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SoundHound’s Virtual Assistant Launches out of Beta to Take on Siri, With Support for Uber and Yelp

Zenefits Looks Beyond Past Troubles With Launch of App Marketplace for All-in-One HR Platform

Why Venrock Partners Gave Free Room and Board to 12 Startups Without Taking Any Equity

KPCB’s Ted Schlein on Cybersecurity: We’ve All Been Breached

Money Isn’t the Only Valuable Thing a VC Can Give a Startup

How GV Handles the Unsexy Part of Growing Startups

LinkedIn Revamps Its Mobile App: A Bold Step Forward for a Stagnant Service

Xiaomi Courts U.S. Interest While Flirting With Expansion

Disney Unleashes Star Wars Toys Months Ahead of ‘Force Awakens’ Release

Gusto, Formerly ZenPayroll, Raises $50M ‘Opportunistic Round,’ Boasts 25,000 Customers

Geohot’s Startup Comma.ai Open-Sources Its Self-Driving Car Technology

Intel Reveals Lunar Lake’s Architecture, Showing How Its Flagship AI PC Processor Will Work

SAP to Embed Joule AI Copilot Into More of Its Enterprise Apps, Plans Microsoft Copilot Tie-Up

Stripe Wants to Modernize Commerce for the Internet Age

Samsung Gear 360 Review: A VR Camera You Won’t Love—or Hate

KPCB’s John Maeda: 3 Types of Design Every Company Needs to Know

The Tech Industry Needs More Designers—Are Hybrid Designer-Developers the Answer?

Nest Is Releasing Its Weave Communication Protocol for Other Connected Devices to Use

Cloud Communications Platform Twilio Files for $100 Million IPO

HP Spectre x360 15-Inch (2017) Review: Fantastic 4K UHD Display and Performance

Obama: Don’t Take an ‘Absolutist View’ on National Security vs. Civil Liberties

Samsung Chromebook Pro Review: Android Apps Steal the Show, Bugs and All

Why Hearsay Social’s Clara Shih Pushes Companies to Think Digitally

Uber Bets Its API Will Transform the Way We Ride in 2016

Flipboard’s Mike McCue on the Last Startup He’ll Ever Do

Inside the Hackathon That Keeps Twilio Innovating

Forget Homes: Airbnb Wants to Own Your Entire Trip

Here’s Twitter’s Argument for Why Developers Should Give It a Second Chance

Behind Pinterest’s Push to Make the World Pinnable

Square’s Success Story, in Two Words: Small Businesses

Why Samsung Is Building a Corporate-Wide AI Voice System

Sierra’s New Benchmark Reveals How Well AI Agents Perform at Real Work

Inside the Sacramento Kings’ Arena That’s a ’21st Century Communal Fireplace’

Reports of Email’s Demise Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Facebook Just Validated the Bot Movement for Businesses

Behind Hawaii’s Push to Be a Startup Paradise

How Tech Helped the NBA’s Golden State Warriors Win a Championship

Samsung Galaxy S8 Review: Design and Performance Impress, but Bixby Underwhelms

Salesforce’s Platform Training Program Is Now Used by 200,000 People

Perplexity’s Growth Upends SEO Fears, Reveals Crack in Google’s Dominance

The ‘Race Starts Today’ in Search as Microsoft Reveals New OpenAI-Powered Bing, ‘Copilot for the Web’

U.S. Chief Data Scientist: Entrepreneurs Should Do a ‘Tour of Duty’ in Government

LiveBench Is an Open LLM Benchmark That Uses Contamination-Free Test Data and Objective Scoring

Google Secretly Acqui-Hired Mobile App Development Startup Apportable

Former President Bill Clinton to Student Entrepreneurs: ‘Don’t Stop Dreaming’

Obama Administration Teams With Apple, HP, Boeing on New Wearable Tech Hub in Silicon Valley

Vint Cerf: Musings on Birthing the Internet, AI, and Wishing for the Star Trek Computer

Google Is Building YouTube Connect, a Livestreaming App to Take on Periscope

Intel Debuts the Xeon 6 Processor, Aiming to Modernize Data Centers to Tackle Enterprise AI Workloads

The 4 Ways Microsoft’s Copilot+ PCs Will Reshape Enterprise Computing

Sam Altman and Jessica Livingston Explain Y Combinator’s Success