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The direct-to-consumer space has some stand-out players, both in newcomers like Brooklinen and old-timers like Warby Parker. But one company, Interior Define, has maintained a low profile over the four…

Interior Define, the custom furniture startup, opens new location in SF

In October 2017 CEO Nikolay Storonsky’s Revolut raised $71 million at a valuation of $350 million. Today it’s a certified unicorn, approaching a $2 billion valuation. His stake is said…

Revolut’s Nikolay Storonsky to talk shop at Disrupt SF

Fabric, a personal journaling app that emerged from Y Combinator’s 2016 batch of startups, is relaunching itself as a Facebook alternative. The app is giving itself a makeover in the…

Fabric offers an alternative to Facebook sharing with a private timeline of personal moments

Serverless, Inc came to the serverless game early, creating an open source framework for developers back in 2015. Today, they want to build on that earlier product to give developers…

Serverless, Inc. lands $10M Series A to build serverless developers platform

The number of mobile payments users who tap to pay using a contactless payment solution provided by their mobile device’s maker will grow to 450 million people worldwide by 2020,…

Apple Pay to account for 1 in 2 contactless mobile wallet users by 2020

In an age where people stream music instead of buying it, how do you build something equivalent to a pre-order campaign for upcoming releases? The answer is to create a…

Feature.fm offers free “pre-save” tool for upcoming releases on Spotify, Apple Music and Deezer

There’s NSFW language in the video above. Enjoy.

John Oliver makes an honest Facebook ad

Here is the DJI Mavic 2 before you’re supposed to see it. Just like the original, it’s a small, foldable drone with amazing capabilities. This time around, there will be…

This is the leaked DJI Mavic 2 drone

Twitter is partnering with two groups of academic researchers to figure out how to measure the health of conversations happening on the platform. It’s all part of the company’s continuing…

Twitter turns to academics to improve conversational health on the platform

Consumers using drones in the UK have new safety restrictions they must obey starting today, with a change to the law prohibiting drones from being flown above 400ft or within 1km…

PSA: Drone flight restrictions are in force in the UK from today

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Shuttl, a service that lets Indian city dwellers find seats on multiple bus routes through one app, announced today that it has raised a $11 million Series B led by…

Bus-sharing app Shuttl gets $11M Series B from investors including Amazon India

A UK parliamentary committee which has been running a multi-month investigation into the impact of online disinformation on political campaigning — and on democracy itself — has published a preliminary…

Fake news inquiry calls for social media levy to defend democracy

Several dummy units of future iPhone models have leaked over the weekend. It gives a good idea of what you should expect to see in September when Apple introduces the…

This is what the next iPhone could look like

Grover, the Berlin-based startup that offers “pay-as-you-go” subscriptions to the latest consumer tech as an alternative to owning products outright, has raised €37 million in funding. The Series A round…

Grover raises €37M Series A to offer latest tech products as a subscription

Experian is making its first major bet on Southeast Asia and its population of over 650 million consumers after the financial credit giant backed Singapore-based C88 Financial Technologies, which operates financial marketplaces…

Experian leads $28M investment in Southeast Asia fintech startup C88

Update 1: Nothing gold can stay, Ponyboy. It was fun while it lasted, but both Spots are back to their original $129 asking price — and the white version still…

Amazon’s Echo Spot is apparently free right now (Update: aaand it’s gone)

I love Hollywood box-office numbers because they provide a hard statistical view of cultural currents. Did you know, for instance, that there had never been a weekend when 8 of…

Branded Worlds: how technology recentralized entertainment

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We extended our deadline for early-bird passes to Disrupt San Francisco 2018, which takes place on September 5-7, but your chance to save up to $1,200 is rapidly slipping away. In…

Early-bird prices for Disrupt SF 2018 end in just four days

BMW will in a few days start rolling out to many of its drivers support for Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant. The fact that BMW is doing this doesn’t come as…

BMW’s Alexa integration gets it right