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DroneDeploy raises $20 million to empower enterprise with aerial drone data
San Francisco-based drone startup DroneDeploy has just raised an impressive $20 million in Series B funding, bringing the company’s total funding to-date up to $31 million. The latest funding round was led by Scale Venture Partners, along with other contributions from existing investors and High Alpha Capital. DroneDeploy says that it will use the new funding to not only ...
ZeniMax updates lawsuit against Oculus with claims of IP theft by John Carmack
It has been two years since multimedia conglomerate ZeniMax Media Inc. first filed its lawsuit against Oculus VR LLC., claiming that the Facebook-owned company stole some of the technology used in the Oculus Rift headset. Now, ZeniMax has updated that lawsuit to directly name Oculus founder Palmer Luckey, CEO Brendan Iribe, and CTO John Carmack (above) ...
Pinterest buys “read it later” app Instapaper
Pinterest, Inc. has announced that it has acquired popular “save for later” app, Instapaper Holdings, Inc., for an undisclosed amount in a bid to beef up its reach and expand what its digital pinboard platform can do. This marks the second time Instapaper has been acquired in the last three years, as it was most ...
Roborace unveils its first self-driving race car
Autonomous vehicle startup Roborace Ltd. has finally unveiled DevBot, the first working prototype of its self-driving race cars, which are powered by Nvidia Corp’s Drive PX 2 artificial intelligence supercomputer. Backed by London-based venture capital firm Kinetik UK Ltd., Roborace wants to use competitive racing as a testing ground for self-driving AIs. In some ways, it is ...
Virtual and augmented reality will be a $162B market by 2020, says IDC
A new report by the International Data Corporation (IDC) claims that virtual and augmented reality will be a $162 billion market within four years, and the company says this would represent an incredible 181.3 percent compound annual growth rate. It is no secret that VR and AR are two of the most talked about trends in tech ...
Netgear tries to solve WiFi dead zones with new Orbi WiFi system
Netgear Inc. has announced a new type of home WiFi system called Orbi that the company says will eliminate WiFi dead zones within the home. Rather than relying on a single router to provide internet access to the entire house, Orbi uses units to create what Netgear calls a “tri-band mesh” that covers the home with consistent ...
Windows 10 update blamed for breaking webcams
Microsoft recently released a major Windows 10 Anniversary Update that tweaked and added a number of features, but the update came with a few problems. First, a number of Windows users complained of recurring system freezes, and now it looks like there is also an issue that is causing problems with a large number of USB-based ...
AMD releasing new ‘Zen’ CPUs in 2017, says they outperform Intel Broadwell-E
Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD) has revealed new details about its upcoming line of CPUs featuring its new Zen processor cores, including a 2017 release date for the new chips. AMD demonstrated a CPU using Zen this week at an event in San Francisco, where the company showcased an 8-core, 16-thread “Summit Ridge” desktop processor that it says outperformed ...
Facebook and Unity are building a Steam-like PC game platform
Social media giant Facebook Inc has said that it is building a new standalone gaming service for desktops, but so far, that is basically everything the company has revealed about the new platform. One of the few bits of information Facebook did share about its new service is that it will be partnering with Unity Technologies, whose ...
Twitter says it closed 235,000 extremist accounts in the past six months
Twitter says it has shut down over 235,000 accounts with links to extremist organizations within the last six months alone, bringing the total number of suspended accounts up to 360,000 for the last year. But the microblogging service says it still has its work cut out for it. A number of extremist organizations with links to terrorist ...
