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Apple opens India-based development center to work on its maps services | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 18 | Apple CEO Tim Cook is in the middle a busy trip to Asia’s two biggest countries. Last week, he was in China where , this week it is India where the announcements are continuing to flow. Yesterday, in Bangalore, and today it , the same city where . This is Apple’s first such facility in India. Plans for the center ... |
Microsoft brings Skype to businesses’ iOS and Android apps | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 20 | Microsoft is further opening up Skype to businesses. On Thursday, the company its – tools which allow iOS and Android developers to integrate Skype’s messaging, audio and voice capabilities into their own mobile applications. The idea is to allow Skype to power the communications experience inside applications, so d... |
Razer is opening its first U.S. concept store in San Francisco this weekend | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 18 | Razer, , is finally opening its first concept store in the U.S. this weekend. The company already has three locations in Asia — Taipei, Manila and Bangkok — and its first store in the U.S. will be located at the Westfield San Francisco Centre. Razer is throwing a party to mark the opening, which will see CEO Min-Lia... |
Gogoprint wants to modernize online printing in Southeast Asia | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 18 | is a new company based in Thailand that wants to bring the benefits of the Internet to the printing industry in Southeast Asia. Traditional print houses have no doubt suffered at the hands of the growth of the internet and the rise of home printers, but a number of companies are using digital to breathe new life into ... |
Theranos reportedly voids two years of results from its Edison blood-testing devices | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 5 | 18 | Troubled bio-tech startup has told the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) it voided two years of results from the blood tests that it once staked its future on, . All results taken from its Edison blood-testing devices in 2014 and 2015 were thrown out and updated reports sent to doctors. The Edison blo... |
For Tattoo obsessives, Tattoodo adds an app to its arsenal | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 5 | 18 | Tattoo culture has pretty much gone mainstream. Tattooing is the sixth fastest growing market in the retail industry with about 30% of Americans getting them now. Thus started out as a “digital lifestyle hub for all things tattoo-related,” with content, community and a marketplace. Think Pinterest for Tattoos, almost... |
Moving from population-based health to precision medicine with Orion Health | Ben Kepes | 2,016 | 5 | 18 |
is a New Zealand-founded (now global) provider of technology products developed for the health sector. founder and CEO, , is a passionate advocate for a new way of doing business. He argues that current approaches to patient information are akin to the Victorian era, when a surgeon’s blood-stained uniform was a s... |
Meet the 8th class of hardware startups from HAX | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 5 | 18 | An accelerator called held its 8th Demo Day for hardware startups in San Francisco yesterday. Best known for bringing companies in its portfolio to Shenzhen, China for about 15 weeks to get to know everything they can about manufacturing there, Hax is funded by SOS Ventures. The firm spins out accelerators to focus o... |
Three startups to watch from HAX hardware accelerator, batch VIII | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 5 | 18 | The hardware accelerator held its 8th Demo Day in San Francisco yesterday. While all 15 companies in the latest batch hold promise, and encompass some very wild ambitions, these three stood out thanks to creative applications of advanced tech to sometimes overlooked, but truly massive potential markets. Based in Laus... |
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Shift Technology grabs $10 million to prevent fraudulent insurance claims | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 5 | 18 | French startup just raised a $10 million Series A round from , with existing investors and also participating. Shift Technology uses big data and machine learning to detect patterns of fraudulent insurance claims. This way, insurance companies can save money. Shift Technology uses a Software-as-a-Service approac... |
E.ventures closes new $150M early-stage fund to invest in European startups | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 5 | 18 | There’s more evidence of European VC stocking up before a potential LP winter. This time it’s , which has closed a new $150 million early-stage fund to invest in European startups. The VC, which has offices in Berlin, San Francisco, Beijing, Tokyo, Moscow and São Paulo, is also announcing that Bernardo Hernández is jo... |
Google’s Allo won’t include end-to-end encryption by default | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 5 | 18 | Google announced its new messaging app at its I/O developers conference today, and it looks pretty cool. It’s a feature-rich interface with graphics and doodles, and it works with Google Assistant to make suggestions and schedule plans. Allo even has an option for users to send their messages using end-to-end encrypt... |
Google built its own chips to expedite its machine learning algorithms | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 5 | 18 | As Google at its I/O developer conference today, the company recently started building its own specialized chips to expedite the machine learning algorithms. These so-called Tensor Processing Units (TPU) are custom-built chips that Google has now been using in its own data centers for almost a year, as Google’s senio... |
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission says tech industry is underutilizing diverse talent pool | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 5 | 18 | Many tech companies in Silicon Valley like to blame the lack of diversity on what they call the pipeline. Their argument is that there are simply not enough qualified female and/or underrepresented minorities qualified to fill these high-tech roles. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has effectively calle... |
Right-sizing the development process for startups | Dave Gullo | 2,016 | 5 | 18 |
As the co-founder of a “142-proof” software development agency in the Silicon Valley catering to pre- and post-money companies, I’ve observed quite a bit of variance when it comes to the development process. The capabilities range wildly, from hack-and-slash all the way to buttoned-down tests and infrastructure tha... |
Tesla is selling $2 billion in stock to fuel Model 3 production | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 5 | 18 | Tesla — with a significant chunk contributed by Elon Musk — is selling around $2 billion worth of stock in an equity offering in order to accelerate production of the Model 3, according to . The company is selling 6.8 million shares in the stock offering, which at its current price of around $205 amounts to roughly $1... |
PornHub launches BangFit so you can bang to get fit | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 5 | 18 | In seemingly bizarre news out of the porn industry, PornHub is launching a new fitness system (wearable + workout videos) called . As its name suggests, it helps you bang to get fit. Here’s how it works: Users can join the game at , which will allow users to then sync the game to their phones. BangFit offers options ... |
Google asks the Internet for N-words — what could possibly go wrong? | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 18 | What’s worse than asking the Internet at large to ? Telling them it has to start with N. Let’s just take a moment to appreciate the stupefying magnitude of Google’s naiveté here. I mean, right off the bat, asking the Internet for help with naming something is a losing proposal. Just ask . Accountability is in short s... |
Google brings Android Pay to ATMs, Chrome and more apps | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 5 | 18 | After announcing the expansion of Android Pay in the U.K. earlier today, Google also made a few additional announcements around its mobile payments service at its I/O developer conference today. Pali Bhat, Google’s senior director of product management for Android Pay, told me that one and a half million users in the U... |
Android developers get new beta testing, analytics and pre-launch tools in Google Play | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 5 | 18 | Google is launching a major update to its today that should make life a little bit easier for Android developers. With 65 billion app installs in 2015, Google obviously knows a little bit about what its developers want; with this update, the company is focusing on giving developers more tools to test their apps befor... |
Xiaomi shows off a 4K Android TV set-top box at I/O | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 18 | Like a number of other bits and bobs announced at Google I/O thus far, there are still some important questions left unanswered about the Mi Box — but here’s what we do know about forthcoming set-top box. It’s sleek, it’s small and it’s apparently won the Chinese phone maker a couple of design awards already. The Mi ... |
Crunch Report | Try Amazon Alexa In A Web Browser | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 5 | 27 | Tito Hamze
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The sweep of the Internet of Things, garbage cans and all | Jake Rozmaryn | 2,016 | 5 | 27 |
Who could imagine being wowed by a garbage can? In our age of technological whiz-bang, not much floors us anymore. But I confess, I couldn’t stop thinking about the lowly garbage can. Embedded with smart sensors, it alerts city workers when it’s ready to be emptied, which slashes fuel costs and avoids unnecessary gar... |
Review: VAIO’s Z Flip ultrabook shows little learned | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 5 | 27 | journey for the brand: Sold off from Sony in 2014 to investment firm Japan Industrial Partners, the deal saw all of its then-new products disappear. The computer brand was on standby for a while, and only within the last year has been launching new laptops — the Z Flip is one such laptop. But to be fair, despite n... |
13 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 5 | 27 | This week, Google successfully defended itself against the $9 billion fair use court case against Oracle, Snapchat’s financials were leaked, Twilio revealed its IPO filing and more. These are the top stories of the week to catch you up on all things tech. Closing out a $9 billion case that has stretched across many yea... |
Musical.ly launches live.ly for live streaming | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 5 | 27 | Launched last year, musical.ly is growing fast, with about 80 million young teens using it around the globe. The app makes it easy to create music videos by allowing users to dub over their voices with songs from popular artists like Rihanna and Meghan Trainor. Now the app is moving beyond recorded videos with the in... |
Comixology CEO shows off new Unlimited subscription service | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 5 | 27 | Comixology recently launched , a subscription plan that offers unlimited access to thousands of digital comics for just $5.99 per month. Given the “all you can read” model, it’s natural to compare the new service to Netflix, but CEO told me that Amazon Prime’s video offerings are a closer match — and no, not becau... |
Maison de Mode takes its online ethical luxury fashion brand to an offline pop-up in San Francisco | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 5 | 27 | San Francisco’s fashion staple seems to be ripped jeans and a hoodie. But just between the edgy All Saints and Paris designer St. Laurent on San Francisco’s Maiden Lane is a rare, high-end fashion pop-up called . The shop boasts ethical fashion for the luxury buyer with hard to find artisanal items from globally sourc... |
HP sheds some more light on the Omen X VR PC backpack | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 27 | The Omen X by HP VR PC is nothing if not compelling. The company earlier today and let slip a smattering of details around the backpack PC, but not much else. No press release, no product page. It was a fairly usual announcement for HP. The hardware company’s VP of Consumer PC & Solutions Mike Nash agreed to shed a b... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 05.27.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 5 | 27 | – Dan Farber, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page G3’s Facebook page |
SpaceX launches a communications satellite and sticks another landing | Nitish Kulkarni | 2,016 | 5 | 27 | It’s been a good week for SpaceX. Earlier this week we learned that the company won a lucrative contract with the , the tight-lipped government organization that runs America’s reconnaissance satellites. Today, with the launch of Orbital ATK-built communications satellite THAICOM 8 from Kennedy Space Center’s Space La... |
EU mandates open access for all publicly funded research by 2020 | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 27 | European Union officials that, starting in 2020, any research that owes its existence in some way to public funding must be freely accessible and reusable. Recommendations were also made to encourage investment and ease the passage of startup founders between various European states. The decision arose from a meeting... |
Pierre Omidyar involved in effort to help Gawker in its appeal | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 5 | 27 | Well, this story keeps getting more and more interesting. According to a in the New York Post, Pierre Omidyar, the billionaire founder of eBay, is involved in an effort to help Gawker Media in its appeal of a $140 million judgement that was awarded to Hulk Hogan following Gawker’s release of a sex tape involving the ... |
The UE Roll 2 speakers bring rugged Bluetooth audio poolside | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 27 | The is fun. How do I know it’s fun? Look at all the press images on the side of the box. It’s gone skiing, bike riding, mountain climbing and rolling around in the mud with a bunch of attractive product models. Even more telling, the product ships with its very own miniature inner tube, which is a pretty fun thing to... |
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Trump’s wall misses the mark: We need a cyber wall, not a physical one | Jay Edelson | 2,016 | 5 | 27 |
The issues for the general election campaign have, to a great extent, already been framed. And Donald Trump, being the world-class marketer he is, has successfully forced a debate about whether the U.S. needs to build a wall across the 1,954 miles of our southern border to secure our great nation. The project would c... |
Applications are open for Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2016! | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 5 | 27 | Applications for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF are . We’re looking for new, yet-to-launch startups to debut on the Disrupt Stage. For those of you who don’t yet know, the Startup Battlefield is a . It’s like the gymnastics portion of the Summer Olympics. It’s like March Madness for tech geeks. It’s quite lite... |
Amazon puts Alexa in the browser with Echosim.io | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 5 | 27 | Amazon has put Alexa, the voice-powered AI software found in the , right with the launch of . After logging in with an Amazon account, anyone can start asking Alexa questions by clicking and holding on the mic button. Amazon’s Alexa is able to answer basic questions around information, weather, news and music and c... |
Two-year, $25M study finds positive effect of cell phone radiation on some cancers in male rats | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 27 | A major study conducted by the National Toxicology Program has found a slight, but significant, positive correlation between radio-frequency radiation exposure (like that given off by phones) and certain cancers in rats — though only male ones. The two-year, peer-reviewed study involved thousands of rats, each of which... |
Copyright questions remain after Google’s fair use victory | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 5 | 27 | If you didn’t already know the jury’s decision in Oracle’s long-running lawsuit against Google, you wouldn’t have been able to guess it from looking at either company’s legal team yesterday. Moments after the verdict was read, both sets of high-powered intellectual property lawyers huddled up and spoke softly, without ... |
Skillz snags Chief Product Officer Bill Mooney from EA Mobile | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 5 | 27 | A San Francisco startup whose technology can turn any video game into a tournament played for cash prizes, , has a new Chief Product Officer, ex-Electronic Arts’ mobile vice president Bill Mooney. Skillz quietly brought Mooney on in February this year. Earlier, at , he managed teams that were responsible for games in... |
Fovo wants to help women shop by shape, not size | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 27 | One of the challenges with clothes shopping online is that it doesn’t mirror the real-world experience where you can try on items for fit. And even though a number of today’s retailers offer free returns, there’s nothing quite as disheartening as ordering a piece online, only to find it won’t work for your body type, s... |
Beyond Siri: The AI revolution coming from the web | Eric Poindessault | 2,016 | 5 | 11 |
From HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey to Samantha in Spike Jonze’s Her, for decades we have been obsessed with the idea that artificial intelligence powered-computers will one day be able to interact with people, follow spoken instructions and make decisions independently, like a human would. Since hit our screens on t... |
The race to the moon is underway as Astrobotic raises $2.5 million | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 5 | 11 | , the company that plans to deliver payloads to the moon, has completed a $2.5 million seed round led by . The company was originally spun out of Carnegie Mellon University in 2007 to compete for the (GLXP). As of today, they’ve secured from governments, companies, universities, nonprofits and individuals for thei... |
A look at the machine that turns dough pods into tortillas | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 11 | It’s actually very tasty. Really. I certainly had my doubts, eating a tortilla that came out of a pod, but 90 or so seconds after Flatev co-founder and CEO Carlos Ruiz put the little Keurig-esque plastic saucer in the machine, a piping hot and legitimately delicious corn tortilla popped down into the warming shelf. I c... |
The Blockchain is the new Google | Contributor | 2,016 | 5 | 11 | At its core, the blockchain is a technology that permanently records transactions in a way that cannot be later erased but can only be sequentially updated, in essence keeping a never-ending historical trail. This seemingly simple functional description has gargantuan implications. It is making us rethink the old ways ... |
Google is reportedly announcing a standalone Android VR headset next week | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 5 | 11 | Google is moving beyond Cardboard. The company will reportedly be announcing a standalone Android VR headset at next week’s Google I/O event. Entrepreneur and former tech journalist has tweeted that Google will launch an untethered Android VR headset next week according to his multiple sources. Android VR will defini... |
And the winner of TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 is… Beam | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 5 | 11 | been incredibly fierce, but we now have a winner. At the very beginning, there were 22 startups. We hand-picked all these great companies from the wild world of startup land so they could compete in our highly competitive startup competition — the . They all presented in front of multiple groups of tech leaders servi... |
Review: The North Face’s Access Pack is a backpack design that fizzles | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 5 | 11 | I [gallery ids="1320289,1320288,1320290,1320296,1320291,1320292,1320297"] The most unusual feature of The North Face’s design on the Access Pack is the pulley system. The first is within the main zipper compartment, where you’d house a tablet or a very small ultrabook. A small handle extends to the bottom of the pack... |
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Jeremy Hitchcock steps down as CEO of Dyn | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 5 | 11 | Just a day after announcing , Internet performance management company is revealing there’s been a change in leadership — co-founder is stepping down as CEO. “I’ve done a nice and effective job of getting the company from A to B, but now I’m thinking about helping the company get from B to C,” Hitchcock told me. “I... |
Activists at Disrupt protest Airbnb over listings in Israeli settlements | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 5 | 11 | is under fire for allowing hosts on its platform to list homes in Israel’s occupied territories. And today the issue became the subject of a protest at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference in New York, after one of its board members took the stage . Sequoia’s Alfred Lin was interrupted by a protester brandishing a banne... |
General Michael Hayden on the state of surveillance in America, presidential candidates and more | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 5 | 11 | General Michael Hayden is no stranger to government — or to your data. As the former director of the NSA and the CIA, he oversaw controversial surveillance programs and had authority over some of the government’s most closely kept secrets. Since he retired from his post at the CIA in 2009, Hayden has worked with a secu... |
Treating the healthcare issue with tech | Florence Comite, M.D. | 2,016 | 5 | 11 |
The healthcare industry, with its maddening inefficiencies and an economic model that incentivizes disease care over health care, desperately needs a Silicon Valley-style overhaul. But even as waves of technological and economic disruption have washed over almost every industry in the United States over the last deca... |
Sunrise will sunset on August 31st 🌅 | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 5 | 11 | We all saw it coming, but it’s still hard to swallow. Well-designed calendar app and service will be in the next few days. The servers will be shutting down on August 31st. Today’s news shouldn’t come as a surprise as Microsoft the New York-based startup in early 2015. The iOS app hasn’t been updated since July. ... |
Justin Kan accepts Y Combinator Fellowship pitches over Snapchat | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 5 | 11 | One of the latest Snapchat trends (at least in our little tech bubble) is venture capitalists using the social media platform as a way to dish out advice to aspiring entrepreneurs. People like , and preach on topics ranging from how to ask for an email intro to the importance of physical activity for startup founde... |
Kik already has over 6,000 bots reaching 300 million registered users | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 5 | 11 | Messenger and WhatsApp may be the 800-pound gorillas in the chat space thanks to Facebook’s significant reach, but Waterloo-based is rapidly building a young, dedicated audience of users that are already showing interest in bots. Today, onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Kik CEO Ted Livingston divulged some insights o... |
GeoOrbital’s wheel turns almost any bike into an electric bike | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 11 | TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016’s “wildcard” participant has a different take on the electric bike. Instead of putting a motor on the bike, they put it in the wheel. This crazy idea was actually prompted by something founder Michael Burtov saw in the movie Tron. He thought there was a lot of wasted space inside the motorc... |
Agrilyst raises $1M seed round for its indoor agriculture analytics service | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 5 | 11 | , the of our Disrupt SF 2015 Battlefield competition, today announced it has raised a $1 million seed round for its indoor agriculture analytics service. The round was led by with participation from and a number of angel investors and seed funds, including the co-founders of QuickFire, another that was later .... |
Facebook will turn panoramas into “360 Photos” for feed and Gear VR’s 1M users | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 11 | Those panoramas trapped on your phone will finally get a better viewing experience, both on News Feed and the Oculus-powered Samsung Gear VR. Facebook is also for the first time, saying Gear VR has 1 million monthly users, and those who use it spend 25 minutes per day on the device. That could encourage developers to... |
Google Photos takes on Facebook Moments with improvements to shared albums | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 11 | Following to the EU and Canada earlier this week, Google is launching new features on its own photo-sharing service, , aimed at making its app both more competitive with Moments and more social. The company is adding support for both commenting and “suggested additions.” This latter feature makes it easier for users ... |
Carmelo Anthony looks to be a VC MVP with Melo7 Tech Partners | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 5 | 11 | , already a superstar forward for the New York Knicks, is looking ahead to his next act as a venture capital mogul. Coupling his longtime interest in technology with a desire to promote entrepreneurship, Anthony and his partner Stuart Goldfarb ( ) formed to build a lasting legacy beyond the basketball court. “The mon... |
Bolt Threads raises $50 million to brew spider silk, inks deal with Patagonia | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 5 | 11 | If the idea of wearing spider silk intrigues, the idea of managing a farm full of spiders isn’t all that appealing. A startup called has developed a means of brewing spider silk and other insect fibers and spinning then into yarn, making them accessible to makers of apparel, upholstery and more. Co-founded in 2009 by... |
Robots add real value when working with humans, not replacing them | Matt Beane | 2,016 | 5 | 29 |
In the popular media, we talk a lot about stealing jobs. But when we stop speculating and actually look at the world of work, the impact of advanced robotics is far more nuanced and complicated. Issues of jobs and income inequality fade away, for example — there aren’t remotely enough to affect more than a hand... |
What Facebook Live and Periscope need is a waiting room | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 29 | Livestreams start boring because broadcasters don’t want to begin the real action until more people have tuned in. That can take a few minutes, even with streams being rapidly distributed via push notifications, tweets and the News Feed. But by that time, the initial audience may have bounced, and the recorded replay w... |
Technological innovation is often simply an innovation in how we think about technology | Simon Chandler | 2,016 | 5 | 29 |
It may slip our notice, but is reducible to an in the marketing and conceptualization of . Take Viv, the new from the makers of Siri. It promises to simplify the process of ordering pizza or buying cinema tickets, allowing its users to perform such actions via a single voice-operated interface. Like the ea... |
360-degree camera maker Jeffrey Martin talks about what it takes to film for VR | John Biggs | 2,016 | 5 | 29 | This week on the Technotopia podcast I interviewed Jeffrey Martin, the creator of and the maker of the . Martin is a skilled 360-degree camera operator and has created amazing panoramas of cities around the world. “I’ve been working with VR since the days of CRT monitors,” he said as he explained the challenges and ... |
Human obsolescence: Are we ready for an artificially intelligent future? | Ryan Brady | 2,016 | 5 | 29 |
“Enjoy your com-FORT-able stay,” says a robot front-desk clerk at Japan’s . Do you thank the robot for its awkward salutation? Or maybe you hesitate for a moment before shuffling off in silence. If our digital screens are separating us from human interaction, you better believe AI will further tear that tenuous soci... |
Why do chatbots suck? | Faisal Khalid | 2,016 | 5 | 29 |
Chatbots have been in the news a lot this year. First there was , Microsoft’s racist love child, who just couldn’t keep herself under control. Then came with its Messenger bots, which, by most accounts, didn’t start well. And now there’s news coming from , which at first glance seems like Siri 2.0. Not surprisingl... |
Twitter is introducing a Periscope live-streaming button in its mobile apps | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 16 | Facebook is heaping focus on live video with , which , so it’s no surprise to see that Twitter is fighting back in the streaming war with an integration between Periscope, its live-streaming platform, and the Twitter mobile apps. is a gradual rollout, a small number of Twitter for Android users have a ‘Go Live’ butt... |
YouTube for iOS gets full Google Cardboard support | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 5 | 16 | As the tech world waits to see what at its I/O conference later this week, today, the company snuck in an update to YouTube for iOS that allows you to view any video in VR mode on Cardboard. YouTube’s Android app has had full Cardboard support since November, but iPhone users have been sorely out of luck. With today’... |
VR gaming startup Lucid Sight nabs $3.5M in Series A funding | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 5 | 16 | , an LA-based VR game studio, announced today that they have closed a $3.5 million Series A round of funding led by Rana Capital Partners, B.V. and Salem Partners. This raise brings the company’s total funding to $4 million. Previous investors included AdColony founder Jonathan Zweig. Coinciding with the funding announ... |
Twitter may remove photos and links from its 140-character limit | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 5 | 16 | For , Twitter users have complained about the fact that link and photo URLs count against each tweet’s 140-character limit. Now that may finally change. According to a , Twitter will stop including photos and links in character counts soon, possibly within the next two weeks. URLs are automatically shortened by Twitt... |
Snapchat goes to space with NASA Live Story | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 5 | 16 | Today, the International Space Station its 100,000 orbit around the Earth since its first module was launched on November 20 , 1998. To celebrate that milestone, NASA teamed up with Snapchat for a space-themed Live Story called Day in Space. Up on Snapchat now, the feed features NASA astronaut , Commander of Expedi... |
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The Garmin vivofit 3 makes me want to move again | John Biggs | 2,016 | 5 | 16 | I’ve long been an activity tracker kind of guy. I strapped them all onto my fleshy wrist: the Fitbits, the Nikes, the Polars. I’ve watched circles fill up on my Apple Watch and I’ve watched ghost competitors race me on early GPS watches. But for the past few months I abandoned any wrist-based tracker because the batter... |
5 days after Disrupt NY, the beard is still gone and the Red Hook Initiative is $4,500 richer | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 5 | 16 | So I know some of y’all were worried about me after I agreed to have my face shaved at Disrupt NY to raise money for the . I just wanted to check in and let you know what life post-beard is like. (Actually I’m pretty sure none of y’all gave a good goddamn, but I’ll let you know anyway.) Initially, I went through the f... |
This machine 3D prints metal structures in midair by lasering nanoparticles | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 16 | One limitation of run-of-the-mill 3D printers is that the structure must essentially be built as a series of layers, each one supporting the next. A new device from Harvard’s Wyss Institute allows metal filaments to essentially be drawn in midair with no support whatsoever. And it uses lasers! There’s no fancy name for... |
Starting the food crisis conversation | Benzi Ronen | 2,016 | 5 | 16 |
What does the future of food look like? Former Vice President Al Gore and 40 entrepreneurs and CEOs in the food industry recently convened in London to try to answer just that. The topics of conversation ran the gamut, from and , to using , to the decentralization of food. These topics are set against the backdro... |
Apple’s GarageBand picks up traditional Chinese sounds and instruments in new update | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 5 | 16 | Apple’s interests in China, its second-largest regional market, expand far beyond their recent . As the company eyes a larger presence in China, they’re also looking to capture the country’s creativity and imagination with their content creation tools. Today, Apple’s music creation software is gaining an update on i... |
MCX postpones rollout of Apple Pay rival CurrentC, lays off 30, will focus on bank deals | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 5 | 16 | As merchants like Walmart on their own mobile payment strategies, a consortium that once counted Walmart — along with a number of other big retailers and brands — behind it, has taken a step back. (MCX) today announced it would postpone a nationwide rollout of , a smartphone payment initiative originally conceived ... |
How can we control intelligent systems no one fully understands? | Vasant Dhar, Ph.D. | 2,016 | 5 | 16 |
The widespread conversations about AI took a new turn in March 2016 when Microsoft launched, then quickly unplugged, , its artificial intelligence chat robot. Within 24 hours, interactions on Twitter had turned the bot, modeled after a teenage girl, into a “ .” This controversy, on the heels of the Feb. 14, 2016, ... |
Debra Lee, Chairman and CEO of BET, joins Twitter’s board | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 5 | 16 | , who has been CEO of Viacom’s Black Entertainment Television (BET) since 2005 and its chairman since 2006, has joined the board of . She tweeted out the news earlier today. Thrilled to be joining the board. It’s transformed the media and the world like few other things in history (and continues to)!! — Debra Lee (@... |
Starbreeze teams with Acer in its quest to build a better VR headset | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 16 | was undoubtedly overshadowed by larger names during its debut at E3 last year, but those who did manage to demo the high-end headset seemed to walk away impressed. Among other things, hardware device offers a wider field of view than either Oculus or HTC, at 210 degrees to those devices’ 110. That’s courtesy of two Q... |
AI learns and recreates Nobel-winning physics experiment | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 16 | Australian physicists, perhaps searching for a way to shorten the work week, have created an AI that can run and even improve a complex physics experiment with little oversight. The research could eventually allow human scientists to focus on high-level problems and research design, leaving the nuts and bolts to a robo... |
Roadie is like Uber for shipping | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 5 | 16 | “Someone is always leaving everywhere”: that’s the idea behind , a peer-to-peer package delivery service launched last year by Marc Gorlin. There are something like 250 million vehicles on the road every day, Gorlin said, so he decided to take advantage of this resource by allowing people to help their neighbors out b... |
Ex-Twitter and Medium exec Jason Stirman launches Lucid, a mental training app for athletes | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 5 | 16 | Jason Stirman is part of a select group of early Web 2.0 builders in Silicon Valley. He was there at the beginning of Twitter, jumped with Ev Williams to Obvious Corp and then Medium and is now working on a passion of his – mindfulness for athletes. His new app, , launches in the today and lends advice and mindfulne... |
GoButler launches Angel.ai to offer natural language tech to commerce companies | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 5 | 16 | GoButler, the startup that originally offered a virtual assistant that let you request anything on-demand, appears to be pivoting for a second (and maybe final) time. The New York-headquartered company is shuttering the GoButler consumer-facing service altogether in favour of offering natural language processing techno... |
Oculus announces VR for Good initiative to help students and non-profits capture community life | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 5 | 16 | For all of the talk there is in how virtual reality is going to usher in some dark, utopian age where people are huddled in corners with VR headsets strapped to their faces… That’s just not where things are headed right now. VR has a lot of impact for social change. We’ve talked about VR as an engine for empathy. Now, ... |
One chip to rule them all? The Internet of Things and the next great era of hardware | Narbeh Derhacobian | 2,016 | 5 | 28 |
It’s been almost 10 years since Apple unveiled the iPhone. Since that day, the smartphone has been the overwhelming driver of innovation in the technology industry. Cameras, Wi-Fi, batteries, touch sensors, baseband processors and memory chips — in less than a decade, these components have made stunning advances to k... |
Momofuku’s David Chang launches Ando, a delivery-only restaurant | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 5 | 16 | And now, the moment all foodies in New York have been waiting for… David Chang, owner of the wildly popular line of Momofuku restaurants, is today launching , the latest to join the franchise. But Ando isn’t quite like the Ssäm Bar or the Noodle Bar or even the Milk Bar. To the contrary, Ando is an entirely on-demand ... |
Apartments are the hot new tech sector | Caren Maio | 2,016 | 5 | 28 |
Welcome to the land technology forgot. High-end leases negotiated and signed via fax. Millions of dollars in apartment inventory — in some of the hottest real estate markets in the country — tracked on whiteboards with dry-erase markers. Client histories recorded in longhand in legal notebooks and stashed in manila f... |
Unicorns along the Wasatch: Utah’s flourishing startup and enterprise scene | Ken Davis | 2,016 | 5 | 28 |
Silicon Valley has traditionally been the Garden of Eden, but it’s no longer the only game in town. Utah — specifically Salt Lake City and its ecosystem — has become a formidable breeding ground for startups, even developing its own unicorn herd. As in nature, a ’s habitat can shape a creative and fiercely competi... |
Gillmor Gang: Conventional Wisdom | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 5 | 28 | The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, May 27, 2016. Too much Trump, TV, Twitter, and Gang thinks apps have jumped the shark. Gillmor says no way. Plus, the latest G3 (below) with Mary Hodder, Elisa Camahort Page, Francine Hardaway, and Tina Cha... |
‘Gremlins’ and ‘Innerspace’ director Joe Dante sees the good and the bad in CGI | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 5 | 28 | Director made some of the best-loved films of the 1980s, including and , so I was eager to ask him about how movies have evolved. Shira Dubrovner, the festival’s executive director, said Dante was chosen for his persistently independent attitude — he started his career in the indie world, and even when he made bi... |
What UX designers can learn from 1990s Japanese video games | Benjamin Brandall | 2,016 | 5 | 28 |
I’m writing this from a slightly saddened perspective, revisiting my favorite SNES RPGs and realizing something: . The sentiment is pretty universal. Hugon on the Quarter to Three forum : “When I think ‘console RPG’ I think pages of fairly inscrutable character info and bad navigation. You cry tears of joy if you ca... |
Who’s afraid of the IoT? | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 5 | 28 | It’s heeeere! The Internet of Things, I mean. I just spent several days at the in Paris, which focused on IoT hardware. They built a whole home full of connected devices, showcased the War for the WAN and underscored that the IoT is — as always — not quite what we imagined, and not quite what we hoped. The home was i... |
Privacy shield rejection highlights need for proactive corporate privacy approach | Joanna Belbey | 2,016 | 5 | 17 |
To anyone familiar with doing business in Europe, it really is no surprise that representatives from supervisory authorities of each European Union (EU) country, the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and the European Commission — Referred to as the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) — rejected the EU/US dat... |
Down to Lunch has met with investors about raising funding | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 5 | 17 | We’re hearing from multiple sources that Down to Lunch has met with investors about a potential financing round. Down to Lunch became a bit of a darling during its rise thanks to its dead-simple approach: signal to your friends that you’re interested in getting lunch, drinks, or whatever else and figure out who’s up fo... |
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