The new cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund Polychain Capital has raised $10 million in funding from Andreessen Horowitz and Union Square Ventures. Run by former Coinbase employee Olaf Carlson-Wee, the fund has been set up to invest in digital assets such as bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple and other “altcoins,” as well as tradable tokens used for raising funds ...

Augmedix Inc., a startup using Google’s Glass head-mounted computers, has raised $23 million in a new round of funding from investors McKesson Ventures, OrbiMed, Redmile Group, Emergence Capital and DCM Ventures. Founded in 2012, Augmedix is seeking to “rehumanize” the physician-patient relationship by eliminating the time physicians spend on mandated electronic health record documentation. The company uses a ...

German steel and elevator conglomerate ThyssenKrupp AG has had trade secrets stolen following a hack of its systems earlier this year. The company said in a statement Thursday that it had been targeted by attackers located in Southeast Asia engaged in what was described as “organized, highly professional hacker activities.” ThyssenKrupp‘s internal security team discovered ...

Microsoft Corp. Thursday announced a new collaboration with Intel Corp. to harness the strengths of both companies in an effort to further the way people interact with computers across a wide variety of applications. Called Project Evo, the new Wintel partnership will see the two famous tech giants working together to improve how personal computers ...

Residents of New Bern, N.C., were not loving visiting their local McDonald’s restaurant recently after a rather crafty individual decided it would be fun to hack the drive-through ordering machine. Traditionally drive-through customers are greeted by a standard message when they have finished placing the order. But last Sunday the people visiting the drive-thru instead ...

Apple Inc.’s director of artificial intelligence research said earlier this week that the company will start publishing its research on AI. Now, Apple has revealed more about exactly what it’s working on. According to slides and notes of Russ Salakhutdinov’s presentation at the Neural Information Processing Systems conference in Barcelona, Apple is actively investigating “volumetric detection ...

Cybersecurity solutions company Optiv Security Inc. has canceled plans to go public and has instead opted to sell a majority stake in the company to private equity firm KKR & Co. Under the deal, current majority owner Blackstone Group LP will retain a minority shareholding with Optiv management. Those selling their stake in the company ...

The grand ambitions of Google Inc. parent company Alphabet Inc. to start a drone delivery service have been delayed by, among other things, the small matter of preventing the machines from crashing, according to an extensive report published Tuesday. In an in-depth look at Alphabet’s “moonshot” programs, The Wall Street Journal’s Nick Jakas details the ...

Apple’s notoriously tight secrecy about its activities is set to change as it tries to retain and hire talent, at least in one area, according to an Apple Inc. executive. The company is going to start publishing some of their artificial intelligence work and engaging more with the wider academic community, Russ Salakhutdinov, Apple’s director of ...

Docker Inc. has acquired decentralized storage platform startup Infinit International Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Founded in 2012, Infinit sells a decentralized storage platform that transforms commodity servers into multiple scalable, secure and fault-tolerant storage servers tailored for specific applications and more specifically is intended for container and micro-services deployments. The company’s software can be deployed on ...