Removing space debris requires action and caution

Removing space debris requires action and caution

Tess Hatch Contributor Share on Twitter Tess Hatch hopes to travel to space. In the meantime, she is a venture investor at Bessemer Venture Partners who invests in frontier tech. More posts by this contributor Who’s building the grocery store of the future? The space...
Periscope will shut down by March, Twitter confirms

Periscope will shut down by March, Twitter confirms

Following recent reports, Periscope announced today that it will end operation as a standalone app by March 2021. The Twitter -owned referred to its current operations as “unsustainable” in an open letter posted today. It also cited a decline in usage in recent years...
Livestreaming platform BoxCast raises $20M

Livestreaming platform BoxCast raises $20M

BoxCast, a Cleveland-based company aiming to make it easy to livestream any event, has raised $20 million in Series A funding. Co-founder and CEO Gordon Daily said that when the company first launched in 2013, “streaming wasn’t something that everyone understood,” and...
Bandcamp Fridays will continue through next May

Bandcamp Fridays will continue through next May

The past eight or so months have been profoundly difficult for musicians. With touring ground to a halt and streaming services offering fractions of cents, livelihoods have been utterly upended for countless artists. Since March, however, Bandcamp has been a rare...
Airbnb sets new diversity goals

Airbnb sets new diversity goals

Airbnb, which recently went public and became a $100 billion company, has set two goals to try to improve diversity at the home-sharing and experiences company because it “is nowhere near satisfied with the status quo,” the company wrote in a blog post. By the end of...
Inside Zoox’s six-year ride from prototype to product

Inside Zoox’s six-year ride from prototype to product

Zoox, the autonomous vehicle company that was acquired this year by Amazon, revealed this week the product of six years of work: A purpose-built self-driving vehicle designed to carry people — and someday maybe even packages — in dense urban environments. The...