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Ex-Googler (and Cisco’s newest board member) Amy Chang on her leap into startups
Wednesday night, at a StrictlyVC event in San Francisco, venture capitalist Aileen Lee took the stage to interview Amy Chang, a former eBay product manager turned head of Google Analytics turned startup founder. It’s a transition that has introduced Chang to night sweats, she readily admitted. Chang’s three-year-old startup, Accompany, received one of its first […]
Tiny chip looks deep inside your body with millimeter-wave radiation
Researchers at the University of California Irvine have created a chip for use in medical imaging and other applications thats as powerful as it is tiny. The pint-size millimeter-wave radiator could lead to better scanning of tissues and organs, but may also work as part of our everyday wireless data ecosystem. “We’re very excited about […]
Faster and stronger lithium-ion batteries might be in our future
This, clearly, isn’t the battery the MIT team is working on. Image: Shutterstock / sdecoret The lithium-ion battery in your phone might look like a solid chunk of energy-producing plastic at first glance, but if you were to bust it open and take a closer look, you’d see there’s also some liquid inside. That’s because […]
Watch Hulu’s Super Bowl spot for original series The Handmaids Tale
Hulu just released a trailer for its adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, a science fiction tale in which the U.S. Government has been toppled by a theocratic authoritarian dictatorship and women suffer a horrible revocation of rights. So yeah it’s a little too on the nose right now. Maybe the hope is that […]
Facebook created a horrific dancing monster made of reactions
In a horrific experiment for its 13th birthday, Facebook gave Reactions a hideous humanoid form. Image: Facebook While International Friendship Day was popularized by greeting card companies, Facebook went a step forward and coined its own birthday, Feb. 4 as Friends Day a few years ago. Facebook, which has finally turned old enough to be […]