Facebook tests a GIF maker on iOS
Facebook confirmed it has begun testing a new GIF maker in the camera feature of the main Facebook mobile application. The feature, which is available with the tap of a button at the top of the screen, lets [...]
‘Quora for cancer’ startup theMednet raises $1.3 million in seed funding
theMednet launched out of Y Combinator earlier this year to bring physicians a sophisticated platform for finding the best in treatment research, starting with cancer. It has now raised $1.5 million in seed to help it reach even [...]
Watch this racing drone set the Guinness World Record for fastest drone
A 1.76 pound drone can now move faster than a Tesla at top speed in Ludicrous Mode. Yesterday, the Drone Racing League set the Guinness World Record for fastest drone, or the category of “fastest ground speed by [...]
Audm turns long-form print journalism into professionally narrated digital audio
Services like Instapaper and Pocket are often used by consumers to save longer news articles they don’t have time to immediately read, and both services offer some form of narration for people pressed for time. However, a startup [...]
The Canvas autonomous cart can ferry goods around chaotic factory floors
Most Econ 101 classes start with an explanation of fixed and marginal cost in the context of factories. The factory is the principal fixed cost — expensive and permanent. Canvas wants to smash this assumption of expensive, inflexible, [...]
Border agents can’t lawfully search data stored in the cloud
Storing dating in the cloud isn’t always the safest means of locking it down, but avoiding local storage could benefit anyone concerned for their privacy while crossing U.S. borders. In a letter addressed to Oregon Senator Ron Wyden [...]
Facebook’s new “Explore Feed” makes its way to the app’s main navigation
Earlier this year, Facebook was spotted testing a new type of News Feed – one that designed to help you discover content across the social network, beyond posts from friends and Pages you already follow. During tests, the [...]
Collectly raises $1.9 million to move debt collection online
A few months ago I wrote about a little startup called Collectly going after the big, inefficient debt collection industry by using modern tools to ease the process for debtors while also increasing the amount of money recovered. [...]
MeWe builds a bridge between government and business
Manik Suri, a former D.E. Shaw hedge fund wunderkind, has been wrestling with how best to help government put compliance policy into practice for years. A recent affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society and former [...]
