Shareholder suit alleges Google covered up its sexual harassment problems...
Months after an earth-shattering New York Times investigation exposed Google parent company Alphabet’s $90 million payout to Android co-founder Andy Rubin, despite the accusations of sexual misconduct...
View ArticleWatch Sacha Baron Cohen skewer Zuckerberg’s ‘twisted logic’ on hate speech...
Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has waded into the debate about social media regulation. In an award-acceptance speech to the Anti-Defamation League yesterday, the creator of Ali G and Borat delivered a...
View ArticleLarry Page’s secret war on the flu
Now that Larry Page has stepped down as CEO of Google’s parent company Alphabet, he could be following in Bill Gates’s footsteps and tackling global health challenges. According to charity and business...
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Google’s Sundar Pichai grilled over ‘destroying anonymity on the internet’
Google’s Sundar Pichai faced an awkward line of enquiry during today’s House Antitrust Subcommittee hearing related to its 2007 acquisition of adtech platform DoubleClick, and how it went on to renege...
View ArticleWant to hire and retain high-quality developers? Give them stimulating work
Phil Alves Contributor Share on Twitter Devsquad founder and CEO Phil Alves is an expert entrepreneur with more than 15 years of experience in the tech industry leading product development teams for...
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Sergey Brin’s airship aims to use world’s biggest mobile hydrogen fuel cell
Sergey Brin’s secretive airship company LTA Research and Exploration is planning to power a huge disaster relief airship with an equally record-breaking hydrogen fuel cell. A job listing from the...
View ArticleWhat’s fueling hydrogen tech?
Hydrogen — the magical gas that Jules Verne predicted in 1874 would one day be used as fuel — has long struggled to get the attention it deserves. Discovered 400 years ago, its trajectory has seen it...
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YC grad Buoyant wants to solve middle-mile delivery with cargo airships
A number of companies have emerged in recent years aiming to resurrect the airship, an early technology that was abandoned in favor of airplanes and helicopters. Flying Whales in France, Hybrid Air...
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Investors are doubling down on Southeast Asia’s digital economy
Amit Anand Contributor Share on Twitter Amit Anand is a founding partner of Jungle Ventures and an early pioneer and leader in the development of Southeast Asia’s venture capital industry. More posts...
View ArticleFacebook’s wearable glasses can succeed where Google Glass flopped
Ashish Bhatia Contributor Share on Twitter Ashish Bhatia is a clinical associate professor of management and entrepreneurship and the academic director of the B.S. in Business, Technology, and...
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Meet Brain, The AI Engine That Wants To Replace Search
Fifteen miles away from where Larry Page and Sergey Brin worked out of their first office developing the technology that would become Google, a team of eleven engineers no older than 20 are hard at...
View ArticleWhy the Oculus Rift won’t go the way of Google Glass
On a recent episode of our podcast we spoke about the VR industry with Matt Hartman, director of seed investments at Betaworks. When evaluating VR companies, Hartman looks for whether the company is...
View ArticleThe ethics of transhumanism
When I was growing up, my father often told me that Andy Warhol once said that he wanted to be a machine, and that it would be a lot easier to be a machine — if something broke, you could just replace...
View ArticleThese science superstars just won the 2017 Breakthrough Prize
Today at the 5th annual Breakthrough Prize, some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names will award more than $25 million to scientific research in departments across the globe. The event splices together...
View ArticleRed carpet roundup: Silicon Valley goes Hollywood for 2017 Breakthrough Prize...
Covering a red carpet isn’t usually a skill in the repertoire of tech journalists, but it’s also not every day that you get to see Vin Diesel and Kevin Durant on the same stage as Mark Zuckerberg,...
View ArticleGoogle’s Sergey Brin said to be working on a zeppelin-like airship
Google co-founder Sergey Brin has been known to enjoy ambitious flights of technological fancy, but this may be his flightiest: Bloomberg reports the enigmatic billionaire, who favors dark attire and...
View ArticleSergey Brin’s giant airship will be world’s largest, serve humanitarian role
Google co-founder Sergey Brin is building a massive airship, we learned in April, and now The Guardian reports some additional details about the purpose and nature of the project. It’ll be used both as...
View ArticleCrunch Report | Sprig Is Shutting Down
Today’s Stories On-demand food startup Sprig is shutting down today Nielsen: over 92% of viewing among U.S. adults still happens on the TV screen Sergey Brin’s giant airship will be world’s largest,...
View ArticleWatch the sixth annual Breakthrough Prize awards live right here!
As we head into awards season, one of the first shows to lead the pack is all about science. The Breakthrough Prize, a cumulative $22 million in awards that go to superstars in the fields of physics,...
View ArticleThe world’s largest aircraft breaks cover in Silicon Valley
As dawn breaks over Silicon Valley, the world is getting its first look at Pathfinder 1, a prototype electric airship that its maker LTA Research hopes will kickstart a new era in climate-friendly air...
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