I’m fortunate, in my work for The Next Web, to have the chance to see the best and the brightest of technology on a daily basis. With graduates of programs likeTechStars,Y CombinatorandStartup Bootcampknocking on our metaphorical doors, we’re able to see what these accelerators are putting out onto the street. What we don’t often get to see is what goes on inside the walls of the accelerators. Oh sure, we have theTechStars TV showon Bloomberg and I have had the opportunity tosit in with TechStars’ Boulder locationa time or two, but that still doesn’t tell the full story....

On a recent Tuesday morning, Congresswoman Renee Ellmers, a freshman Republican from North Carolina, stood at the head of a long conference room table populated by conservative bloggers. The meeting was being held in one of the offices of the Heritage Foundation, a DC conservative think tank formed in the early 70s. It is considered one of the most influential institutions in Republican policy and has long been credited for helping Ronald Reagan shape his own conservative policy initiatives during his presidency....

Earlier this month, the blogThink Progress, a media outlet funded by the Center for American Progress,published a postasking its readers to “Join Our Effort To Expose The Billionaire Brothers’ Far-Right Agenda.” The billionaires referenced are the Koch brothers, considered by many in the progressive sphere to be the main influencers behind a number of right wing movements currently underway. The post appeared shortly after a senior Koch operative hadsingled outThink Progress as leading an “orchestrated campaign” against the two brothers, and the blog was responding in kind by asking its followers to donate money to fund its anti-Koch reporting....

Inside the world’s first AI-powered satellite — and its fight against clouds PhiSat-1 is on a mission to monitor polar ice and soil moisture Next steps for AI in space PhiSat-1is currently in a commissioning phase in which all the system’s elements are being tested. But the team has already got someearly results: the first AI inference performed in-orbit. When the commissioning period ends, a year-long operational phase will begin, with the satellite targeting certain locations on the globe and capturing, processing, and downlinking the relevant image data....

The actual cost of an advertising campaign on Twitter has always been somewhat shrouded in mystery with large campaigns run without direct figures revealed.Well now they haveand it’s a huge $120,000 per day to run a Promote Trend on the site. Which, according toBusiness Insider, is up from the $30,000 per day they cost last year. While this is clearly good news for Twitter, it’s bad news for small businesses, with the minimum ad spend required overall on Twitter sitting at $15,000 over 3 months, making this pretty much a no-go for those with limited ad budgets....