Category: yale
Yale’s longtime — and legendary — endowment chief, David Swensen, has passed away at age 67
David Swensen, among the most highly regarded money managers in the world after growing Yale’s endowment from $1 billion when he joined as a 31-year-old former grad student of the school to the second-largest school endowment in the country after Harvard, has passed away at age 67. The cause was…
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Will moving, ‘spacial video’ start to eat into square-box Zoom calls? SpatialChat thinks so
With most of us locked into a square video box on platforms like Zoom, the desire to break away and perhaps wander around a virtual space is strong. These new ways of presenting people – as small circles of videos placed in a virtual space where they can move around…
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From dorm rooms to board rooms: How universities are promoting entrepreneurship
15 institutions partnered to create a centralized pool of licensable IP Brian Heater @bheater / 19 hours Earlier this year, 15 top U.S. universities joined forces to launch a one-stop shop where corporations and startups can discover and license patents. Working in concert, Brown, Caltech, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, the University…
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Catching up on China’s tech influence operations in America
It’s been a dizzying few weeks following all the China news emanating from Washington DC these days. While a “phase one” trade deal with China has been signed and appears to be moving forward as of a month ago (we covered the origins of this trade war extensively on TechCrunch…
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Brilliant makes your smart home more manageable
Controlling your smart home gadgets from your phone or by voice isn’t exactly a chore, but after setting up a bunch of smart lights, a Wi-Fi lock, thermostat and a few more smart devices, I came to miss the ability to control at least some of them with a physical…
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