IT総合 At the Microsoft Excel World Championship, selfies and a ‘hype’ tunnel
An arena. A hype tunnel, the kind through which NBA players typically streak. A competitor dressed in a jersey patterned...
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IT総合 IT総合 This MIT spinout wants to spool hair-thin fibers into patients’ brains
You can’t start a company without a healthy dose of daring, and that’s certainly the case with NeuroBionics. The MIT-spi...
IT総合 The CIA’s first CTO, Nand Mulchandani, prepares for the Trump administration
In April 2022, the CIA decided to swipe right on Nand Mulchandani, appointing him as its first-ever Chief Technology Off...
IT総合 People are playing a new DOOM-themed CAPTCHA
CAPTCHA programs that are used to determine whether a site visitor is a person or a bot come in pretty standard formats....
IT総合 Robinhood, already a ‘comeback’ stock, has even more aggressive plans for 2025
Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev has a lot to celebrate this holiday season. After a bumpy few years following Robinhood’s 2021 ...
IT総合 Nvidia’s next move: powering humanoid robots
The chipmaking giant Nvidia is leaning more heavily into robotics in 2025. More specifically, it’s launching a new gener...
IT総合 GV, the VC team backed by Google, has a broad remit, but it can’t do one thing
David Krane is in an enviable position. As the CEO of GV, the venture firm that is funded entirely by Google to the tune...
IT総合 Sequoia’s Matt Miller is exiting the firm after making headlines earlier this year
The writing was on the wall, seemingly. Sequoia Capital partner Matt Miller announced on Wednesday that he’s leavi...
IT総合 Sequoia’s Matt Miller is exiting the firm after making headlines earlier this year
The writing was on the wall, seemingly. Sequoia Capital partner Matt Miller announced on Wednesday that he’s leavi...
IT総合 Lina Khan’s FTC era ends; Andrew Ferguson named chair
Andrew Ferguson, one of two Republican FTC commissioners appointed by U.S. President Joe Biden, will be the country̵...
IT総合 Lead Edge is increasingly steering its 700+ investors away from VC deals
Mitchell Green worked variously in investment banking, as an analyst with Bessemer Venture Partners, and for a hedge fun...
IT総合 Silicon Valley hitters take over Trump transition team: “a dozen Musk allies”
About a “dozen Musk allies” have put a pin in their daily routines to serve as unofficial advisers to the Tr...
IT総合 Chainalysis permanently parts ways with its founding CEO
Michael Gronager, the co-founder of Chainalysis, has agreed to leave the company permanently, two months after taking a ...
IT総合 UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson shot and killed in New York
Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot in Midtown Manhattan early Wednesday morning while walking...
IT総合 ‘Brain rot’ wins as Oxford’s word of the year
According to Oxford University Press, which publishes the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the term ‘brain rot’ is defin...
IT総合 HongShan, spun out of Sequoia last year, is reportedly struggling to invest its huge war chest
According to the Financial Times, HongShan, the Chinese investment firm spun off from Sequoia Capital in 2023, is aggres...
IT総合 HongShan, spun out of Sequoia last year, is reportedly struggling to invest its huge war chest
According to the Financial Times, HongShan, the Chinese investment firm spun off from Sequoia Capital in 2023, is aggres...
IT総合 Entrepreneur Marc Lore on ‘founder mode,’ bad hires, and why avoiding risk is deadly
Entrepreneur Marc Lore has already sold two companies for billions of dollars, collectively. Now he plans to take his fo...
IT総合 How a digital “you” can sit through your agonizing web conference calls
Now you can appear to be on a Zoom call in your office, even when you’re sipping a margarita in a hammock far, far away....
IT総合 A company is now developing human washing machines
Forget cold plunge pools. The new flex could soon be human washing machines. According to one of Japan’s oldest newspape...
IT総合 You have a few hours left to bid on this burned-out husk in San Francisco
Houses in San Francisco are notoriously expensive, with the average home price hovering around $1.26 million. It’s no wo...
IT総合 Consumer tech is bouncing back, and consumer founders like Brynn Putnam are bouncing back with it
When Brynn Putnam sold her last company, Mirror, to Lululemon for $500 million at the start of the pandemic, it looked t...
IT総合 ‘AI Granny’ is happy to talk with phone scammers all day
On Thursday, the UK’s largest mobile network operator, O2, introduced a chatbot designed to frustrate phone scammers. Ca...
IT総合 Standing desks don’t do squat, per new study
Over the years, numerous startups have gained traction by designing, making and selling standing desks as part of a work...
IT総合 Murder trial for tech exec Bob Lee enters next phase
Roughly 19 months after the fatal stabbing of tech exec Bob Lee in San Francisco attracted the nation’s attention, the t...
IT総合 Australia looks to ban social media for kids under age 16
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday announced plans in the country to ban social media for children ...
IT総合 ‘Prediction markets’ set to pay out $450M to election bettors
Following Donald Trump’s election victory, thousands of bettors anticipate a potential $450 million payout from online b...
IT総合 TikTok accounts are becoming divorce fodder
When Kat and Mike Stickler divorced, their biggest challenge was dividing a shared TikTok account with millions of follo...
IT総合 Tim Cook’s other job
In May, while unveiling the newest iPad at an Apple event, CEO Tim Cook wore a custom-made, one-of-a-kind pair of Nike s...
IT総合 The surprising way OpenAI could get out of its pact with Microsoft
The New York Times on Thursday published a look at the “fraying” relationship between OpenAI and its investo...