Sean Parker’s govtech Brigade breaks up, Pinterest acqhires engineers
Facebook co-founder Sean Parker bankrolled Brigade to get out the vote and stimulate civic debate, but after five years and little progress the startup is splitting...
Two former Qualcomm engineers are using AI to fix China’s healthcare problem
Artificial intelligence is widely heralded as something that could disrupt the jobs market across the board — potentially eating into careers as varied as accountants, advertising...
Geek Trivia: Apple’s Original Logo Featured Which Famous Inventor?
Apple’s Original Logo Featured Which Famous Inventor? Alexander Graham Bell Nikola Tesla Thomas Edison Sir Isaac Newton Think you know the answer? Source : Geek Trivia:...
12 Empowering Captions for Every Photo You Post to Instagram on a Saturday
The weekends are prime time for posting an Instagram photo that your followers will love, but it can be tricky to come up with the perfect caption for it....
A Refuge from Reality, à la Russe
Though closely associated with Russia, both before and after the 1917 Revolution, the concept of “internal exile” is not exclusively linked to the Soviet experience and...
Xiaomi-backed electric toothbrush Soocas raises $30 million Series C
China’s Soocas continues to jostle with global toothbrush giants as it raises 200 million yuan ($30 million) in a series C funding round. The Shenzhen-based oral care...
The Dream of Creative Writing
I have been doing quite a bit of soul-searching in the past few weeks and months, and I have played with several ideas for my future...
Saudi Arabia denies involvement in leak of Jeff Bezos’ private messages
In his extraordinary Medium post last week accusing American Media Inc of “extortion and blackmail,” Bezos hinted (but did not explicitly state) that there may be...
Jeff Bezos Nudes, Self-Aware Fish, and Brain Zapping: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
A good rule of thumb if you’re going to threaten to publish nude photos of the richest man on the planet unless he says you’re not...
Aurora cofounder and CEO Chris Urmson on the company’s new investor, Amazon, and much more
You might not think of self-driving technologies and politics having much in common, but at least in one way, they overlap meaningfully: yesterday’s enemy can be...
