We already have a case study for when VCs promise progress, and it doesn’t look good.
Source: Wired
The Structural Genomics Consortium encourages pharma companies and academics to put all their cards on the table in the interest of speeding up drug research.
Source: Wired
The race to bring self-driving features to market is stepping up in a big way, now that GM’s Super Cruise is set to arrive in the Cadillac CT6 later this year, and Audi has announced it’ll ship its Level 3 self-driving tech in the next A8. Hyundai is speeding up its own timeline for commercialization of its “Highway Driving Assist 2” (HDA2) semi-autonomous features as… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Messaging app Telegram has agreed to block terrorist-related content in Indonesia after the government threatened to block the service over fears it was enabling terrorist communication. The country’s Ministry of Communication and IT blocked the web-based version of the messaging service on Friday. It threatened to do more in frustration that Telegram continued to be used as a platform… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Science is all well and good, but getting pregnant might take some magic.
Source: CNET
Marvel’s “Thor” and “Black Panther,” “Game of Thrones,” “The Walking Dead” and “Star Trek: Discovery” will vie for your eyeballs at this entertainment mecca.
Source: CNET
WaveOptics, a UK startup that builds waveguide-based optics — technology based on hologram physics and photonic crystals — for augmented reality hardware, has raised $16 million (£12 million) to help build the next phase of its business. The Series B round of funding — which comes from previous investors Octopus Ventures, Touchstone Innovations plc and Robert Bosch… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The latest version of MIT’s Cheetah robot made its stage debut today at TC Sessions: Robotics in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It’s a familiar project to anyone who follows the industry with any sort of regularity, as one of the most impressive demos to come out of one of the world’s foremost robotics schools in recent years. Earlier versions of the four-legged robot have been… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
The country’s $5.5 trillion digital payments market may be dominated by local tech giants, but Apple wants a slice of that juicy pie.
Source: CNET
Last Thursday, a bunch of space capitalists met with a bunch of senators to talk policy.
Source: Wired