The Poem on the Statue of Liberty Tops This Week’s Internet News Roundup Ken Cuccinelli, the acting director of US Citizenship and Immigration Services, thinks the poem on the Statue of Liberty could use a rewrite. Yes, really. Source: www.wired.com The Poem on the Statue of Liberty Tops This Week’s Internet […]

Week in Review: Snapchat beats a dead horse Hey. This is Week-in-Review, where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on TechCrunch this week to surface my favorites for your reading pleasure. Last week, I […]

Form Swim Goggles Review: Fitness Tracking at the Pool Form is moving the swim watch from your wrist to your face. Our review of its fitness-tracking augmented reality goggles. Source: https://www.wired.com/category/gear Form Swim Goggles Review: Fitness Tracking at the Pool

Robot Coffee Tastes Great, But at What Cost? (About ) Coffee Haus makes coffee drinks 100 times an hour in its robotic kiosks. No humans required. Source: https://www.wired.com/category/gear Robot Coffee Tastes Great, But at What Cost? (About )

A Major Proof Shows How to Approximate Numbers Like Pi The ancient Greeks wondered when irrational numbers, like pi, can be represented with fractions. Two mathematicians now have a complete answer. Source: www.wired.com A Major Proof Shows How to Approximate Numbers Like Pi

Amazon Says It Can Detect Fear on Your Face. You Scared? The company updates its Rekognition suite with an algorithm that can tell if you’re afraid. Researchers say such emotion detectors don’t work very well. Source: www.wired.com Amazon Says It Can Detect Fear on Your Face. You Scared?

NASA and SpaceX practice Crew Dragon evacuation procedure with astronaut recovery vessel NASA and SpaceX continue their joint preparations for the eventually astronaut crew missions that SpaceX will fly for the agency, with a test of the emergency evacuation procedure for SpaceX’s GO Searcher seaborne ship. The ship is intended to be […]

Voyage’s driverless future, ghost work, B2B growth strategies, and Black Hat takeaways Inside Voyage’s plan to deliver a driverless future In the autonomous vehicle space, startups have taken radically different strategies to building our AV future. Some companies like Waymo have driven all across different types of environments in order to rack […]

Ikea doubles down on smart home tech with new business unit Ikea’s smart home investments to date have been smart but scattered – now the Swedish home goods brand says it’s going to amp up its smart home bets with a brand new dedicated business unit. The company’s smart home endeavors began […]

SoftBank reportedly plans to lend employees as much as billion to invest in its VC fund SoftBank has a plant to loan up to $20 billion to its employees, including CEO Masayoshi Son, for the purposes of having that capital re-invested in SoftBank’s own Vision venture fund, according to a new report […]