SenseTime, the world’s highest-valued AI company with a valuation of over $4.5 billion, is back in the money again. The company raised $600 million in an Alibaba-led financing round announced last month, and now it has added a further $620 million to that with a “Series C+” round announced today. Alibaba led the previous deal, […]
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These schools graduate the most funded startup CEOs
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor The formula behind San Francisco’s startup success US early-stage investment share shrinks as China surges There is no degree required to be a CEO of a venture-backed company. But it likely helps to graduate from Harvard, Stanford or one of about a dozen other prominent universities that […]
View More These schools graduate the most funded startup CEOsYobe launches with $1.8 M seed to pinpoint a voice in noise
There are times where voice-driven systems don’t work all that well because of background noise or other voices. That’s because it’s hard for machines (and humans) to pull out a particular voice when there are many others speaking. This is sometimes called ‘the cocktail party problem.’ Yobe was created out of research at MIT on […]
View More Yobe launches with $1.8 M seed to pinpoint a voice in noiseWith MIT launched, Learning Machine raises seed to replace paper with blockchain credentials
Transcripts, diplomas, resumes — simple documents with enormously important economic consequences for their holders. The right classes or GPA on a transcript can radically change the career prospects of a young graduate, and yet, the infrastructure that manages these critical documents still centers on mailing official paper to processing centers. Now, a startup called Learning […]
View More With MIT launched, Learning Machine raises seed to replace paper with blockchain credentialsResearchers at MIT are programming water droplets
Researchers at MIT’s Tangible Media Group found a way to program actual water droplets to create a “calm” computer interface that the user can physically interact with. The Programmable Droplets system was made possible using a technology called elect…
View More Researchers at MIT are programming water dropletsThese 8 books are required reading for anyone who wants to change the world with tech
“Changing the world,” the rallying cry of the technology industry, sounds like a concept bursting with optimism. But in reality, it’s complicated.
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The 2017 TechCrunch Include Progress Report
This is the second annual TechCrunch Include Progress Report. Covering diversity and inclusion in the tech industry cannot be done in a vacuum. As aspects of identity are intersectional, so too should be the way in which media approaches its coverage of the tech industry. With each passing year, companies big and small release diversity […]
View More The 2017 TechCrunch Include Progress ReportFour MIT students have launched DeepBench to democratize access to expert networks
New European financial regulations requiring fund managers at investment firms to pay banks for research and trading services separately could open the door for new entrants in the professional advisory services marketplace.
The rules, which were approved in 2014, but only took effect in January, are proving to be a boon for four MIT students who launched a company last year to try and grab some of the market.
View More Four MIT students have launched DeepBench to democratize access to expert networksReviveMed turns drug discovery into a big data problem and raises $1.5M to solve it
What if there’s a drug that already exists that could treat a disease with no known therapies, but we just haven’t made the connection? Finding that connection by exhaustively analyzing complex biomechanics within the body — with the help of machine learning, naturally — is the goal of ReviveMed, a new biotech startup out of MIT that just raised $1.5 million in seed funding.
View More ReviveMed turns drug discovery into a big data problem and raises $1.5M to solve it’90s kids rejoice! Microsoft releases the original Windows 3.0 File Manager source code
Microsoft has released the source code for the original, 1990s-era File Manager that is so familiar to all of us who were dragging and dropping on Windows 3.0. The code, which is available on Github under the MIT OSS license, will compile under Windows 10. File Manager uses the multiple-document interface or MDI to display […]
View More ’90s kids rejoice! Microsoft releases the original Windows 3.0 File Manager source codeMIT’s new headset reads the ‘words in your head’
There’s always been a glaring issue with voice computing: Talking to a voice assistant with other people around makes you feel like a bit of a weirdo. It’s a big part of the reason we’ve been seeing the technology start to take off in the home, where people feel a little less self-conscious talking to […]
View More MIT’s new headset reads the ‘words in your head’MIT cuts ties with brain preservation startup Nectome
MIT is disassociating itself from Nectome, the Y Combinator-backed startup promising to preserve customers’ brains for the possibility of future digital upload. Co-founder Robert McIntyre described the procedure as “100 percent fatal” — it involves connecting terminally ill patients to a machine that pumps embalming fluids into their arteries. The company has collected (refundable) $10,000 […]
View More MIT cuts ties with brain preservation startup Nectome