New York City is a marvel of infrastructure planning and engineering. There are the visible landmarks — the Brooklyn Bridge, the Lincoln Tunnel, the Empire State Building — and also the invisible ones that run the city beneath its crowded streets, such as one of the world’s most complex water tunneling and reservoir systems. That […]
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Two Facebook and Google geniuses are combining search and AI to transform HR
Two former product wizards from Facebook and Google are combining Silicon Valley’s buzziest buzz words –search, artificial intelligence, and big data — into a new technology service aimed at solving nothing less than the problem of how to provide professional meaning in the modern world. Founded by chief executive Ashutosh Garg, a former search and […]
View More Two Facebook and Google geniuses are combining search and AI to transform HRBolt Threads joins Modern Meadow in the quest to bring lab-grown leather to market
There’s a new world of lab-grown replacements coming for everything from the meat department in your grocery store to a department store near you. Lab-made leather replacements will soon join vegetable-based meat replacements on store shelves thanks to startups like Bolt Threads, which today announced that it would join companies like Modern Meadow in the […]
View More Bolt Threads joins Modern Meadow in the quest to bring lab-grown leather to marketServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion dollar startup
The city of Glendale, Calif. seems like an unlikely place to grow one of the next billion dollar startups in the booming Los Angeles tech ecosystem. Located at the southeastern tip of the San Fernando Valley, the Los Angeles suburb counts its biggest employers as the adhesive manufacturer Avery Dennison; the Los Angeles industrial team […]
View More ServiceTitan is LA’s least likely contender to be the next billion dollar startupT.J. Miller reportedly arrested, accused of calling in fake bomb threat
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Former Silicon Valley star T.J. Miller was arrested for allegedly calling authorities about a fake bomb threat, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The actor was reportedly apprehended at LaGuardia Airport on Monday, April 9 — though the alleged bomb threat was made all the way back on March 18.
Authorities described his alleged crime to THR as “intentionally conveying to law enforcement false information about an explosive device on a train traveling to Connecticut.”
After being arrested, he went to court in New Haven on Tuesday. He was released on a $100,000 bond. Read more…
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View More T.J. Miller reportedly arrested, accused of calling in fake bomb threatDenmark hired a tech ambassador. After what happened with Facebook, maybe every country should.
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Casper Klynge is not a conventional diplomat. And serving as Denmark’s, and indeed the world’s, first tech ambassador required him to rewrite the international relations playbook.
The role of tech ambassador was created by the Danish government as a response to two main trends. One is that technology is now a driving force shaping the world – think the Trump-Russia scandal, Cambridge Analytica, etc. The other is that a small number of tech companies are the main catalysts for that change – enter Facebook. Read more…
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View More Denmark hired a tech ambassador. After what happened with Facebook, maybe every country should.YouTube accused of violating child privacy law that killed ‘Silicon Valley’ chat app
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According to an FTC complaint filed by 23 child protection groups, YouTube is violating the same law that brought down Silicon Valley‘s PiperChat. In YouTube’s case, the complaint alleges, it’s for collecting data on children.
Silicon Valley fans will remember Dinesh Chugtai racking up a $21 billion fine — “the size of a small nation’s GDP,” he estimated — for violating the Child Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) with his video chat app’s lack of what he calls “legal bullshit.”
The very real law establishes strict guidelines to protect the online privacy of children under 13. In the show, Dinesh failed to include a terms of service or way to obtain parental consent when adding his app, which was largely used by kids, to the app store. “I mean, nobody reads that stuff anyway,” he says, sweating profusely. Read more…
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Hewlett Packard Enterprise to move HQ to San Jose
Hewlett Packard Enterprise is moving north from Palo Alto to San Jose. The company will relocate 1,000 employees to a 220,000-square-foot space in late 2018. HPE was spun-off from Hewlett-Packard in 2015 and is focused on servers and storage. This news comes months after HPE announced a different plan in which the company was moving […]
View More Hewlett Packard Enterprise to move HQ to San JoseCisco commits $50 million to end homelessness in Silicon Valley
Homelessness in Santa Clara County has gotten worse, with the overall homeless population increasing 13 percent to 7,394 in 2017 over the course of two years. That puts Santa Clara’s homelessness crisis in the same ballpark as San Francisco’s, which has a homeless population of 7,499, according to a 2017 homeless census and survey. Santa […]
View More Cisco commits $50 million to end homelessness in Silicon ValleyIn the farms of the future, tractors will no longer require human drivers
California-based startup Bear Flag Robotics is developing an automation kit that turns regular tractors into driverless vehicles. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Silicon Valley, Autonomous Vehicles, Driverless, and Kit
View More In the farms of the future, tractors will no longer require human driversCongrats to ‘Silicon Valley’ on this sick Facebook burn
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The opening credits of Silicon Valley are among the most delightful on television. Each season’s title sequence offers a fresh crop of newsy Easter eggs for fans and Sunday’s start of the new season was no different.
This time, there’s a very sharp Facebook barb in there. Dunking on Facebook is very in right now, so this is great! Observe:
During the Silicon Valley opening credits, the Facebook logo flipped from English to Russian. First-rate burn by one of the best series on TVpic.twitter.com/zvh9ZPd3td
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) March 26, 2018
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Silicon Valley Wants Your Sweet, Young Blood
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