Technology - Matter

Voice and ambient computing — for good

“Alexa, what’s new?” It’s part of my morning routine — and the routine for 39 million Americans and counting. As I drink my morning coffee, my smart speaker gives me short blasts from NPR News, BBC World News, and the Washington Post. It sounds like there’s breaking news,

Augmented Reality

New realities are new opportunities

At Matter., our mission is to help create a more informed, inclusive, and empathetic society by investing in the next generation of media institutions. That means investing in products that establish new kinds of media habits. We invest in teams that harness emerging technology to build these new media experiences.

Podcast

Gretta on making a social media interface for podcasts.

Hi there! I’m Kim, Chief at Gretta.com for podcasts, started in Vancouver, Canada way back in the summer of 2015 with my cofounders Kelly and Rainer. Our mission: to bring podcasts in from the cold—to finally make them socially shareable. Why? While podcasting’s popularity continues to

Technology

Multimer: Better Decisions Based on Human Signals

Think of where you were fourteen years ago. A lot has changed, right? Technology has changed. Information flow has changed. The way we relate to and understand each other has, in many significant ways, changed. Fourteen years ago, people used Discmans. Much has changed!Fourteen years ago, my co-founder Ilias

Media

“For some reason it’s kind of a ‘bad thing’ to just write kick ass articles.”

Some said it was too expensive. Others said it would never scale. But Jessica Lessin ignored the naysayers and stuck to her convictions. Almost three years ago, the former Wall Street Journal tech reporter founded The Information, an in-depth, online-only publication that combines rigorous investigative journalism with technology and business

Media

“Relentlessness is my middle name.”

We take User-Generated Content for granted as part of TV news coverage today, but that trend had to start somewhere. Chloe Sladden had a major role to play in its genesis: at Current TV, she became the first person to integrate tweets into a live broadcast. The breakthrough almost didn’

Leadership

How to be an effective CTO

A CTO’s job combines Culture, Technology, and Operations.A CTO’s job combines Culture, Technology, and Operations. Each of the three is necessary; a field of knowledge, experimentation, and learning in itself; and interdependent with the other two. To be successful as a CTO, you need to work on

Technology

Scout: Exploring the Social Implications of Technology

It took me 28 years to realize the power of science-fiction. I’d worked with my family for 15 of those running Future in Review, a $6,000 a head conference that brings together C-level executives, world-class scientists, economists, filmmakers, and, yes, science-fiction authors, to talk about where technology is