge wins for ‘Get Out’ and ‘The Shape of Water’ prove genre fare can grapple with Big Ideas, and still connect with moviegoers.

From the president to Jared Kushner to Hope Hicks, the Trump administration kept the internet on its toes last week.

 Brandless is an usual company. A direct-to-consumer purveyor of food, beauty, and personal care products, it says that every item it makes is non-genetically modified, kosher, fair-trade, gluten-free, often organic and, in the case of cleaning supplies, EPA “Safer Choice” certified. They are also priced at $3 across the board. The idea, says cofounder and CEO Tina Sharkey, is… Read More

 When Birmingham led the charge in the civil rights movement in the sixties, the city inadvertently created big shoes for itself to later fill. Just how Birmingham was the birthplace of many civil rights actions in the sixties, the city wants to be the birthplace of true diversity and inclusion in the tech industry. I found that out and more when I visited Birmingham and explored its tech scene… Read More

 San Francisco Board of Supervisors President London Breed wants you to remember that she was once, and will be the future of mayor of San Francisco, she said at the Lesbians Who Tech conference on Friday. For those unfamiliar with San Francisco local politics, Breed temporarily served as acting mayor following the untimely passing of SF Mayor Ed Lee in December. As a result of his passing… Read More

 Hey, did you know that TechCrunch sends out a weekly newsletter rounding up the latest startup news? Well, we do! But for as-yet-unidentified technical reasons, it doesn’t seem to have gone out today, so I’m publishing it here. And if you haven’t subscribed yet, what are you waiting for? 1. What does it take to be a startup that raises huge sums quickly? “Trait No. 1:… Read More

 For months now, much of the media attention on the crypto space has been directed at ebbs and flows in the price of bitcoin on one side, and whiz-bang ICOs on the other.
The price of the most valuable cryptocurrency, Bitcoin (specifically the BTC chain), has backpedaled significantly from highs set in December 2017. The chart below shows pricing data from the CoinDesk Bitcoin Price Index… Read More

 The Gillmor Gang — Doc Searls, Frank Radice, Denis Pombriant, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, March 3, 2018.
Doc Searls: “steve was 15 years ahead of his time with Attention. His idea didn’t work until the only way to pay for attention arrived. Cryptocurrency is that way.”
@stevegillmor, @fradice, @Dsearls, @DenisPombriant, @kteare
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 Most of us tend to think people trying to open the door when we’re away want to steal stuff. Amazon.com would like to change that assumption. Read More

 If there is one policy dilemma facing nearly every tech company today, it is what to do about “content moderation,” the almost-Orwellian term for censorship. Charlie Warzel of Buzzfeed pointedly asked the question a little more than a week ago: “How is it that the average untrained human can do something that multibillion-dollar technology companies that pride themselves… Read More