"Board looks like a sleek 24-inch coffee-table screen, but it behaves more like a playground. You drop real pieces – a sponge, a spaceship, a robot, depending on the game – onto the surface, and it reacts instantly, lighting up, buzzing, and somehow turning a room full of distracted people into an engaged group of happy competitors." — USA Today

Mirror's founder is back with a connected gaming startup called Board that combines board games and video games. techcrunch.com/2025/10/28/mi…

Introducing Board – the first ever face-to-face gaming console that combines the best of board games and video games into one beautiful new platform. Available today!! board.fun

"We’re setting 10 years as our goal to have dexterity, be functional and useful and able to do some of the things that humans do." — Kevin Lynch, Northwestern University’s Center for Robotics and Biosystems wsj.com/tech/the-hands-probl…

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Running it back ⛹️‍♀️

Major update today: We just raised a $30M Series A from @MenloVentures 🚀 Our vision? Building Jarvis from Ironman – the voice interface for the future of AI How are we spending this money? On you, if you're a cracked engineer or a growth fiend Full investor list in 🧵

UK AI start-up PhysicsX nears $1bn valuation on.ft.com/3HQeRvC

We are profoundly grateful that Dr. Ruth Gottesman, Professor Emerita of Pediatrics at @EinsteinMed, has made a transformational gift to #MontefioreEinstein—the largest to any medical school in the country—that ensures no student has to pay tuition again. bit.ly/3wvBj7y

We have a new report out: "Drawdowns and Recoveries: Base Rates for Bottoms and Bounces" -Our investigation of price declines from peak to trough, or drawdowns, for stocks and mutual funds yields some provocative and surprising results. -We examine overall base rates, point out the persistence of drawdowns even in a world with perfect foresight into long-term returns, provide two case studies, review academic research, and offer qualitative guidelines for considering which stocks may recover.

Thoughts are now an input device. Today, @Apple announced its new BCI Human Interface Device (#HID) protocol—and Synchron is proud to be the first brain-computer interface company to achieve native integration with iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro. That means: 🧠 No touch. 🧠 No voice. 🧠 No movement. Just thought. Using Synchron’s brain-computer interface, people with paralysis can now control Apple devices directly with their minds. Apple is formally recognizing brain signals as a native input category—joining the ranks of touch, keyboard, and voice. That’s a paradigm shift not just in accessibility, but in how we think about interacting with technology. We're grateful to Apple’s accessibility team, our clinical collaborators, and—most of all—the patients leading the way. Read the full press release here: businesswire.com/news/home/2… #Accessibility #BrainComputerInterface #Appl

My conversation with Jony Ive yesterday at @stripe sessions.

Irredeemably cool — congratulations, @ZennaTavares & @BasisOrg