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Instagrammers really want you to turn on notifications to avoid death by algorithm | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 3 | 28 | Instagram today is an endless sea of meaningless posts asking you to turn on post notifications for each account you follow. Brands and professional Instagrammers are worried that they are going to disappear from your Instagram feed once the company turns on its . We’ve been here before. When Vine or YouTube switched ... |
Pay celebs to text or video message you with TipTalk | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 3 | 28 | It has never been worth it for celebrities to respond to their endless digital fan mail — until now. lets them set a price for a private text, photo or video response. The idea is that in their downtime, they could forge deeper relationships with their audience while earning enough to warrant at least a few seconds o... |
5 hard questions facing Oculus Rift | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 3 | 28 | Today, the future became the present with the launch of Oculus Rift. The are in, but uncertainty hangs overhead with HTC and PlayStation’s VR headsets still on the way. Here are the tough questions that will determine what you should buy, the distribution of power between the platforms and VR’s effect on our lives. |
Live streaming app Periscope touts 200 million broadcasts in its first year | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 3 | 28 | . A key player in the shift to mobile live streaming, the Twitter-owned service its first year online. The company also revealed a few metrics indicating how quickly it had grown in the time since its March 2015 debut, noting that its users had created more than 200 million broadcasts on its network. In addition, it ... |
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Windows users finally have a good BitTorrent client | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 3 | 28 | Popular OS X and Linux BitTorrent client is coming to Windows. It’s not quite ready for prime time — spotted the first Windows build on the — but it’s already better than any other Windows BitTorrent client out there. This isn’t the first build for Windows, as there was an unofficial Windows build under the name ... |
Kuvée raises $6 million for smart wine bottles | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 3 | 28 | [polldaddy poll=9364906] |
Kanye West releases a track from new album to Apple Music & others, after promising a Tidal exclusive | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 3 | 28 | Remember the chaos surrounding Kanye West’s release of his new album, “The Life of Pablo” last month? The artist had his album would be a Tidal exclusive, which drove fans to download the streaming music app in such great numbers that . Now, it appears West has changed his mind. He’s made one of the new songs from “... |
Tumblr brings back Replies, revamps Notes to encourage more conversations on its service | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 3 | 28 | Yahoo-owned blogging platform Tumblr this morning announced two changes to its service designed to encourage more conversations and increase engagement around posts and other content. The company is bringing back its Replies feature, removed several months ago, and it’s rolling out an updated Notes design that makes it... |
Vimeo’s new Roku app lets you buy movies and shows right from your TV | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 3 | 28 | Video network Vimeo has taken another step forward today with its efforts to better promote its original content – meaning those movies and programs available for rent or purchase on its network. Today, the company is making it possible for viewers to rent or buy films and series directly from their TV sets for the fir... |
Tru Optik aims to improve ad measurement for Internet-connected TVs | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 3 | 28 | Andre Swanston, CEO of , argued that there’s been one big obstacle to advertising on Internet-connected TVs — measurement. Naturally, Swanston is pitching Tru Optik’s technology as the solution. The company started out by measuring how video content gets shared through peer-to-peer file sharing, but has since expanded... |
The downfall of the walled garden: Here’s why iAd failed | Ragnar Kruse | 2,016 | 3 | 28 |
Apple is the world’s most valuable company — no other company even comes close. That shouldn’t be surprising, as the Silicon Valley-based company has created an unparalleled hardware culture that more resembles a lifestyle than a brand. Apple is potentially more than a trillion dollars, and has a staggering $155 bil... |
Foodpanda acquires Delivery.com’s Hong Kong business | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 3 | 17 | News of yet more movement among on-demand food startups: Rocket Internet-backed announced today that it has and will take over its operations there. Food delivery startups have popped up all over the world, but means that many will have to merge with rivals if they want to survive. Foodpanda’s announcement comes ... |
Launching at YC’s Demo Day, mRelief has a new tool to make public assistance more accessible | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 3 | 17 | the private sector in the U.S. complain about the inefficiencies of government, investors are beginning to marshall their resources to help solve the problem. No organization exemplifies that notion of harnessing private industry tools for public good more than , a non-profit launching in the latest Y-Combinator batc... |
Legaltech set to bail out legal services | Alexandra Isenegger | 2,016 | 3 | 17 |
We all remember the horrors that followed the failure of the subprime. All of a sudden, we faced a collapse of the entire financial system. Surrounded by bankruptcy and devastation, even the optimists struggled to see the light at the end of the tunnel. There was a bright side buried in the midst of all the chaos. Su... |
Microsoft launches first preview of its Edge browser with extension support | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 3 | 17 | https://youtu.be/hKAywBrQeAw Extension support has long been one of the weaker features in Microsoft’s browsers. With , the company now offers a new, more modern browser, and starting today, users who signed up for can try . This doesn’t come as a complete surprise, of course. Extensions were always on Microsoft’s ... |
Here’s why NASA is setting fire to a cargo ship in space | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 3 | 17 | Next Tuesday, Orbital ATK will launch their cargo vehicle to the International Space Station (ISS). Cygnus will bring the astronauts on station food, water, and a 3-D printer, among other supplies. Normally, after supplies are unloaded from Cygnus, the crew would fill the cargo ship with trash and send it back to Ear... |
How the ‘wonks’ of public policy and the ‘geeks’ of tech can get together | Lillian Ablon | 2,016 | 3 | 17 |
Technology innovates and disrupts, while public policy regulates and controls — at least according to conventional wisdom. The skirmish between Apple and the FBI is a prime example: Apple is refusing to allow policy to dictate how encryption should be included in products. It’s nearly impossible to ponder emerging re... |
Google could be selling Boston Dynamics because even Google thinks these robots are terrifying | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 3 | 17 | Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. isn’t happy with , its robotics subsidiary. According to a , Alphabet executives think that Boston Dynamics is unlikely to generate substantial revenue in the next few years and is hard to work with. Toyota or Amazon could be interested in acquiring Boston Dynamics for their manu... |
Automatic braking to be standard by 2022 | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 3 | 17 | The US (USDOT), (NHTSA) and (IIHS) announced today that by 2022, all new vehicles made by 20 manufacturers will have automatic emergency braking as standard equipment. The 20 automakers that are part of the agreement cover 99% of the US market for new vehicles. The list includes all the big names, like , , , ... |
Nextbit cancels CDMA version of Robin smartphone, issues refunds | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 3 | 17 | After already delaying the CDMA by a few months, Nextbit has decided to cancel the production of the CDMA Robin for Verizon and Sprint networks outright, reports. The company is now refunding Kickstarter backers and offering them a 25% discount on the GSM version should they choose to get one. “We were not sufficient... |
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Twitter kills TweetDeck for Windows, automates log-ins for TweetDeck users | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 3 | 17 | Twitter today that will make it easier for users who switch between its desktop application TweetDeck and its website, by no longer requiring users to log in to TweetDeck separately. That is, if users have the Twitter website open and are already logged in, they’ll be able to skip the log-in process on TweetDeck. Rel... |
US DOT and Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs aim to create new public transit and Wi-Fi networks | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 3 | 17 | The and have just announced a program called Flow that aims to create a monitoring and management system for public transportation. Sidewalk Labs, which is a subsidiary of Alphabet, has developed an analytics platform that cities can use to identify traffic-prone areas and parts of a city that are underserved by pub... |
Kanye West’s ‘The Life of Pablo’ is the first SaaS album | Tien Tzuo | 2,016 | 3 | 17 |
dropped a new album, . It’s not really finished yet – . In the technology industry, we would call a . That may sound like a pejorative term, but a minimum viable product is actually incredibly important. Only after it gets something out in the market can a business gather customer feedback and use this data to i... |
Nintendo’s first smartphone app, a social game called Miitomo, launches in Japan | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 3 | 17 | As Nintendo has launched its first mobile smartphone application – but it’s not a new Mario game, and the app is for now only available in Japan for the time being. Today, the company unveiled “ ,” a social app that lets users create cartoon-like avatars of themselves – like the “Miis” that Nintendo introduced with t... |
The REVL Arc is a 4K smart action camera with a built-in gimbal | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 3 | 17 | Part of the Y Combinator Winter 2016 class, just launched a smart action camera that solves the two worst things about action cams: shaky footage and a cumbersome editing process. Developed by ex-NASA, Sikorsky and HP engineers, the REVL Arc has a built-in motorized gimbal to keep the camera’s view level with the hor... |
Google: Defeating Go champion shows AI can ‘find solutions humans don’t see’ | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 3 | 17 | Much was written of last week when a Google-developed AI beat one of the planet’s most sophisticated players of Go, an East Asia strategy game renowned for its deep thinking and strategy. Go is viewed as one of the ultimate tests for an AI given the sheer possibilities on hand. “There are 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,00... |
Bumble launches contextual filters for profile pictures, starting with the 2016 presidential election | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 3 | 17 | Swipe-based dating is hard work. With hundreds of potential suitors to swipe through, most of us just take a few seconds to glance at a picture and bio before we decide if we’re going to swipe left or right. So, to help users quickly make an informed decision about which way to swipe, Bumble is taking a page from Snapc... |
Broadcaster Sky jumps into virtual reality, launches new content studio and readies VR app | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 3 | 17 | — a long-time investor in — has positioned itself as a more direct content player in the VR world. Today the company — which has 21 million subscribers and is majority owned by 21st Century Fox — launched , a production unit dedicated to creating immersive video content specifically for VR devices and platforms, st... |
Google’s GV leads $21M Series B in bioscience firm Cambridge Epigenetix | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 3 | 17 | VC firm GV (née Google Ventures) has made another investment in Europe — its seventh — leading a for epigenetic sequencing tech company and Cambridge University spin-out, . The U.K.-based bioscience company makes DNA modification analysis tools for epigenetics researchers — an emerging field of study which looks at ... |
Alibaba is working to bring virtual reality into its e-commerce services | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 3 | 17 | Alibaba has formally thrown its hat into the virtual reality ring after the Chinese e-commerce giant announced its own VR research lab, dubbed GnomeMagic Lab. , in a deal that put Alibaba vice chairman Joe Tsai on the board, and it has tinkered with 360 degree panoramic video for Youku Tudou — the Chinese video site it... |
Sources: India’s Flipkart in talks to raise up to $1B, likely in a down round | Pankaj Mishra | 2,016 | 3 | 10 | After years of raising hundreds of millions of dollars to tap into the burgeoning e-commerce market in India, one of the country’s biggest tech companies is facing a markdown in its valuation as it aims to pick up yet more investment. TechCrunch has learned from sources that is looking to raise up to $1 billion in fu... |
Ending patent wars will be a huge boon to the tech industry | Vivek Wadhwa | 2,016 | 3 | 10 |
Earlier this month, Apple suffered an important in its battle over patents with Samsung. It’s good because Apple’s claims were frivolous; its patents were questionable; and its use of litigation to hold back a competitor set another wrong precedent for the industry. Because of these patent wars and patent trolls, t... |
Apple and the Justice Department enter the ‘open hostilities’ phase of iPhone unlocking case | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 3 | 10 | A 43-page rebuttal from the Justice Department today characterized Apple’s earlier response to an iPhone unlocking request as “corrosive.” Shortly thereafter, an Apple press conference attended by TechCrunch provided a rejoinder from two Apple executives, including General Counsel Bruce Sewell, who said that “the tone ... |
Watch how easy it is for someone to hack your iPhone | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 3 | 10 | With all the hoopla surrounding the , it may surprise you how easy it is to hack into an iPhone. In this video, CEO Adi Sharabani demonstrated how simple it was to access my device. He also offered some tips for keeping your smartphone secure. |
New law changes the liquidity game for tech company founders, workers and investors | Josh Maher | 2,016 | 3 | 10 |
Late last year, Congress passed legislation that substantially improved the legal landscape for startups, early-stage companies and the stakeholders in the ecosystem. You might have read about, for example, Congress making permanent the 100 percent tax exclusion for sales of qualified small business stock held for mo... |
HPE’s Haven OnDemand developer platform hits commercial availability | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 3 | 10 | Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s machine learning-centric developer platform has been around since late 2014, but it’s only coming out of beta and becoming commercially available today. Haven OnDemand, which is , provides developers with APIs and services for building data-rich applications. The currently included in ... |
Fred Wilson to rep New York at Disrupt NY in May | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 3 | 10 | Fred Wilson is a name that needs no introduction, but we’re going to do it anyway. TechCrunch is excited to announce that Fred Wilson will be speaking at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, which goes down May 9 through May 11, in a fireside chat. Fred is a veteran at TechCrunch Disrupt New York, which makes sense given his c... |
My Uber driver apparently moonlights as an underground electronics dealer | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 3 | 10 | Have you ever been riding in an Uber and become suddenly overtaken by the immediate need for a new Android tablet or a ? Yeah, me neither. But that did’t stop an enterprising Uber driver from peddling his wares to me during a recent ride. I was presented with a laminated sales sheet for multiple electronics ranging fr... |
Wikipedia’s new iOS app focuses on discovery, personalization | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 3 | 10 | Wikipedia today launched an upgraded version of aimed at helping users better discover content matching their own interests, including both articles and images. In addition, the app has been optimized for Apple’s newer OS and latest iPhones (6s and 6s Plus) with support for 3D Touch and Spotlight Search integrations.... |
Yext sees $88.8 million revenue, 48% growth for location data | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 3 | 10 | Yext recently added Google to its PowerListings network, which means that clients can update their Google Search and Maps listings in real time. Yext can now update location data across 100 maps, apps, search engines and directories, including Apple, Facebook, Bing and Yahoo. Yext says it powers the data for more than ... |
Apple sends out invites for March 21 event, likely for new iPad and smaller iPhone | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 3 | 10 | Apple has just issued invites for its next press event on the Apple Campus in Cupertino. The event is going to happen on March 21. As usual, Apple wrote a cryptic message on its invites — “Let us loop you in.” The event has been rumored for weeks, and we already expect a few things. Rumor has it that Apple has been wor... |
On-demand massage startup Soothe raises $35 million | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 3 | 10 | , the on-demand massage service, just closed a $35 million Series B round from its pre-existing investors. This brings its total funding to $47.7 million. This puts Soothe even further ahead of its main competitor, Zeel, which has raised roughly $13.2 million to date. In September, . Soothe says the funding is for exp... |
UK surveillance powers bill could force startups to bake in backdoors | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 3 | 10 | While the court battle has drawn all eyes to the question of what should be considered ‘reasonable assistance’ for companies to provide law enforcement agencies, over in the UK the government is attempting to enshrine in law surveillance capabilities that would enable state agencies to compel even very small startups... |
SPLT brings ridesharing to you and your colleagues | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 3 | 10 | Uber and Lyft are all well and good, but for your everyday commute, it might be easier to catch a ride with a colleague instead. is trying to do just that, by bringing ridesharing to the corporate world. Originally launched in Detroit as part of , SPLT kicked off its expansion plans by launching in San Francisco thi... |
Now you can get on the standby list with concert subscription service Jukely | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 3 | 10 | Here’s a simple-but-handy-sounding update to — a standby list. For those of you who haven’t tried it, for $25 per month. (Some caveats: You can only be on one guest list at a time, and you have to pay extra if you want to bring a friend.) The goal is to make it easy for members to discover up-and-coming bands and s... |
Prosper Marketplace relaunches its BillGuard app under the Prosper brand | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 3 | 10 | Prosper Marketplace, the marketplace lender focused on refinancing and credit rehabilitation, has re-launched its app (acquired last September) under its own brand as . With the rebranding, the former BillGuard becomes Prosper’s first mobile app and is the company’s first beachhead into what chief executive Aaron Ve... |
Crowdsourced weather app, Sunshine, now lets users train it to their temperature tastes | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 3 | 10 | In a bid to stand out in the bustling weather app crowd, crowdsourced app is adding a new personalization feature — giving users the ability to specify how hot or cold the weather feels to them. The app then uses these subjective taps — on a super simple scale of “freezing” through to “hot” — to learn each user’s te... |
With SQL Server 2016, Microsoft focuses on speed, security and luring customers away from Oracle | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 3 | 10 | A few days ago, Microsoft shocked us when it that it would soon bring its SQL Server database to Linux. It’ll take until 2017 before SQL Server will be available on Linux, though. Until then, the company’s database focus remains squarely on the , which is currently available as a release candidate and which will bec... |
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Cola launches its app for smarter, more interactive text messages | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 3 | 10 | Do you sometimes get the feeling that you’re having a looooooong text conversation to accomplish some fairly simple planning? I’ve certainly had tedious back-and-forths where I’m trying to figure out when to meet with someone, and then where, and so on. That’s the problem that a startup called is looking to solve. I ... |
Zuckerberg Education Ventures backs learning assistant camera app Volley | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 3 | 10 | “This is so fast it feels like cheating” students tell lets students point their phone’s camera at a textbook page or piece of homework, and instantly see resources about key facts and tricky parts, prerequisites, and links to snippets of online classes or study guides that could help. But rather than manually cobble... |
Algorithmic feeds force us to compete | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 3 | 19 | pretty enough? Is that tweet funny enough? If not, they might not be seen now that Instagram and Twitter are moving to algorithmically sorted feeds. That could spell big problems for marketers and cause our social media lives to be more stressful. To make their apps more consistently interesting, especially for people... |
Sesame Workshop is looking for startups that help kids | Larry Alton | 2,016 | 3 | 19 |
, the organization that brought to life the beloved Sesame Street and countless other programs, has announced a new venture arm to invest in apps that help children develop. Working jointly with venture capital firm Collaborative Fund (which has funded companies like Lyft and AltSchool), Sesame Workshop has formed a ... |
NASA is sending a 3D printer to space that you can use | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 3 | 19 | NASA is preparing to send its first commercial manufacturing facility to the International Space Station (ISS). The 3D printing company has partnered with NASA to send their Additive Manufacturing Facility (AMF) to the space station on a launch scheduled to take place next Tuesday. Users on Earth can pay to use AMF, ... |
Why unicorns falter | Lance L. Smith | 2,016 | 3 | 19 |
In early February 2016, of financing deals reported by The Wall Street Journal found that investors are increasingly protecting themselves from IPOs that don’t perform as expected. This fallout is a continuation of the demise of the so-called “unicorn,” a tech startup with a pre-IPO valuation of over one billion do... |
Gillmor Gang: Botily Fluids | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 3 | 19 | The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, March 18, 2016. The Gang predicts an Echological intersection between bots and voice command, while binge viewers plan a surreal TV show in Cleveland. Plus, the latest G3 (below) with Halley Suitt Tucker, E... |
How real businesses are using machine learning | Lukas Biewald | 2,016 | 3 | 19 |
There is no question that machine learning is at the top of the And, of course, the backlash is already in full force: I’ve heard that old joke “Machine learning is like teenage sex; everyone is talking about it, no one is actually doing it” about 20 times in the past week alone. But from where I sit, running a com... |
Msg.ai’s Puneet Mehta on The Rise of AI, The Potential For Bots and Life As A Current YC Startup | Harry Stebbings | 2,016 | 3 | 19 |
Next week at YC Demo Day, venture capitalists and angel investors eager to speak with the founders of tomorrow’s technology companies today, will present an array of startups from the fields of artificial intelligence, virtual reality, consumer healthcare (just to name a few). As the 126 entrepreneurs in the latest b... |
Software security needs a new perspective | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 3 | 26 |
Source code bugs have been a constant in the software industry since the dawn of computers — and have ever been . Presently, with virtually every aspect of our lives and daily business becoming connected and dependent on software in one way or another, the potential destructiveness of software bugs has become orders... |
How Goguen’s Case Hurts Sequoia | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 3 | 19 | A week ago yesterday, we told you that longtime Sequoia partner Michael Goguen had been slapped with a . At its crux, it accused him of breaching an agreement he’d made to pay $40 million to a woman he’d known for years. Apparently, after paying her $10 million, Goguen concluded that he was within his rights to stop w... |
What will a driverless future actually look like? | Rob Toews | 2,016 | 3 | 19 |
There is a growing consensus that autonomous vehicles (AVs) will soon be a reality. The debate today centers not on whether, but how soon, AVs will be commonplace on our roads. But for all the buzz surrounding AVs, many details about what a driverless future will look like remain unclear. Which business models will w... |
Tech and policy can make Bill Gates’ ‘energy miracle’ a reality | Brandon Tinianov | 2,016 | 3 | 26 |
With icons like and using their powerful brands and personal convictions to turn the world’s focus toward the crisis of climate change and the long-lever arm of energy efficiency, it’s time for policy makers and practitioners to get serious about finding ways to take better care of our planet. In his most recent ... |
Why every household is about to get a brand-new fridge | Sephi Shapira | 2,016 | 3 | 26 |
Today’s retail economy is focused on acquisition and retention costs. Getting into people’s homes and turning them into long-term brand buyers is the goal, and appliance makers control an untapped resource — the Internet of Things (IoT) — that can effectively extend a brand or retailer’s supply chain visibility into ... |
E-books are more than just digital facsimiles, and publishers need to realize that, pronto | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 3 | 26 | , and its less popular e-reader brethren, are great for fiction, but trying to consume content that isn’t meant to be enjoyed from cover to cover is an exercise in annoyance, frustration and misery. That’s a shame, because it doesn’t have to be that way. Take travel books for example. When trekking across the globe, lu... |
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey hand-delivers first Rift VR headset to customer | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 3 | 26 | After months and years of anticipation, the first virtual reality headset has been delivered into a customer’s hands. was the very first person to get a pre-order in for the Rift when they opened in early January. — Ross Martin (@RossDM) As a celebratory gesture, Palmer Luckey flew to Alaska to hand-deliver a Rift... |
Gillmor Gang: No Flipping | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 3 | 26 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, March 25, 2016. The Gang floats on the border between virtual fiction and greater reality. Plus, the latest G3 (below) with Mary Hodder, Rebecca Woodcock, Francine Hardaway, and Tina Chase Gillmor. @ste... |
What life science investors got right in this most recent boom | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 3 | 26 | It’s long been the case that life sciences investors don’t get the attention that their more traditional tech counterparts do. They’re underrepresented on in venture capital. They’re also remarkably underfunded, according to institutional investors (or limited partners) who back venture firms. It’s the “life sciences... |
Oakland-based art and tech studio 💾🌵 takes critical look at A.I. | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 3 | 26 | as advanced as you may think. In the last couple of months, Microsoft has had a couple of failed attempts with artificial intelligence. The first involved an image recognition app called Fetch!, which looks at photos of dogs to identify its breed. People, of course, started to use the app to determine what breed of do... |
Virtual currencies create pathways for people in emerging economies | Paul Nelson | 2,016 | 3 | 26 |
Immense hype surrounds virtual currencies and distributed ledgers these days. Maybe this is inevitable if you combine an inscrutable, cutting-edge technology, its enigmatic origins, and a flow of $1 billion in venture funding thus far. But will these technologies create pathways for people in emerging economies to ac... |
This war on math is still bullshit | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 3 | 26 | In the wake of Paris, San Bernardino, and now Brussels, the encryption debate has become such a potent cocktail of horror, idiocy, and farce that it has become hard to tease out any rational threads of discussion. There is so much stupidity that I hardly know where to begin; but let’s start with the farce. Everybody lo... |
Whill receives FDA approval for the Model M, its new mobility device | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 3 | 21 | Japanese startup ’s Model M, a motorized wheelchair alternative, has received clearance from the Food and Drug Administration in the United States. This means that the Model M can now be prescribed by physicians as a medical device and covered by insurance. Whill has raised about $12.85 million in funding so far from ... |
Tech legend and former Intel CEO Andy Grove passes away aged 79 | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 3 | 21 | The world has lost a true technology legend after Andy Grove, the former CEO and chairman of Intel, passed away aged 79. Grove had suffered Parkinson’s disease, but the cause of death has not been made public at this point. Grove was the first hire at Intel, having worked with Intel founder Gordon Moore (of fame) at ... |
Malaysia-based RecomN, which helps customers find providers for important projects, raises $1M | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 3 | 21 | Malaysian startup RecomN’s team , a platform that helps Malaysian and Indonesian users find service providers for important projects, will enter new Southeast Asian markets after raising $1 million in seed funding from Gobi Partners. The company was launched in July 2014 and inspired by expensive mishaps experienced by... |
Ed-tech startup BYJU raises $75M from Sequoia India and Sofina | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 3 | 21 | , an educational app for Indian schoolkids, plans to create new learning formats and products after raising $75 million from Sequoia India and Sofina. The company, which has now raised a total of $90 million, was founded as an online education platform in 2011 and launched its app six months ago. BYJU claims it has alr... |
Find runway fashions with these apps | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 3 | 21 | Spring is here, which means it’s time to put away those coats and get out those dresses. But is your wardrobe still in style? Fashionistas, take note. These apps will help you find the latest styles. Moda Operandi Straight from fashion week, Moda Operandi makes it easy to shop the runway on its iPhone app. The team c... |
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Face-plant into this airplane tray table pillow | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 3 | 21 | You don’t have to be a circus freak contortionist to sleep on a plane thanks to . Now you can dive face-first into an inflatable travel pillow that’s made to sit atop your tray table. and plans to ship in July. Most travel pillows sit behind your head or around your neck. But when you’re sitting upright, that makes ... |
First look at the new smaller iPad Pro | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,016 | 3 | 21 | Today was a pretty small news day for Apple. In part, because the announcements were largely iterations on existing products. But, also because the rumors about Apple’s hardware getting smaller were indeed true. The most notable downsized-device was the iPhone SE ( ) but for designers, artist, or just fans of the App... |
The major pitfall for digital health startups | Min-Sung Sean Kim | 2,016 | 3 | 21 |
While 2015 was a solid year for digital health, , healthcare startups also made headlines for other reasons when reports emerged that much-hyped companies like blood-testing startup and brain-training app were unable to prove the accuracy and effectiveness of their products. Like Beth Seidenberg from KPCB , digit... |
Spectral Edge wants to drive its infrared photo-enhancing tech into every smartphone | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 3 | 21 | Smartphone cameras are so good these days it can seem almost churlish to yearn for improvements. And yet enhancements continue to shave away at imperfections as engineers turn the screw to optimize multiple aspects of image capture hardware and software. To wit: U.K. based startup has developed a mathematical techniq... |
Castle is a drag-and-drop account takeover protection solution | Nitish Kulkarni | 2,016 | 3 | 21 | You probably have your credit card and other payment information keyed into at least 10 different services right now, all of which are likely based over a mobile app or website. For a long time, the effective user detection has been the preserve of large payment providers and web services — take or Google’s service a... |
FBI says it might not need Apple’s help unlocking that iPhone after all, asks to postpone hearing (UPDATE: Postponed!) | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 3 | 21 | Just one day before the government was set to meet Apple in court to determine whether Apple could be forced to unlock an encrypted iPhone used by terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook, the government is saying “Never mind (for now)!” Why? Because they might’ve found their own way in. “On Sunday, March 20, 2016, an outside part... |
Almost everyone is doing the API economy wrong | Ed Anuff | 2,016 | 3 | 21 |
It’s time to hold companies to a higher standard when it comes to APIs. As software “eats the world,” it seems like it’s not enough for a business to just serve its customers and hopefully make a profit, they also have to be “platforms” — and, as any developer would respond, these days you just can’t be a platform wi... |
Apple’s keynote diversity scorecard | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 3 | 21 | Apple held a special event today, , update to Apple TV, new Watch bands, ResearchKit and Carekit. Unlike its last event, , this event prominently featured Apple Vice President of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives Lisa Jackson as the second speaker, right after Apple CEO Tim Cook. AND a POC — Allen Tan (@tea... |
Apple launches CareKit to create health apps | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 3 | 21 | With help from top medical institutions including UCSF, Johns Hopkins and Stanford School of Medicine, CareKit can help individuals track treatment progress and communicate it to a physician or family members. Apple says the platform can be used to monitor symptoms and keep tabs on a medication schedule. Other use case... |
A VC in Greece on operating in tumultuous times | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 3 | 21 | Georgios Kasselakis has the same concerns as most VCs: How to raise money, how to grow the money investors provide him, how to identify the most promising startups. Unlike most VCs, Kasselakis and his seed-stage firm, , are based in Athens, Greece, a country that’s nearly bankrupt and where, even worse, more than ar... |
Apple, the social enterprise | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 3 | 21 | Today’s Apple press conference had an unusual start. The company usually starts by releasing a few vanity numbers — iOS devices sold, apps in the App Store, iOS adoption rate, etc. But today was different. Apple spent around a third of the keynote talking about , , and . The message is clear — Apple is the good guy.... |
The entry-level price for the Apple Watch is dropping to $299 | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 3 | 21 | While the Apple Watch isn’t the focus of the company’s press event, executives did offer some updates — they , and they also announced a new entry-level price of $299. Now, if you wanted to get an Apple Watch for less than , you could already do so thanks to . This, however, marks a $50 reduction in the company’s o... |
Apple unveils a smaller iPad Pro, Apple’s vision of the future of computers | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 3 | 21 | Apple just the successor to the iPad Air 2 during its . This isn’t a new iPad Air, it’s a smaller iPad Pro. And the company is calling it iPad Pro. “We believe that iPad is the perfect expression of the future of computing,” Tim Cook said on stage before Phil Schiller introduced the new iPad. The iPad Air 2 was rele... |
iOS 9.3 is available for download today | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 3 | 21 | Apple’s Greg Joswiak revealed at the company’s “Let us loop you in” event in Cupertino that iOS 9.3 would be available for download beginning today. Joswiak called the free update “one of the biggest ‘dot’ releases yet.” With iOS 9.3, users can now enable Night Shift mode to make their iOS device’s display easier on th... |
Apple TV gets support for folders, dictation and Live Photos | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 3 | 21 | Apple today announced a couple of updates for its Apple TV platform, including support for folders, dictation, Live Photos in the iCloud Photo library and Siri support in the App Store. In addition, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced there are now 5,000 apps available for the Apple TV. He singled out a few apps, including Br... |
Justice Department appeals pro-Apple decision in New York iPhone case | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 3 | 7 | Authorities in New York have taken the first step to appealing that denied a request for information held on an iPhone. Apple successfully appealed the order on the grounds that it relied on an expanded interpretation of the All Writs Act (AWA) — the same act, passed in its current form more than 100 years ago, that ... |
Hero unveils a new home gadget to help you track and dispense pills | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 3 | 7 | A New York City startup called plans to replace those with a high-tech home appliance. As demonstrated for me by the Hero team, it’s easy to load your medicines, vitamins and other health supplements into the machine, then indicate the dosage you’ll need and when you’re supposed to take it. Once you’re all set up, ... |
Social media analytics service Crimson Hexagon raises $20M | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 3 | 7 | is announcing that it has raised $20 million in additional equity funding. Founded in 2007, the Boston-headquartered company helps brands and ad agencies track conversations across social media. It says its customer base has grown by more than 75 percent in the last 12 months and now has 10,000 active users. Customer... |
Run away from reality with the Virtuix Omni | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 3 | 7 | The only thing constraining me in virtual reality was my couch potato bod and a crippling realization that footage of me using the device would live forever on the web. This is life with the , a $699 device that allows you to walk through virtual reality while wearing a VR headset. This isn’t as radical an idea as i... |
Combating the cybersecurity job crunch | Mark Painter | 2,016 | 3 | 7 |
There is a looming crisis in information security that will necessitate that businesses change how they manage their security efforts. While there will always be new attacks and methodologies with which to contend, it’s the growing shortage of skilled cybersecurity resources that is poised to cause enterprises hearta... |
Virginia’s governor just signed the nation’s first daily fantasy sports law | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 3 | 7 | Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe just signed into law the “Fantasy Contests Act,” which is a legal framework for fantasy sports providers that operate in the state. The bill, which by the Virginia legislature a few weeks ago, makes Virginia the first state in the nation to impose state-led oversight of the industry. ... |
Gillmor Gang: Trumpty Dumpty | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 3 | 7 | The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Saturday, March 5, 2016. The Gang goes full tilt boogie on the Republican race to the bottom with Trump in the driver seat. In the real time race, Twitter has the nomination locked up, with the mainstream media sin... |
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