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Facebook Alive | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 4 | 12 | down, you never grow old.” Tom Petty isn’t playing the F8 after-party, but his song encapsulates the point of Facebook’s conference — a social network won’t go extinct if it’s reactive, personalized, and urgent. Everything launched today is designed to eschew the generic. To wrap around the user and bend to their whim... |
Salesforce and Zendesk want to help brands manage Facebook Messenger traffic | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 4 | 12 | No sooner had Facebook announced when two players with an eye on sales and service in the enterprise — and — announced new products to manage Messenger traffic on their respective platforms. Salesforce , a way for customers to communicate directly with brands through the Salesforce platform. As an example, a per... |
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Testlio raises $6.25M to expand its testing-as-a-service empire | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 4 | 12 | Mobile testing startup today announced it raised a $6.25 million round of funding led by and . The company is aiming to make it easy to do QA for mobile app developers on a variety of devices in a variety of circumstances. The company also plans to move beyond purely mobile testing. Testlio can be best seen as a m... |
Facebook launches video Rights Manager to combat freebooting | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 4 | 12 | There’s an epidemic of stolen videos on Facebook. Business Pages rip videos from YouTube, TV or other Pages, and then post them on Facebook as their own to gain more engagement and fans. This is known as “freebooting.” Video makers were pissed off about it because they were losing video views to others who didn’t have ... |
Uber shared 14 million users’ info with the government, transparency report says | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 4 | 12 | Uber released its first-ever today, following in the footsteps of other major technology companies and detailing the kinds of information it shares about riders and drivers with the U.S. government. Between July and December 2015, Uber disclosed information about 14 million users to law enforcement and regulatory age... |
Habito is another London startup aiming for a slice of U.K.’s lucrative mortgage market | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 4 | 12 | A little over two months since Trussle for picking up £1.1 million in funding from , the new VC fund from father and son duo Robin and Saul Klein, and another London startup has launched to take aim at the U.K.’s multi-billion pound mortgage market. , founded by Daniel Hegarty, pitches itself as the U.K.’s “first di... |
Facebook starts allowing “Sponsored Messages” ads | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 4 | 12 | Facebook launched its today, but how will it make money on it? By charging businesses to send re-engagement messages to people who’ve already voluntarily started a conversation with them. These are currently in testing, with a small test of advertisers, and are being heavily monitored by Facebook to prevent them ge... |
The era of AI-human hybrid intelligence | Robert Dale | 2,016 | 4 | 12 | |
NASA selects 13 early-stage, high-concept moonshots for $100K funding each | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 12 | Ah, spring — when a young engineer’s fancy lightly turns to harvesting icy moons for rover fuel. NASA has announced the recipients of its yearly National Innovative Advanced Concepts awards, and they’re just as out there as the planets and other stellar objects they propose to mine, analyze and explore. There are 13 pr... |
New study shows women in tech ask for less — and receive it | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 4 | 12 | According to a published by the data science team at , a jobs marketplace for tech workers, the average female candidate sets her expected salary at $14,000 less than men. Related or not, 69 percent of the time, men receive higher salary offers than women for the same job title at the same company. (On average, empl... |
Facebook lets users record Facebook profile videos in third-party apps | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 4 | 12 | Facebook today launched the , which gives third-party developers a way to publish videos recorded on their apps as profile pictures on Facebook. The service was announced at the company’s annual developer conference, f8, in San Francisco today. Videos that are recorded on third-party services can now be used as profil... |
Bigelow Aerospace partners with ULA to launch private space habitats | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 4 | 13 | Through a new partnership this week, United Launch Alliance (ULA) will work with Bigelow Aerospace to launch a large inflatable habitat on an Atlas V rocket in 2020. The size of the habitat will be based off of Bigelow’s B330 module, which is named for its total expanded volume of 330 cubic meters. Illustration of B3... |
Gestigon and Renault know if you’re ready to take the wheel | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 4 | 13 | Between the current advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and the future, the completely autonomous car rests in some potentially treacherous semi-autonomous territory. has enlisted the help of gesture-control experts at to help ease the transition from vehicles taking care of driving tasks to humans taking ove... |
Interim guidelines to the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act | Jason R. Edgecombe | 2,016 | 4 | 13 |
Despite the objections of , the (CISA) is now the law of the land. Slipped into the 2016 federal omnibus spending bill, CISA permits private entities to share about cyberthreat indicators (CTIs) and defensive measures against cyber attacks, both with each other and with the federal government. The purported goa... |
Obama appoints tech veterans from Microsoft and Uber to cybersecurity commission | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 13 | President Obama has just to the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity — and it’s more or less what you’d expect: higher-ups from the big players in tech, plus some academics and the former director of the NSA. Wait, what? Yes, General Keith Alexander (Retired), who headed the NSA during the enormous expansio... |
PayPal Credit expands to the UK with an interest-free option for purchases over £150 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 4 | 13 | After separating from eBay, PayPal has been on a march to grow both its international business and transactions beyond basic e-commerce. Today it is taking a step to do both, with the U.K. launch of — a service that lets consumers use their PayPal accounts to spread out online payments for goods as a replacement for ... |
Burr-Feinstein encryption bill is officially here in all its scary glory | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 4 | 13 | Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein released the official version of their anti-encryption bill today after a appeared online last week. The bill, titled the , would require tech firms to decrypt customers’ data at a court’s request. The Burr-Feinstein proposal has already faced heavy criticism from the tech ... |
Facebook’s new chatbots still need work | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 4 | 13 | Facebook debuted this week to much fanfare, over the company’s popular messaging service. The idea is that Messenger users could simply “chat” with these automated software programs to do things like read the latest news from CNN, get a weather report or even go shopping. In practice, however, the bots — at least a... |
Ohio State’s woven-in antennas take us one step closer to smart jeans | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 13 | Wearables may be the next big thing, but what about the wearables we already wear? Integrating electronics into everyday clothes is still some distance off, but have taken an important step: weaving circuits into clothes with enough precision to integrate them with ordinary PCBs. “For the first time, we’ve achieved t... |
Airbnb’s VP of engineering on the sharing economy | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 4 | 13 | The sharing economy, which is sometimes referred to as collaborative consumption, has become a household term — at least in the tech industry — that signifies peer-to-peer exchanges through technology. “The fact that there are so many terms going around these things is almost a function of the fact the industry is so... |
Journalist Matthew Keys sentenced to 2 years in hacking case | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 4 | 13 | Former Reuters journalist Matthew Keys was today to two years in prison on hacking charges. He faced a maximum sentence of 25 years. During his sentencing hearing, Keys , “This whole process has been exhausting.” Keys was last October of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), in a bizarre case that led... |
House committee votes unanimously for Email Privacy Act | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 4 | 13 | Maybe you’ve delighted in reading some of Hillary Clinton’s more humorous emails, released in several stages over the past year — there’s the one where she calls Harriet Tubman her “home girl,” or the time she jokes about Chinese hackers messing with her contacts. But imagine someone digging into your old emails and re... |
Threaded messaging is coming to Slack | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 4 | 13 | Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield said threaded messaging — perhaps one of the service’s most important missing components — is finally coming. Butterfield told Mossberg that Slack had been using threading internally for months while testing what the best version of the tool would be for the service, which will hopefully c... |
Vine releases a Watch button because scrolling is too much work | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 4 | 13 | , Twitter’s social network turned entertainment platform, is today a new way to consume content on the app. The company is introducing a “Watch” button, which will let users watch a particular channel or account without needing to scroll. When a user presses the watch button on a certain account or channel, videos in... |
Veteran Apple designer leaves for GoPro to be VP of Design | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 4 | 13 | Longtime Apple industrial designer Danny Coster is joining GoPro. Coster had worked at Apple since the early 1990s, and helped Apple re-establish itself after Steve Jobs returned. Now he has to do that to GoPro. GoPro’s stock popped on the news and is trading up on the day. The news comes from and an internal email s... |
Facebook will soon be able to automatically tag your friends in videos | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 4 | 13 | Facebook is making big strides in using its artificial intelligence systems for image recognition, but it’s also working on bringing this technology to video. As the company demoed at its F8 developer conference in San Francisco today, it has a team working on automatically tagging people in videos. As Facebook’s direc... |
Regina Dugan exits Google to lead Facebook’s Building 8, a new R&D lab | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 4 | 13 | Talent wars may never cease in Silicon Valley. Facebook today announced it has hired former Google vice president of advanced technology and projects, Regina Dugan, to head up a new group dubbed Building 8. According to a company statement, Dr. Dugan’s department will combine R&D with product development, and focus on ... |
Legal health isn’t easy for digital health companies | Samuel Waxman | 2,016 | 4 | 13 |
With the recent announcement of the , an open-source platform to simplify the development of healthcare apps for iOS devices, it appears that the digital health industry is primed to become even more robust in 2016. Over the past year, digital health companies raised about $4.5 billion in funding. There were 302 fin... |
Android N Developer Preview 2 hits with Vulkan, shortcuts, less-generic emoji | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 13 | Developers, start your fastboots! for OTA updates or manual flashing. This update brings a mixed bag of features and fixes. Vulkan, from Khronos Group, makers of OpenGL and that family of standards, is now part of the package. Expect boosts in benchmarks as CPU-bound processes shift over to the GPU. Instructions on ... |
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Facebook’s Terragraph and ARIES antennas bring Internet to underserved areas | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 4 | 13 | Probably the most impressive of Facebook’s is its solar-powered for enabling Internet access in remote areas. But while the technology behind Aquila is impressive, more traditional terrestrial connectivity systems are often still more practical. Today, two new connectivity projects at its , Terragraph and Projec... |
Regulators plan to revoke Theranos’ federal license and ban founder Elizabeth Holmes | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 4 | 13 | Theranos might find itself homeless soon. A federal agency plans to force founder Elizabeth Holmes out of her blood analysis startup for two years and take away the California lab’s federal license. First reported in the , the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sent a proposing sanctions barring Holmes and c... |
What bubble? VCs spent $12 billion on startups in first quarter | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 4 | 14 | Investment dollars were flat compared to the $12 billion invested in the fourth quarter of last year. It was also the ninth consecutive quarter that saw deal volume reach $10 billion. Yet the money was flowing to more experienced startups, with early stage investment declining 18% in volume compared to the previous qua... |
Jeremy Guillory, who says he was ousted as Cruise co-founder, files counter-complaint | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 4 | 14 | A strange new battle over valuable startup equity took another step forward late this afternoon. Jeremy Guillory, a Bay Area mechanical engineer, has against 2.5-year-old Cruise Automation and its longtime CEO, Kyle Vogt. At issue: Guillory says that the self-driving car company — which developed an autopilot system ... |
Shuddle, the Uber-like service for getting your kids around, is shutting down tomorrow | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 4 | 14 | If you’re a fan of Shuddle’s Uber-style driving service for getting your kids to school/playdates/etc., bad news: they’re shutting (shudding?) the doors tomorrow. Shuddle’s main pitch point was their focus on safety: They did intense background checks on drivers, monitored drivers to ensure they stayed on route and did... |
Beacon, the all-you-can-fly travel startup, closes shop | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 4 | 14 | Another tech startup seeking to transform aviation has closed its doors. sought to bring an all-you-can-fly option to business and leisure travelers starting on the East coast. The company’s approach was to charge membership fees, handle customers at the gate with a white-glove service and partner with regional aviat... |
Women in tech: What’s the real problem? | June Sugiyama | 2,016 | 4 | 14 |
In my 20-plus years in tech, and now in Silicon Valley as part of a tech foundation that supports innovations, I’ve had the opportunity to partner with many entrepreneurs and help foster the growth of dozens of startups for social good. As a woman, the fact that I’m still working in tech, and in a leadership position... |
Teslaphoresis-activated self-assembling carbon nanotubes look even cooler than they sound | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 14 | Not all important scientific research is cool looking, or has a cool name. But now and then you get something with both. These are created with a process called Teslaphoresis. If you’ve read a more impressive-sounding sentence today, I’d like to hear it. Even the lab of Rice University chemist Paul Cherukuri looks li... |
Magic Pony’s neural network dreams up new imagery to expand an existing picture | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 14 | The source image on the left was used to generate the one on the right. A British startup is using the unique abilities of convolutional neural networks to do a sort of scaled-up version of Adobe’s content-aware fill — but instead of filling in the gaps in a picture, it’s imagining a whole new picture, larger and more ... |
Gary Vaynerchuk on why he’s betting on Facebook Live, Snapchat and Musical.ly | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 4 | 14 | Seasoned entrepreneur and digital strategist Gary Vaynerchuk sat down with TechCrunch to talk about his new book, . An in Facebook, Twitter, Uber and Tumblr, Vaynerchuk also advises Fortune 500 companies on their social media ad spend with his company, Vaynerchuk tells us that just because an entrepreneur raises m... |
Sorted offers a new take on the standard To Do list app | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 4 | 14 | A new application called launches today to offer a better, faster and more efficient way to manage your tasks via your mobile phone. Yes, it’s To Do list application. Do we really need such a thing? The answer to that question may be subjective, but a small team of developers in Hong Kong believes there’s room for ... |
From recording to reacting: Neural networks are changing notions of surveillance | Jack Dashwood | 2,016 | 4 | 14 |
There are an estimated 30 million surveillance cameras in the U.S. today. Out of these 30 million cameras, only 5 percent are monitored by a human at any given time. Instead, the majority of them are simply recording footage, providing little value other than evidence long after any kind of crime or accident has occu... |
Angel investors hope to find the best and brightest in Cuba’s emerging tech scene | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 4 | 14 | President Obama’s bold new course on Cuban policy is paving the way for emerging tech to blossom in the country. A new entrepreneurial competition, , hopes to uncover Cuba’s best and brightest tech minds with an offer of mentorship and potential financing. The idea is to prevent brain drain and help boost Cuba’s econo... |
Google now lets you design custom cases for your Nexus phones | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 4 | 14 | Google is a new service today that allows you to create $35 custom cases for its Nexus 5X, 6 and 6P phones. You can choose between two variations of the One allows you to pick any photo and . The lets you design and print a stylized map with the help of Google Maps. Both variations allow you to select a couple o... |
GoPro’s developer program aims to connect its cameras to cars, toys and apps | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 14 | GoPro on Thursday very quietly , by which it hopes to get its action cameras hooked into as many third-party devices, vehicles and services as possible. The program was announced at a private event in San Francisco, where it showed off the fruits of various partnerships. The announced earlier this year is an example... |
Amazon eyed up Everlane, Le Tote and more for acquisition in a wider fashion push | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 4 | 14 | has been focusing attention on areas like media streaming, its faster delivery and pickup services, hardware and enterprise via AWS. But it’s also making an effort to reboot one of the more legacy parts of its business: fashion. TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources that the e-commerce giant has considered buyi... |
Dinner Lab shuts down after failing to find a sustainable business model | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 4 | 14 | After laying off staff in December as it shifted business models to find a sustainable operation, Dinner Lab has officially shut down, . Dinner Lab, like many startups, is facing a challenging environment for startups that lately have to find their way to profitability instead of simply fund operations with venture ca... |
Microsoft sues Justice Department for transparency in government data searches | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 4 | 14 | Microsoft sued the Justice Department today, challenging the constitutionality of the gag orders issued by the government that prevent tech companies from informing their customers when their data is accessed as part of an investigation. challenges a provision in the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) that a... |
Instagram launches personalized video feed and themed channels in Explore | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 4 | 14 | Instagram wants to show you the best videos without completely destroying the sanctity of your main feed, so today it with a slew of new video channels. Most importantly, there’s a personalized “Videos You Might Like” feed that draws from across the network. There’s also themed, hand-curated channels, like one for Co... |
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code for Windows, OS X and Linux hits 1.0 | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 4 | 14 | (VS Code), Microsoft’s text editor for developers, hit version 1.0 after about a year in beta. The company says more than 500,000 developers now actively use the application each month. The launch of VS Code came as quite a surprise when the company it at its Build developer conference last year. Microsoft, afte... |
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Review: HTC 10 is solid, but consumers need to be convinced | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 4 | 14 | T But, it has been a while since I was excited to review an HTC device. This wasn’t a purely subjective feeling. A year ago, HTC launched the One M9, and it was reported to be a decidedly mediocre device across the board; it almost felt like an afterthought. Now, with the HTC 10, the problem is no longer, “can HTC make... |
Tech’s new diversity leaders explain how they plan to fix sexism and racism in the industry | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 4 | 22 | Tech’s freshman class of diversity and inclusion leaders gathered at Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Within the last six months, Dropbox, Pinterest, Airbnb, Twitter and Intuit have all hired employees charged with correcting their diversity problems. At Jackson’s conference, intended to increase diversity in tech, those newly mi... |
CERN releases 300TB of Large Hadron Collider data into open access | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 22 | Cancel your plans for this weekend! CERN just dropped 300 terabytes of hot collider data on the world and you know you want to take a look. Kati Lassila-Perini, a physicist who works on the (!) detector, gave a refreshingly straightforward explanation for this huge release. “Once we’ve exhausted our exploration of th... |
Tip your Uber driver | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 22 | Don’t argue, just do it. Uber doesn’t include any kind of gratuity in the cost of your ride. And it doesn’t just pay drivers more to make up for that. The company implied that it did by saying there was no to tip, and by simply not including the option to tip. The narrative is predicated on a deliberate omission. No... |
NASA invests $67 million into solar electric propulsion for deep space exploration | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 4 | 22 | NASA has selected for a $67 million contract to develop an advanced Solar Electric Propulsion (SEP) system for future deep-space missions. In a press release, NASA that the propulsion system could be used on robotic missions to an asteroid and in other missions related to their program. Compared to chemical propu... |
How IoT security can benefit from machine learning | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 4 | 22 |
Computers and mobile devices running rich operating systems have a plethora of security solutions and encryption protocols that can protect them against the multitude of threats they face as soon as they become connected to the Internet. Such . Of the presently in use, a considerable percentage are sporting low-en... |
TechCrunch’s Disrupt app is now available for all Disrupt NY (May 9-11) attendees | Ned Desmond | 2,016 | 4 | 14 | We to make networking at Disrupt a lot better, and today we’re making a big part of that promise a reality with the launch of the Disrupt app in Apple’s and Google . The app is custom-designed for attendees at TechCrunch’s (May 9-11). Point of pride: We built the app in-house with help from our friends at , the... |
MIT creates a control algorithm for drone swarms | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 4 | 22 | Swarms of drones flying in terrifyingly perfect formation could be one step closer, thanks to a control algorithm being developed at MIT. The complexities involved in controlling teams of moving robots so they don’t crash into each other, or indeed wipe out other objects/entities that cross their path, is a hard proble... |
The next new thing: Women VCs | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 4 | 22 | The venture landscape changes fast. Ten years ago, few would have predicted the ubiquity of micro funds or the rise of Andreessen Horowitz or the very existence of a platform like AngelList that enables people with enough connections to become pop-up VCs. Few — though not most — see what’s coming next, too, and that’s ... |
Drastic disruptions are underway in the energy market | Scott Elrod | 2,016 | 4 | 22 |
It’s 6AM and I’m rolling out of bed. But before my feet hit the floor, my “home energy management agent” is negotiating with the California Independent System Operator (ISO), the nerve center controlling the flow of electricity on the grid. Normally, I’d get my coffee first and then jump in the shower. But my persona... |
Google showcases the best Android apps for its first-ever Google Play Awards | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 4 | 22 | Apple has historically doled out to those third-party app developers that it believes have created the best apps and games over the past 12 months. Now, its own take on app awards with the debut of what it’s calling the “Google Play Awards.” But while familiar in concept, Google’s version will tweak the formula some... |
Dell’s SecureWorks stumbles in first tech IPO of the year | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 4 | 22 | It has been a . Up until today’s SecureWorks offering, there had been zero in the U.S. in 2016. Zero. This compares to seven in the same period last year and 24 in that timeframe the year before. So tech investors and late-stage private companies were watching SecureWorks closely, to see if the tech IPO window would... |
Intel CEO says leadership team has received threats for company’s stance on diversity | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 4 | 22 | Intel is widely seen as a leader around corporate diversity in tech. But, it turns out, some Intel employees are not happy with the company’s stance on it. In fact, there’s “been a bit of a backlash within the company” and even threats made toward the company’s senior leadership team, Intel CEO Brian Krzanich told Rev.... |
Two years after launching, Casper prepares for European expansion | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 4 | 22 | It’s been since started selling mattresses, and CEO Philip Krim said it’s already turned into a big business, with $100 million in revenue (not to mention ) in 2015. Next up is international expansion, with the New York City-headquartered startup opening an office in Berlin. That office currently has four employee... |
mNectar introduces force touch to its playable ads | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 4 | 22 | allows mobile game developers to promote their games with ads that people can actually play before downloading. That means its technology needs to evolve with the games, so now it’s announcing support for force touch interactions. , the term refers to touch interfaces that are affected by the amount of pressure applie... |
Windows Ink, Cortana improvements and more arrive in the latest Windows 10 build out now | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 4 | 22 | It’s going to be a good Friday for those testing the latest releases of the Windows 10 operating system, as of its PC and mobile OS, which will allow users to try the newly announced Windows Ink experience for the first time. Windows Ink, , offers improved pen support for Windows 10 PCs, including the ability to cre... |
Streaming service Sling TV will add MTV, Comedy Central, Nick Jr & more, following Viacom deal | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 4 | 22 | Following that would have otherwise caused a blackout of Viacom’s TV channels on Dish Network, the two companies have worked out a deal that will not only keep those channels live, but will also bring select channels to Dish’s Internet streaming service, According to Viacom, the company will make Comedy Central, BET... |
11 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 4 | 22 | This week, Apple’s MacBook got some sweet new upgrades, major tech companies reported earnings, Snapchat’s crazy new 3D stickers hit iOS and more. These are the stories everyone in tech is talking about. Apple’s that included faster processors, better graphics, faster internal memory and an hour more of battery life.... |
Hear Dave Cole, co-founder of NextVR, discuss the future of VR live entertainment at Disrupt NY | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 4 | 22 | When you can’t make it to the game in real life, the experience offered by virtual reality live streaming can get you closer to the action and more connected to the players and fans than anything else out there. Dave Cole, , will be joining us in Brooklyn at Disrupt NY to chat about immersive stereoscopic live streami... |
Buy a Disrupt NY ticket, get a free Amazon Echo | Travis Bernard | 2,016 | 4 | 22 | Disrupt NY is right around the corner, and to build excitement for the event we’re giving away some swag. For the rest of the day, the next 30 people who buy general admission tickets for Disrupt NY will receive a free Amazon Echo. , and we think you’ll love this as a gift with your Disrupt NY general admission ticket... |
Digital data and the fine line between you and your government | Shawn DuBravac | 2,016 | 4 | 22 |
What if the decided they wanted to see what device could see and hear? Or gain real-time access to the easily digitized information that surrounds a growing crop of connected devices? Thus far, interest in our has focused on residing on smartphones or sitting in centers — take the recent Apple and the... |
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Facebook usage over Tor passes 1M per month | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 4 | 22 | The number of people using the Tor anonymizing browser to access Facebook has passed the one million mark this month for the first time, Facebook has . (aka The Onion Router) is a network technology designed to increase the privacy of web users by encrypting and randomly routing Internet connections via a worldwide n... |
Fore: Rakuten’s delivery drones take to the golf course | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | Last month we reported that , and now and video footage of how the system will work. To refresh your memory, drones can provide food, snacks and golf accessories like new balls to players while they are out on the course. The drones are developed by Autonomous Control Systems Laboratory (ACSL), a Japan-based firm in... |
Lendix grabs $13.5 million to become a leading European P2P lending platform | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | Shortly after its competitor Finsquare, is back with more news. The French startup has just raised $13.5 million (€12 million) and now wants to become one of the leading European peer-to-peer lending platforms. Lendix launched just like year. But the startup has taken over the French market by storm. During its fir... |
Ant Financial, the Alibaba affiliate that operates Alipay, raises $4.5B at a $60B valuation | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | Ant Financial, the Alibaba affiliate that runs Alipay and other financial services in China, has announced a truly huge round of funding today. The company said it has completed its Series B, which weighs in at a staggering $4.5 billion. that the company was raising new funding at a valuation of up to $60 billion, and... |
Indian digital payments company TranServ gets $15M to launch new financial products | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | , one of several companies digitizing payments in India, said today that it has secured a Series C of $15 million to develop new financial products. The round was led by IDFC Spice Fund and Micromax Informatics. Returning investors Nirvana and Faering Capital India also participated. Micromax, one of India’s largest sm... |
Adobe’s Document Cloud adds support for Box and Microsoft | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | Adobe is launching an update to its Document Cloud service today that will bring support for both Box and Microsoft OneDrive to the company’s PDF-centric digital document solution. Adobe previously announced a similar partnership . Thanks to this partnership, Document Cloud users will now be able to use tools like Ado... |
Leaked Postmates financials suggest company might be doing better than everyone thought | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | The costs of paying the couriers is greater than the money generated from delivery fees, according to the narrative. And naysayers say that the financial struggles mean that Postmates will have trouble raising additional funding. Yet the venture capitalists who backed the company defended it, promising that the busine... |
Naya Health raises $3.9 million to build a better breast pump | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | Redwood City-based has raised $3.9 million in seed funding to make a breast pump that is sleeker, quieter and more comfortable for moms than the devices already on the market. Investors co-leading the round were and , who were joined by , , Stanford’s and individual angels. According to married co-founders Jan... |
Uber aims to retain its 1099 workforce with a few new in-app perks | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | Good independent workers are hard to find and even harder to keep if the doesn’t make sense. So Uber is adding a new goody bag of rewards in hopes of retaining its workforce. One of those perks is , a new feature inside the driver-side app allowing drivers to search for the cheapest and closest gas stations. Drivers... |
The driverless truck is coming, and it’s going to automate millions of jobs | Ryan Petersen | 2,016 | 4 | 25 |
A convoy of self-driving trucks recently drove across Europe and arrived at the Port of Rotterdam. No technology will away more — or drive more economic efficiency — than the . Shipping a full truckload from L.A. to New York costs around $4,500 today, with labor representing 75 percent of that cost. But those ... |
Theranos continuously failed to comply with CMS on several counts, documents show | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | We now know the full extent of the concern over compliance issues at Theranos’ Newark, California lab thanks to new documents TechCrunch has obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) began a federal investigation into the practices at Theranos’ main facil... |
Have we seen the last of the All Writs Act in the encryption fight? | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | A judge today officially put an end to the fight between the Justice Department and Apple over unlocking the iPhone of a New York man convicted of selling drugs. This is the second time in recent weeks that the government has back-pedaled on a case after initially trying to force Apple to help investigators gain access... |
Clarkson, Hammond and May to launch DriveTribe motoring content platform | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | In an age when completely driverless cars (probably electric) seem to be just around the corner, the idea of starting a brand new online community aimed at petrolheads seems like an ill-timed one. But that’s not about to stop Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, best known as the former presenters of the glo... |
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You can now watch a ton of Lionsgate movies on Steam if you so choose | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | has just added more than 100 movies, including the Hunger Games films and Kill Bill (both volumes) to, of all things, . That’s Valve’s digital content delivery platform, of course, used by millions of PC gamers. Why did Lionsgate add more than 100 movies to a gaming platform? Hard to say. It’s part of “our commitment... |
Goldman Sachs launches GS Bank, an Internet bank with a $1 minimum deposit | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | Goldman Sachs has traditionally functioned like a run-of-the-mill investment bank. Minimums to open an account were in the range of $10 million, and returns were not guaranteed. While that will still remain true for the firm’s wealth management arm, Goldman is opening its doors to the masses with the launch of , an FD... |
Honda and Volvo add more electrification | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | Honda announced it’s going to expand its Clarity line to include an all-electric version and a plug-in hybrid next year. The latest version of the will be available later this year any way you want it, as along as you want a fuel-cell vehicle. The other two variants will be ready in 2017. Honda’s goal is to have elec... |
Hands on with SanDisk’s iPhone storage-expanding flash drive | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | The is an odd thing to behold, a strange Frankensteinian amalgam of adapters fused together and folded over for good measure. It’s another interesting concept out of SanDisk as the company attempts to stay nimble in a world of rapidly dropping storage costs and increasing reliance on cloud backups. The iXpand is a ne... |
How social entrepreneurship is making a difference in the world | Bérénice Magistretti | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | accustomed to the Silicon Valley zeal driving startups to develop new technologies that will disrupt the market in yet another way. In other parts of the world, people are faced with different kinds of “problems.” They aren’t so much worried about finding an app that will water their plants — their actual concern is ... |
Cyan Banister has a new startup, and it’s looking for seed funding | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | Cyan Banister realized long ago that , a subscription-based online community of artistic nude, glamour and pin-up photography that she founded in 2007, was never going to be a highly profitable endeavor. That’s okay with her, too. In an interview last week, Banister — known for the many angel investments she and husba... |
Obama spends a little time in the ‘brave new world’ of virtual reality | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | When you’re the leader of the free world who has been keeping an eagle eye on liberty and domestic surveillance for the past 7-8 years, sometimes you just want to take a look at a new version of reality. Obama tried virtual reality this weekend with his occasional frenemy Angela Merkel at an industrial technology trade... |
Rackspace brings AppFormix’s cloud optimization platform to its private cloud | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 4 | 25 | today announced that it is partnering with to bring that company’s cloud monitoring and performance optimization tools to its private OpenStack cloud customers. Thanks to this partnership, Rackspace will now license AppFormix’s and bring it to all of its private cloud customers who use Rackspace to manage their cl... |
Astronomers discover three exoplanets similar to Earth and Venus | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 5 | 3 | Astronomers are getting closer to finding Earth’s twin in the universe. NASA that three planets with sizes and temperatures similar to Earth and Venus have been discovered orbiting around an ultra-cool dwarf star 40 light-years from Earth. While astronomers believe there are many billions of planets in the universe, ... |
Asia’s mobile-first economy and how the West is feeling the effects | Matthew Dibb | 2,016 | 5 | 3 |
Asia Pacific leads the global digital infrastructure as home to half of the world’s mobile phone subscribers and the largest number of wireless Internet connections. However, the region also has historically attracted less than one-third of global mobile marketing spend — making its role in the digital economy largel... |
IBM launches quantum computing as a cloud service | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 5 | 3 | Quantum computing is still very much in the early research stage, but IBM is hoping to accelerate the progress around it by making a quantum computer available to researchers as a cloud service. It is a bold and ambitious idea, although still very much a small step in trying to understand quantum computing processing. ... |
Well, it’s practical: Google’s next self-driving car is a Chrysler minivan | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 3 | There’s a lot to like about Google’s own self-driving cars, but if you’ve got kids, you’d need a fleet just to get them to the soccer game and back. That, presumably, is why the Google initiative’s first direct collaboration with an automaker will automate a nice, roomy new Pacifica minivan. Not only is the mileage gre... |
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