Notion raises $10M at an $800M valuation

"Staying small is not just because it sounds nice," Notion COO Akshay Kothari said. "Staying small is actually helpful for us to move fast." | Continue reading


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How an artist is taking trash and turning it into optical-illusion sculptures

Tom Deininger builds intricate collage sculptures using discarded items. He pieces them together to form sculptures that are more than meets the eye. | Continue reading


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WeWork’s CEO pocketing $700M is still far from normal

Investors have been pouring money into more-mature startups. In some cases, they're encouraging founders to sell some of their stakes. | Continue reading


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Microsoft chairman explains how Satya Nadella won the cloud wars

Microsoft had to overhaul its culture to win at cloud and become a $1 trillion company, including downgrading the importance of Windows. | Continue reading


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Programming languages used by top unicorn startups like WeWork, Airbnb

Coding Dojo published data on the programming languages and frameworks that the top unicorns use, like WeWork, Juul, Airbnb, and SpaceX. | Continue reading


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The Worst Contract in Sports History Begins Today

Surprise! It was given out by the Mets. | Continue reading


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'A shit show': uBiome (YC S14) just cut half its staff

The layoffs are the latest episode in a turbulent stretch for uBiome, which raised $105 million on the promise of drawing health insights from poop. | Continue reading


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How Robinhood blew a launch so badly that Congress got involved

Robinhood, the $6 billion stock-trading app aimed at millennials, told users its new checking and savings accounts were insured. They weren't. | Continue reading


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Amazon Responded to a Frustrated Open-Source Developer

Within hours, one of the faces of AWS, Jeff Barr, said he had fixed a problem that a developer was publicly complaining about. | Continue reading


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Never Order an Iced Cappuccino

Ordering an iced latte makes way more sense. | Continue reading


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Apple News+ Is Underwhelming Publishers

Apple is working to make the product more intuitive for users while addressing publisher-side concerns, said execs who have met with the phone maker. | Continue reading


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Amazon's plan to disrupt the prescription drug market

An ongoing lawsuit with CVS revealed that Amazon plans to leverage PillPack to sell prescription drugs directly to health plans and employers. | Continue reading


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Larry Ellison explains Oracle's restructuring and layoffs

Oracle has been conducting layoffs for months. Chairman Larry Ellison explains which business units are the problems and which are the stars. | Continue reading


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YouTube is reassessing its kids content to get ahead of FTC crackdown

If YouTube shifts all children's content to YouTube Kids, it would see a significant loss in viewership on its main platform and a drop ad revenue. | Continue reading


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NPM secures funding until 2020

NPM CEO Bryan Bogensberger wrote an internal message to employees that the company could fundraise normally without having to worry. | Continue reading


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Oracle spent $36B in one year buying its own stock back

Investors love stock buybacks, but they carry the real risk that a company is spending its cash to placate investors rather than growing the business. | Continue reading


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Slack's direct listing: what went down with its Wall Street advisers

Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and Allen & Company are leading the charge on direct listings, but Slack's public offering proves there's a lot to figure out. | Continue reading


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Facebook is making Instagram and WhatsApp employees get fb.com email addresses

Facebook's family of apps have historically operated semi-independently, but the company is now moving to integrate them ever-more closely together. | Continue reading


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Walmart has filed for 97 drone patents – nearly double the amount of Amazon's

Walmart is on course to file more drone patents than Amazon for the second year in a row, according to BDO data. | Continue reading


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President Donald Trump has attacked London mayor Sadiq Khan's handling of crime in the city, but homicide rates in US cities are much higher. | Continue reading


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Everything you need to know about React, a project started at Facebook

React was originally a project built at Facebook to manage its ads. Now it's used by Pinterest, Twitter, Asana, Uber, and more. Here's how it started. | Continue reading


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A last-ditch ‘planet-hacking’ plan could keep Earth habitable (2018)

Climate change shows no signs of slowing, so as a last resort, a process called solar geoengineering could temporarily cool the planet by modifying the skies | Continue reading


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UBiome convinced SV poop testing was worth $600M. Then the FBI came knocking

Read how uBiome cut corners on its science and put the company's growth before patients' best interests. | Continue reading


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CERN ditching Microsoft software, angry over price increases

The scientific research organization, best known for the Large Hadron Collider, is fed up with Microsoft, it announced in a blog post. | Continue reading


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Fund managers are overwhelmed by data, & they're turning to an unlikely source

Platforms like Quantopian and QuantConnect give anyone the ability to look for investment signals in data, and funds can license the best ones. | Continue reading


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CNN explains why it's pulling its high-performing Anderson Cooper news show off Facebook Watch

CNN will stream "Anderson Cooper Full Circle," one of Facebook's most popular Watch news shows, exclusively on its own site and apps. | Continue reading


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Goldman Sachs isn't sweating concerns over the Apple Card's profitability

Credit-card competitors have cast doubt on the Apple Card's profit potential. Goldman's Omer Ismail sees the card as a tool to build customer loyalty. | Continue reading


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Microsoft and Oracle link up their clouds

Microsoft's Scott Guthrie and Oracle's Don Johnson explain the thinking for a new partnership making Microsoft Azure interoperable with Oracle Cloud. | Continue reading


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Google, Facebook, Tech Antitrust Regulation: Comments from CalSTRS CIO

Chris Ailman, CIO of CalSTRS, says the recent struggles of Facebook, Amazon, and Apple are indicative of a bigger change that needs to occur. | Continue reading


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Mark Zuckerberg's personal security chief accused of harassment, racist remarks

A key aide of the Facebook CEO has been accused of serious misconduct, and another is accused of doing nothing when complaints were raised. | Continue reading


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Google internal emails show they defrauded advertisers for years

The CEO of AdTrader recorded a call with Google sales staffer who said his clients would be refunded for invalid clicks. The money never arrived. | Continue reading


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Design startup Canva is now a $2.5B company

The Australian-based design startup Canva will use the funds to build out tools to better compete with Microsoft PowerPoint and Google's G Suite. | Continue reading


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The 400-year old science joke behind Nasa’s Juno mission (2016)

Wait for it... | Continue reading


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WeWork's CEO says his $47B company is recession-proof. Experts aren't convinced

WeWork, founded in 2010, hasn't gone through an economic downturn. Analysts say a market drop could hit it much harder than its tech peers like Uber. | Continue reading


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We learned how to act for motion capture

Motion capture uses an actors' body movements to help create incredibly realistic computer-generated characters. It's been used in everything from "Avengers: Infinity War" to "Lord of the Rings" to the most recent "Planet of the Apes" movies. We met up with Richard Dorton, a moti … | Continue reading


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Facebook Co-Founder Chris Hughes Got Barack Obama Elected

Not singlehandedly, no. ; But we're talking MAJOR contribution... | Continue reading


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Microsoft explains KEDA, its big bet in serverless computing

Last week, Microsoft announced Kubernetes-based event-driven autoscaling (KEDA). Azure CTO Mark Russinovich explains why serverless is the future of cloud. | Continue reading


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San Franciso Is Over: Europe Home to Next Big Hit

San Francisco is losing its luster and investors are increasingly looking elsewhere for exciting start ups, less expensive talent and cheaper offices. | Continue reading


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Biggest vidgame company pulls game in China, replaces it with patriotic version

Tencent is dropping support for "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" in China amid regulatory bureaucracy. | Continue reading


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What we know about Lockheed Martin's mysterious SR-72

In 2013, Lockheed Martin announced development of the the successor to the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane. | Continue reading


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If you're a procrastinator, get more done if you throw away your to-do list

It's time to trash the to-do lists for a method that's far more effective. | Continue reading


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Oracle CEO says consolidation coming to 'underfunded' SaaS

Hurd said there is a "long list of underfunded competitors" in the software-as-a-service industry that "will go away" as the market consolidates. | Continue reading


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The brilliant strategy behind Steve Jobs using 190-point text on slides

Silicon-Valley based author and speaker Guy Kawasaki says he learned a few public-speaking tricks from Jobs, the most influential boss he's ever had. | Continue reading


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Ray Dalio's reaction to an employee calling him out on a mistake

A Bridgewater employee called out his boss for screwing up an important meeting, and Dalio forwarded the email to the entire company. | Continue reading


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A $3M doomsday condo that can sustain 75 people for 5 years

Survival Condo Project converted a missile silo into luxury, doomsday-proof condos designed to sustain 75 people for five years. Take a look inside. | Continue reading


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Company overseeing –$10T wants to ban external email to beef up security

One of the custodian bank's tactics includes a new executive role focused on data security for a 30-year company veteran. | Continue reading


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Giants of Enterprise Suffer from Stormannsgalskap

Norwegian for the "madness of great men." | Continue reading


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Neurosci shows that 50-yos can have the brains of 25-yos if they sit quietly

You can see significant positive changes in just 15 minutes a day. | Continue reading


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