Unity Technologies, the highly valued startup behind one of the most popular game development tools, lost its CFO Mike Foley last week, Business Insider (paywalled) reported. A company spokesperson confirmed the CFO’s departure, saying it was a “friendly and mutual decision between both parties,” while also noting that the company was searching for a replacement…
At a symposium in Washington DC on Friday, DARPA href=”https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2018-09-07″ target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>announced plans to invest $2 billion in artificial intelligence research over the next five years. In a program called “AI Next,” the agency now has over 20 programs currently in the works and will focus on “enhancing the security and resiliency of machine learning and…
A day after cutting the ribbon on its second (and largest) cashier-free convenience store in Seattle, Amazon has confirmed it will be bringing the Go concept to the City that Never Sleeps. The Information first noted the news through a number of job listings last night. The company has since confirmed its plans in an…
After a string of executive departures over the past several months that continued Friday with the resignations of two people in high-profile positions, CEO Elon Musk announced a series of promotions and job updates in an email sent to employees. To be clear, these are not new hires and some of these promotions were already…
The Xperia XZ3 proves it’s a great time to be a Sony fan. But Sony’s got a lot of competition in the battle for your pocket space, and the Galaxy Note 9 is one of its biggest rivals. Which is better? We found out. The post Sony Xperia XZ3 vs. Galaxy Note 9: Can Sony…
Tesla shares plunged as much as 10 percent Friday morning following two high-profile executive departures. Tesla shares have since recovered and were down 5.4 percent to $265.77 a share at 8:20 am PT. The executive departures were just the latest tumult at the automaker headed by CEO Elon Musk . Just hours before, Musk capped…
All good things must come to an end, and Disrupt SF is no different. But, in many ways, we’ve saved the best for last. Today we’ll hear from Silicon Valley creator Mike Judge, DraftKings CEO Jason Robins and Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong. And that’s just the main stage. In the afternoon, the real drama begins.…
Twitter is launching a new feature that allows users to create audio-only broadcasts directly from Twitter itself, as well as Twitter’s Periscope. The feature, which Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey confirmed in a tweet this morning, is available from the same interface where you would normally launch live video. It’s currently accessible on the Twitter for…
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was incredibly fun. We recorded live from the first floor of TechCrunch’s Disrupt SF confab, putting us right in the middle of the action. So it was good that we had a full crew on hand to…
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