[ad_1] The game that we were at was the sixth-ever matchup that was broadcasted live on VR by Intel. The Intel True VR team had already started live streaming MLB games every Tuesday since June, but the summer classic was not the first sport it’s ever broadcasted in VR. The ...
Read More »BentoBox, the website builder for restauranteurs, cooks up $4.8M Series A
[ad_1] Restaurant owners have a lot of responsibilities and a wide array of skills to handle those responsibilities. That said, building a website isn’t usually within that skill-set. That’s where BentoBox comes in. The company, which helps restaurant owners quickly build full-featured websites for their restaurants, has just closed a ...
Read More »Billionaire space prospectors are racing to mine the moon, and that’s a good thing
[ad_1] Right now, as you read these words, there’s a galactic gold rush brewing that will make 1940s California look like a rehearsal dinner. At this very moment, a handful of billionaire-backed companies are planning to mine outer space for ungodly reserves of precious metals and other untapped treasures. On ...
Read More »The best fan
[ad_1] How we picked and tested The first thing we did was break down fans into two basic groups: room fans designed to cool a larger space, and desk fans designed for use in smaller, personal spaces. Then we checked to see which fans from each category were the most ...
Read More »Alibaba and Tencent are carving up Southeast Asia’s startup ecosystem
[ad_1] Two global tech forces are putting their mark — and money — into Southeast Asia’s nascent startup ecosystem, but they may not be the Western names that you expect. Rather than Google, Facebook or Microsoft, increasingly Chinese duo Alibaba and Tencent are the driving forces behind the importing of large ...
Read More »Watch the nostalgic trailer for Spielberg's 'Ready Player One'
[ad_1] After no shortage of hype, Warner Bros. is finally ready to show what Steven Spielberg's take on Ready Player One is all about. The studio has released the first trailer for the adaptation of Ernest Cline's novel, and it's clear that the flick is pla… [ad_2] Source link
Read More »VCs love insurance, even if you don’t
[ad_1] Most people hate shopping for insurance, and they don’t enjoy talking about it either. That’s probably why you’re unlikely to hear about the industry’s current transformation in conversation, even in startup circles. But make no mistake, there are vast sums of venture dollars going into insurance deals. Investment has ...
Read More »Harvard’s folding origami robot can move without requiring battery power
[ad_1] Why it matters to you Inventors of battery-free origami robot have biomedical applications in mind. Whether it’s NASA’s next-generation scout robot or this jigsaw puzzle-style modular bot project, origami robots are — to quote the 2001 movie Zoolander — so hot right now. Jumping on that folding bandwagon is ...
Read More »Missing Malaysia Airlines flight search yields valuable seafloor data
[ad_1] Existing maps of the Indian Ocean floor didn’t have enough detail to allow for safe navigation during the search, so researchers first mapped the floor with much more detail than before. The researchers collected 278,000 square kilometers of seafloor topography data within the search area and 710,000 square kilometers ...
Read More »Fintech startup Klarna taps Permira for around $250M at $2.5B valuation
[ad_1] Klarna, the Swedish startup that works with e-commerce businesses and retailers to provide financing and other payment services, today announced that it has picked up yet another large investment, its third inside of two months. Permira, the private equity firm and prolific late-stage tech investor, has taken a minimum ...
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