Another day, another hour-long congressional hearing with technical CEOs. Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai will testify at a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing where they will have questions about how their companies have dealt with misinformation over the past year. The hearing, officially “Disinformation Nation: The Role of Social Media in Promoting … Read more
Powerlight Technologies’ laser-based power beaming system will be demonstrated in the David Taylor Model Basin of the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Maryland. (USNRL via YouTube) Wireless power transmission has been science fiction for more than a century, but now PowerLight Technologies is turning it into science fact … with fucking laser beams. “Laser power … Read more
I recently attended a celebration from one of the collaboration technology pioneers, Ray Ozzie. Ozzie, the father of Lotus Notes, left Lotus and his startup company Iris after a hostile takeover by IBM and eventually switched to Microsoft when that company acquired its next startup, Groove. By “attended” I mean a virtual event at the … Read more
Stopping misinformation about vaccines may not be as complicated as social media companies suggest it is. That’s because 12 of the best-known anti-vaccine activists are responsible for a disproportionate amount of vaccine misinformation on social media, a new report said. The report, a joint effort by the Center to Combat Digital Hate (CCDH) and Anti-Vax … Read more
The Startup Haven team (clockwise from top left): Bob Crimmins, Claudius Mbemba, Jay Westerdal, David Malcolm and Arry Yu. (Startup Haven photo) – Startup Haven, an entrepreneurship community founded by Seattle-based startup veterinarian Bob Crimmins, has launched a mutual fund called Startup Haven Ventures. With the new fund, Startup Haven has also expanded its team: … Read more
Nigeria stays one largely Cash dominated country. There are over 100 million adult Nigerians of whom More than half have little or no access to financial services. Today, Bankly, a Nigerian fintech startup that digitizes cash for non-banks, announced that it has completed a $ 2 million startup round. Founded in 2018 by Tomilola Adejana … Read more
Before Valve (Dota Underlords) and Riot (Teamfight Tactics) released their own versions of turn-based autobattlers, there was the Auto Chess Mod for Dota 2. This game is now available as a standalone Auto Chess with cross-play connection between PC, PS4 and mobile platforms . Now developer Dragonest has announced that a native PS5 version will … Read more
Adam Selipsky, CEO of Tableau, is leaving and will join Amazon Web Services as the new CEO. (GeekWire Photo / Todd Bishop) Adam Selipsky, CEO of Tableau Software, will be the new CEO of Amazon Web Services, replacing Andy Jassy, who will take over the position of CEO of Amazon later this year. Selipsky is … Read more
On the third biggest TV show of all time (sorry Rolling Stone), one of the most famous fictional soccer players in Texas once said, “When all the scared rats leave a sinking market, a real entrepreneur comes in – a real visionary. ” If so, then renewable energy startup retailer Arcadia may be a true … Read more
Nintendo’s next switch may use an NVIDIA GPU that supports Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS), which can output higher quality graphics, Bloomberg reported. The new system-on-chip would allow up to 4K quality output when the switch is connected to a TV, and is also said to include an updated CPU and more memory. According to … Read more