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Crunch Report | Facebook’s Election Hub | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 11 | 4 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Are smart cities just a utopian fantasy? | Tyler Edell | 2,016 | 11 | 4 |
Songdo, South Korea began its life as tidal marshland. Now it’s leading the charge into the future of smart cities. Once home to small-scale fishing operations, Songdo comprises massive, LEED-certified buildings, an efficient garbage collection system and even an island for rabbits. The project began in 2000, when 50... |
Google and Blizzard team up on a StarCraft made just for AIs | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 4 | AIs have more or less mastered chess, Go and a number of other highly cerebral games — how will they do on something like StarCraft II, which combines high-level strategy with the need for quick reaction times and tactical thinking? Probably great, honestly. And will ensure it. The project isn’t just an AI to play St... |
The Happy Home Company shuts down, team members move to Google | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 11 | 4 | is the latest home services startup to call it quits. The company was founded by Doug Ludlow, who , to AOL (which also owns TechCrunch). Its goal was to take some of the confusion out of the home maintenance process — when something broke in your home, Happy Home’s “home managers” would help you find the right servic... |
Weekly Roundup: Tesla’s solar roof, Facebook’s killer Q3 and new emoji | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 11 | 4 | This week, Facebook’s Trending Topics system was notably late to a huge social media protest, Elon Musk announced new solar roof panels that the company hopes will change how we consume electric power and Instagram tested shoppable tags. These are some of this week’s top stories in tech. Want to receive the Weekly Roun... |
Samsung will release a software update to stop unreturned Note 7s from charging above 60% | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 11 | 4 | This morning that it was issuing a voluntary recall to address some 700-plus reports of malfunctioning top-loading washing machines, including one very unfortunate case of a broken jaw. It was the cherry on top of what has already been a rough few months for the hardware giant, driven mostly by the prolonged saga of ... |
Finally, at long last, someone hacked Amazon’s Alexa into one of those singing fish | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 11 | 4 | the future Posted by on Thursday, October 27, 2016 Do you, like many others, wake up each morning, gaze upon your Amazon Echo, and think, “Damn it, Echo. Instead of a shiny cylinder, why can’t you be a singing fish?” Good news, friend. On his Facebook profile, artist briefly demonstrates what happens when you take... |
PR analytics startup TrendKite raises $16.3M | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 11 | 4 | announced today that it has raised $16.3 million in Series D funding. The company it helps businesses understand the impact of their news coverage and public relations strategy — like which articles are driving the most awareness of their brand, the total audience that’s being reached by the coverage and the sentime... |
Google Capital changes its name to CapitalG (Update: and quietly confirms it invested in Snapchat) | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 11 | 4 | And the Google rebranding continues. — the company’s venture arm that focuses on growth-stage companies (read: those that have proven their idea and are now growing) as opposed to earlier-stage startups — is now “CapitalG.” All this, it’s worth noting, is a separate thing from , Alphabet’s investment arm that focus... |
Pokemon GO finally gets a new Pokemon tracker in select places outside San Francisco | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 11 | 4 | Remember when Pokemon GO got a new system for finding nearby Pokemon (to replace the one that’d broke almost immediately after launch) … but it ? Well, good news/bad news time. The good news: more people outside of San Francisco are getting it now! The bad news: its still not for . The company just announced a small ... |
Periscope Data pulls in $25 million in Series B | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 11 | 4 | Periscope Data, the company that lets data scientists quickly build customized, highly detailed visualizations of their data, has signed the term sheet on a ~$25 million funding round, according to sources close to the matter. Sources told TechCrunch that the pre-funding valuation was at $100 million, and the round was... |
Uber and Lyft try to get out the vote | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 11 | 4 | Sure, for many of us next Wednesday can’t get here soon enough to finally put an end to this multi-year election cycle, but before that day arrives, it’s time for some civic duty. Uber and Lyft, for their part, are taking steps to remove a little bit of pain from locating and getting to the proper polling place. to of... |
Winning the race to the digital economy by cracking the code on the gender gap | Paul Daugherty | 2,016 | 11 | 4 |
The facts are startling. The chasm between the number of job openings in today’s digital economy and the number of skilled workers available is growing in the wrong direction and threatening the competitiveness of the U.S. economy. In 2015, there were 500,000 new computing jobs available in the U.S., but as recently ... |
Apple provides a soft(er) landing for MacBook Pro buyers with deep discounts on peripherals and dongles | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 11 | 4 | Apple is addressing the sudden and wide inexplicable fear of dongles driven by the MacBook Pro’s USB-C only approach with a store-wide discount on adapters. The price cut that allow users to attach legacy devices to the new laptops, . The discounts range from 20%-40% on a variety of Apple and third-party products fr... |
Facebook will test ads on Apple TV and Roku | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 11 | 4 | Facebook’s ad ambitions are expanding to encompass Internet-connected TVs — it will be conducting a test of its ad network on Apple TV and Roku next week. Other online ad companies ( ) have explored TV advertising already. In Facebook’s case, the company will use Facebook data to target ads for A+E and Tubi TV — basica... |
The Powerbeats3 bring some nice upgrades for iPhone owners | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 11 | 4 | The Powerbeats3 don’t look all that different from . There are a few tweaks here and there, mostly aimed at getting them to fit better. The primary distinction is tucked away inside, a happy addition to the Bluetooth earbuds that arrives as a result of the headphone company’s acquisition by Apple. While the brand wasn... |
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Tribeca Enterprises brings VR to the Westfield World Trade Center | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 11 | 4 | Visitors to the Westfield World Trade Center (the recently opened mall below the World Trade Center) will be able to get a hands-on virtual reality experience this month — an experience curated by Tribeca Enterprises, the organization behind the Tribeca Film Festival. Tribeca has , but programmer Loren Hammonds noted ... |
Turkey blocks social media sites again to stall protests — here’s how to access them | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 4 | Turkey has once again blocked access to social media in an apparent effort to keep a lid on protests; many in the capital and elsewhere are demonstrating following the arrest of a number of opposition leaders. Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp and YouTube are reportedly blocked or at least being throttled to the point of ina... |
The Here One smart earbuds are the coolest gadget I’ve tried in a while | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 11 | 4 | I spend most of my days chatting with virtual/augmented reality companies, so the world of Black Mirror always seems a bit more imminent than it perhaps is. That being said, the future felt frighteningly close after my brief demo with Doppler Labs’ smart earbuds. At face value, the Here Ones are just another pair of ... |
What you need to know about startup boards | Samer Hamadeh | 2,016 | 11 | 5 |
Every company has a board of directors — but few founders and entrepreneurs give the matter of board composition much thought. Samer has been on five startup boards and has founded and served on the boards of two of his own companies; Adam is a corporate partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, a technology and s... |
WhatsApp is testing a clone of Snapchat Stories, called Status | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 11 | 5 | Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp is experimenting with a new Status feature that lets users share mood-setting pictures and videos overlaid with other custom elements such as emoji, with the content disappearing 24 hours after it’s shared — so basically a copy of Snapchat Stories. The test feature was spotted on F... |
How to facilitate the path to brownfield IoT development | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 11 | 5 |
As the Internet of Things (IoT) evolves toward becoming in the tech industry, a lot of focus is being given to greenfield development, the process of creating new devices from scratch. Many companies and startups are rushing to ship new connected products to store shelves in order to secure a share of this growing ... |
Five principles for building the next great video platform | Michael Segal | 2,016 | 11 | 5 |
Video is eating the internet. It accounts for nearly 75 percent of internet traffic, with Americans consuming more than an hour of online videos each day — more than three times as much as in 2011. Established platforms like YouTube and Netflix capture a large portion of this traffic, but there also are a number of n... |
Boosted Board owners told to stop riding while the company investigates ‘venting’ batteries | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 11 | 2 | It hasn’t been a great year for batteries. Boosted Board CEO and founder Sanjay Dastoor asking owners of its newest electric longboard to stop riding them while the company investigates an issue with its batteries. Specifically, they’re investigating two separate cases where the lithium battery cell on the second-gen... |
Welcome to the hardtech era | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 11 | 5 | Good news, my friends! The day we have all ostentatiously longed for has arrived. I come to announce that the days of are over. The era of photo apps, messaging copycats, new niche social networks, “Uber for X”, and on-demand delivery of artisanal civet coffee is behind us at last. No more trivial apps and web serv... |
Gousto, the UK cook-at-home recipe kit service, serves up further £10M in funding | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 11 | 2 | , the U.K. cook-at-home recipe kit service that competes most directly with Rocket Internet’s HelloFresh, has raised a further £10 million in funding. Backing comes from BGF Ventures, Unilever Ventures, MMC Ventures, Angel CoFund, and Barclays — and is a mixture of equity debt financing. In a call, Gousto founder and... |
Twitter loses another exec in Asia — this time its head of India and Southeast Asia | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 11 | 2 | When it rains, it pours. That’s the case right now for Twitter’s business in Asia after a third senior executive announced their departure from the company. Parminder Singh, who oversaw the business in India, Southeast Asia and the Middle East for the past three years, today announced that he is moving on to pastures n... |
Harnessing mobile technologies will help the next generation vote | Maram Abdelhamid | 2,016 | 11 | 2 |
With one of the most controversial and important presidential elections in our country’s history –- of which issues important to diverse communities are especially front and center –- it’s imperative we encourage millennials to vote. It is safe to say either their participation or inaction will shape this country for... |
DJI sends invites for November 15 event, Inspire 2 likely to debut | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 11 | 2 | It seems DJI is about to announce the next generation of the Inspire drone. The company recently sent invites for a November 15 event in LA with the tagline of Control / Create, clearly a nod to the Inspire’s dual-controller capability and target market of Hollywood creators. The event would be two years and one day af... |
Adobe previews its next-gen photo editor | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 11 | 2 | At its , Adobe today previewed Project Nimbus, a new cloud-native, Lightroom-like photo editor that takes away a lot of the complexity of Adobe’s flagship photo-managing and editing application and replaces it with simpler, smarter tools. For now, Adobe is sadly not releasing this tool to the public, but you can expec... |
Self-healing electric ink refuses to die when cut | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 2 | Some clever researchers — perhaps too clever — have created a printable, self-healing conductive material that repeatedly fixes itself after being snipped in half. Perhaps this will lead to cut-resistant hunter-killer robots, but more likely it’ll just be used for smart jeans. The UC San Diego engineers were looking in... |
The Muse co-founders are writing a book about the new rules of work | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 11 | 2 | and are proud of their careers, and no wonder. They’re co-founders of the New York-based career site , which offers job opportunities, skill-building courses, coaching and video profiles meant to show what it’s like to work at different companies. They’ve beefed up their own executive ranks with several new hires: ... |
To IP or not to IP, that is the question | Ankit Jain | 2,016 | 11 | 2 |
The rise and fall of Pokémon GO begs us to ask many questions regarding how to launch a game to position it for success. One specific question it raises is whether branded intellectual property is something game makers should consider prior to launch. Branded IP is one of the most time-tested ways to launch games tha... |
Elgato intros a standalone motion detector for Apple HomeKit | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 11 | 2 | Setting up a connected home is a piecemeal proposition at the moment. Apple, Google and Amazon all working to push out their respective frameworks as quickly as humanly possible, but for the time being, actually automating the process is a matter of picking up devices here and there. is offering an interesting take on... |
Blocking ad blockers boosted Facebook’s desktop ad revenue 18% | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 11 | 2 | Facebook’s recent is already earning it money. On today’s , the company said desktop ad revenue grew 18 percent year-over-year this quarter compared to around 9 percent in previous quarters, and that thwarting ad blockers was largely the cause for that boost. While Adblock Plus announced it would circumvent the ban, ... |
Phil Schiller justifies the compromises of the MacBook Pro | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 11 | 2 | In an interview with , Apple’s SVP of Worldwide Marketing Phil Schiller looked back at last week’s Apple event and justified some of the decisions behind the . Let’s go through the new information in this interview. Schiller is saying that the MacBook Pro is the fastest selling pro laptop from Apple. “And we are prou... |
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Facebook has connected 40M people with Internet.org | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 11 | 2 | Today on Facebook’s , Mark Zuckerberg said Internet.org has helped 40 million people get online. Indeed, 0.5% percent of the world’s population is now connected to the internet thanks to Facebook’s accessibility initiatives. The company even said Internet.org contributed to monthly user growth, which accelerated from ... |
Dell takes on Surface Studio with its dual-screen Smart Desk concept – it even has a dial | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 2 | : Wow, this concept is from . But Dell tells me it actually exists now and we’ll see it at CES in January. Stay tuned! Microsoft impressed a lot of people last week with its , a desktop-tablet hybrid with a clever and elegant . Apparently Dell has been thinking along the same lines, because they just teased somethin... |
New MacBook Pro, the great dongling and Windows notebooks: TCBC 8 with Stefan Etienne | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 11 | 2 |
Hardware reporter and reviewer Stefan Etienne joins me this week to share first-person impressions of the new entry-level , and we discuss ports — or the . Is a dongle-filled future really going to impact the ability of professionals to get work done with the latest MBP? Stefan has some thoughts on the issue. ... |
San Francisco taxi company sues Uber for “predatory pricing tactics” | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 11 | 2 | Another day, another lawsuit against Uber. This time it’s coming from DeSoto Cab, the oldest cab company in San Francisco. DeSoto, which recently rebranded as Flywheel Taxi, has accused Uber of things like monopolization, illegal and unfair practices and predatory pricing, according to a lawsuit filed in the U.S. Distr... |
Microsoft Teams feels like déjà vu all over again | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 11 | 2 | Microsoft introduced today to much fanfare and hoopla — as only Microsoft can seem to do these days. But when you take a close look at today’s announcement, what have you really got here — a 10-year-old idea on how to communicate and collaborate in the enterprise with a distinctly Microsoft twist. As I wrote previous... |
Ticketing’s distributed future is not only good for fans, it’s already happening | Jesse Lawrence | 2,016 | 11 | 2 |
Since the dawn of consumer history, tickets have been a product defined by scarcity and lack of accessibility. The result is an abysmal category user experience that’s most often talked about with undertones of anger, skepticism and distrust. For evidence of scarcity in action, look no further than the World Series b... |
Pokémon GO introduces daily bonuses to keep players coming back | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 11 | 2 | Now that the insane, oh-my-god-it’s-everywhere hype cycle has tapered off a bit for Pokémon GO, Niantic gets to crack the classic startup conundrum: How the heck do they keep people coming back? They could introduce another generation of Pokémon to pacify everyone who’s already caught ’em all, but that’s got an inheren... |
Facebook scores big in Q3 earnings: $7.01B revenue and 1.79B users | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 11 | 2 | Facebook had a wildly , earning $7.01 billion in revenue and $1.09 EPS. That’s off of from 1.79 billion monthly users, up 16% year-over-year, and growing 4.67% this quarter, speeding up from 3.63% last quarter. Daily active users rose to 1.18 from 1.13 billion last quarter, and up 17% year-over-year. Facebook destroye... |
Facebook’s fake news problem and fantasy sports: Listen to TCBC 9 with Jordan Crook | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 11 | 20 |
Facebook’s issues with viral false news reports dominated headlines this week, so naturally it came up as a key topic of discussion when I spoke to TechCrunch’s special projects editor and internet culture reporter Jordan Crook on this week’s episode. The sheer scope of the issue is something that becomes very a... |
Apple is replacing faulty batteries on ‘a very small number’ of iPhone 6s devices | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 11 | 20 | ‘Tis the season for Apple replacement programs, it appears. Days after devices, so a battery replacement program for iPhone 6s owners affected by unexpected shutdowns. Apple said the problem impacts “a very small number” of iPhone 6s devices that were made between September and October last year. In those cases, th... |
There is no IoT | Ajay Kulkarni | 2,016 | 11 | 20 |
’s a general malaise growing around . After years of , and , people are now starting to wonder: Where is this shiny, artificially intelligent, fully connected future of things we were promised? Certainly has not helped. Part of the problem, like with any massive transformation, is because of the nature of expo... |
Harry Weller, a “Midas List” VC and the head of NEA’s East Coast practice, has passed away | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 11 | 20 | Harry Weller, who has long led the East Coast venture practice of from Washington, D.C., passed away unexpectedly last night. He was 46. Weller had joined the firm in 2002, not long after nabbing an undergraduate degree in physics from Duke University and an MBA from Harvard. Neither his family nor NEA has released d... |
Why nature is our best guide for understanding artificial intelligence | David Cheng | 2,016 | 11 | 20 |
In living organisms, evolution is a multi-generational process where mutations in genes are dropped and added. Well-adapted organisms survive and those less fortunate go extinct. This is Natural Selection. Resilience is great, but if you don’t grow gills in time for the flood, then tough luck. Engineering, on the oth... |
Harmony Space wins top prize at MIT Hacking Arts for music learning app that feels like Pokémon GO | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 11 | 20 | In Boston this weekend, software developers, hardware engineers, artists and entrepreneurs gathered for the conference and hackathon at MIT. Of twelve finalists, the following teams took top honors. Hackathons are typcially hosted by corporations or schools to promote certain technologies, drum up new product ideas, a... |
Spectacle-selling Snapbot deployed at the Grand Canyon | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 11 | 20 | Not even 24 hours after we got the last Snapchat Spectacle vending machine location, there’s a new one: , closest to the small town of Meadview. The new spot is striking distance from Las Vegas, and should provide a beautiful road trip for anyone adventurous enough to make the drive. The Grand Canyon location follows ... |
Beyond Nokia: A love story | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 11 | 20 | 2011. Verena Rentrop and Elsie Parumog, two Nokia staff stationed on opposite sides of the world, were having a routine work chat about the company’s IT processes when something more pressing came up. With another wave of restructuring underway, which would see Nokia lay off tens of thousands of employees over the nex... |
Listen to Nested CEO on reluctant founders, fundraising, and why you shouldn’t do a startup | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 11 | 20 | Last week I caught up with Matt Robinson, co-founder and CEO of London-based property tech startup . Prior to this he co-founded , a fintech company also based in London. During our call we discussed to start Nested, how too many bad ideas are being funded, why not everybody should do a startup, and Robinson’s top ... |
Crunch Report | FanDuel and DraftKings Merge | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 11 | 18 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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How the cloud, infused with analytic insights, impacts athletes and sports fans | David Boloker | 2,016 | 11 | 18 |
Smart technology continues to streamline and transform nearly all aspects of our lives — monitoring our sleep patterns, allowing us to work from anywhere at any time and even helping to find cures for diseases like Zika. But more than optimizing tedious workflows or gamifying daily activities, smart technology has he... |
Paint 3D is now a part of the Microsoft’s Creators Update test build | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 11 | 18 | You know you’ve been wanting to play around with that new version of Microsoft Paint — if only to see if it is, indeed, that big of an update to the long-maligned drawing application that’s been shipping with Windows since the mid-1980s. is unquestionably one of the biggest refreshes in the application’s history. In f... |
FilmStruck is a streaming service for lovers of art-house films and foreign classics | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 11 | 18 | It might be time for movie lovers to add another streaming service to their monthly subscriptions — , a new service created by Turner Classic Movies. Services like Amazon and Netflix are building up libraries of originals (starting with TV, but also including films), and they’re . But if you’re a particular kind of... |
Intel is laying off a major portion of its wearables group | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 11 | 18 | According to sources close to the company, Intel is about to step back from wearables in a big way. In 2014, the company purchased , a little-known producer of some truly excellent fitness watches. The acquisition was clearly a piece of a much larger puzzle for Intel, as it folded the brand into NDG — the New Devices ... |
Here’s Intel’s abandoned wearable, the Basis Ruby | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 11 | 18 | Intel’s spent the last few years betting on wearables, but things just aren’t paying off. According to sources close to the company, there are major changes afoot at the chipmaker’s New Devices Group, including some major job loss. From the sound of it, some key projects will likely never see the light of day either, i... |
Hyperloop One has settled the lawsuit with former co-founder Brogan BamBrogan | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 11 | 18 | tells TechCrunch it has just settled brought against the company by its former co-founder Brogan BamBrogan and several former employees. BamBrogan, David Pendergast, William Mulholland and Knut Sauer filed the lawsuit against the company this summer, claiming the technology they built was being “strangled” by the ve... |
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Big data can’t bring objectivity to a subjective world | Simon Chandler | 2,016 | 11 | 18 |
It seems everyone is interested in big data these days. From social scientists to advertisers, professionals from all walks of life are singing the praises of 21st-century data science. In the social sciences, many scholars apparently believe it will lend their subject a previously elusive objectivity and clarity. So... |
Watch Tesla Model S P85D’s instant speed avoid a potential rear-end collision | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 11 | 18 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRR31NaXoVw&w=640&h=360] Tesla’s focusing on its work on autonomous driving as a huge potential gain for driver safety, but a video from a Tesla Model S P85D shows that some current features not related to self-driving are actually already helping prevent accidents. Tesla owner ... |
Inside Google Shop, where Google is reinventing how it sells devices | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 11 | 18 | rethought its approach to hardware with the new Pixel and Pixel XL smartphones, devices designed and created by Google itself. It’s also rethinking how it sells devices, with the new Google Shop. This fall saw Google introduce its Pixels, the Chromecast Ultra and the Daydream View VR headset, and to help sell those de... |
Facebook authorizes a $6B stock buyback | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 11 | 18 | Facebook today said it is authorizing a $6 billion stock buyback that will go into effect in the first quarter next year. Facebook in its last earnings call also said that its growth would likely slow as a result of the company reaching its maximum advertising load. While Facebook has historically grown at a very fast ... |
Weekly Roundup: Facebook’s fake news, MacBook Pro reviewed, first human CRISPR-ed | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 11 | 18 | Facebook’s fake news frenzy continued as the company came under scrutiny for its debated influence on the U.S. election, LinkedIn was blocked in Russia and a person was treated with CRISPR technology for the first time. Also, according to Stephen Hawking. But do we deserve survival? The existence of points toward n... |
Cogito closes $15M Series B to improve customer support with science | John Mannes | 2,016 | 11 | 18 | , a real-time feedback platform for customer service agents, added $15 million to its coffers today in the form of a Series B. This brings the company’s total fundraising to $22.5 million. The MIT Media Lab spin-off is to call centers around the world to improve customer experiences. Cogito compares the characteristi... |
Hands-on with Play-Doh Touch, the app that brings kids’ creations to life | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 11 | 18 | Play-Doh has come to the iPad. With , Hasbro has made a solid attempt at bringing the joy of Play-Doh to digital through an that brings kids’ creations to life. But the combination of physical play and digital is not a skill set that’s easily mastered even by top kids’ brands — . And while Play-Doh itself holds u... |
Running with the Apple Watch Nike+ | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 11 | 18 | I’m not trying to brag or anything (I am), but I comfortably ran a half marathon wearing the first version of the 42mm Apple Watch with a classy, stainless steel band. So, when I heard about Nike’s version of the Apple Watch, it’s not like I thought, “Finally! I totally need this because running with the regular Apple ... |
Conan O’Brien tries VR and things get a bit scandalous | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 11 | 18 | HTC had a pretty good PR moment this week as Conan donned a Vive VR headset on his show and got up to some antics during a tour of YouTube’s VR studio. After testing his artistic hand with a self portrait in Google’s Tilt Brush, Conan immersed himself in the world of and things got a bit crazy. Upon being plunged int... |
This security camera was infected by malware 98 seconds after it was plugged in | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 18 | Here’s an object lesson on the poor state of the so-called Internet of Things: Robert Stephens plugged a Wi-Fi-connected security camera into his network and it was Stephens, a tech industry veteran, wasn’t so naive as to do this without protecting himself. It was walled off from the rest of the network and rate-limit... |
BuzzFeed authorizes $200 million flat round | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 11 | 18 | null |
Debug Politics says it’s time for the tech industry to help solve political problems | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 11 | 18 | Silicon Valley has been as the place where entrepreneurs like to declare they’re “making the world a better place” when they’re actually just trying to make money. But now a new, nonpartisan initiative called is encouraging the tech industry to live up to the catchphrase — by helping to fix the political system. Je... |
Razer’s Blade 14 successfully merges mobile gaming with slick hardware | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 11 | 18 | Razer seems to have figured out how to squeeze in the most power per inch in a laptop. Now in its fourth generation, the Razer Blade 14 has never been more powerful as a personal computer — or better yet, as a gaming laptop fit for any battle station. It looks good, runs well and is brimming with specs in a unibody alu... |
Disrupting the world of science publishing | Bérénice Magistretti | 2,016 | 11 | 27 |
Every scientist wants his or her paper to appear in , or . In today’s scientific world, being associated with such publications is synonymous with prestige and excellence, opening doors to top positions and coveted awards. Nonetheless, these journals are typically known to have an acceptance rate of 5-10 percent,... |
Relax, artificial intelligence isn’t coming for your job | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 11 | 27 | There is a pervasive underlying fear from that artificial intelligence and robotics will be the undoing of humankind. Eventually, the conventional thinking goes — even the likes of here — artificial intelligence will become smarter than the organic variety and terrible things will happen as machines take over the p... |
Asia’s answer to ClassPass is pivoting to become a marketplace for local services | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 11 | 27 | One of Asia’s most-funded clones of U.S.-based subscription fitness service ClassPass is pivoting to local services. KFit, which has from , announced today that it has acquired the Groupon Malaysia business in an undisclosed deal. That comes less than six months after KFit, which operates a fitness-style ‘buffet’ fo... |
We’re all screwed, but let’s not be nihilists | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 11 | 27 | We are so doomed it’s almost funny, and always have been. Don’t worry, I’m not being political! …well, not exactly. I’m talking about the State of Internet Security, which is, as always, disastrous-verging-on-cataclysmic. Are you worried about Russian hackers? Hah! You should be so lucky as to be hacked. We should all ... |
Crunch Report | Facebook Made Us All Dead | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 11 | 11 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Kickstarter smash hit INSTRUMENT 1 from Artiphon is now available to buy | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 11 | 11 | Take a , add a lot of tech in its belly and jam a USB cable up its jacksie and you get something that looks vaguely like an INSTRUMENT 1. It’s a completely new type of musical instrument developed by . Funded through , the instrument is shipping now, and we can’t wait to see what people will be creating with it. The... |
Nintendowned: Amazon sells out of the NES Classic Edition in (null) seconds | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 11 | We knew the , with its retro aesthetic and solid game selection, would be , but this is some next level, Tickle Me Elmo-style demand. Amazon, which made its supply of the console available at 2PM Pacific today, sold out in what appeared to be less than a minute. Clearly thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of gam... |
AT&T downgrades video quality on mobile with ‘Stream Saver’ | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 11 | AT&T just introduced a new “feature” much like T-Mobile’s Binge On that will automatically throttles all video streams to a lower resolution and bandwidth unless you opt out of it. They call it , and yes, it applies to “unlimited” data plans. All video streams it detects, once it goes into effect next year, will be li... |
Facebook Messenger launches its public group chat feature “Rooms” in select markets | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 11 | 11 | Facebook’s experiment with semi-anonymous social networking centered around interests, via a , . But the learnings from that earlier experiment have now in Facebook’s Messenger application as a new feature called Rooms, which is rolling out now in select markets. The limited launch is meant to serve as a test to se... |
Signups for encrypted mail client ProtonMail double after election | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 11 | 11 | The election of Donald Trump has lots of Americans worried about their privacy, and they’re turning to encrypted communication platforms to protect themselves. During an yesterday, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden encouraged those concerned about the ramifications of Trump at the helm of the NSA to use — and it see... |
Instant apps are publishers’ newest ‘frenemy’ when it comes to monetization | Mark Ellis | 2,016 | 11 | 11 |
Since the dawn of the iPhone, Apple has been designing, revolutionizing and, to some extent, controlling the way people interact with their mobile devices through a marketplace known as the App Store. When the App Store first opened, there were 552 apps. Today, there are 2 million iOS apps, and apps available in An... |
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Lyft denies report — okay, tweet — suggesting its COO is in talks with Trump’s transition team | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 11 | 11 | Yesterday, former Fortune reporter Dan Primack reported that not only was billionaire investor Peter Thiel for Donald Trump’s transition team but that Thiel was, in fact, already on it as of yesterday. That report has since been confirmed. Now, a newer report from Primack — a , actually — states that Trump’s transit... |
Weekly Roundup: Trump victory casts shadow of despair over tech industry | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 11 | 11 | This week, the U.S. was shell-shocked and the tech world was in dismay from Donald Trump’s election victory. Silicon Valley lost its mind in a mess of tweet storms and public outcry. It was the perfect time for GoPro to announce it is recalling its Karma drone, and we escaped this harsh cruel reality with the launch of... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 11.11.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 11 | 11 | This is a LIVE recording session of – today with: Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page G3’s Facebook page |
DJI says it’s learned its lessons from the Mavic Pro delay | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 11 | 11 | Timing is everything. And for DJI, the timing for the Mavic Pro, the stars seemed to align perfectly. A couple of weeks after GoPro’s big unveil, the company had a folding drone of its own that was smaller and more feature packed that the Karma. And, in spite of being late to the announcement part, DJI announced that i... |
DigitalGlobe’s new imaging satellite makes it to space | John Mannes | 2,016 | 11 | 11 | This morning, the sent an Atlas 5 401 rocket loaded with The satellite will create a new pipeline for sending high quality satellite imagery back to earth. worked with to build a satellite capable of taking crystal-clear photos from 400 miles away while moving at 17,000 mph. WorldView 4 will double DigitalGlobe’s c... |
Facebook suddenly says a bunch of its users are dead. Don’t panic. | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 11 | 11 | Over the last half hour or so, reports have started pouring in from Facebook users that the social network has suddenly “memorialized” their pages, strongly suggesting that they are dead to everyone who stops by. Take the above profile of our own Darrell Etherington — who is very much not dead, as in I’m talking to him... |
Tencent is giving its staff $220M in shares to celebrate its 18th birthday | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 11 | 11 | November 11 — the date of the 11/11 shopping bonanza — is generally a day when Alibaba creates the headlines. While the e-commerce giant , selling a colossal $17.79 billion of goods inside 24 hours, its rival Tencent grabbed a share of the attention after it agreed to give its 31,500 staff company shares. Friday marke... |
Democratic Trump supporters were hiding in plain sight | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 11 | 11 | If you’re shocked by Donald Trump’s election, you’re not alone — the president-elect surprised many people, including the pollsters who predicted a Hillary Clinton victory by wide margins. Since election night, pollsters, journalists, voters, and probably the folks over at the Clinton campaign have been trying to figur... |
Scientists gain a versatile, modern search engine with the AI-powered Semantic Scholar | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 11 | Scientific papers come out with such frequency that keeping up with the literature is practically a full-time job for anyone at the cutting edge of a major field. is a search engine that reads the literature on its own, picking out topics and influences, ranking citations, and making it much easier to find both the l... |
Gadget Story Time with EPIKGO hoverboard | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 11 | 11 | I have a love-hate relationship with hoverboards. They make me happy when I ride them but they suck to fall off of . The other day I saw a guy carrying his newborn baby while riding a hoverboard and I started having a minor anxiety attack. sent me their hoverboard to try out and they couldn’t have picked a more qual... |
Apple’s iBooks StoryTime app for Apple TV will read to your kids | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 11 | 11 | Apple on Thursday released a new Apple TV application called iBooks StoryTime that brings children’s books to the TV’s big screen. Kids can flip through the pages of the books on their own, or switch on Read-Aloud narration which will sync the audio to the on-screen text and flip the pages for you. The app, which works... |
PlayOn Cloud lets you record and download videos from streaming services to your iPhone | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 11 | 11 | has long offered media server software that allows cord cutters to record from streaming services like Netflix, Amazon, HBO, Hulu and others, in order to watch on any device – without ads – even when offline. Now, it’s taking this “cloud DVR” functionality to mobile through the launch of a new iOS application that let... |
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