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Space tech has outpaced space law, and we’re at risk of killing innovation | Lyon Brad King | 2,018 | 7 | 11 | “Disruption” is a term (over)used in the technology world to describe some development or product that is inherently good. The formal definition of the term, however, is at odds with its casual use: a disruption is a “disturbance or problem that interrupts an event, activity, or process.” Right now, space tech is curre... |
Catch the next wave of tickets to the TechCrunch Summer Party at August Capital | Emma Comeau | 2,018 | 7 | 11 | Our 13 annual takes place on July 27, and we’re happy to announce we’ve just released a fourth batch of tickets to this fun Silicon Valley tradition. These tickets have been moving at a brisk pace, so if you’d like to join us in Menlo Park, be sure to . Come and spend a relaxing evening of cocktails and conversatio... |
Real estate platform Nestio raises $4.5 million | Lucas Matney | 2,018 | 7 | 11 | Real estate platform is getting new funding as it continues to expand its footprint beyond New York City into other large U.S. markets. The startup’s software gives real estate owners and managers a hub to handle things like leasing and marketing. The round, which they announced today, was led by Camber Creek and Tri... |
YouTube launches new tool for finding and removing unauthorized re-uploads | Frederic Lardinois | 2,018 | 7 | 11 | Re-uploading videos on YouTube is a favorite of scammy channels that try to profit from other people’s work. Copyright owners already have a number of ways to protect their content, but , the service is introducing a new tool that automatically scans every newly uploaded video to check if it’s a re-upload of an existi... |
Magic Leap One coming this summer, will run on Nvidia Tegra X2 | Lucas Matney | 2,018 | 7 | 11 | After a few years of waiting, Magic Leap says it will finally ship its first hardware this summer. The company has already detailed that the Magic Leap One would be shipping the device in 2018, but after scant follow-up it was a little dubious whether they would actually hit that deadline. In a developer-focused Twitch... |
Branded Worlds: how technology recentralized entertainment | Jon Evans | 2,018 | 7 | 29 | I love Hollywood box-office numbers because they provide a hard statistical view of cultural currents. Did you know, for instance, that there had never been a weekend when 8 of the top 10 movies in America were sequels — ? Or that, while almost 400 movies were released in the first half of 2018, nearly 40% of their tot... |
Amazon’s Echo Spot is apparently free right now (Update: aaand it’s gone) | Brian Heater | 2,018 | 7 | 29 | We noticed an error in an order you recently placed and wanted to make you aware of the issue. Due to a technical error, the price of the Echo Spot that you purchased on July 29, 2018 was incorrectly listed. Because of this error, we are unable to fulfill your Echo Spot order. We apologize for any inconvenience this is... |
Belle Haven & Friendly Acres Over 13s Youth Club Newsletter | Natasha Lomas | 2,018 | 7 | 29 | Hey KIDS! [Boztank pls insert ‘hey kids’ GIF here] First up: Exciting news! We’re going to be migrating the Club Newsletter to a new format from next month that will be delivered in person! In virtual reality! Myself and your Totally Lost Boys (TLB) Club Committee are so excited that we can bring you this amazing expe... |
Early-bird prices for Disrupt SF 2018 end in just four days | Emma Comeau | 2,018 | 7 | 29 | We extended our deadline for early-bird passes to , which takes place on September 5-7, but your chance to save up to $1,200 is rapidly slipping away. In four days — that’s — the early bird heads north, and so do the ticket prices. Don’t miss out on the best pricing — . Disrupt San Francisco always packs tremendous... |
WeWork is just one facet of SoftBank’s bet on real estate | Jason Rowley | 2,018 | 7 | 29 | |
BMW’s Alexa integration gets it right | Frederic Lardinois | 2,018 | 7 | 29 | BMW will in a few days start rolling out to many of its drivers support for Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant. The fact that BMW is doing this doesn’t come as a surprise, given that it has long talked about its plans to bring Alexa — and potentially other personal assistants like Cortana and the Google Assistant — to its ... |
Lyft gave DJ Khaled one of its electric scooters for his upcoming tour | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,018 | 7 | 29 | Electric scooters are all the rage right now in Silicon Valley and as of late, they’ve made their way into the entertainment industry. Musician DJ Khaled of him riding one of Lyft’s electric scooter while also promoting his participation in Jay-Z and Beyonce’s On The Run II tour. Word on the street, according to a so... |
Walmart reportedly recruits ex-Epix CEO in bid to build video service | Brian Heater | 2,018 | 7 | 29 | null |
Online learning platform Unacademy gets $21M Series C from Sequoia India, SAIF and Nexus | Catherine Shu | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | Unacademy founders Roman Saini, Gaurav Munjal and Hemesh Singh Bangalore-based will add more educators to its online learning platform, which claims to be India’s largest, after closing a $21 million Series C. The funding comes from Sequoia India, SAIF Partners and Nexus Venture Partners, with participation from Blum... |
Coinbase gets approval from U.S. regulators to start listing tokenized securities | Lucas Matney | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | shared big news Monday that federal regulators are allowing the popular cryptocurrency exchange to proceed with plans to sell cryptocurrency tokens that are deemed securities. Last month, Coinbase acquired , a California-based FINRA-registered broker-dealer that operates as an alternative trading system. With the ann... |
ClassPass is headed to Asia via an imminent launch in Singapore | Jon Russell | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | U.S fitness startup ClassPass is headed to Asia after it announced plans to go live in Singapore, its first city in the continent. Four-year-old ClassPass allows its users to book fitness classes and packages across a multitude of gyms. The company claims to work with more than 10,000 fitness partners across over 50 ci... |
This fan-made Uncharted movie starring Nathan Fillion proves video game movies don’t have to be awful | Greg Kumparak | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | It’s not exactly a controversial statement: Movies based on video games are, generally, bad. See . Or that weird mess that was . Or that movie where Bowser (renamed “President Koopa” for some reason) was basically just a dude with bad hair for half the movie. Turns out, as this live action fan film based on Naughty... |
Aiming to make billboard advertising more programmatic, AdQuick raises $2.1 million | Jonathan Shieber | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | Alexis Ohanian, the co-founder of Initialized Capital and an investor in , a new service that’s looking to bring billboard advertising into the internet age, bought his last billboard ad For several years, the Reddit founder had turned to outdoor advertising as a tool to troll politicians and advocate for various posi... |
Putin proposes a joint cybersecurity group with the US to investigate Russian election meddling | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | Over the course of Monday’s controversial Helsinki summit, Russian President Vladimir Putin pushed an agenda that would ostensibly see the U.S. and Russia working side by side as allies. The two countries make stranger bedfellows than ever as just days prior, Trump’s own Department of Justice indicted for the infamou... |
Uber is being investigated for gender discrimination in a federal probe | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | As Uber tries to chart a new course, it still can’t manage to outrun news that paints its corporate culture in an ugly light. As , Uber is being investigated by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) for gender disparities pertaining to hiring practices and pay. The EEOC probe began in August 2017 and the ... |
Netflix is falling off a cliff | Matthew Lynley | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | Netflix didn’t add as many subscribers as expected by a bunch of people on Wall Street who, on a quarterly basis, — and that is a bad thing, as it’s one of the primary indicators of its future potential for said finance folk. While it’s still adding subscribers (a lot of them), it fell below the forecasts it set fo... |
0x lets any app be the Craigslist of cryptocurrency | Josh Constine | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | Centralized crypto exchanges like Coinbase are easy but expensive because they introduce a middleman. Not-for-profit project 0x allows any developer to quickly decentralized cryptocurrency exchange and decide their own fees. It acts like Craigslist, connecting traders without ever holding the tokens itself. And inste... |
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Lyft outlines bike and scooter plans | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | On the heels of its acquisition of , Lyft is gearing up to fully integrate bicycle and scooter sharing into its app. There’s no word on exactly when this will happen, but it’s likely it will happen soon. Lyft is also investing $1 million to advance transportation equity to people in underserved communities. As part of... |
Prime Down: Amazon’s sale day turns into fail day | Matt Burns | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | It’s not just you. Amazon Prime Day started 15 minutes ago, and so far, it’s not going well for Amazon. The landing page for Prime Day does not work. When most links are clicked, visitors are sent to an error page or to a landing page that sends readers back to the main landing page. Direct links to the product pages, ... |
Nuraphones get active noise cancelling via software update | Brian Heater | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | null |
CRISPR DNA editing may cause serious genetic damage, researchers warn | Devin Coldewey | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | CRISPR-Cas9, the gene-editing tool that is currently the darling of biotech and many other fields, may not be quite as miraculous as early tests suggested. A new study finds that what scientists thought of as a scalpel may be more like a felling axe, causing damage hundreds of times what was previously observed. Before... |
Uber’s head of policy for flying taxis and autonomous vehicles leaves for self-driving car startup Voyage | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | Uber’s head of policy for autonomous vehicles and urban aviation, Justin Erlich, has left the company to join self-driving car startup Voyage, TechCrunch has learned. “I was really excited at the prospect of joining such a great early stage team, and by its initial focus on deploying in communities who stand to benefit... |
Hear BMW’s Dieter May explain the connected car at Disrupt SF 2018 | Matt Burns | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | Mobility is undergoing a radical transformation and the topic will be thoroughly examined at this September. We’re excited to have BMW’s Dieter May speak on the main stage about how the German car company is addressing the connected car while still building, what they say is, the ultimate driving machine. And bonus! ... |
‘Serious concerns’ at FCC threaten to halt Sinclair-Tribune merger | Devin Coldewey | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | : The FCC voted unanimously to adopt the Hearing Designation Order, meaning the merger is officially on hold until further notice; the order itself, which should contain details around what may be expected of Sinclair in order for the business deal to be approved, will be published tomorrow. The FCC has been under seri... |
Instapaper is leaving Pinterest, two years after being acquired | Greg Kumparak | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | Back in August of 2016, , the read-it-later bookmarking service originally built by Marco Arment. Just shy of two years later, Instapaper is going back to being independent. In a blog post , the team clarifies that a new company called “Instant Paper, Inc.” has been formed to oversee Instapaper, and that it’ll largel... |
Apple’s App Store revenue nearly double that of Google Play in first half of 2018 | Sarah Perez | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | Apple’s App Store continues to outpace Google Play on revenue. In the first half of the year, the App Store generated nearly double the revenue of Google Play on half the downloads, according to a new from Sensor Tower out today. In terms of dollars and cents, that’s $22.6 billion in worldwide gross app revenue on th... |
Apple emoji will soon include people with curly hair, white hair and superpowers | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | In honor of World Emoji Day (yes, that’s a thing), Apple is previewing some of its upcoming emoji. Later this year, Apple’s emoji set will feature people with a variety of hairstyles and colors, including curly hair, red hair and white hair. What you’re about to see are simply Apple’s take on emoji that were previously... |
Google Cloud’s LA region goes online | Frederic Lardinois | 2,018 | 7 | 16 | Google Cloud’s is now online, the company today. This isn’t exactly a surprise, given that Google had previously announced a July launch for the region, but it’s a big step for Google, which now boasts five cloud regions in the United States. It was only three years ago that Google opened its second U.S. region and... |
Tapping into the power grid could predict the morning traffic | Devin Coldewey | 2,018 | 7 | 28 | Why is there traffic? This eternal question haunts civic planners, fluid dynamics professors, and car manufacturers alike. But just counting the cars on the road won’t give you a sufficient answer: you need to look at the data behind the data. In this case, CMU researchers show that electricity usage . The idea that t... |
Verizon’s new ‘Safe Wi-Fi’ is a VPN that blocks ad tracking for $3.99 a month | Kirsten Korosec | 2,018 | 7 | 28 | Verizon has rolled out a new product called Safe Wi-Fi, a VPN that provides a security stop gap for its mobile customers logging onto a public network. It’s also being marketed as a way to block ads. So and why does it matter? A VPN is a virtual private network. It sits between a device in front of you and a server i... |
Tesla is making a $1500… surfboard? | Greg Kumparak | 2,018 | 7 | 28 | Tesla is no stranger to branded merch. Its got the standard company swag — the hats, the shirts, and the mugs. It’s got quirkier stuff, like miniature Teslas for kids and USB chargers shaped like the Superchargers that juice up their vehicles. And now they’ve got… surfboards? While it’s now gone for some reason, a prod... |
The Not Company is looking to start a food revolution from Chile | Jonathan Shieber | 2,018 | 7 | 28 | Technology investors, tasting an opportunity to capitalize on the triple threat of malnutrition, resource scarcity and pollution brought on by the increasing globalization and industrialization of food, are investing billions into startup companies pitching alternative sources of sustenance. In the past five years, ven... |
How I made my own WireGuard VPN server | Romain Dillet | 2,018 | 7 | 28 | may have heard about VPN protocols that let you establish a connection between your device and a server, such as OpenVPN and IPsec. But there’s a brand new shiny protocol that promises to be faster and more secure at the same time — . But anyway? A VPN is a virtual private network between a device in front of you a... |
Home run exits happen stealthily for biotech | Joanna Glasner | 2,018 | 7 | 28 | Startup exit tallies commonly underestimate biotech returns. Unlike most tech deals, the biggest profits in bio often come long after an IPO or acquisition. Take , a publicly traded cancer immunology company that sold to pharma giant Celgene this year for $9 billion. At first glance, it doesn’t seem like a deal that w... |
Apple’s iCloud user data in China is now handled by a state-owned mobile operator | Jon Russell | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | If you’re an Apple customer living in China who didn’t already opt out of having your iCloud data stored locally, here’s a good reason to do so now. That information, the data belonging to China-based iCloud users which includes emails and text messages, is now being stored by a division of China Telecom, the state-own... |
Google launches its first WeChat mini program as its China experiments continue | Jon Russell | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | Google is continuing to test new strategies in China after the U.S. search giant released its first mini program for WeChat, the country’s hugely popular messaging app. WeChat is used by hundreds of millions of Chinese people daily for services that stretch beyond chat to include mobile payments, bill paying, food deli... |
Kindly Care scores $5.4 million to vet and place caregivers, then help families pay them correctly | Connie Loizos | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | There are roughly 45 million unpaid eldercare providers in the United States, according to the 2016 U.S. Census Bureau. It’s tough on these family caregivers, many of whom are working women who are also raising their own children. There are alternatives to family members doing it themselves. For example, there’s no sho... |
Amazon’s Show Mode Dock makes the Echo Show mostly unnecessary | Brian Heater | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | blitzkrieg at CES. Among other things, the company announced a new , aimed at taking on the Echo Show through sheer, brute force. The new isn’t a direct response, but it’s a clever one. |
Nest’s CEO is stepping down | Greg Kumparak | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | Five months ago, Google decided to rein in Nest. After four years as a mostly independent division of the company, Nest was rolled . Today, more big changes: Nest CEO Marwan Fawaz is stepping down, . The reason? Employees at Nest had reportedly been pushing for a change, hoping for someone who had more leadership exp... |
Niantic acquires Seismic Games | Greg Kumparak | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | Niantic — the company behind Pokémon GO — is back at it with another acquisition. After acquiring back in February and back in June, this morning the company announced it’s acquiring Seismic Games. Seismic Games is probably best known for its work on , a mobile, turn-based RPG that has players build battle teams m... |
Undercover report shows the Facebook moderation sausage being made | Devin Coldewey | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | An undercover reporter with the U.K.’s Channel 4 visited Cpl, a content moderation outsourcing firm in Dublin, : queues of flagged content waiting, videos of kids fighting staying online, orders from above not to take action on underage users. It sounds bad, but the truth is there are pretty good reasons for most of i... |
Twitter is holding off on fixing verification policy to focus on election integrity | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | Twitter is pausing its work on overhauling its verification process, which provides a blue checkmark to public figures, in favor of election integrity, Twitter product lead Kayvon Beykpour tweeted today. That’s because, as we enter another election season, “updating our verification program isn’t a top priority for us ... |
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Instagram is building non-SMS 2-factor auth to thwart SIM hackers | Josh Constine | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | Hackers can steal your phone number by reassigning it to a different SIM card, use it to reset your passwords, steal your Instagram and other accounts and sell them for bitcoin. As detailed in a harrowing today, Instagram accounts are especially vulnerable because the app only offers two-factor authentication through... |
Bitcoin price passes $7K bringing all 100 top coins up with it | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | Bitcoin is moving up, and it’s taking 99 of its best friends along for the ride. In the last 24 hours, every one of the by market cap was in the green, with 84 of them posting gains of over 5 percent. At the time of writing, Bitcoin was sitting at $7,310, up 14 percent in the last 7 days and up almost 10 percent in t... |
Self-driving car startup Zoox is raising $500 million at a $3.2 billion valuation | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | , a once-secretive self-driving car startup, is closing a $500 million raise at a $3.2 billion post-money valuation, . Prior to the deal, Zoox was valued at $2.7 billion, Zoox confirmed to TechCrunch. The round, led by Mike Cannon-Brookes of Grok Ventures, brings its total amount of funding to $800 million. Zoox’s pla... |
Tax robots and Universal Basic Income | Ben Bloch | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | Technological innovation is moving at an ever-accelerating pace, and this comes with vast benefits and inevitable changes to our way of life. One downside is that machine learning and automation are already replacing jobs, and this will increase rapidly. It also has the potential to replace much of that income with Uni... |
This insane fighting robot can be yours now for $1,600 | Brian Heater | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | null |
No Man’s Sky Next seeks to right the game’s wrongs | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | For a certain kind of gamer, the premise of , that of an endless procedurally generated space universe teeming with life, was intoxicatingly perfect, almost too good to be true. After overselling that dream to the disappointment of just about everybody, Hello Games is back to make amends with a major new update: . No... |
Sharecuts is creating a community for sharing Siri Shortcuts | Sarah Perez | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | With the upcoming release of iOS 12, Apple is introducing that will allow users to build custom voice commands for Siri that can be used to kick off a variety of actions in apps. While some apps will directly prompt users to add a Shortcut to Siri, the new Shortcuts app will offer more shortcut suggestions to try, plu... |
Slack acquires Missions to help users automate work tasks inside chat | Lucas Matney | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | As Slack continues to grow its paid business users, the company is looking for ways to help customers build integrations that make sense for the work they do. Slack that it has acquired Robots and Pencils’ an app that allows Slack users to build tools to automate simple routines without code. Terms of the deal were... |
Twitch streamers can now let viewers react with GIFs | Sarah Perez | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | Giphy is coming to Twitch. For the first time, Giphy is bringing its library of animated GIFs to the Amazon-owned game streaming service. The company today is launching a for Twitch streamers that will allow viewers to react in real-time using GIFs during a broadcast. The idea is that GIFs could make streams more eng... |
This $20 DIY kit makes your NES, SNES or Mega Drive controller wireless | Devin Coldewey | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | I have to hand it to 8BitDo. At first I thought they were just opportunistically hawking cheap hunks of plastic in an era of unparalleled nostalgia for retro games, but… well, who am I kidding? That’s exactly what they’re doing. But they’re doing it well. And are the latest sign that they actually understand their mo... |
Oculus starts selling $299 Go business bundle | Lucas Matney | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | Facebook’s virtual reality arm is beginning to sell its Oculus Go headsets directly to business users with a dedicated bundle. Starting today, business users a business bundle with a 64GB Oculus Go headset for $299. Oculus isn’t charging much of a premium for business users, tacking on an extra $50 for some added acc... |
Dems and GOP unite, slamming Facebook for allowing violent Pages | Josh Constine | 2,018 | 7 | 17 | In a rare moment of agreement, members of the House Judiciary Committee from both major political parties agreed that Facebook needed to take down Pages that bullied shooting survivors or called for more violence. The hearing regarding social media filtering practices saw policy staffers from Facebook, Google and Twitt... |
HTC’s blockchain phone is real, and it’s arriving later this year | Brian Heater | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | null |
Aspire Capital offers fast finance for SMEs in Southeast Asia | Jon Russell | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | Southeast Asia’s digital economy is tipped to grow more than six-fold to reach more than $200 billion per year, , with e-commerce accounting for the dominant share. The emergence of e-commerce platforms like Alibaba’s Lazada and U.S.-listed Shopee have enabled online entrepreneurship across the region, but still finan... |
GrubMarket gobbles up $32M led by GGV for its healthy grocery ordering and delivery service | Ingrid Lunden | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | As consumers become more discerning about the food that they are eating, a wave of startups has emerged that are catering to that demand with convenient alternatives to the more ubiquitous options that are available today. One of these, — which sources organic and healthy food directly from producers and then and del... |
The Nudge is a planner app packaged as an SMS subscription service | Natasha Lomas | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | How do you fix digital information overload and the resulting life-attention deficit that’s apparently afflicting smartphone owners everywhere — and even leading to unbox “ ” tools lately? San Francisco-based startup reckons the answer to getting millennials to spend less time sucked into screens, and more time out... |
Court victory legalizes 3D-printable gun blueprints | Devin Coldewey | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | A multi-year legal battle over the ability to distribute computer models of gun parts and replicate them in 3D printers has ended in defeat for government authorities who sought to prevent the practice. Cody Wilson, the gunmaker and free speech advocate behind the lawsuit, now intends to expand his operations, providin... |
Technology in healthcare is moving from mainframes to iPhones | Justin Butler | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | New technologies are often first manifested in behemoth machines that may take up entire rooms, only to be miniaturized as the technology matures. We have witnessed this shift over the last 70 years in computers, and an analogous trend is now underway in healthcare. Startups across the world are transforming capabiliti... |
Nerf updates laser tag with smartphone AR | Brian Heater | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | null |
UK’s Information Commissioner will fine Facebook the maximum £500K over Cambridge Analytica breach | Ingrid Lunden | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | Facebook continues to face fallout over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which revealed how user data was stealthily obtained by way of quizzes and then appropriated for other purposes, such as targeted political advertising. Today, the U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) announced that it would be issuing the... |
Ex-Apple employee charged with stealing self-driving car secrets | Matthew Panzarino | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | A former Apple employee who downloaded a plan for a self-driving car circuit board and booked a flight to China was arrested at the San Jose airport on July 7th. The man, Xiaolang Zhang, had made known that he was going to go work for a Chinese self-driving car startup and was bouncing with the secrets, perhaps as a bo... |
California malls are sharing license plate tracking data with an ICE-linked database | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | A chain of California shopping centers appears to be sharing its license plate reader data with a well-known U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contractor, giving that agency the ability to track license plate numbers it captures in near real-time. A revealed that real estate group Irvine Company shares th... |
Univision confirms it’s exploring sale of Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion | Brian Heater | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | null |
Is insurance a rich enough game to disrupt? | Martha Notaras | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | For the last decade, the largest technology companies have increasingly looked outside of tech to grow their operations. From automotive to retail to groceries, these companies use massive competitive advantages in the form of data, consumer relationships and software engineers to fundamentally change markets. Now, com... |
Samsung’s ‘Galaxy Watch’ trademark fuels speculation about a Wear OS device | Brian Heater | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | About Gear S4 (probably called Galaxy Watch) Based on Android Wear, 470mAh battery, PLP package, it is expected to have new UX interaction and blood pressure measurement. — Ice universe (@UniverseIce) |
WhatsApp now marks forwarded messages to curb the spread of deadly misinformation | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | WhatsApp just a new feature designed to help its users identify the origin of information that they receive in the messaging app. For the first time, a forwarded WhatsApp message will include an indicator that marks it as forwarded. It’s a small shift for the messaging platform, but potentially one that could make a ... |
In the public sector, algorithms need a conscience | Brian Brackeen | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | In a recent MIT Technology Review , author Virginia Eubanks discusses her book Automating Inequality. In it, she argues that the poor are the testing ground for new technology that increases inequality— highlighting that when algorithms are used in the process of determining eligibility for/allocation of social servic... |
SolarWinds acquires real-time threat-monitoring service Trusted Metrics | Frederic Lardinois | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | , the company behind tools like Pingdom, Papertrail, Loggly and a number of IT management tools, today announced it has acquired , a company that helps businesses monitor incoming threats to their networks and servers. This move follows SolarWinds’ of Loggly earlier this year. Among other things, Loggly also provi... |
Apple combines machine learning and Siri teams under Giannandrea | Matthew Panzarino | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | Apple is creating a new AI/ML team that brings together its Core ML and Siri teams under one leader in John Giannandrea. Apple confirmed this morning that the combined Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning team, which houses Siri, will be led by the recent hire, who this year after an , where he led the Machi... |
Tesla reaches deal to build electric vehicle factory in China | Kirsten Korosec | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | Tesla has reached a deal with the Shanghai government to build a factory capable of producing 500,000 electric vehicles a year. The factory would be the automaker’s second assembly plant and aimed at serving the alluring Chinese market. Tesla and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government announced Tuesday they had sig... |
My favorite summer toy is the GDP XD emulator | John Biggs | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | People ask me all the time about my favorite gadgets and I rarely have any answers. I’ve been playing with stuff since 2004 and I’m pretty gadget-ed out. But this year I’ve finally found something that I really enjoy: the , an Android-based gaming handheld that lets you play multiple emulators including an endless arr... |
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Ledger finally has a good app for its crypto wallet | Romain Dillet | 2,018 | 7 | 10 | French startup has been working for on a brand new app to manage your crypto assets on your computer. The company is designing and manufacturing one of the most secure hardware wallets out there. While it’s clear that security has always been the first focus of the company, the user experience has been lacking, esp... |
WhatsApp limits message forwarding in bid to reduce spam and misinformation | Jon Russell | 2,018 | 7 | 19 | In a bid to cut down on the spread of false information and spam, WhatsApp recently added labels that indicate when a message has been forwarded. Now the company is sharpening that strategy by imposing limits on how many groups a message can be sent on to. Originally, users could forward messages on to multiple groups,... |
AnyVision AI startup locks in $28M for its body and facial recognition tech | Lucas Matney | 2,018 | 7 | 19 | As image recognition advances continue to accelerate, startups with a mind towards security applications are seeing some major interest to turn surveillance systems more intelligent. is working on face, body and object recognition tech and the underlying system infrastructure to help companies deploy smart cameras for... |
Surprise! Top sites still fail at encouraging non-terrible passwords | Devin Coldewey | 2,018 | 7 | 19 | You would think that Amazon, Reddit, Wikipedia and other highly popular websites would by now tell you that “password1” or “hunter2” is a terrible password — just terrible. But they don’t. A research project that has kept tabs on the top sites and their password habits for the last 11 years shows that most provide only... |
Shared electric scooters probably won’t return to SF until August | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,018 | 7 | 19 | The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency is still reviewing the 12 applications from companies to operate electric scooters in the city. In early June, . San Francisco’s permit process came as a result of Bird, Lime and deploying their electric scooters without permission in the city in March. As part of a n... |
Public shareholders got high today on Tilray, the first marijuana company to IPO on Nasdaq | Connie Loizos | 2,018 | 7 | 19 | , a five-year-old, British Columbia-based medical cannabis company that sells its products to patients, researchers, pharmacies and even governments, saw its shares get high (sorry) on the Nasdaq today, after the company priced 9 million shares at $17 apiece and watched them soar, closing at $22.39, a jump of slightly ... |
Disney to debut its first VR short next month | Sarah Wells | 2,018 | 7 | 19 | Walt Disney Animation Studio is set to debut its first VR short film, Cycles, this August in Vancouver, announced today. The plan is for it to be a headliner at the ACM’s computer graphics conference (SIGGRAPH), joining other forms of VR, AR and MR entertainment in the conference’s designated . This film is a first f... |
Farfetch acquires CuriosityChina to expand its social media efforts on the mainland | Ingrid Lunden | 2,018 | 7 | 19 | — the e-commerce startup that works with some 900 high-end fashion boutiques and labels to present and sell clothes, shoes, accessories and jewelry online, and we and have heard is gearing up for a $6 billion IPO — is making an acquisition to double down on China, one of the fastest-growing markets for luxury goods.... |
Jido Maps is building a ‘save button’ for persistent AR worlds | Lucas Matney | 2,018 | 7 | 19 | Augmented reality tech is in this incredibly weird position where it has the world’s biggest tech companies cheerleading consumer-facing products highlighting it but there are some very base issues that haven’t been solved yet. , which just graduated from Y Combinator’s most recent class, is another startup aiming to d... |
Autonomous trucking startup Embark lands $30 million in funding | Kirsten Korosec | 2,018 | 7 | 19 | Embark Trucks has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital in its bid to be the first to develop and launch a commercially viable driverless truck. Sequoia partner Pat Grady has joined Embark’s board. Existing investors including Data Collective, YCombinator, SV Angel and AME Cloud also par... |
UK government panel issues inconclusive Huawei security report | Brian Heater | 2,018 | 7 | 19 | null |
Update: Walmart acquiring Shopify is no longer a laughable idea | Sujay Seetharaman | 2,018 | 7 | 19 | As competition between Walmart and Amazon intensifies, the acquisition of Shopify’s merchant marketplace may be the boost that the Walton family’s juggernaut needs to move ahead. In May this year, Amazon published its in which it disclosed there are 20,000 small and medium-sized businesses that make a million dollars... |
Disney’s streaming service is resurrecting ‘The Clone Wars’ | Anthony Ha | 2,018 | 7 | 19 | Star Wars: The Clone Wars, an animated series that ran on Cartoon Network for five seasons, is coming back. Created by George Lucas and overseen by Dave Filoni, the show depicted the adventures of Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, as well as new characters like Ahsoka Tano, during the titular Clone Wars. Fans praised i... |
Why self-regulation is better than legislative regulation | Yale Fox | 2,018 | 7 | 19 | We are moving toward a society controlled by algorithms, but very few of us actually understand how they work. This asymmetry of information is a recipe for disaster. Case in point: Recently in the U.K., an put the lives of 450,000 woman at risk through a technical error that inhibited their ability to detect breast ... |
Yelp partners with event management startup Gather to make planning your next party easier | Sarah Wells | 2,018 | 7 | 19 | Event management software company the introduction of its Gather Booking Network, and inaugural partners Yelp and EVENTup. The network is designed to help party goers, venues and event planners connect more easily and start celebrating sooner. Gather was founded in 2013 by CEO and co-founder Nick Miller, Alex Lassite... |
Last call for tickets to the TechCrunch Summer Party at August Capital | Emma Comeau | 2,018 | 7 | 19 | The is the stuff of Silicon Valley legend. We’re celebrating 13 years of libations and convivial conversation while toasting the entrepreneurial spirit on the deck at August Capital in Menlo Park on July 27. And we want you to join us. If you have not yet secured your ticket to this summer soiree, heed our call. We’v... |
Euro startup FlixBus expands its $10 bus service in California | Kirsten Korosec | 2,018 | 7 | 19 | , the low-cost bus service out of Europe, is doubling down on its U.S. launch. The parent company, FlixMobility, started cheap bus routes between Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix and Tucson just two months ago. Now it’s adding another 16 connections throughout central and northern California. as well as Nevada and Arizo... |
Microsoft caps off a fine fiscal year seemingly without any major missteps in its last quarter | Matthew Lynley | 2,018 | 7 | 19 | Microsoft is capping off a rather impressive year without any major missteps in its final report for its performance in its 2018 fiscal year, posting a quarter that seems to have been largely non-offensive to Wall Street. In the past year, Microsoft’s stock has gone up more than 40 percent. In the past two years, it’s ... |
That $20 Wyze Cam now works with Alexa | Brian Heater | 2,018 | 7 | 19 | null |
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