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Omise lands $17.5M Series B to expand its Stripe-like service in Southeast Asia | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 20 | , a Bangkok-based payment enabler much like Stripe, has raised a $17.5 million Series B round to expand its reach across Southeast Asia. The company proves a payment gateway system that allows any retailer take credit card payments online. That’s long been a problem in Southeast Asia, which is compromised of six major ... |
Tesla and Uber have more in common than you might think | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 20 | Elon Musk’s catapults Tesla into a new market; car-sharing. While the idea of Tesla car-sharing seems new, it is not the first time the company’s cars, coupled with autonomous technology, have come up in discussions about the sharing economy. Back in 2015, Steve Jurvetson, a partner at Uber investor DFJ, that Uber’... |
Crunch Report | Early Niantic “Pokemon GO” Investor | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 7 | 20 | Tito Hamze
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Musk’s Master Plan has solar for everyone, but investors aren’t buying the dream — yet | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 20 | published tonight by founder Elon Musk proposes numerous major projects, but perhaps the most far-reaching of them all is the plan to put solar panels on every house and a battery in every garage. And to do that, he not-so-subtly hints, Tesla and SolarCity will need to be more than friends. “We need to combine and bre... |
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Elon Musk addresses concerns around Autopilot and its ‘beta’ label | Mark Lelinwalla | 2,016 | 7 | 20 | Elon Musk’s contains his strongest response yet to concerns around , the subject of an ongoing National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation. Unsurprisingly, Musk is standing by the merits Autopilot and its impact on driver safety. “According to the recently released 2015 NHTSA report, automotive fata... |
40 years after the first landing on Mars, this NASA scientist looks to resurrect Viking 1’s analog data | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 20 | It’s been four decades since the Viking 1 lander touched down on Martian soil, the first lasting human presence on the surface of the Red Planet. It beamed its unprecedented data back to NASA, where it was stored on the hot new format of the day: microfilm. Now one scientist wants to bring these analog records into the... |
Tesla has a transport truck and a city bus replacement in the works | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 20 | Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk , and two big parts of it are new vehicles, but not consumer models: Tesla is working on both a heavy-duty semi truck and a “high passenger-density urban transport” that would operate in cities and fit the role of a bus in city settings. In the post describing this next stage to the , ... |
Elon Musk reveals Tesla’s master plan | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 20 | Elon Musk plans to steer Tesla towards fully autonomous driving, car sharing, and cargo transport, . A fully solar power ecosystem driven in-part by SolarCity will help Musk and Co. get there. Musk has been teasing the master plan part II for days. What would be in it? Would Tesla cars fly? Would they go to space? W... |
Why and how chatbots will dominate social media | Cory Edwards | 2,016 | 7 | 20 |
Since the early 2000s, brands have experimented with social media platforms and networks to communicate with customers and prospects — first through weblogs, then eventually through social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. Although the capabilities and sophistication have continued to evolve, at its core, social... |
Expedia acquires travel photography community Trover | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 7 | 20 | Online travel agency has acquired , an app and website where people share their travel photos. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. “At Expedia, it’s fair to say we believe in the power of travel,” an Expedia spokesperson wrote in an email to TechCrunch. “It can transform people. So an important part of our job... |
Amazon patent proposes drone perches atop streetlights and other protruding infrastructure | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 20 | : You’re a delivery drone with a flight duration of 20 minutes with your current payload, but because of delays (use your imagination) you’re never going to make it in time. What do you do, hot shot? What do you do? You land on a street light that’s been converted into a drone charger! Thank goodness Amazon patented th... |
Qualcomm earnings beat with $6B in revenue and $1.16 EPS | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 7 | 20 | Following the bell today, Qualcomm earnings that met analyst expectations in terms of earnings per share, and exceeded expectations in terms of revenue. The company attributed its results to progress with the number of licensees in China. For the quarter ending June 26, the San Diego, California-based semiconductor... |
What the Pokémon Go hype train means for Nintendo’s value | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 7 | 20 | There’s been much talk about Nintendo suddenly creating an enormous amount of value for itself with the release of Pokémon Go, perhaps one of the most successful game launches of all time. Following Pokémon Go, Nintendo’s market valuation , passing Sony and quickly becoming one of the most valuable gaming companies in... |
Pokémon is getting a live-action movie based on Detective Pikachu | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 20 | Pokémon Go fever has definitely caught Hollywood’s attention: The franchise is getting a live-action movie, the rights to which were just won by Legendary Pictures. The movie won’t be focused on Pokémon Go, however. Instead, it’ll put the spotlight on , a sleuthing version of one of Pokémon’s most recognizable charact... |
Warby Parker is offering Snapchat-exclusive sunglasses | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 7 | 20 | is offering its very first Snapchat-exclusive product — limited sunglasses that are only available for purchase to its Snapchat followers. The eyeglass retailer said it just shared a Snapchat story with its followers with a unique URL where, for a limited time, they can buy “head-turning Haskell in Crystal, now with n... |
Google unleashes DeepMind on energy-hungry data center, cutting cooling bill by 40% | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 20 | may be a master at one of the most complex games on Earth, but can it handle the day-to-day energy concerns of a Google data center? Yes, as it turns out, and with a vengeance. The power needs of a data center depend on lots of factors, from demand to the weather, and adjusting to or predicting these variables in order... |
Lighter Capital takes a different approach to startup financing | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 20 | The new world of startup finance is very strange. Private equity is increasingly dipping down to finance startups. Meanwhile, venture capital funds are being forced to use every financial tool imaginable to stay involved in the growing pool of late-stage startups. for Q2 2016 underscores this point. One fund, , is t... |
CrunchBase sees some slowing for early-stage venture in the second quarter | Gené Teare | 2,016 | 7 | 20 |
U.S. venture investors tapped the brakes but did not carry out a sharp slowdown in Series A and B deal-making in the second quarter and first half of 2016, according to preliminary data from CrunchBase. Average Series A rounds in the second quarter increased year-over-year. Second-quarter 2016 Series A rounds avera... |
Bubble wants to tap users’ social graphs for an on-demand babysitting app | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | Who would you trust more with your kids: a person sent by a babysitting agency or the sitter who watched your friends’ kids last weekend? , an on-demand babysitting app ( and ) launching in London today, reckons most people would plump for the second option. So it’s built an app for booking a babysitter that’s powere... |
Khosla-backed Lookup acquired by business discovery service NowFloats | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | Lookup, an India-based chat service that connects consumers to local business and is backed by some notable U.S. investors, by business discovery service , which is also based in India. The undisclosed deal is a mixture of cash and stock, and Lookup said it will continue to operate independently. when it raised $2.... |
Crunch Report | Uber hits 2 billion rides served | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | Tito Hamze
Tito Hamze
Joe Zolnoski
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Ford partners with Jose Cuervo to make car parts out of agave plants | Mark Lelinwalla | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | A tequila brand and car company joining forces isn’t exactly a marriage made in marketing heaven. So what brought Ford and Jose Cuervo together? On Tuesday, the two companies a partnership to explore how the tequila distributor’s leftover agave plant fibers can be used to produce more sustainable bioplastic parts in ... |
Line, the newly public messaging app, has funded at least 9 U.S. startups | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | Line, the popular Japanese messaging service that went public last week on both the NYSE and in Japan, partnered on a fund a couple of years ago with the New York-based venture firm in order to gain more of a foothold in the U.S. According to a that announced the pairing, the fund planned to invest less than $10 mi... |
One of Apple Music’s biggest problems is getting fixed | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | Apple is addressing a major complaint some users had with the way its Apple Music streaming service functions when it comes to matching your personal music collection to an online catalog – a feature that allows you to stream your tracks from the cloud, via Apple’s iCloud. The company is now switching from a poorer mat... |
Using digital screens to inspire better health | Mark McDermott | 2,016 | 7 | 18 |
Digital signage is an industry that just keeps getting bigger. that digital signage adds a 31.8 percent upswing in overall sales volume. Digital video reaches more than of the public. However, while say they prefer to shop at stores that have video displays, digital fatigue is also on the rise. Perhaps there’s ... |
Army Special Operations Command reportedly ditching Android for iPhone in the field | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | While the ordinary proving ground of the smartphone may be the mean streets of the city, devices are to be found on the field of battle, too — and if is to be believed, Android may soon be giving way to iOS for some special operations forces. According to a source “not authorized to speak to the media,” the Samsung d... |
Now launching in Estonia, Cleveron’s PackRobot is like an Amazon Locker on steroids | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | Estonian startup is looking to one-up Amazon’s Lockers with a more advanced solution, and today the company’s PackRobot makes its public debut in its home country. Not everyone can be home when a package shows up, and no one wants to wait in line at the postal office or FedEx place. Temporary storage lockers are a nic... |
Postmates aqui-hires team behind controversial Famous game | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | Eager to throw its product development into high gear, snagged the team from . to boost its engineering bandwidth. Hey is best known for its ludicrously viral game Stolen, which was and later as . “The Hey team was introduced to us by , who’s an investor in Postmates,” says Sean Plaice, CTO and co-founder at P... |
Microsoft and Boeing team up to streamline aviation through big data and AI | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | Cortana is set to fly the friendly skies thanks to a new partnership between Microsoft and Boeing, bring the Microsoft intelligent assistant closer still to the . Microsoft and Boeing to move Boeing’s suite of digital aviation offerings over to Azure, and the end result is that said servers are going to begin to get... |
The BOSEbuild Speaker Cube educational kit isn’t quite fully formed | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | As the first entry in its planned line of educational products, has a lot hanging on it. The product will set the tone for the premier audio company’s somewhat off-brand foray into a wholly new space. So naturally, the company sticks fairly close to home, with a kit that promise to show kiddos the magical inner w... |
SeatGeek will calculate how much that ticket is worth | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | Have you ever bought sweet tickets for a ballgame, a concert or some other live event, only to find out that you couldn’t make it? The internet certainly offers plenty of ways for you to unload the tickets… but how much should you charge? Ticketing startup has launched a new way to help you figure it out. In a way, S... |
Everything Yahoo has going for it right now | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | (See also: ) |
Southeast Asia’s aCommerce raises $10M to prepare for Series B | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | , a Bangkok-based startup that helps e-commerce companies in Southeast Asia run their businesses, has landed $10 million in new funding ahead of a planned Series B raise later this year. The company, which is currently active in Thailand, Indonesia and the Philippines, said this latest raise is led by — a fund associ... |
How to watch the Republican National Convention | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | The Republican National Convention is underway in Cleveland, where the GOP is expected to finalize its nomination of Donald Trump. The entire Trump clan is attending, plus Donald backers like investor Peter Thiel and UFC president Dana White. The convention runs through Thursday, with most of the events occurring in th... |
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The real story behind how BB-8 works in The Force Awakens | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzzWmTIVv3c] Star Wars engineering experts have tipped their hand regarding one of Hollywood’s best-kept secrets: Exactly how BB-8 works in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. While film-makers behind the movie have given some clues as to how the droid works, and people from of th... |
Google launches final Android Nougat Developer Preview | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | Google today the fifth and last preview before the scheduled final release later this summer. According to the company, this preview includes the latest version of the Android Nougat emulator to do apps final testing, the final N APIs, the latest system behaviors and UI and the latest bug fixes and optimizations ac... |
Kim’s Snapchat Story, Taylor’s Instagram, and all the 1’s and 0’s in between | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | the world of celebrity gossip: And with this particular stage of the celebrity feud, we are given an amazing opportunity to look at how social media platforms like Instagram, Twitter and Snapchat can be used as weapons. As you’ve undoubtedly heard by now, Kim , posting a Snapchat Story of a phone call between Kanye... |
With one atom per bit, this 1-kilobyte hard drive is only 100 nanometers wide | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 18 | Here’s an interesting milestone to talk up around the water cooler: researchers in the Netherlands have created a microscopic storage system that encodes every bit with a single atom — allowing them to fit a kilobyte in a space under 100 nanometers across. That translates to a storage density of about 500 terabits per ... |
Samsung reports highest profit for 2 years thanks to strong Galaxy S7 sales | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 27 | Earlier this month , and today it delivered on that promise with . The Korean tech giant reported a 8.14 trillion won ($7.22 billion) operating profit on revenue of 50.94 trillion won ($45.2 billion). That profit figure is up 18 percent year-on-year, while the quarter’s revenue represented a five percent annual incre... |
Crunch Report | Trump asks Russia to hack Hillary | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 7 | 27 | Tito Hamze
Tito Hamze
Joe Zolnoski
Joe Zolnoski |
Donald Trump addresses NASA and new media in his first Reddit AMA | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 27 | , Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump for a spirited — though not on the official /IAmA subreddit — AMA. The session was light on policy specifics, but the candidate (also casually referred to as “God Emperor” by some participants), managed to answer 13 questions on topics ranging from NASA (pro) to media b... |
Sales and marketing startup LeadGenius raises $10M | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 7 | 27 | announced that it has raised $10 million in Series B funding. , LeadGenius helps customers find likely sales leads and reach out to them with automated emails. The company says revenue increased 6x in the past 20 months, with customers including eBay, Box and Weebly. LeadGenius has now raised more than $21 millio... |
How President Obama shaped the future of digital health | Matt Joseph | 2,016 | 7 | 27 |
A new leader of the free world will soon be voted into office. Shortly thereafter, he or she will begin a minimum four-year journey to steer the country toward prosperity, safety and global leadership. With many changes undoubtedly coming, let’s take a look at the technological impact of one of the biggest initiative... |
Security experts have cloned all seven TSA master keys | John Biggs | 2,016 | 7 | 27 | Key escrow — the process of keeping a set of keys for yourself “just in case” — has always been the U.S. government’s modus operandi when it comes to security. From the disastrous Clipper chip to today, the government has always wanted a back door into encryption and security. That plan backfired for the TSA. The TSA, ... |
Groupon reports better-than-expected revenue, still not profitable | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 7 | 27 | Deal site saw its shares rising today in after-hours trading, following a better-than-expected second quarter earnings report. Analysts expected the Chicago-based company to report negative earnings per share of $0.02 on revenue on a non-GAAP basis, and $713.8 million in revenue, But Groupon beat Wall Street revenue... |
Dunkers competes with one million downloads in its first week | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,016 | 7 | 27 | Dunkers, a new game by (known for and other fun sporty games), has racked up 1 million downloads since it was released last week. The success in large part is thanks to heavy featuring from Apple; it has been featured more than 150 times worldwide. Currently in iTunes, it sits at No. 1 sports app, No. 4 sports ga... |
Will Facebook be your next call center operator? | Gregg Zegras | 2,016 | 7 | 27 |
How would you describe Facebook? Historically, it’s been the social hub of billions of global users looking to stay connected with friends and family through shared content. Yet in recent years, it’s become more difficult to describe Facebook in a few words — depending on who you ask, it’s a place for businesses to s... |
Apple sold its billionth iPhone last week | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 27 | It would have been a nice piece of information to share , but Tim Cook and Co. were clearly too preoccupied with service revenues and R&D. And hey, no better way to kick off a midweek meeting than a little positive news — particularly if you can carry some of yesterday’s expectation-beating positivity into the followi... |
LivBlends renames itself Replenish and gives us a first look at its futuristic smoothie machine | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 7 | 27 | Nearly two years ago LivBlends was a Y Combinator smoothie delivery startup. The company has evolved since then, raised $3.8 million in seed from various investors and switched its name to . It’s also moved away from delivery and into manufacturing a line of Keurig-like self-cleaning smoothie machines. Replenish is ... |
Hyperloop One unveils new manufacturing plant in Nevada | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 7 | 27 | is today announcing the opening of its first manufacturing plant. Called Hyperloop One Metalworks, the 105,000 square-foot building in North Las Vegas will be the new professional home of many of the company’s 170 employees, including engineers, machinists and welders. These folks will build and test a number of compo... |
Facebook sees 2 billion searches per day, but it’s attacking Twitter not Google | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 7 | 27 | Facebook wants to be known as a place to search for mentions of current news in hopes of drawing more public chatter that normally ends up on Twitter. While Facebook stumbled with its natural language Graph Search, it refocused on keywords, and is now seeing 2 billion searches per day of its 2.5 trillion posts. That’s ... |
Facebook crushes Q2 earnings, hits 1.71B users and record share price | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 7 | 27 | Coming off an all-time high stock price of $123.34, smashed earnings again. The social network continued steady growth just slightly slower at 3.63% compared to last quarter’s 3.77%, adding 60 million monthly users this quarter to reach 1.71 billion. It scored $6.44 billion in revenue and $0.97 EPS, blowing past esti... |
GoPro sales beat investor expectations but are still in steep decline | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 7 | 27 | [graphiq id=”faQAaDBeohD” title=”Gopro Inc. (GPRO) Stock Price” width=”600″ height=”586″ url=”https://w.graphiq.com/w/faQAaDBeohD” link=”http://listings.findthecompany.com/l/12123149/Gopro-Inc-in-San-Mateo-CA” link_text=”Gopro Inc. (GPRO) Stock Price | FindTheCompany”] The company posted revenue of $220.7 million, abov... |
AR in Mercedes-Benz’s Rescue Assist app gives first responders an inside look | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 27 | Mercedez-Benz has been putting QR codes on the B-pillars and inside the fuel door of new cars since November 2013, and those have provided a way for first responders and emergency personnel to quickly get detailed model info about any Mercedes-Benz vehicle involved in an accident using the Rescue Assist mobile app. Now... |
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Donald Trump irresponsibly asks Russia to find Hillary Clinton’s missing emails | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 7 | 27 | Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump wants to steal some of the Democratic Party’s spotlight during the Democratic Convention with yet another puzzling declaration. At in Florida today, Trump invited Russia (yes, the entire country of Russia) to hack into Hillary Clinton’s inbox and release “the 30,000 e-mail... |
Tor Project announces new policies in wake of sexual assault scandal | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 7 | 27 | Nearly two months ago, the Tor Project promised a full investigation into the sexual assault allegations that led to the , Jacob Appelbaum. That investigation is now complete, Tor’s executive director Shari Steele announced today, and the Tor Project is implementing new policies and procedures to prevent future incide... |
Pandora will now recommend nearby concerts, thanks to Ticketfly | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 7 | 27 | Spotify late last year suggesting nearby shows based on the listening habits of its users. Today, Pandora a similar move, aided by Ticketfly, which Pandora acquired last year. Now, the two are working together to bring personalized concert suggestions to Pandora users, also based on listening behavior. When an artis... |
Good Eggs raises $15 million to expand across the U.S. | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 7 | 27 | A San Francisco startup that many people assumed was toast, , has raised $15 million in a new round of venture funding led by Index Ventures to expand its online, organic grocery business first in the San Francisco Bay Area, and later across the U.S. In recent years, Good Eggs tried to ramp up its eco- and farm-friend... |
Crunch Report | Pokémon GO Mania | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 7 | 11 | Tito Hamze
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NYC Taxis are still giving twice as many rides as Uber | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 7 | 11 | After last summer’s between Uber and the City of New York there hasn’t been much talk about the state of ridesharing in the Big Apple. But today a research report from Morgan Stanley, shared by , shed some light on how ridesharing has been growing in the city. The report compares ride numbers from NYC Taxis (which... |
MIT’s anonymous online communications protocol Riffle could beat Tor at its own game | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 11 | Tor has been the go-to for anonymous communication online for years now — and that has made it one of the juiciest targets possible to the likes of the NSA and FBI. A new anonymizing protocol from MIT may prove more resilient against such determined and deep-pocketed attackers. The potential problem with Tor is that if... |
Mobile events app DoubleDutch lays off nearly 25% of its workforce | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 7 | 11 | Mobile events and conferences company announced today that it will be laying off 55 of its employees as a part of a company-wide restructuring. The company, founded in 2011, has raised over $78 million in funding to power its mobile tools which allow event organizers to create dedicated app experiences that give them... |
USV’s Albert Wenger on converting our attitude on automation from foe to friend | Harry Stebbings | 2,016 | 7 | 11 |
The zero marginal cost of information is turning everything upside down. Albert Wenger, Partner at Ventures asserts in our latest interview, “We are just at the beginning of this inversion.” Although the changes this inversion is bringing to many associated industries like traditional publishers, crowdfunding sit... |
On-demand sales force Universal Avenue closes $10M Series A | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 7 | 11 | , the Stockholm-headquartered startup that lets companies access a local sales force on demand, has closed a deal of its own. The company has raised $10 million in fresh Series A funding, adding to the $5 million “extension” to its seed round a and bringing total funding to $17 million. Leading the round is Eight Roa... |
Moon photobombs the Earth in rare images captured by NASA | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 7 | 11 | A NASA camera on board the Deep Space Climate Observatory ( ) satellite captured a rare lunar transit across the face of a sunlit Earth. The images, which feature a fully lit far side of the moon, were captured between July 4 at 11:50 pm ET and July 5 at 3:18 am ET. Lunar transit across the Earth / Images courtesy of N... |
To succeed in IoT, hire a chief data officer | Theresa Bui | 2,016 | 7 | 11 |
For many businesses, ownership of the Internet of Things ( ) lies within a number of C-suite titles. At , the CIO oversees . At , it’s the CTO. At GM, the Infotainment and CTO co-manage . But demands an interdisciplinary approach, whether the desired outcome is to streamline internal processes, introduce ne... |
Ashley Madison slips into something more comfortable to shake its bad rep | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 7 | 11 | The new Ashley Madison branding is a lot more subtle than before How do you rescue a brand like after it becomes synonymous with infidelity, poor security, a fateful hack, a massive breach of privacy and at least two suicides? That was the challenge thrown in the lap of the company’s new CEO and president. The new le... |
Tesla under investigation for possible breach of securities law, WSJ reports | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 7 | 11 | Tesla is under investigation by the , The Wall Street Journal , for a possible securities law breach. What’s at issue is whether the electric vehicle company should have notified shareholders immediately following a on May 7 that killed a Tesla Model S owner who was using Autopilot at the time of the crash. A spoke... |
Psst… it’s still okay to share your Netflix password | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 7 | 11 | A Federal Appeals Court this month under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. That has given many Americans pause, as sharing passwords to online services like Netflix and HBO GO is a fairly common activity these days — and now, thanks to the verdict, one that breaks federal law. But don’t panic just yet: Netflix is stil... |
The brilliant mechanics of Pokémon Go | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 7 | 11 | seen it already, you will soon when you are walking down the street. Every person you pass who is fervently looking at their phone is likely playing the No. 1 game in the country right now: Pokémon Go. You might think it’s popular because of the brand. Nintendo, which refused to make a Pokémon game for the longest tim... |
Can the Airbnb regulatory nightmare be solved with more tech? | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 11 | mob of local government officials, taxi drivers and hotel operators trying to shut down your business? There’s an app for that. But can solving regulatory nightmares really be that simple? Sharing economy startups like Airbnb and Uber have gone nuclear to defend their business model, suing city governments or shutteri... |
A court ruled that it could be a federal crime to share your Netflix password | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 7 | 11 | Last week the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that an employee acted “without authorization” when he used a former co-worker’s login (with their permission) to gain access to “computer data owned by the former employer.” This led to the court upholding a decision that the employee violated the , a federal law tr... |
Robbers target Pokémon Go players in Missouri | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 7 | 11 | Catching them all could be risky. Four men in O’Fallon, Missouri, have been arrested on charges of first-degree robbery and armed criminal action after having used the popular gaming app to target other users, lure them into isolated areas and rob them. Shane Michael Baker, 18, Brett William Miller, 17, and Jamine Ja... |
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Walt Disney Co. reveals 9 new startups in the Disney Accelerator spanning robotics, cinematic VR and AI | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 7 | 11 | is kicking off the third session of its corporate accelerator this week, and revealed 9 new companies admitted to the program. A full list follows at the end of this post. The companies are developing everything from cinematic virtual reality and holographic content, to robots with human-like facial expressions. Becau... |
Indonesia will be Asia’s next biggest e-commerce market | Hugh Harsono | 2,016 | 7 | 29 |
Indonesia presents much opportunity for e-commerce among other emerging Asian economies, with current projections putting this archipelago nation’s e-market at by 2020 (coming third behind China and India). With an estimated annual growth rate of 50 percent and strong mobile-first initiatives, retailers have a uniq... |
Will 50K people turn up to catch Pokémon in San Francisco tonight? | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 7 | 11 | Over the past couple of weeks, you may have seen more people than usual walking erratically, stopping suddenly, all while clutching a smartphone. They were probably playing Pokémon Go, the game that ; it and has gone thoroughly viral in the meantime. The Facebook event for tonight (July 20th) has 8,800 people conf... |
A status report on our digital freedom | Chris Stone | 2,016 | 7 | 11 |
There are plenty of movies analyzing the yin and yang between destiny and choice — from to Serendipity — and even Final Destination. People are fascinated by the relationship between and a pre-destined path. This relationship has never been more interesting than in today’s world, where the ultimate goal of mo... |
Pokémon Go has an estimated 7.5M U.S. downloads, $1.6M in daily revenue | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 11 | Pokémon Go is off to a big start in the U.S., but just how big? The company hasn’t yet revealed any official numbers, but we have estimates to provide an idea of the scope of downloads and revenue the mobile game is generating. App analytics company used its predictive model of the App Store and Google Play, which ta... |
Pokémon Go shouldn’t have full access to your Gmail, Docs and Google account — but it does | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 11 | When you use Google to sign into Pokémon Go, as so many of you have already, the popular game for some reason grants itself (for some iOS users, anyway) the highest possible level of access to your Google account, meaning it can read your email, location history… pretty much everything. Why does it need this, and why a... |
A glimpse inside Tesla’s super secretive Gigafactory | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 7 | 29 | up in California, I’m realizing I’m not built for this heat. We’re 30 minutes or so outside of Reno, but it feels like I’m on the sun. I can feel my sunscreen baking off. Why the did I wear black today? It’s okay; it’s worth it. I’m out here for a glimpse inside Tesla’s Gigafactory, days before its official grand op... |
Charging startups to apply to an accelerator is exploitative and dumb | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 7 | 29 | Yesterday, a little birdie told me about , an accelerator (probably more accurately referred to as an incubator) for early-idea-stage startups. The idea is to take a napkin-stage idea and turn it into an MVP of sorts in six weeks. Not a shabby idea, but the insidious thing here is that Nextt charges $100 per idea. Not... |
Research shows deleted WhatsApp messages aren’t actually deleted | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 7 | 29 | Chat logs from WhatsApp linger on your phone even after you’ve deleted them, according to new research published by iOS expert Jonathan Zdziarski. Forensic traces of chats linger on the phone even after a user archives or deletes them, Zdziarski found, and could be accessed by someone with physical access to the device... |
Instagram to roll out anti-harassment tools | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 7 | 29 | Online harassment is a big problem, with 40 percent of all people on the internet having reported experiencing some form of harassment online, . In order to combat harassment on Instagram, the photo-sharing platform is gearing up to let people with “high volume content threads” filter their comment streams, or just tu... |
Dedrone partners with Airbus to bring drone detection to wide open spaces including airports | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 7 | 29 | A startup that helps businesses determine when drones are flying unwantedly or otherwise into their airspace, , has partnered with the electronics division of civil aircraft manufacturers to bring drone detection to wide open spaces and remote locations. Through their partnership, Dedrone will integrate Airbus’s lon... |
There won’t be an ‘Uber for healthcare’ anytime soon | Rick Bates | 2,016 | 7 | 29 |
The passage and implementation of the Affordable Care Act created a perfect storm of disruption in the industry. All at once came massive systemic changes, from the expansion of Medicaid and guaranteed issue to minimum essential benefits and the creation of exchanges. In the wake of ACA, companies sprang up to fu... |
Clinton campaign breached by hackers | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 7 | 29 | Hillary Clinton’s campaign network was breached by hackers targeting several large Democratic organizations, . Clinton’s campaign spokesperson Nick Merrill confirmed the hack in a . “An analytics data program maintained by the DNC, and used by our campaign and a number of other entities, was accessed as part of the D... |
Microsoft awards hardware startup ENTy the 2016 Imagine Cup | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 29 | The festivities have wrapped for Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, a global competition among students and young people to create new software and devices. was , a polished and highly practical hardware solution for tracking posture, helping with diagnosis and possibly treatment of diseases that affect balance. There were 35... |
Gilded as charged | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 29 | skulks outside the periphery of every free site or service, but the more terrifying thought is that, to paraphrase “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark,” That’s what Reddit may be facing with a new form of advertising announced by the social news site earlier this week. Reddit doesn’t do well with change, so it’s no su... |
Soylent founder’s abandoned “eco-living experiment” could land him in jail | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 7 | 29 | Soylent’s is facing criminal charges and fines up to $4,000 for allegedly refusing to remove a shipping container he placed on top of a hill behind his home in the Montecito Heights neighborhood of Los Angeles. The head of the meal replacement startup weirdly named after a movie where they ground up and served people... |
Ticwatch 2 is a slick smartwatch that raised $500K on Kickstarter in just 3 days | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 29 | The Ticwatch, originally built for Chinese language users, will be available in English http://tcrn.ch/2aksBwV Posted by on Thursday, July 28, 2016 If you haven’t been tempted to buy a smartwatch yet, or have been disappointed by your purchase of an Apple Watch, one of Samsung’s (many) Gear wearables or others, there... |
Pokémon Go’s paying user base has reached a plateau | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 7 | 29 | Pokémon Go may be and is said to be raking in , but a new report out on Friday suggests that the popular game’s paying user base may have already shrunk. According , the app’s paying users peaked mid-July when the game had 56 percent more paying players than all other mobile games combined — a remarkable figure. Bu... |
The Freewrite is the ultimate distraction-free writing tool | John Biggs | 2,016 | 7 | 29 | is awful. Without discipline – in my case, at least – an effort to get out 1,000 words of non-fiction usually ends up consisting of thirty minutes of web browsing before writing, intermittent Facebook trips while tapping out a few hundred words, and a nice jaunt through Hacker News at the 750 word mark. I get the job ... |
Apple’s Tim Cook is hosting a Clinton campaign fundraiser this August | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 7 | 29 | It’s no secret Hillary Clinton has a friend in Silicon Valley elites. Now Apple CEO Tim Cook will be helping the democratic presidential candidate raise some cash for her campaign next month, according to an invitation letter obtained by . Cook, who will be hosting the fundraiser for the Hillary Victory Fund as a priv... |
Square Enix’s new RPG comes to the Apple Watch | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 29 | Because if someone builds a screen, Square Enix is going to bring an RPG to it – no matter how small or seemingly difficult such a proposition might ultimately be. is the gaming company’s – and it’s an exclusive no less. The title utilizes an accompanying iPhone app, but users need Apple’s wearable to play. The $6 ... |
This is (very likely) the new Samsung Gear VR | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 7 | 29 | As Samsung prepares to launch its next-gen phablet extraordinaire, the Note 7, at its special event this upcoming Tuesday, the leaks are continuing to flow. Today, photos of the new Gear VR were leaked from leaker (h/t ). The device is reportedly going to be sporting a USB Type-C connection which corroborates report... |
Genovation’s GXE breaks the land speed record for a street-legal all-electric car | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 29 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7REQyK3KlI&w=640&h=360] You probably aren’t trying to set a land speed record for an all-electric, street legal car, but if you are, I have bad news: The goalposts just got moved further out. ‘s Extreme Electric (GXE) car, which uses a Corvette Z06 chassis with a custom electr... |
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