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Two years ago, a couple of VCs from Shea Ventures, a 50-year-old, L.A. -based investment firm, banded together to create a Pasadena, Ca.-based early stage venture firm called Calibrate Ventures. Investors clearly like what they’re building. Firm founders Kevin Dunlap and Jason Schoettler are today announcing that they have closed their debut effort with $80 […]

The decision concludes a three-days-long court hearing in which the judge and the public prosecutor debated whether Wanzhou would breach her bail conditions.

Wix is taking a big step beyond website building today with the launch of a suite of products called Ascend. PR Manager Matt Rosenberg explained that just as Wix was founded with the aim of “demystifying and democratizing how you get online,” Ascend has a similar mission: “You don’t have to be a developer and […]

Instead of a standard based on wealth, or even knowledge -- one based on users’ contributions of time and attention.

"I want The Riveter to be the place people think of when they think of women and work," says its CEO Amy Nelson.

Internet users are already being tracked to death, with ads that follow us around, search histories that are collected and stored, emails that report back to senders when they’ve been read, websites that know where you scrolled and what you clicked and much more. So naturally, the growing podcast industry wanted to find a way […]

Almost one year after a California judge dismissed Apartment Investment & Management Company’s lawsuit against Airbnb, both companies have agreed to settle all of their disputes. Aimco, which owns or manages 50,000 properties, had filed lawsuits in both California and Florida state courts, seeking monetary damages as well as court orders to stop Airbnb from […]

When Dell voted to buy back the VMware tracking stock and go public again this morning, you had to be wondering what exactly the strategy was behind these moves. While it’s clearly about gaining financial flexibility, the $67 billion EMC deal has always been about setting up the company for a hybrid and private cloud […]

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has floated the idea for an all-electric pickup truck numerous times in the past two years. Now, he’s back at it, this time with a teaser that Tesla might have a prototype to unveil in 2019. Musk mentioned on Twitter the desire to produce a pickup truck way back in April […]

There's lots of research going into tiny drones, but one of the many hard parts is keeping them in the air for any real amount of time. Why not hitch a ride on something that already flies all day? That's the idea behind this project that equips bumble bees with sensor-filled backpacks that charge wirelessly and collect data on the fields they visit.

The investment bank is said to be leading Uber's IPO, expected in the first quarter of 2019. JPMorgan, meanwhile, has reportedly been hired to lead Lyft's offering.

The question of how self-driving cars will interact and communicate with humans is one that has come up before, but the answer is still up in the air. Google has been looking into this at least since 2012, and earlier this year, Uber filed a patent for using flashing lights and sounds to talk to […]

Google may have evaded the first few rounds of grill-a-tech-exec, but its CEO Sundar Pichai wound up in the hot seat on the Hill after all. Pichai appeared today, weathering a three-and-a-half-hour hearing solo with no competitors to offload congressional ire onto. To his credit, Pichai performed very well. Instead of adopting Facebook’s flavor of […]

Ah, holiday board gaming. A roaring fire. A glass of nog. And a raging debate over whether the blue guy was next to the red square or vice versa. Buying a gift for a board game fan? Just need something new to bring along to the get together? In this roundup we highlight some of what we've been playing lately - from the easy to the immensely complex - and give you and your family fodder for your next bout of holiday fun. Some new, some old, all great.

We were promised jetpacks, but let's be honest, they're just plain unsafe. So a nice drone ride is probably all we should reasonably expect. Lift Aircraft is the latest to make a play for the passenger multirotor market, theoretical as it is, and its craft is a sleek little thing with some interesting design choices to make it suitable for laypeople to "pilot."

Thought VR was too expensive and too bulky? Well, VRgineers is here with a giant $5,800 headset to prove that you lack perspective. The Prague-based startup just showed off its latest piece of high-end VR hardware, which it will be launching at this year’s CES expo. The headset sports a 180-degree field-of-view, dual 2560 x […]

Apparently, a lot of people realize at the last minute that they don’t have either beer, wine or liquor in their home when they need it. It’s certainly the most obvious explanation for a sizable new round of funding into Drizly, a six-year-old, Boston-based on-demand delivery app for alcohol that works with roughly 1,000 brick-and-mortar […]

Tesla is now seeking $167 million in a lawsuit against Martin Tripp, the former Tesla employee who CEO Elon Musk has referred to as a saboteur, CNBC first reported. The lawsuit, originally filed in June and seeking just $1 million at the time, alleges Tripp stole confidential and trade secret information, and gave it to third […]

Members of the House Judiciary committee have today closely questioned Google’s CEO about the company’s intentions in China, following reports this summer it’s planning a controversial return to the market despite local censorship of Internet services. Mountain View pulled its search engine out of China back in 2010, under pressure over censored search results. It also cited cyber […]

Google CEO Sundar Pichai admitted today that YouTube needs to do better in dealing with conspiracy content on its site that can lead to real-world violence. During his testimony on Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee, the exec was questioned on how YouTube handles extremist content that promotes conspiracy theories like Pizzagate and, more recently, a […]

The director of "Mother!" and "Black Swan" talks about the new VR series, "Spheres," which he produced. The post Darren Aronofsky on VR Storytelling appeared first on WIRED.

More realistic films could raise awareness about real-world threats. The post We Should Take Hollywood Disaster Movies More Seriously appeared first on WIRED.

Writer Dale Bailey thinks we're drawn to apocalyptic stories because personal tragedies can feel like the end of the world. The post Why Do We Love the Idea of the Apocalypse So Much? appeared first on WIRED.

WIRED writer Emily Dreyfuss joins the Gadget Lab to talk about Tumblr's porn ban and where Tumblr's exiles are headed next. The post Where to Find Porn Without Tumblr appeared first on WIRED.

Need a reprieve from this year's brutal, bizarro election? These great behind-the-scenes accounts will remind you that campaigning has always been painful. The post 7 Streaming Political Docs To Make You Feel a Tiny Bit Better About 2018 appeared first on WIRED.

That other 10 percent, however... The post The Haunting of Hill House Is 90 Percent of an Amazing Show appeared first on WIRED.

The Satanic Temple took issue with the Netflix series. The post Does 'Chilling Adventures of Sabrina' Make Satanists Look Bad? appeared first on WIRED.

Andrew Mason, the founder and former CEO of Groupon, proves he's still a one-of-a-kind entrepreneur in this latest podcast. The post The Latest Chapter for Groupon’s Founder appeared first on WIRED.

Follow Apple's October 30 iPad Pro event in New York with our live news updates. The post Apple Liveblog: Get Live Updates on New iPads and MacBooks appeared first on WIRED.

Fantasy author Andy Duncan thinks it's possible, and his story "Senator Bilbo" makes that argument more relevant than ever. The post Is Lord of the Rings Prejudiced Against Orcs? appeared first on WIRED.

Pinterest's CEO tells WIRED why the future of search is more about pointing a camera lens at an object than it is about typing words into a search bar. Plus: Our top holiday gift picks. The post Pinterest’s Push in Visual Search appeared first on WIRED.

We sat down with Brenda Freeman, marketing head at Magic Leap, to discuss the future of immersive media when it means wearing AR goggles on your face. The post Magic Leap’s Very Real Challenges appeared first on WIRED.

They're fun, but they're also a bit much. The post Does Maniac Really Need So Many Dream Sequences? appeared first on WIRED.