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Watch Mark Zuckerberg’s Harvard commencement speech here
11:40 am PDT • May 25, 2017
College dropout-turned-Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg finally got his degree today, and now he’s about to give Harvard’s 366th commencement speech. You can watch him speak here now, where we’ll embed…
The Pokémon company has come out with another true masterpiece. It’s called Magikarp Jump, which came out for iOS and Android earlier today. It’s about training Magikarp, the most beloved…
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Judge orders Uber to hand over to Waymo unredacted term sheet with Otto
11:09 am PDT • May 25, 2017
Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley ordered Thursday that Uber needs to hand over to Waymo the full, unredacted term sheet between Uber and Otto. By the end of the day.…
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Instagram direct messages now support web links and different photo orientations
11:06 am PDT • May 25, 2017
Instagram’s Direct feature just got more generally useful as a messaging option, with support added for external web links, and the ability to send photos and video in their original…
Managed marketplaces have been one of the hottest categories of venture investment over the past several years. They garner a lot of press because the consumer experiences are often radically…
There are only a few virtual reality titles that I’ve played where I need a bit of a “come down” period to regroup my thoughts and start thinking like a…
AI
Judah vs. the Machines: Robots are still laughably awful at playing soccer
10:30 am PDT • May 25, 2017
Robots may have the upper hand on math and science, but when it comes to athletics, no one can kick around a ball quite like a human can. In this…
Airbnb says it helped travelers save $12 million last Memorial Day weekend
10:30 am PDT • May 25, 2017
In an all-too-familiar Airbnb fashion, the home-sharing company has released a report touting how great it is. Airbnb says it helped travelers collectively save $12 million on Memorial Day weekend…
Google’s Data GIF Maker lets you easily make basic data GIFs
10:27 am PDT • May 25, 2017
Google’s News Lab launched a new tool for making basic data GIFs today. While the Data GIF Maker is mostly geared toward journalists, anybody can use it to make some…
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AmazonFresh opens its grocery Pickup locations in Seattle
10:22 am PDT • May 25, 2017
Amazon has officially begun operating its AmazonFresh Pickup locations in Seattle, letting customers order groceries ahead of time and then quickly grab them on their way home. The service requires…
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Lyft launches two premium ride hailing options, Lux and Lux SUV
10:00 am PDT • May 25, 2017
Lyft is getting into the higher-end ride hailing game with Lyft Lux and Lyft Lux SUV. These are black car offerings similar to the service that rival Uber originally launched…
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Stripe Connect provides new tools for multi-sided marketplaces
10:00 am PDT • May 25, 2017
Two years ago payments startup Stripe launched a new product called Stripe Connect to serve a growing number of marketplace customers. Today the company is launching a new set of…
Uber and Lyft had paused their operations in Austin, TX back in 2016, because local regulators imposed rules that both argued were overly taxing to running their businesses. The rules…
Twilio Functions lets developers build communications apps without having to worry about servers
9:30 am PDT • May 25, 2017
Twilio is getting into the serverless game today with the beta launch of Twilio Functions. Like other so-called “serverless” platforms, Functions abstracts away all of the tiresome server and infrastructure…
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Facebook’s Instant Articles platform to support Google AMP, Apple News
9:11 am PDT • May 25, 2017
One of the problems publishers face today in making their content more readable on mobile devices is that there are multiple, competing formats available for this purpose. Facebook has Instant Articles,…
Startups
Mogees picks up seed funding to put audio-based gesture recognition tech into new devices
9:05 am PDT • May 25, 2017
Mogees, the London startup behind the Mogees Pro and Mogees Play contact microphone and machine learning-based music and gaming devices, has raised $1.1 million in seed funding — capital it…
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Spin raises $8 million as bike-sharing battle heats up in the US
8:52 am PDT • May 25, 2017
Bike sharing has taken a turn in the U.S. The new mode is “dockless,” where companies distribute bikes around a city or campus to be rented per trip instead of…
Atlantic.Net brings Windows Container support to its cloud hosting platform
8:45 am PDT • May 25, 2017
Atlantic.Net, the Florida-based hosting provider, today announced that its users can now use Windows Server Containers on its platform to bring their existing Windows workloads into the cloud. While many of…
Startups
Rackspace acquires TriCore, adds enterprise applications to cloud management mix
8:30 am PDT • May 25, 2017
Rackspace announced today it was purchasing TriCore, giving it an enterprise applications management play to go along with its cloud management services. The announcement comes just one day after the…
Octopus Ventures hits 10, with an international push and a healthy rack of exits
8:23 am PDT • May 25, 2017
Back in the mists of 2014 we revealed how one of the UK’s most active venture investment funds operated. To this day Octopus Ventures continues to rub shoulders with the…
