At some point in the future, while riding along in a car, a kid may ask their parent about a distant time in the past when people used steering wheels and pedals to control an automobile. Of course, the full realization of the “auto” part of the word — in the form of fully autonomous automobiles — is a long way off, but there are nonetheless companies trying to build that future today.
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Former Medicare chief Andy Slavitt formally launches Town Hall Ventures to invest in healthcare
Town Hall Ventures launches today as the latest venture investment firm to take a stab at transforming the woefully broken U.S. health care market through technology. What Town Hall has that many other firms trying to invest in healthcare technology don’t is a group of founders who have spent time in the trenches of the […]
View More Former Medicare chief Andy Slavitt formally launches Town Hall Ventures to invest in healthcareSergey Brin shouts out Ethereum and warns of AI in annual founders’ letter
When Sergey Brin talks, people listen. And right now Brin is talking about AI and cryptocurrency.
As the president of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, Brin is uniquely positioned to not only see what technological developments are coming down…
Google beats expectations again with $31.15B in revenue
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, reported another pretty solid beat this afternoon for its first quarter as it more or less has continued to keep its business growing substantially — and is growing even faster than it was a year ago today. Google said its revenue grew 26% year-over-year to $31.16 billion in the first quarter […]
View More Google beats expectations again with $31.15B in revenueWait, did Google just reveal the full name of Android P?
Google didn’t reveal the name of Android Oreo until August last year, shortly after Google I/O. But this year, it might be giving us some clues ahead of time.
SEE ALSO: Google is going all-in on smartphone notches for Android P
On Thursday, the…
Making policing more responsive, Spidr Tech raises $2.5 million
Across the country, police brutality and the series of fatal shootings of mostly black men have soured many on the role that police officers play in the community. To combat those negative assessments police forces are turning to an array of new technologies from body cameras, new communications technologies, and social media monitoring services to […]
View More Making policing more responsive, Spidr Tech raises $2.5 millionHere’s what Waymo’s electric, self-driving Jaguar looks like
The all-electric Jaguar I-Pace made its first North American appearance at the New York Auto Show on Wednesday. Among those on display was a future member of Waymo’s autonomous fleet.
The company, formerly the Google self-driving car project, h…
Oscar Health raises $165 million at reported $3B valuation
Oscar Health, the startup run by Josh Kushner (yes, brother of Jared), has raised $165 million at a reported valuation of $3.2 billion, CNBC’s Christina Farr reports. The funding comes from Alphabet’s Capital G investment company and Verily life sciences corporation, Founders Fund and others. Oscar’s goal is to outpace existing industry-leading insurers, including UnitedHealth […]
View More Oscar Health raises $165 million at reported $3B valuationApple’s “Pencil” now works with its iWork toolkit
Apple is bringing its pencil to the masses. The pencil tool will now work across Apple’s suite of iWork tools — including the popular Pages (document creation) Numbers (its spreadsheet app), and Keynote (for presentations) apps — on the low-cost iPad that Apple first brought to market last year. At an event today in Chicago, Apple announced its latest […]
View More Apple’s “Pencil” now works with its iWork toolkitAlphabet X spinout Dandelion raises $4.5M to built out its geothermal heating and cooling system for homes
Dandelion, a clean energy startup that was originally incubated inside Google parent Alphabet, has raised $4.5 million in funding to build out its business — a geothermal heating and cooling system for homes that claims it will drastically reduce its customers’ bills — it claims to cut bills in half (notwithstanding the upfront costs, more […]
View More Alphabet X spinout Dandelion raises $4.5M to built out its geothermal heating and cooling system for homesAmazon surpasses Alphabet in market value
Amazon is currently the second biggest company in the world when it comes to market capitalization. The company is currently worth $763.27 billion (NASDAQ:AMZN) while Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOG) is “only” worth $762.98 billion. Amazon has had an incredible quarter. Stock is up nearly 29 percent since early January. As for Alphabet, its shares have gone up […]
View More Amazon surpasses Alphabet in market valueBlue Vision Labs, which builds ‘collaborative’ AR, emerges from stealth with $14.5M led by GV
Blue Vision Labs, a London-based augmented reality startup co-founded by computer vision experts from Oxford and Imperial College, is emerging from stealth today with a new platform that it claims will be the first to bring ‘collaboration’ to the AR experience: with an app built on Blue Vision’s technology (via its API and SDK), multiple […]
View More Blue Vision Labs, which builds ‘collaborative’ AR, emerges from stealth with $14.5M led by GV