Movidius, the company that makes the vision processor that powers Google’s Tango tablet, today announced that it has raised a $40 million funding round led by Summit Bridge Capital ? a collaboration between Atlantic Bridge Capital and WestSummit Capital. This marks one of the largest funding rounds in a fabless semiconductor company in recent years.New investors in this round include ARCH Vent...

Grumpy Cat has millions of social media followers, shots of her famous frown go viral, and fans clamor to catch a glimpse. Face it: Grumpy Cat is a celebrity, and guess what? She probably makes more money than you do!Grumpy Cat is part of an elite group of furry animals around the globe who have shot to Internet fame in recent years. These fuzzy creatures sign book and movie deals, do photo sho...

Apple Inc. has acquired Israeli camera-technology company LinX Computational Imaging Ltd. Companies had been discussing acquisition price of about $20 million.Apple confirmed the acquisition with its standard statement when it has bought a company. “Apple buys smaller technology companies from time to time and we generally do not discuss our purpose or plans,” said an Apple spokesman.The comp...

10% of Americans own a smartphone but do not have broadband at home, and 15% own a smartphone but say that they have a limited number of options for going online other than their cell phone. Those with relatively low income and educational attainment levels, younger adults, and non-whites are especially likely to be “smartphone-dependent.”Smartphones are widely used for navigating numerous im...

Stimulating both major branches of the immune system halts tumor growth more effectively.The human immune system is poised to spring into action at the first sign of a foreign invader, but it often fails to eliminate tumors that arise from the body’s own cells. Cancer biologists hope to harness that untapped power using an approach known as cancer immunotherapy.Orchestrating a successful immun...

It always makes us smile when we read about creatives who think out of the box with their fun, inventive, and awesome approach to job hunting. When Budapest-based Bernadett Baji was thinking of applying for a marketing position at Hungarian wine distributor Bort?rsas?g, her designer friend Mikl?s Kiss suggested she turn her r?sum? into a wine label instead of sending a traditional word document...

An old tradition is being repackaged as a sleek new startup product. We might stick with our trusty Oral-B, thank you very much.Before the modern toothbrush existed, people cleaned their teeth by chewing on twigs--and in some parts of the world, the practice is still common. Now, a startup is trying to popularize a modern day stick-as-toothbrush in the U.S.The small stick, called a miswak (in A...

A team from Massachusetts General Hospital has developed new technology that converts a smartphone into a tool for cancer diagnosis. The approach, called D3 (digital diffraction diagnosis), consists of a dongle that sits on top of the phone’s camera and specially designed microbeads that bind to cancer cells that can then be imaged using the phone.By quantifying the number of tumor-marker-targ...

What would computers look like twenty years from now? Holograms? 3D projections? Or just really sexy looking gadgets? The Neptune gadget suite has pretty much convinced me that technology in the future will be built in families of gadgets and softwares constructed to provide us with a unified experience, no matter what product you use.The Neptune Suite is a clan of products and softwares made t...