Blue Origin engineer Tim Ellis and SpaceX engineer Jordan Noone launched a space start-up together at the end of 2015. The two aerospace techies have a lot of brains between them, but they needed capital for lift off. “We actually raised our seed round from Mark Cuban — which was a cold email — a […]
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Connor McGregor, the mixed martial artist and boxer, uses sensors from a tech start-up called Hykso to measure his performance and technique. So does MMA fighter Daniel Cormier, as well as boxer Vasyl Lomachenko and the U.S. Olympic boxing team. Hykso is now moving beyond punch tracking hardware and is bringing on-demand training videos to […]
Read moreLanding Amazon’s $5 billion new headquarters and its 50,000 tax-paying workers would be quite the coup. And possibly quite the headache. Officials and civic organizers in some of the 20 cities now vying to win Amazon’s choice for its second headquarters are sounding alarms that accommodating this tech talent invasion could put a big strain […]
Read moreThe U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission wants to bring sales of new digital tokens, or initial coin offerings, under its authority. “The SEC is devoting a significant portion of its resources to the ICO market,” commission chairman, Jay Clayton, and J. Christopher Giancarlo, chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, wrote in a commentary piece […]
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Stock trading app Robinhood is becoming a cryptocurrency broker. Customers in California, Massachusetts, Missouri, Montana and New Hampshire will be able to trade bitcoin and ethereum through the app beginning in February, Robinhood announced Thursday. In the meantime, all customers can now track prices and receive alerts for 16 cryptocurrencies on the app. The prices […]
Read moreMajor global technology providers SAP, Symantec and McAfee have allowed Russian authorities to hunt for vulnerabilities in software deeply embedded across the U.S. government, a Reuters investigation has found. The practice potentially jeopardizes the security of computer networks in at least a dozen federal agencies, U.S. lawmakers and security experts said. It involves more companies […]
Read moreCryptocurrencies are not in “dotcom bubble territory” in terms of market capitalization, a venture capitalist said at the World Economic Forum (WEF) on Thursday. During a CNBC panel at The Sanctuary in Davos, Switzerland, Richard Muirhead, a general partner at Fabric Ventures, Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin and Blockchain co-founder Nic Cary discussed the future of […]
Read moreApple is going to again challenge Amazon dominance of digital books with a redesigned iBooks app, and has recently hired a former Amazon executive to help, according to a Bloomberg report. The updated app will feature a simpler interface and a new tab specifically for audio books and is set to be released in the […]
Read moreThe companies featured on CNBC’s annual Disruptor 50 list often threaten the establishment and are on their way to becoming the next generation of giants. But increasingly, the largest public companies are partnering with CNBC Disruptors to speed up their own pace of innovation. Just last week education technology company Coursera announced a new partnership […]
Read moreA team of six Stanford University scientists has used artificial intelligence to predict when people will die in order to improve access to palliative care, or specialized care for patients with particularly serious illnesses. Currently, less than half of the 7 to 8 percent of individuals admitted to a hospital who need palliative care receive […]
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