Discovery’s new reality show ‘Who Wants to Be an Astronaut?’ will pick one winner to go to space
Discovery has ordered a new reality show, to air in 2022, which will be an eight-episode competition series where competitors will vie for a chance to take a trip to the International Space Station on a commercial Axiom Space mission. The winner will be a crew member for AX-2, the second mission fr
Growth expert Susan Su shares insights for marketing in 2021 at TC Early Stage
It's 2021. Contact importers are old history, and everyone's a creator, building for their own audience. How can early-stage startups find meaningful traction at the velocity they need when the distribution channels are more competitive and complex than ever? Which ads are worth spending mo
Sidewalk Labs launches Pebble, a sensor that uses real-time data to manage city parking
Sidewalk Labs, Alphabet's urban innovation organization, has announced the launch of Pebble, a vehicle sensor that's designed to help manage parking in cities by providing real-time parking and curb availability data.
Here's how it works: Small spherical sensors are stuck to the ground
Lamborghini is kicking off its electrification plan with two gas-powered super sports cars
Lamborghini will pay homage to combustion engines with the introduction of two new V12 luxury sports cars this year before it makes a push into electrification as the company tries to balance its storied gas-powered past with a hybrid, and eventually electric, future.
The company laid out Tuesday i
For companies that use ML, labeled data is the key differentiator
AI is driving the paradigm shift that is the software industry’s transition to data-centric programming from writing logical statements. Data is now oxygen. The more training data a company gathers, the brighter will its AI-powered products burn.
Why is Tesla so far ahead with advanced driver
Fintech startup Vise raises $65 million in Series C led by Ribbit Capital
Vise today announced a $65 million Series C financing round led by Ribbit Capital, with participation from existing investors, including Sequoia. The startup confirmed to technewss that this round officially sent Vise into unicorn territory, with a $1 billion post-money valuation.
The startup laun
Extend raises $260M on a $1.6B valuation to expand its warranty and protection plan services
A company that has built a new approach to the business of extended warranties — providing a cost-effective and efficient way for retailers or brands to offer them; and an easy way for consumers to buy and file claims against them — is today announcing a huge round of funding as it look
Explorium scores $75M Series C just 10 months after B round
Without good data, it’s impossible to build an accurate predictive machine learning model. Explorium, a company that has been building a solution over the last several years to help data pros find the best data for a given model, announced a $75 million Series C today — just 10 months a
Klaviyo's next-gen email marketing platform engorges on $320M at a $9.5B valuation
Email marketing is decades old, but it's a category that has surprising life in it. Multiple generations of email marketing companies have come through and sustained success, from Constant Contact to Mailchimp. These brands often become household names — after all, you probably have hundreds
Styra, the startup behind Open Policy Agent, nabs $40M to expand its cloud-native authorization tools
As cloud-native apps continue to become increasingly central to how organizations operate, a startup founded by the creators of a popular open-source tool to manage authorization for cloud-native application environments is announcing some funding to expand its efforts at commercializing the opport
Fantasy fantasy sport Blaseball developers score $3M seed funding to go mobile
In the absence of a real baseball league, it is perhaps not surprising that a simulated one should grow popular during the troubled year 2020. But even so, the absurdist horror and minimalist aesthetic of Blaseball seem an unlikely success. The text-based fantasy fantasy league has attracted hundre
Somewhere Good just raised $3.75M to make your somewhere good
Nearly every social media experience today is built on the same premise: Humans identify with individuality. Users create a profile, upload an avatar picture, write a short biography and can then scream into the ether to other users on behalf of their digitally sculpted selves.
Naj Austin, the foun
Pizza robot-maker Picnic raises another $16.3M
The events of the past year and a half could well mark the beginning of a sea change for the world of restaurant robotics. The essential industrial was slammed amid the pandemic, leaving many companies searching for a decent automated option that could both keep things running and potentially avoid
Apple 24-inch M1 iMac review
Last September we concluded our 27-inch iMac review thusly,
“The big open question mark here is what the future looks like for the iMac — and how long we'll have to wait to see it. That is, of course, the perennial question for hardware upgrades, but it's exacerbated by the knowledg