Uncork Capital Cracks Open Two New Funds
Twitter is blocked in China, but its state news agency is buying promoted tweets to portray Hong Kong protestors as violent: Catherine Shu
Twitter is being criticized for running promoted tweets by China’s largest state news agency that paint pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong as violent, even though the rallies, including one that drew an estimated 1.7 million people this weekend, have b…
Uncork Capital cracks open two new funds: Connie Loizos
Uncork Capital, the now 15-year-old, early-stage venture firm formerly known as SoftTech VC, has closed up two new pools of committed capital totaling $200 million: $100 million for its sixth early-stage fund, and $100 million for an “opportunity” fund so it …
Minecraft to get big lighting, shadow and color upgrades through Nvidia ray tracing: Darrell Etherington
Minecraft is getting a free update that brings much-improved lighting and color to the game’s blocky graphics using real-time ray tracing running on Nvidia GeForce RTX graphics hardware. The new look is a dramatic change in the atmospherics of the game, and m…
Founder how-to content on the Extra Crunch Stage at Disrupt Berlin 2019: Leslie Hitchcock
Disrupt Berlin 2019, our premier European tech conference, takes place on 11-12 December and draws 3,000 people from more than 50 countries. Every year we work hard to improve our content programming and present it in new and engaging ways to a very savvy sta…
Spotify Family Accounts are getting parental controls: Greg Kumparak
Want to give your kids access to Spotify, but only the “clean” stuff? It’ll be an option soon. Spotify’s family plan — the one that gets you six accounts for 15 bucks — is picking up a feature that the company says people have been asking about for years: par…
HPE Growth backs WeTransfer in €35M secondary funding round: Steve O'Hear
WeTransfer, the Amsterdam-headquartered company that is best know for its file-sharing service, is disclosing a €35 million secondary funding round. The investment is led by European growth equity firm, HPE Growth, with “significant” participation from existi…
RedDoorz raises $70M to expand its budget hotel network in Southeast Asia: Manish Singh
Singapore-based budget hotel booking startup RedDoorz is tiny in comparison to fast-growing giant Oyo. But it is holding its ground and winning the trust of an ever growing number of investors. On Monday, the four-year-old startup announced it has raised $70 …
The Bugatti Centodieci is a $8.9 million homage to the early 90s EB110 supercar: Kirsten Korosec
The Bugatti Centodieci is the French automaker’s most powerful supercar yet — coming in a skosh above the Chiron at 1,600 horsepower. But it’s not just the power — or the $8.9 million price tag — that makes the Centodieci stand out. The angular supercar, stil…
Tesla pitches a solar rental program to boost its renewable energy business: Jonathan Shieber
Tesla is pitching customers on a new rental offering for solar power as a way to revive the flagging fortunes of its renewable energy business. Once among the largest installers of renewables in the country through SolarCity, Tesla has seen its share of the m…
Original Content podcast: Netflix's 'Wu Assassins' is a punching, kicking delight: Anthony Ha, Darrell Etherington, Jordan Crook
When we reviewed “Another Life” last week, we described it as an old-fashioned science fiction space show, something that’s been absent from TV for the past decade or so. “Wu Assassins” is another new Netflix series, and it’s also is a kind of a throwback — t…
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