When Monique Woodard started Black Founders in 2011, she wanted to help black entrepreneurs like herself find mentorship, community, and funding in a tech industry that was predominantly white. Career advice and networking opportunities became abundant, as Black Founders grew to include conferences, hackathons, and many warm introductions. Money, however, was another story. For years,…
A Sony patent, potentially for the PlayStation 5, indicates how the console’s UI might look, and alludes to the dynamic use of in-game stats, tips and videos from previous gameplay.The patent, published yesterday (although originally filed several years ago) and discovered by TheGamePost, includes several diagrams of a UI design. On first glance, it’ll be…
We knew ARM-based Mac processors were coming, but Mark Gurman is reporting at Bloomberg that Apple will announce the transition at its online-only WWDC later this month. Back in April, I called on Apple to announce as early as possible and to provide as much detail as possible to both developers and users. The main…
Andrew Hoyle/CNET Huawei’s P40 Pro Plus is the phone I was waiting for. The company announced the P40 range — which also includes the base P40 and P40 Pro — in March and while the P40 Pro proved it can take decent images, it was the Pro Plus that really pushes boundaries with its imagery. It’s…
Law enforcement has used surveillance technology to monitor participants of the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests, as it has with many other protests in US history. License plate readers, facial recognition, and wireless text message interception are just some of the tools at its disposal. While none of this is new, the exposure that domestic…
The pocket-sized Raspberry Pi 4 computer is beloved by DIY enthusiasts and hardware hackers for its versatility and its ease of use. But while the tiny PC is cool, it ain’t perfect. It chokes on 4K and H.265 video, it has no easy way to boot from an SSD or hard drive, and it can’t…
When The Lancet and The New England Journal of Medicine pulled an influential pair of Covid-19 papers last Thursday, it was a rare event in scientific publishing. For medical researchers, this was like seeing The Washington Post and The New York Times take down related news stories at the same time—a confluence of editorial failures…
Excerpted from Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez.Antonio García Martínez is just kidding here. We think. In this excerpt adapted from his new, take-no-prisoners Silicon Valley memoir Chaos Monkeys, Antonio García Martínez explains the harrowing exit of his one-year-old Y Combinator startup company. As we begin our narrative, García Martínez is CEO and unofficial strategist…
The internet of things security crisis has been building for more than a decade, with unprotected, unpatchable gadgets fueling botnets, getting attacked for nation state surveillance, and just generally being a weak link for networks. Given that IoT security seems unlikely to magically improve anytime soon, researchers and regulators are rallying behind a new approach…
Trung Phan’s science experiment began with a dare. His boss, Princeton University physicist Robert Austin, challenged him to design a maze that Austin couldn’t solve. To be sure, the challenge was just a thought experiment—Phan wasn’t about to actually start planting Versailles-scale hedges and throw his boss in the middle of it. But Phan, Austin’s…
