Spilling Silicon Valley’s secrets, one tweet at a time

by Tanya Basu - April 22, 20220

Shortly after midnight on May 4, 2018, Jane Manchun Wong tweeted her first “finding” ever. “Twitter is working on End-to-End Encrypted Secret DM!” she wrote. A young woman of color, then just 23, exposing the plans of a Big Tech firm without any tools apart from her own ability to reverse-engineer

A path to technology: from China to Silicon Valley

by Liz Karagianis - March 1, 20220

Tami Zhu grew up with a wandering blind eye, a rare condition known as amblyopia. Not only did she struggle with her vision, but she was teased by other children. “It hurt,” she says. But she adds that it shaped her character and helped her to persevere in the face of

Apple loses lead Apple Silicon designer Jeff Wilcox to Intel

by noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) - January 7, 20220

The Apple Park campus stands in this aerial photograph taken above Cupertino in October 2019.Sam Hall/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesJeff Wilcox, Apple Silicon Leader and T2 security processor developer, left Apple to join Intel and oversee the architecture of all Intel System-ona-Chip (SoC) designs.As Apple heads to the end of its

How Silicon Valley hatched a plan to turn blood into human eggs

by Antonio Regalado - October 28, 20210

A few years ago, a young man from California’s technology scene began popping up in the world’s leading developmental biology labs. These labs were deciphering the secrets of embryos and had a particular interest in how eggs are formed. Some thought if they discovered that recipe, they would be able

Meet Altos Labs, Silicon Valley’s latest wild bet on living forever

by Antonio Regalado - September 4, 20210

Last October, a large group of scientists made their way to Yuri Milner’s super-mansion in the Los Altos Hills above Palo Alto. They were tested for covid-19 and wore masks as they assembled in theater on the property for a two-day scientific conference. Others joined by teleconference. The topic: how

Silicon Valley should fight its stigma against military work

by Annie Siebert - August 15, 20210

Phil Wagner Contributor Share on Twitter Dr. Phil Wagner is the founder and CEO of Sparta Science. After receiving his medical degree from USC, he was frustrated by the lack of evidence-based approaches to performance and injury prevention within sports, the military and occupational health, inspiring him to create Sparta Science. Political debate

A Silicon Valley VC firm with $1.8B in assets was hit by ransomware

by Zack Whittaker - August 3, 20210

FBI launches operation to remotely remove Microsoft Exchange server backdoors

Advanced Technology Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm with more than $1.8 billion in assets under its management, was hit by a ransomware attack in July that saw cyber-criminals steal personal information on the company’s private investors, or limited partners (LPs). In a letter to the Maine attorney general’s office,

How to break into Silicon Valley as an outsider

by Annie Siebert - May 5, 20210

Nathan Beckord Contributor Share on Twitter Nathan Beckord is CEO of Foundersuite.com, a software platform for raising capital and managing investors that has helped entrepreneurs raise over $2 billion since 2016. He is also the host of Foundersuite’s How I Raised It podcast. More posts by this contributor The lightning-fast Series A (that was 3

Atlanta startups have another venture fund to tap as Silicon Road Ventures closes on $31 million

by Jonathan Shieber - March 1, 20210

OrbitFab secures National Science Foundation funding to propel its satellite refueling tech to space

Atlanta startups can now add another name to their rolodexes of venture firms operating out of the Big Peach with the close of Silicon Road Ventures new $31 million fund. Silicon Road invests across the U.S. from its base in Atlanta, the firm said with a focus on e-commerce, retail, and

Silicon Valley should reward zebras, not unicorns

by Walter Thompson - December 21, 20200

Rebecca Honeyman Contributor Share on Twitter Rebecca Honeyman is co-founder and managing partner of SourceCode Communications. Silicon Valley has a unicorn problem. While no one is calling for startups with high valuations to go extinct, there ought to be a lot fewer of them. At least that’s what many young founders have concluded after