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Sharp brings dark and light Star Wars phones to SoftBank in Japan | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 11 | 25 | Around this time last year, Verizon celebrated the long-awaited arrival of fittingly with a couple of limited edition Motorola Droid Turbo 2 handsets with themes tied to the star of the upcoming film. No word on any sort of follow-up promotion for (though the Moto Z would lend itself well to a little space opera co... |
Inside Expa Labs, Uber co-founder’s take on the startup accelerator | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 11 | 25 | There’s no shortage of startup incubators and accelerators, but there’s always room for improvement and iterations on an old operating model. Expa Labs, a six-month program for startups that spun out of Uber co-founder Garrett Camp’s Expa Studios, has a different take on the startup accelerator/incubator model. Last we... |
Peter Thiel taps a principal at Founders Fund for Trump’s transition team | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 11 | 25 | Peter Thiel is famously loyal to his employees, and vice versa. Many of the dozens of people employed by his venture firm, Founders Fund, once worked for Thiel at his hedge fund, Clarium Capital. He even a late-stage venture firm, Mithril Capital, with one former Clarium managing director, Ajay Royan. Little wonder t... |
No more pastry panic: Alexa can now talk you through recipes | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 11 | 25 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpwcPnqhcTE&w=680] When I cook I make a huge mess and the product is edible about 50 percent of the time, which is why I’m hoping Alexa can help. I lean on the disembodied spirit of Amazon that lives inside my black tube and various small plastic pucks for so many things, so it’... |
Mobile shopping hits record numbers over Thanksgiving and Black Friday | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 11 | 25 | Black Friday has only just begun, but already mobile traffic and sales are breaking records compared with years prior, according to third-party reports and those from major retailers, out this morning. In addition to from mobile devices, top retailers, including Amazon, Walmart and Target, have also now released numb... |
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Uber rival Grab’s first CFO is leaving the company after just seven months | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 11 | 25 | Grab, Uber’s archrival in Southeast Asia, is losing its first CFO just seven months after her appointment, the company confirmed. from video streaming company HOOQ in May, where she had also been CFO, but four-year-old Grab announced her departure internally as part of a reshuffle of its financial management team. Tec... |
Level Frames launches AI photo filters so you can be artsy IRL | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 11 | 25 | Prisma has made quite an impression on the tech world, and Level Frames is looking to capitalize on the trend. The YC-backed company, which offers custom framing of physical artwork via an easy-to-use website, has developed its own AI photo filters for Level users. Level works by letting users upload their posters, art... |
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story advance ticket sales start November 28 | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 11 | 25 | It’s getting closer to the end of the year and that means A) 2016 is almost over, which is great because it’s among the worst of years, and B) there’s a new Star Wars movie coming soon, which is also great and may help 2016 redeem itself to the tiniest degree. Now, you can circle Monday, November 28 as the day to get y... |
Startup Battlefield application deadline extended for Disrupt London! | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 10 | 3 | Attention startup hopefuls: It’s time to stop procrastinating and at Disrupt London. Startups from across the U.S. and around the world now have until 12pm PT on October 13th to get their application in front of the selection team. We get it, you’re super busy. Maybe you’ve been working extra hard to push out new fea... |
Online fashion retailer Grana raises $10M led by Alibaba’s entrepreneurship fund | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 10 | 3 | , a two-year-old online fashion retailer based in Hong Kong, has announced that it has raised $10 million in fresh funding led by Alibaba’s entrepreneurship fund. This is the startup’s Series A round, and . The round is led by Alibaba’s Hong Kong-based fund, , and it also includes participation from existing investor... |
Xiaomi’s 4K Android TV box is now on sale in the U.S. for $69 | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 10 | 3 | would go on sale in the U.S. in October, and . The Chinese company is best known for its affordable smartphones, but today it launched that looks like great value. , the new Mi Box offers 4K video at 60 FPS and supports Dolby Digital Plus audio playback and HDR content. Xiaomi partnered with Google to integrate Goo... |
Stripe payments exits beta in Japan, adds Sumitomo Mitsui Card Company as investor | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 10 | 3 | , the company that lets app publishers, online merchants and other digital businesses include payments features via a few lines of code, is expanding in Asia. After launching in two weeks ago, the startup is now officially for business in . And alongside the Japan launch, Stripe is announcing a new investor. , th... |
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Crunch Report | Facebook Launches Marketplace | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 10 | 3 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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A former Rothenberg exec filed a class action lawsuit alleging “at least 50 employees” still haven’t been paid | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 10 | 3 | A former chief of staff of Rothenberg Ventures has brought a proposed class-action lawsuit against the beleaguered San Francisco-based investing outfit, saying it routinely failed to pay contract workers their final paycheck across its four-year history, and that it failed to compensate Fanelli and other hourly workers... |
What happens if we live to be 150? | Brian Wilcove | 2,016 | 10 | 3 |
Humans have lived for approximately 8,000 generations, but only in the past four has life expectancy taken dramatic leaps upward thanks mostly to societies addressing some of the most basic life issues, including infant mortality, heart disease, homicide and influenza. In 1907, the average human life expectancy was 4... |
Obama, Leonardo DiCaprio and scientist Katharine Hayhoe talk climate change at SXSL | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 10 | 3 | At an SXSL panel on Monday, President Obama, actor, environmentalist and philanthropist Leonardo DiCaprio and scientist discussed climate change and what we can possibly due to curb it. Hayhoe, who is the director of the , and CEO of , helps organizations like airports and public water utilities assess the potentia... |
Social justice activism takes center stage at White House’s SXSL | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 10 | 3 | rights for black people to the freedom to marry for LGBTQ people, social justice activists have been paramount in changing our country’s discriminatory ways. Lewis went on to say, “Be hopeful. Be optimistic. Never lose that sense of hope,” Lewis said. “Never become bitter, and in the process, be happy and just go for... |
Rover announces $40M round for pet sitting and dog walking | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 10 | 3 | Last month, we reported that . Looks like the deal has closed — the pet-sitting startup today that it has raised, yep, $40 million in a Series E funding. The round was led by Foundry Group and Menlo Ventures, with participation from Madrona Venture Group — all existing investors. Rover has now raised more than $90 m... |
Police complaints drop 93 percent after deploying body cameras | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 3 | A study from Cambridge University documents an immense drop in complaints against police officers when their departments began using body cameras. But even more surprising is that the data suggests everyone is on their best behavior whether the cameras are present or not. The data was collected in seven police departme... |
The entrepreneurs behind the new drone economy | Jay Bregman | 2,016 | 10 | 3 |
The FAA released some staggering numbers as it welcomed , otherwise known as the rules governing — or perhaps creating — the commercial industry in the U.S.: Within one year, the FAA estimates that will be active in commerce in the United States. Even if you assume every pilot has, on average, 1.2 , that’s stil... |
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on fixing real problems | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 10 | 3 | At a panel today at SXSL in Washington, D.C., Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, Transmedia Capital Managing Partner Chris Redlitz, EpiBone CEO Nina Tandon, Coalition for Queens founder Jukay Hsu and Jenna Wortham of The New York Times Magazine discussed technology’s role in solving some of the country’s most critical prob... |
WhatsApp races to internationalize Snapchat’s overlaid creative tools | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 10 | 3 | Every member of the Facebook family of apps is pushing to bring copies of Snapchat’s best features to international audiences before Snapchat blows up abroad. There was the , and — and now WhatsApp is cloning Snapchat’s creative tools. Now you’ll be able to add overlaid text with multiple colors and fonts, drawing... |
To beef up in marketing, Salesforce will buy Krux for $340M in cash, up to $750M overall | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 10 | 3 | is making , once again to build out its footprint in marketing and adtech. The company has just that it is buying , a company that tracks traffic (“data signatures”) across multiple devices — e.g. desktop, mobile, tablet, set-top — and channels — display, social, search, video. In a statement to the SEC, Salesforc... |
How to feed the world with sensors, data and local production | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 10 | 3 | Today, food and agriculture entrepreneurs took the stage at the White House lawn for to discuss the potential and limits of technology to feed a burgeoning world population. According to the most recent available estimates from the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) in the world do not have enou... |
Amazon bans incentivized reviews tied to free or discounted products | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 10 | 3 | Amazon is making a significant change to its , , which will eliminate any incentivized reviews, except for those that emerge from within its own Amazon Vine program. This program allows Amazon – not the seller or vendor – to identify trusted reviewers, and has a number of controls in place in order to keep bias out o... |
Spoken Editions goes live on iTunes so you can listen to your favorite websites | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 10 | 3 | As we , iTunes has today launched a new section called “ ,” which will feature narrated content from a number of online publishers in the form of audio-only podcasts. These Spoken Editions are available both in the iTunes storefront, as well as in Apple’s Podcasts app, for easy access. We first spotted the Spoken Edit... |
Mophie’s modular case brings everything but a headphone jack to the iPhone 7 | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 3 | Of late, Mophie seems to be intent on letting the world know that it’s more than just charging cases – but hey, at the end of the day, there are worse things to be than virtually synonymous with a given space. And hey, when Apple unveiled its first proprietary charging case a year or so back, everyone was quick to drop... |
White House’s SXSL shows what it’s like to be in the criminal justice system | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 10 | 3 | The criminal justice system in our country is broken. Just imagine if technologists put their resources and knowledge toward solving some of our country’s biggest issues, instead of toward the next dating app. Today at South by South Lawn, the White House’s first-ever festival of art, ideas and action, I got a glimpse ... |
The TC Meetup + Pitch-off is heading to Seoul, SK on October 27 | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 10 | 4 | Get ready for the in Seoul, because we’ll be there soon. On October 27, the TC team will descend on South Korea to hold one of our world-famous pitch-offs, in which 10 companies will show off their wares onstage. After all the startups have completed their 60-second, rapid-fire pitches, a panel of expert local VC jud... |
What the new NHTSA guidelines mean for self-driving cars | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 10 | 4 | In September, the issued for the testing and [PDF] vehicles. The important thing to remember for now is that these are merely guidelines and not rules. Complying with them is voluntary on the part of automotive and hardware manufacturers, as well as app developers. “Firms can make the decision to not comply and be... |
Crunch Report | Everything Google Hardware 2016 | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 10 | 4 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Play this killer self-driving car ethics game | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 10 | 4 | Should a self-driving car full of old folks crash to avoid puppies in the cross-walk? Is it OK to run over two criminals if you save one doctor? Whose lives are worth more, seven-year-olds or senior citizens? In, This from MIT’s researchers, a car’s breaks fail and you have to choose whether it crashes into a barrier... |
Hands-on with Google Home | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 10 | 4 | is to Amazon line’s of voice-powered Echo devices. After announcing Home at its I/O developer conference this spring, the company today unveiled both its price ($129) and shipping date (November 4) at its annual hardware event in San Francisco. Maybe more importantly, though, we also got a first chance to try out Ho... |
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Scoop gets Bay Area cities to pick up the tab for carpooling to alleviate traffic jams | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 10 | 4 | A startup that matches riders with drivers for paid and pre-scheduled carpooling, , has inked a deal with two big towns in the increasingly congested commuter hubs in the San Francisco Bay Area, Foster City and San Mateo. With this deal, each city is subsidizing carpoolers’ rides so that passengers only have to pay $2... |
Twitter, Microsoft, Google and others say they haven’t scanned messages like Yahoo | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 10 | 4 | Yahoo is under scrutiny today after former employees claimed the company to enable U.S. intelligence agencies to scan incoming emails to all of Yahoo’s millions of users. The allegations, first published by , raise questions about the constitutionality of such dragnet surveillance and about the legal means used to c... |
Due diligence is a responsibility for investors, an opportunity for startups | Dr. Nancy Markley | 2,016 | 10 | 4 |
Many startup companies begin with either an idea or a proprietary technology. Sometimes this technology is straightforward and easily explained; other times, it is novel and revolutionary. For some founders, the latter can be a double-edged sword, especially once they begin to seek outside financing. If your technolo... |
Google’s Daydream VR platform plays it safe — and that’s okay | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 10 | 4 | Those hoping for Google to deliver more details of a quantum leap toward next-gen virtual reality may have been a bit disappointed Tuesday when the company chose to promote wide user accessibility above cutting-edge features in its VR headset. The Daydream View doesn’t have any buttons or embedded sensors; you just sti... |
Pinterest lagged behind leaked revenue projections in 2015 | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 10 | 4 | Today, Pinterest , Todd Morgenfeld. However, there’s a more interesting footnote that’s reported in The Wall Street Journal’s story about the hire: last year, according to the report. You may recall that last year TechCrunch reported, , that the company was projecting around $169 million in revenue for 2015 (and $2... |
Clinton Foundation denies hack claims by Guccifer 2.0 | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 4 | The hacker who claimed responsibility for the Democratic National Committee claims to have breached the Clinton Foundation’s servers and retrieved a number of files potentially damaging to the Democratic Presidential nominee — but the Foundation denies any such breach occurred. The hacker, Guccifer 2.0, posted screen... |
Google’s new smartphones are about Google, not Android | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 4 | Google a lot of new devices today, but at the core of nearly everything was a commitment to Assistant specifically, and to showing off what Google’s range of service offerings can do. I sat down with Google Canada’s Head of Public Affairs Aaron Brindle after the satellite keynote event here in Toronto to discuss what... |
Report: Yahoo scanned users’ email for U.S. intelligence agencies | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 10 | 4 | Yahoo’s trust with users is damaged today by a that claims the company developed a custom program to search all users’ incoming email for specific queries given by U.S. intelligence officials. “We’ve worked hard over the years to earn our users’ trust and we fight hard to preserve it,” Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer says in... |
Nike will raffle off its super-limited-edition ‘Back to the Future’ kicks for a good cause | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 4 | When Nike said it was making the 2016 version of its -inspired shoes , the company wasn’t messing around. Only 89 pairs of the self-lacing shoes will be released to the public (likely not a coincidental nod to the year the futuristic sequel was released), . As with the 2011 version of the project, the new Nike Mags ... |
Pinterest hires former Twitter exec Todd Morgenfeld as its first CFO | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 10 | 4 | Pinterest has hired its first chief financial officer, Todd Morgenfeld — who was most recently vice president of finance at Twitter — the company said today. He was at Twitter for about a year and a half before joining Pinterest. Generally, these kinds of hires can signal a few things. One is that, more simply, the com... |
Everything you need to know from Google’s Pixel event | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 4 | of new products and services today at . The company was all about making things easy and seamless, so we thought we’d do the same. Here’s all the stuff you need to know, in one place. CEO Sundar Pichai came out first to set the stage, touting the company’s advances in artificial intelligence. Google’s research has yi... |
Hands-on with the Google Pixel and Pixel XL | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 4 | The Pixel is a device with a 5-inch display, and the Pixel XL has a 5.5-inch screen, but both actually feel (and are) slightly smaller than the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus in terms of footprint (though slightly thicker, too), thanks to a lack of any hardware buttons on the face, resulting in a device that feels smaller in th... |
Union Square Ventures endorses Hillary Clinton | John Mannes | 2,016 | 10 | 4 | , Union Square Ventures formally endorsed Hillary Clinton for President of the United States. This marks the first time that the 13-year-old fund has endorsed a candidate in a presidential election. In the brief 375 word statement, the firm addressed both the risks of a Trump presidency and the qualities that would mak... |
Here’s what went down at South by South Lawn | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 10 | 4 | hosted its first-ever festival in President Barack Obama’s backyard, the South Lawn. Dubbed , the one-day event celebrated art, ideas and action, featuring guests from all parts of the spectrum, including Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield, technologist and activist for inclusion in tech Anil Dash, music group The Luminee... |
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Prepaid card users will finally be protected from fraud and crazy fees | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 10 | 5 | If you’ve been out of touch with the FinTech market recently you may have missed how popular prepaid cards have become. This is especially true when it comes to “open-loop” cards, which are prepaid cards powered by a processor like Visa or MasterCard that can be used anywhere a credit or debit card is accepted. These a... |
Crunch Report | Blue Origin has another Successful Rocket Launch Test | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 10 | 5 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Theranos closes its labs and wellness centers, lays off 340 | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 5 | Theranos is closing its labs and wellness centers, CEO Elizabeth Holmes . And this isn’t a temporary closure: the “approximately” 340 employees running them are out of a job. “After many months spent assessing our strengths and addressing our weaknesses, we have moved to structure our company around the model best ali... |
Pixel’s best features aren’t coming to the new version of Android | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 10 | 5 | At , the new version of the Android operating system, Android 7.1 (Nougat 7.1), was barely mentioned. As it turns out, there was a reason for that: some of the ‘ best features won’t be arriving in the new OS. This includes features like , the built-in customer support service, , Smart Storage, and more. Details on ... |
The silent evolution of domain names | Alan Dunn | 2,016 | 10 | 5 |
Verisign recently that the number of registered dot-com domain names exceeded 128 million for the first time. With a wholesale price of $7.85 each, this means $1,004,800,000 in annual fees, and that’s before factoring in reseller prices, country code domains and alternative extensions to measure the domain-name in... |
Creating a new architecture of government through tech and innovation | Hollie Russon Gilman | 2,016 | 10 | 5 |
“Innovation” has become a buzzword in government, industry, and society. Yet, scaling innovation for public policy is rarely discussed. The 2016 presidential transitions teams have the opportunity to build upon the innovation agenda of previous administrations to advance a culture of innovation that is supported an... |
Udacity open sources an additional 183GB of driving data | John Mannes | 2,016 | 10 | 5 | last month, founder Sebastian Thrun announced that the online education company would be building as part of its self-driving car nanodegree program. To get there, Udacity has created a series of challenges to leverage the power of community to build the safest car possible — meaning anyone and everyone is welcome... |
Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by the creators of Apple’s Siri | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 10 | 5 | to acquire , an AI and assistant system co-founded by Dag Kittlaus, Adam Cheyer and Chris Brigham — who created Siri, which was acquired by Apple in 2010. The three left Apple in the years after the acquisition and founded Viv in 2012. Pricing information was not available, but we’ll check around. Viv has been . Viv... |
eBay acquires visual search engine Corrigon for less than $30M | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 10 | 5 | — the soup to nuts marketplace for new and used goods — has made another acquisition to build out its search and discovery technology for customers to find what they need among the items that are listed on the site. The company today that it has acquired , an Israel-based startup that has is a specialist in comput... |
The NBA’s first hackathon: How is the future coming for the league? | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 10 | 5 | The NBA recently held an invite-only event in Midtown Manhattan: . Their goal: establishing a new way of looking at game stats. But that goal entails far more than just a new software hack. America has many favorite sports, it seems. Baseball is one of them; MLB (Major Baseball League) stands as a good example of havin... |
Gotcha! Norwegian prime minister caught playing Pokémon GO during parliamentary debate | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 5 | Pokémon GO fever may be receding in the U.S., but in Norway it’s still raging. The country’s prime minister, Erna Solberg, was caught red-handed playing the game in parliament. PM Solberg had her phone out not during a break or boring filibuster, but during an active debate while another minister was speaking. Looks li... |
Evercar mashes up car sharing and ride hailing | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 10 | 5 | Say you’d like to make a few extra bucks by driving for ride hailing services and or on-demand delivery services like , but your old car won’t pass muster with these companies. Or maybe you don’t want to put the miles on your personal car. Or maybe you don’t even have a car of your own. That’s where comes in. It m... |
This ‘ballbot’ is like a real-life BB-8 | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 5 | It isn’t quite as lovable as the spherical droid from Star Wars: The Force Awakens, but this robot from Carnegie Mellon University has the benefit of being more than a special effect ( ). And believe it or not, it basically has no moving parts. Now, you may be thinking, “the headline of says ‘two moving parts,’ you h... |
Zenefits makes licensing compliance app available for free in the Salesforce App Exchange | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 10 | 5 | announced this week, it was making a licensing compliance app it created in-house to ensure its sales people are properly licensed to sell insurance in a given state, available for free to anyone to download from the Salesforce App Exchange. Last winter Zenefits was sailing along providing HR services in the cloud for... |
Madefire, a digital comics startup with an eye on virtual reality, raises $6.5M | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 10 | 5 | Just in time for , is announcing that it has raised $6.5 million in Series B funding. Madefire co-founder and CEO Ben Wolstenholme said the funding — which was led by Santa Monica-based Plus Capital — will help his company build more connections with the media and entertainment world. It’s not that Madefire (which ... |
Industrial giants borrow a page from the tech playbook | Pat Mascia | 2,016 | 10 | 5 |
If you’re an executive at an industrial company, you’ve likely been grappling with the . The rapid development of technologies that connect every part of our lives has moved from our smart phone to the jet engine. There’s perhaps no greater testament to the importance of this connectivity than General Electric’s mas... |
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Stash’s app is a better way to bookmark the web | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 10 | 5 | There are a number of ways to save links from the web for later access, whether that’s marking articles to read later via apps like or , pinning shopping inspiration to , creating playlists on YouTube or even just using a browser’s bookmarking feature. But a new app called , available for both and , wants to of... |
CRISPR loses Nobel to tiny machines | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 10 | 5 | CRISPR, the gene-editing technology revolutionizing the biotech industry, has failed to take home the Nobel prize in chemistry for the second year in a row. Instead, the went to Jean-Pierre Sauvage, J. Fraser Stoddart, and Bernard L. Feringa – three men who developed the world’s smallest machines using molecular phys... |
WTF is a mirrorless camera? | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 2 | tend to fall under one of two categories: SLR or mirrorless. What’s the difference? And why does it matter? To find out, let’s take a quick trip through the history of the medium. It turns out that many of the changes to how cameras work have been attempts to solve a simple problem: How do you show what’s in front of ... |
A new private space race as Boeing CEO says he’ll beat SpaceX to Mars | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 5 | Competition breeds progress, so it’s a bit thrilling to hear Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg say that he’s going to beat SpaceX to Mars in terms of delivering real humans to the surface of the red planet. Muilenburg said that he’s “convinced the first person to step foot on Mars will arrive there riding a Boeing rocket,” ... |
This tiny high-def display could double the sharpness of VR | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 5 | Virtual reality is pretty convincing when you’re all jacked in and wired up — but even the best headsets today aren’t particularly sharp. Sharp, taking notice of this, has produced a display specifically for VR that’s double the resolution of what’s out there right now. It’s still a prototype, of course, and was on dis... |
Hamwells raises €1.2 million for the connected e-shower of the future | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 10 | 2 | When you take your next shower, the water flowing from the faucet may just be recycled. That’s the vision fueling , a Netherlands-based startup that launched in the at Disrupt London 2015. In the Battlefield, the company presented their e-shower with a re-circulation mode that recycles each drop of water 7 times, sig... |
What makes IoT ransomware a different and more dangerous threat? | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 10 | 2 |
has already managed to carve itself a niche as . As individuals, organizations and government agencies, we’re taking precautionary steps to against malware that can encrypt files beyond our reach. What we’re ignoring though, is , which will not target our files, but rather our IoT devices, which can be more dang... |
We are all responsible for closing the gender gap | Sue Siegel | 2,016 | 10 | 2 |
the United States, we are on the eve of potentially electing our first female president. Yet as much progress as we’ve made, we still have a long way to go to achieve gender parity – especially in business. It’s likely that a woman reading this today will soon be passed over for a deserved promotion or miss out on f... |
Stanford, MIT lead in graduating funded startup founders | Joanna Glasner | 2,016 | 10 | 2 | null |
Watch: Marc Andreessen on Twitter, secondary sales, pulling the plug, and more | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 10 | 2 | On Thursday night, at an insider event I’d organized in my second but closely related life as the founder of , I interviewed famed entrepreneur-investor Marc Andreessen, whose most recent headline-grabbing maneuver (intentionally or not) was to one week ago. I talked with Andreessen about why he has had enough of th... |
Tech companies and the global rise of e-sports | Don Basile | 2,016 | 10 | 2 |
The latest sports phenomenon sweeping the globe wasn’t represented at the in Rio; it doesn’t require an intense physical training regimen or even traditional sports equipment. We’re talking about competitive video gaming — and the opportunities for huge windfalls for players and advertisers are immense. Corporatio... |
Gillmor Gang: Bait and Switch | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 10 | 2 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Saturday, October 1, 2016. The Gang announces its version of the Alexa Prize, TrumpBot: an undisclosed amount of virtual tax breaks to the first person to create a chatbot that speaks intelligently for 20 seconds. Believe me,... |
HBO’s Westworld is the robotic cowboy headtrip that you didn’t know you were waiting for | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 10 | 2 | Expectations are ridiculously high as rides onto HBO tonight. The first season cost to make, and it’s being pitched in some quarters as . When you’ve got any TV show with that much hype, some disappointment seems inevitable, but judging from the first two episodes, is even better than anticipated. Based on a 197... |
Should your startup take the public benefit or B corp route? | Mick Bain | 2,016 | 10 | 2 |
While most founders want to make a boatload of money, achieving a stunning exit is hardly the only driver for most entrepreneurs. More often, they’re fueled by the challenge of solving a problem or producing something meaningful, whether it’s an app or an ice cream. Some want to make a corporate commitment to social ... |
Gil Penchina on angel investing, market timing, and his ambivalence to venture capital | Jasper Kuria | 2,016 | 10 | 2 |
I was one of the early folks at eBay and by 1999 it was completely overrun by consultants from McKinsey, Bain and BCG. It went from being a cool fun startup to an MBA factory. Angel investing was an outlet for me to hang out with people I liked– startup founders doing crazy stuff! I was lucky enough to have made some... |
Talking diversity, going global at the TC Meetup + Pitch-off in Seoul | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 10 | 20 | You might have already read about our forthcoming . But what you might not know is that we’re integrating more content into the program so you can hear from some of the most intelligent minds in the industry. As per usual, we’ll be holding the TC Pitch-off, where 10 companies will have exactly 60 seconds to pitch thei... |
Crunch Report | Nintendo’s Next Gaming Console | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 10 | 20 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Swarms of tiny, cute robots will one day bring you your phone, like this | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 20 | Robots are taking over factories and warehouses, but their next stop might be your desktop or kitchen counter. These tiny “Zooids” work together at high speed to act as tools, display information or move things around like little ants. The bots, named after the individual creatures that make up colonial organisms, were... |
A short list of some games we want to see on the Nintendo Switch | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 10 | 20 | Nintendo showed off its new console, the Nintendo Switch, . It’s basically a tablet to which you connect two controllers when you’re carrying it around, and then you use a regular controller when the tablet is plugged into the TV. In other words, it’s a kind of hybrid console where you can play both while you’re on the... |
Enjoy the return and watch for unemployment | Mike Lobanov | 2,016 | 10 | 20 |
Those of us interested in marketplace lending have recently observed many pejorative headlines about P2P lending platforms. These headlines mostly reported on Lending Club’s , but also criticized other platforms and the P2P lending model more broadly. Very few people anticipated this kind of a problem less than a ye... |
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A failed lander and a working orbiter – everything we know about ESA’s ExoMars mission | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 10 | 20 | With the help of NASA, ESA has located their failed Schiaparelli lander. NASA’s , a Mars-orbiting satellite equipped with cameras, was able to image the Schiaparelli landing site. In the before and after images above you can see a large dark dot above a smaller white dot. Preliminary analysis suggests that the smaller... |
Weebly hacked, 43 million credentials stolen | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 10 | 20 | The web design platform Weebly was hacked in February, according to the data breach notification site LeakedSource. Usernames and passwords for more than 43 million accounts were taken in the breach, although the passwords are secured with the strong hashing algorithm bcrypt. Weebly said in an email to customers that u... |
Customers are still waiting for their folding DJI drone | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 20 | As GoPro took to the stage in Squaw Valley to show off its long-awaited Karma Drone, DJI’s PR rep smirkingly tweeted, “I’m watching a competitor unveil a new product. I ain’t worried about a thing.” Within a matter of weeks, the company was showing off its own answer to the foldable drone — a smaller and more feature-p... |
XYZPrinting’s CEO still believes in 3D-printing ubiquity | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 20 | Three years ago, the entire industry was bullish about the future of 3D printing. The future seemed astronomical, the possibilities limitless. The technology took over a floor at the Consumer Electronics Show and pundits were regularly discussing a future populated by 3D printers in every home like so many replicator... |
Obama roasts Samsung over burning phones | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 20 | The president just made a joke about Samsung’s during a speech. If this isn’t peak Note 7, I don’t know what is. President Obama was speaking at Miami Dade College, mainly in defense of the Affordable Care Act. At one point he was talking about the bumps in the road encountered in deploying the law, and used troubled... |
Opternative sues South Carolina for the right to give online eye exams there | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 10 | 20 | Telehealth startup filed a suit against South Carolina today over a law that bars consumers there from getting a prescription for new glasses or contacts with an online eye exam. Technically, the lawsuit is a constitutional challenge to the state’s statute. As , Opternative’s app generally allows users to take an ey... |
WikiLeaks reveals Barack Obama’s pre-presidential email address | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 20 | R.I.P. Barack Obama’s inbox. Among the many secrets and not-so-secrets exposed by WikiLeaks in the dump of Clinton campaign head John Podesta’s emails is the president’s personal email address. It’s out there now and if it’s still active will probably be shut down immediately, so I see no harm in repeating that the add... |
360 photos and videos are coming to Facebook’s Instant Articles | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 10 | 20 | Facebook’s — the format that when accessed by Facebook users on mobile devices — are about to get more interactive. The social network today that these articles will now support 360 videos and photos — meaning, publishers can include 360 content in-line, which users can then navigate by turning their mobile devic... |
Microsoft’s Surface business skyrockets as the iPad’s slows | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 10 | 20 | Microsoft saw revenue from its Surface line jump 38% over last year’s total, . Released today, the states that Surface revenue hit $926 million during the last quarter, up from $672 million last year. Even at this level, Apple’s iPad business is still much larger, though growing more slowly. Apple’s iPad business is... |
PayPal ramps up mobile payments business | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 10 | 20 | However, some investors were disappointed to see that PayPal missed on total payment volume, a metric of total transactions on its platforms. The company brought in $87 billion in TPV, below the expected $88.3 billion. PayPal revealed that it expects full year revenue to be somewhere between $10.78 billion and $10.85 b... |
Microsoft’s cloud business bets pay off in Q1 as stock hits an all time high | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 10 | 20 | today for its first fiscal quarter of 2017 (because fiscal quarters don’t have to correlate with the all-governing force of time). Long story short: Azure and other office-based products are fueling revenue growth, as Microsoft mostly gives up on mobile. Also of note: Shares popped to above $60 in after-hour trading... |
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