Foundry Group, the Boulder, Colo.-based venture firm co-founded 11 years ago by startup whisperer Brad Feld, has raised a $750 million seventh fund to target early-stage and growth-stage companies, as well as to invest in other venture funds. It sounds like — and is — a lot of money, though the firm notes that it encompasses all of its…
A machine learning-driven analysis platform has examined 100 million cloud and AI-related intellectual property rights, and discovered that Chinese companies filed eight times as many relevant patents as their American counterparts in the past year. The report was carried out by intellectual property analytics provider Cipher, using their AI-driven patent intelligence platform. The results highlight…
Early in 2017, Google added a feature to Google Maps that lets you opt to share your location in (near) real time with your close friends and family. Now they’re fleshing out that info with another important little detail: your phone’s remaining battery charge. It looks like this: Wondering why anyone might care about the…
Aerospace giant Boeing has announced plans to open an Aerospace & Autonomy Centre in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The centre will become one of the first major tenants of MIT’s Kendall Square development. As part of the deal, Boeing will lease 100,000 square feet inside a new 17-floor building at 314 Main Street, Cambridge. The research centre will home…
Comcast and Amazon today announced a new partnership that will see Amazon’s Prime Video service integrated into Comcast’s Xfinity TV set-top boxes. This is the first time that Prime Video content would be added to a cable operator’s platform in the U.S.. It’s also a particularly interesting choice on Comcast’s part, given that Amazon is directly…
In an effort to combat the digital retail shadow cast by the likes of Amazon, UK high street store Marks & Spencer has teamed up with digital training organisation Decoded to create a data academy. Andrew Hobbs considers whether the program could give the retailer’s digital arm a vital injection. The 18 month in-work data…
Hulu’s taking an interesting approach to adaptation with Castle Rock — instead of basing the series on a specific book by Stephen King, it’s telling a new story about (you guessed it) Castle Rock, the fictional town in Maine where many of King’s stories are set. The series stars André Holland as Henry Deaver, a lawyer…
The UK government’s Future of Mobility Grand Challenge took a significant step forward today, in a move that could shake up the transportation sector – reducing emissions, congestion, and the need for parking spaces. The programme, which comes under the government’s Road to Zero emissions initiative (and the new Industrial Strategy), will see electric cargo…
Reddit announced today that it suffered a security breach in June that exposed some of its internal systems to the attackers, although what was accessed was not particularly sensitive. Notably the hack was accomplished by circumventing the two-factor authentication Reddit had in place via SMS interception — which should be a wake-up call to any…
Despite the widely held belief that Apple is losing ground to Google and has been short of big ideas since the passing of Steve Jobs, there was no evidence of that in the company’s record Q3 financial results this week. The company reported a 17 percent year-on-year increase in quarterly revenues to $53.3 billion, beating…
