“In today’s cash-rich environment, options are more valuable than cash,” says Allen Miller, a principal at Oak HC/FT. “In turn, managing your option pool may be the most effective action you can take to ensure you can recruit and retain talent.” In an article squarely aimed at early-stage founders, Miller shares best practices for protecting
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Read MoreWall Street Journal: Intel’s CEO Pat Gelsinger says the company plans to spend up to $95B on two new chip-making facilities in Europe — Semiconductor maker pledges to dedicate production capacity in Ireland to car chips to help mitigate shortages — Intel Corp. plans to build new chip-making facilities …
Read MoreCredit: Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority Google is rolling out the September 2021 Android security patch to Google Pixel devices. There are no featured fixes listed in this update, but there are a number of security fixes. It’s now rolling out to the Pixel 3 and newer devices. Pixel phone owners can now look forward
Read MoreThere are plenty of reasons why Vilnius, Lithuania’s capital city, has an increasingly visible startup sector. The country’s startup-friendly regulatory environment, a beautiful medieval town center, over 20 business hubs and accelerators and strong rankings in intellectual property production are most obvious at a high level. But what are the locals excited about on the
Read MoreSolid Power, a battery developer backed by Ford and BMW, is expanding its Colorado-based factory footprint as it prepares pilot production of its solid state batteries early next year. The new production facility will be dedicated to manufacturing one of the company’s flagship products, a sulfide-based solid electrolyte material, by up to 25 times its
Read MoreConsole players will receive a shiny Celebi for the first time. What you need to know Pokémon the Movie: Secrets of the Jungle will release on Netflix on October 8, 2021. In celebration of the movie’s release, The Pokémon Company is distributing a shiny Celebi and a unique Zarude who are featured in the movie.
Read MoreFirst taking to the skies in April 1952, and introduced into the US Air Force in 1955, the B-52 Stratofortress has since become a mainstay of American air power. Originally developed as a nuclear bomber to carry out the critical deterrence role, changing realities saw it delivering solely conventional munitions in actual operations. Of 744
Read MoreImage: Bose Fresh off the announcement of its QuietComfort 45 headphones last week, Bose is shifting some attention to its home theater business. Today, the company introduced its latest flagship soundbar, the $899.95 Smart Soundbar 900. With features like Dolby Atmos — a first for Bose soundbars — HDMI eARC, multi-room Wi-Fi music playback, AirPlay
Read MoreAndrew Ross Sorkin / New York Times: Research: only 49 out of ~4,700 board seats at 843 companies backed by top 18 US VC and PE firms that went public since 2000 have been held by Black directors — Private companies are lagging behind publicly traded firms, but don’t receive the same scrutiny.
Read MoreHyperlinks have long been a critical part of the internet’s infrastructure. Practically speaking, they connect websites and webpages to each other, while providing superhighways for online readers to get from one place to another. In the context of Google and other search engines, links are even more important. In case you aren’t familiar, links function
Read MoreHello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff to catch up on weekend news and prep for the days ahead. We’re here on Tuesday this week since us folks in the United States had off for labor day. You
Read MoreThe pandemic has by and large impacted every sector of society in the entire world. The fall in GDP and the continuous burden on the state income forced people to get a solution for sales, long-term. The solution must be one that can take people out of this situation of crisis. This sudden disaster changed
Read Moremicroscopic life form on white ground. (Photo: dottedhippo/Getty Images) (Photo: dottedhippo/Getty Images)Regular readers will know I turn into a starry-eyed idiot when new tardigrade news breaks. There’s just so much to love about them. Is it gauche to be a biologist and have a favorite animal? The adorkable and insanely tanky tardigrade might be mine.
Read MoreCredit: Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority The first Hulu price change in over two years will happen on October 8. The price of the service will go up $1 to $6.99 a month for the ad-supported plan, and $1 to $12.99 a month for the no-ads plan. The price of the Disney Plus-Hulu-ESPN Plus bundle
Read MoreJamie Feltham / UploadVR: Ray-Ban and Facebook’s VP of AR and VR Andrew Bosworth appear to be teasing smartglasses with a point-of-view recording feature that could be announced Thursday — It looks like we’ll be getting the first details about Facebook’s collaboration with Ray-Ban on a pair of smartglasses later this week.
Read MoreMargery Mayer Contributor Margery Mayer served for 25 years as president of education at Scholastic. Speech recognition technology is finally working for kids. That wasn’t the case back in 1999, when my colleagues at Scholastic Education and I launched a reading intervention program called READ 180. We’d hoped to incorporate voice-enabled capabilities: Children would read
Read MoreEnthusiasm, fear, and light shows usher the country into the age of cryptocurrency.
Read MoreThe Matrix: Resurrections is still a ways off with a premier date of December 22nd, 2021, but you can watch two (and maybe more) teasers for the highly anticipated film today, in advance of a full trailer on Thursday. The teasers appear on the recently revived “What is The Matrix” website, gated by the film
Read MoreMatthew Wansley Contributor Matthew Wansley is Assistant Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law in New York A jury will soon decide whether former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is guilty of a federal crime. But the deeper public policy questions that Theranos raised remain unanswered. How did a startup built on a technology that
Read MoreThere are a lot of legitimate reasons to use a spy app on other people. There are usually three use cases for spy apps: you use them to track your phone, use them to track your kid’s phone, or use them to track your employee’s phone. We don’t condone the use of such apps in
Read MoreRay-Ban Facebook and Ray-Ban are teasing an announcement around their upcoming smart glasses on September 9th. Ray-Ban posted a promotional page with a silhouette of a pair of glasses, the date “09.09 2021,” and the text “sign up now to get your release notification” — although it doesn’t specify whether that’s news about the release
Read MoreJust like the automotive industry, aerospace has its sights set on going electric — but flying with battery-powered engines is a tougher proposition than rolling. Wright is among the startups looking to change the math and make electrified flight possible at scales beyond small aircraft — and its 2-megawatt engine could power the first generation
Read MoreWhile social media can help you land a dream job, many mistakes can lead to a failed job interview, but there’s one mistake that employers see all the time: you. Of course, you may think it doesn’t matter what you post on social media. Still, research shows that 70% of hiring managers will Google potential
Read MoreMicrosoft today is introducing its own personalized news reading experience called Microsoft Start, available as both a website and mobile app, in addition to being integrated with other Microsoft products, including Windows 10 and 11 and its Microsoft Edge web browser. The feed will combine content from news publishers, but in a way that’s tailored
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