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Would You Pay $30 a Month to Check Your Email?

The year is 2019, and the brainy engineers of Silicon Valley are hunkered down, working on transformative, next-generation technologies like self-driving cars, digital currencies and quantum computing. Meanwhile, the buzziest start-up in San Francisco is ... an expensive email app? A few months ago, I started hearing about something called Superhuman.

Anyscale, from the creators of the Ray distributed computing project, launches with $20.6M led by a16z – TechCrunch

Open source has become a critical building block of modern software, and today a new startup is coming out of stealth to capitalise on one of the newer frontiers in open source: using it to build and manage distributed application environments, an approach being used increasingly to handle large co…

Quantum Computing Startup Raises $215 Million for Faster Device

PsiQuantum’s photon-based model is still years away, but the company says it’ll be more powerful than Google’s or IBM’s.

This startup just raised more than $10 million for its additive manufacturing software, with the help of Autodesk’s former CEO

Most of us don’t know what a geometric modeling kernel or solid modeling kernel is, but every CAD or design application uses one to create shapes. It’s the underlying infrastructure that allows someone to do the math of CAD design. Just putting a hole in an object or blending lines or r…

Oh, the Places We’ll Wander — Announcing our Series B

We’re excited to announce that we’ve raised a $15 million Series B round led by Founders Fund, bringing our total funding to $27 million. Keith Rabois will also join our board of directors.

The Blitz Team Joins Discord

Name a more iconic duo. To our Friends: We're excited to announce that Discord has acquired the Blitz Esports team to help develop its awesome products, including the new game store and Nitro subscription service. While this means we won't be working on Blitz anymore, we're stoked to continue building cool things for gamers under the Discord flag!

Optical Chip Startup Ayar Labs Raises $24 Million To Boost Data Speeds

Ayar Labs, which builds an optical-based chip that boosts speeds on high-performance computing systems, announced Wednesday that it has raised $24 million in a Series A round led by Playground Global. Intel Capital, Globalfoundries and Founders Fund also participated in the Emeryville, California-based company's latest round.

Building a World Where Data Privacy Exists Online

Dawn Song, an expert in computer security and trustworthy artificial intelligence, is working on making that vision a reality. Data is valuable - something that companies like Facebook, Google and Amazon realized far earlier than most consumers did. But computer scientists have been working on alternative models, even as the public has grown weary of having their data used and abused.

With a new $20 million in funding, electronic stethoscope startup Eko wants to research your beating heart

It's hard to compete against the Apple Watch or even an app on your phone when it comes to personal heart-rate monitors these days. However, Eko, a startup best known for creating an electronic stethoscope to monitor your heart rhythm, hopes further research and development will help give its...