When Amazon unveiled a six-wheeled urban delivery robot called Scout a couple of weeks ago, its website was pretty definitive about who was behind it. “These devices were created by Amazon,” the page reads. “We developed Amazon Scout at our research and development…

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When you try to work out the market potential for something fundamentally new, you’re actually trying to resolve two, linked problems. First, you have to look past what it is now, and see how much better and cheaper it might become Second, you need to think…

Russia may briefly disconnect from the internet as part of a test of its cyber-defences.

Slowing sales and the loss of Destiny could lead to hundreds of jobs being cut in the next 48 hours

Cheap and simple medical devices could improve performance and lower health-care costs, but first they have to overcome deeply rooted biases.

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Inside an effort to influence American elections, starting with one small-town race.

Google today announced the general availability of a new API for Google Docs that will allow developers to automate many of the tasks that users typically

Metabase, the latest startup to spin out of Expa, raises $13 million from a number of investors.

Despite AMDs resurgence to kick it with the high end of mainstream processors, the biggest volume sales occur more in the mid-range where the parts are often competitively priced. In the segment, AMD currently has the Ryzen 5 2600 and the 2400G at retail…

Nuro, the autonomous delivery startup, has raised $940 million in financing from the SoftBank Vision Fund, a whopping amount that will be used to expand its delivery service, add new partners, hire employees and scale up its fleet of self-driving bots. Nuro…

Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, has hatched another chick at Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge.

We’re excited to announce that we’ll be holding a small number of interviews for the Summer 2019 batch of YC in New York City on February 23. This will be the first in a series of interviews we do in cities outside the Bay Area. We’ll start with New York…