The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on Thursday called on governments to fully and immediately implement its recommendation on
Roughly a year ago, Latent AI, a now three-year-old, Menlo Park, Ca.-based startup, pitched a handful of investors during TechCrunch’s Battlefield competition. It didn’t win that contest,
Music rights giant ASCAP said today that a quartet of early-stage startups/university music projects will compete in its Immersive Music Studio Challenge. The 12-week project is a partnership between
Tomm Moore, director of Wolfwalkers, wins acclaim with hand-drawn animation. [China Daily] The animated feature Wolfwalkers, the fifth film produced by the Irish studio Cartoon Saloon that has
If businesses are going to meet their increasingly aggressive targets for reducing the greenhouse gas emissions associated with their operations, they’re going to have
A man stands in front of Nintendo's logo at the presentation ceremony of its new game console Switch in Tokyo, Japan, January 13, 2017. /Reuters Japanese giant Nintendo reported new bumper res
China's economy wowed the world in both bad and good ways in 2020 - bad as the country experienced the first economic contraction of 6.8 percent since 1992 in the first three months this year, and go
F3, an anonymous QA app targeting Gen Z teens which blends a Tinder-style swipe-to-friend gamification mechanic, Stories-esque rich media responses and eye-wateringly expensive subscriptions to unlock
The Polaris Slingshot has always wowed. Three wheels, open cockpit, and a design reminiscent of the Batmobile. It draws a crowd and is a blast to drive.I spent several weeks in the reworked Polaris S
A performance of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular featuring the Rockettes is seen at the Verizon Center in Washington, December 18, 2009. /CFP It's synonymous with Christmas in New York, l
Back in 2016, Mobalytics wowed the judges at Disrupt SF with its data-based coach for the exploding competitive gaming world, winning the Startup Battlefield. The company is building on the success o
Logo of Nintendo is seen during the press day at the 2019 Gamescom gaming trade fair on August 20, 2019 in Cologne, Germany. /VCG Nintendo's popular Switch console and blockbuster games includ
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Michael Jordan has struggled saying goodbye."When Kobe Bryant died, a piece of me died, and as I look in this arena, across the globe, a piece of you died," so declared the 57-year-old legend with
In a day and age when everyone seems to have their own seed-stage venture fund, it’s hard to stand out. But Tuesday Capital, the San Francisco-based outfit formerly known as CrunchFund, thinks i
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Federal investigators on Monday sifted through the wreckage of the helicopter crash near Los Angeles that killed basketball legend Kobe Bryant and eight other people, hoping to find clues to what