Technology News – Top Stories

Gone are the days of the 30-second clip. Today’s most viewed YouTube videos last 20 minutes or longer, a trend cemented by the platform's algorithms. […]

New research suggests women in New York spend up to $50 a month more than men do on transportation, largely to feel safe and avoid harassment. […]

Many students trek to classrooms or local businesses to do their homework. Going without isn’t an option. […]

Ceph is an open source technology for distributed storage that gets very little public attention but that provides the underlying storage services for many of the world’s largest container and OpenStack deployments. It’s used by financial institutions like Bloomberg and Fidelity, cloud […]

The Camp Fire, Hill Fire and Woolsey Fire share an origin in the jet stream, which has produced extreme winds that are spreading the flames and hampering firefighting efforts. […]

Elon Musk puts Tesla in the black, cities rein in scooters, and a car engineer spends a lot of time throwing up. […]

Oh, these crazy elections. Oh, that crazier White House. […]

An Amazon Echo may be tempting, but these Google Home speakers may be a better buy. […]

A debate over the most efficient way to watch a cult classic TV series' episodes, in every possible order, lies at the heart of this mathematical breakthrough. […]

Game designer Rob Daviau turned a popular horror-themed board game into a spine-chilling saga. […]

Keep your data private and the environment protected. […]

It was a sensation when it was first spotted in 1744, but now we know much more about the effects of solar wind on comet dust. […]

Compromised crypto, flawed SSDs, and more of the week's top security news. […]

More realistic films could raise awareness about real-world threats. […]

From no-frills cleaners to high-end automation, we have the ideal botvac for you. […]

Planning your winter ski vacations? Now is a great time to pick up all the snow gear you need. […]

Flexible displays aren't just gimmicks. They’re glimpses of the next great mobile frontier. […]

Black Twitter has grown into a vibrant digital community shaping political and cultural discourse. Does that place exist for Latinxs? […]

Jaguar Land Rover is investigating how to detect and curtain motion sickness, and that meant emptying an engineer's stomach a few times. […]

Lots of wind along with very dry vegetation turned the Northern California wildfire into a high-speed menace that tore through Paradise and Butte County. […]

Moogsoft has laid off 30 employees and completed two C-suite hires. Its new COO Amer Deeba recently resigned from Qualys following SEC charges of insider trading. […]

Here's how smoke travels to your lungs and enters your bloodstream—and how you can protect yourself. […]

LinkedIn, the Microsoft-owned social network for the working world with some 580 million users, took a big step into professional development and education when it acquired Lynda.com for $1.5 billion and used it as the anchor for LinkedIn Learning. Now, with 13,000 courses on the platform, LinkedIn […]

Abbyy has been around for a long time helping companies with scanning and workflow tools, but like many older vendors it has been looking for ways to extend its traditional business model. One way to do that is by teaming up with robotics process automation companies like UIPath. Today, the company […]

Datacoral aims to make it easier for enterprises to build data products by abstracting away all of the complex infrastructure to organize and process data. The company today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series A financing round led by Madrona Venture Group, with participation from […]

Today, Google Cloud announced Kubeflow pipelines and AI Hub, two tools designed to help data scientists put to work across their organizations the models they create. Rajen Sheth, director of product management for Google Cloud’s AI and ML products, says that the company recognized that data […]

DevOps platform CircleCI today announced a new partner program that will open up its platform and allow third-party tools to integrate with it. In addition, the company is launching Orbs, which it describes as “the world’s first package manager designed specifically for configuration of […]

Spotify’s ad-supported tier has long been one of the service’s differentiators. Naturally, the model’s not nearly as feature-rich as its paid counterpart, though the company’s removing one of those key distinctions as of this morning. In a press release, the company notes […]

Every day, there are around 650,000 emergency service callouts via 911 for medical, police and fire assistance in the U.S.; and by their nature these are some of the most urgent communications that we will ever make. But ironically for the age of smartphones, connected things and the internet, […]

During its big customer event in Europe, VMware announced another acquisition to step up its game in helping enterprises build and run containerised, Kubernetes-based architectures: it has acquired Heptio, a startup out of Seattle that was co-founded by Joe Beda and Craig McLuckie, who were […]

Amazon, one of the world’s largest companies, has transformed the face of commerce in part because it has managed at once to be “The Everything Store” but still with a route into its sea of products that, for most users, surfaces what they might most want to see (and importantly […]

Foursquare, the former location-based social network turned enterprise location data platform, has today announced a new partnership with TripAdvisor. TripAdvisor will be using Foursquare’s Pilgrim SDK, launched in March 2017, to help the platform better serve users with contextually […]

The past decade in retail has been the golden age of direct-to-consumer (D2C) and digitally native vertical brands (DNVBs) that use the internet to communicate with customers, execute transactions, handle distribution and offer better economics. But as small independent startups have scaled […]

Asana, the platform where people can create and track the progress of work projects, made its name originally as a place where individuals and smaller teams can create and track the progress of a specific project. Now, as the startup courts bigger organizations among its 50,000 paying organizations […]

HashiCorp, the company that has made hay developing open-source tools for managing cloud infrastructure, obviously has a pretty hefty commercial business going too. Today the company announced an enormous $100 million round on a unicorn valuation of $1.9 billion. The round was led by IVP, whose […]

Rockset, a startup that came out of stealth today, announced $21.5M in previous funding and the launch of its new data platform that is designed to simplify much of the processing to get to querying and application building faster. As for the funding, it includes $3 million in seed money they got […]

As car and tech companies continue to make inroads on vehicles and services to build autonomous driving systems, a startup that is creating high-definition maps to help these vehicles move around has quietly picked up a significant round of funding. DeepMap — a Palo Alto startup co-founded by […]

Spoke, a startup that wants to simplify the way companies add and process help desk tickets using artificial intelligence underpinnings, announced it has enhanced its AI engine to allow for more complex queries. The company founders were working at Google after a previous startup had been sold to […]

Last year, HPE successfully built and installed a supercomputer on the International Space Station that could withstand the rigors of being in space. Today, the company announced that it is making that computer available for earth-based developers and scientists to conduct experiments. Mark […]

Neo4j has helped popularize the graph database. Today it was rewarded with an $80 million Series E to bring their products to a wider market in what could be the company’s last private fundraise. The round was led by One Peak Partners and Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital with participation […]