Brief - The Hustle | Emerging Tech (7)

Human IPO wants you to buy shares in regular people

Michael Waters
Updated 6/24/20
Wanna challenge a parking ticket or get help on bills? This robo-lawyer can help

Michael Waters
Updated 6/24/20
This portable urinal company is flush with demand

Michael Waters
Updated 6/23/20
Sharing is caring: These startups are streamlining knowledge-sharing

Belle Long
Updated 6/23/20
AI is helping scientists sort through heaps of coronavirus research

Nick DeSantis
Updated 6/22/20
Public transit is getting the Uber Pool treatment

Michael Waters
Updated 6/22/20
Want your cheers on ESPN? There’s an app for that

Michael Waters
Updated 6/19/20
Quarantine got you talking to yourself? Try a little botty language

Caroline Dohack
Updated 6/17/20
Politicians, police, and… Panera: Geofencing is taking over

Michael Waters
Updated 6/17/20
Nikola and Tesla are fighting it out over the future of trucking

Nick DeSantis
Updated 6/11/20
How Theo Harvey got ahead in the health wearables game

Michael Waters
Updated 6/11/20
Amazon’s drone fleet is late to deliver

Michael Waters
Updated 6/10/20
Tech is shaping the protests, from police scanner apps to Google Docs

Belle Long
Updated 6/9/20
Tech’s bigwigs team up to coordinate plasma donations from COVID-19 survivors

Belle Long
Updated 5/28/20
Gather ’round the virtual watercooler…

Nick DeSantis
Updated 5/28/20
Cities are turning to vertical farms to keep their supply chains upright

Michael Waters
Updated 4/23/20
The internet’s battle against bots is heating up

Michael Waters
Updated 4/20/20
There’s big money in ‘immunity passports,’ but the idea is complicated

Nick DeSantis
Updated 4/16/20
Eyewear innovations are coming into focus

Singdhi Sokpo
Updated 1/26/26
Music you can really feel — no, really

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 8/25/23
Don’t pretend you aren’t interested in the world’s largest passenger elevator

Ben Berkley
Updated 4/13/23
Is it possible to get younger?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 1/26/23
What happened at CES this year?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 1/9/23
CES starts today. Here’s what to expect

Jacob Cohen
Updated 1/5/23
ChatGPT isn’t always right, but it’s fun

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 12/5/22
Tesla’s robot, explained

Rob Litterst
Updated 10/3/22
Why Big Tech wants to be in your car so badly

Jacob Cohen
Updated 6/16/22
Digits: Taser drones, Domino’s woes, and charging cables

Jacob Cohen
Updated 6/13/22
Text-to-image AI generators, explained

Rob Litterst
Updated 5/25/22
Are smart buildings a smart move?

Mia Sullivan
Updated 5/10/22
Are passwords over?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 5/9/22
Can you live forever on a computer?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 4/15/22
Starlink wants to disrupt in-flight WiFi

Rob Litterst
Updated 3/23/22
Scent’s purpose in virtual reality

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 3/3/22
Looking for love? AI might be able to help

Rob Litterst
Updated 2/14/22
Matterport’s CEO on the future of digital twins and the metaverse

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/10/22
The 1st Black-owned automated market is now open

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 1/26/22
Will bots ruin Christmas?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 12/1/21
Everyone is doing the metaverse

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/10/21
Google’s newest bet: AI-powered drug discovery

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/8/21
Is AI the future of drive-thrus?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 11/2/21
Product Roundup: Summarizing releases from Apple, Google, and Samsung

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 10/22/21
New patents from Snap, Airbnb and Ford

Trung T. Phan
Updated 9/24/21
Smart toilets, explained

Trung T. Phan
Updated 9/9/21
How ‘metafabric’ could combat climate change and help you shvitz less

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 8/26/21
Digits: A fidget toy boom, electronic noses, and geofence warrants

Jacob Cohen
Updated 8/23/21
Not all deepfakes are bad

Rob Litterst
Updated 8/10/21
Amazon’s drone project is experiencing turbulence

Jacob Cohen
Updated 8/5/21
The QR code wave is just getting started

Rob Litterst
Updated 7/28/21
What the latest tech patents say about the future

Trung T. Phan
Updated 7/12/21
Wayfair thinks AR/VR shopping is the future of retail

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 6/25/21
AI is here for car appraisals (finally)

Trung T. Phan
Updated 6/18/21
So, are we getting flying cars or what?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 6/17/21
Tech is turbocharging self-checkout grocery stores

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 6/15/21
Using AI to write better, faster, smarter

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 6/12/21
One way to see the future? Track corporate patents

Trung T. Phan
Updated 6/10/21
The rise of VR exposure therapy

Kolby Hatch
Updated 6/8/21
Google Search is making an AI-powered leap

Kolby Hatch
Updated 5/27/21
AI transcription service gets $14m boost

Trung T. Phan
Updated 5/26/21
Can deepfakes make dubbed shows look better?

Juliet Bennett Rylah
Updated 5/20/21
Forget AI Tom Cruise, experts are worried about deepfake satellites

Jacob Cohen
Updated 4/30/21
Hot lidar startup Luminar teams up with Airbus to make helicopters safer

Kolby Hatch
Updated 4/29/21
The next high-tech makeover: Gardening tools

Trung T. Phan
Updated 4/20/21
Flying cars are coming…maybe

Trung T. Phan
Updated 4/12/21
Facebook and Google are rolling out new products

Trung T. Phan
Updated 3/22/21
Airtable and the unbundling of Microsoft Office

Trung T. Phan
Updated 3/18/21
Big Tech loves using Wikipedia. Now, the free site is planning an enterprise product.

Jacob Cohen
Updated 3/18/21
Beam raises $80m to disrupt dental insurance

Jacob Cohen
Updated 3/4/21
Meet Beeple: the artist selling NFT-backed digital art at Christie’s

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/26/21
AI-powered wearable tech has found its way to babies

Shelley Tang
Updated 2/24/21
MSCHF takes on dual-use technologies. Boston Dynamics is not happy about it.

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/23/21
Ever wanted to own an NBA highlight? Now you can.

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/21/21
Meet Agora, the company powering Clubhouse

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/16/21
Facial recognition has come a long way. Its problems have a long way to go.

Jacob Cohen
Updated 2/11/21
First look: Apple’s mixed-reality headset

Trung T. Phan
Updated 2/5/21
What trends will impact businesses the most this year?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/23/21
An MIT lab managed to grow wood. Wait until you see how.

Jacob Cohen
Updated 1/22/21
Streaming wars, 2021: Battle of the buttons

Jacob Cohen
Updated 1/20/21
The pandemic is ushering in a new wave of office and warehouse robots. Will the trend continue?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/20/21
CES 2021: AI butlers, connected toilets, instant at-home ice cream, and more

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/18/21
How much money did VCs drop in 2020?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 1/18/21
Webflow raises $140m to write no-code code

Jacob Cohen
Updated 1/15/21
Tile hopes its new AR tech can help locate market share…as Apple looms

Jacob Cohen
Updated 1/8/21
Trends business idea: Poorly executed but popular apps

Steph Smith
Updated 12/30/20
The things we got right and wrong in 2020 (and ungated Trends content to check out)

Steph Smith
Updated 12/30/20
One way to see the future? Track corporate patents

Trung T. Phan
Updated 12/23/20
Robomart doesn’t deliver products… it delivers the entire store

Ethan Brooks
Updated 12/22/20
What the automation of telephone operators can tell us about future jobs

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/20/20
What will sex robots do to society?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/12/20
Voting machines have transitioned from punch cards to scanning tech, but problems persist

Trung T. Phan
Updated 11/6/20
One way to see the future? Track corporate patents (Pt. 2)

Trung T. Phan
Updated 10/22/20
Waymo’s driverless cars are open to the public. And Elon’s not impressed.

Trung T. Phan
Updated 10/12/20
Renters vs. robots: A flawed screening process is thwarting tenants

Belle Long
Updated 10/7/20
What a time to be a techie: CES shows us just how weird consumer spending could get

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 10/3/20
Nike has finally achieved its decade-long dream: an auto-lacing smart shoe

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 10/3/20
Spidey senses textiling: Synthetic spider silk is starting to appear in consumer products

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 10/3/20
Should we be skeptical of Amazon One?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 10/1/20
Loon is flying the internet to rural areas… via balloon

Mia Sullivan
Updated 10/1/20
Somewhere, a man-bun just died: Robot baristas are coming

Wes Schlagenhauf
Updated 9/23/20
Return of the Mark

The Hustle
Updated 9/21/20
Foldable screens are here. What’s next for ‘-able’ tech?

Bobby Durben
Updated 9/21/20
Facebook’s plan to crack down on porn: Call in the Red Team

Michael Waters
Updated 9/19/20
Brains, planes, and automobiles: 3D printing is changing the way we make… everything

Lindsey Quinn
Updated 9/19/20
What exactly is Elon Musk’s Neuralink? Here are our 3 guesses.

Bobby Durben
Updated 9/19/20
Are Nikola’s electric semi trucks bullshit?

Bobby Durben
Updated 9/17/20
One way to see the future? Track corporate patents

Trung T. Phan
Updated 9/16/20
AR glasses are coming… who will take the lead?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 9/16/20
Roam Research could be the future of note-taking and knowledge management

Trung T. Phan
Updated 9/14/20
This AI chef is designing recipes based on your leftovers

Michael Waters
Updated 9/9/20
This AI startup is reading the entire internet non-stop. Why?

Trung T. Phan
Updated 9/8/20
The best productivity software is a keyboard from 1993

Michael Waters
Updated 9/7/20
Get ready for the shroom IPOs

Michael Waters
Updated 9/3/20
Infobip and the big business of sending corporate texts

Michael Waters
Updated 9/1/20
The controversial business of private firefighting

Michael Waters
Updated 9/1/20
Startups latch onto breast milk — no boobs needed

Caroline Dohack
Updated 8/26/20
AI is getting good at fighter jets. What does that mean for humans?

Caroline Dohack
Updated 8/25/20
This company wants to empower creatives to branch off on their own

Michael Waters
Updated 8/24/20
Hang on to your Tomatometers: Can algorithms direct movies?

Michael Waters
Updated 8/20/20

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