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Startups
Invesdor raises another $1.4m to expand equity crowdfunding in Europe
6:17 pm PDT • June 22, 2016
Equity crowdfunding continues to be a hot topic around the world, with a number of players new and old re-doubling their efforts to capture the wallets of investors everywhere. The…
In the last few months, a Singaporean University hired Nadine as a secretary, a Boston Dynamics employee pushed over his colleague Atlas who was moving boxes at a factory and…
Hardware
Review: HP’s Spectre shows a great ultrabook can suffer from being thin
5:39 pm PDT • June 22, 2016
Your next laptop will most likely be thinner than the one you have now. That’s because some Windows PC makers like HP aren’t keen with the thinness of even their own…
HP Spectre Hands On
5:35 PM PDT • June 22, 2016
Recorded on June 22, 2016. The HP Spectre is one of the thinnest ultrabooks available. Stefan Etienne spent some time with this new product from…
Being open to open source and creating a new business category at VMWare
5:30 pm PDT • June 22, 2016
Use of open source at VMWare led to the creation of Open Platform-as-a-Service, an entire new category, which paved the way for the next generation of developer infrastructure companies, like…
Biotech & Health
National Science Foundation allots $1.5M to kid-focused maker projects
5:28 pm PDT • June 22, 2016
To celebrate 2016’s Week of Making (don’t tell me you forgot!), the National Science Foundation has awarded a total of $1.5 million to five small projects looking to get kids…
Startups
Sevenhugs bets on smartphone-free connected home future with $14.6M Series A
5:25 pm PDT • June 22, 2016
French startup Sevenhugs closed a $14.6 million Series A today led by Xerys on a quest to better integrate smart home technology. Sevenhugs has already developed a sleep tracker and is nearing…
Enterprise
Twilio prices its IPO at $15 per share, above its previous target
5:00 pm PDT • June 22, 2016
Twilio today said it would price its initial public offering at $15 per share, which would value the company at around $1.23 billion. That would value Twilio above its previous…
A Giant Nerf Gun | Crunch Report
4:15 PM PDT • June 22, 2016
Recorded on June 22, 2016. Michelle Obama joins snapchat, BET Play is a new streaming service from Viacom, You can now scan documents in the…
Startups
Twilio’s IPO festivities will include live coding from the New York Stock Exchange
4:00 pm PDT • June 22, 2016
There are plenty of reasons to keep an eye on Twilio‘s initial public offering, like whether or not it will open the door for more tech IPOs. Here’s a small-but-fun…
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Here’s a neat little add-on for folks looking to get a little more out of their GoPro. The Vitrima is a big metal add-on created by Chicago-based startup Fantem that…
WowWee, the Hong Kong-based manufacturer behind that old RadioShack stalwart, RoboSapien, showed off a couple of promising high-tech toys due out in the fall. COJI is one of the company’s…
Space fiends who are also couch potatoes, rejoice! NASA’s all-purpose app for finding and watching content from the cosmos has arrived on Apple TV.
Hardware
Hands-on with a compact medium-format camera, the Hasselblad X1D
2:47 pm PDT • June 22, 2016
Hasselblad picked a rather unique location — the Absolut Elyx house — in the Meatpacking District for me to meet their reps and play with the new X1D. For a quick…
AI
Tend.ai trains your robot to operate dozens of 3D printers and laser cutters at a time
2:42 pm PDT • June 22, 2016
If you’ve got more than a handful of 3D printers or other devices running at a time, it’s a full-time job keeping them going — removing and packaging products, tweaking…
House Democrats broadcast sit-in on Periscope and Facebook Live
2:28 pm PDT • June 22, 2016
House Democrats are staging a sit-in today in an effort to push their Republican colleagues to vote for a gun control bill that would exclude suspected terrorists from purchasing automatic weapons.…
A one word review of macOS Sierra
2:19 pm PDT • June 22, 2016
Hi! That new macOS X Sierra thing is almost out! There are so many new cool features. You can talk to your computer in humanish language. You can pay for…
Digital media company Purch has acquired Business.com — which, in addition to being a pretty great URL, offers advice and other content for small businesses and operates a marketplace for…
Security
Google and Facebook push the president’s cybersecurity commission for transparency
1:15 pm PDT • June 22, 2016
Poisoned trust. Yearnings for transparency. The cyber Pearl Harbor. Executives from Google, Facebook, Dropbox and other major tech companies met with the president’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity at UC Berkeley…
Michelle Obama has joined Snapchat. The First Lady announced yesterday that she is joining the platform so users can see a behind-the-scenes look at her life in the White House.…
