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Gillmor Gang LIVE 07.29.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 7 | 29 | – Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page G3’s Facebook page |
Facebook tries a new way to release open-source projects | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 7 | 29 | Last week, Facebook , a new project that helps React developers get started with their new projects. Turns out, that was only part of the story. Create React App was also the first project to enter the on GitHub. The Facebook Incubator is the company’s new process for releasing and ensuring that they do well in th... |
Simversity’s Neeraj Bansal talks about the future of education | John Biggs | 2,016 | 7 | 16 | This week on Technotopia I talked to the co-founder of education startup . He has a deep understanding of what it takes to build an online education platform and he also notes that the only jobs worth having in the future are the ones that can’t be replaced by machine learning. Education right now, he says, is a for... |
How Drake can help you understand your business | Sylvain Giuliani | 2,016 | 7 | 16 |
The startup world is full of crazy metrics, monolithic frameworks and over-engineered tools — all claiming to measure the impact of everything. It’s getting tiring; and frankly, a lot of these theories are too far from reality to be useful. As a founder or someone working in a startup, the main priority is always sta... |
Bursting the chatbot bubble | Arun Uday | 2,016 | 7 | 16 |
Chatbots seem to be climbing the proverbial peak of the tech hype curve with every passing day. Popular messaging apps in terms of making their platforms open for bot development. Businesses are also rushing to embrace them, as evidenced by the interest they are eliciting from even staid institutions such . The fr... |
Big data and its developer fallout | Ben Schippers | 2,016 | 7 | 16 |
As the internet social turf wars continue to mature, the land grab is becoming much better understood. With a few companies controlling 95 percent of the social , the internet is more closed and much more controlled than ever before. The term (and concept behind) has been thrown around a lot over the past 15 month... |
The email, data and privacy implications of Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn | Len Shneyder | 2,016 | 7 | 16 |
We all took a collective gasp when we saw the price tag of . Now that the dust has settled a bit, we can pause and reflect on what this means from a , and perspective — given that all three are potential strengths, weaknesses and concerns arising from the merger of two giants. While at a conference recently, I ... |
Immersion is going to be immense | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 7 | 16 | Pokémon; Macbeth; the Illuminati. Those may not sound like they have a lot in common, but they exemplify the three whole new forms of technology-driven entertainment that have erupted in recent years. We’ll soon combine all three–and, eventually, use them to create whole new multi-faceted immersive worlds that will mak... |
Baidu, China’s dominant search firm, suffers record profit drop | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 28 | Baidu may be the dominant search company in China by some margin, but it is currently in the midst of its toughest period as a public company. The firm today reported its largest drop in profits since its IPO 11 years ago, triggered by a public enquiry following the death of a young man who took a cancer treatment adve... |
Sony posts $205M profit as downsized mobile business stops bleeding cash | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 28 | Sony ($205 million) profit for its Q1 2016. That’s down on the ¥82.4 billion profit it carded this time last year, but in general the quarter was a mixed bag of positives and negatives following the impact of cost-cutting initiatives. We already knew the firm would take somewhat of a hit this quarter after had on i... |
Finding a film | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 7 | 16 | stopped to think about what it takes to bring an animated fish to life? How a team of people can take a spark of an idea and make it a reality so millions of pairs of eyes can stare in amazement at the big screen? I spoke with Pixar’s president Ed Catmull and one of the tech leads on “ ,” John Halstead, to find out mo... |
Crunch Report | Oracle Buys Netsuite | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 7 | 28 | Tito Hamze
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How the media will rise in the face of the digital revolution | Raghav Bahl | 2,016 | 7 | 28 |
The media is passing through an awkward digital adolescence. With falling revenues and smaller newsrooms, the industry is being squeezed into an unfamiliar online space against its will. Publications with hundred-year pedigrees are having to rethink and relearn their trade from the ground up. The industry has been in... |
SurveyMonkey study finds social media apps ruled mobile in first half of 2016 | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 7 | 28 | A new study from revealed the 30 most-downloaded and most-used apps in the American iOS and Android app stores so far this year. Social media apps like Facebook, Snapchat and Instagram ruled over mobile games in the first six months of 2016. Because Pokémon Go on July 6, that wildly popular new title didn’t even sho... |
What’s this whole email thing about, anyway? | John Biggs | 2,016 | 7 | 28 | know about the Clinton email scandal? If you’re anything like me, not much — yet! Let’s take a stroll into our political Swamp of Sadness where both parties are currently mired. One candidate became stuck there while trying to beat the dead horse of the Crooked Hillary meme and the other candidate is sinking simply be... |
The rise and rise of Mexican fintech | Federico Antoni | 2,016 | 7 | 28 |
Nothing tells the story of how the Mexican tech ecosystem is steaming ahead in Latin America quite like the rise of fintech. The financial services space ticks all the right boxes entrepreneurs look for when launching a company: hard to solve problems, meaningful impact, transformational technologies, clear business ... |
White Noise 7 is out, and wants to be like Instagram for restful sounds | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 7 | 28 | When software developer Todd Moore wrote up the code for his now-famous in 2008, it was a side project to him and one of the first mobile apps go live on the Apple app store. The app quickly climbed to the No. 1 spot in the Health and Fitness category, and has remained a top pick for years. At this point, Moore said,... |
Sprig pauses food delivery service in Chicago, lays off seven people | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 7 | 28 | Sprig is making some changes to its delivery model, and in order to do it as efficiently as possible, the company is pausing its operations in Chicago and . Sprig has also let go its local staffers in Chicago, the company later clarified, which includes its drivers and kitchen staff. In reviewing different aspects of ... |
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Hanergy to build solar-powered electric cars | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 7 | 28 | It used to be that only car companies could build cars. But this is the twenty-first century, when seemingly anyone can build a car or four, including a Chinese solar power company. Hanergy Holding Group, which manufactures thin-film solar panels, has created a Solar Vehicle Business Division that debuted four solar-po... |
AWS revenue hits a new record with $2.9 billion in Q2 | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 7 | 28 | Amazon earnings for its second fiscal quarter of 2016 today and for its AWS unit, it was once again a big quarter. AWS net sales hit $2.9 billion in the last quarter, up from $2.5 billion in net sales in the last quarter. That’s up from $1.8 billion in the year-ago-quarter. It’s worth noting that that’s a slightly sl... |
Grubhub announces more investments following strong 2Q | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 7 | 28 | Takeout food delivery platform stock soared 26 percent following a way-better-than-expected second quarter earnings release. The online marketplace connecting restaurants and takeout diners beat analysts expectations, both for revenue and adjusted EPS. For the second quarter ended June 30, the company $120.2 millio... |
Alphabet’s huge Q2 shows its ads business may not be so challenged after all | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 7 | 28 | While Alphabet’s core advertising business has often been questioned as the net value of its ads has been in decline, there’s one thing that’s hard to argue — it’s still one of the biggest technology businesses in the world, and it’s growing. And it’s growing very quickly. Alphabet reported a second quarter that cont... |
Amazon shatters earnings expectations | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 7 | 28 | Amazon shattered expectations when it reported second quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday. Adjusted earnings per share came in at $1.78, when Wall Street was forecasting $1.11. Amazon also beat revenue predictions, posting $30.4 billion for the quarter when analysts were expecting $29.55 billion. Shares ticked ... |
Gurbaksh Chahal out as Gravity4 CEO after probation ruling | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 7 | 28 | Tech founder Gurbaksh Chahal has handed over his CEO role at Gravity4 to his sister, Kamal Kaur, after a judge found last week that . Chahal has been removed from Gravity4’s and replaced by Kaur, who is currently listed as CEO of the company. Kaur previously held leadership roles at Chahal’s other companies, includi... |
Oculus launch-exclusive Adr1ft nows lets you get lost in space on HTC Vive | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 28 | I’m going to put this right up front: Adr1ft isn’t for the weak of stomach. The virtual reality free-floating space survival sim left me a tad queasy, and I’m somewhere in the middle of the VR sickness sensitive spectrum. But for those looking to boldly barf where only Oculus Rift owners have barfed before, today. Eve... |
You can now control Nest’s Thermostat with your Apple Watch | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 7 | 28 | If you own both a Nest thermostat and an Apple Watch, you might’ve figured the two would’ve learned to play friendly by now. I mean, Apple Watch keeps you from having to pull your phone out of your pocket to see who’s bugging you while you’re trying to finish , Nest’s thermostat keeps you from having to pause just b... |
Corporate venture growth in Brazil is another sign of a mature tech ecosystem | Anderson Thees | 2,016 | 7 | 28 |
Despite recent positive news and a renewed interest of international investors in the country, with some even forecasting an approaching “ ,” the crude reality is that Brazil is suffering. The country has endured a profound financial crisis for the last several years. The path to an economic turnaround has been delay... |
Minecraft support for Oculus Rift is finally almost here | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 7 | 28 | After months of teasing, Microsoft is finally almost ready to give Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Beta users a taste of VR. In a celebrating the first anniversary of Minecraft Windows 10 Edition Beta, Microsoft announced that support for the Oculus Rift will be coming “in the next few weeks” as a free update to existin... |
Here’s a backpack for carrying around a 3D printer | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 28 | This is one solution to the problem of 3D printer portability –though, it’s not particularly elegant, as far as such things go. is, quite literally, the device’s shipping box with a couple of shoulder straps, so you can roll into the maker party like, The kit includes the aforementioned straps, a metal frame and scre... |
Baidu invests in ZestFinance to develop search-powered credit scoring for China | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 17 | Baidu has made its second investment in a U.S. fintech company inside a month after it put into ZestFinance, a big data firm specializing in credit scoring. Baidu, which operates China’s dominant search platform, took part in in June. The deal is part of an agreement that will see Baidu use ZestFinance’s technology... |
Arm Holdings confirms Softbank is buying the chip designer for £24.3B in cash in big IoT move | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 7 | 17 | In the wake of the historic Brexit vote and the fall of the Pound, the UK is now witnessing its biggest-ever technology exit. Today, that Japan’s Softbank Group has to pay £24.3 billion ($32 billion) in cash to acquire the company — known for its chip designs for mobile handsets (Apple is a customer) as well as for... |
SoftBank is reportedly bidding to buy chip giant ARM for $31 billion | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 17 | SoftBank is bidding to buy chip giant , one of the world’s most influential technology companies, according to multiple media. UK-based ARM designs chips for many of the world’s biggest tech companies, including Apple and Samsung, it has licenses with more 300 tech firms and has shipped over 60 billion chips based o... |
SpaceX successfully brings a rocket back to land for the second time | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 7 | 17 | Tonight SpaceX successfully recovered yet another rocket, making it their fifth one in total. Elon Musk’s rocket company launched their two-stage Falcon 9 vehicle from Cape Canaveral at 9:45 pm PT tonight and subsequently recovered the first stage of that rocket back on land. The landing marks the second time SpaceX re... |
Why metadata should not live forever | Nico Sell | 2,016 | 7 | 17 |
The global in encrypted traffic and a wide of end-to-end encryption by mainstream tech companies is a transformative shift in information security worth celebrating. Billions of online users now enjoy default peer-to-peer security, shielding the content of web communications from prying eyes of criminals and corp... |
OurMine claims credit for attack on Pokemon Go servers | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 7 | 17 | Having trouble logging in to Pokemon Go this weekend? You’re not alone. A hacking team called OurMine has spent the past several hours hitting Pokemon Go’s login servers with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, leaving some players frustrated and unable to log in to the game. The group said it would not stop... |
How generation Z females could be the answer to tech’s gender diversity problem | Taha Bawa | 2,016 | 7 | 17 |
At the Milken Institute Global Conference in May, moderator Rick Smith controversially asked five successful female entrepreneurs how they . The ladies were candid. , co-founder of Gilt and GLAMSQUAD, admitted it is harder; the panelists — including of Honest Company and of One Kings Lane — agreed. It’s no secr... |
Chivas Regal’s “The Venture” rewards social entrepreneurs around the world | Bérénice Magistretti | 2,016 | 7 | 17 |
Thursday night, “The Daily Show” host Trevor Noah announced the winners of ’s , an international contest open to social entrepreneurs who are using their business as a force for good. With a dedicated fund of $1M, “The Venture” is striving to enable social entrepreneurs around the world to scale and gain exposure. ... |
Chat app Line targets $1.14B raise in what could be 2016’s largest tech IPO | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 10 | Line, the messaging app from Asia , . The company today announced pricing for its dual Japan-U.S. IPO, which could raise as much as $1.14 billion. The year started quietly for tech IPOs but . Line has priced its shares at ¥3,300, which represents . The company is all set to begin trading in New York on Thursday and... |
Pokemon Go T&Cs strip users of legal rights | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 7 | 17 | Players of Pokemon Go are not only giving up their right to act like sane human beings in public, as they walk around, zombie-esque, reaching into the phones held in front of their faces, they are also likely to be waiving legal rights if they don’t take a very close look at Niantic Labs’ for the game. As spotted ear... |
Too much big data running through my brain | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 7 | 17 | Big Data by all accounts is supposed to help humans perform better by augmenting our limited brain power. Computers, after all, have the ability to crunch data with lightning speed, something humans just haven’t been built to do. Conventional tech wisdom states that the more data you have, the better the outcome — even... |
INNOVATE2016: Libertarian Presidential candidate says “We need to Uber everything” | Andrew Keen | 2,016 | 7 | 10 |
Given the unprecedented unpopularity of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, 2016 could well be the year of the third party candidate. Whatever one thinks of his ideology, candidate may be the pro innovation candidate that Silicon Valley has been waiting for. We need “to Uber everything” Johnson tells INNOVATE2016 gu... |
USA just dropped Mr. Robot’s season 2 premiere on social media | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 7 | 10 | The U.S. television network had the mother of all surprises in stock for fans of its TV show . Completely unannounced, the network released the first 40-odd minutes of the first episode of its second series on social media in the middle of a Facebook Q&A. The preview was released about an hour ago – a on televis... |
Still a virtual reality skeptic? Here’s why you shouldn’t be | Ian Hetherington | 2,016 | 7 | 10 |
The original PlayStation console, launched when I was the managing director of Sony Computer Entertainment for Europe, shook the gaming world. The 3D environment was unfamiliar to gamers, and some in the industry at large were initially reluctant to adopt such a new technology. But with time, 3D gaming became the sta... |
Virtual and augmented reality need a PG-13 moment | Pramod Sharma | 2,016 | 7 | 10 |
We’ve passed a significant milestone in consumer adoption of and augmented it’s clear that from a VR/AR experience. However, with and poised to become a mainstream force, it’s the opportune time to think about how kids will interact with these technologies. Kids, of course, and love video games, which ... |
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Whatever happened to 3D printing? | Signe Brewster | 2,016 | 7 | 10 | guy who speaks earnestly about his line of work. At the time, the promise of desktop manufacturing had just entered the general public’s consciousness. The media reported breathlessly on the potential of local manufacturing and bio-printing. Governments raised fears about undetectable 3D-printed guns. Early adopters w... |
Face computers slowly find their place in business | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 7 | 10 | How could you not? Born with great fanfare just four short years ago, the device quickly became the object of derision. People who wore them were “Glassholes.” There were hyper-privacy concerns related to wearing a head-mounted camera, and even the , which limited availability, seemed to contribute to the disdain peo... |
Black Lives Matter activist Deray Mckesson arrested while Periscoping | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 7 | 10 | Police arrested more than 200 people marching down the side of the road in Baton Rouge, Louisiana last night, according to , including a strong voice in the Black Lives Matter movement, Deray Mckesson. Mckesson, who is very active on social media and police reform projects, was taken into custody Saturday night while ... |
OMG Digital is basically BuzzFeed for Africa | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 7 | 10 | OMG Digital, a West Africa-based startup founded by Prince Boakye Boampong and Jesse Arhin Ghansah, is on a mission to bring relatable content to African millennials. The two are currently participating in Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator, with the hopes of becoming the BuzzFeed for Africa, or, a media site know... |
Pokemon Go is a hit at Hot Topic, but hardly happening at Home Depot | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 19 | As Pokemon Go moves into the real-world , one might wonder what businesses potentially stand to gain the most from association with Niantic’s world dominating location-based collect’em game. Well, Red Robin should plan a Squirtleburger™, if data gathered by location analytics firm is any indication. The company used... |
Insurance is ready for an upgrade | Sam Friedman | 2,016 | 7 | 10 |
Insurance may be widely perceived as a sleepy backwater when it comes to innovation in technology, but that’s about to change. Whether the transformations to come — which we expect to impact the industry on a number of different fronts — end up bolstering a particular insurer’s future or undermining it depends on whe... |
Crunch Report | Using Bitmoji in Snapchat | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 7 | 19 | Tito Hamze
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Twitter finally bans Milo Yiannopoulos, one of its most notorious trolls | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 19 | Twitter has permanently suspended Milo Yiannopoulos, an editor at the conservative news outlet Breitbart and one of its most notorious trolls. The expulsion of Yiannopoulos, who counted more than 300,000 followers on the service, comes just one day after he urged on a hateful mob that . Jones received a barrage sexist... |
Unilever buys Dollar Shave Club for reported $1B value | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 19 | Unilever creates and captures a unicorn with . Announced this evening, the $130 billion dollar multinational consumer goods company is speculated to be paying $1 billion, all cash, for the startup, according to . If the pricing is true, the transaction will be one of the largest ever in e-commerce. E-commerce is ofte... |
Only the privileged fear a robot revolution | Ambarish Mitra | 2,016 | 7 | 19 |
Leading venture capitalists, scientists and CEOs all have the same prediction for artificial intelligence: machines will from both blue- and white-collar workers, “eat the world” and, ultimately, overthrow humanity. These histrionics have driven a widely accepted negative narrative about this technology’s potential... |
Pokémon Go launch in Japan postponed after email leak | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 19 | Game-maker Niantic has postponed today’s scheduled launch of Pokémon Go in Japan following an email leak. Yesterday today (Wednesday), but the companies behind Pokémon Go have canceled that plan, a source close to the launch told TechCrunch. One major reason for that change of heart is that internal communication fro... |
Car sharing leads to reduced car ownership and emissions in cities, study finds | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 19 | Cars are , and cars in cities can be especially heavy with their contributions, owing to traffic and population density. And while encouraging everyone to bike or use public transit probably isn’t going to convince everyone to ditch car ownership, car sharing services seem to be winning more city denizens over, and a ... |
After 3 weeks, Worldpay still fumbling millions of Etsy transactions | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 19 | Etsy users had another bad week as payment processor Worldpay continues to cause problems. Late last week, some Etsy users began reporting that they had experienced duplicate charges. is approaching one thousand posts. In a statement, Worldpay admitted to causing the duplicate charges for Etsy users in its attempts t... |
One professor’s quest to 3D scan every fish in the sea | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 19 | If you were wondering what a mottled sculpin looks like, there are plenty of pictures available online. But while they may satisfy a curious tidepooler, the discerning ichthyologist demands more. That’s why a professor at the University of Washington is getting full 3D scans of every fish in the sea — every of fish, ... |
Facebook throws shade at Snapchat’s anti-creepy business | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 7 | 19 | “They’re going to hit some challenges and marketers are gonna start to ask questions when they get out of the experimental budget phase,” Facebook’s head of adtech said about Snapchat today. While Facebook tries to collect as much data about users as possible to prove its ads work, Snapchat has tried to avoid being cre... |
Facebook wants to use fluorescence to make its laser drones work better | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 19 | A team of physicists and electrical engineers at Facebook a new idea for using luminescence to improve signal detection in free-space optical communication today. Facebook, in a partnership with Internet.org, has been to remote locations around the globe. Last year, the company came out with a plan, codenamed Proje... |
Reco thinks books are better when they’re recommended by people you trust | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 19 | I still love books, and I still have a fair amount of trouble finding new ones to read that I’ll actually enjoy. Helping with discovery is the idea behind , a new mobile app from Canadian bookseller and retailer , which provides users with a social network based around books, and people’s love thereof. “We have a kin... |
Harassment of Ghostbusters’ Leslie Jones shows Twitter needs to change | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 7 | 19 | Leslie Jones, the star of the new “Ghostbusters” reboot and a cast member on “Saturday Night Live,” announced she was leaving Twitter after trolls bombarded her with racist comments. “I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart,” Jones tweeted before going silent on her account, where she’d spent the last s... |
Microsoft’s Q4 earnings beat Street with $22.6B in revenue, $0.69 EPS | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 7 | 19 | Microsoft today earnings for its of 2016, its first earnings report after announcing its proposed acquisition of LinkedIn. The company’s earnings came in at a non-GAAP revenue of $22.6 billion ($20.6 billion GAAP) and $0.69 of non-GAAP per-share profit ($0.39 GAAP), and were well above expectations. Like in previou... |
Attention nerds: Chrysler announces bug bounty program | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 7 | 19 | If you like poking, prodding, and proving big corporations wrong, has FCA US got a challenge for you. FCA US is the umbrella company for Fiat, Chrysler, Jeep, Dodge, and Ram, and it wants you to find potential vulnerabilities in their vehicles’ cybersecurity systems. And they’ll give you money for it. FCA US put its bo... |
Google introduces speedier ads to its Accelerated Mobile Pages program | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 7 | 19 | Google has been working to create a faster news reading experience project. Now it’s bringing something similar to online ads. AMP is an open framework for creating articles that load more quickly, particularly on mobile. (They also can be sped up by loading from Google’s cache.) At the time , Google said it would a... |
For my daughter | John Biggs | 2,016 | 7 | 19 | eight. She likes princesses and Harry Potter and doll houses and making videos to Taylor Swift songs and she has a few very clear influences and/or heroes. Mal from the . Hermione. My wife. Me. Her great-grandmother Sadie. And now I want her to be influenced by the . The new Ghostbusters, not the version with Murray... |
Legalist is making it easier for lawyers to find state court records | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 7 | 19 | Imagine a lawyer with a client who lives in one county and works in another. Or even a lawyer who litigates in multiple states. Both common occurrences, but situations that make it very hard to keep track of legal documents. Essentially, it should be easy to keep track of court records from multiple counties and states... |
Australia’s largest banks unite to challenge Apple Pay | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 26 | A number of Australia’s largest banks have come together to challenge Apple and its Apple Pay service in the country. Apple’s digital payments solution landed in Australia in April with and following thereafter, but the banks are unhappy that — unlike the latter two services — they are unable to rival Apple Pay by ... |
Hyperloop One files $250 million countersuit accusing BamBrogan of a “malicious smear campaign” | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 7 | 19 | filed a claiming he was part of a group of four employees engaged in misconduct and abusive behavior. The transportation startup developing a high-speed shuttle is suing the plaintiffs for at least $250 million in the Superior Court of California, Los Angeles County. Hyperloop One’s countersuit says BamBrogan and thr... |
How international students are keeping US colleges afloat and powering the tech industry | Kalpesh Kapadia | 2,016 | 7 | 19 |
Think back on your college experience and you may recall the presence of the House, an on-campus residence set aside for . The fact that there was likely only a single house for all the probably made you think your school didn’t have a large contingent. Now consider the fact that nearly 1 million foreign a... |
Crunch Report | Solar Impulse 2 completes record flight | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 7 | 26 | Tito Hamze
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Watch TechCode’s Demo Day here | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 7 | 26 | TechCrunch is pleased to bring you ‘s Demo Day today, Tuesday July 26th from Mountain View, California. TechCode’s U.S. accelerator program focuses on artificial intelligence and hardware startups that already have a prototype. The goal is to help expedite commercialization for these startups by introducing them to par... |
Deep learning software knows that a rose is a rose is a rosa rubiginosa | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 26 | We can’t all be botanists, unfortunately, but most of us do have smartphones, and that may be a start. A computer vision system built by Microsoft Research Asia can identify thousands of species of flowers with nothing but a picture. The Smart Flower Recognition System (Microsoft always did have a way with branding) be... |
Israeli technology and the future of transportation | Max Marine | 2,016 | 7 | 26 |
To get from Point A to Point B 12,000 years ago, we crawled, walked, jumped, tumbled, rolled, skipped, hopped, swam, danced, jogged, ran and sprinted. But then a small tribe in Azerbaijan created the first boat technology and we started moving ourselves and our things across rivers and streams. A 7,500-year trot into... |
How Facetune and Enlight became top photo apps | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 7 | 26 | We caught up with CEO Zeev Farbman for a video interview when we were in Israel. He showed us some tricks to using the Lightricks photo apps and explained why he believes they were able to cut through the noise in a very crowded app category. Lightricks “takes the retouching capabilities of Photoshop and makes them eas... |
What the NTSB knows about the fatal Tesla crash, so far | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 7 | 26 | The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) issued a on the fatal crash involving a 2015 Tesla Model S and a 2014 Freightliner Cascadia truck in Williston, Florida in May. Unfortunately, the report yields no major new insights. The report confirms that the driver of the Tesla was going 74 miles per hour just prio... |
Apple R&D spending is up as the company looks to new products | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 26 | The big takeaway from today’s Apple earnings call: The company is investing in the future. While it’s true that from $49.61 billion this quarter last year down to $42.4 billion, Cupertino’s research and development spending continues to trend upward. Over the past nine months, the company spent $7.475 billion on R&D ... |
Did Russian government hackers leak the DNC emails? | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 7 | 26 | By now, it’s pretty clear that Russian hackers are responsible for breaches of the Democratic National Committee networks that occurred last summer and in April of this year — several forensic security firms have found evidence that traces the breach back to Russia. Now that DNC emails harvested during the breaches are... |
Apple’s revenue dives 33 percent in Greater China | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 7 | 26 | China impacted Apple’s bottom line quite a lot this quarter — and not in a good way. But the company still plans to invest in the country, Apple CEO Tim Cook said right after . Let’s dive into the numbers. For this fiscal quarter, Greater China accounted for $8.85 billion in revenue, or a little bit more than 20 perce... |
Here’s why NASA is launching an asteroid sample return mission for the first time | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 7 | 26 | On September 8, NASA will launch the spacecraft on a mission to an asteroid and return a sample of it back to Earth — NASA’s first mission of this type. In doing so, NASA hopes to learn more about the early formation of the solar system and, possibly, the origin of life. OSIRIS-REx, which stands for Origins Spectral ... |
The new number crushing Twitter: revenue growth down from 60% to 20% | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 7 | 26 | Twitter has a new number that’s killing its share price, down 9.5% in after-hours following . First there was the user growth problem that still plagues it. Twitter’s monthly user count grew less than 1% this quarter and just 3% this year to 313 million MAU. But now its issue has festered. Now Twitter is facing a To... |
You can now use Venmo to pay for things inside other apps | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 7 | 26 | In January Venmo that users will soon be able to use Venmo to pay inside other apps, similar to how most e-commerce apps already offer PayPal or Apple Pay as payment options. And (well, technically tomorrow) the feature is leaving beta and will be available to all Venmo users. The feature will make it easy for anyo... |
This new brain-scanning technique is literally mind expanding | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 26 | Sometimes it’s hard to tell the difference between science and technology ó almost all the time when it has to do with the brain. But this research from MIT that allows for vastly improved scans of the networks inside the brain is too cool to pass up, whether it’s tech, science, or somewhere in between. Getting up clos... |
IPO on horizon, subprime lending startup Elevate adds $545M in credit from Victory Park Capital | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 26 | With an IPO on the horizon, subprime lender will have an additional $545 million credit faculty to support its growing customers. Elevate’s niche right now is providing loans to borrowers with creditscores between 575 and 625. As the company expands, it wants to provide loans to customers with even lower credit-score... |
iPhone, iPad and Mac sales are down, but Apple only cares about services now | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 7 | 26 | Apple just reported its , and investors are sending its stock through the roof. While the company managed to beat analysts’ expectations, Apple is selling fewer iPhones, iPads and Macs than last year during the same period. The long period of endless growth on all product lines is definitely over. In particular, Apple... |
What Peter Thiel doesn’t understand about US innovation | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 26 | PayPal mafia last week at the Republican National Convention. Peter Thiel grew up in a time when the United States was winning World’s Fairs and conquering outer-space. To Thiel, innovation is about the freedom to dream, and anything short is a disappointment. He assured the crowd at the RNC that Trump would lead Am... |
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Lifting children’s economic prospects through technology | Deborah Bielak | 2,016 | 7 | 26 |
In March 2016, there were 159 technology billionaires, and four of the 10 richest people in the world made their money in the tech sector. We believe there are opportunities for these technology developers to play a differential role in philanthropy — one that brings together their ability to invest wisely and th... |
Ava launches a wearable to help couples conceive | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 7 | 26 | Tracking your period, peeing on a stick and carrying around a thermometer have been the dominant technologies over the past 20 years to help families conceive. If it sounds outdated, that’s because it is. TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Battlefield alum is hoping to change that with a wearable that helps couples pinpoint ... |
Apple’s cash on hand decreased for the first time in nearly two years | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 7 | 26 | Apple just reported earnings for Q3 2016, and the company . However, there was one number that we’re not used to seeing. Apple’s cash on hand actually decreased for the first time in seven quarters. Cash on hand this quarter amounted to $231.5 billion, which is down $1.4 billion from the $233 billion on hand at the en... |
KK Fund announces second fund for early-stage startups in Southeast Asia | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 21 | Good news for early-stage startup founders in Southeast Asia: just completed the first close of a new fund for seed stage investments. This second fund is larger but undisclosed, like the firm’s first, but it is notable because it comes less than two years after that inaugural fund and its LP base is another reminder... |
Nvidia launches new flagship graphics card, the $1200 Titan X | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 7 | 21 | The latest graphics card release from Nvidia is, in fact, the most powerful card it’s ever produced. With 12 billion transistors, the latest Pascal architecture, 12GB of GDDR5X memory and 3,584 cores at 1.53Ghz delivering an apparent 11 teraflops of performance, it’s a steadfast attempt at being the best there is. It’s... |
Pokémon Go finally goes live in Japan with McDonald’s the first sponsored location | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 21 | , the land where Pokémania began. McDonald’s is the game’s first sponsor in a deal which, , turns the fast food firm’s 3,000 stores in the country into Pokémon Go “gyms”. The launch has been a long while coming for Japanese fans to say the least. The smash hit title first went live in the U.S. over two weeks ago, befo... |
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Atmospheres of Earth-like planets studied for the first time | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 7 | 21 | Astronomers used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to conduct the first atmospheric study of Earth-sized exoplanets and found evidence to suggest that two could be habitable. The planets have astronomers excited because atmospheric analysis revealed that they’re likely to be rocky worlds, the type of planet necessary to ho... |
The role of higher education in entrepreneurship | Eric J. Toone | 2,016 | 7 | 21 |
and recently published rankings of university entrepreneurship. Among the top 12 schools, the two lists share but a single institution — . How can two highly regarded agencies compile lists of excellence that have virtually no overlap? At one level, the answer is obvious: The two groups use different criteria and... |
Now anyone can build features for Cola messenger | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 21 | , a messaging app that integrates apps into chats, is opening up its developer kit today to enable anyone to build new apps. The updated version available today comes with 12 “bubbles” that are essentially applications that run inside the messaging app. Users can share weather and flight information, gifs, and more wit... |
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