How robotaxis are dividing San Francisco
The city has become the crucible of an experiment - are robotaxis ready for the streets?.....»»
FlyMachine raises $21 million to build a virtual concerts platform for a post-pandemic world
As concerts and live events return to the physical world stateside, many in the tech industry have wondered whether some of the pandemic-era opportunities around virtualizing these events are lost for the time being. San Francisco-based FlyMachine is.....»»
Cardless raises $40M to help more brands launch custom credit cards
Many consumers use their credit cards to rack up rewards to be used toward travel. But what if you’re a sports fan, and using your credit card could lead to a virtual conversation with a player on your favorite team? Thanks to San Francisco-based.....»»
Technology Thought Leader, Sara Peters, Tapped as Editor-in-Chief of InformationWeek and Network Computing
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–InformationWeek, the world’s most trusted business technology resource, and Network Computing, the trusted resource for IT architects and engineers, today announces technology thought leader Sara Peters has.....»»
Microsoft confirms it’s buying cybersecurity startup RiskIQ
Microsoft has confirmed it’s buying RiskIQ, a San Francisco-based cybersecurity company that provides threat intelligence and cloud-based software as a service for organizations. Terms of the deal, which will see RiskIQ’s threat intellige.....»»
Tiger Global leads $34M investment into Unit21, a no-code fraud prevention platform
Unit21, a startup that helps businesses monitor fraudulent activities with its no-code software, announced today it has raised $34 million in a Series B round of funding led by Tiger Global Management. The round values San Francisco-based Unit21 at $.....»»
The Station: Bird has drama in San Francisco, drone delivery startup Zipline raises $250M
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox. Happy 4th of July! For those of you who are actually checking your emails today while g.....»»
San Francisco Startup Hopes to Open Sushi Bar Serving Lab-Grown Salmon
The San Francisco Chronicle reports on a startup named Wildtype that hopes to open a unique sushi bar this fall serving salmon grown in a lab: Like other alternative meat companies, Wildtype hopes it can eventually produce enough fish to be sold at.....»»
Bessemer replaces board member at Hinge Health following competitive tensions
Board tensions at Hinge Health, a San Francisco-based digital health unicorn, have caused Bessemer Venture Partners to switch up its board director seat, replacing the original investor at the chair with a different one. Hinge Health co-founder and C.....»»
"There may not be a conflict after all" in expanding universe debate
Our universe is expanding, but our two main ways to measure how fast this expansion is happening have resulted in different answers. For the past decade, astrophysicists have been gradually dividing into two camps: one that believes that the differen.....»»
Blockchain.com Will Let People Use Human-Readable Usernames In Blockchain Transactions
An anonymous reader quotes a report from VentureBeat: Blockchain.com will let people use human-readable usernames in blockchain transactions thanks to a partnership with Unstoppable Domains. San Francisco-based Blockchain.com now supports Unstoppable.....»»
Report: Hackers Breached More US Water Treatment Plants
"On January 15, a hacker tried to poison a water treatment plant that served parts of the San Francisco Bay Area," reports NBC News: It didn't seem hard. The hacker had the username and password for a former employee's TeamViewer account, a popular.....»»
Payments Giant Stripe Saw Major Uptake of Staff Offer To Move With 10% Pay Cut
Stripe saw "major uptake" of the unusual offer it made to staff during the pandemic: Leave high-cost cities like New York and San Francisco and take a $20,000 bonus to boot. The catch? Workers had to consent to a 10% cut to their base compensation. F.....»»
New study looks at gender, teaching contracts and grade inflation
A new study, "Under pressure: How faculty gender and contract uncertainty impact students' grades," by Wake Forest University Associate Professor of Economics Amanda Griffith and her co-researcher Veronica Sovero from San Francisco State University l.....»»
Google"s AirTable Rival, Tables, Graduates From Beta
Last fall, Google's in-house incubator Area 120 introduced a new work-tracking tool called Tables, an AirTable (a San Francisco-based startup that makes cloud-based spreadsheet collaboration software and is valued at $5.77 billion) rival that allows.....»»
Nearly $1 Billion in Funding Restored for California Bullet Train
Back in 2009, then-governor of California Arnold Schwarzenegger requested $4.7 billion in federal stimulus money to help build an 800-mile bullet train system from San Diego to San Francisco. "We're traveling on our trains at the same speed as 100 ye.....»»
ISEE brings autonomy to shipping hubs with self-driving yard trucks
Robotaxis may still be a few years out, but there are other industries that can be transformed by autonomous vehicles as they are today. MIT spin-off ISEE has identified one in the common shipping yard, where containers are sorted and stored — toda.....»»
Joby Aviation targets parking garages for its aerial ridesharing network
Joby Aviation is partnering with one of the country’s largest parking garage operators and a real estate acquisition company to build out its network of vertiports, with an initial focus on Los Angeles, Miami, New York and the San Francisco Bay Are.....»»
Google"s San Jose Mega-Campus Wins City Approval
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the San Francisco Chronicle: After more than three years of negotiations, San Jose officials voted late Tuesday to approve Google's plan for a sprawling downtown campus with thousands of new homes, millions of.....»»
Flywire’s flotation suggests the IPO slowdown is behind us
The Flywire IPO is neat from a financial perspective and notable in that it's a Boston exit as opposed to yet another New York or San Francisco-based flotation. Boston-based payment processor Flywire announced its IPO pricing last night. Th.....»»
A dozen dead whales have washed ashore in the San Francisco Bay Area
The number of dead whales washing ashore in the San Francisco Bay Area this spring continues to climb, with another massive gray whale seen rolling in the surf at Pacifica State Beach on Friday afternoon......»»