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Palantir says it didn’t racially discriminate against Asian people | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 10 | 14 | Palantir Technologies has come out and said that it did not discriminate against Asian people, . This comes after the . According to the DOL’s suit, Palantir allegedly used a hiring process that discriminated against Asian applicants for software engineering roles, “routinely eliminated” qualified Asian applicants in... |
Applications are open for Hardware Battlefield at CES | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 10 | 14 | We’re back. Hardware Battlefield is TechCrunch’s premier hardware startup event and is returning to the world’s largest consumer electronic show. Applications are now open until November 3 at 9pm PT. Submit your application to compete for free demo space at CES, a $50,000 prize and the Metal Man trophy. Hardware Batt... |
Salesforce’s shift into equality | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 10 | 14 | It’s important for tech companies to have at least one voice at the senior leadership table that advocates for issues around equality, diversity and inclusion. Unfortunately, that’s just not the case for many companies in the tech industry. Salesforce, a company that said a year ago that a ,” recently became an except... |
Samsung’s Galaxy TabPro S upgrade gets a spec bump under a new gold coat of paint | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 14 | There’s going to come a time when not every mention of Samsung will elicit some snarky comment about . Now is not that time. And the is certainly not the product to serve as catalyst. In fact, it will probably be a little while before the company has an offering compelling enough to shift the public consciousness ba... |
U.S. Department of Transportation bans Galaxy Note 7 from all flights | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 14 | In the latest instalment of , the U.S. Department of Transportation has issued against bringing the Galaxy Note 7 on airplanes. The ban applies to all Note 7 devices, and covers both carry-on and checked baggage, as well as prohibiting anyone from carrying the phone onto a plane on their person. The ban will go into... |
Flexible e-paper display is full color but less than a micrometer thick | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 10 | 14 | Reflective displays like those found on e-readers are great for black-and-white text, but color has yet to make a compelling play on them. That may change with the serendipitous discovery of a full-color e-paper material that’s also flexible and power-efficient. Andreas Dahlin and grad student Kunli Xiong, of Chalmers ... |
Five considerations about accelerated learning for the next administration | Liz Simon | 2,016 | 10 | 14 |
Our next president will take office during a period of seismic change across the education landscape. Policymakers, students and employers increasingly question the cost — and return — on a college degree, as a profusion of new pathways from education-to-employment emerge. Nearly 50 million adults in the U.S. have so... |
Instacart reverses course, re-introducing tips for shoppers | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 10 | 14 | Under pressure from shoppers complaining about , Instacart said it is re-introducing customer tipping. “After announcing this change, we heard a lot of feedback from our shopper community,” the company said in a blog post. “While our shoppers liked most of the changes, they did not like the fact that we were removing ... |
Weekly Roundup: Galaxy Note 7 recalled, Amazon’s music service and Verizon/Yahoo sale troubles | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 10 | 14 | Things were pretty bleak for tech companies this week as the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 was officially recalled and Yahoo’s securities woes reportedly drove Verizon to request a $1 billion discount on its pending acquisition. Here are the top stories from around the tech universe to get you up to speed. More . The company ... |
Salesforce officially walks away from Twitter acquisition for real this time | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 10 | 14 | Salesforce wants to make things super clear for everyone — no, the company won’t buy Twitter. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff gave an interview to the FT and said that the company . “In this case we’ve walked away. It wasn’t the right fit for us,” Benioff told the FT. If you were looking for an official confirmation, it c... |
Trust Disrupted: Bitcoin and the Blockchain episode 6 analyzes the future | Rebecca Friedman | 2,016 | 10 | 14 | The final episode of this six-part series explores the future implications of Bitcoin and blockchain technology. The episode describes the divide between Wall Street’s preferred closed use of the blockchain and Silicon Valley’s vision of an open system. Will the technology ever be integrated into our world’s mainstream... |
Naspers sells Polish eBay rival Allegro to Permira consortium for $3.3B | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 10 | 14 | Earlier this year, it was that Naspers, the media and internet holding company, was planning to sell off , its online auction business based in Poland, and today the deal finally came to pass. A consortium of private equity firms that includes Cinven, Permira and Mid Europa have bought the firm for $3.253 billion. T... |
PayPal mulled buying GoFundMe | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 10 | 14 | , the giant digital payments company that was , has had an up-and- relationship with the business of crowdfunding over the years, but there are some indications that this could change. We’ve been hearing that PayPal was interested in buying — the crowdfunding site that lets people raise money for both serious cause... |
Google added fact checking: Facebook, it’s your move now | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 10 | 14 | Google yesterday announced it in order to display articles that contain factual information next to trending news items. Now it’s time for Facebook to take fact-checking more seriously, too. Facebook has stepped into the role of being today’s newspaper: that is, it’s a single destination where a large selection of new... |
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AWS gets richer with VMware partnership | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 10 | 14 | signed deals with , and earlier this year as it has shifted firmly to , but it was that has had everybody talking. The cloud infrastructure market — and everybody else. Microsoft is the closest competitor with around 10 percent. While VMware has had deals in place with other major players, the one with AWS ma... |
A new content distribution paradigm for VR and 360 video | Devon Dolan | 2,016 | 10 | 14 |
Content distribution has been industrialized, scaling to a state of overabundance, tipping the balance of power into the hand holding the smartphone. With waning attention spans and lack of exercise comes the droning stalemate of digital encumbrance and content disposability. A paradox of choice. Media companies figh... |
A win for InnoGames as MTG acquires Eight Roads Ventures stake for $100M | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 10 | 14 | , the Hamburg-based developer and publisher of successful browser games such as Elvenar, Tribal Wars, The West, and Grepolis, is going to the next level. MTG ( ), the Swedish digital entertainment company, has acquired a 35% stake in the company for an estimated $100 million, valuing the company at $287 million. MTG al... |
Adtech isn’t dead, it just has a lot of dead weight | Justin Choi | 2,016 | 10 | 22 |
map the constellations and clusters of the digital advertising universe. For many years, that universe, like our own, was ever-expanding. But also like our universe, there’s debate about whether it will continue to expand or end in a big crunch. I would argue the latter is happening — and happening now. It’s been dif... |
Doctor Strange’s science consultant talks about consciousness and the multiverse | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 10 | 22 | Why does need a science consultant? The Marvel Cinematic Universe isn’t exactly known for its scientific accuracy, and with his psychedelic, magic powers, the character of Doctor Strange (created by Steve Ditko and Stan Lee, and played in the film by Benedict Cumberbatch) goes even further into fantasy. Nonetheless... |
Heading for a national healthcare wallet | Ray Kingman | 2,016 | 10 | 22 |
Later this year, , will all argue their respective mergers don’t run afoul of antitrust laws. Aetna also announced it was of 538 of the 778 county health insurance exchanges in 2017 due to lack of profit potential. After a honeymoon period, corporate healthcare providers are measuring the Affordable Care Act’s (A... |
Confirmed: AT&T is buying Time Warner for $85.4B in cash and shares | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 10 | 22 | After of speculation, the : AT&T is acquiring Time Warner for $85 billion in a mix of cash and shares, paving the way for another behemoth in the converged media horizon. The final acquisition price will be $107.50 per share, paid in half cash and half AT&T stock. This means that for each outstanding share of Time W... |
The restaurant table(t) is getting crowded | David Jegen | 2,016 | 10 | 22 |
Square to competitors. There are that IBM will buy Revel. For anyone following the changes in payments and the restaurant industry, these are interesting strategic moves. Many of us have tried new services, like online food ordering, subscription meals and signing with your finger on a tablet-based point-of-sale ... |
Your experience is probably worth a lot less than you think | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 10 | 22 | Do you work in software? Do you have more than a decade of experience? You do? I’m sorry to hear that. That means there’s a strong possibility that much of what you know is already obsolete. Worse yet, there’s a good chance that you’re set in anachronistic ways, hidebound with habits which are now considered harmful. I... |
The Crunchies nominations close soon | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | Stop procrastinating and nominate your favorite startup, founder or investor for a Crunchie. Nominations will close on Thursday, November 3, 2016. We’re looking for the input of the tech community. Who was the hottest new startup? Who launched the best new technology? Which company had the best launch video? There are ... |
How massive DDoS attacks are undermining the Internet | Michael DeCesare | 2,016 | 10 | 22 |
On Friday morning, I awoke to find that our company-wide single sign-on and cloud storage was disrupted due to the massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack . This attack was big, disrupting consumer services like Spotify and Netflix, all the way to enterprise-grade providers like Heroku and Zendesk. Once ... |
Sub Pop’s founder launched a fun music remixing app | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | Okay, this is actually pretty cool. I’ve only been playing around with it a bit, but I can definitely see it becoming addicting — particularly if the service’s creators can bring more musicians on board. As it stands right now, collection of remix-able music is fairly limited — perhaps not surprising for a service th... |
Democracy in the age of the Internet of Things | Giuseppe Porcaro | 2,016 | 10 | 25 |
With the release of in spring 2016, Tinder, the ultimate hook-up app, broke new ground in the United States by claiming to be able to match young voters with their dream-perfect presidential candidate. The matchmaking app tries to by employing to representative politics its same cut-to-the-chase dating method. Wh... |
Tim Cook ‘not sure’ Apple will meet iPhone 7 Plus demand by the end of the year | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | Apple is working to match the demand for the iPhone 7 Plus as best as it can, but it might not meet all the demand by the end of the year, CEO Tim Cook said on the investor call discussing its fourth-quarter earnings. “It’s hard to say,” Cook said in response to an investor question about whether the iPhone would hit s... |
Lending Club zooms into car refinancings in turnaround effort | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | Many Americans learned through that they can refinance their credit card debt online; now, the lending marketplace is hoping they’ll start refinancing their automotive loans using its platform, too. Indeed, though automotive lending is a massive market, car refinance is far smaller owing to a lack of awareness, sugge... |
Sharalike tries to bring your slideshow into the virtual world | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | Wait, wait, wait! Before your eyes glaze over at the word “slideshow,” stay with me for a moment. Yes, we’re all bored to tears with slideslows, but ‘s brand new VR app has been rubbing its medical paddles together to try to jolt some life into your old 2D photos by teleporting them into your VR headset. Exploring Sha... |
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Challenges face former Cheezburger CEO joining Y Combinator’s New Cities project | John Mannes | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | Y Combinator’s ambitious New Cities project as Ben Huh, former CEO of The Cheezburger Network, joins the effort. The initiative, , aims to take a fresh, entrepreneurial approach, to city building. Details have been hard to come by, but the group was hiring researchers for a short time on the tail end of the summer. ... |
Eero looks to help employee whose 10-year-old son was burned by peers | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | , a two-year-old, San Francisco-based maker of a smart wireless routing system, is asking employees to help one of their colleagues after his special-needs son was burned in a fire set by some of his same-age peers. According to a report in , the 10-year-old was placed in an induced coma earlier this month after being... |
IrisVR raises $8M to bring virtual reality to architecture and design | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | New York City startup is announcing that it has raised $8 million in Series A funding. The company has built virtual reality tools for the architecture and design industries. allows customers to take their 3D plans and blueprints and turn them into VR experiences viewable on devices like Oculus Rift, HTC Vive, Gear... |
IBM Watson and Udacity want developers to learn AI online | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | , the education platform focused on helping workers gain skills they need for great careers in tech, has partnered with , and to offer a new nanodegree in artificial intelligence, the companies announced today at the IBM World of Watson conference. IBM Watson is co-developing the curriculum of the course with Udaci... |
iPhone revenues and unit sales dip in Q4 with 45.5M devices sold | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | Apple is still selling a lot of iPhones, but the numbers are continuing to slide from 2015 numbers. The company reported Q4 2016 iPhones sales of 45.51 million units. This compares to 48 million units sold in the same quarter of last year. These numbers are largely in keeping, if not slightly better, than Wall Street e... |
Facebook demos art-themed video filters, says it got 2M voters registered | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | The two non-Zuck leaders of Facebook had a lot to show and tell onstage today at the conference, where they demoed potential products, labeled Facebook a tech company not a media company and touted the company’s success at voter registration. If you liked Prisma, you’re going to enjoy what Facebook’s cooking up. Face... |
Apple could be developing its car OS in Canada | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | More details about Apple’s software team for its car project are emerging. According to , Apple has hired quite a few engineers in the Ottawa suburb of Kanata. The company also opened an office there and could be developing its car operating system from there. The reason why Kanata is so hot right now is because Bla... |
Apple signals a return to sales growth for the holidays in its fourth-quarter earnings | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | All eyes are officially on the holiday season for Apple. Ahead of the Christmas retail season, Apple reported its fourth-quarter earnings that were directly in line with what Wall Street was expecting. Almost everything came as expected as the company stands in a basic holding pattern, waiting for the first full quarte... |
Pandora’s latest quarter disappoints investors | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | In what has become a very competitive landscape for digital music, early pioneer Pandora is trying to remain a leader. The company reported third quarter earnings after the bell on Tuesday, giving a glimpse at the current health of their business. Pandora has seen its revenue grow to $351.9 million, up by 13% from the ... |
This is the new MacBook Pro with the Magic Toolbar mini display | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | Apple has leaked its own big announcement with two hidden images of its upcoming MacBook Pro in the macOS Sierra 12.1 update. MacRumors the images in the system files. Meet the new MacBook Pro. As , the MacBook Pro features a second mini display above the keyboard. It replaces the function row and should change depe... |
AT&T will offer $35 subscription with 100 channels and includes mobile streaming | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | AT&T announced it will offer 100 channels and mobile streaming for $35 per month when it launches DirectTV in November. This is a different position for AT&T, which said it wouldn’t be taking on existing pay TV services and it comes right in time for another major content announcement with Time Warner. AT&T announced t... |
The Guarantors makes it easier to rent an apartment in New York | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | If you’ve rented an apartment in New York you know how much of a hassle the process is. First you need to find somewhere, then you need to meet the building or landlord’s strict approval process. But in New York (and a few other major cities) the approval threshold is so high that people aren’t able to get the apartmen... |
Iris AI drastically expedites research through the power of artificial intelligence | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | There are more than 30 million research papers out there, and more than 3,000 papers are published every day. Put simply, you haven’t a chance in hell to read all of them. So what’s a poor researcher to do when set a challenge in a brand new field of research? Once the wave of blind panic and urge to drink copious amou... |
Duet Display adds pressure-sensitive input for Apple Pencil and iPad Pro | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 10 | 25 | is one of the most useful apps to come along in a while, letting users turn their iPad into a second screen for their Mac with virtually no latency via wired Lightning cable connection. Now, the app is getting an update and a that lets it act as a fully pressure sensitive display-integrated drawing tablet with iPad ... |
Apps for planning your vacation | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 7 | 3 | null |
Techstars’ David Cohen on fund strategy | Harry Stebbings | 2,016 | 7 | 3 |
, , . These are just some of the incredible companies invested in with his first fund, Bullet Time Ventures. In our latest interview with , we reveal some of the strategies behind what is now considered to be one of the best performing funds in history. Although a commonly regarded principle of investing, the im... |
AP Sports is using “robot” reporters to cover Minor League Baseball | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 7 | 3 | The Associated Press on Thursday that it is now covering games nationally using artificial intelligence and software from , and data from (MLBAM), the official statistics provider for Minor League Baseball. Automatically generated stories cover games that AP Sports’ human writers weren’t reporting on or travelin... |
Your federal government drives innovation by investing in moonshots | Mark Walsh | 2,016 | 7 | 3 |
Imagine a future where “moonshots” are part of our everyday reality. In this future, shipping no longer uses environmentally damaging Styrofoam but instead an organic mushroom-based material. Things like meat and leather can be created in a laboratory, limiting the need for environmentally harmful animal slaughterhou... |
Jabra is all talk with its Halo Smart Bluetooth earbuds | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 3 | At $80, the is in a bit of a gray area. It’s hardly what the majority of users would call “cheap,” but it still comes in well below other wireless offerings from . They’re not fitness buds, nor are they focused on sound or comfort. Jabra, much to its credit, went a different route entirely, eschewing the focuses of ... |
The art of relationships for fundraising success | Erik Benson | 2,016 | 7 | 3 |
With the incessant talk about unicorns, it’s easy to lose sight of the opposite end of the investment funnel. What feeds the industry is not unicorns, but first venture round companies. Yet raising investments from institutional venture capitalists is becoming increasingly difficult for early-stage entrepreneurs — an... |
What this year’s M&A activity tells us about media and entertainment | Jacob Carlson | 2,016 | 7 | 3 |
Content is still king. With Dalian Wanda Group’s $3.5 billion acquisition of Legendary Entertainment in January, this year’s media and entertainment M&A activity kicked off with a bang that hasn’t slowed down. Comcast’s $3.8 billion acquisition of DreamWorks Animation just three months later continued the trend of co... |
Why Google Capital deal could augur the reemergence of so-called PIPEs | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 7 | 3 | Last Wednesday, ventured into the world of investing in publicly traded companies, announcing it has backed , a platform that connects people with caregivers which went public in early 2014. With Google Capital investing $46.35 million, it became Care.com’s single largest shareholder, . The deal also sent nine-year... |
What businesses need to understand about chatbots | Liraz Margalit | 2,016 | 7 | 3 |
Welcome to the bot-centric future, which is set to make smartphone users — i.e. almost everyone in the Western hemisphere — navigate the internet in a chit-chat fashion with a virtual assistant. But “assistant” will soon become too impersonal… Alexa, Siri and others will cross the line from impersonal robots to entit... |
The things any startup could be doing to get Fortune 500 customers | Victor Belfor | 2,016 | 7 | 3 |
New-market disruption is a rare phenomenon and usually comes in waves in conjunction with some form of dramatic technological advance. Many disruptive companies (both new and existing) created new markets in periods following the introduction of PCs (Apple, Microsoft), mobile phones (Apple, Samsung) and cloud computi... |
#Brexit + #fintech: What happens now? | Shefali Roy | 2,016 | 7 | 3 |
The British public recently voted to leave the European Union. Only history will tell whether it was a good decision or not. The immediate issue is… what happens now? Those in financial services and technology firms will have to grapple with the unraveling of treaties that will have a direct impact on their business.... |
After five years, Juno arrives in orbit around Jupiter | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 7 | 4 | After traveling five years through the solar system, Juno has finally reached its destination and is currently in orbit around Jupiter, traveling nearly 250,000 kilometers per hour (150,000 mph). The most dangerous aspect of the $1.13 billion mission, which launched in 2011, occurred this evening at 11:18 pm ET when ... |
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Emerging markets’ challenge to Silicon Valley | Keith Jones | 2,016 | 7 | 4 |
Silicon Valley leads the global technology innovation markets with the credentials and an ecosystem that is second to none. We have had contact with many of the leading technology accelerators operating out of Silicon Valley, and their opening line for the conversation is often: “How are you relevant to us?” However,... |
How our Founding Fathers raised a Series A | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 4 | For some of us, hot dogs, patriotic songs and fireworks are enough. We here at TechCrunch expect more of our readers. Why be satisfied with fireworks when you could literally launch a Kickstarter into the sky. If you’re like me, you were likely quite disappointed to find out that wasn’t about an epic duel, I mean “sy... |
Augmented reality has no clothes | Bo Begole | 2,016 | 7 | 4 |
Augmented reality and virtual reality continue to buzz hotly as contenders for the next wave of computing. Tech-industry pundits predict enormous future markets reaching based on speculation that . The technology promising, but other smartphone killers haven’t panned out: Google Glass and smart watches. Perhaps ... |
Zore X is a smart gun lock that raised almost $250K on Indiegogo | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 7 | 4 | An unlocked gun can ruin more than one life. In fact, that toddlers shot an average of one person per week for the 2015 year, often injuring or killing themselves, because they were able to get on their hands on a gun. , like many new products on the market, aims to change all that. Zore is a Jerusalem-based startup ... |
Natural Cycles gets $6M to convince more women to ditch the pill | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 7 | 4 | Can an app stop you from getting pregnant? In conjunction with daily input from a basal body thermometer, it can indeed. Or so says European startup , which also bills itself as a fertility tracking service, and is today announcing a $6 million Series A funding round, led by Bonnier Media Growth, the venture arm of th... |
Novelist Eliot Peper talks about fiction as a foreign country | John Biggs | 2,016 | 7 | 4 | This week on the I talked to , the author of the cyberpunk novel Cumulus. Peper talked about the value of science fiction as travel for the mind. He has been an entrepreneur and VC and finds that those industries are often more about checking off boxes in a spreadsheet rather than true exploration. By writing – and ... |
You’re doing DevOps wrong | Andy Vitus | 2,016 | 7 | 4 |
Gone are the days of the quarterly product release cycle. To meet the evolving expectations of today’s end user, software must continuously adapt. As a result, hyper-automation of the software development process has become the thing on which companies, regardless of industry, compete. From fledgling startups to ente... |
Trump tweets at “dishonest media” in Star of David kerfuffle | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 7 | 4 | Happy American Independence Day, TechCrunchers. Today those of us in the U.S. celebrate the original Brexit with hot dogs, and fireworks. Americans are also in the middle of a very weird presidential election, as you may know, and Republican presumptive nominee Donald J. Trump has taken to Twitter once again today to... |
Family-photo-sharing platform Togethera shutters after low growth numbers | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 7 | 4 | London-based , a startup that allowed families to share photo albums privately, is to shutter after failing to raise beyond its initial £250,000 seed round from 2014. The startup managed to garner 65,000 users for its web/mobile platform for private photos. But it would appear the audience is continuing to use other p... |
Opinion: Brexit is a tragedy, but it could be the making of UK Fintech | Damian Kimmelman | 2,016 | 7 | 4 |
Let there be no doubt – Brexit is a tragedy. Instead of taking on challenges with its European partners, Britain is taking precisely the wrong course, injecting needless uncertainty and negativity into the economy. Tech will particularly suffer. The UK’s start-up scene, nurtured by international venture capital and s... |
Network Locum bags $7M to grow its doctor-staffing platform | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 7 | 4 | London-based healthcare startup , which has built a staffing platform and workplace management software targeting the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS), has closed a £5.3 million ($7M) Series B funding round, led by U.K. fund . The startup was founded by a former McKinsey and NHS consultant, Melissa Morris, back i... |
Echobox raises $3.4M to let publishers intelligently share content to Twitter and Facebook | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 7 | 4 | Now calling itself an artificial intelligence (AI) service for the online publishing industry — because, why not? — , which has developed tech to help publishers share content on the likes of Twitter and Facebook in a , has closed $3.4 million in new funding. The new round is led by Mangrove Capital Partners, with pa... |
Tesla says it informed government of crash involving Autopilot before its huge stock sale | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 7 | 5 | Tesla says it told regulators about the May 7th involving one of its electric cars in self-driving Autopilot mode nine days after the incident, adding that there was nothing unusual in either the delay or its decision to keep quiet about the incident before a federal investigation was publicly announced last Thursday... |
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Drivers are warming up to autonomous cars. Mostly. | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 7 | 5 | The results of two new studies — one big, one really big — on what consumers want in autonomous cars have been released recently. The answer of both is, in a nutshell, we want to be able to let a car drive on its own when driving is monotonous or annoying, like during the daily commute. But we also definitely want to h... |
Bulgaria now requires (some) government software to be open source | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 5 | Fans of free and open-source software are rejoicing today at the news that Bulgaria will now require all software written for the government must be FOSS. But while this is a promising advance, don’t expect a major change in the way things work. The new law took the form of one of several to the country’s Electronic G... |
Five days of Etsy payment processing outages have merchants flipping | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 5 | ***Update to this post can be found . Those hoping to snag some and might have woken up to an empty stomach and sunburn after a serious payment processing outage on e-commerce site Etsy. Over the last five days, a large number of Etsy transactions have been disrupted by “third party” payment processing outages. As... |
Homee raises $5M from Founders Fund and Tinder CEO to help you furnish your place | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 5 | Let’s face it, you’re never going to win the . My family has entered the maximum number of times for the last decade and has nothing to show for it. At some point every millennial has to take responsibility for the fact that their bedroom looks like a government records building. is jumping into the conversational co... |
Students’ 3D-printed fungarium and Martian mini-farm win NASA ‘Star Trek Replicator Challenge’ | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 5 | NASA believes the children are our future. Why else would it ask them for ideas about how to feed astronauts in 2050? The nationwide that began in February has spawned hundreds of 3D printable ideas, and : a housing for radiation-loving fungi and a tiny farm for Martian pioneers. The challenge was to “design a non-e... |
Cybersecurity startup Darktrace intercepts $65M in fresh funding at a valuation of over $400M | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 7 | 5 | , the U.K. cybersecurity startup whose backers include Autonomy founder Mike Lynch’s , has closed $65 million in fresh funding. The new round was led by global investment firm KKR, with participation from existing investor Summit Partners and new investors TenEleven Ventures and SoftBank. I understand the new investme... |
Twilio now helps AWS send texts | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 7 | 5 | today a new collaboration with Amazon’s AWS platform. The company says it is “helping AWS provide the delivery of SMS messages through the ” and notes that SNS users will now benefit from Twilio’s experience in sending bulk messages. What exactly does that mean? We weren’t sure either, so we asked the company. Here... |
FBI recommends no charges for Hillary Clinton over use of personal email servers | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 7 | 5 | While noting that Hillary Clinton and her staff were “extremely careless” in using a series of personal e-mail servers during her time as Secretary of State, the FBI recommended the Department of Justice bring no formal charges against the presumptive Democratic nominee, FBI Director James Comey today in a press conf... |
New transmission | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 5 | car you remember wanting? Was it a reasonably priced mid-sized sedan with ample leg room for passengers in the back? Was it a small, well-equipped compact SUV with room for all the kids’ bags and all-wheel drive for better control in adverse conditions? Was it even a two-door sports car with exaggerated curves and mor... |
Twitter adds former Facebook CTO Bret Taylor to its board | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 7 | 5 | Twitter today that Bret Taylor is joining its board of directors. Taylor is best-known as one of the founders of social networking startup FriendFeed — and then as the chief technology officer of Facebook, which in 2009. After , he became co-founder and CEO at . News!: is joining the Twitter Board! Bret brings ... |
Bose’s QuietComfort headphones go wireless without missing a beat | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 5 | damn time. Announced among a trio of new products, is the product Bose fans have been waiting for. Not the QuietControl 30 earbuds or the Jaybird-like SoundSport. The 35s are the Boseist of the bunch, a Bluetooth update to the company’s iconic line of airplane ubiquitous over the ear headphones, a wireless take on th... |
LzLabs launches product to move mainframe COBOL code to Linux cloud | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 7 | 5 | Somewhere in a world full of advanced technology that we write about regularly here on TechCrunch, there exists an ancient realm where mainframe computers are still running programs written in COBOL. This is a programming language, mind you, that was developed in the late 1950s, and used widely in the ’60s and ’70s and... |
Suiteness wants you to stay in suites instead of regular hotel rooms | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 7 | 5 | Suites are a weird thing within the hotel industry. While there are hundreds of thousands of suites around the world, most are only occupied about 20 percent of the time and sit empty the rest of the year. Plus, the nicest ones aren’t listed or even available to book on hotel’s websites. Brands are afraid to showcase t... |
The worth of your professional profile, network and personal data | Rafael Laguna | 2,016 | 7 | 5 |
created the web in 1989. Twenty- he’s asking for a . The web has made life easier, but it has also introduced challenges and ethical questions pertaining to , access to information and privacy. Berners-Lee laments that the web has morphed into a surveillance filled with corporate hackers and government spooks... |
Theranos faces congressional inquiry over faulty blood tests | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 7 | 5 | The U.S. House of Representatives recently sent a to troubled blood analysis startup Theranos asking for an explanation of the company’s failure to offer accurate results to patients using its proprietary blood test technology. Theranos developed a technique using its proprietary ‘Edison’ machine it claimed could det... |
China invests in the hunt for aliens with world’s largest radio telescope | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 7 | 5 | The last of 4,450 triangular panels was installed to complete the world’s largest single-aperture radio telescope, located in China’s Guizhou Province. A monument of China’s dedication to the field of astronomy, the telescope will be used to study pulsars and search for alien life in the universe. The 500-meter Apertur... |
On-demand staffing startup HourlyNerd lands $22 million Series C | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 7 | 5 | , a Boston-based startup, aspires to be more than an on-demand staffing service for skilled employees. It wants to be a full-service platform for large companies to change the way they think about employees. “If you think about a company today, it’s structured in the same way as 100 years ago,” says company co-CEO and ... |
The role of telepresence robotics in workforce inclusion | Peter Hirst | 2,016 | 7 | 2 |
Earlier this year, MIT and the world lost the brilliant mathematician, computer scientist, inventor, author and “father” of artificial intelligence — the legendary . Among his myriad scientific pursuits, Minsky was interested in robotics, and, specifically, “teleoperated robots.” He coined the term “telepresence” in... |
Spotify > YouTube as audio streaming surpasses music videos | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 7 | 5 | Audio didn’t quite kill the video star, but it’s making a comeback. Americans are now on-demand streaming more songs as audio than they’re consuming through music videos. The shift highlights the importance of music in the battle for mobile profits, plus it could help artists get paid more. Analytics provider tells T... |
Technology will change where we live | Dan Laufer | 2,016 | 7 | 2 |
Governor Jerry Brown recently proposed that would streamline the path for large-scale development across California. It could have a huge impact on growing housing supply in San Francisco, specifically, which suffers from and a lengthy, local review process for building developers. The additional supply spurred b... |
The Pro Football Hall of Fame goes 4D | Mark Lelinwalla | 2,016 | 7 | 2 | null |
For everyone | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 2 | thing, and what it creates may in fact be powerful beyond our imagining. That was certainly the case with Sir Tim Berners-Lee and the World Wide Web, the creation of which is documented in a new short film, “ ,” which was directed by Jessica Yu and is currently showing at the Seattle International Film Festival. I sat... |
How AWS came to be | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 7 | 2 | There are , but this much we know: 10 years ago, , the cloud Infrastructure as a Service arm of Amazon.com, was launched with little fanfare as a side business for Amazon.com. Today, it’s a highly successful company in its own right, . In fact, , in the decade since its launch, AWS has grown into the most successfu... |
A brief history of cryptocurrency drama, or, what could possibly DAO wrong? | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 7 | 2 | It makes look like and yet it’s a documentary. Yes, it’s , the show! You already know it’s been the hit of the last half-decade in extreme-nerd, get-rich-quick and/or libertarian-conspiracist circles. But the story so far may seem incredibly… well… cryptic. So if you’re just tuning in, here’s a timeline to catch yo... |
Man behind web’s biggest illegal film site arrested following (legal) iTunes purchase | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 20 | Here’s a dose of irony for you this fine day: the internet just lost its most prolific source of illegal movies after its founder was nabbed after buying something legally, on iTunes. KickassTorrents (KAT), a torrent website that has surpassed The Pirate Bay as the place to go for unofficial copies of movies and TV sho... |
Website-building platform Brandcast raises $13.9M | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 7 | 20 | , a startup allowing marketers and designers build mobile-friendly websites without having to write code, today that it has raised $13.9 million in Series A funding. The round was led by Shasta Ventures with participation from Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Correlation Ventures. (Brandcast co-founder and chief strat... |
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