The founder of one of Silicon Valley’s most famous flameouts, anonymous social app Secret, is the new product lead for Postmates’ app. After Secret shut down and gave investors back their money, David Byttow went on to raise a $1 million seed round from Index to launch a blog publishing tool for enterprises called Bold.
Today Bold was acqhired by Postmates, Byttow confirmed to… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Amazon introduced its deep learning-based image recognition software Amazon Rekognition last year, and has already been used to search, verify, and organize millions of images. And now, it can recognize celebrities.
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Source: Digital trends
Drug prices are too high. Meet the man who could fix them and the surprising opponents who want him to go away.
Source: Wired
Indeed, as technology marches relentlessly forward, it feels like many of today’s positions could soon be displaced. But just as with past technological inflection points — whether the steam engine, the telegraph, the computer or even industrial robots — technology will always give as much as it takes, as it always has. That matters little to people who have lost their… Read More
Source: TechCrunch
Even if you’ve never done live action role-playing before, now is a great time to start.
Source: Wired
Saturn’s north pole, symbiotic stars, and the brightest infrared galaxies in the universe.
Source: Wired
Three teenage girls came up with the concept during a business plan challenge.
Source: CNET
A solid, if heavy, new gaming laptop from Gigabyte.
Source: Wired
A Twitter attack, an Al Jazeera cyberattack, and more: Each weekend we round up the news stories that we didn’t break or cover in depth but that still deserve your attention.
Source: Wired
At Games announces updates to its retro mini-consoles with more games and HDMI output.
Source: CNET