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5 supercar secrets starring the 2017 McLaren 570GT | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 10 | 20 | Supercars are called super for a reason: these are not everyday sedans. They’re more powerful, more strikingly designed, and more expensive than the cars we usually drive to work. But there are some things you probably don’t know about supercars. I’ll use the 2017 McLaren 570GT to illustrate. The frunk McLaren GT570 st... |
Henrik Fisker teases upcoming EV’s “butterfly” doors | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 10 | 20 | Well, damn. Henrik Fisker just took to Twitter and gave a lesson on teasing upcoming products. According to his tweet, the upcoming reborn Fisker EV will have wild butterfly doors — you know, the type of doors kids will put on their hand-me-down Honda Accords. He says in the tweet the crazy doors are for easier ingress... |
Tim Cook on the Digital You | Andy Gstoll | 2,016 | 10 | 20 |
In Tim Cook’s recent with ABC, he gave us insight into what he thinks the “digital you” will do. He specifically mentions real-time meetings in real spaces — “this gives the capability for both of us to be very present and be talking to each other, and have other things — visually — for both of us to see,” said Coo... |
A trip to Google’s New York City Pop-Up Shop | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 20 | It might be reading too much into things to note, right off the bat, that is a mere block or two from Apple’s own Prince st. location. After all, that five block radius has hosted brand stores ranging from Samsung to LittleBits. Beats had a flagship shop down there before, as well, being swallowed up by Apple. There’... |
ADL report indicates anti-semitism against journalists has exploded on Twitter | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 10 | 18 | According to a new report from the , anti-semitic hate speech targeting journalists has seen a meteoric rise on Twitter — thanks to the rhetoric in the 2016 Presidential Campaign. The organization, which has a long history of battling anti-Semitism (both real and perceived), established its task force in June in respo... |
Crunch Report | Facebook Live: Scheduling and Lobby Feature | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 10 | 18 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
Tito Hamze
Joe Zolnoski
Joe Zolnoski TechCrunch C/O Tito Hamze
410 Townsend street
Suite 100
San Francisco Ca. 94107 |
Glassdoor will now tell you if you’re being underpaid | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 10 | 18 | Some people get really uncomfortable when talking about salary, so Glassdoor has released a new tool to help people better determine their worth in compensation. Know Your Worth aims to help people gain insight into how much money they make in comparison to other people working the same or similar job. asks you for yo... |
Civil liberties groups ask for ‘moratoriums’ on face recognition tech | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 10 | 18 | Armed with new research, civil rights organizations are urging the Justice Department to investigate law enforcement’s excessive use of face recognition technologies. A coalition of asked the Department of Justice today to investigate the use of face recognition technology by local and state police and the FBI, after... |
In its VR/AR push, Twitter trolls itself | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 10 | 18 | PR recovery 101: when you screw up this reality, move on to the next one. Twitter seems to be slowly building up its AR/VR hires as its other real-world hopes and dreams rise and fall around it. News today that the company has hired former AngelHack founder Greg Gopman to start working on virtual reality efforts at t... |
Internal expense fraud is next on machine learning’s list | Chris Baker | 2,016 | 10 | 18 |
What reactions did people have to the movie trailer for (which was created entirely — and for the first time — by an AI bot, and a pretty famous one at that)? “That’s creepy.” Which is a fair reaction. Computers can now write, read, learn and speak. And for some, this is pretty scary — people are terrified that bot... |
Tim Cook and Bill Gates were on the list of potential Hillary Clinton VP’s | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 10 | 18 | Hillary Clinton was considering several tech leaders among a list of potential running mates, to leaked emails supposedly from Clinton’s campaign manager John Podesta. In an sent March 17, 2016, Podesta mentions a “first cut” of those Clinton might consider as her vice president. In one section of that list, organiz... |
Pepe’s creator teams with the Anti-Defamation League to reclaim his chilled-out frog | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 18 | It’s been a weird few years for Pepe the Frog. A wild ride that ought to be reserved for the likes of Mr. Toad – or maybe if anyone tries to deep fry Kermit’s legs again. Anyone who knows Pepe and his creator Matt Furie knows that the pair are candidates for two of the least likely people/amphibians to show of up . Bu... |
Ecuador says it cut Julian Assange’s internet access to prevent interference with the election | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 18 | Ecuador has claimed responsibility for cutting off Julian Assange’s internet access, calling it a “temporary restriction” aimed at preventing him from interfering with the U.S. election. WikiLeaks tweeted about the outage over the weekend and claimed confirmation it was Ecuador yesterday. Turns out they were right. An ... |
OpenTable rolls separate country apps into single app with global booking | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 10 | 18 | wants you to book a table for dinner right after you book your city break away. The restaurant booking platform is consolidating multiple apps for different countries into a single multi-language global app that supports bookings at restaurants in other countries, it said today. The idea is to make it easier for users... |
Tinder Boost, letting you pay to skip the line, goes live worldwide | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 10 | 18 | , the feature that lets users pay to have their profile shown first in the feed, has gone live worldwide as of today. The company started testing the feature in late September in Australia, and has finally decided to let it loose across Tinder’s global community. Tinder Boost lets users pay to have their profile bumped... |
Call A Deplorable / Elitist breaks you out of your echo chamber | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 10 | 18 | Put in your phone number, talk to someone with the opposite political views. That’s the idea behind two new sister sites, for use by Hillary supporters and for use by Trump supporters. “We hope that every voter can take the time to share their story and listen to what others have to say before election day,” write ... |
Social media display company Tagboard acquires Capture | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 10 | 18 | announced that it has acquired , another startup in the social media and user-generated-content business. Tagboard helps marketers find and create displays for social media conversation around a brand or topic. (When I covered the company a couple of years ago, I described it as a “ ,” which is both accurate and te... |
The future of work manifesto | Sondra Rasch | 2,016 | 10 | 18 |
We humans are hunter-gatherers domesticated into becoming farmers. Around 10,000 years ago, we discovered the wonders of agriculture. To make farmers out of hunters, we used social norms and sanctions. This tension of our origins is described in the fable of Cain and Abel, which ends with Cain the farmer slaying his ... |
Autonomous cars are going to be great for jerks, study finds | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 18 | If you’re kind of an ass when you drive, autonomous cars are going to be great for you, a new study from the London School of Economics and Goodyear has found (via ). Basically, self-driving cars will opt on the side of safety and caution, which means aggressive jerks who drive like morons will be able to bully them a... |
You can endorse your preferred presidential candidate on Facebook now | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 10 | 18 | Facebook rolled out a new feature today that lets users endorse presidential candidates, a move that will probably bring even more acrimonious comments about this election cycle into your News Feed. Yay. Here’s how it works: You can go onto any candidate’s Facebook page — yes, this includes third-party candidates like ... |
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What is LeEco and why should you care? | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 18 | Maybe you’ve heard of LeEco (nee LeTV). Maybe you’ve seen some news about the company’s phones or its plans to launch a car. If you live in the U.S., however, odds are pretty good that your knowledge of the company doesn’t extend beyond the occasional passing mention. But the company’s big, and only getting bigger. Ear... |
Finally, a robot crib from Yves Behar | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 18 | Yves Behar, designer of many round-edged objects, has at last turned his attention to the piece of furniture rated “most restful” by babies: the crib. His robotic, Wi-Fi-enabled creation, , also puts to rest the classic “what’s snoo with you” joke, since now everyone will know what Snoo is and won’t ask. It had a good... |
Waiting impatiently for Apple to release new Macs? You’ll get them on October 27th | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 10 | 18 | So I’ve been hearing for weeks now that Apple has been waffling a bit on a date for its late-October Mac event. But, according to my sources, a date has been picked: Thursday, October 27th. So those looking for a new MacBook, hold your horses. And if you’re a journo, flights are getting iffy but hotels are pretty cheap... |
This probably isn’t the RC droid you’re looking for | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 18 | There’s a new remote-controlled Star Wars droid on the way, but it might not be the one at the top of most people’s gift lists. The R/C Mouse Droid (via ) is about as basic as a bot can get, but the tiny scene stealing droid will be very familiar (and possibly even cherished) by fans of the original series, where it h... |
Tesla Powerpack 2 has twice the energy density, began shipping in September | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 27 | Tesla posted an appetizer of sorts for its , via a blog post that details , the second iteration of Tesla’s commercial and utility energy storage solution. The Powerpack 2 actually started shipping quietly in September, with a brand new energy module on board that’s capable of achieving twice the energy density or ar... |
Apple says no fun allowed on the Touch Bar | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 27 | is . Apple’s interface guidelines warn against all kinds of fun things that developers probably started thinking about when the new MacBook Pros earlier this week. No doubt some apps will find a way to be creative even under the stern eye of Apple’s party police, but it’s clearly discouraged. Here are a few choice it... |
Jeff Bezos, Mayo Clinic back anti-aging startup Unity Biotechnology for $116 million | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 10 | 27 | Every once in a while someone in Silicon Valley brings up the possibility of living forever, or at least a really long time, but first we’re going to need to figure out a way to enjoy all those extra years. is a startup focusing on medicines to help us do that by slowing the effects of age-related diseases. And the c... |
Apple’s MacBook Pro event recap | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,016 | 10 | 27 | In the second Apple event in the past two months, Tim Cook ceremoniously took the stage today at Apple HQ to keep us posted on what the company has been working on. The event opened with a moving message toward making Apple technology accessible to all without too much detail on how exactly that is going to happen. F... |
Does Gillette know your name? | Sophie Bakalar | 2,016 | 10 | 27 |
What innovations are you most excited about right now? My guess is that when you’re scrolling through tech blogs or Product Hunt, you’re probably clicking on the most buzzworthy technology or trendiest social media app before a new consumer product. And that’s understandable: How do you get excited about a new snack ... |
China’s ZTO Express stumbles in its NYSE debut after raising $1.4B in IPO | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 10 | 27 | Logistics may be the name of the game when it comes to e-commerce, but the IPO market can still prove to be a fickle place for even the biggest players. Today, China’s , the company that provides shipping and delivery services to Alibaba among others, scored both a hit and a miss in its . First, the company raised $1... |
Accel cofounder Jim Swartz: It hasn’t burst, but it’s a bubble all right | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 10 | 27 | Earlier this week, the , a “hub for entrepreneurship” in the center of Carnegie Mellon University’s Pittsburgh campus, was officially launched in an event attended by upwards of 600 students, alums, and professors. They’ll have even more to celebrate when construction on the 300,000 square-foot business school where i... |
Apple’s new MacBook Pro kills off most of the ports you probably need | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 10 | 27 | Apple just a shiny, super thin new MacBook Pro. But for what was birthed, a lot of widely-held standards had to die. Today, Apple removed the MagSafe 2 charging port type, they stripped away the HDMI port, they ripped out the SD card slot, they shuttered the Thunderbolt 2 ports (which you probably used like three tim... |
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LinkedIn Q3 sales up 23% to $960M in its last earnings ahead of MSFT acquisition | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 10 | 27 | Microsoft expects to close its $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn by the end of this year — pending some final regulatory approvals — and so, in light of that, today LinkedIn a very basic earnings report for Q3. It’s also skipping the customary analyst call and is no longer providing financial guidance for the com... |
Amazon plunges on earnings miss | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 10 | 27 | Revenue of $32.7 billion was in line with what Wall Street was expecting. [graphiq id=”lisSupp6SiN” title=”Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN) Stock Price” width=”600″ height=”617″ url=”https://sw.graphiq.com/w/lisSupp6SiN” link=”http://listings.findthecompany.com/l/19215472/AmazonCom-Inc-in-Seattle-WA” link_text=”FindTheCompany | ... |
Hands-on with Apple’s new Touch Bar MacBook Pro | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 27 | At first glance, it looks an awful lot like the same MacBook Pro we’ve become accustomed to seeing over the last several years. The TrackPad is the first indication that something’s different here. It’s huge — twice as big as the last version, and thankfully now carrying the Force Touch technology the company perfected... |
It looks like Apple killed its cheapest laptop for consumers | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 10 | 27 | Apple seems to have earlier today, and with that, the death of the 11-inch MacBook Air is official. At the event, Apple unveiled a series of new laptops, including a thinner and more lightweight 13-inch MacBook Pro — which still had function keys rather than the touchpad in its higher-end models. Apple spent a lot of... |
Asana co-founder discusses Thiel’s donation to Trump | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 10 | 27 | Asana co-founder and head of product Justin Rosenstein discussed the political views of his controversial investor and former board member Peter Thiel today at the conference in San Francisco. Asana isn’t the only company to face questions about its continued relationship with Thiel in light of his ongoing support of... |
The 13-inch MacBook Air model is still alive | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 10 | 27 | Surprise, the MacBook Air is still alive! The new MacBook Air is Apple’s new cheap laptop. While everybody thought the 12-inch Retina MacBook was going to replace the MacBook Air, it’s not going to be the case just yet. Apple just updated the MacBook Air page on its website after . While the 11-inch MacBook Air is (... |
Apple TV App Store has 8,000 apps, 2,000 of which are games | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 10 | 27 | At the Apple press conference this afternoon, Apple CEO Tim Cook gave a brief update on the state of the Apple TV app ecosystem. Today, the app store has grown to include 8,000 apps, the exec said, 2,000 of which are games. A year ago, the store had , which indicates steady if not remarkable growth for the Apple TV app... |
Hooch raises $1.5M to expand its drink a day subscription cocktail app | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 10 | 11 | , a subscription-based drink startup has raised $1.5M in new funding, bringing total funds raised to $2.7M. All of the investors in this round were considered strategic by the startup, and include celebrities like Russell Simmons, Shaun White and Chris Burch. As a refresher, the app charges $9.99 per month for the ab... |
Mozilla strives for performance boost with new Project Quantum | John Mannes | 2,016 | 10 | 27 | As the web becomes less about static webpages and more about intricate web apps, browsers are being pushed to their limits to display interactive content without lag and erratic frame rates. Today, , Mozilla outlined the development of , a browser engine designed to address these changes at a fundamental level. When t... |
Get ready for a me-too CES | John Biggs | 2,016 | 10 | 27 | That record scratch you just heard came from thousands of designers and R&D specialists who suddenly have to remake 3D models of laptops, phones and desktops. That sigh is coming from hundreds of programmers stepping up their new interfaces and that ripping noise is myriad press releases getting torn up and rewritten. ... |
New FCC rule protects users from the prying eyes of ISPs | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 27 | It’s a good day for consumers, and the advertisers are tearing out their hair: The FCC today that severely restrict what data ISPs can collect from you without your consent. The Association of National Advertisers called the rules “unprecedented, misguided and extremely harmful.” If that isn’t a strong endorsement, I... |
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Is machine learning sexist? | Yvonne Baur | 2,016 | 10 | 11 |
We’ve been hearing a lot about diversity and inclusion recently, and one of the areas that a lot of people are particularly interested in and excited about is applying . Done right, this can be a huge boost supporting our efforts to go beyond bias across all areas of the organization. But there are potential pitfall... |
Nuheara’s earbuds/hearing aids are open for general pre-order | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 11 | are strange little things. It took a rep a few tries to properly explain the things when they first crossed my radar. And honestly, it wasn’t until I took the things for a spin on the crowded Manhattan streets that I really grasped what they were all about. The simplest way to explain them is as a sort of combination ... |
Crunch Report | Obama wants to go to Mars by the 2030s | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 10 | 11 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
Tito Hamze
Joe Zolnoski
Joe Zolnoski TechCrunch C/O Tito Hamze
410 Townsend street
Suite 100
San Francisco Ca. 94107 |
Facebook hires The Sims’ Rachel Rubin Franklin to lead Social VR team | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 10 | 11 | What will friending, sharing, and messaging look like in virtual reality? Facebook has tapped video game giant Electronic Arts’ VP Rachel Rubin Franklin as of the team. Last week, Mark Zuckerberg presented thanks to Facebook, and Franklin will now work to bring that experience to the world. at EA since 2011 befo... |
Waze and Esri make app-to-infrastructure possible | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 10 | 11 | The interactive navigation app , with its 65 million active monthly users, has partnered with , which provides geographic information systems (GIS) software to 25,000 state, local and national governments. While the combination isn’t quite the vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) communication that will enable autonomous ... |
Sheryl Sandberg shoots down rumors of a role in Clinton administration | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 10 | 11 | Rumors have swirled for months that if Hillary Clinton succeeds in her bid to become the next U.S. president, she would appoint Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg as . But Sandberg shot down those rumors today at the , hosted by the Internet Association. “I’m staying at Facebook,” Sandberg said when ask... |
Five years of observations from tandem satellites produce 3D world map of unprecedented accuracy | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 11 | A pair of satellites operating in tandem for five years have produced a depth map of the planet so exact you could theoretically zoom down to street level and tell an adult from a kid, or spot a breaking wave at Malibu. The immense database — some 2.6 petabytes — is available for free to researchers. TanDEM-X and Terra... |
Signal gets disappearing messages — but for tidiness, not privacy | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 11 | Messaging app is proud to be end-to-end encrypted, and privacy is their watchword — but its new ephemeral messages aren’t being billed as tools to that end, and nor should they be. Disappearing text and pictures are the main addition (along with a meatspace verification tool) of the latest version of the app. But whi... |
Toyota official highlights issues with NHTSA guidelines and California self-driving rules | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 11 | At a forum on Capital Hill designed to gather input from industry stakeholders on NHTSA guidelines, Toyota Motor North America director of technology and innovation policy Hilary Cain pointed out that proposed changes to California’s self-driving test guidelines would make a voluntary process requested by the new ess... |
Facebook, Twitter cut off data access for Geofeedia, a social media surveillance startup | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 10 | 11 | According to a new study published today from the , major social networks including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have recently provided user data access to the location-based, social media surveillance system used by government offices, private security firms, marketers and others. As TechCrunch , Geofeedia is o... |
The Markforged Mark X lets you teleport precision custom parts from designer to printer | John Biggs | 2,016 | 10 | 11 | The promise of 3D printing has been kind of a dud. Aside from a few cool Yoda heads and some small plastic pieces, there have been no “indie” players doing much interesting in the space except . Markforged is a Boston company we that makes carbon-fiber reinforced plastic parts using traditional 3D-printing technique... |
C1X raises $8.5M for its advertiser and publisher tech | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 10 | 11 | has raised another $8.5 million in what it says is the first part of a Series B round of funding. The company was founded by Mukundu Kumaran (CEO) and Daisuke Nagayama (chief operating officer and chief global strategist) — Kumaran previously worked as an engineering director at Yahoo, and is “to simplify how the ba... |
Tech companies like TaskRabbit are engaged in affirmative action, and that’s ok | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 10 | 11 | Aiming to increase diversity and foster inclusion in the tech industry is not the same as affirmative action, TaskRabbit CEO Stacy Brown-Philpot said on stage today at the Internet Association’s conference. “I wouldn’t say it’s affirmative action but it’s a recognition,” Brown-Philpot said. “Our company should repres... |
Google acquires FameBit to connect YouTube creators with marketers | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 10 | 11 | Google just that it has acquired , a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content. This could be an important step for Google’s YouTube, where monetization has been a big concern — not just for YouTube as a whole, but also for . YouTube has been working to provide more s... |
As the Note 7 dies, Oculus loses face(s) | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 10 | 11 | The Note 7 debacle hasn’t been good for anyone — not for Samsung, not for Android, not for consumers, not for airlines, not for fire departments, not for stylus-lovers and certainly not for Oculus. The Facebook-owned virtual reality powerhouse currently has its entire mobile VR future pinned on the successes of Samsung... |
Obama wants to go to Mars, but will the next administration? | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 10 | 11 | President Obama an op-ed on CNN today, praising the accomplishments of NASA to date and encouraging the nation to keep its sights set on Mars. While it was an inspiring endorsement for NASA and space exploration, it comes on the tails of a intended to prevent the next presidential administration from changing NASA’... |
How artificial intelligence is changing online retail forever | Babak Hodjat | 2,016 | 10 | 11 |
Artificial intelligence is all around us, from searching on Google to what news you see on social media to using Siri. And with the momentum around AI growing every day, it’s not surprising that some of the most innovative retail sites have recently been experimenting with the use of AI, as well. Businesses that igno... |
Blockchain is empowering the future of insurance | Kevin Wang | 2,016 | 10 | 29 |
The embers of innovation are beginning to char the massive underbelly of the in the world. Every segment of insurance is under competition by entrepreneurs touting new ways to underprice risk, creating new types of premiums and servicing consumers in a tightly regulated on-demand economy. While most startups atte... |
The history of innovation in recruitment technology and services | Michael Overell | 2,016 | 10 | 29 |
2016 is a watershed moment for the recruitment industry. LinkedIn and Monster are being acquired, and CareerBuilder — three of the highest-profile tech companies in the space. Microsoft is making a grand entrance, while cashed-up incumbents watch closely from the sidelines. The ripples will span the entire industry... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 10.29.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 10 | 29 | This was a live recording session of – with: Robert Scoble, Doc Searls, Keith Teare, Frank Radice and Steve Gillmor. Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page G3’s Facebook page |
Lume Cube is back on Kickstarter with a smartphone-friendly light source | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 10 | 29 | When first crashed into the world’s consciousness, they did so with an $80 smartphone-controlled, waterproof light aimed at the GoPro-loving extreme sports market. Today, the company launched a Kickstarter campaign for Life Lite, its followup. Life Lite is 33 percent less bright, but also half the price and half the ... |
What product development teaches us about self-improvement | Pini Yakuel | 2,016 | 10 | 29 |
While the digital revolution has brought with it many conceptual changes, one of the most pronounced is that of the version release. Your phone is considered outdated if it’s a year old, and obsolete if you bought it three years ago. Whenever you connect to Wi-Fi your apps undergo a version update. The Facebook you’r... |
DroneDeploy launches a directory for professional drone operators | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 10 | 11 | DroneDeploy wants businesses to be able to find a drone services provider as easily as anyone can find a place to eat dinner, anywhere in the world. So today, the company unveiled a new free . Take, for example, a real estate developer who needs a finely detailed map of land where it may soon build a giant, corporate ... |
Zcash, Blockstack, and appcoins, oh my! | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 10 | 29 | It’s time to check back in to what’s happening in the world of cryptocurrencies! Which—give it credit—is . Some things seem evergreen; the Bitcoin civil war is resurgent; the Ethereum’s growing pains continue. But out there on the horizon, some strange and interesting things are happening. I give you, for instance, ap... |
The reasons why Twitter won’t let anyone save Vine | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 10 | 29 | There are so many ways Twitter could end up looking like a fool if it gave up control of Vine that it would rather bury the app than sell it. There’s little to gain and a lot to lose. So in the spirit of Vine, I’m going to break down the reasoning into 6-second snippets of text: That all makes sense. But… By killing of... |
VC firm Daphni announces its first $165 million fund | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 10 | 16 | Paris-based VC firm is announcing its inaugural fund for seed and Series A investments. The team will manage a $165 million fund (€150 million) and try some new things when it comes to venture capital in Europe. On paper, Daphni looks like many other funds. A bunch of limited partners have given a big pile of money s... |
Why the top entrepreneurs are seeking corporate venture money | Neal Hansch | 2,016 | 10 | 11 |
When needed to get young viewers to tune into the 2016 Olympics in Rio this summer, it turned to , the social media-driven media company in which it had invested $200 million a year earlier. NBCUniversal knew the millennial audience — and the lucrative advertising dollars that follow them — would be key to achievi... |
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K Fund is a new €50M VC fund investing in early-stage Spanish startups | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 10 | 16 | Joining the likes of Kibo Ventures, Seaya Ventures, Nauta Capital, Samaipata Ventures, and JME Ventures, Spain has a new VC on the block. is a €50 million fund that will invest in Spanish startups with an international outlook, making lead investments at both the seed and Series A stages, writing checks of between €1... |
A Look into Chile’s innovative startup government | Conrad Egusa | 2,016 | 10 | 16 |
For better or for worse, Chile is often held up as the economic model for Latin America. In the Lost Decade of the 1970s-1980s, the region was tripping over itself to fall down a spiral of debt and ruin. In the decades of uneven recovery that followed — hailed as “miraculous” in Chile’s case — many countries found th... |
The hiring game | Ryan Craig | 2,016 | 10 | 16 |
With nearly 8 million Americans unemployed and looking for work while nearly 6 million jobs remain unfilled, it’s fair to say that technology has not disrupted the labor market in a good way. In fact, most employers believe technology has made hiring harder. Approximately 85% of job descriptions are posted online, an... |
INNOVATE2016: Are we on the verge of Brexit 2.0 | Andrew Keen | 2,016 | 10 | 16 |
is a general partner of and a serial entrepreneur and best-selling author. Like everyone else, both inside and outside Silicon Valley, he’s got little else on his mind but the upcoming election. While he’s strongly in favor of Clinton, he nonetheless fears the reappearance of the BREXIT card in the vote. “The ... |
WTF is a container? | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 10 | 16 | You can’t go to a developer conference today and not hear about software containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos and a bunch of other names with a nautical ring to them. To understand why containers are such a big deal, let’s think about physical containers for a moment. The modern shipping industry only works as well as... |
Iraq founders gather at Fikra Fair to show their nation has more to offer than oil | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 10 | 16 | This weekend in Baghdad, tech entrepreneurs and local government officials gathered at the to network, demo their apps and show the world that Iraq has more to offer than oil. According to the , challenging realities of daily life for many people in Iraq include sky-high food prices, cash shortages, a lack of commun... |
The loss of an ARM | Luke Hakes | 2,016 | 10 | 16 |
Japanese telecoms firm recently British microchip manufacturer . ARM’s shareholders approved the $32 billion deal at the end of August, and the company was delisted from the London Stock Exchange on September 5. The deal represents the largest acquisition of a European technology company. Ever. Since SoftBank’s ... |
Peter Thiel will donate $1.25M to the Trump campaign, despite the latest controversies | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 10 | 16 | Peter Thiel surprised Silicon Valley enough when he endorsed controversial Presidential candidate Donald J. Trump at the Republican National Convention earlier this year. Valley investors and entrepreneurs — the vast majority of whom do not support Trump — are likely to be even more taken aback by the news that Thiel h... |
These are Tesla’s stunning new solar roof tiles for homes | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 28 | Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk wasn’t kidding when he said that the new Tesla solar roof product was better looking than an ordinary roof: the roofing replacement with solar energy gathering powers does indeed look great. It’s a far cry from the obvious and somewhat weird aftermarket panels you see applied to roofs af... |
Wish is raising again, and giving late-stage investors protection | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 10 | 28 | , a San Francisco-based e-commerce mobile app that’s taken off in the U.S. and Europe by selling watches, clothing and other items extremely cheaply, is raising a new round of funding, a new filing shows. (The research company CB Insights first.) Neither the size of the round nor the valuation are included, but the f... |
Tesla’s Powerwall 2 packs over twice the energy storage | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 28 | Tesla’s new Powerwall 2 is part of Tesla Energy, the company’s new comprehensive approach to green, all-electric power delivery. The updated home energy storage product is similar to the last one, in that it’s a large, rectangular (now with more rectangularity) device designed to live on a wall in your home (likely in ... |
Live from Tesla’s special event in L.A. | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 10 | 28 | Tesla’s holding a special event at 5:30 PM PT today at Universal Studios in L.A., and we’re live on location to bring you al the news as it happens. Tesla will be unveiling their solar roofing product for the first time at this event, as well as the second generation of the Powerwall home energy battery, and perhaps mo... |
Apple’s new Intel driven MacBook Pros have a secondary ARM processor that runs Touch ID and security | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 10 | 28 | When will Apple ship a MacBook with an ARM processor? This is a question that has been top of mind for observers of the company ever since it started designing and building its own chips from the ground up. The answer to that question is now, sort of. Apple’s new 13” and 15” MacBook Pro models come equipped with a Touc... |
Three reasons carriers are building new cell networks for the Internet of Things | Daniel Conrad | 2,016 | 10 | 28 |
Around the world, wireless carriers are building all-new cellular networks for the Internet of Things. These new networks won’t work with cell phones — they’re made for IoT devices that don’t yet exist. These aren’t small players, either. , , , , , and many others are building all-new nationwide IoT networks.... |
Weekly Roundup: MacBook Pro makes waves, AT&T acquiring Time Warner and RIP Vine | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 10 | 28 | Apple and Microsoft both held big hardware events this week, unveiling a few new devices like the new MacBook Pro and the Surface Studio. Twitter announced it is shutting down Vine and laying off 9% of the company. Oh, and AT&T is acquiring Time Warner for a whole lot of money. These are the top stories of the week. Ti... |
Let your Vines live on forever with this Giphy conversion tool | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 28 | was perhaps not entirely unexpected, but it’s sad nevertheless. Luckily, six-second videos are pretty easy to archive for posterity, and all-purpose GIF platform Giphy wants you to do just that. : The original video with sound can be downloaded via the “source” button on the lower right once you import your Vines. I... |
Vehicle security device Ernest launches today | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 10 | 28 | Ernest is a bit difficult to describe. It’s a device, it’s two devices, it’s an app, and according to its founder, Arturs Pumpurs, it’s a kind of virtual butler. The system secures your vehicle, tells you where it is, and controls your garage door or, if you have one, gate. The Kickstarter campaign starts October 28 an... |
Facebook draws criticism for ‘ethnic affinity’ ad targeting | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 10 | 28 | ProPublica today — specifically, the ability to include or exclude users from a given ad campaign based on their “ethnic affinity.” These capabilities have existed for a while (Facebook told ProPublica’s Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr. it began offering them within the past two years as part of its “multicultural a... |
The head of 3D for Windows explains how the feature became a new centerpiece for the OS | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 28 | Microsoft’s future is three-dimensional. Up to now, we’ve seen the company embrace the notion in dribs and drabs, through the HoloLens and its work with Minecraft. But earlier this week, at , the company went all in, making 3D content creation a core principle of both its upcoming Windows 10 Creators Update and hardwa... |
BlackLine surges 40% in software IPO | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 10 | 28 | null |
I am in a test for Twitter’s new @ reply design and it is a mess | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 10 | 28 | : Everyone and their mother has an opinion about stuff Twitter is doing wrong. This one is mine. Twitter is testing a new design of the @reply that is intended to ‘clean up’ the conversation view by completely removing usernames from tweets. (a group of users that Twitter is having take the features for a spin to see... |
The silver lining to all the bad news around diversity in U.S. tech | Hadi Partovi | 2,016 | 10 | 28 |
This isn’t just happening in one school or in one state, it’s happening nationally. In Arkansas, Governor Asa Hutchinson passed a bill to fund access to computer science in every school, and in just one year Arkansas a 300% increase of females studying computer science, and a 600% increase among African American fe... |
Samsung brings the Note 7’s Blue Coral color to the Galaxy S7 Edge | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 28 | One of the unsung casualties of long, sad death of the Note 7 was poor, poor Blue Coral. It was a really striking addition to an already lovely phone, a sort of shimmery light metallic blue. Every since Samsung and basically every regulatory body around put the kibosh on the phablet, however, the closest we’ve gotten i... |
Watch 500 Startups’ Demo Day here | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 10 | 28 | TechCrunch is pleased to bring you 500 Startups’ Batch 18 Demo Day, also known as Demo-ween, today, October 28th, starting at 12:00pm PT. 500 Startups is a global seed fund and startup accelerator founded by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai. 500 has invested in a variety of technology startups all over the world and mai... |
Apple taps LG to build external displays for its new MacBooks | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 28 | The shedding of various other ports in favor of ThunderBolt 3 ubiquity will no doubt be one of the biggest pain points for many when it comes to upgrading to the new MacBooks. Though the new ports do have benefits. Take the fact that the 15-inch version is capable of powering up to four 4K displays simultaneously. It’s... |
Maven expands car-sharing network to L.A. | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 28 | GM’s car-sharing service is adding yet another city to the list of places where it’s available: Los Angeles. The addition of L.A. comes quick on the heels of its recent , which means there are now two California markets on board. Maven is GM’s in-house alternative to offerings like Zipcar and Enterprise CarShare. Th... |
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