One Denver-based startup’s long-shot bid to move today’s commercial jets beyond supersonic speeds just got a big injection of cash. Boom Supersonic, which is building and designing what it calls the “world’s first economically viable supersonic airliner,” announced today that they’ve closed a $100 million Series B funding round led by Emerson Capital. Other investors…
Jonathan Teo, long a Bay Area venture capitalist, might be regretting having a Twitter account tonight. The reason: it was used to serve a summons to Teo by the law firm Baker Curtis & Schwartz, which represents a former employee of the early-stage venture firm Teo had cofounded in 2014, Binary Capital. The plaintiff is…
2018 might’ve been a mess in many ways, but the app harvest was bountiful this year. To help you find some hidden gems that you missed during the year, we’ve had our writers pick their favorite apps of 2018. Enjoy! InstLife Már Másson Maack picks: This weird little life simulation app was made by indie game…
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2018 has been a rough year for ZTE. The Chinese manufacturer was banned from using U.S. equipment in its smartphones after the U.S. Department of Commerce claimed it violated U.S. trade sanctions on Iran and North Korea. After paying a billion-dollar fine and cleaning house, ZTE managed to smooth things over. The company closed out…
Samsung’s upcoming M series devices, the M10, M20, and M30, are very busy leaking left and right these days, which implies that their official unveiling is not far off. Following its FCC certification yesterday, the Galaxy M20 is revealed again today- this time in the first ever live image of the phone. Well, to be…
More than 100 million devices with Amazon’s Alexa assistant pre-installed have been sold, the company said Friday. The new metric, revealed by Amazon devices SVP Dave Limp in an interview with The Verge, showcases just how quickly the company has crammed the voice assistant into disparate hardware devices and shoved them out the door. The…
The up to $818 million deal between Locus Biosciences and Janssen Pharmaceuticals (a division of Johnson & Johnson) that was announced yesterday points toward a new path for CRISPR gene editing technologies and (potentially) the whole field of microbiome-targeted therapies. Based in Research Triangle Park, N.C., Locus is commercializing research initially developed by scientists at…
It won’t be long before the James Webb Space Telescope is launched, an enormous and complex feat of engineering — but all one piece. That’s a good thing for now, but new research suggests that in the near future giant telescopes like the Webb might be replaced (or at least augmented) by swarms of tiny…
Signs that the Federal Reserve could hold off on further interest rate hikes coupled with a booming jobs report sent stocks on Wall Street surging to close a volatile first trading week for the New Year. After yesterday’s Apple-induced slide, and in the face of economic indicators that signaled a potential slowdown in global and…
