Tech workers demonstrate in downtown San Francisco against Trump’s immigration plans

 Trump recently tried to ban anyone from a list of seven Muslim-majority countries from coming into…

AncestryDNA clustered 770,000 genomes to find your family’s American immigration story

 Immigration into the U.S. is a hot political topic right now, but, unless you’re Native American, pretty…

Brain science startup NeuroQore hopes its magnets will cure depression

 NeuroQore wants to shoot magnetic pulses into your brain to try to treat mental disorders such as anxiety and…

Rothenberg Ventures is going back to its same old Rothenberg Ventures

 Rothenberg assigned the firm the name Frontier Tech Ventures in September 2016 after a series of events tarnished…

The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub invests $50 million in its first 47 research initiatives

 The Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, a non-profit medical research organization started by Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg (and…

Thrive Capital hires Obama’s Director of Product Josh Miller to focus on tech for the underprivileged

 Connections between the Obaman administration and Silicon Valley abound, but particularly for Josh Kushner. The latest?…

Elemeno Health is a personal assistant for hospital staff

 Elemeno Health started building something akin to a personal assistant for hospital staff while in Y Combinator…

Sheryl Sandberg joins the immigration ban statement canoe

 Several tech leaders have now spoken out against Trump’s Executive Order to ban immigrants from seven…