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Can AI dominate the web industry and other domains? | Owais Afaq | 2,016 | 10 | 28 |
2016 has been quite a ride for the players in AI, NLP and ML technologies. From the famous advent of at the end of Q1 to the numerous acquisitions of AI and chatbot companies during the latter half of this year, artificial intelligence has been in the headlines every other day. In August there was an article on Tec... |
FoundersCard members now get three months of free private jet flights from JetSmarter | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 10 | 17 | , the membership-based program that offers perks like discounts on hotels, travel and shopping has inked a new deal with JetSmarter. As a refresher is also a membership-based program that lets members book discounted seats on shuttle flights between pre-determined cities as well as book their own private flights. Jet... |
Facebook gives users local ballot guides in voting initiative | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 10 | 28 | Facebook rolled out a today that gives users a full voter guide, from the presidential candidates to the down-ballot propositions and local politicians, in an effort to “encourage civic participation.” The feature allows users to “favorite” their chosen candidates and initiatives so they can refer to their favorites ... |
Qualcomm debuts plans to help build more connected cameras | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 17 | A couple of big, roadmappy pieces of news out the Qualcomm 4G/5G Summit, being held in Hong Kong this week, far away from the component company’s sunny Southern California headquarters. Alongside a number of new chips, the Qualcomm is laying out its plans to support camera functionality across a wide set of different f... |
Crunch Report | Big Changes for Apple’s Car Project | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 10 | 17 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Qualcomm shows off three new Snapdragon processors | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 17 | While it’s true we don’t all have the pleasure of hanging at the Hong Kong Ritz Carlton for this week’s 4G/5G Summit, we can still bask in the chipmaker’s news from afar. Arguably most fascinating among the San Diego company’s big announcements for the week are its plans to go big into the future of , but it wouldn’t ... |
Hemp can’t get you high, but it can get high-tech | Don Basile | 2,016 | 10 | 27 |
Marijuana is an ancient plant with borderline mystical properties — just ask the who smoke it every year. Hemp, the industrial strain of , has been used for many purposes — food, fuel and textiles among them — for tens of thousands of years. Unlike its sister strain, hemp can’t get you high. But much like the drug... |
Judge dismisses riot charges against Democracy Now! cofounder Amy Goodman | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 10 | 17 | There may be hope for the First Amendment rights of new media journalists― a North Dakota judge has against cofounder and investigative reporter Amy Goodman. As TechCrunch Goodman was charged for “participating in a riot” after she reported from the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota, on the long-runn... |
How to win in the game of odds in the next fintech frontier — insurance | Richie Hecker | 2,016 | 10 | 17 |
At the end of the day, insurance is all about risk. Whatever keeps people safest leads to the lowest claims — and the happiest people. Insurance technology is getting very popular among founders and investors, yet, as a category, is little understood. Insurance is one of the most difficult businesses to start, becaus... |
Lobster adds Verizon Cloud to its AI-powered photo licensing arsenal | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 10 | 17 | Lobster, , is breathing new life into its AI-powered media licensing platform by partnering with Verizon Cloud. Advertisers, publications, agencies and the media will now have the means to license images sourced from social media and now, Verizon Cloud. For every image sold, 75% of the profit goes towards the contribut... |
Comparing the politics of Trump and his Silicon Valley surrogate Peter Thiel | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 10 | 17 | It’s been a weird year for Peter Thiel. The always contrarian investor has managed to stir up quite a bit of ill will with his shadowy support of the lawsuit that brought Gawker to its knees and his vocal — and now financial — support for Donald Trump. Along the way, each of Thiel’s controversies has led to calls for t... |
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Razer acquires audiovisual icon THX as it explores growth beyond the games industry | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 10 | 17 | , the company that develops hardware and services for gamers and the world of gaming, has made an acquisition to catapult it to more platforms and more people: The company has acquired , the legendary audio and video quality assurance company that was originally founded by George Lucas as part of Lucasfilm. Razer’s CE... |
Orbital ATK returns to flight with successful Antares launch to the space station | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 10 | 17 | The Orbital ATK Antares rocket – the same rocket that on its way to the International Space Station two years ago – returned to flight today with a much-anticipated launch. Lifting off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, the Antares rocket is now on its way to deliver the Cygnus spacecraft filled with ov... |
AWS launches region in Ohio | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 10 | 17 | Amazon’s today launched a region in Ohio. The aptly-named “US East (Ohio) Region” brings Amazon’s total region count to 14. The region will feature three separate availability zones for increased fault tolerance. AWS now offers 38 availability zones across its data centers. Amazon’s CTO Werner Vogels noted in today... |
Has SDN improved or just Kardashianized your network? | Leonard A. Giuliano | 2,016 | 10 | 17 |
Software-defined networking (SDN) has taken center stage in the networking industry for the better part of a decade now. In the spirit of the election season, it’s a great time to ask the question: Is your network better off now than it was before? The answer should be a resounding yes. For network engineers with a s... |
In drought-ridden California, a new fertilizer technology from KDC Ag could bring relief | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 10 | 17 | manicured streets of monied Los Angeles neighborhoods, it’s a challenge to think of California as rain-starved and sun-choked. But a trip along Interstate 5 reveals a different world. Miles of browning grass stretch along the roadside, broken by the green clusters of California’s farms, which provide fruits, vegetable... |
Netflix shakes off weak subscriber growth and its stock is skyrocketing | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 10 | 17 | Netflix is finally breaking off from its slowing subscriber growth trend as it posted a huge quarter that beat both its own, and Wall Street’s, expectations. Here’s the money chart: Shares of Netflix are absolutely blowing up, now up more than 20% in extended trading after the earnings report came out. With today’s cra... |
Facebook Messenger suggests what to talk about with “Conversation Topics” feature | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 10 | 17 | Facebook Messenger may have already hit this past summer, but the company is always looking for new ways to increase app usage. The latest attempt is the introduction of “conversation topics” on Messenger – a feature offering suggestions about what to talk about with friends. These conversation starters appear to rel... |
HTC brings its virtual reality storefront to mobile | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 10 | 17 | HTC really wants VR to happen. For all of their mobile handset woes, the company is keen to grab the next platform shift by the horns and have the ecosystem and infrastructure in place to become an early powerhouse in the space. The company’s VR presence has notably been lacking in the mobile department which has been ... |
Rothenberg Ventures could face fines over setting up its office in a building zoned for residential use | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 10 | 17 | Things seem to be going from bad to worse for Mike Rothenberg, the founder of Rothenberg Ventures, which was more recently renamed Frontier Tech Ventures. According to documents obtained by TechCrunch, San Francisco’s Planning Department was notified earlier this month that Rothenberg Ventures has been operating out of... |
Snapsheet raises $20 million for app to help drivers file claims after a crash | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 10 | 17 | A Chicago-based startup called has raised a Series C round of $20 million to make life easier for people who have been through a car crash. The company’s cloud-based software is used by auto insurance providers to guide users through a photo- and information-gathering process on the scene of an accident. It is basica... |
Targeting the untapped market of wearables for elder care | Rahmat Shoureshi | 2,016 | 10 | 17 |
Today’s 20-something tech wizards might not worry about the challenges of old age — but they should. Seniors represent a huge untapped market for tech companies. While just 13 percent of America’s population is 65 or older today, that slice will jump to by 2030. One area that holds particular promise? Wearables. Su... |
Apple hires CMU professor as director of AI research to smarten up Siri | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 17 | Apple is making a visible push in the direction of AI today by hiring Carnegie Mellon University professor for what appears to be a newly minted position: director of AI research. Salakhutdinov, who , works in the fields of deep learning and neural networks; he’s published dozens of papers in the last couple of year... |
Project Blue aims to snap the first picture of an exoplanet in Alpha Centauri | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 10 | talk of the solar system this year, but as exciting as they are, their existence (as is often the case in astronomy) is more inference than direct observation. A new private effort known as hopes to change that with a satellite built for a single purpose: to directly image an exoplanet in the Alpha Centauri system. ... |
Biotech startup Zymergen nabs $130 million from Softbank | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 10 | 10 | , a Bay Area startup creating all sorts of materials from genetically altered microbes, just raised $130 million in Series B funding from Softbank. For those unfamiliar, the company makes crazy new materials out of genetically altered microbes. It was busy to make these microbes for mass production of various material... |
Crunch Report | Facebook Launches Workplace for All | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 10 | 10 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Anker is launching a Navdy clone called Roav | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 10 | 10 | Watch out, Navdy. Here comes Anker. The Chinese consumer electronic brand is about to release an in-vehicle heads-up display that appears to be similar in design and execution to the . The , and like the , the device appears to take information from a user’s phone and display it on a transparent screen positioned in... |
A hedge fund is now suing Theranos, citing “lies, material misstatements, and omissions” | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 10 | 10 | (PFM), a San Francisco-based hedge fund that reportedly wrote out a $96 million check to Theranos back in 2014, is now suing the blood-testing startup and its founder, Elizabeth Holmes, saying it was duped into its investment “through a series of lies, material misstatements, and omissions,” and accusing the firm of e... |
Greylock closes $1 billion fund | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 10 | 10 | null |
Floodgate’s Mike Maples on what makes category kings | Harry Stebbings | 2,016 | 10 | 10 |
Category leaders usually capture 70-80 percent of the profits in their market, which is why venture funds need to find them to gain the outsized returns they must generate in order to return their fund. In our latest interview with , founding partner at Floodgate, we discover the characteristics of these category ki... |
Watch Trust Disrupted: Bitcoin and the Blockchain, episode two | Rebecca Friedman | 2,016 | 10 | 10 | Even more fascinating than the idea of a digital currency are those who dedicate their lives to it. A network of miners all across the world, many of whom are in China, run the system. They not only process every Bitcoin transaction, but they also play a large role in governing the platform, for better or for worse. Ep... |
The new world of mobility | Nir Erez | 2,016 | 10 | 10 |
The race to rule the autonomous car market is on. , and now have stepped up to the challenge, each with their own vision and ambitions as to what a driverless world will look like. What’s clear is that technology is playing an ever-increasing role — where have stumbled — allowing us to completely rethink the m... |
Duolingo’s new chatbots help you brush up on your foreign language conversation skills | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 10 | 10 | A lot of startups are talking about the possibilities of chatbots, but recently — practicing a new language. The Duolingo chatbots allow users to hold text message conversations in French, Spanish or German, with the chatbots taking on different personas to discuss different topics. You probably won’t mistake the... |
Alphabet reports a strong third quarter despite free-falling advertising values | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 10 | 27 | Alphabet’s strategy of trying to stuff the difference between declining mobile advertising value with additional clicks appears to still be paying off as the company once again showed Wall Street that it can make a ton of money and continue to grow. Alphabet (we’re just gonna call it what it is because we’re talking ab... |
Samsung asks carriers and retailers to halt sales of the Note 7 | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 10 | It seemed unlikely we would make it through the end of the day without some more big news out of Samsung. And now, just after the close of business hours here on the East Coast, we’ve got something . After a string of statements regarding investigations around the safety of replacement Galaxy Note 7 devices, the compa... |
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Watch the first episode of our new series Trust Disrupted: Bitcoin and the Blockchain | Rebecca Friedman | 2,016 | 10 | 10 | We have a new series launching this week called Trust Disrupted: Bitcoin and the Blockchain. The six-episode series, produced by , examines the rise of Bitcoin and the tech that allows it to operate. The first episode will answer all your questions about the Bitcoin platform and how it works. Why did futurists want to... |
The World Economic Forum is setting up a tech-focused hub in San Francisco | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 10 | 10 | role that technology now plays in the global economy, the World Economic Forum to connect tech companies and policymakers in the heart of the world’s technology industry. Building off the Forum’s thesis of a “ ,” the new facility will focus on bringing government officials and tech companies together to create framew... |
Deloitte gears up for the launch of a $20 million XPRIZE to eradicate cancer | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 10 | 10 | XPRIZE, the incentivized prize competition for breakthrough science and technology, has announced three new prizes. Among them — ALS, avatars and Deloitte’s Cancer XPRIZE. Deloitte is working in conjunction with the National Cancer Institute and Vice President Joe Biden’s Cancer Moonshot initiative to bring some of the... |
Samsung’s combo desktop/speaker is a weird sort of art | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 10 | If I’m Samsung, I’m looking for the next big product to capture the public’s attention while my public relations wing is attempting to put out a whole lot of proverbial fires (to go along with the literal variety). This isn’t that. In fact, Samsung just kind of let this one loose into the world without any real fanfare... |
How VCs can do more good | Paul Arnold | 2,016 | 10 | 10 |
Venture capital does many great things for the United States. Importantly, it fuels the innovation economy, churning out disruptive products, companies and entire new industries. Indeed, venture is extreme capitalism. Creative destruction rolls over incumbents, and society is usually better off as a result. But a goo... |
Facebook tests ads in Groups, its next potential cash cow | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 10 | 10 | Facebook’s latest trick to earn more revenue without drowning the News Feed is to serve ads to the 1 billion users of its Groups feature. After people reported seeing notices that “We’re testing ads in Groups,” TechCrunch inquired and Facebook confirmed that mobile and desktop versions of Groups in Australia, Canada, I... |
Pre-orders go live for $199 Oculus Touch motion controllers | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 10 | 10 | Oculus is for their Touch motion controllers that bring your hands and body into VR on their Rift headset. The company announced details regarding the controllers, including the $199 price and December 6 ship date, at their Oculus Connect developers conference last week. Oculus Touch pre-orders are now live! Ships De... |
Duke neurosurgeons test Hololens as an AR assist on tricky procedures | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 10 | One of the several things that makes brain surgery so difficult is that the brain isn’t transparent. So if you want to get at something deep inside, you either have to peel off a few layers or make an educated guess based on other imagery. But augmented reality may offer a third way. A pair of neurosurgeons at Duke are... |
Yahoo makes it difficult to leave its service by disabling automatic email forwarding | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 10 | 10 | Following Yahoo’s September of a data breach affecting 500 million user accounts, the company has made it more difficult for Yahoo Mail users to transition to another email service. At the beginning of October, Yahoo disabled an email forwarding feature, which would allow users to automatically redirect incoming emai... |
The TC Meetup + Pitch-off in Seoul goes down in one week! Buy tickets now! | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 10 | 19 | In less than a week, TechCrunch is packing up and flying to Seoul, South Korea to get acquainted with one of the world’s biggest and brightest tech scenes. And we’re bringing the with us, so get excited! Ten local startups will have exactly 60 seconds on stage to present their product to the audience and a panel of e... |
Crunch Report | LeEco Debuts in the U.S. | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 10 | 19 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Is VR a leap back in time for the games industry? | Mark Robinson | 2,016 | 10 | 19 |
When we look back through the annals of time, there, etched in the history books will be “2016: The year of VR.” And what a year it’s been. We’ve already seen the Samsung VR launch to great applause, but with the imminent release of the PlayStation VR and Oculus Rift devices, the VR sector is about to shift into over... |
Travis Kalanick says Uber has 40 million monthly active riders | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 10 | 19 | Travis Kalanick says his drivers’ license is expired — though, of course he has to say that. But in Kalanick’s future, with a fleet of driverless Ubers shuttling people around, it might be that everyone’s drivers’ licenses will expire. His company, Uber, could essentially be a replacement for owning a car for Kalanick,... |
Nintendo says it will preview the Nintendo NX tomorrow | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 10 | 19 | At long last, it seems like Nintendo is ready to talk about their next gaming console. Nintendo hasn’t said much about the upcoming gaming platform to date, beyond confirming the “Nintendo NX” codename, calling it a “brand-new concept”, and promising that it would be released in March 2017. According to a tweet , thou... |
All Tesla cars built from today on have all hardware needed for full self-driving | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 19 | Elon Musk revealed the Model 3 in March, revealing details of the $35,000 base model including a sub-six second 0-60 time and a minimum 215 mile range. The basic picture of the Model 3 inspired a pre-order frenzy unlike anything seen previously in the car world, but now Musk has dropped what he referred to earlier as P... |
IFC makes the first investments from its $30 million Startup Catalyst initiative | Jake Bright | 2,016 | 10 | 19 | The International Finance Corporation, the investment arm of the World Bank, said it has made a $4 million commitment to two new funds as part of its $30 million Startup Catalyst initiative, which backs accelerators and seed funds in emerging markets. The first investments from the Startup Catalyst program will go to t... |
Musk targeting coast-to-coast test drive of fully self-driving Tesla by late 2017 | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 19 | Elon Musk is really accelerating the potential timeline for delivering self-driving: The Tesla CEO said on a press call that he hopes to deliver a test ride of fully autonomous Tesla vehicle driving by next year. What kind of test? Not a trip around the block, but a coast-to-coast road trip, he says. “Our goal is, and ... |
Google’s Android 7.1 Developer Preview starts rolling out to beta testers | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 10 | 19 | No major surprises here: Earlier this month, Google that the Android 7.1 Nougat Developer Preview and its SDK tools would roll out to developers sometime later this month — and now that we have passed the middle of the month, the preview is indeed to those who have signed up for the . While the Android Beta Progra... |
New numbers home in on Vive sales | John Biggs | 2,016 | 10 | 19 | A brief in offers us some interesting news about Vive sales worldwide. , China Regional President of VR at HTC, said that the company sold 100,000 units in August, an acceptable if low number for a comparatively expensive consumer electronics product. This month, however, , said the company sold in excess of 140,00... |
Under Armour brings heart-rate monitoring and a bulky design to its Bluetooth earbuds | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 19 | First and foremost, a pair of earbuds ought to be comfortable. I mean, if you don’t want to wear the things around, what’s the point, really? But try as I might, I just couldn’t get a good fit with the UA Headphones Wireless Heart Rate – Engineered by JBL. As with the verbose naming scheme, the issue seems to come down... |
Faraday Future says it’s finally going to show us a real car at CES | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 19 | The concept car is basically always a vehicle of pure puffery, and carmakers go above and beyond when it comes to teasing the future. But few are as accomplished on this scale as Faraday Future, the master illusionist of electric vehicles. The company says it’s finally going to show us something worthy of the label “pr... |
Someone knows something about this Marco Polo app that we don’t | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 10 | 19 | There’s a whisper in the venture community we’re hearing that is growing increasingly louder, and it’s about this video walkie-talkie app called . Investors are suddenly very interested in this app that — so we hear — might be growing in popularity among . We’ve seen this story play out before, most recently with m... |
EBay continues shift to “Amazon-esque” business | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 10 | 19 | While its financials were up, the stock still fell more than 7 percent in early after-hours trading. Some investors were disappointed by gross merchandise volume, which came in at $20.1 billion, instead of the expected $20.3 billion. Adjusted net income was also down from the same period in the year before, as sales an... |
Apple sends out invites for an October 27th event, hints that new Macs are coming | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 10 | 19 | Aaand there it is. that Apple was planning to make an announcement on October 27th. Specifically, we’d heard that they’re finally, going to show some new Macs — something they haven’t done (outside of a refresh of the MacBooks) in over a year. Sure enough, Apple just started sending out press invites to an event… an... |
Yahoo asks government to explain email scanning order | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 10 | 19 | Yahoo secretly scanned its users emails at the behest of a U.S. government agency — and now it wants the government to explain why. In a to James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, Yahoo carefully avoids admitting that it scanned users’ email or that it received an order to do so, but asks Clapper to “cl... |
AI, autonomous cars and moral dilemmas | Justin Moore | 2,016 | 10 | 19 |
You’re a train conductor speeding along when you suddenly see five people tied up on the tracks in front of you. You don’t have enough time to stop, but you do have enough time to switch to an alternate track. That’s when you see there’s one person tied up on the alternate track. Do you pull the lever to make the swi... |
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HP’s OMEN 17 is an epic gaming laptop that needs just a tweak or two | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 10 | 19 | The PC gaming space is dominated by a few enthusiast brands and is further supplemented by far more serious custom builds. HP Inc. isn’t a name that comes to mind when you think of “enthusiast PC gaming system,” but the more endearing folks at HP think that recent tweaks made to OMEN gaming brand can change brand perce... |
Social payments app Circle adds two more European markets | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 10 | 19 | Circle has lit up two more European markets as it works to rapidly build out its presence in the region. Users of the P2P payments app in Spain and Ireland can now connect any Spanish or Irish bank account to the app to send and receive money within their own countries and across borders (with native Euro support in th... |
Meet Yousif Ashoor, the creator of these of amazing automatic sunglasses | John Biggs | 2,016 | 10 | 19 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CF4J4e7vOC8&feature=youtu.be] If you’re a gamer you’ll recognize the trope: a hero steps into the harsh glare of a desert planet or a blasted cityscape and her sunglasses automatically slide into place over her face. These futuristic shades are handy, they look badass and they k... |
Carousell prepares to monetize after acquiring automotive classifieds startup | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 10 | 26 | Singapore-based Carousell has complete its second piece of M&A following . Today, it announced it has acquired , a fellow Singaporean company that operates a classifieds service for used cars. The deal is undisclosed like , but this time the purchase is less about bringing on talent since there’s a strategic element... |
Samsung’s profit plummets 30% following the Galaxy Note 7 crisis | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 10 | 26 | The struggle is real for Samsung. The Korean electronics giant’s operating profit plunged 30 percent year-on-year as the effects of the Galaxy Note 7 crisis begin to take a financial toll. a KRW 5.2 trillion ($4.6 billion) operating profit for the third quarter of 2016, that’s down one-third on the KRW 7.3 trillion th... |
Designing mindful machines | Jason Tan | 2,016 | 10 | 26 |
Facebook recently fired the entire Trending Topics team of human editors amid accusations they were promoting specific agendas and biasing what news was deemed “important.” Now the company is relying on machine learning algorithms to manage Trending Topics — and finding that keeping the results free of isn’t always... |
A founder seizes on anti-Trump sentiment to market women-friendly workflow software | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 10 | 26 | Earlier this year, Kristen Koh Goldstein merged two of her companies, three-year-old Scalus and six-year-old BackOps into a new company called , a back-office-as a service startup that also sells fully automated workflow software. From the start, the company has aggressively marketed itself to both customers and emplo... |
‘The Engine’ is MIT’s incubator for tech and science companies straight out of the lab | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 26 | MIT is getting into the incubator business in a big way with aimed at nurturing early-stage companies solving big, difficult problems in tech and science. After The Engine raises its targeted $150 million fund, up to 60 companies at a time will benefit from the university’s equipment, services and considerable pool o... |
Tesla touts reliability and production improvements as reasons for Q3 success | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 26 | Elon Musk began Tesla’s earning call regarding its : He suggested that Q4 will also be strong for the company, deflating some analyst commentary that the results for this most recent reporting period might’ve been up at the expense of the next one. “We currently believe Q4 will be profitable excluding non-cash stock-b... |
Musk on Tesla Network: “It’s not Tesla vs. Uber, it’s the people vs. Uber” | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 26 | When Elon Musk revealed Tesla’s plan to ship all Tesla’s made going forward with all the hardware they need to achieve full autonomy, the company noted that car owners would not be able to use their future self-driving Teslas to drive for Uber or Lyft. Instead, they’d be able to rent out their cars on demand using Tesl... |
Verizon acquires subscription video service Vessel, will shut it down on Oct. 31 | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 10 | 26 | Verizon is buying Vessel, the subscription video service founded by Jason Kilar (Hulu’s former CEO) and Richard Tom (its former CTO). Vessel , offering early access to their videos for $2.99 a month. It from investors, including Benchmark, Greylock, Bezos Expeditions and Institutional Venture Partners. Tom will rema... |
A maturing OpenStack looks to the future | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 10 | 26 | , the open source cloud computing platform that allows enterprises to essentially run their own version of AWS in their data centers, was founded by NASA and Rackspace in 2010. Today, it’s being used by the likes of Comcast, PayPal, Volkswagen, CERN, AT&T, China Mobile and Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs in the U.K. ... |
The TC Meetup + Pitch-off in Seoul goes down TONIGHT! | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 10 | 26 | The big night is ! At 6pm, the TC Meetup + Pitch-off is going down in Seoul, South Korea. We’ll be joined by some of the brightest minds in the local tech scene to discuss , and then we’ll dive straight into the Pitch-off itself. Each of will have exactly 60 seconds to pitch their wares to a panel of expert judges,... |
Deep learning tool lets you pick your pastiche: Mostly Monet, a dab of Doré and a pinch of Picasso | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 26 | For years we’ve been skeptical, and rightly so, of the “art filters” you can put on your photos, webcam videos and so on. But Google may have made them relevant again — or at the very least, interesting — by letting you using a single specialized neural network. If you painted your cat in the style of Van Gogh, first... |
Russia’s Busfor raises $20M to wrap up bus ticketing across Eastern Europe and Asia | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 10 | 26 | While Uber and others fight over private car transportation, there remains an elephant in the room which has simply not been disrupted yet and which actually carries far more people on the planet: Buses. You may laugh at the idea, but we are not talking about creating an “Uber for buses” here. The complication for pass... |
Tesla says it actually posted a profit this quarter | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 10 | 26 | Well that was unexpected — Tesla reported today in its third-quarter that it had earnings of 74 cents per share, compared to Wall Street’s expectations of a loss of 54 cents per share. In other words: Tesla said it actually made a profit this quarter on a GAAP basis. Tesla shares quickly jumped around 5.5 percent follo... |
23andMe reportedly no longer working on next-gen sequencing | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 10 | 26 | won’t continue with next-generation DNA sequencing and has reportedly laid off the lab working on the project. About half-a-dozen workers were laid off from the Salt Lake City, Utah-based lab, according to , which first reported the news. By our own count based on LinkedIn, at least five members of the lab have been ... |
Groupon is buying LivingSocial, plans to downsize business to 15 markets from 27 | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 10 | 26 | Some significant consolidation is going down in the world of daily deals — going down being the operative phrase here. Today, it would acquire , its onetime big rival that was partly owned by Amazon, for an undisclosed sum. Lest you think that this is a power move made by companies at their peak, think again: the ... |
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Snapchat is reportedly looking to raise as much as $4B in its upcoming IPO | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 10 | 26 | In May earlier this year, Snapchat raised around $1.8 billion in a financing round that valued it at around $18 billion — and now it looks like that valuation could double in its upcoming IPO. Bloomberg is reporting that Snapchat is that could value it as high as $35 billion. Previously, the company , though, as usu... |
Microsoft’s Surface event and Apple’s Mac event preview: Listen to TCBC 7 with Romain Dillet | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 26 |
This week’s TCBC podcast is all about events: Microsoft’s and Apple’s, both of which happen this week and both of which will be covered by Romain Dillet, who joins as my guest for the episode. We’re fresh from watching and writing about Microsoft’s event earlier today, where it revealed its and a host of softw... |
Microsoft’s Paint 3D is a simple entry into rudimentary 3D modeling | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 26 | Strange is it sounds, Microsoft Paint is once again a Windows focal point. Thirty-one years after its introduction with the first version of the operating system, the software giant has given the application one of biggest revamps, putting it at the center of a 3D content ecosystem that will play a key role in future h... |
Airbnb’s female employee representation down since last diversity report | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 10 | 26 | Airbnb , showing a 57% white workforce (last year, Airbnb was 63% white) and 43% female workforce — a 3% decline from last year. Although Airbnb lost some female employees, the company noted that it has doubled the number of women in senior leadership roles and increased the number of women in technical roles. Regardi... |
Crunch Report | Huge DDoS Attack on Major Websites | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 10 | 21 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Lifestage, Facebook’s teens-only app, hits Android | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 10 | 26 | Lifestage, designed to counteract the Snapchat threat by giving younger users a place to connect outside of Facebook’s larger social network, Previously an iPhone-only application, this experimental app represents Facebook’s attempt to woo the high schooler crowd, while also testing other features like video profiles... |
Announcing the startups pitching in the TC Pitch-off in Seoul! | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 10 | 21 | TechCrunch is coming to Seoul next week for the TC Meetup + Pitch-off, and today we’re proud to announce the startups participating in the pitch-off. These companies will have exactly sixty seconds to pitch their wares to a panel of expert judges, including TC editors and local VCs. First place wins a table in the Star... |
Six reasons to be hyped for the Nintendo Switch (and four reasons to worry) | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 21 | Yesterday saw the introduction — after many leaks and rumors — of the , the company’s next game console. It isn’t due to arrive until March of next year, which is infinitely frustrating because it looks amazing for several reasons, not all of them obvious. Here’s why I’m more excited about the Switch than for any Nint... |
With its first VR series, CollegeHumor gives a completely accurate overview of presidential history | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 10 | 21 | How do you make things funny in virtual reality? That’s the question is exploring with 1600 in 360°, a new video series depicting some of the, um, highlights of U.S. presidential history. Apparently, Google approached IAC-owned CollegeHumor about creating 360-degree content for YouTube and for . Sam Reich, president... |
Airbnb sues New York City | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 10 | 21 | Another city, another Airbnb lawsuit. Airbnb sued the city of New York, Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Mayor Bill de Blasio today over legislation that would make it illegal to advertise accommodations that can’t legally be rented out for less than 30 days. The bill was passed in June and signed into law by New... |
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on the key to equality | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 10 | 21 | Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff took the stage at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing today to talk about diversity and equality. This comes just weeks after Salesforce brought on board Tony Prophet, . Equality, Benioff said, has to be something that Salesforce stands for, just like it stands for growth, in... |
The reality of AR/VR competition | Tim Merel | 2,016 | 10 | 21 |
Virtual, augmented and mixed reality have a competition problem. But while most AR/VR companies will tell you how much better they are than their nearest direct competitor, they’re picking the wrong fight. The main event isn’t between Oculus, HTC, Sony, Samsung and Google for VR, or Microsoft, Magic Leap, Meta and OD... |
Zwift merges indoor fitness with massive multi-player online gaming | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,016 | 10 | 21 | At its core, is indoor cycling software. But layered on top of its functionality is a community that in the two years the company has been operating has grown in both scale and sheer strength. At an event at cycling in SF, I found myself surrounded by core users proudly flaunting their team names and meeting, oft... |
This smart sock adds sensations to prosthetic limbs | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 21 | The future of prosthetics is fast arriving, with 3D-printed construction, advanced materials and embedded sensors replacing the unadorned wood and plastic of yore. But like the rest of the future, it’s not equally distributed. In order to bridge the gap for users who can’t afford or get at these fancy new prostheses, A... |
Applications are open now for our Hardware Battlefield at CES 2017 | John Biggs | 2,016 | 10 | 21 | Do you make the hardest of things, hardware? We want you to compete in our Hardware Alley, our premier startup competition at CES 2017 in Las Vegas. You will have the chance to show your amazing products to representatives from major retailers, VCs, and other notables and you’ll climb far above the usual CES noise. Har... |
Lenovo’s Yoga Book is a fascinating attempt to reinvent the hybrid tablet | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 21 | No mainstream electronics manufacture is making more interesting, innovative and downright bizarre products than Lenovo. Between its contorting efforts under the Yoga banner and the modular handsets being produced by Motorola, the Chinese company is taking the sort of form factor risks we rarely see outside of hardware... |
Weekly Roundup: Tesla’s self-driving tech progress, Apple announces MacBook event | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 10 | 21 | This week, Tesla made a major announcement about the availability of its self-driving tech, Apple revealed when its next MacBooks are going to be announced, and we reviewed Google’s new Pixel XL. These are the top stories to catch you up on this crazy week in tech. Elon Musk made an announcement that as of now, in th... |
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