Welcome to your personal recap of a very, very busy week in the world of tech. This week saw the IFA trade show’s biggest announcements – while the show technically started on September 6, a number of smartphone announcements happened on the days before that. Here’s a list of the many announcements of the week,…
A friend and MIT grad wrote to me yesterday, “I don’t know if the Media Lab is redeemable at all.” This in the wake of the bombshell Ronan Farrow piece in the New Yorker, reporting that the Media Lab under its director Joi Ito had covered up a much closer relationship with Jeffrey Epstein than…
Jesse Lawrence Contributor Jesse Lawrence has been in media and tech for 20 years. Prior to TicketIQ, he worked at MediaMath and IAC. He started his career as a writer. More posts by this contributor In 2018 the ticketing industry finally killed the ‘sold-out’ show The Golden Knights, live gambling and the future of live…
HackerOne, the seven-year-old, San Francisco-based company that mediates between hackers and companies interested in testing their online vulnerabilities, has raised $36.4 million in Series D funding that brings the company’s total funding to date to $110 million. The deal was led by Valor Equity Partners, which was joined by the company’s earlier investors, including Benchmark,…
Before he founded the plant-based burger company Impossible Foods, Patrick Brown, who spent 25 years as a biochemistry professor at Stanford, also co-founded a Hayward, Ca.-based food company called Kite Hill that has developed numerous nut milk and cheese products that it says are healthier and more sustainable than their dairy counterparts. Investors seem to…
Alice Lloyd George Contributor Alice Lloyd George is an early stage investor based in New York and the host of Flux, a series of podcast conversations with leaders in frontier technology. More posts by this contributor Elysium and the quest to bottle the fountain of youth One billion 3D views and counting In the latest…
Regular readers of TNW will know we have a regular column called CHEAP. There we share interesting deals on tech products across the Internet. Most of the stuff unearthed has some actual practical value: like phones and tablets. This isn’t one of those. In researching today’s post, I stumbled across the Sharp TM-20 TelMail E-Mail…
Server lacked password protection and included multiple databases with records from the U.S., U.K. and Vietnam.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
The test facility at CERN used to simulate the high-radiation environment surrounding Jupiter. CERN The European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, is most famous for its particle collider, but it also has facilities that can test for other high-energy environments similar to those found in space. Now those facilities are being used to test…
Escape into your own world with virtual reality technology.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
