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Enclave Audio delivers 5.1 surround sound (almost) wirelessly | John Biggs | 2,016 | 5 | 6 | In the list of things that we want science to solve I suspect the creation of a wireless 5.1 speaker system that is easy to use and set up ranks up there in between a cure for shingles and the colonization of Mars. Thankfully, there are people on the job. has been working on a wireless 5.1 sound system since 2013 and ... |
13 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 5 | 6 | TechCrunch is gearing up for the . This week, the battle between Brazilian authorities and WhatsApp continued, Tesla shared details about how effective its bioweapon mode is and Uber got hit with another lawsuit. Here are the stories you don’t want to miss. Facebook’s messaging app . A Brazilian judge ordered telecom... |
Researchers have developed a flexible holographic smartphone screen that plays a mean game of ‘Angry Birds’ | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 6 | The first thing you do upon developing a flexible holographic smartphone display? Fire up a game of , naturally. All the rest of that smartphone functionality can wait until you’ve finished a few rounds of slingshotting avian missiles. Maybe it’s not the thing — but it was clearly high on the list of the researcher... |
Musical.ly raising $100 million at $500 million valuation for social music videos | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 5 | 6 | Headquartered in Shanghai, musical.ly has gained across the globe. The team says it has 60 million users and is . The lip-sync app has similarities to but is more of a social media platform. The company calls it a “video social network.” Users can follow accounts to keep up with their favorite performers. While th... |
RewardStyle helps influencers make money from social | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 5 | 6 | These days, you can’t swing a bag of cats around without hitting some sort of social influencer. But how do these people make money from their content? , a Dallas-based startup, provides a platform for influencers and bloggers to get paid for all the sales they inspire out of consumers. Though the company has been oper... |
Uber appoints former EC VP Neelie Kroes to its public policy board | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 5 | 6 | Taxi app , which continues to battle regulatory clamp downs and legal confrontations in Europe, has appointed a former VP of the European Union’s executive arm, the European Commission, to its as it looks to grease the gearbox of its regional fortunes. The ex-VP in question, former digital agenda commissioner Neelie... |
The tech geek’s burden | Joel R. Putnam | 2,016 | 5 | 6 |
The tech geeks are coming to government. Whether they’re in our cities as Code for America volunteers or part of the federal U.S. Digital Service and 18F (hailed by as “ ”), programmers, data scientists and UX designers are starting to find their place in the public sector. This is a good thing. The more accomplish... |
To the next POTUS: For communities of color, encryption is a civil right | Steven Renderos | 2,016 | 5 | 6 |
From San Bernardino to Brooklyn to Capitol Hill, the fight over encryption has boiled over this past month. But who’s paying attention? The basic security feature all of us depend on daily to protect our online payment transactions, message content and other personal data is increasingly taken for granted. And for ... |
Google connects BigQuery to Google Drive and Sheets | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 5 | 6 | Google today that it is bringing some of its Google Cloud Platform and Google Apps tools a little bit closer together. BigQuery, Google’s analytics data warehousing service, will now be able to read files from and access spreadsheets from . There has long been something of a firewall between Google’s cloud compu... |
The TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off is coming to Stockholm just in time for the summer | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 5 | 6 | Hello startup friends! The TechCrunch team had a great idea — the summer is right around the corner, so we’re going to celebrate Nordic startups with for the first time ever on June 7. “What a great idea, how do I get involved?” you’re probably thinking right now. So here’s what’s up. As the name suggest, the TechCrun... |
The dehumanization of Facebook Messenger | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 6 | every message. Not any more. When Messenger buzzes, now I don’t know if it will be a friend or a bot. Every chime forces me to do a little Turing test in my head. Was I expecting to be pinged by a pal? Or is it 8:11pm again and TechCrunch’s bot is sending me another daily digest. This is how we ended up hating email. ... |
Want more screen space on your smartwatch? Put a ring on it… | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 5 | 6 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hu8MNuvCHE&w=640&h=360] Can two wearables be better than one? Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) will be presenting some new next week in which they demonstrate a technique aimed at extending the available screen space for smartwatch wear... |
Announcing the Disrupt NY Hackathon judges and API workshops | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 5 | 6 | The TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon kicks off tomorrow at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, and we’re honored to welcome the hackathon’s stellar judges. Nick Chi rls is a partner at , a pre-seed fund based in Brooklyn that focuses on partnering with technical founders at the infancy of an idea. He previously led the seed ... |
Crunch Report | Twitter Changes 140-Character Limit | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 5 | 24 | Tito Hamze, Jason Kopek
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UberEATS launches in Singapore, its first Asian city | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 5 | 24 | , the ride-hailing app’s food delivery service, today in its first Asian market. Singaporeans can now download the standalone app and order food from about 100 restaurants. Deliveries are limited to Singapore’s Central Area, its main business and commerce hub, but the company said it will expand its service coverage ... |
India flight tests new reusable space plane | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 5 | 24 | India has successfully completed their first small step toward joining the other players in the market of reusable spacecraft. On Monday, the (India’s version of NASA) launched a 22-foot winged spacecraft to an altitude of 65 kilometers (about 40 miles) and navigated the vehicle back down into the Bay of Bengal, east... |
The reality of augmented and virtual reality venture capital | Tim Merel | 2,016 | 5 | 24 |
AR/VR is the new hotness. VCs invested 2016, $1.2 billion of that in the first quarter of this year alone. There are four AR/VR unicorns already ( , , , ). Big numbers, very exciting. But as Partner Bubba Murarka says, “not all VCs have taken the red pill yet.” principal Kobie Fuller sees AR/VR as “the next p... |
E Ink brings rich color to ePaper, but not to e-readers | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 24 | E Ink, maker of the ePaper displays found in many e-readers (maddening to have three different e prefixes in one sentence, but it’s unavoidable), announced a brand new type of reflective display that can show a huge range of colors — but the tech is only going to be deployed as signage for now. Color reflective display... |
Nanomaterials could double efficiency of solar cells by converting waste heat into usable energy | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 24 | An experimental solar cell created by MIT researchers could massively increase the amount of power generated by a given area of panels, while simultaneously reducing the amount of waste heat. Even better, it sounds super cool when scientists talk about it: “with our own unoptimized geometry, we in fact could break the ... |
Running Through Walls: Dynamic Signal’s Russ Fradin on how good businesses constantly pivot | Brian Ascher | 2,016 | 5 | 24 |
For the inaugural episode of Venrock’s new podcast, Running Through Walls, I spoke with Russ Fradin, CEO and founder of Dynamic Signal, about his long history as an entrepreneur. I have known Russ for years and was also an investor in Adify, where he was founder and CEO. Having founded 3 companies, today Russ also ad... |
The business case for fighting climate change | Michael Gallant | 2,016 | 5 | 24 |
Chilling news regarding continues to arrive on a regular basis, even as and further troubling global symptoms emerge. It’s a grand shame that global governments seem unable to mobilize to the degree necessary to keep Antarctica safely frigid and other related catastrophes at bay. It’s also a shame that those s... |
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The intelligent app ecosystem (is more than just bots!) | S. Somasegar | 2,016 | 5 | 24 |
process of using machine learning technology to create apps that use historical and real-time data to make predictions and decisions to deliver rich, adaptive, personalized experiences for users. We believe that every successful new application built today will be an intelligent application. The armies of chat bot... |
Uber and Toyota confirm strategic investment and auto leasing deal | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 5 | 24 | Rideshare wars just got even more interesting. has confirmed a strategic investment and auto leasing deal from . “Toyota is a global leader in the automotive industry and Toyota vehicles are among the most popular cars on the Uber platform worldwide,” Uber said in a statement to TechCrunch. “We are proud to partner ... |
ChargePoint raises $50 million to charge more cars | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 5 | 24 | announced this month that it had raised $50 million in its latest round of funding, thanks in large part to . That makes a total of $164 million from investors like BMW iVentures and Siemens, among others. ChargePoint already has the largest EV charging network in North America, with 28,000 stations installed since... |
Microsoft tries its hand at a news bot with Rowe | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 24 | Like , Microsoft its bots. Now, the company has rolled out its own news-finding bot called “Rowe,” which lives inside the latest version of Microsoft’s Bing-powered personalized news reading app, . Rowe is an experiment with helping you keep up with the news that matches your current interests. You can ask th... |
Uber is testing a loyalty program that rewards riders with free trips | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 5 | 24 | Uber sent an email to LA riders yesterday announcing they are doing a temporary promotion that looks very much like a loyalty program. Each UberBLACK ride taken will give riders 200 points, and when they amass 3,000 total points they will be rewarded with a free $25 Uber ride. Essentially, the program is buy 15 get 1 f... |
Reddit’s head of community leaves after nine months | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 5 | 24 | About nine months after taking on the role of head of community management at Reddit, Kristine Fasnacht ( ) has left the company. In a post titled, “Admin released from captivity, reintroduced to Reddit community,” : I am sad to share that is leaving Reddit. Over the past five years, she has done an incredible amoun... |
Ex-Facebook designers climb charts with adorable game Pinchworm | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 24 | Pinchworm’s developers Drew Hamlin and Joey Flynn (from left) taps into that same frustration, and how we’re compelled to exceed our past failures. There ares only two types of obstacles, so it seems absurd when your mind can’t process whether to jump or dive fast enough. Every time you screw up in Pinchworm, you’re s... |
Gulülu turns drinking water into a game for kids | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 5 | 24 | Through the power of smart sensors and the magic of the cloud, children being parched is on its way to becoming a thing of the past — at least, if the team has anything to say in the matter. The company’s bottle, launching on Kickstarter today, is the newest, most high-tech weapon in the battle to get kids to imbibe ... |
Apple prepping Siri SDK and Echo-like home assistant gadget | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 24 | Apple is preparing an SDK that would allow developers much greater access to Siri — and the improved assistant will power a stationary hub device like Amazon’s Echo. A report from tallies with things we’ve heard over the last few weeks; expect an announcement, if not the device itself, at in June. Siri, sad to say,... |
Placemeter’s urban intelligence platform gets smarter | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 5 | 24 | helps businesses and municipalities measure what’s happening in front of their stores, on their streets and in their parks. In its , the service, which relies on real-time video feeds, was able to quantify the overall number of objects that it saw and distinguish between pedestrians and vehicles. Now, the service is ... |
Southeast Asia financial comparison startup Jirnexu lands $3M to expand to digital banking services | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 23 | Malaysia-based financial comparison startup Saving Plus has closed a $3 million Series A round to move into new digital banking services. The company has also renamed itself . The company was founded in 2012 by its CEO and former Citi banker Yuen Tuck Siew to provide better financial choices for consumers via banking ... |
Twilio ramps up mobile play with programmable SIMs for IoT and handsets with T-Mobile | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 5 | 24 | The service is getting formally announced today at the company’s developer conference, . But if you follow Twilio’s CEO on Twitter, you might have seen his hint of what was coming a couple of weeks ago: Pretty excited for SIGNAL… — Jeff Lawson (@jeffiel) In an interview, Lawson told me that the service will init... |
King Bach launches Bachify, a photo editing app for the social media obsessed | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 5 | 24 | Andrew Bachelor (better known as , where he has more than 15 million followers) has just launched , his own iOS-based photo-editing app. The genesis of the app was an issue anyone who is a heavy social media user faces — there isn’t one app that provides a comprehensive photo-editing experience. Bach explained that h... |
Crunch Report | Skip to Good Parts in Facebook Live | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 5 | 23 | Tito Hamze, Jason Kopek
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Can startups disrupt the $20 billion cyber insurance market? | Mahendra Ramsinghani | 2,016 | 5 | 23 |
Over the past few years, markets have been growing at between 25-50 percent CAGR each year. According to , annual policy premiums are approaching $2.75 billion. The ecosystem of underwriters, intermediaries/brokers, analysts/management consultants and compilers of information is evolving rapidly, trying to... |
Utah representatives want to install porn blockers on all cell phones | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 5 | 23 | has proposed a bill to rid the state of porn by adding Internet filters and anti-porn software on all cell phones and requiring citizens to opt-in before viewing porn online. It’s to save the children, he says. Weiler successfully pushed an through the state Senate earlier this year, declaring porn a “public health ... |
Non-profit RideAustin looks to fill void left by Uber and Lyft | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 23 | Charity or opportunism? It’s so hard to tell, sometimes. In case, it looks to be a bit of both. It’s a non-profit car-for-hire service that’s happy to abide by the city’s rules — and adds a layer of budget- and conscience-friendly features that may help it stay differentiated (and alive). With Uber and Lyft , , aft... |
Netflix touts Disney partnership to remind U.S. subscribers it still has movies | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 5 | 23 | In the midst of a quest to become an , has been drawing criticism from core, U.S. customers who say its film and TV library — beyond original series and films — isn’t robust enough to whet their viewing appetites. Today, seemingly tailored for these restless U.S. customers, touting a pay TV partnership with Disney... |
Google and Oracle present closing arguments in battle over Java | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 5 | 23 | Attorneys for Oracle and Google presented their closing arguments today in a lawsuit over Google’s use of Java APIs owned by Oracle in Android. Oracle accused Google of stealing a collection of APIs, while Google suggested that Android transformed the smartphone market and Oracle sued out of desperation when its own sm... |
Facebook ditches Bing, 800M users now see its own AI text translations | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 23 | Machine learning is accomplishing Facebook’s mission of connecting the world across language barriers. Facebook is now serving 2 billion text translations per day. Facebook can translate across 40 languages in 1,800 directions, like French to English. And 800 million users, almost half of all Facebook users, see transl... |
Snapchat is raising more money around $20 billion valuation | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 5 | 23 | may have first made its name in the crowded world of mobile apps with an ephemeral messaging service, but the startup and its wildly popular app are not disappearing anywhere soon. TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources that Snapchat is raising yet more financing at around a $20 billion valuation. Sources with k... |
Facebook denies bias in Trending Topics, but vows changes anyway | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 23 | Facebook responded today to official queries regarding its Trending Topics feature, specifically allegations made over the last few weeks that the team responsible for it was deliberately suppressing conservative views and arbitrarily elevating stories with little oversight. In a issued publicly and in a sent direc... |
Tim Cook admits ‘prices are high’ for iPhones in India | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 23 | Apple CEO made an uncharacteristic admission today in an — that iPhones are too expensive. He immediately qualified it, and the context really is important, but it’s just one of those things you don’t hear very often. found recently that India is among the most expensive places in the world to buy an iPhone, with ... |
How to get a show on TechCrunch | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 5 | 23 | I’m pretty excited and happy to announce that today I’m taking over Crunch Report. I edited over 150 episodes of Crunch Report back when Sarah Lane hosted the show and I learned a lot: how to be super efficient at editing, learning what I personally liked and disliked about Crunch Report and basically eating, breathin... |
Ex-Twitter VP Brian “Skip” Schipper lands at Yext | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 5 | 23 | Schipper will serve as Chief People Officer, overseeing global HR for New York-based Yext, and will lead the expansion of the company’s global employees as it moves toward an IPO. He previously held the same title at Groupon. “Yext is just getting started,” said Schipper. He hopes “to help build on a terrific reputatio... |
Lyft will now let you schedule trips ahead of time | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 5 | 23 | Ridesharing platform heard the people and the people wanted to schedule rides ahead of time. Starting today, Lyft is adding a new feature to let you schedule in advance that ride to the airport or crucial business meeting for which you need to be on time. , a ridesharing service in New York, has offered this feature ... |
We need more driverless car accidents | Shawn DuBravac | 2,016 | 5 | 23 |
A driverless car was involved in a traffic accident on a California city street earlier this year. No one was hurt in the small fender bender, but the accident does signal we are making incredible leaps forward on the road toward driverless cars. It may sound counterintuitive, but this crash shows just how far autono... |
Zmodo’s Pivot gives you 24/7 monitoring on the cheap | John Biggs | 2,016 | 5 | 23 | We’ve come a long way from the days of pale beige IP webcams with wonky interfaces and limited recording times. Today’s webcams, like the , are motion-sensing, low-light seeing, and notification-rich cylinders that hide out in secret places and store video for days at a time. In essence webcams have morphed from wonky... |
Facebook enables Continuous Live Video to power puppycams and more | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 23 | Live mobile video is evolving beyond selfie-stream rants and citizen journalism. Facebook will now allow non-stop, long-form broadcasting as long as the creators don’t mind that they won’t be able to permanently save and share the video. The new Continuous Live Video API enables persistent streams like nature feeds, 24... |
Amazon no longer offers price match refunds on anything but TVs | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 23 | has quietly ended its price protection policy on all products except for televisions. The change to the company’s policy comes at a time when a handful of startups have launched to help consumers automate the process of requesting refunds when prices change on online sites, including Amazon and dozens of other e-comme... |
Spice up your Snapchats with Stickers, not just emojis | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 5 | 23 | Snapchat just rolled out an update that lets users decorate their Snaps with the 200+ stickers they released as . The new feature works exactly like emojis — they even live inside the same button on the camera screen. Just like the emoji feature you can drag, resize and reposition any sticker on your photos or videos.... |
Chat app Line begins offering delivery on-demand services | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 15 | The future of mobile messaging is pointing towards services, but don’t assume that only applies to digital offerings like money transfers and shopping. Japan’s Line, one of the world’s most used chat apps, has just made a move into on-demand services. The pilot move is initially in Thailand — one of Line’s strongest ma... |
Penny raises $1.2M in seed funding for its personal finance bot | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 5 | 23 | , a personal finance bot , has in seed funding from . As a refresher, the app offers a chat-based interface that offers advice tailored to your personal finances. This advice includes things like how much you spend on food each week, how this month’s spending compares to last month’s and even income graphs. One uniq... |
Didi Chuxing, China’s largest taxi on-demand firm, denies plan for U.S. IPO in 2017 | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 5 | 15 | Didi Chuxing, the ride-sharing firm that leads Uber in China, has denied a report that it plans to go public in the U.S. next year. Just days after Didi announced , that the firm is eying an IPO in New York within the next 18 months. Bloomberg’s sources claim Didi, which is raising $3 billion more at a $26 billion v... |
Amazon will reportedly soon sell its own private-label groceries | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 5 | 15 | Amazon will soon roll out its own private-label brands of common household items like coffee, diapers, and other perishable groceries, according to a report The of perishable goods like baby food, tea, coffee, spices, and non-perishables like laundry detergent. These products will live under brand names like Happy Be... |
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This VR photography demo is like Pokemon Snap for action sports | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 5 | 15 | Who remembers ? The game was released in 1999 for N64 as a rail “shooter”, and let you take pictures of Pokemon while riding through different courses. But while your path through each level was predetermined, the photographs were not. Meaning users had free control of the camera and absolute discretion in what they c... |
Earthquakes and hand grenades | Greg Henderson | 2,016 | 5 | 15 |
When you pull the pin on a hand grenade, you have four seconds from the time you release the spoon — the aluminum lever that holds down the fuse trigger — until it explodes. Four seconds can be a very long time. I speak from the experience of throwing far more grenades than the average, well-trained U.S. soldier. Aft... |
How expiring patents are ushering in the next generation of 3D printing | Filemon Schoffer | 2,016 | 5 | 15 |
The year 2016 is quickly shaping up to be one of the hottest years on record for 3D printing innovations. Although there is still a lot of hype surrounding 3D printing and how it may or may not be the next industrial revolution, one thing is for certain: the cost of printing will continue to drop while the quality of... |
Why haven’t there been more unicorn mergers? | Michael Jones | 2,016 | 5 | 15 |
Last year was a massive year for , with industry giants like Dell and Aol finally closing deals that were large enough to make 2015 . Predictions mostly held that 2016 another , as they are one of the best ways to continue growing share price after a prolonged bull market. That’s why it’s somewhat surprising t... |
DogVacay’s Aaron Hirschhorn on how founders can control the relationship with VCs | Harry Stebbings | 2,016 | 5 | 15 |
Fundraising is a game of competition. VCs compete against other VCs to fund the latest startups. Startups compete with other startups to attain funding from the brand name VCs. So, to be successful fundraising, “the founder must create a competitive process between VCs,” according to Aaron Hirschhorn, the founder of ... |
3 ways startups are fighting for digital and physical security | Shannon Farley | 2,016 | 5 | 15 |
Internet accessibility for all people, of all ages and in all places has unleashed unprecedented resources and opportunities. It also unlocked our digital and physical security. The sacrifice of safety is an unintended consequence of the Internet age. Can the tools that caused this vulnerability be reappropriated to ... |
How threat intelligence sharing can help deal with cybersecurity challenges | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 5 | 15 |
In the ever-shifting landscape of cyberthreats and attacks, having access to timely information and intelligence is vital and can make a big difference in protecting organizations and firms against data breaches and security incidents. , growing smarter and becoming more sophisticated, which effectively makes traditi... |
After losing his leg, a Syrian war survivor turns to tech to 3D print prosthetic limbs | Farid Y. Farid | 2,016 | 5 | 15 |
dead silence for five minutes after a shell blew his left leg off in a small town southwest of Damascus in April 2013. A mathematics student turned volunteer paramedic Hasna had opened the ambulance door after loading injured rebels from the battlefront in Khan El Shih when Bashar Al Assad’s Syrian military forces h... |
South Korea’s government launches its first accelerator program for international startups | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 5 | 12 | The Global Startup Campus in Pangyo, South Korea In a bid to make South Korea’s tech industry more diverse, the government has created an accelerator for startups from around the world. Called the K-Startup Grand Challenge, the program is being organized by South Korea’s (MSIP), in partnership with Seoul-based accele... |
There’s an online soccer game used to fight gender based violence | Claudia Cahalane | 2,016 | 5 | 15 |
Throughout the game, the player is asked to make positive or negative choices around sexist behaviors via a series of soccer and cultural challenges. Image of girls playing the BREAKAWAY game. Photo courtesy of . BREAKAWAY and Grassroot Soccer believe they can play an important part in shifting the prevalent, harmfu... |
Apple invests $1B in Didi Chuxing, China’s largest ride-hailing app | Catherine Shu | 2,016 | 5 | 12 | made the bombshell announcement today that it has invested $1 billion in China’s top ride hailing app. (formerly called Didi Kuaidi) is often described in U.S. media as Uber’s Chinese rival, but it already dominates the market by far. The company and holds 87 percent of the country’s private ride-hailing market. I... |
In the singularity, we’ll still be using the same garbage trucks | Colin O’Donnell | 2,016 | 5 | 12 |
Our cities face a choice: find creative ways to integrate today’s technology into their DNA or have entire systems get left behind, widening the equality gulf for people who rely on them. Urban populations are growing, infrastructure is aging and needs are evolving (access to the Internet is as important as electrici... |
Accion Systems raises $7.5 million in Series A to accelerate production of miniature space thrusters | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 5 | 12 | , the company developing miniature space propulsion systems, has raised $7.5 million in Series A funding led by . RRE Ventures, Founder Collective, and Slow Ventures also participated in the round. The company had previously raised $2 million from seed funding and $6.5 million from partnerships with the Department of ... |
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Four ways African countries can ensure digital innovation benefits the entire population | Claver Gatete | 2,016 | 5 | 12 |
When Rwanda’s socioeconomic turnaround is discussed, the country’s disciplined approach to economic growth and commitment to avoiding the pitfalls of corruption are usually highlighted. However, while these components certainly played a significant role, another key factor in Rwanda’s transformation is often overlook... |
Tactical Technology educates women’s rights advocates on online safety | Claudia Cahalane | 2,016 | 5 | 12 | |
A folding robot made of pig parts that removes batteries from stomachs with magnets | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 12 | Researchers from MIT, the University of Sheffield and the Tokyo Institute of Technology joined forces for a project that reads like something out of a William Burroughs novel. Crafted from dried pig intestines, is designed to hatch from inside a swallowed capsule and unfold like an accordion. Once inside the swallowe... |
The technology-driven transformation of wealth management | Skip Maner | 2,016 | 5 | 12 |
In today’s digital world, everyday functions such as making dinner reservations or hailing a taxi are done at the touch of a button. Similarly, other, more complex and esoteric functions, such as wealth management, are also moving toward automation. This evolution is enabled by the creation of state-of-the-art softwa... |
Researchers are using Land Cruisers in the Outback as a wireless network | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 5 | 12 | Communication in the harsh, uninhabited and undeveloped environment of the Australian Outback is a huge challenge. That’s why Paul Gardner-Stephen, a senior lecturer at Flinders University in Adelaide, has partnered with Toyota and the communications and advertising agency . The three partners are building a literal... |
Slay squad goals, not just tasks, with Lattice | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 12 | You know what to do at work today, but do you know why? Goals. Having clear goals is critical to keeping productivity and morale high on any team. Whether it’s a launch date, level of traction, sales quota or hiring objective, teams perform better with well-defined motives. weaves goals into your workflow. Built by Y ... |
Disney Research uses RFID tags to create powerless, low-cost interactive controllers | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 12 | The team at is up to its fun old tricks, this time finding some new uses for off-the-shelf RFID tags. Along with , Disney’s laboratory wing has , making it possible to use the tags to turn cheap objects into simple wireless interactive controls that don’t require battery power. The RapID (pronounced “rapid”) system... |
Astronomers announce largest batch of new planets ever discovered | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 5 | 12 | NASA has that astronomers working with the Kepler space telescope have verified 1,284 new planets — more than doubling the number of previously confirmed planets from Kepler. In fact, this new batch was the single largest group of new validated planets to date. Astronomers used statistical analysis on a planet catalo... |
Clarifying the uses of artificial intelligence in the enterprise | Michael Schmidt | 2,016 | 5 | 12 |
Artificial intelligence. It’s dominating headlines with the promise of self-driving cars and virtual assistants becoming more real every day. But despite all the talk around AI, no one seems to really understand what it is or how companies can use it. Is AI the computer that competed on ? Or Johnny 5 from the movie ... |
Walmart begins testing 2-day shipping service to take on Amazon Prime | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 12 | is making a notable to change to , its three-day shipping service and answer to Amazon Prime . The company says this morning it will move from three-day delivery to two-day delivery — which makes the service far more competitive with Amazon’s similarly structured annual shipping program. This is an interesting move ... |
Fender cashes in its cool with consumer in-ear monitor headphones | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 5 | 12 | Brian Heater, TechCrunch’s new hardware editor, gave the high-end Fender FXA6s a spin, and said “They sound really good. They’re accurate to the source material and the levels are clear and even. One of the best set of in-ear headphones I’ve tested in a while. They’re also comfortable and stay in the ear. Custom headph... |
Virtual reality — from the living room to the classroom | David Baszucki | 2,016 | 5 | 12 |
There is a world of enormous educational potential with video games. Highly acclaimed simulation and tutorial games such as and have been continuously employed in elementary schools across the country, but the most common software used in education today is the web, word processors and spreadsheets. Recent research... |
The Roll helps you find the best photos on your phone | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 5 | 12 | Wondering which of the tens of thousands of photos on your phone are worth keeping or sharing may be a thing of the past, thanks to , a brand new app from . analyzes your camera roll and uses computer vision to tag your images and rank your photos by how good they are. The Roll’s keywording is uncannily good “The R... |
Google launches Gboard, an iOS keyboard that lets you search without a browser | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 5 | 12 | Google this morning a new application for iOS devices called Gboard that puts the power of Google search directly into your mobile device’s keyboard. This keyboard had been earlier this year, and it appears the original reports were accurate. Not only does the app allow for an easy way to use Google search, it also... |
The skinny bundle will be neither skinny nor bundled — but it will be great | Mike Hoefflinger | 2,016 | 5 | 12 |
In-home video entertainment is a big deal. globally in 2019 big. About $100 billion in North America big. Triple the revenue of apps and games big. No wonder, then, that it won’t get re-worked as easily or quickly as music did. The TV conglomerates are , forcing any potential providers of so-called “skinny bundl... |
The $799 VUZE virtual reality camera goes up for pre-order | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 12 | Virtual reality is expensive. High-end headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive will run you $599 and $799 — and the cameras required to capture the content runs several times that. At $799, the isn’t particularly cheap by most of our standards, but it’s certainly enough to qualify the virtual reality camera as “a... |
Why Britain is beating the U.S. at financial innovation | Jeff Lynn | 2,016 | 5 | 13 | |
Trends in angel investing | Sam Bernards | 2,016 | 5 | 13 |
“Tell me about your cap table?” I asked the founder of an early-stage startup. He was clearly passionate about his business, and had assembled a top-notch team to help him achieve his ambitious vision. But the grit and determination that helped him overcome the challenges of his current and former startups seemed to ... |
The importance of black boxes in an autonomous automotive future | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 5 | 13 | Right now, if you get into a crash, it’s usually going to be a driver’s fault — a human driver. Parts can fail and tires can burst, but about , depending on which study you read. But in the not-too-distant future, that clear-cut cause will evaporate as more vehicles take over more driving tasks, creating more and more... |
Fender’s first foray into headphones sounds great | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 5 | 13 | I was cynical at first. I mean, I still have some underlying (if not entirely well-founded) suspicions that is part of a bigger play to expand beyond its customary guitar and amp offerings. But if the FXA6 is, indeed, just the first step of some larger world domination plan, it’s an extremely solid one. I know I’m no... |
Robots won’t just take jobs, they’ll create them | Mynul Khan | 2,016 | 5 | 13 |
and artificial intelligence have come a long way since a Roomba entered your home to vacuum your floor and Siri gave you advice on the best Italian restaurants in your parents’ neighborhood. Cars drive themselves. . A revolution is underway. According to a , half of American could be automated within the next ... |
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Why incident response plans fail | Susan Peterson | 2,016 | 5 | 13 |
Following a cyber attack on critical infrastructure, emotions run high and the clock starts ticking. Suddenly what appears to be a well-structured incident response (IR) plan on paper can turn into a confusing “storming session” around who owns what. Rather than identifying, analyzing and eradicating the threat, orga... |
Playboy pitches advertisers on its nudity-free future | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 5 | 13 | looked both backwards and forwards during its first today, where it pitched advertisers on its plans for what CEO Scott Flanders described as “the new, multi-platform Playboy.” Now, when I say “Playboy event,” you’ve probably got some preconceived ideas about what’s involved. Turns out, however, that it wasn’t all t... |
Acacia soars 35% in second tech IPO of the year | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 5 | 13 | But Acacia Communications listed on the public markets today and outperformed expectations. After pricing its offering at the top of the range at $23 per share and raising $103.5 million, the company soared to above $30 in its first day of trading, yielding a market cap of above $1 billion. “The IPO market has been p... |
GearVR update brings much-needed native viewcapture tool to compatible phones | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 5 | 13 | Here’s the thing: when your eyes are synthesizing information from multiple screens into a three-dimensional virtual space, the word “screenshot” fails to describe what it is doing almost as badly as it fails to document what you are experiencing. So I’m calling it viewcapture. So easy Another, separate problem is that... |
Arizona’s Governor Ducey signs SB 1350 into law, prohibiting the ban of short-term rentals | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 5 | 13 | Governor Doug Ducey of Arizona , a law which prohibits cities and municipalities from banning the listing and use of short-term rentals like Airbnb, HomeAway, and others. Signing the law isn’t solely about gaining political points, it’s also another step in the Arizona governor’s stated that encourages a sharing ec... |
Three ways tech is reinventing a surprising sector | Kevin Barenblat | 2,016 | 5 | 13 |
More than 1 million users. Sixteen billion monthly page views. Ninety-nine percent user engagement. If these sound like stats from companies, you’re right. Except these companies are nonprofits. In Steve Case’s new book, , he argues that this next generation of the Internet will transform major industry sectors ... |
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