Geeks on a Plane Africa kicks off as 500 Startups eyes tech for the continent and beyond

 500 Startups’ frontier and emerging markets travel series ― Geeks on a Plane ― kicks off…

IBM head of design wields $100M and 1,300 designers to bring design back to IBM

 Phil Gilbert is the GM and head of design at IBM, leading an organization of over…

Stevon Cook went from public housing to empowering public schools through tech training

 There are roughly 22,000 tech companies in San Francisco, yet most local high school students have…

As hyper-conservative media surged, Republicans’ trust in news cratered

 In 2000, Republicans, Democrats and Independents were all within six percentage points of one another in…

Advances in AI and ML are reshaping healthcare

 The application of AI/ML in healthcare is reshaping the industry and making what was once impossible…

Google expands its African startup initiatives

 Alphabet is committing to training another 1 million students under its Digital Skills for Africa program…

Interactive fiction and the origins of the conversational interface

 It’s 2017, and conversational interfaces (people talking with machines the same way they talk to other…

Rockstars party, MCs invest

 Following the launch of Jay Z’s new VC vehicle, Arrive, earlier this month, we did a…