Man Found in Greasy Restaurant Duct Was Stuck for 2 Days Before Being Rescued
A man who police suspect of attempting to rob a shuttered Chinese restaurant in San Lorenzo, California found himself in a potentially fatal situation after he...
Geek Trivia: What TV Show First Introduced Virtual Reality As A Plot Device?
What TV Show First Introduced Virtual Reality As A Plot Device? The Tribe Red Dwarf Doctor Who Star Trek: The Next Generation Think you know the...
Finalcad, the mobile platform for the construction industry, raises $40M Series C
Finalcad, a mobile platform that enables the construction industry to digitize much of its processes, has closed $40 million in Series C funding. The round was...
Wandelbots raises $6.8M to make programming a robot as easy as putting on a jacket
Industrial robotics is on track to be worth around $20 billion by 2020, but while it may have something in common with other categories of cutting-edge...
‘Genius’ Rats Are Flooding DC and Adapting Too Fast to Control
Washington, DC, has a serious rat problem on its hands, and it has little to do with the shady goings-on at some of the highest levels...
Volvo Trucks teases the all-electric semi truck it’s bringing to California in 2019
Volvo Trucks released teaser images Wednesday of the electric trucks it plans to bring to California next year as part of a demonstration project, the latest...
Razer: Mine for Us
Gaming hardware manufacturer Razer has launched a cryptocurrency mining program named Razer SoftMiner to put spare graphics card capacity to work—for them, not for you. Read...
Democrats Want Internet Companies to Be Liable for Data Loss Like Banks and Hospitals
Should we hold companies like Equifax and Facebook responsible for the protection of our personal information in the same way we hold banks and hospitals responsible?...
Lazada, Alibaba’s Southeast Asia e-commerce business, gets a new CEO
Alibaba has reshuffled the leadership at Lazada, its e-commerce firm in Southeast Asia, after CEO Lucy Peng — an original Alibaba co-founder — stepped down to be...
Pokémon GO trainer battles are now live (for some players)
Last week we did a deep dive on how Pokémon GO’s new (and long overdue) player-versus-player battle system would work. The only thing we didn’t know...
