Category: Tech news

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 Upstream Security, a new startup founded by two cyber security industry veterans, announced a $9 million Series A today to help protect connected vehicles and eventually autonomous cars. Today, that probably means a car using a service like OnStar to connect over the internet to your manufacturer for a menu of in-car services such as automated crash detection and stolen vehicle assistance. In… Read More

 Co-working startup Mindspace recently raised $20 million as it gears up to launch its first two locations in the U.S. While Mindspace is looking to go big or go home in the U.S., it’s starting off slow with its first two locations in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. Mindspace started in Tel Aviv about four years ago and has since expanded to Germany, Poland and the U.K. Read More

 Adobe launched an update to its suite of Lightroom photo management apps today that, among other things, brings a new machine learning-powered auto setting to the service. The new auto setting uses Adobe’s Sensei AI platform to analyze your photo and compare it to the thousands of professionally edited images in its catalog (including, I assume, those in Adobe Stock). Then it uses… Read More

 Storify’s eventual shuttering has been a long time coming. The social timeline curation service was acquired by commenting platform Livefyre back in 2013, which, in turn, was picked up by Adobe in May of last year. In a pithily worded note on its homepage today, the service announced that it will cease to exist as a standalone offering starting next year. The process of disappearing from… Read More

In the latest Star Wars sequel, Snoke comes to life thanks to Andy Serkis—extremely, frighteningly alive.

The spring inside a clicky pen is a perfect way to learn about projectile motion.

Advocacy groups contend tech companies are quietly working to undo a compromise measure to curb sex trafficking.

The 4.0-liter V8 engine that sits behind the two carbon fiber seats produces 789 brake horsepower.

A plug-and-play motor could send any satellite to burn up in the atmosphere. It’s a good thing, promise.

Opinion: Ajit Pai’s plan to ditch the open internet will have a serious, and negative, impact on innovation.

The mission also christens an improved launch pad—destroyed in a 2016 explosion—to support the next generation of launches.

Schools, colleges, and students may not be able to pay for “fast lanes” permitted if the FCC abandons net neutrality rules.

The Islamic State is designing and mass-producing its own advanced munitions—with parts from all over the world.

The Global Supertanker is a modified Boeing 747 that drops mass quantities of fire retardant from just 200 feet above the ground.