Productivity-enhancing app Portal has launched a Mac app. The company helps users regain focus and become more productive with immersive backgrounds and natural sounds.The service has been available t...
Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines.Our Monday Tuesday show covers the latest in tech news from th...
If you, like me, have been waiting for the day when urban sprawls begin to resemble your favourite sci-fi scene with flying taxis journeying in silent files high up amongst the skyscrapers, it seems y...
Antimatter is an edtech company that operates under a simple, enticing premise: if a student really understands a topic, then they'll be able to make a meme about it."To be able to shitpost, you have ...
This week, Worldcoin, an outfit that aims to serve as proof of personhood in a world where it's harder by the day to distinguish a human from a bot, raised $115 million in Series C funding.Led by the ...
Info Edge, the largest shareholder in Bizcrum Infotech, the holding firm of Bijnis, has written off its entire investment in the Indian startup, citing "principles of conservatism and prudence," in th...
After sales software startup TigerEye closed its Series A and established a board of directors, its co-founders put them on notice:One thing we'd like to never do is the three-hour, too-in-the-weeds, ...
Grand Theft Auto is one of the most fabled and popular video game franchises of all time, with its latest installment, GTA V, which is about a decade old now, still going strong. However, for some tim...
Following a successful flight to the edge of space on Thursday, space tourism company Virgin Galactic says it is ready to enter commercial service in June.Virgin Galactic's aircraft, VMS Eve, departed...
Anne Boden nearly lost a grip on Starling Bank years ago when the neobank was in the middle of a coup effort led by its CTO, but now it looks like Boden who is doing the walking away. The outspoken fo...
Nurses in the neonatal intensive care unit can spend an entire shift waiting for breast milk to defrost so they can prepare bottles for their hungry patients. This can wind up costing hospitals millio...
Embark Trucks, the autonomous trucking company that recently cut 70% of its workforce, is being acquired by Applied Intuition, a simulation and software provider for autonomous vehicle development. Th...
We've all been there. Shopping online and desperately searching for a promo code so that you can save some money on a purchase.Well, at least I've been there.Enter Checkmate. The startup wants to make...
[photo1]Will KnightEight years ago, the Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency organized a painful-to-watch contest that involved robots slowly struggling (and often failing) to perform ...
Elon Musk's brain-computer interface company Neuralink says it has received Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval to launch its first in-human clinical study. If this is true, it means that actu...
This article features an interview with Krijn de Nood, the CEO and co-founder of cultivated meat startup Meatable. De Nood will be speaking at TNW Conference, which takes place on June 15 & 16 in Amst...
Not unlike a post-Internet-era Bloomberg Terminal, OpenFin was a startup which joined the revolutionary world of user interfaces to fast-moving information, back in 2010. If you cast your mind back, t...
Meta is waging its latest round of layoffs on Wednesday, estimated to impact about 6,000 people. These cuts are part of the company's so-called "Year of Efficiency," in which Meta is being massively r...
There is a groundswell of commercial space initiatives focused on the moon, with established companies and newer upstarts all seeking to transform that cold, grey rock into a thriving hub for scientif...
When Matt Hicks got promoted to CEO at Red Hat last summer, he not only faced the typical challenges of any new chief executive taking over from a veteran like predecessor Paul Cormier, but he was als...