Nvidia’s bold plan to conquer new graphics territory: licensing its chips

Seemingly out of nowhere, graphics chip maker Nvidia has announced one of the biggest changes to its business in some time.

Dish jilts Sprint to focus attention on Clearwire in a sordid saga of spectrum

Dish Network said today that it would not make a new offer to buy Sprint Nextel, in time for the Tuesday deadline. Instead, Dish will focus on its attentions on wireless provider Clearwire. This is the latest event in the never-ending Sprint-Dish-Clearwire-SoftBank saga that is more dramatic than a soap opera.

ProxToMe raises $700K for mobile blasts to attendees at live shows

In addition to the funding, ProxToMe is today announcing new iOS and Android apps as well as a web-based dashboard for tracking fan interactions with a performer's messaging and with each other.

YC startup Ink raises $1.8M to make software more open-minded

"File system as a service" startup Filepicker.io has rebranded as Ink and announced the close of its $1.8 million seed round from Andreessen Horowitz and Highland Capital Partners.

FiftyThree raises $15M to unleash your creativity with Paper

FiftyThree is the company behind Paper, an iPad app that Apple named 2012 iPad App of the Year. It has raised $15 million in a deal led by Chris Dixon at Andreessen Horowitz.

Google Glass is Orwellian, ridiculous, and ‘destroys people,’ Noam Chomsky says

Chomsky makes at least one pretty significant mistake, however. He said that Google Glass has a camera and a recorder, "which means that everything that's going on around you goes up on the Internet."

NSA chief: We do not ‘unilaterally’ obtain data from Google, Facebook, Microsoft servers

Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, AOL, and Apple might breathe a little easier today as NSA Director General Keith Alexander lends credibility to their testimony.

Rounds brings together mobile video chat with shared web browsing

Rounds is adding yet another compelling spin to the mobile video-chat formula.

Lift broadens access to goal-tracking app to make you a better version of you

Obvious Corp's first product, Lift, started out as an iPhone-only app last year. Now the app is more widely available to help anyone achieve their goals using data and social support.

Social polling startup Poutsch comes out of beta and onto the iPhone

Poutsch's addictive social polling is finally opening up to the public today with the launch of a new iPhone app.

Jive Software further embraces mobile with new apps for iPad, iPhone, & Android

Enterprise social-networking company Jive Software has launched new apps for the iPad and iPhone, and soon it will bring its Jive Present presentation app to Android.

Medivo raises $15M to bridge gap between patients and physicians

Health startup Medivo has raised $15 million to expand its health monitoring platform that connects doctors, consumers, and clinical labs. The company's vision is to save and improve lives through faster and easier access to quality health care.

Mars, lasers, and robots: Making holes in Mars

Over the course of 20 minutes, Curiosity fired its million-watt laser at a tiny section of Martian soil 20 times.

Microsoft doubles speech recognition speed while improving accuracy

I'm sure you're happy to know that deep neural networks perform significantly better than shallow networks. But you might be thrilled to learn that Microsoft has doubled the speed at which it can translate what you say into text ... while also improving accuracy.

Gay social network Hornet hits 1M users, iPad app coming next week (exclusive)

Gay mobile-social network Hornet now has more than 1 million users and will soon launch an iPad app, the company revealed today.

Samsung’s Galaxy S4 is going to get even faster with LTE-Advanced

Samsung isn't slowing down with its Galaxy S4 variants anytime soon.

Apple, could you just be honest, sometimes, about being a little bit evil?

Success almost killed Dawlat's iOS business. That -- and the fact that Apple wasn't "getting a piece."