Interactive streaming engine developer Genvid Technologies startup announced raised total of $6 million in Series A round of financing. The new funding will be used to fuel the international expansion of the company’s existing pipeline of developers, expanding from esports […]
You’ve probably seen the ads on the TV–companies promising to tell you your DNA with just a simple swipe. A new study found that those DNA testing may not be as accurate as advertised. For example, 23andMe touts itself to be […]
Perception system design is a very critical step in the development of an autonomous vehicle (AV). To obtain human level perception, autonomous vehicles primarily use sensor technologies such as LiDARs, RADARs, and Cameras. Self-driving vehicles also need to be equipped with […]
The price of popular cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, soars above $7,400 after it was reported that the Japanese online brokerage firm, Monex, is considering buying Coincheck. Shares of Monex also rose more than 23 percent on the Japanese Stock Exchange after the […]
Security threats to critical infrastructure is on the rise. There is also a shift in the nature of cyber attack. The main current of cyber attack is now shifting from recreational hacker like “script kiddie” to intelligence and disruptive activities […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Tuesday, April 3. A Goldman Sachs managing director has quit to join a driverless car startup Ascent Robotics. A former Goldman Sachs managing director, James Westwood, has quit […]
Online pharmacy startup, PillPack, is currently in talks to be acquired by Walmart for under $1 billion, according to the latest report from CNBC, citing, two sources familiar with the matter.”We are often asked to speculate on possible acquisitions and […]
Google is making good on its promise to narrow the digital divide. Today, the company announced in a blog post, the expansion of its Rolling Study Halls initiative to over 16 additional school districts. With this announcement, “thousands” of students now have […]
RISC-V (pronounced “risk-five”) is an open instruction set architecture (ISA) based on the established reduced instruction set computing (RISC) principles that date back to the 1980s. RISC is quite the opposite of CISC (complex instruction set computing) principles on which Intel […]
Apple is planning to ditch Intel chips in favor of its use its own chips in Mac computers beginning as early as 2020, according to the latest report from Bloomberg News. Shares of Intel fell 9 percent after the news […]
It was a rocky week for Tesla and its founder, Elon Musk. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) and Tesla continue to investigate the fatal accident involving a Model X Autopilot in Mountain View last month. According to a […]
After weeks of speculations, DTN finally put the rumors to rest with the news of its acquisition of Spensa Technologies. In a company release, the Minneapolis-based DTN announced that it has agreed to acquire Spensa, a Purdue University spinout that operates from West […]
A lot has been written about Blockchain. Blockchain is a revolutionary technology that is positioned to transform every industry as we know it. As we wrote back in February, the global blockchain market size is expected to reach $13.96 billion […]
The Chinese space station, China’s Tiangong-1, re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere at 17,000 mph, crashed and burnt up over the South Pacific on Monday, the Chinese space authority said. “The Tiangong-1 space lab re-entered Earth’s atmosphere Monday morning, landing in the middle […]
Cyber attacks and breaches are making headlines everyday. Most organizations are still in reactive mode. The bad guys only need to be right once. According to a report from Lloyd’s of London, a global cyber attack could result in damages of […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Monday, April 2. Tesla admitted Autopilot was active during fatal crash in Mountain View. Tesla admitted Autopilot was engaged during last week’s fatal Tesla Model X crash […]
Discover Paris like you’ve never seen it before. A new French Startup, FlyView, is now offering spectacular experience of flying over Paris and its most famous monuments. For the first time ever, anyone can experience a real tour of Paris and a […]
Happy weekend! Here is a roundup of the top startup news of the week. If you want this weekly update in your inbox every week, please subscribe to the TechStartups Newsletter using the form at the right corner of this […]
The future of jobs is changing. Automation is already reshaping every company’s workforce — including yours. It used to be that robots could only replace blue-collar jobs. Get ready! Robots are coming for your job sooner than you think. No one […]
Back in January, we wrote about that robotics startup that was designing lifelike robots to build trust with humans. Hanson Robotics is the first startup company to develops the world’s most human-like robots. The company is best known as the creator of […]