Google launches new AI-powered meeting room hardware
Google today announced the Google Meet Series One, a new video conferencing hardware suite for meeting rooms. Built in collaboration with Lenovo, the Series One uses high-end cameras and microphones and then marries them with Google’s AI smarts thanks to using Google’s own Coral M.2 acc
Waze gets smarter with trip suggestions, lane guidance, traffic notifications and more
Google-owned navigation app Waze is gaining a number of new product features as well as a partnership with Amazon Music, the company announced at its first major virtual event, Waze On. Among the changes, Waze is gaining personalized recommendations based on a user’s trip history, as well as
European Space Agency awards $153 million contract for its first planetary defense mission
The European Space Agency (ESA) is doing its part to help protect the Earth from any errant asteroids that may threaten terrestrial life, awarding a €129.4 million ($153 million) contract to an industry consortium led by German space company OHB. The contract covers the “detailed design, ma
Black Tech Pipeline proves the ‘pipeline problem’ isn’t real
The tech industry has become known as a place that is predominantly white and male. Contrary to the misguided popular belief, it’s not a pipeline problem as much as it’s a retention problem.
Black Tech Pipeline aims to debunk that myth and help support Black technologists along their re
ZenHub’s new automation tools improve developer hand-offs in GitHub
ZenHub, the popular project management solution for GitHub users, today announced the launch of its new features for automating hand-offs between teams. The idea behind Automated Workflows, as it is called, is to remove some of the manual busywork of updating multiple boards across teams when a new
Kleiner prints gold with Desktop Metal, netting a roughly 10x return
Desktop Metal is one of the most interesting startups to come out of Boston in some time, with a technology designed to “print metal.” That's a potentially huge expansion for the 3D printing market, where flexible polymers are the norm, a material that limits the kinds of products that thes
Watch the first official trailer for The Mandalorian Season 2, premiering October 30 on Disney+
Disney has released the first trailer for the second season of The Mandalorian, and it actually provides a lot of plot detail via voice-over of a conversation behind main character Mando and someone directing him as to what he should do with The Child (aka Baby Yoda). It sounds like the main actio
Long-range delivery drone maker Volansi raises $50M
Robotics generally have seen an increase in interest during the pandemic, so it makes perfect sense that investors are taking a closer look at autonomous drone delivery. That's good news for Volansi, which just announced a $50 million Series B.
The round, led by Icon Ventures, brings the Bay Ar
CBS All Access to rebrand to Paramount+, expand internationally in 2021
Viacom-owned streaming service CBS All Access is becoming Paramount+, the company announced this morning. The name change, which will take place next year, aims to better reflect the expanded content lineup that has joined the service following the Viacom-CBS merger in 2019, including content from
Here’s what's on tap for day two of Disrupt 2020
Who needs caffeine after day one of Disrupt 2020? Don't know about you, but we're flying high on entrepreneurial euphoria. Are you buckled in and ready to take on day two? Let's look at just some of the events of the day. You've got your work — and fun — cut out for you trying t
Building a white label tool for telemedicine services nabs OnCall Health $6 million
As medical providers across the world turn to digital delivery of consultations and services, OnCall Health, a Toronto-based provider of back-end services for telemedicine, is having a moment.
The company, which competes with services like Truepill to offer physicians, pharmacies and other potentia
Dynetics has built a full-scale test version of its lunar human lander for NASA
One of the three companies chosen by NASA to create a Human Landing System (HLS) for NASA has completed a key step by building a full-scale test article of its lander for its team and NASA to evaluate and review. The Dynetics HLS is roughly the size of the Apollo moon lander, but it’s laid ou
Brightseed raises $27 million for phytonutrient identification tech used in food and nutraceuticals
Brightseed, the company launched by former Hampton Creek head of research and development, Jim Flatt, to identify the presence of specific nutrients in plants that are believed to boost human health, has raised $27 million in its latest round of funding, the company said.
Brightseed will use the fi
Formlabs announces a large-format medical and dental 3D printer
Formlabs was one of a few desktop 3D printing companies to weather the massive tech bubble a few years back. The Somerville, Massachusetts-based company set itself apart by bringing advanced industrial 3D-printing technologies to the consumer space. In recent years, the tech has also positioned the