Building a great startup requires more than genius and a great invention Shahin Farshchi Contributor Shahin Farshchi is a partner at Lux Capital. More posts by this contributor The dos and don’ts of crafting frontier-tech... Gillette partners with Formlabs to 3D print razor handles 3D printing for manufacturing is one of those things that gets talked about a lot, but we’ve yet to see a lot of truly mainstream applications for the technology. A new ...
Why IGTV should go premium It’s been four months since Facebook launched IGTV, with the goal of creating a destination for longer-form Instagram videos. Is it shaping up to be a high-profile flop, or could this be the...
Sidestepping App Stores, Facebook Lite and Groups get Instant Games HTML5 almost ruined Facebook when baking in the mobile web standard to speed up development slowed down the performance of the social network’s main iOS and...
PwC staves off disruption with immersive emerging tech training The big accounting firms are under pressure from digital disruption just like every industry these days, but PwC is trying a proactive approach with a digital...
Postmates launches food delivery in 134 new U.S. cities Homebodies across the U.S. have reason to celebrate. Postmates — the on-demand food delivery service so popular in major cities that it’s a verb now— just launched in 134 ...
This 3D-printed prosthetic hand combines speed and strength with simplicity Prosthetic limbs have come a long way from the heavy, solid hands and legs of yesteryear, but it's still difficult to pack a range of motion into...
Open offices have driven Panasonic to make horse blinders for humans At what point do we just give up and admit we’re living in exactly the dystopian nightmare speculative fiction warned us about? It probably ought to be these ... Health insurance startup Alan covers meditation app subscription French startup Alan wants to be a bit better than your good old health insurance. That’s why the company is trying something new and now covers part of your...
Skully AR motorcycle helmlet returns from the dead under new ownership It’s been a long, bumpy road for the Skully augmented reality motorcycle helmet brand. But under the leadership of Ivan Contreras, who acquired the assets...
Twilio launches Autopilot to help developers build better bots Bots went through the hype cycle faster than a speeding roller coaster, as the promise of chatting with a computer quickly turned sour. Now, Twilio wants to take...
Twilio makes it easier to take payments over the phone Making a payment over the phone, maybe because you are trying to change an airline ticket or to pay a last-minute bill, still feels like an antiquated process. You read...