LG makes a ‘three year pledge’ on updates for its Android phones

Richard Lawler

This week LG confirmed it was pulling out of the cellular industry, but what about the phones it is already making? The company just announced that “all premium LG smartphones currently in use will receive up to three iterations of Android operating system updates from the year of purchase”. The three OS update warranty applies … Read more

Yahoo Answers, a Haven for the Confused, Is Shutting Down

Yahoo Answers, a Haven for the Confused, Is Shutting Down

Sometimes people on Yahoo Answers asking questions to strangers rushed to the hallucinatory limits of human curiosity: What would a heaven for elephants be like? Should Scientists Give Squid Bones? It has helped people see their self-esteem: why do people with baguettes think they are better than me? Is being popular in high school a … Read more

Univ. of Wash.-spinout Icosavax raises $100M to fund vaccine development technology

Univ. of Wash.-spinout Icosavax raises $100M to fund vaccine development technology

Icosavax creates virus-like particles using technology licensed from the University of Washington’s Institute for Protein Design. (Icosavax photo) New financing: At a moment when everyone is talking about vaccines, a Seattle-based biotech company taking an unusual approach to vaccine production raised $ 100 million in a Series B round. The startup creates computerized, virus-like particles … Read more

Get $10 off at Amazon when using your Chase credit card

Get $10 off at Amazon when using your Chase credit card

(CNN) – CNN Underscored reviews financial products like credit cards and bank accounts based on their total value, but does not review all financial companies or all available financial offerings. We may receive compensation for sending traffic to partner sites like CreditCards.com. This compensation may affect how and where links are displayed on this website. … Read more

Black Innovation Alliance, Village Capital team up to support founders of color – TechCrunch

Black Innovation Alliance, Village Capital team up to support founders of color – TechCrunch

Black Innovation Alliance and Village Capital today announced Resource, a national initiative aimed at strengthening the efforts of Entrepreneur Support Organizations (ESOs) led and focused on color founders. The motivation behind the project is straightforward. ESOs “are facing record demand, resources are depleted and are chronically underestimated, underestimated and underfunded,” say the organizations. The resource … Read more

Amazon union vote: Here’s how the ballots will be counted this week

Amazon union vote: Here’s how the ballots will be counted this week

An Amazon Fulfillment Center in Spokane, Washington (GeekWire Photo) The union votes are now in the hands of the National Labor Relations Board, and the two factions have met their single ballot challenges in the year-long struggle to organize nearly 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Ala. Over the next two days, a decision will … Read more