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Alexa can now fact check the 2016 election | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 10 | 21 | Having a heated argument while discussing the presidential elections with friends? Good news: Alexa can now fact check the 2016 campaign, answering questions about the candidate’s claims right on the spot. This includes statements made by Clinton and Trump, as well as other candidates and politicians whose comments hav... |
Facebook plans to reduce censorship, show more offensive but newsworthy content | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 10 | 21 | Facebook will soon display more graphic content including violence and nudity that would normally violate its policies as long as the imagery is newsworthy or important enough. Joel Kaplan, Facebook’s VP of global policy “Our intent is to allow more images and stories without posing safety risks or showing graphic im... |
Scientists made babies from mouse skin cells | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 10 | 21 | A group of Japanese scientists from Kyushu University has turned mouse skin cells into baby mice without the use of egg cells. The technology skips over the usual method of fertilizing egg cells with sperm and instead uses a method to grow the cells with the necessary chromosomal pairs needed for life to begin. This ... |
Researchers sabotage 3D printer files to destroy a drone | John Biggs | 2,016 | 10 | 21 | Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU), the University of South Alabama, and Singapore University of Technology and Design have successfully injected malicious code into a computer which, in turn, added invisible commands to a file containing a 3D model of a drone propeller. When they printed the model... |
SoundShare’s new iMessage app lets you text your friends entire songs | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 10 | 21 | A new iMessage app from the music-focused social network will now let you share entire tracks with your friends over text messaging. Of course, there are already a number of ways to text friends your favorite music, thanks to the launch of the iMessage App Store. Apple Music has a built-in iMessage app, for example, ... |
VR and inclusivity | Raphael Clegg-Vinell | 2,016 | 10 | 21 |
For Brits of our generation, the first understanding of virtual reality might have been the VR glasses used by Lister in the TV series Red Dwarf to have “sex.” Those a little older might remember the 1960s invention the machine, which played stereoscopic 3D films accompanied by sound, wind, aromas and chair-tilting... |
DJI says it’s starting to ship its folding drone | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 21 | Looks like DJI may beat GoPro’s ship date yet. After due to unspecified manufacturing reasons, the company’s eagerly anticipated folding photography drone looks to finally be heading out to early purchasers. Three days after chalking the delay up to “amazingly strong global demand,” the company’s Global Director of... |
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Facebook Live broadcasting up 4X since May, gets TV and outdoor promo | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 10 | 21 | Facebook wants you to know Live broadcasting isn’t just for celebrities. Facebook US and UK TV, web, billboard, bus, and baggage claim ads that suggest you go Live when you see something cool, want to show off a talent, or just have something important to say. The campaign could further accelerate the growth of Live,... |
Crunch Report | Verizon wants $1 billion discount on Yahoo deal | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 10 | 7 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Online food delivery still presents a $210B market opportunity | Eric Kim | 2,016 | 10 | 7 | I wrote last year about the broad, to online food ordering, and the significant capital inflows into the space that we were seeing. Fast-forward a year, and we’re now looking at a very different funding environment. , international inflows of capital to the food delivery category dropped 69 percent in Q1 ’16, and ... |
Determining the worth of your SaaS company | Todd Gardner | 2,016 | 10 | 7 |
An entrepreneur recently asked me “What are SaaS companies ‘going for’ these days?” I said, “Well, it depends on a number of factors, but 5 times annual run-rate revenue is average.” His response was pure disbelief. “What? You have to be kidding me! Last time I checked they were going for 10 times revenue!” And so it... |
Google shuts down Panoramio | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 10 | 7 | , the location-centric photo sharing service Google , will show its last . For the longest time, Google used Panoramio to augment its Google Maps and Google Earth services with crowdsourced imagery. Now that the company has integrated photo uploads into the Google Maps mobile apps and launched its Local Guides progra... |
Netflix’s theater deal is a small step for subscriber growth and a big leap toward an Oscar | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 10 | 7 | a new theater distribution deal with iPic Entertainment, a theater chain with 15 locations throughout the country. The deal will put 10 Netflix original films (a portion of Netflix’s original films this year) in iPic’s New York and Los Angeles theaters. Getting their content into theaters around the country is a sma... |
Google researchers aim to prevent AIs from discriminating | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 7 | Garbage in, garbage out — that’s always been a rule of computing, and machine learning systems are no exception. These elementary AIs only know what we tell them, and if that data carries a bias of any kind, so too will the system trained on it. Google is looking to avoid such awkward and potentially serious situations... |
Snapchat launches post-roll ads, Story Playlist that loads favorites in bulk | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 10 | 7 | Snapchat is fighting back against Instagram Stories, which rocketed to by spotlighting the cloned feature atop the feed. To make Snapchat more “friends first,” it’s moving friends’ Stories above Discover where they used to be to make sure you don’t miss people you care about. And to make it easier to watch all your f... |
U.S. officially attributes DNC hack to Russia | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 10 | 7 | The Department of Homeland Security and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence confirmed today what cybersecurity companies have asserted since emails from Democratic National Committee employees leaked online over the summer: State-sponsored Russian hackers are responsible for the breach. “The U.S. Intell... |
Mophie’s charging case is a no-brainer for wireless earbud owners | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 7 | Being synonymous with a particular product category is a mixed blessing. is undoubtedly the best-known name in the battery case business, but the company has been keen to distance itself from the space a bit — or, at the very least, let it be known that it has more to offer the world. Mophie released a whole bunch of... |
New Lab is a new home for hardware startups in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 10 | 7 | , which co-founder David Belt described as “a collaborative workspace” for companies in fields like robotics and artificial intelligence, . The facility is located in Brooklyn’s Navy Yard, in a building that was once used to assemble ships. Belt said he wanted to bring the building back as a manufacturing center, ex... |
Wheego and Valeo get California road driverless testing permits | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 7 | Self-driving car testing in California is becoming a badge of progress for companies working in the space. Only 17 companies in total have the honor, including two just added to the list: Wheego Electric Cars and Valeo North America. The reports that both of these new companies now have approval to run tests with a s... |
GitHub is raising a secondary round | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 10 | 7 | We’re hearing from several sources that a secondary financing round is in the works for GitHub, following its last . However, there’s a little bit of interesting chatter beyond that they’re raising a secondary for potential liquidation of investors or employees, we hear. There are two parts to the story: first, this s... |
Weekly Roundup: Snapchat’s IPO agenda, Google’s new hardware and RIP Meerkat | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 10 | 7 | This week, Google revealed new hardware, Facebook outlined its plans for the company’s future in VR and we paid our respects to Meerkat. Sick and tired of searching for this post? I don’t blame you. You can if that’s more your style. Google held its annual press event where it announced a ton of new hardware, some of... |
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Bumble bans mirror selfies and other dumb photos from users’ profiles | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 10 | 7 | There are certain kinds of photos users of dating apps tend to loathe, and the suggestive mirror selfie tends to be at the top of that list, somewhere near photos of guys holding a fish and gym selfies. That’s why today, the dating app to ban selfies of users posing in their underwear, or while wearing swimsuits indoo... |
Maserati is targeting 2020 for a production EV | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 7 | The electric vehicle bandwagon has long left the station thanks to Tesla, but Maserati still wants to get on board. The high-end carmaker might be behind the curve when it comes to announcing its electric vehicle plans, but it’s looking like the Fiat-Chrysler-owned company will manage to ship a fully electric car by 20... |
Rinspeed’s Oasis self-driving car concept is living space on wheels | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 7 | Self-driving cars of the future won’t need to be configured on the inside the way they are now, since things like steering columns won’t be required. Electric drive trains will also help maximize available interior space, so it makes sense that cars will look dramatically different inside and out when the two things co... |
Carriers are offering replacements for Note 7 replacements in wake of latest incident | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 7 | Exploding phones are really bad PR. But when one of the post-recall replacement inside a customer’s pocket on a plane, you’ve got a veritable code red disaster on your hands. In light of that most recent story, customers are becoming understandably wary about their Galaxy Note 7 devices, even as Samsung cheerily note... |
It takes more than a village | Melissa Jun Rowley | 2,016 | 10 | 7 |
Where there is wireless connectivity, there is a way to improve lives. That’s why countless mobile-for-development programs designed to address health, education and economic issues have been flooding Africa. Presently hailed as the “ ,” Africa has generated through the mobile ecosystem, and its mobile subscribers ... |
Microsoft will introduce a new Surface device on October 26 | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 7 | On the 26 day of the 10 month of the year, Microsoft will at an event in New York City. The company just sent out invites, and while they don’t reveal a heck of a lot about what’s going down (just a lot of backwards text), we hear that the company will be launching a new Surface device at the event — exactly what r... |
Facebook launches standalone “Events” discovery and calendar app | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 10 | 7 | 650 million people use Facebook Events — 100 million every day — but it’s a smaller sect of hardcore extroverts who discover these parties and meetups, then invite everyone else. Now Facebook is giving its most outgoing users for browsing and searching for stuff going on nearby. And thanks to the Facebook Events app’... |
Just Eat backs Flypay to help restaurant and pub chains consolidate their tech | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 10 | 9 | Just Eat, the online takeout ordering behemoth, has invested in U.K. startup , which has built a platform to help restaurant and pub chains consolidate their various and disparate technology solutions. The size of the round is £3.5 million and serves as an extension to the company’s previous Series A that saw it . Th... |
Counting your reps, so you don’t have to | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 9 | The is hardly the first smart piece of gym equipment. If anything, it’s part of a growing trend, an attempt to capitalize on a growing fascination with connected fitness and the ongoing compulsion to add smartify every dumb product we have. Heck, back in July, I tried a set of and indeed, you don’t have to be a sma... |
What ‘mobile’ should mean for healthcare | Sunny Ahn | 2,016 | 10 | 9 |
Ask a set of healthcare professionals about the future and they’ll answer: “Mobile.” Mobile technology is nearing ubiquity in America; a shows 64 percent of all adult Americans own a smartphone, and ownership rates among millennials reach above 80 percent. It’s clear that to stay relevant and access the next genera... |
Major carriers halt sales of the Galaxy Note 7 as reports of problematic replacements pile up | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 9 | You know what? It might be time to just go ahead and trade in that new Galaxy Note 7 for something else entirely. Thankfully, here in the US have made it fairly easily to trade the problematic handset in for a completely different phone. , T-Mobile and Verizon were among the first to take things a step farther by hal... |
The Fitbit Flex 2 can go in the pool with you | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 10 | 9 | Apple’s latest Watch was met with great applause when the company in September the thing could take a dive in the pool and keep on ticking. But the price and other bells and whistles of the Watch might be too much for those just looking for a simple way to track steps, laps and calories. Enter Fitbit’s , which to... |
Samsung is reportedly temporarily halting production of the Galaxy Note 7 | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 9 | A little over a month after issuing a recall of its high-end handset and at the end of weekend littered with multiple reports of malfunctioning replacement units, Samsung has reportedly suspended production on the Galaxy Note 7. In the wake of announcements by AT&T and T-Mobile that the carriers , Korean news agency Y... |
INNOVATE2016: The dark confessions of a lifelong Republican entrepreneur | Andrew Keen | 2,016 | 10 | 9 |
has many identities: serially successful start-up entrepreneur, Carnegie Mellon University professor, venture capitalist at Birchmere Ventures, best-selling writer and lifelong Republican. He certainly proud of the first four of these identities. But the fifth thing – his status as a lifelong Republican – is now ... |
Industrial robots will replace manufacturing jobs — and that’s a good thing | Matthew Rendall | 2,016 | 10 | 9 |
If you listen to the wrong people, the North American manufacturing industry is doomed. There is no denying that the U.S. and Canada have been losing jobs to offshore competition for almost half a century. From 2000 to 2010 alone, . Interestingly, though, only 13 percent of those jobs were lost due to international ... |
Tesla to unveil “unexpected” new product October 17 | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 9 | Tesla will unveil something on Monday October 17, according CEO and founder Elon Musk. It’ll be a new product, he said in a Tweet on Sunday, which will be “unexpected by most,” and which will be separate from a Tesla/SolarCity product unveiling on the 28th. Tesla product unveiling on the 17th (unexpected by most), foll... |
Disruptor Beam is developing a multiplayer strategy game based on The Walking Dead | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 10 | 9 | Game developer has already adapted and to the world of smartphones and tablets. Now it’s adding to that list. CEO Jon Radoff said will be a multiplayer strategy game for iOS and Android, where players (potentially tens of thousands of them on a single map) compete with each other for resources and battle for ... |
Pioneer Square Labs’ Greg Gottesman on the studio model for high growth startups | Jasper Kuria | 2,016 | 10 | 9 |
The traditional way of starting a company will remain the most common, which is you have an idea and bootstrap it or raise capital from angels or venture capital firms. This studio model is a different. We generate ideas internally and from our partners and then prototype them rapidly. Our partners are the 14 venture... |
Digital comics startup Madefire launches its first virtual reality app | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 10 | 9 | When digital comics startup announced a few days ago, co-founder and CEO Ben Wolstenholme said the company was getting ready to move into virtual and augmented reality. He lived up to that promise in very short order, launching for Samsung’s Oculus-powered Gear VR platform and demonstrating it at New York Comic C... |
A decentralized web would give power back to the people online | Matthew Hodgson | 2,016 | 10 | 9 |
Recently, Google launched a video calling tool (yes, another one). Google Hangouts has been sidelined to Enterprise, and Google Duo is supposed to be the next big thing in video calling. So now we have Skype from Microsoft, Facetime from Apple, and Google with Duo. Each big company has its own equivalent service, eac... |
With a €20 million Series A Snapp opens up ride-sharing in Iran | Elmira Bayrasli | 2,016 | 10 | 9 |
Investors have turned Iran into the latest country to embrace the ride sharing and car-hailing app phenomenon. The has secured a €20 million Series A round of financing for its ride-sharing application, . The South African mobile phone company led the round and is the sole investor. MTN is also a major sharehold... |
Primo Toys rolls out Cubetto, a wooden robot that teaches kids to code | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 10 | 31 | A startup called today began online and retail sales of its latest educational product, the Cubetto, a programmable wooden robot for kids as young as 3. The London startup, which is a graduate of the accelerator and backed by Randi Zuckerberg, promises families and educators a screen-free way to teach coding basics... |
Asia-focused dating app Paktor lands $32.5M to push into ‘social entertainment’ | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 10 | 31 | , a Tinder-like dating app from Singapore, has raised $32.5 million in new funding to expand its focus into new kinds of mobile entertainment. Four-year-old Paktor claims over 20 million users worldwide, it has 110 staff and has raised $22 million in financing to date. CEO and co-founder Joseph Phua told TechCrunch tha... |
Convergence crosses the pond | Reuben Chaudhury | 2,016 | 10 | 31 |
Imagine a world where you buy mobile phone, data, voice and television services from a single provider. A world where you don’t worry about running out of wireless minutes, exceeding text message limits or running up roaming charges. A world where you talk, text and stream video on an iPad, TV, laptop or mobile phone... |
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Doorman cancels unlimited deliveries, cites “losing money” | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 10 | 31 | If you live in a building with a doorman, you don’t need . If you don’t, you do. The company is making it easy to accept deliveries when you’re out and about, but realized it was getting so successful in changing the patterns of how its customers do online shopping that it was effectively losing money on each customer... |
Why Tesla’s new solar roof tiles and home battery are such a big deal | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 31 | unveiled its new solar roof tiles. Few of us in attendance, if any, realized the solar roofing tiles were actual functional solar panels until Elon Musk said so. Sure, it’s a neat trick, but what’s the big deal? Why does it matter that Tesla is making a fashion statement when the point is green power and a future wher... |
Cloud development platform Nitrous.io shuts down | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 10 | 31 | Nitrous.io, an online development environment and IDE, today that it is shutting down its service on November 14. The service is now closed for new signups and the team says it will refund any payments made after October 16. Nitrous’ existing users will be able to download their existing data soon. The team says that... |
When President Obama leaves office, his @Potus tweets leave with him | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 31 | When President Obama turns over the keys to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he’ll also be handing over a number of high-profile social media accounts. Eight days ahead of the election, the White House is when the commander-in-chief steps aside early next year. The president’s Twitter account, for one, will be getting a fre... |
Intellectual property strategies for startups | Benjamin Lehberger | 2,016 | 10 | 31 |
protection is an important consideration for most . Obtaining protection, such as patents, can minimize competition and act as a defensive mechanism against infringement claims from others. also can attract or solidify funding and partnerships. In formulating an strategy for your startup, consider the f... |
Narrative lifelogging gets a stay of execution as the company considers restarting production | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 31 | This was certainly unexpected. For any number of reasons. A day before the planned shutdown of cloud-based storage service, lifelogging startup — or, rather, a group of former employees — has snatched itself from the jaws of death. In an email sent to Narrative users, the company announced the launch of “New Narrativ... |
Standing Rock pipeline protest was absent from Facebook Trends | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 10 | 31 | A massive social media protest is exploding on Facebook, not Twitter for a change, yet Facebook’s dehumanized Trending system wasn’t picking it up. People around the country are checking in on Facebook at the Standing Rock Native American Reservation in an effort to hinder local Morton County police from targeting pr... |
Shadow Brokers post list of compromised IP addresses | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 10 | 31 | Last night, after several months of relative quiet, a hacking group calling itself the Shadow Brokers posted new data purportedly stolen from the NSA. The group’s in August included malware believed to be used by the NSA as recently as 2013. At the time, the Shadow Brokers claimed they would auction a second set of d... |
Study says Uber and Lyft have racial discrimination problems | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 10 | 31 | Just , ride-hailing startups Uber and Lyft are not immune to racial discrimination on its respective sharing economy platforms. It turns out that black people have to wait longer for rides in Seattle, . The study, which researchers conducted in Seattle and Boston, looked at the results of nearly 1,500 rides hailed vi... |
Postmates confirms $140 million funding round at $600 million valuation | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 10 | 31 | null |
Sheriff’s department denies surveilling Standing Rock protesters via Facebook check-ins | John Mannes | 2,016 | 10 | 31 | Like wildfire, the latest viral protest spreading across the internet involves Facebook users checking in at Standing Rock, ND en masse to “confuse” and “overwhelm” law enforcement authorities seeking to disrupt ongoing protests against the proposed path of an oil pipeline. The viral Facebook post claims that the local... |
Influential software designer Keith Ohlfs passes away at 52 | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 31 | It’s a strange sort of legacy, but it’s the kind that’s ever present – the dreaded spinning pinwheel or beach ball or wheel of death. That bright, rainbow colored circle that pops up when an application in busy in macOS. It’s one of the most instantly recognizable of Keith Ohlfs’ many contributions to the modern operat... |
Piccolissimo joins the ranks of ultra-tiny flying robots | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 31 | Big robots like Spot may be great for carrying things or trotting out onto stages, but just as much sophisticated engineering goes into creating tiny ones as well — and this little flyer from the University of Pennsylvania is one the tiniest yet. It’s called Piccolissimo, both Italian for smallest and also a play on th... |
Replicated raises $5 million for its product taking SAAS products out of the cloud | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 10 | 31 | Los Angeles-based has raised $5 million to build out its service that takes software-as-a-service companies down from the “cloud”, TechCrunch has learned. The company, which operates under the somewhat contrarian belief that not all services are going to be delivered in the cloud, provides a toolkit that lets softwar... |
Google gets better at flagging apps trying to fake their way into the Play Store’s top charts | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 10 | 31 | Google today it’s rolling out a new detection and filtering system on the Play Store to crack down on those developers who use illegitimate means to boost their apps’ rankings in the store’s top charts. This will affect apps that use methods like fraudulent installs, fake reviews, and incentivized ratings, the compan... |
Google makes Chrome 15% faster on Windows | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 10 | 31 | Google is currently making a concerted effort to make its Chrome browser faster and leaner. The company announced a project to bring down memory usage earlier this month, for example. But it also quietly started work on some other optimizations recently, too, that add up to making Chrome on Windows than before. Start... |
Play My Way app aims to turn kids’ love of mobile devices on its head | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 10 | 31 | Parents despairing of ever being able to separate their offspring from the mobile devices glued to their fingertips might be interested in an app called that’s being built by a startup from Lebanon and designed to interrupt other apps with a little worthy educational content. The team, currently based in London as pa... |
WTF is the dark web? | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 10 | 30 | Maybe you heard your LinkedIn, Tumblr or Dropbox password was floating around there. Or maybe you read a news story about that guy who got busted for running Silk Road, that site that sold drugs and other illicit goods. Chances are, you’ve seen the words “dark web” splashed in a headline or heard them mentioned by a fr... |
AI-powered scheduler startup Konolabs wins the TechCrunch Pitch-Off in Seoul | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 10 | 30 | Artificial intelligence was the big winner at the TechCrunch Pitch-Off in Seoul, Korea, last week. , a company that uses AI and big data to power a virtual assistant to keep you organized and your calendar in check, took the top prize after winning a 10-company pitch competition at the event. The four-person judging... |
In a knowledge economy corporate learning is necessary to survive | Karl Mehta | 2,016 | 10 | 30 | |
Gillmor Gang: October Surprise | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 10 | 30 | The Gillmor Gang — Doc Searls, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Saturday, October 29, 2016. 10 days to go to the election, as Makes one wonder whether this is how Twitter itself melts down. @stevegillmor, @dsearls, @scobleizer, @fradice, @kteare Produced and directed by Tin... |
The rise of new automotive companies | Armin G. Schmidt | 2,016 | 10 | 30 |
The in Mulhouse, France, is an amazing place. It has the largest collection of automobiles on display, thanks to the Swiss brothers Hans and Fritz Schlumpf and their obsession with cars. The money they needed for their collecting came from their business; the brothers owned a spinning mill for woolen products. Funn... |
The ethics of colonizing Mars | Shivika Sinha | 2,016 | 10 | 30 |
Elon Musk, inventor and CEO of SpaceX, recently shared his vision to build the first human city on within a decade. For the , would take you and 100 tons of cargo to the Red Planet. In 2013, the nearly 40 billion Earth-like planets in the Milky Way galaxy. As NASA explores the heavens for more habitable planet... |
Samsung is focused on the Galaxy S8 and is already promising discounts to loyal users | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 30 | This wasn’t how Samsung was hoping to end the year. As the competition is rushing to get product out the door in the lead up to the holidays, the company is and trying to move on from one of the largest consumer electronics PR disasters in recent memory. For the South Korean tech giant, moving on means the Galaxy S8.... |
Starbreeze buys a visual effects studio to improve its VR experience | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 30 | While the future of VR is undoubtedly wide open at the moment, the majority of contenders clearly see the battle playing out on gaming computers and home consoles. Starbreeze, for its part, is making its play on a high-end headset, destined for amusement parks and IMAX theaters. While it feels like a bit of a step back... |
Accordion Guy Joey DeVilla talks the future of culture and IoT | John Biggs | 2,016 | 10 | 30 | Joey DeVilla is my blogging hero. He’s run his and he’s worked at Microsoft, Shopify, and Tucows. Most recently he’s taken on the mantle of , an NFC/RFID company. In this episode of Technotopia we talk about the cyclical nature of culture – how, for example, Nine Inch Nails sounds pretty tame to us now – and the fut... |
An emerging technology that could end the mass grinding of newly hatched chicks | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 30 | Billions of male chicks are killed every year by the poultry industry. It’s a common industry practice known as culling, destroy the day-old chickens through asphyxiation, or, more gruesomely, maceration, a process involving a conveyor belt and a giant blender. I’ll spare you the videos, but they’re readily available o... |
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Samsung addresses concerns over Galaxy Note 7 replacement issues | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 8 | Samsung’s media arm continues code red damage control in the wake of surrounding a faulty Galaxy Note 7. The incident, which occurred on a Southwest flight earlier this week, further complicates the matters for several reasons beyond the already troubling fact that it played out on a plane – which, thankfully, was sti... |
The method in Salesforce’s M&A madness | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 10 | 8 | has been on a shopping spree this year, . That’s why it was interesting to hear company president, vice chairman and COO, Keith Block talk about what they look for in an acquisition target at a press conference at Dreamforce this week. This is particularly true in the context of rumors that . First of all, it’s worth... |
The importance of science fiction to entrepreneurship | Ben Narasin | 2,016 | 10 | 8 |
There are three types of s f (in my view): crap, serialized crap and hard- . The last type contains a wealth of visions of the future, many of which we enjoy today, and is referenced in the names of, or has influenced, many tech startups and world-class entrepreneurs. When I started in 1993, there were few pe... |
E2E or GTFO | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 10 | 8 | Oh, Yahoo. We’re not just mad at you. We’re also really, really disappointed. First it took you two years to figure out that you were hacked by a nation-state. Then you allowed another nation-state — the US government — to scan all of your user’s emails … using a … without ever telling your security team. Seriously,... |
How blockchain can change the music industry | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 10 | 8 |
Since the 1999 music-sharing platform, the music industry has been in near-constant turmoil, its timeline marked with , , piracy problems and feuds over the fair distribution of dividends. . Streaming services hate file-sharing services. And, most of all, for making huge sums off their toil and feeding them the... |
Why an unhackable mobile phone is a complete marketing myth | David Jevans | 2,016 | 10 | 8 |
The mobile security market is taking flight due to high-profile hackings, but is there such a thing as an unhackable phone? Especially one that costs as much as ? Consider this: The smartphone in your pocket is 10 times more powerful than the fastest multi-million dollar supercomputers of just 20 years ago. There ar... |
Government’s refusal to recognize the rise of independent contractors is hurting the economy | David Schweikert | 2,016 | 10 | 8 |
The workforce of the 21 century has been changing for years. Government, only recently perceiving the movement from a traditional workforce to an independent contractor model, is stifling innovation and hurting workers in the process. From Boston to Seattle, we are seeing a myriad of impulsive efforts to regulate e... |
Will the coming robot nanny era turn us into technophiles? | Zoltan Istvan | 2,016 | 10 | 1 |
Robots intrigue us. We all like them. But most of us don’t them. That may dramatically change over the next 10 years as the “robot nanny” makes its way into our households. In as little time as a decade, that can bottle-feed babies, change diapers and put a child to sleep might be here. The human-machine bond tha... |
Inventor Ken Mages sees the Internet as democracy in action | John Biggs | 2,016 | 10 | 1 | This week on the podcast I talked to , a Chicago-based inventor and co-founder of . Mages has been working in computers since his college days at the University of Illinois where he started a business doing what would later be called desktop publishing. His experience in the tech industry is boundless and he’s a re... |
Check out this epic, expertly executed $77k Indiegogo backer troll | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 10 | 1 | It doesn’t get much more meta than this. , the filmmakers behind It’s All Good absconded with the money, spending it all on cocaine, prosti… oh, wait. No, it was limousines and champagne. The backers were rightfully outraged, but there’s a twist. It turns out that the movie the scallywags were making was about a tea... |
SurveyMonkey CEO Zander Lurie: IPO, yes; 2017, not likely | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 10 | 1 | On Thursday night, at a event at in Palo Alto, this editor sat down with CEO Zander Lurie to learn more about the direction of the 17-year-old company, known for the roughly 90 million surveys that the outfit and its customers create for their various constituents each month (and whose average order volume is $300,... |
Apple loses patent retrial to the litigious VirnetX, ordered to pay $302.4M | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 10 | 1 | Here’s yet more evidence that the US patent system needs over-hauling. Back in February we that Apple had been ordered to pay $625 million to notorious litigator VirnetX after a U.S. court judged that the iPhone-maker had infringed on patents held by VirnetX in its iMessage and FaceTime services. (VirnetX often descr... |
How deep learning allowed computers to see | Claire Bretton | 2,016 | 10 | 1 |
You get the first limit of basic machine learning for image recognition: We’re often incapable of defining discriminating characteristics that would near a 100 percent recognition potential. |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 10.01.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 10 | 1 | This was a LIVE recording session of – today with: Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page G3’s Facebook page |
You might be surprised to learn who’s collecting your data | Dr. Jose Nazario | 2,016 | 10 | 1 |
Every company is a digital company, from the biggest tech companies to the neighborhood corner store. A large ecosystem of partners and suppliers enables those companies to provide the services they do. And then there’s the customer, who is seeing more and more of their life become digital. Most people understand tha... |
Learned helplessness and the languages of DAO | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 10 | 1 | Everything is terrible. Most software, even critical system software, is insecure Swiss cheese held together with duct tape, bubble wrap, and bobby pins. See eg this week’s darkly funny post “How to Crash Systemd in One Tweet.” But it’s not just systemd, not just Linux, not just software; the whole industry is at fault... |
Crunch Report | Snap Possibly to IPO in March | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 10 | 6 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Hands-on, camera-off with the Oculus ‘Santa Cruz’ standalone VR prototype | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 10 | 6 | Upon being guided into the inner-sanctum at the Oculus Connect developer conference, I was told to leave my phone and backpack behind. The powers that be told me I would not be allowed to take any photos or video of my demo with Oculus’s new inside-out-positional-tracking-standalone-virtual-reality-headset-prototype (m... |
Report: Verizon wants $1 billion discount after Yahoo privacy concerns | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 10 | 6 | The breach occurred in 2014, but Yahoo discovered the intrusion more recently. The exact timing of Yahoo’s discovery could impact the Verizon deal. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer reportedly learned of the breach as early as July, when the sale of the company was still being negotiated. In August, Yahoo told TechCrunch in a st... |
Argentina’s startup scene is primed, but not yet firing on all cylinders | Dan Piehler | 2,016 | 10 | 1 |
Over the last decade, Argentina’s public profile has been far from flattering. With a steady feed of headlines that have included, “Inflation”, “Corruption”, and “Political Instability”, the country has been shut off from most international tech investment since the “dot com” bubble. Since then, Argentina has had to ... |
Spotify and Apple Music get unofficial mixes, the best part of SoundCloud | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 10 | 6 | SoundCloud’s big differentiator is its offering of unofficial, user-uploaded content that the major labels don’t release and that isn’t on Spotify or Apple Music. Or at least they weren’t. The first unofficial single-track remixes just went live on Spotify and Apple Music thanks to their partnerships with . struck a ... |
Watch an Uber self-driving car give two Pittsburgh Steelers a ride | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 6 | Uber’s self-driving cars are operating on Pittsburgh streets, so it’s only natural they’d pick up some professional athletes along the way. Defensive ends Cam Heyward and Stephon Tuitt likely max out the passenger capacity of the back of that Uber-tech equipped Ford Fusion that picks them up, but they do manage to get ... |
Buying Washio’s assets, Rinse cleans up part of the on-demand laundry market | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 10 | 6 | Nearly a month after the on-demand laundry service shut its doors, its assets have been starched, pressed and folded into the operations of one of its main competitors — . For a while, competition for on-demand laundering seemed to be a regional game, with both Rinse and Washio vying for territory along the West Coa... |
Co-founder Antti Pasila becomes CEO at programmatic ad company Kiosked | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 10 | 6 | , a company that dynamically inserts ads into a publisher’s content, has a new CEO — co-founder Antti Pasila. Pasila, who previously served as the company’s chief strategy officer, said his appointment is part of a broader shift: “The key thing is, we’re focusing our resources on the supply side.” In other words, while... |
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