Roughly two years after emerging on the scene as a new Bay Area accelerator, NFX Guild, an outfit run by several seasoned founders, has raised $150 million for a full-fledged venture fund. It’s quite a ways from the $10 million that NFX used to get started, but as is often the case with these things, the firm’s ambitions have grown with time. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The bacteria turned up after swabbing of the space station’s exterior. The question is, how did they get there?
Source: CNET
The debut of Windows 10’s Sets feature is the latest example of the tech industry turning us into guinea pigs.
Source: CNET
InstaCarro, a Brazilian-based marketplace for buying and selling used cars, has raised a whopping $22 million in its first institutional round of venture financing. One of the largest early-stage investments for a Brazilian startup, the new financing will be used for product development and international expansion. Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Apparently, Google made good on its promise to fix its awful hamburger emoji, in the wake of an online debacle last month. In case you missed it, when a tweet about the problem with the emoji went viral – the cheese in Google’s burger emoji is under the bun! The horror! – Google CEO Sundar Pichai replied he would “drop everything” to address this issue. According… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The last time U2 offered up an album exclusive, things didn’t go great. Apple reportedly paid $100 million for exclusive rights to Songs of Innocence, the Irish arena rock band’s first record in half a decade — and irritated countless iTunes users in the process by forcing it onto their iPhones and iPads. Probably no surprise, then, that the two seem to have parted ways.… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The FCC’s net neutrality public comment period was overrun with bots, making it all but impossible for any one voice to be heard. That’s not how this is supposed to work.
Source: Wired
Windows Timeline is a new feature that should make it dramatically easier to work with stuff on your PC. Microsoft has unveiled Sets as well, a promising way to group associated items from your history to restore the experience of working on a project – windows, apps, websites and more.
The post Where was I? Timeline puts your Windows desktop right back the way you left it appeared first on Digital Trends.
Source: Digital trends
Instacart has inked a deal with Albertsons to offer same-day delivery from the grocery store chain.
The deal will include 1,800 of Albertsons stores across the country by mid-2018, helping Instacart deliver on its promise to be available in 80 percent of markets across the U.S. by the end of 2018.
This isn’t Albertsons first foray into the tech space. Earlier this year, the company… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Google researchers demonstrate a new feature that could protect you from snoopers looking at your phone over your shoulder in public.
Source: CNET