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A pair of security researchers dominated Pwn2Own, the annual high-profile hacking contest, taking home $375,000 in prizes including a Tesla Model 3 — their reward for successfully exposing a vulnerability in the electric vehicle’s infotainment system. Tesla handed over its new Model 3 sedan to Pwn2Own this year, the first time a car has been […]

Blade, backed by Lerer Hippeau and Airbus, has begun chauffering the Bay Area's elite.

A popular family tracking app was leaking the real-time locations of more than 238,000 users for weeks after the developer left a server exposed without a password. The app, Family Locator, built by Australia-based software house React Apps, allows families to track each other in real-time, such as spouses or parents wanting to know where […]

From Extra Crunch We hope all of you enjoyed the conversation with Eric Peckham and Lucas Matney on GDC and game streaming. For those who couldn’t join, a transcript should be coming shortly. Our enterprise reporter Ron Miller has a dive into how Salesforce became the model for enterprise SaaS companies, with some great early […]

In a recently published, roughly 75-page report, British non-profit organization The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts (RSA) outlined several scenarios for how the UK labor market will be impacted by frontier technologies such as automation, AI, AVs and more. The analysis titled “The Four Futures of Work” was conducted in collaboration with design […]

Biotech venture funding has been on a tear for the past couple of years, and corporate investors in the space are doing their part to boost the totals.

Apple popped out a new pair of AirPods this week. The design looks exactly like the old pair of AirPods. Which means I’m never going to use them because Apple’s bulbous earbuds don’t fit my ears. Think square peg, round hole. The only way I could rock AirPods would be to walk around with hands […]

Autonomous delivery startup Nuro is bursting with ideas since SoftBank invested nearly $1 billion in February, new filings reveal. A recent patent application details how its R1 self-driving vehicle could carry smaller robots to cross lawns or climb stairs to drop off packages. The company has even taken the step of trademarking the name “Fido” […]

In this week's newsletter: Details on Pinterest, Lyft, Uber and Zoom's upcoming IPOs, plus Glossier and Rent The Runway's big rounds.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk argued Friday that his Twitter use did not violate a settlement agreement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and that the agency’s request to have him held in contempt is based on a “radical interpretation” of the order, according to court papers filed in Manhattan federal court. The SEC has asked […]

This post reveals the cost of acquiring a customer on every ad channel my agency has tested.

In the latest Equity Shot, Kate Clark and Alex Wilhelm take a closer look at Pinterest and Zoom's IPO filings.

Silicon Valley is known for its massive wealth. When these companies file to go public, we all finally get to know how much money these executives take home each year, and the millions they’ll take home after the IPO. In Pinterest’s S-1, which it filed earlier today, we see that co-founder and CEO Ben Silbermann […]

Heathcare kiosks, a home-cooked food marketplace, and a way for startups to earn interest on their funding topped our list of high-potential companies from Y Combinator’s Winter 2019 Demo Day 2. 88 startups launched on stage at the lauded accelerator, though some of the best skipped the stage as they’d already raised tons of money. […]

Earlier this year, Helen Greiner-founded drone startup CyPhy Works announced a major change. The company was rebooting and renaming itself Aria Insights, a move that arrived with a newfound AI/data-driven focus. Now, just over two months later, the company is no more. Reports that Aria had shuttered began surfacing earlier this week. Moments ago, the […]

The visual search engine will go public on the NYSE under the ticker symbol "PINS."

Zoom posted $330 million in revenue in the year ending January 31, 2019, a remarkable 2x increase year-over-year

The biggest surprise about next week’s Apple event may be the fact that the company has anything left to announce. This week, several core pieces of Apple hardware received upgrades, including the iPad Air and mini, iMac and AirPods. Given the company’s rush to get all of that out the door, we don’t expect to […]

A couple of years ago, Clark, a New York-based startup, appeared on the scene with tutoring software that aimed to both make it easier for educators to start and manage a tutoring business by handling on its platform all the work that tutors struggle to find time to do, from drumming up students, to managing […]

Pretty much every self-driving car on the road, not to mention many a robot and drone, uses lidar to sense its surroundings. But useful as lidar is, it also involves physical compromises that limit its capabilities. Lumotive is a new company with funding from Bill Gates and Intellectual Ventures that uses metamaterials to exceed those limits, perhaps setting a new standard for the industry.

Samsung revealed not one, not two, but five new smartphones this week - including a folding phone. Axios's Ina Fried joins on this week's Gadget Lab podcast. The post You've Got to Know When to Fold 'Em appeared first on WIRED.

Author Wes Locher believes chronicling the offline lives of players is important. He's right. The post We Need More Videogame Folklorists appeared first on WIRED.

Gregory Benford's new book portrays the writer as a man of action and improvised traps. The post Sci-Fi Author Robert Heinlein Was Basically MacGyver appeared first on WIRED.

Product designer Chris Messina snagged @chris as his Instagram name. It's been awesome -- and terrible. Plus: Amazon splits with NYC, on the Gadget Lab podcast. The post The Treacherous Allure of OG Usernames appeared first on WIRED.

Sci-fi author Ben Bova thinks it's a viable alternative to prolonged, expensive lawsuits. The post Here's An Idea: Replace Trials with Virtual Reality Duels appeared first on WIRED.

The sci-fi anthology show deserves a second run. Come on, Hulu. The post Will We Ever Get Another Season of 'Dimension 404'? appeared first on WIRED.

Bestselling author David Baldacci's latest is about a town that builds a barrier to exclude "Outliers." The post A Fantasy Novel About Building a Big, Dumb Wall appeared first on WIRED.

Former Google communications exec Jessica Powell joins this week's Gadget Lab podcast to talk about Facebook's manifestos, quitting Google, and why she absolutely refuses to get a brand-new phone. The post How to Quit Your Tech Job appeared first on WIRED.

Conventional wisdom holds that science fiction was written mostly by men until the 1960s and '70s. Not true. The post The History of Women in Sci-Fi Isn't What You Think appeared first on WIRED.

Apple temporarily booted Facebook (and Google!) from its enterprise app program this week. You weren't really surprised, were you? Plus: Details on Tesla's new Model Y. The post The App Smackdown appeared first on WIRED.

The Hulu series about an underachieving gamer combines <em>Back to the Future</em> with <em>There's Something About Mary</em>. The post Future Man Is Shockingly Gross and It's Amazing appeared first on WIRED.

Microsoft's second-generation mixed reality headset has made a significant leap. But you're probably not going to buy one. The post Alex Kipman’s Holographic Tendencies appeared first on WIRED.

The Amazon founder spent his summers reading Asimov and has named pets and companies after <em>Star Trek</em> characters. The post How Star Trek and Sci-Fi Influenced Jeff Bezos appeared first on WIRED.