Earlier today at Disrupt, Kirsten Green, founder of the early-stage, San Francisco-based venture firm Forerunner Ventures, sat down for a quick conversation about her work. Green has become one of the most sought-after e-commerce investors in the country, thanks to bets on compa … | Continue reading
The story goes that, during the Battle of Jericho, God directed seven priests to blast notes from their ram's horns as they circled the city, and the sound from those horns wobbled the walls of Jericho until they crumbled. This, almost certainly, did not happen. But sound has lon … | Continue reading
In a fairly epic new Vanity Fair profile, the magazine reports that Peter Thiel is the frontrunner to become the chair of the President’s Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), a meta intelligence entity that functions independently from the nation’s spy agencies. Read More | Continue reading
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GUEST: There are 1,110 cryptocurrencies registered on Coinmarketcap.com; nine of them have a market cap of above $1 billion, and 377 have a market cap of above $1 million. This naturally begs questions like “Does the world need all these cryptocurrencies?”, “Will the one with the … | Continue reading
What We’re FollowingForeign Policy: President Trump’s aggressive speech to the UN General Assembly is getting criticism from around the world—not only from the governments he criticized, but also from some U.S. allies. His emphasis on American interests over global interdependenc … | Continue reading
There are tons of companies trying to solve the problem of managing, monitoring and paying musicians for the songs they make. The latest entrant into this competitive marketplace is HAAWK, which just scored $2.5 million in new financing for its technology. Read More | Continue reading
GUEST: I was target of a review bombing campaign years ago, when I released Telepath RPG: Servants of God on Desura. I had committed the sin of pricing a role-playing game higher than what some players wished to pay, and the offended crowd took it upon themselves to down-vote the … | Continue reading
Uber’s first-ever chief brand officer, Bozoma Saint John, spoke today at TechCrunch Disrupt about the challenges ahead of her in her new role focused on transforming the Uber brand. The executive, who most recently led the global consumer marketing division for Apple Music and i … | Continue reading
Next month, Switzerland's hospitals will be equipped with a potentially revolutionary autonomous drone delivery network. Healthcare providers and a Menlo Park, California company called Matternet have teamed up to implement the system across the country. And on Wednesday, Mattern … | Continue reading
I've been dying to get my hands on Morphite [$7.99], the new action adventure title from developers Crescent Moon Games, Blowfish Studios, and We're Five Games, ever since I gazed upon its luscious low-poly environments when it was originally announced back in May of last year. I … | Continue reading
BlackBerry will team up with automotive company Delphi to provide some much needed support for self-driving cars — but the project won't have anything to do with old-school smartphone service. The two companies signed a commercial working partnership that will bring BlackBerry's … | Continue reading
Stormbound: Kingdom Wars is a collectible card game that lets you build a powerful deck and vanquish your foes in offline or PVP sessions. | Continue reading
In an age where voice assistants can play music, give directions, and define words, it’s no surprise that home lighting is becoming a leading use for this new category. Philips Hue takes your lighting setup to the next level. By using your voice to ask Amazon Alexa, Apple Siri, … | Continue reading
Cryptocurrency trading is one of the core drivers of the blockchain space’s growth. After all, when every crypto-asset is capable of being transacted on an open market, the movement and circulation of value are only natural. It also serves to distribute an asset to potentially an … | Continue reading
What has Apple really done to improve Siri? To be honest, I’m not sure. After testing it for an entire day since Tuesday’s iOS 11 release, mostly on an iPad 9.7-inch and an iPhone 7 Plus, it’s obvious Siri is not a major priority for the company, even if some of the features are … | Continue reading
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Remember how we told you to turn off your Bluetooth? Well, iOS 11 just made that a lot harder. Turning off Wi-Fi and Bluetooth used to be as simple as swiping upwards and pressing two buttons on your control panel. Those buttons still exist in your new and improved (but slightly … | Continue reading
Middle-Earth: Shadow of War, the mobile take on the highly anticipated PC and console game with the same name, continues its development while in soft-launch, and today we got to see a trailer that shows off its Nemesis system, the gameplay twist that made the PC version of the g … | Continue reading
Colophon How does this marvelous web site work? Site Generation and Hosting This website it hosted on GitHub Pages , which integrates Jekyll, a static site generator. You can find the source for the site at http://github.com/sduff/sduff.github.io. Previously, I had written a cust … | Continue reading
Rescue teams across central Mexico are scrambling to find survivors trapped under debris after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake struck near the capital, Mexico City, killing hundreds of people. Photo: Associated Press | Continue reading
Knightscope, the robot security company famous for the R2-D2-like machine that recently drowned itself in a mall’s pool, has just unveiled an off-roading robot. The Silicon Valley company calls this model the K7. With its four wheels and high clearance, the K7 — which measures i … | Continue reading
It’s a rough time to update your graphics card due to surging prices caused by cryptocurrency mining and video memory prices, but that doesn’t mean you can’t put that money toward other upgrades. For example, AOC, one of the big names in the gaming-monitor space, has a new produc … | Continue reading
Jeffrey Gerrish made a mistake. Not a big one, although he did break the law. But it’s a mistake many people make, and for the most part, they aren’t called out by the Senate Finance Committee and in the pages of The New York Times.Most of the people who make the error, however, … | Continue reading
The ebook industry is here to stay, they say, and in the US, you can now see which ebooks are available at your local libraries thanks to Google. | Continue reading
Today in 5 LinesSpecial Counsel Robert Mueller reportedly requested extensive records from the White House as part of his probe into Russia’s interference in the presidential election. President Trump told reporters he has made a decision on whether to abandon the Iran deal, but … | Continue reading
I have a standing desk. I like it. I'm standing right now, actually, and blogging at the same time. My standing desk is automated, so I push buttons on its attached remote, and it goes up and down. It also has some onboard memory and saves heights for me. It's neat but not too wi … | Continue reading
Content Marketing World 2017 marked the sixth time I attended the event, so I knew what to expect. What I didn’t count on was getting a big kick in the backside and a reminder from my childhood about how to behave. From the main stage and in many breakout sessions, a common messa … | Continue reading
It turns out Wikipedia is a pretty good source for scientists, even if your biology professor won’t accept it for your term papers. Researchers at MIT and the University of Pittsburgh today released a paper that shows a direct correlation between information made available on Wik … | Continue reading
In a first for national grocery chains, Albertsons is buying the healthy meal kit delivery startup Plated for an undisclosed amount, brokered by Credit Suisse Group AG. Read More | Continue reading
In his sovereignty-centric speech Tuesday to the UN General Assembly, President Donald Trump threatened to “totally destroy North Korea”; called Iran “a corrupt dictatorship” whose “chief exports are violence, bloodshed, and chaos”; and said Venezuela’s government “has inflicted … | Continue reading
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told world leaders at the United Nations on Wednesday that Iran would not be the first country to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear agreement, but warned that if the U.S. does, Tehran would respond forcefully. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
Tesla is reportedly developing its own processor for artificial intelligence, intended for use with its self-driving systems, in partnership with AMD. Tesla has an existing relationship with Nvidia, whose GPUs power its Autopilot system, but this new in-house chip reported by CN … | Continue reading
GUEST: Recruiters vet thousands of applications and conduct hundreds of interviews each year. This process generates an absurd amount of data that can be difficult for the average human to handle. Modern recruiters are very talented, but they inevitably miss employee placements d … | Continue reading
Nestled firmly between old and new, millennials are the middle child of the technology industry. On one hand, we have our parents and grandparents, who grew up with landline phones, or no phones at all. On the other hand, we have Gen Z who were brought into the world basically kn … | Continue reading
A major state-owned telecommunications provider in Switzerland has created a new blockchain business. | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: It’s no secret that Google searches for “how to move to Canada” surged after the 2016 U.S. presidential election. But there’s now new data that Canadian startups are seeing more interest from U.S. workers than ever before, as fist reported by Axios — and many of them ar … | Continue reading
Delphi is planning to launch its own autonomous driving solution for car manufacturers and mobility service fleet operators in 2019, and it announced today that it will use BlackBerry QNX as the operating system for the automated drive solution. Both BlackBerry QNX and Delphi ar … | Continue reading
Tesla is reportedly working on a chip to handle all the tasks needed to power the fleet of fully self-driving cars that its CEO Elon Musk promised would be road-ready by 2019. According to CNBC, the electric carmaker is working with AMD to develop the autonomous driving chip. It’ … | Continue reading
Google will bring its Android One program to the U.S. for the first time with Motorola's new Moto X4.The phone, which runs the "pure Android experience" without any carrier or manufacturer bloatware, will be available for Google's Project Fi service. The Moto X4 will be the first … | Continue reading
After Facebook disclosed earlier this month that Russia had used its ad platform to promote propaganda, politicians quickly called for closer scrutiny of the company’s ad system. Today, in a letter to the Federal Election Commission, a group of Congressional Democrats called for … | Continue reading
Augmented reality is one of the most talked-about features of the iOS 11 launch. When Apple unveiled its ARKit, it told developers it wanted to make iOS the “the largest AR platform in the world.” Studios have published apps and games that are testing out new features and playing … | Continue reading
Above all else, President Donald Trump wants the world to see him as strong. He has repeatedly described himself as “militaristic,” and his cabinet as a group of “killers.” He relishes saying the supposedly unsayable. When he spoke at the UN General Assembly yesterday, he surely … | Continue reading
In a post today, Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg made her first public statement on a recent ProPublica investigation of ad-targeting to hate groups, calling the issue “a fail on our part.” Last week, ProPublica’s investigation found that Facebook clients could … | Continue reading
In failing to correctly patch a known vulnerability and exposing the personal data of potentially 143 million Americans to hackers, Equifax made a security blunder of epic proportions — however, it appears the company is just getting started.Leaving its digital doors wide open to … | Continue reading
Facebook failed to foresee how turning user-written interests and employer information from profiles into ad targeting options could turn offensive. Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has apologized for the situation, and announced that Facebook will now manually review all ad targeti … | Continue reading