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Reporter attending White House briefings tests positive for coronavirus

The White House is seen in Washington D.C., the United States, on May 21, 2020. (Photo by Ting Shen/Xinhua)The reporter, who has not been named, wore a mask during press briefings with Press Secretary

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Naomi Campbell opens Paris Fashion Week with diversity speech

Supermodel Naomi Campbell opened the first-ever digital Paris Couture Week on Monday with a powerful speech calling for "equality and diversity" in the fashion industry.The 50-year-old supermodel

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Let’s stop COVID-19 from undoing diversity gains

Any disaster will have its harshest repercussions on people who were already marginalized. It’s unsurprising, then, that when it comes to jobs and businesses, the COVID-19 lockdown is impacting women

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Cloudtenna raises $2.5M, launches mobile search app to find content across cloud services

As we find ourselves spreading our content across a variety of cloud services, finding that one document you want that could be attached to an email, somewhere in a Slack conversation, or stored in Bo

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DNAnexus raises $100M for a cloud-based analytics platform aimed at genomics and other clinical big data

DNAnexus, which provides a cloud platform for governments, universities, doctors, and pharmaceutical companies to tap into DNA and other clinical datasets and collaborate on scientific research projec

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Google outlines plan to get some employees back to the office

In a blog post, Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai gave an overview of the company’s plan to return its workforce to some semblance of normalcy—or at least a new normal.Google will begin ope

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Could this be the answer to social distancing at work?

The device uses radio waves to calculate how far apart two of the beepers are.

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Top VCs discuss how COVID-19 is impacting robotics

In the space of several weeks, COVID-19 has transformed countless industries and will continue to do so in ways we can only imagine.The pandemic has also spurred many to find new ways to work and keep

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Developer platform Glitch debuts $10/mo tier for power users

Glitch is building a premium tier for power users of its user-created micro apps.The rather eccentric developer tools platform launched in 2017, combining a coding workspace with a community of users

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CNN's Chris Cuomo diagnosed with COVID-19

CNN Anchor Christopher C. Cuomo./Social Media CNN anchor Chris Cuomo on Tuesday said that he has been diagnosed with Covid-19.Chris wrote on his Twitter page, "In these difficult times that se

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Newlab and The Boston Globe team up to launch AI tools startup Applied XLabs

Applied XLabs is a new startup building tools that can automate data-gathering for journalists — and eventually, for knowledge workers in other industries.The company is emerging from Brooklyn-based N

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Lerer Hippeau leads $6M investment in Pinterest-like digital asset manager Air

When it comes to the so-called “consumerization of the enterprise,” a workplace tool that looks an awful lot like Pinterest seems like it would be the trend’s final form. Brooklyn-ba

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A security mishap left Remine wide open to hackers

Security is all too often focused on keeping hackers out and breaches at bay. But in the case of Remine, a real estate intelligence startup, it left its doors wide open for anyone to run rampant.Remi

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Opera’s new browser can tame your tabs

A new web browser from Opera launching today aims to help users get their chaotic mess of open tabs back under control. In the latest release of Opera’s desktop browser (codenamed R2020), the c

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Better know a CSO: Dropbox head of security Justin Berman

Justin Berman has one of the most important jobs at Dropbox.As head of security, he oversees the company’s cybersecurity strategy, its defenses and works daily to keep its more than 600 million

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Jira Software gets better roadmaps

Atlassian today announced an update to Jira Software, its popular project and issue tracking tool, that brings a number of major updates to the roadmapping feature it first introduced back in 2018. Ba

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Announcing the Agenda for Robotics & AI – March 3 at UC Berkeley

We’re bringing TC Sessions: Robotics + AI back to UC Berkeley on March 3, and we’re excited to announce our jam-packed agenda. For months we’ve been recruiting speakers from the ranks of the most inno