The funding will help Boom finish development and fabrication of the XB-1 demonstrator and flight testing of the XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator, a ⅓-scale prototype of the Boom’s supersonic passenger airliner. The XB-1 will demonstrate the key technologies enabling affordable supersonic travel, including aerodynamics, materials, and high-efficiency supersonic intakes. If they get this right, the Boom airliner will be the fastest civil airplane ever made and first independently-developed supersonic jet. Meaning, at some point you could travel from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia in under seven hours....

To compete in an era of digital Darwinism requires companies to think beyond “business as usual” and to start exploring new areas of opportunity for emerging expertise, technology, and insights. One of the most promising trends in the evolution of business is the rise of corporate innovation centers. Part of the challenge companies face in doing so is that it’s very easy, almost natural, to apply legacy thinking, processes, and models toward innovation....

For some startups, an incubator or accelerator has made all the difference. Although admission is competitive, startups that are accepted into an accelerator usually find they have access to support and resources that they wouldn’t have had otherwise. But these programs aren’t just for brand new businesses – established businesses can also benefit from using accelerators to launch new products, move into new markets and launch new ideas. What Are Incubators and Accelerators?...

Aside from the state, other participants in this round of funding included Core Capital Partners, New Enterprise Associates, as well as a “broad collection of angel [investors] and other types of institutions,” CEO Josh Stella told Tech Cocktail. Luminal is a cybersecurity startup that is working on creating new solutions for the current deficiencies in computing architectures. So secret, in fact, that only a handful know about the technologies that they’re developing....

Today, Tech Cocktail is releasing a special report about their journey. For American entrepreneurs and investors, it’s a peek into the culture of potential competitors and portfolio companies. For Asian entrepreneurs, it’s a discussion of issues that can hobble the growth of startup communities. And for anyone, it’s an inspiring story about overcoming the fear of failure with risk taking, determination, and passion. Defying Confucius: Tales of Risk Taking from Asian Entrepreneurs is based on over 100 interviews that I conducted over six months in Asia, across Hong Kong, China, Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, and Indonesia....

So, it’s time to save your links. Here are a few ways to export and save your Delicious bookmarks: The #SaveDelicious Twitter hashtag and username @SaveDelicious has already taken rise and there is even an Act.ly petition to save the product. We’d love to see Delicious saved. Or if Yahoo is looking to sunset it, why not sell it to Google, Facebook, Microsoft or event Aol who could redesign it as a “what’s hot” on the Web type of content play....

The service will cost designers $350 a year to participate in the program, but allows for an unlimited number of clients under that service fee. Ecwid is taking the the hands-off approach, and has no interactions between designer and clients. Designers brand the platform as they see fit and handle pricing and billing. With that $350 maintenance fee, designers will get regular updates, both for new features and security, from Ecwid....

But using torrents can also be dangerous, if done with no concerns for safety. Among other issues, hackers seem to be injecting malware in torrents, and some reports indicate that several ransomware attacks are originated in torrents. Below you can find five tips to use torrents more safely, among several others that can be applied. Download to the Cloud As mentioned above, torrents do raise some security concerns, which can be circumvented using specific platforms which let you download torrents to a cloud....

The Miami tech world is heating up, and these incubators and accelerators send a strong signal that the ecosystem will only continue to strengthen in the future. Venture Hive Miami Venture Hive is an entrepreneurial hub in downtown Miami that runs an accelerator program, though it also offers a virtual accelerator and shared workspace for those not in the main program. Their accelerator is a 12-week program that comes in two tracks, one for those in the stage between idea and a minimum viable product (Pre-revenue), and one for those between a startup and a sustainable business (Pre-revenue to $3M in revenue)....

It’s a name that highlights the massive platform’s new focus on an augmented and virtual reality platform, the Metaverse. At the same time, the social media giant is smack dab in the middle of its biggest scandal yet. Or more, accurately, several dozen different scandals, all stemming from a whistleblower who has leaked a large amount of internal documents. Turns out Facebook’s core features are indeed promoting misinformation and extremism, yet Facebook’s higher-ups have ignored many suggestions on how to improve from their employees....

As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, The DEC, a non-profit to promote entrepreneurs and startups, held their first event on Celebrating Failures, dubbed Fail Learn Grow : Dallas to do just that. Michael Aars of Tidal Wave Marketing moderated a panel discussion to do just that: talk about startup failures and what we can learn from them. Entrepreneurs Marisa Trevino, Arlo Gilbert, Aassia Haq, and Mouyyad Abdulhadi were speakers on the panel who were invited to discuss their past failures....

However, if content is king, then smart and thoughtful user-generated content about your company is, well, pure gold. And like gold, you have to sift through a lot of crap to find it. 451 Degrees can help in that task. With a product called Graffiti, the software takes crowdsourced content and makes sense of it by aggregating the words into a form that makes sense for marketers and advertisers to then turn around and monetize....

The group, which is formed of the governments of the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand, met at the end of August, and want to persuade the major tech platforms, such as WhatsApp and Apple, to allow government access to encrypted data, including private messages sent between individuals. Why do governments want this level of access? The reason given is to generate smarter intelligence to counter serious potential crimes, such as terrorism....

#VegasTech at SXSWWhat started as an idea in Gabe’s hotel room last year at SXSW turned into one of the biggest movements at SXSW 2013. VegasTech made a big splash at this year’s SXSW Interactive, becoming a trending topic on Twitter and greeting attendees with a huge, modern booth at the trade show. They hosted a cocktail hour that Tech Cocktail’s own Frank Gruber emceed and was keynoted by Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh and Jason Mendenhall of Switch, as well as a music-filled party that packed a crowd....

What GameIn30 does is very simple: It acts like a platform for very simple games and keeps you entertained for 30-second sessions. You decide whether you have time to continue after the short fun session ends, or continue or challenge your friends. What I liked in GameIn30 is that registration is super easy: enter your phone number, then type the four-digit verification code, and you are ready to play. Fact is, the number of games the app offers is sort of limited, but there are enough to challenge your gaming skills for half a minute within the chosen game....

In March, Google announced that they would be diving into the gaming industry head first with an innovative platform that could change how we play video games. By connecting over the internet, they claimed they could provide users with some of the latest games at 4K HDR video at 60 frames per second on any Google device, from Chromecast to Pixel, removing the need for a dedicated gaming console or PC....

In a control group of 30 websites, including some of the largest websites in the world, the research team at cyber security firm otto-js, found that 96.7 percent of those websites sent data with Personally Identifiable Information (PII) back to Google and Microsoft when enhanced spell check features in Chrome and Edge were enabled. Of those websites tested, 73 percent sent passwords when “show password” was clicked, presenting a significant security concern for company databases, cloud infrastructure and enterprise credentials....

That’s right, the company isn’t even offering a live stream alternative, as many companies have opted for when replacing their in-person conferences. However, this represents more than just an inconvenience for developers and journalists – it’s making us wonder what will happen with Android 11 and the Pixel 4a series of phones and their expected release schedules. Here’s everything you need to know about I/O 2020 and what its cancellation means for the future of Google’s products in the year ahead....

The new program by Google Fiber is part of the White House’s and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) national initiative to provide Internet access to school-aged kids and families living in HUD-assisted housing across the United States. Under this initiative, those living in public and affordable housing will be able to access Google Fiber’s high-speed Internet at the cost of $0 per month with no installation fee....

Over a hundred people came to the DC Google office last night to hear more about Google’s current efforts to support and foster entrepreneurial communities around the world and in local regions. The event highlighted the new Google for Entrepreneurs resource, which includes acceleration and training programs and events worldwide – some by Google and some by its partners. At last night’s event, speakers discussed entrepreneurship globally and locally and how to encourage entrepreneurship legislatively with regard to the Startup 2....