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Google responds to EU antitrust charges against Android | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 11 | 10 | Google has now filed its official response to the EU’s antitrust charges against its Android mobile OS. The company had been granted a deadline extension by the European Commission, which kicked off a formal investigation into Android back in . According to the EC is intending to hit Google with deterrent fines ov... |
Google says there are now 2 billion active Chrome installs | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 11 | 10 | Google is hosting its today. There hasn’t been a lot of news out of the event, but one number that stood out in today’s keynote by Chrome Engineering VP Darin Fisher was that there are now 2 billion Chrome installs in active use across desktop and mobile. This is the first time Google has shared this number. Sadly, G... |
Analysis of social media did a better job at predicting Trump’s win than the polls | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 11 | 10 | Many of the polls forecasted an easy win for Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the U.S. presidential election, but we now know their prediction models were flawed. While data scientists are scrambling to figure out what went wrong, a number of social media analytics firms are touting the fact that their measurement... |
Pinterest finds another way to track purchases via its new “Tried It” button | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 11 | 10 | Pinterest has historically been more an idea board – a place to dream about ideas you want to try or products you want to buy. Today, however, the company is rolling out a new feature aimed at encouraging people to track and share the things they’ve actually done, too. With a new “tried it” checkmark on Pins, Pinterest... |
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Here are some more details of how Snap’s Spectacles work | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 11 | 10 | Snap’s Spectacles are starting to , and . I’ve been able to glean some details about the way they work from early users. The images above and below come from the auction listing, which has already hit $553 as I write this. The Spectacles charge in the case and there are about 4 full charges stored in the case’s batte... |
How data science and rocket science will get humans to Mars | Kapil Kedar | 2,016 | 11 | 19 |
In a recent to CNN, President Obama re-affirmed America’s commitment to sending a manned mission to Mars. Think your data science challenges are too complicated? Imagine the difficulties involved in mining data to understand the health impacts of an expedition to Mars. What happens to astronauts’ muscle tone or lun... |
This crowdfunded watch looks like the Chrysler Building but was designed in Honolulu | John Biggs | 2,016 | 11 | 19 | The is a new crowdfunded piece by horologist Mark Carson and designer Richard Paige. Based on Art Deco skyscraper decoration – think the Empire State Building’s handsome arches or the swooping buttresses of Gotham city – this watch is interesting for a few reasons. First, this team has made some nice watches before. ... |
Watch a fully self-driving Tesla navigate intersections and city streets | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 11 | 19 | [vimeo 192179727 w=680 h=383] Tesla revealed it would be building all vehicles complete with all the hardware onboard they need to achieve full self-driving in the future, and also published a short demo video of the prototype software in action at the time. Now, a new video shows a self-driving Tesla making its way th... |
After decades of dreaming, indoor location’s time has come | Arif Janmohamed | 2,016 | 11 | 19 |
The precise information you need, delivered exactly when and where you need it. Personalized engagement and experiences. Easy step-by-step navigation. These are just some of the things you get with indoor location-based services. Similar functions have existed outdoors for more than a decade thanks to GPS and apps li... |
Snapchat Spectacle vending bot lands at the Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 11 | 19 | Another day, another Spectacles vending machine location. This is the fifth place the Snapbot has appeared, to sell its first-person video capturing sunglasses to droves of willing Snapchat fans (or at least people hoping to turn a tidy profit by reselling them on eBay). Today’s spot is in Pasadena, at the Rose Bowl St... |
Behind The Scenes with the tech powering Cirque Du Soleil’s newest show, Luzia | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 11 | 19 | When the folks at Cirque Du Soleil invited us to check out some of the technology behind its latest show, , I just couldn’t say no. I try to get to every Cirque show that comes to the Bay Area, so this was like getting a glimpse into Santa’s workshop. They’ve built all kinds of incredible stuff for this show, from a m... |
Zuckerberg reveals plans to address misinformation on Facebook | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 11 | 19 | problem persists, CEO acknowledged last night. “We’ve made significant progress, but there is more work to be done,” Zuckerberg wrote, outlining several ways to address what he called a technically and philosophically complicated problem. He proposed stronger machine learning to detect misinformation, easier user r... |
Gillmor Gang: Real News | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 11 | 19 | The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, October 29, 2016. Mainstream media meets streaming media as we await the transition to the new administration. The Gang tackles the fake news pandemic with a requiem for truthiness scheduled for January... |
Hitman creative director looks back at Hitman’s first season and games as a service | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 11 | 19 | is a weird video game franchise. You incarnate an assassin-for-hire and you have to kill various targets in different cities around the world. But you get to decide how you want to do it. While many are putting a lot of emphasis on cut scenes, story lines and closed environments, game developer is taking an opposi... |
ShotSpotter CEO Ralph Clark talks about the future of city surveillance | John Biggs | 2,016 | 11 | 19 | A guy like Ralph Clark has a tough job: if all goes according to his business plan he’ll put himself out of business. He is the CEO of ShotSpotter, a surveillance system for cities that triangulates gunfire in 90 cities. I asked him if he’d ever have to shut down. “You know, sadly, in the US that won’t be the case,” he... |
The Smart Garden 9 is a self-contained kitchen garden for your “herbs” and vegetables | John Biggs | 2,016 | 11 | 19 | When we last met Click & Grow they were designed for indoor gardening. Their new product, called the Smart Garden, is a self-contained kit pod for growing fruits, vegetables, and “herbs” that costs $129 on The system is quite simple. You fill the water tank, place in small pods of soil, nutrients, and seeds and then... |
The tech that will feed the world | Joseph Byrum | 2,016 | 11 | 19 |
Twenty years from now, the most important tool for putting food on your table won’t be a harvester, combine or a plow. It will be a piece of software. Agriculture is in the process of transitioning into a fully high-tech enterprise. This is a long-overdue revolution in the way things have been done for centuries. To ... |
Technology as a force for division — and unification — in politics | Richard Muirhead | 2,016 | 11 | 26 |
The functions of government outlined in the U.S. Constitution can be broadly broken down into the promotion of unity, justice, peace, defense and welfare. Nearly 230 years later, in an age when software rules the world, these principles remain constant — but the way in which the average citizen experiences and intera... |
So you think you elected an autocrat | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 11 | 19 | Welp. I’m sorry to hear that. Whether you are Venezuelan, Zimbabwean, Russian, Turkish, or American; whether your democratic process has been fatally compromised, or your fellow citizens have knowingly voted in a monster; indeed, even whether you’re right or wrong — I feel your pain. But for what it’s worth, some techn... |
Become Michael Knight with Dashbot, an AI for your car | John Biggs | 2,016 | 11 | 26 | Who needs a smart car when you have a cool car? The is a $49 add on for your vehicle that allows you to interact with your phone and Alexa while driving, thereby keeping your hands free to fend off pomaded villains and to swoop in an save innocent people before a helicopter explodes overhead. The product is a sort of... |
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IBM expands its UK presence with 4 new data centers | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | today announced that it is launching four new data centers in the U.K. This brings IBM’s total data center footprint in the U.K. to six, in addition to 16 other locations across Europe. This is yet another example of the company’s increasing infrastructure investment. The first of these new U.K. locations in Fareham w... |
Crunch Report | Oracle Acquires Dyn “Thanksgiving Special” | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Universal plans to bring Wattpad stories to TV | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | Social publishing platform is making its biggest move into Hollywood yet thanks to a new deal with Universal Cable Productions. UCP is a TV production company owned by NBCUniversal — it’s produced shows including USA’s , SyFy’s and Bravo’s . As a result of the deal, the company plans to develop new shows based on... |
Ears, hands or eyes | Michael Eisenberg | 2,016 | 11 | 26 |
Even before smartwatches, I did not wear a watch. I did not buy an Apple Watch or Pebble, despite the cool factor, even though I always upgrade to the latest iPhone as soon as it comes out and the lines subside. I don’t like the way watches feel on my wrist; more importantly, I don’t get real value from a watch. Unle... |
Bizly lets you book on-demand meeting spaces in luxury hotels | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | Everyone talks about rooms being an underutilized asset in the hospitality industry. But what about meeting space? Almost all four- to five-star hotels, even boutique ones, have at least one meeting room. These can be 10-person conference rooms or 1,000-person banquet halls, but the concept is the same — it’s an empty ... |
DeepMind Health inks new deal with UK’s NHS to deploy Streams app in early 2017 | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | DeepMind Health, the division of the Google-owned AI company that’s focused on building links to healthcare providers to drive the application of machine learning algorithms for preventative medicine, has inked a fresh data-sharing agreement with the NHS Royal Free Hospital Trust in London. The new data-sharing arrange... |
UPDATED: Machine learning can fix Twitter, Facebook, and maybe even America | Chris Nicholson | 2,016 | 11 | 26 |
Quitting Twitter is easy — I’ve done it a hundred times. Someone called it “a clown car that drove into a gold mine,” and like all clown cars, Twitter makes the passengers get out once in awhile. If I go back, it’s because I’m addicted. The tight news cycle, tweetstorms, gossip mongers, insight, argument, factoids, s... |
The NTSB is investigating the ‘structural failure’ of Facebook’s Aquila internet drone | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | Say what you will about the merits of Facebook’s Internet.org and Free Basics — it’s pretty cool that they’re building a to deliver it. But a “structural failure” that occurred on the Aquila’s first test flight may be more serious than Facebook made it out to be: . The NTSB confirmed this and provided further detail... |
Po 3D prints personalized prosthetic hands for the needy in South America | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | is advancing in two directions: on one hand, if you will, the latest in soft robotics and shrinking sensors enables limbs and digits with ever-increasing levels of sensation and realism. On the other, rapid manufacturing techniques are making it possible to bring sophisticated designs to the underprivileged and geogra... |
This 18-year-old just raised $3.5 million to help developers easily add capabilities to their apps | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | , a two-year-old, San Francisco-based startup that enables developers to find, test, and manage many of the APIs they want to integrate into their apps, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding. The round was led by Martin Casado at Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from FundersClub, SV Angel, Green Bay Advisors, ... |
Why now, more than ever, we need a Twitter that works | Rishi Garg | 2,016 | 11 | 21 |
, to paraphrase John Oliver, . Much of it took place on social media, and much is being written of late about how Facebook and Twitter have changed virtually everything that we’ve come to see as a normal part of an election cycle: the consumption of daily news and facts (or non-facts). Remember 2012, when due to Ob... |
Google acquires Qwiklabs to teach developers cloud skills | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | Google today that it has acquired , a hands-on learning platform for those who want to become more familiar with operating cloud environments and writing applications that run on them. Qwiklabs, which launched in 2012, has only on teaching skills for Amazon’s AWS platform so far. Given AWS’ dominance in the market... |
Overclocked smartwatch sensor uses vibrations to sense gestures, objects and locations | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | Just from patterns of motion, your smart devices know when you’re walking, when you’re riding a bike and when you lift your wrist to check the time. But it turns out they can also tell when you snap or make a fist, or whether you’re holding a smartphone or steering wheel. All they have to do is listen a little harder —... |
Genalyte raises $36 million from Khosla for its one-drop blood test | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | Theranos competitor just announced it has raised an equity round of $36 million in funding led by Khosla Ventures and Redmile Group. The San Diego-based startup leverages lab-on-a-chip technology it says can run through up to 128 different tests on a single finger prick of blood in under 15 minutes using what it calls... |
Munchery appoints new CEO amid reported struggles | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | On-demand food delivery startup has a new chief executive officer. , the former CEO of Simply Hired, is taking the place of Munchery co-founder Tri Tran, who is now the company’s chief strategy officer, the company announced today. The appointment comes on the same day that Munchery has struggled to improve its ma... |
Trump transition team appointments indicate a bid to dismantle net neutrality | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | President-elect Trump has made it clear that he is towards the FCC’s implementation of net neutrality, both in his own words and, today, the of two long-time adversaries of the policy to his transition team. Jeffrey Eisenach is an economist and government veteran who worked at the FTC in the ’80s; he’s worked for a n... |
Reelgood debuts a hub for finding TV shows and movies across streaming services | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | More people are cutting the cord with pay TV in favor of streaming services, but finding something to watch is growing more difficult – not only because of rights deals which see content coming and going, but also because there’s now a wider array of services to choose from. A startup called wants to help, and is tod... |
Ava gives the deaf and hard-of-hearing a more present voice in group conversations | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | For those with hearing issues, simple dinner table group conversations can be pretty painful to stay on top of. is aiming to bring deaf and hard-of-hearing people back into group conversations with their threaded speech-to-text application that gives people with hearing issues an easy way to stay on top of a conversat... |
Yep, NBCUniversal has invested another $200M in BuzzFeed | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | BuzzFeed just announced that it has raised another $200 million from NBCUniversal. That might sound a little familiar, since the company last year. Plus, that NBCUniversal was doubling down, and the news seemed to be confirmed . The funding release points to past collaborations between the two companies, like join... |
The Bridge newsletter brings political news to Silicon Valley and tech news to D.C. | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | Tech and politics need a translator — at least according to and , founders of . Corley and Lansing have worked in both worlds — each of them, for example, has served as press secretary for a US senator (Bob Corker and Rob Portman, respectively), while Lansing was also communications director at Politico. They told ... |
You rarely livestream, but 1M people livechill on Houseparty | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | to be a big performance or a one-on-one video call. Just ask the one million people who spend 20 million minutes hanging out each day on group video chat app Houseparty, the latest teen app phenomenon. Built from the ashes of Meerkat, Houseparty is leading the charge for a new kind of synchronous social networking. It... |
How Southeast Asia’s VC scene stacks up to China’s VC scene | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 11 | 7 | Some VC firms have a global presence. But startup investment tends to be a very local activity. Kay-Mok Ku, Adrian Li and Jeffrey Paine talked about what it’s like to invest in Southeast Asia at the . While these three firms don’t have the exact same geographic and investment focus, these three VC firms all rece... |
The Moto Z gets a Nougat update and Daydream certification | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 11 | 21 | The last time we checked in on (a little over a week ago), the latest version of Google’s operating system was ranked below Gingerbread in terms of adoption. Slowly but surely the needle is starting to move. A handful of manufacturers have announced updates for their devices in the lead up to the holiday, including b... |
Figuring out what comes after gene sequencing in China | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 11 | 7 | In recent years, a crop of companies have emerged that are using genomic sequencing to detect diseases in order to prevent the negative outcome of those diseases. It’s led to a budding ecosystem of startups that are crunching the data, as well as the cost of that sequencing coming down. But while we’re at the stage of ... |
An investor’s journey to embracing marijuana legalization | David Chao | 2,016 | 11 | 7 |
capitalist and a medical cannabis user. The first time I tried medical cannabis, I had just tried to trigger a chronic condition that causes severe intestinal pain when I eat. I was trying to force my doctor to prescribe painkillers for me. That night, I’d eaten an entire pizza to induce enough pain to get me on dru... |
Crunch Report | China’s New Cybersecurity Laws | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 11 | 7 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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GuavaPass, a ClassPass-like service for Asia and the Middle East, raises $5M | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 11 | 7 | ClassPass is having something of a challenge with the fitness subscription model in the U.S., but that isn’t stopping others elsewhere in the world from trying to make it work , a two-year-old Singapore-based service for finding gyms and fitness centers across Asia and the Middle East, has pulled in $5 million to expan... |
Is LeEco really in trouble? | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 11 | 7 | Billionaire CEO Yueting Jia told employees in that the company’s rapid growth was leading to stagnation and management problems at , and announced that he would invest $10 million into the company and cut his salary to 15 cents in order to keep LeEco steady as it expands into the United States and develops a self-dr... |
Oral arguments for who owns CRISPR-Cas9 start next month | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 11 | 7 | The date has been set for oral arguments to begin over who owns the patent rights to the gene-editing wonder CRISPR-Cas9. Berkeley’s Jennifer Doudna and her colleague from the Max Planck Institute Emmanuelle Charpentier head to court on December 6th to face off against MIT’s Feng Zhang and present their argument before... |
Is thematic investing the future of venture capital? | Harry Stebbings | 2,016 | 11 | 7 |
Over the last five years, the venture capital ecosystem has seen a significant rise in theme focused investment funds. SaaS funds, hardware funds and my latest guest’s focus, consumer funds have all proliferated. So here to discuss these shifts is Justin Caldbeck, the co-founder of Capital. Thematic funds, in the m... |
Casey Neistat’s Beme launches Exit Poll, an app to share who you voted for and why | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 11 | 7 | , the social media app founded by , is getting involved in the election by launching an app called . The concept is simple: You download the app, tap who you are voting for (the options are Hillary or Donald or decline to answer), what state you are in and record a short video explaining your reasoning. Exit Poll the... |
Apple picked up talent, tech from defunct music startup Omnifone in August | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 11 | 7 | As the race continues to pick up more subscribers for streaming music services, TechCrunch has learned that one of the most prominent players in the field quietly picked up some talent and tech to advance its position. Apple hired at least 16 employees and purchased select technology from Omnifone, an early player in s... |
NXP’s new autonomous driving products focus on safety, self-driving trucks | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 11 | 7 | NXP Semiconductor, which made headlines recently after entering into an agreement to be , unveiled a series of new products today that make it clear why they were a high-value target for the mobile chip giant. Each of three new products NXP announced today promises to advance tech related to self-driving vehicles. In ... |
Tend.ai raises $2M for robot arms that operate multiple 3D printers and workshop machines | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 7 | Back in June, with its versatile system allowing a robot arm to tend to a dozen or more printers, laser cutters and other modern workshop tools. Now the company has raised $2 million to continue its work, courtesy of . software allows a robot arm to start, stop and monitor multiple 3D printers and other devices, rem... |
Facebook threatens LinkedIn with job opening features | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 11 | 7 | Facebook might muscle-in on LinkedIn’s recruiting business with ways for business Pages to promote job listings. The new Jobs features could give companies another reason to drive traffic to their Facebook Page beyond marketing their products in the News Feed, while also allowing them to pay the social network to get t... |
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Review: The NES Classic Edition and all 30 games on it | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 7 | nostalgia for the holidays this year, like pretty much every year — but the NES Classic Edition, a palm-size recreation of the original console with 30 games built-in, rates highly on the nostalgia scale even for a company whose heart is stuck in the 1980s. It’s already a highly coveted item for millions of 30-somethi... |
Oryx nano antennas allow autonomous cars to see farther, better | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 11 | 7 | has created a “coherent optical radar system,” according to CEO Rani Wellingstein, that improves the depth perception of autonomous vehicles. The Israel-based company has emerged from stealth after Series A fundraising and is positioning itself as a competitor to lidar systems. Wellingstein pointed out that traditiona... |
Why it’s so hard to create unbiased artificial intelligence | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 11 | 7 |
As artificial intelligence and machine learning mature and manifest their potential to take on complicated tasks, we’ve become somewhat expectant that robots can succeed where humans have failed — namely, in putting aside personal biases when making decisions. But as recent cases have shown, like all disruptive techn... |
Twitter still might save Vine by selling it | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 11 | 7 | Vine may survive after all. Twitter is currently vetting multiple term sheets from companies offering to buy Vine, and hopes to make a deal soon, multiple sources tell TechCrunch. After announcing its last month, Twitter received a large number of bids, including several from Asia. It’s now working to decide who shou... |
Stealth Uber competitor Zoox valued at $1.5 billion | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 11 | 7 | null |
New Relic extends monitoring to containers and micro service environments | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 11 | 7 | Monitoring used to be a relatively simple matter. Most companies had a fixed number of applications to monitor. These were usually delivered on the web and lived for a number of years on a fairly fixed number of servers. Today’s environment is far more varied and complex, and made a series of announcements today desi... |
Inside an Apple smart home | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 11 | 7 | Ever since I saw Disney’s in 1999, I’ve dreamed of a home that cleans itself and cooks breakfast, lunch and dinner. We’re not there yet, but Apple’s HomeKit and gets us (me) a bit closer to that dream. Apple is racing against Amazon and Google to try to get the masses to adopt the smart home. Unlike Amazon and Go... |
Zipline raises $25 million to deliver medical supplies by drone | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | has raised $25 million in a Series B funding round to expand its humanitarian delivery drone business in Rwanda, the U.S. and beyond. The startup builds drones and runs delivery services, dropping crucial medical supplies to clinics or hospitals in areas that aren’t accessible by land. Recently, Zipline’s headquarte... |
Microsoft says it will push for diversity and security from the Trump administration | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | Although Donald Trump’s presidential campaign never netted much support from tech companies, at least one company is now congratulating him on his election victory. “Every president-elect deserves our congratulations, best wishes and support for the country as a whole. The peaceful transition of power has been an endur... |
Peter Thiel’s Big Gamble | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | Peter Thiel should rightly be admired for sometimes seeing what many others cannot. He understood the power of online money transfers well before most traditional financial institutions. He wrote Facebook a check when it was little more than an interesting startup from another Harvard dropout. Most recently, he anticip... |
Crunch Report | Donald Trump Is 45th President of U.S. | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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LeEco’s Super Bike isn’t electric, but it sure has a lot of gadgets attached | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | The LeEco Super Bike may be the perfect analogy for the company that created it. It’s a strange amalgamation that patches together a lot of disparate ideas in a less than elegant way. It’s clearly trying really hard and will no doubt alienate some people with its over-eagerness. Also, weirdly, it’s not electric. That l... |
SentiOne raises $3.5 million to monitor social media | John Biggs | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | While it’s not exactly sentient, . This Polish company watches social media for brands allowing you to create an instant monitor for any topic. Founded by Bartek Baziński, Michael Brzezicki and Kamil Bargiel, the company raised $3.5 million from Venture TFI and Trigon TFI Group to build out their platform internationa... |
Hey, Brooklyn, let’s meet up tomorrow | John Biggs | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | Hello, Brooklyn! I’m restarting my series of micro-meetups in New York with a special tasting at the . The founder, Daric Schlesselman, is a friend of TC and showed off his wares at the last New York Disrupt and he’s offering us a special tasting on Thursday, November 10, 2016 at 7:00 PM. It’s way down in Red Hook, so... |
Rigged | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | The Facebook bubble just popped. Half the country today is still in shock. Reality crashed down and many were presented with a world that didn’t match up with the one they’ve inhabited in the months leading up to the U.S. election. As it turns out, that was Facebook’s world. The social media network has become an outsi... |
Here are the tech policies Trump promised to implement as president | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | Trump’s not a tech guy, that much we know. He reportedly doesn’t have much time for a . During a CNN town hall moderated by Anderson Cooper, that he largely composes tweets by, “shout it out to one of the young ladies who are tremendous. I’ll just shout it out, and they’ll do it.” But while he’ll never be an early a... |
Adam Bain departs Twitter, Anthony Noto will take over as COO | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | Twitter just announced that Chief Operating Officer Adam Bain is departing. Bain has been with Twitter since 2010, building the company’s ad business and at the same time that founder Jack Dorsey was named CEO. Bain that he’s now “ready to change gears and do something new outside the company,” while , “I look at ... |
A serial founder on Trump: “He’s a startup that disrupted the establishment” | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | , a longtime New Yorker, has helped create hundreds of jobs for Americans and others. Among the companies he has started is , one of the largest free classifieds sites in the world — one that was acquired over time by the African conglomerate Naspers for $250 million. Grinda more recently co-founded , the peer-to-pee... |
Trump promises to bring back manufacturing jobs, but robots won’t let him | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | For Americans struggling with stagnant wages, under- or un-employment, one of Donald Trump’s most appealing campaign promises was to to the U.S. Navigating the complexities of policy, tariffs and geopolitics would make that hard enough already for the president elect. But technology will make this promise nearly impo... |
Bikeshare conference brings pedal power to the people | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | As the begins its annual conference in Austin, Texas, participants will be focusing on social equity. If you’re wondering what that means, wonder no more, thanks to a statement from the NABSA’s project manager, Matt Martin: “Social equity in bikeshare means making a healthy and versatile form of transportation access... |
LeEco offers a budget take on Gear VR | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | LeEco is a weird company and the ExploreVR is a weird headset. It’s essentially a Gear VR competitor that promises to deliver a low-end virtual reality experience for a fraction of the price of Samsung’s peripheral. It is, of course, not the company’s first VR headset. In typical LeEco fashion, the company’s already go... |
This Indian team plans to be the first private company to land on the moon | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | , a private company located in Bangalore, India, is the one and only Indian entrant into the , the international competition to land a private spacecraft on the moon. For TeamIndus, there are a few, exciting things at stake. If they’re first in the competition, they’ll win $20 million and become the first private comp... |
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Watch Acceleprise’s Demo Day here | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | TechCrunch is pleased to bring you Acceleprise’s Cohort 5 Demo Day, today, November 9th, starting at 10:00am PT. – HR and payroll platform for developing countries finance providers accurately price capital, and monitor their portfolio for risks and opportunities. – Real time visual collaboration integrated with 3D m... |
Google ‘strongly’ recommends against third-party fast charging technology on Android | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | Everyone, it seems, is going the fast charging route these days. Thanks to the nearing ubiquity of USB-C on flagship devices, the feature is quickly becoming a standard – “standard” in the sense that everyone is doing it, not so much that there’s any consistency to the tech. All in all, it’s a nice addition to manufact... |
Genesis Partners spins out $50 million fund, F2 Capital, to back early-stage startups in Israel | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 11 | 30 | Three members of the senior investing team at Genesis Partners, a major Israeli venture firm, are stepping out with a new, early-stage fund of their own called For the unfamiliar, portfolio companies have been acquired by the likes of Apple, IBM, Microsoft and Sapiens over the past decade, and have gone public on th... |
Google enacts stricter penalties on sites that continuously spread malware | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | Google has been users dangerous and harmful websites for many years by warning web surfers when they accidentally click on links that could lead them to sites that spread malware or attempt to phish for your private information. But many sites figured out how to work around Google’s policies. Instead of cleaning up... |
Crunch Report | GoPro Cuts 15% of Workforce | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 11 | 30 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Fitbit is buying troubled smartwatch maker Pebble for around $40 million | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 11 | 30 | It looks consolidation is acoming to the wearables space with Fitbit set to acquire smartwatch maker and Pebble, according to . The site reports that the acquisition is a “small amount” but there’s no word on exactly how much, or indeed how little. Further, The Information said that the deal will see Pebble and its ... |
Sensor-studded suit helps track recovery of stroke patients | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 30 | Millions of people suffer from strokes every year worldwide, and severe ones can require long-term care — but as with other rehabilitation regimens, it can be hard for doctors to track the everyday activities of their patients. A high-tech suit created by a Dutch grad student may be a powerful new way to help keep bett... |
Online real estate service OpenDoor raises $210M Series D despite risky financing model | John Mannes | 2,016 | 11 | 30 | This afternoon, announced that it led a massive $210 million Series D investment round in . With the new capital, the startup is looking to expand the usage of its marketplace platform for buying and selling real estate to 10 cities. OpenDoor is unique in that it owns its own inventory of homes. While the predictive... |
Tesla will move to open Richmond store after DMV win | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 11 | 30 | Tesla has won the right to open and operate its own dealership in Virginia, after the state Department of Motor Vehicles commissioner reversed a ruling from September denying it a license. In his decision, the commissioner cited overwhelming public support, as well as unique sales and service requirements as reasons fo... |
Counting endangered sea cows is hard, so we’re going to make AI do it | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | Can you spot the lone dugong in the image above? Look closer. Closer… still no? Try this . Give up? Now do that with 45,000 more, and you’ll have a general idea of the population of these endangered critters. If that sounds tedious, then perhaps you, like researchers at Murdoch University, would prefer to . , of th... |
Motorola ‘likely’ to launch a Project Tango module for the Moto Z | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 11 | 30 | Slowly but surely the Moto Z is getting an ecosystem. The promising handset launched with some solid specs and a handful of add-ons that made it the most fully formed modular handset to date — which, granted, isn’t saying a whole heck of a lot. And Motorola’s been working to add to those offerings by opening up its Mod... |
Skillz wins two new patents, is now helping brands sponsor e-sports tournaments | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 11 | 30 | Game tech startup today launched a service that allows brands to easily sponsor and host mobile e-sports tournaments for any game titles that they like, as long as they are already part of the Skillz platform. As we’ve previously reported, Skillz enables developers to turn mobile games into tournament-playable titles... |
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Losing the future | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 11 | 9 | There’s a story that Silicon Valley likes to tell about the future. Part of that story, of course, is the idea that technological change will continue to accelerate and make our lives better. But when I talk to entrepreneurs and investors, I hear a broader narrative of progress — a belief that society is becoming more ... |
Referees will wear hats with built-in GoPros during the Big Ten Championship Game | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 11 | 30 | Are you upset your team isn’t playing in a championship game this weekend and need a reason to watch? Well here’s a reason to watch at least one game on Saturday: Referees will wear hats with built-in GoPros during this weekend’s NCAA Football between Penn State and Wisconsin. The project is part of a deal between FO... |
Oldest surviving Nikon fetches $406K at auction | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 30 | A fabulous piece of photographic history just sold at auction for $406,000, more than twice the estimated haul. This Nikon One was the third production camera — as in the third it built — from the now-famous company, and it’s the oldest one known to still be around today. Nikon began as a optics company, Nippon Kogak... |
Apple acknowledges the new Calendar spam problem, says it’s working on it | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 11 | 30 | If you use iCal and have noticed a weird, sudden influx of calendar invites suggesting you buy bootleg purse knockoffs… . Just before Black Friday, spammers started tapping a relatively new technique: sending spam as event invites to iCloud email addresses, rather than sending standard emails. By default, iCloud proce... |
Founder Collective easily finds $75 million for fund three | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 11 | 30 | , the seven-year-old, Cambridge, Ma.-based seed-stage venture fund, has closed its third fund with $75 million in capital from a small group of limited partners whose anchor investors are the the firm’s three partners: David Frankel, Micah Rosenbloom and Eric Paley. “Unlike most funds, the partners are, in fact, the si... |
MusicNet aims to give machine learning algorithms a taste for Beethoven | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 11 | 30 | We’ve got machine learning systems captioning images, synthesizing speech and translating between languages, but it seems we’ve been neglecting their cultural development. Would you believe the future rulers of this planet are largely ignorant of classical music altogether? It’s bad enough humanity will be enslaved — b... |
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