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Cryptocurrency start-up Circle has raised a$110 million funding round, which values the company near $3 billion. Cryptocurrency mining business Bitmain is leading the round. Existing financiers IDG Capital, Breyer Capital, General Driver, Accel, Digital Currency Group and Pantera are investing more money. Blockchain Capital and Tusk Ventures are buying < …

Neil Tyson frequently conjectures that maybe aliens have actually concluded humans aren’t intelligent sufficient to get in touch with. He’s most likely describing our capacity for war, however yards may display our talent for unsuccessful carnage even better. Americans commit 70 hours, yearly, to pressing petrol-powered spinning death blades over …

The Razer Blade has actually functioned as the core of Razer’s laptop lineup for several years now, however while the compact Razer Blade Stealth and high-end Blade Pro have gotten current updates in the past couple of years, the middle-of-the-road Blade has been largely excluded: the basic look has been …

Fulfill the Chiappa M6 X-Caliber 12 gauge survival shotgun, the only survival rifle you’ll ever need. It’s not as compact as the Henry AR7, but it’s pretty close and the flexibility of the M6 far outperforms the competitors. The rifle was originally developed to fire a 12 gauge shell and …

Notice any commonalities? Yes, the startups listed are all based in either New York or the San Francisco Bay Area, two metropolises associated with scarce, pricey housing. But while these two metro areas offer the bulk of startups’ living spaces, they’re also operating in other cities, including Los Angeles, Seattle …

Roughly five years after the launch of its first fund in 2013, Female Founders Fund (F3) has closed on $27 million for its latest seed fund — backed by some of the startup world’s top women entrepreneurs and investors. Backed by a clutch of seriously impressive names in the startup and tech community, …

Yariv Bash, the chief executive of drone delivery startup Flytrex, wants to make drone delivery “as easy as using your iPhone“. Flytrex chief executive Yariv Bash Meanwhile, Ran Krauss, the CEO of Airobotics, has helped his startup raise over $70 million for its mission to  bring the autonomous revolution to the …

Why has San Francisco’s startup scene generated so many hugely valuable companies over the past decade? That’s the question we asked over the past few weeks while analyzing San Francisco startup funding, exit, and unicorn creation data. After all, it’s not as if founders of Uber, Airbnb, Lyft, Dropbox and …

HTC built the very first official Android phone, known as the T-Mobile G1 in the US and HTC Dream elsewhere. For several years afterward, it was the most prominent maker of Android phones. Then came Samsung, which has now become the largest smartphone maker in the world. HTC, meanwhile, has …

Toast, the Boston-based technology developer for the restaurant industry, has launched a new handheld point-of-sale device and a kitchen display system to integrate the front and back of any restaurant. Using the devices, any waiter can become an expert on menu offerings at the touch of a button. The new …