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Apple returns fire on Spotify, calling out ‘rumors and half-truths’ over App Store rejection | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 1 | The dispute between Apple and Spotify over subscription revenues continues today with a letter from the former accusing the latter of using “rumors and half-truths” to advance “unfair and unreasonable” demands. obtained by TechCrunch, though technically correspondence between Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell and Spot... |
Hyperloop One co-founder and CTO Brogan BamBrogan steps down | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 7 | 1 | co-founder and CTO Brogan BamBrogan is out at the company and former SVP of engineering Josh Geigel will be taking over BamBrogan’s role as CTO. The move, though abrupt, may have been a long time coming. The company has been shifting Bambrogan away from public comment for months and switched him to the CTO role, appoi... |
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Knocki turns your tables and walls into smart device controllers | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 7 | 1 | By most standards, has had a home run , blowing way past its $35,000 target with more than $1.1 million committed. But it sounds like CEO Jake Boshernitzan is still hoping for more support in the campaign’s final hours (it’s scheduled to end at 3am Eastern on Saturday). After all, he said that Knocki deliberately se... |
UN agrees to adopt expanded resolution on online speech rights | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 7 | 1 | A vote today by the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has agreed to affirm an expanded resolution on online rights. Russia and China had tabled several amendments to the text but these were rejected by the sponsor countries who argued they were an attempt to dilute its focus. The resolution, with the stated a... |
Security researcher gets threats over Amazon review | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 7 | 1 | For the average Amazon shopper, reviews are just a casual part of the experience. You might pay attention to a by George Takei or spend half an hour laughing at the parody reviews for “ ,” but you probably don’t thoroughly examine every review before buying a product. But for sellers, reviews are no laughing matter. ... |
Mobileye says Tesla auto braking tech wasn’t designed for scenario behind fatal crash | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 1 | Following yesterday’s news of the NHTSA’s investigation into involving a Tesla Model S, , the Israeli technology company helping power the carmaker’s Autopilot feature, has sent a statement to TechCrunch regarding the incident. “We have read the account of what happened in this case,” reads the text attributed to Da... |
Virtual reality training ramps up for the 2016 NFL season | Mark Lelinwalla | 2,016 | 7 | 1 | Football is a downright violent sport. If players aren’t injured in the games themselves, there’s a chance that they could be hurt in practice. It happens all the time. While there’s no substitute for actual football practice, there is a technology enjoying rapid growth in the NFL and it involves taking contact-free vi... |
What’s next for Twilio and its unicorn brethren? | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 1 | Brexit. Trump. The Federal Reserve. The world threw nearly everything at . Despite market volatility, the company continues to impress. The week the world met Twilio can only be defined as positive. Unfortunately, the greatest challenges for the company lie ahead. Herd behavior fuels IPOs. Casual investors often jump ... |
Silicon Valley’s favorite fixer: Bradley Tusk | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 7 | 1 | If the producers of the next “World’s Most Interesting Man in the World” commercial were looking for a Silicon Valley type, a prime candidate might be Bradley Tusk, a 42-year-old New Yorker who advises companies such as FanDuel and Tesla that are disrupting highly regulated industries. Tusk made his bones in Silicon Va... |
¡Finalmente! Facebook makes it easier to post status updates in multiple languages | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 7 | 1 | Facebook today announced a new feature that makes it easier to publish status updates in multiple languages. Until now, you either had to post long updates that included all of the translations of the text or maybe post multiple updates — one for each language. Back in February, Facebook started a new feature that al... |
Tesla says drivers using Autopilot remain safer than regular drivers | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | Tesla has reiterated that drivers using Autopilot mode remain safer than those who don’t. The new disclosure came as the automaker continues to deny reports from Fortune that it misled investors and the public by taking too long to reveal details of a fatal accident involving one of its customers who was in Autopilot. ... |
Germany’s Brillen.de raises $49M from TCV to take its eyewear marketplace international | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | , a bootstrapped, family-run company in Germany that has built an online business selling its own eyewear by tapping into a network of independent and local opticians, has raised €45 million ($49 million) in its first-ever VC funding. The money comes from a single, notable, investor, (which has the likes of Faceboo... |
Forerunner Ventures ups the ante with a new, third fund | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | , an early-stage, San Francisco-based venture firm that focuses almost exclusively on e-commerce businesses, has raised a $122 million fund, shows an that was filed earlier this morning. The firm was founded by Kirsten Green, who is listed on the filing along with Eurie Kim, a partner who joined the firm in 2012. The... |
Crunch Report | Snapchat Memories update | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | Tito Hamze
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Pokemon Go is now available in the US for iOS and Android | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | Aaaaand there it is: Pokemon Go is available for iOS and Android in the US. You could’ve gotten it a bit early if you wanted to do some account trickery when it launched — but if that seemed like too much work, US folk can now find it for and . Go forth, dear friend, and |
Tech needs to stamp out anti-blackness | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | In the U.S., it’s as if laws and regulations only apply to people of color — and when people of color bend them, they lose their lives. When white tech CEOs bend the laws at massive scale, they’re rewarded with billions of dollars and prestige. “You know how Silicon Valley advocates an Uber-esque model where everybody ... |
How Hardware-as-a-Service will save IoT | Ajay Kulkarni | 2,016 | 7 | 6 |
Here’s the dirty little secret about the Internet of Things: The Things might not work, and you might not use them. consumer, many of your gadgets collect dust tucked away in a drawer (I must admit, I have large box full of wearables and other things with which I don’t know what to do). business, many of y... |
Blackmoon launches in the US to match investors with balance-sheet lenders | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | It was only a matter of time before Tinder for balance-sheet lenders and debt investors became a thing. Financial matchmaking platform launched this week in the United States. The platform is designed to help institutional investors access non-bank balance-sheet loans. The Russian marketplace Lending-as-a-Service pla... |
Signs of a new Samsung Gear VR are surfacing | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | It’s been less than a year since the consumer Gear VR was first shown off and it already seems as though Samsung and Oculus are regrouping to push out a new version of the pre-eminent mobile VR headset. A inexplicably found a listing from an Indian imports database that highlights a new model number (SM-R323) for the... |
NASA’s newly upgraded Pleiades supercomputer delves into the mysteries of star formation | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | NASA scientists are bringing one of the most powerful computers in the world — just recently given a tune-up — to bear on the question “Where do stars come from?” So next time your toddler asks you that, you’ll be able to say something smart, like “hyper-dense elongated stellar filaments, child.” Pleiades is NASA’s fla... |
Nike releases open-source software to play with the techies | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | , the home of all things athletic, is joining the ranks of the programmers with its launch of open-source software. Last week, Nike published three : a JSON parsing framework, a distributed tracing solution for Java and a lightweight logging library written in Swift. The company also open-sourced the code that its o... |
Rooster Teeth’s Burnie Burns on pioneering online-only video | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | With more than 4.5 billion views and 8.5 million subscribers , plus their own video platform, there is no arguing that has paved their way as one of the premier online entertainment content brands. Starting the company in the spare bedroom of house 14 years ago — before YouTube, free video hosting or web encoding ... |
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Tesla’s reported Autopilot 2.0 will face new goalposts for ‘smart’ | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | Two separate reports claim Autopilot 2.0, an enhanced version of Tesla’s Autopilot semi-autonomous driving tech, is coming to vehicles soon, potentially as part of the upcoming 8.0 update of Tesla’s software. that Autopilot 2.0 is confirmed as “coming soon,” while discussed the feature in an earlier piece focused o... |
(Some) LPs speak up | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | Venture capital used to be such an insular, under-the-radar industry that entrepreneur-investor Marc Andreessen has said that he’d never heard the term before arriving in the Bay Area in 1994. He’s hardly alone. It wasn’t until the mid- to late-1990s, during the dot.com boom, that the world became acquainted with what ... |
Glassbreakers shutting down personal mentorship platform to focus on enterprise | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | Enterprise is where the money’s at. Today, is shutting down its consumer-focused platform for peer-to-peer mentorship for women. This comes a few months after Glassbreakers launched its . “Our opportunity to accelerate inclusion in the workforce through our technology is monumental – especially for a small startup,”... |
Canonical-Pivotal partnership makes Ubuntu preferred Linux distro for Cloud Foundry | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | , developers of the Cloud Foundry open source cloud development platform and , the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution, announced a partnership today where Ubuntu becomes the preferred operating system for Cloud Foundry. In fact, the two companies have been BFFs since the earliest days of Cloud Foundr... |
Remember hoverboards? Half a million are being recalled as fire hazards | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | Hoverboards! The must-have trash gadget of the holidays, now gathering dust in a million closets and garages nationwide, is being recalled in even larger numbers than before due to “a risk of the products smoking, catching fire and/or exploding.” Someone warn Justin Bieber! If you have any kind of hoverboard, AKA a “se... |
NextVR scores $20 million from a Chinese investment firm | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | NextVR confirmed today that the company has received $20 million in funding from a Chinese investment firm as a part of an upcoming Series B raise. The news surfaced earlier this week on after regulatory documents from CITIC Group Corp. were discovered. The $20M is just a slice of the Series B raise; Variety reports ... |
Pokémon Go has already taught me so much | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | I’ve been playing for most of today because no force in heaven or on earth could stop me, and here are a few things that I’ve learned about the game, myself and life as a result. More like Prof. Dreamboat Five is a lot of kms for those of you confused by the metric system You can’t buy your way to being the very best... |
Light raises $30M and announces L16 camera is delayed until 2017 | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 7 | 6 | If you were eagerly awaiting your “late summer” delivery of your pre-ordered , today will bring an impatient tear to your eye. In parallel with announcing having raised $30 million from ( Google Ventures), the company sent out an email to early supporters telling them they’d have to wait for a while longer. I’ve kn... |
Gridstore acquires DCHQ and becomes HyperGrid | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 7 | 24 | , a company that focuses on building software and data center appliances for Windows Hyper V-based clouds, today announced that it has acquired , a service that helps enterprises move their applications to any cloud or container infrastructure (with a specific focus on Java-based applications). With this acquisition, ... |
Clinton launches app designed to gamify campaigning | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 24 | For better or worse, preaching the gospel of your candidate no longer requires leaving the couch. As anyone who’s cracked open a social media account over the past year can corroborate, the platforms are lousy with campaign slogans, incriminating links and, um, spirited discussions. In the lead up to next week’s Democr... |
Metal 3D printing takes flight | Filemon Schoffer | 2,016 | 7 | 24 |
While many designers and engineers find success with 3D-printing parts in plastic for prototyping and low-volume production, producing parts out of metal using similar technology has recently led to the creation of some of the most exciting 3D-printed parts in memory. With key patents for metal printing , things are... |
Democratic National Committee chair steps down following Wikileaks email release | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 24 | In a massive shake up just ahead of Monday’s convention in Philadelphia, Florida congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz announced today that as the head of the Democratic National Committee after the end of the event. The move comes as calls for her to resign have increased in the wake of a . In amongst the 20,000 m... |
Regenerative medicine today is like the internet in 1993 | Andrew Keen | 2,016 | 7 | 24 |
is the co-founder CEO of , a regenerative medical company that has crowdsourced blood samples to create the world’s biggest and most diverse bio-repository. According to Smith, regenerative medicine is the next big thing in medical science — so disruptive, in fact, that he says it’s akin to the Internet in 1993. No... |
Don’t feed the trolls — tackle their abuse of platform power instead | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 7 | 24 | In the ever accelerating social media feedback loops of the modern Internet age, ‘don’t feed the trolls’ is a phrase that appears to have fallen out of fashion, favor and collective memory. The result? An impoverished quality of debate that frequently and increasingly appears to be approaching something resembling mass... |
Yahoo’s board reportedly agrees to $4.8 billion Verizon bid | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 7 | 24 | According to , Yahoo’s board has accepted the terms of the Verizon offer . The core assets of the company that started life in Jerry Yang and David Filo’s 1994 Stanford dorm room as “Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web” — and at one point was one of the highest valued properties on the internet — will n... |
Why car tech companies should look to Amazon for inspiration | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 24 | automotive tech available ahead of the arrival of fully self-driving vehicles should, ideally, be incredibly sophisticated, and completely invisible to users. So far, of all the major tech companies, Amazon is the closest to striking that balance. Computers are complicated, and one thing drivers don’t need in cars is ... |
Drip irrigation provides a conduit for change | Hachim Badji | 2,016 | 7 | 24 |
Democratic governments are, by their nature, slow-moving creatures — and that’s the way it should be. Social stability generally requires that change be evolutionary, not revolutionary, lest the changes imposed set off turmoil that could eventually cause much more harm than the hoped-for good. While that principle wo... |
Prisma for Android is now live for all in the Google Play Store | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 24 | The hits just keep on coming for Prisma. Just over a month after and almost immediately capturing the imagination of the Instagramming masses in the process, AI-fueled photo filtering app is Prisma is . That’s a mere five days after the app first launched in beta on Google’s mobile operating system, through a limite... |
Researchers use neural networks to turn face sketches into photos | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 7 | 24 | We all have a soft spot for , the app that . But the reverse process — transforming artwork into pictures — is no less fascinating. And it’s not far from becoming real, researchers in the Netherlands said. A team of four neuroscientists at is working on a model for inverting face sketches to synthesize photorealist... |
Apple lays the groundwork to kill online advertising | Cyrus Radfar | 2,016 | 7 | 24 |
Their products help us learn, communicate and navigate the world. While we tap away, the companies behind these innovations are battling for the future of computing. Each and every one is actively defending their core businesses while placing bets on the future. Their tangled business relationships help mask the unde... |
PonoMusic goes dark for several weeks as the company switches providers | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 24 | Neil Young’s music service is apparently down, but not out. In a note , the hi-res music provider announced that it’ll be going offline for for “several weeks,” due to the recent acquisition of Omnifone, which has been the driving force behind the service’s infrastructure. The company’s purchase has led Pono to seek a... |
Solar Impulse 2 takes off the final leg of its round-the-world flight | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 24 | In the wee hours of the morning, took from Cairo, embarking on the last leg of its round-the-world journey. The 17 and final part of the trip is set to end in Abu Dhabi, where it first set off from in March 2015. The last leg of the journey is anticipated to take around 48 hours, at which point pilots Bertrand Picca... |
Don’t make founders’ equity even | Gary Schall | 2,016 | 7 | 24 |
Sometimes I think about replacing the table in my office with a sofa and a box of tissues. I’m a lawyer, but sometimes I feel like a therapist. When startup founders sit down with me to hash out equity splits and trust and commitment issues, their tempers sometimes flare. Uncomfortable silences ensue. Feelings get hu... |
That new ‘Mystery Science Theater 3000’ series is hitting Netflix | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 24 | That reboot – you remember the one, right? Jonah Ray, Felicia Day and Patton Oswalt all signed on and you threw your screen like an angry Fry from Futurama meme (helping the project reach $5.7 million on the crowdfunding service). It’s finally got a home. The 14 new episodes of the show will be, perhaps unsurprisin... |
Four official ‘Star Wars’ drones are arriving this fall | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 24 | It was just a matter of time, really. With the new slate of Star Wars films on an annual schedule, and drones invading the skies all around us, the timing was right for this kind of synergistic force push. RC toy maker is launching a quartet of drones modeled on some familiar modes of transportation from a galaxy far... |
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Let’s meet in Chicago for a mini-meetup | John Biggs | 2,016 | 7 | 23 | I’ll be in Chicago this week and I’d love to meet some startups. I’m thinking about holding a micro-mini-meetup on Tuesday, July 26 at a location to be determined. Here’s what I need from you all: Email or tweet me with recommendations where we can meet. I like to just hang out in bars but I could do a co-working space... |
How much does it matter if your software quality sucks? | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 7 | 24 | I ran across a fascinating piece by Leo Polovets of Susa Ventures this week, provocatively titled: “ .” You should go read it, but its central thesis is simple: “in today’s world of SaaS tools, APIs, and cloud infrastructure … technical resources are rarely the cause of success or the reason for failure.” Is he right? ... |
Recasting Silicon Valley’s role in society | Daniel Del'Re | 2,016 | 7 | 23 |
Silicon Valley culture showcased itself at Bloomberg’s recent technology confab in San Francisco as much as the companies, products, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists on the dais and sidelines. Speakers and attendees alike traded extraordinary visions of the future: colonizing other planets, commuting to work in ... |
Pop culture stimulates the evolution of the LA tech scene | Michael Yanover | 2,016 | 7 | 23 |
It wasn’t so long ago that venture capital was a suburban California phenomenon. Los Angeles didn’t have much in terms of a real tech scene — and even the actual city of San Francisco only had a few venture capitalists or tech companies. I remember the days when I would go to Silicon Valley and spend very little time... |
Building as a modular gadget | Fedor Novikov | 2,016 | 7 | 23 |
In recent years, researchers and companies have been exploring new ways to improve buildings through analytics software, prefabrication, connected devices, new materials and construction automation. It’s striking that most of these efforts are trying to patch problems within the legacy framework of “permanent” constr... |
NASA releases new video showing the globe age one year | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 7 | 23 | Last year around this time, NASA released the of Earth taken by the EPIC camera on the satellite. Since then, that camera has captured a full year of our planet from its location at Lagrange Point 1 about one million miles away. Compiling over 3,000 images, NASA put together a video showing a sunlit Earth age one f... |
The assimilation of robots into the workforce as peers, not replacements | David Bruemmer | 2,016 | 7 | 23 |
One might ask why we would ever want to create that can do human work when we have so many people who need jobs. The goal of robotics should be to replace humans with , but rather to improve productivity and safety, removing humans from harm’s way and enabling them to focus on things that humans should be doing.... |
The government should be measured in its reaction to the Tesla crash | Jim Scheinman | 2,016 | 7 | 23 |
When Joshua Brown’s Tesla Model S collided with a semitrailer truck on a Florida highway in May, it became the in an autonomous vehicle. Mr. Brown served in the United States Navy for over a decade, and had a long life ahead of him passing at the young age of 40. His death is tragic and I send my deepest condolenc... |
Crunch Report | Coup Attempt in Turkey Blocks Social Media | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 7 | 15 | Tito Hamze
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10 quick tips for becoming a Pokémon Master | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,016 | 7 | 15 | Pokémon Go is of all time — at this point, you’re either playing or you’re sick of hearing about it. If you’re in that first camp, keep reading. We are only a week in and several members of the TechCrunch team are level 20 or higher. We have put a ton of mileage into the game. Hundreds of miles in fact. And here’s wh... |
Let’s start getting excited about robots taking our jobs | Andrew Heikkila | 2,016 | 7 | 15 |
A recent found that a majority of Americans believe that . With tech giants like to produce autonomous passenger vehicles, as well as positioning themselves to revolutionize the commercial transportation industry, many are already discussing how we’ll handle history’s first slew of “driverless” experiences. It... |
How to circumvent Turkey’s social media block | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 7 | 15 | Overall, internet traffic in Turkey may have dropped by half, according to CloudFlare data. CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince , “From CloudFlare data, appears there’s about a 50% drop in Internet traffic coming out of Turkey.” To our friends in , you now have unlimited data to stay connected with — TunnelBear (@the... |
How to get your photos featured on Apple’s Shot on iPhone billboards | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 7 | 15 | Been near a billboard recently? You’ve probably seen . As a photographer, you may have felt a pang of envy; why aren’t photos up there for the world to see? I tracked down Jordan Ison, one of the photographers featured in Apple’s most recent campaign, to find out how his images came to be featured in the world’s big... |
Rick and Morty is coming to virtual reality | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 7 | 15 | Er, wrong show. W-w-w-whoa, Morty. Rick and Morty is coming to virtual reality by way of the HTC Vive. Beyond that, there’s… not a whole lot to know, just yet, except that it’s called “ ” and is being built by Owlchemy — the same folks who made the silly but oh-so-wonderful for Vive. Oh, and they released all of 15... |
13 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 7 | 15 | This week’s headlines saw Pokémon Go mania, iPhone 7 leaks and the biggest tech IPO of the year so far. Here’s a quick roundup of the top tech news of the week so you can get back to hunting Charizards. Pokémon Go completely took over this week, as the global rollout continued. The app Want to get better, faster? He... |
HelloMD looks to its ‘Quora for cannabis’ as a source of growth | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 15 | I’m in Canada, and I’m having a conversation about weed. So far, everything’s tracking. But this isn’t just a casual convo — is a startup focused on health, community and access to information, and they’re based in the U.S. (with people in SF and Colorado). And while the core business began as a way to use for medi... |
Sales startup Immediately will shut down as team members join New Relic | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 7 | 15 | , a startup that built mobile sales tools, will be shutting down at the end of the month, while part of the team will move on to cloud-monitoring company . According to the official announcement, both (which offers a number of features, including phone logging and detecting when emails are opened) and (a “ “) will ... |
Removing the human element from autonomous commercial drones | Lior Segal | 2,016 | 7 | 15 |
Since the industrial revolution, economic advancement has been achieved by increasing efficiency and reducing human labor through greater mechanical autonomy driven by technological innovation. For many, commercial drones represent the next enabler of economic benefit using robotic platforms. The applications are man... |
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube blocked in Turkey during reported coup attempt | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 15 | The Turkish military has deployed in Istanbul and Ankara, and the government has apparently blocked social media in response to what is being reported as an attempted coup. Turkey Blocks, a Twitter account that regularly checks if sites are being blocked in the country, reported at 11:04 PM Istanbul time that Facebook,... |
Legion Analytics is building bots to automate your sales pitch | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 7 | 15 | is looking to make your sales team more productive with the help of artificial intelligence. We covered the startup last year when it was part of Y Combinator’s fellowship program and . CEO Jamasen Rodriguez told me that the company’s vision has expanded — it’s not just focused on lead generation anymore, but rather ... |
Netflix launches Flixtape so you can make ‘mixtapes’ of your favorites movies and shows | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 7 | 15 | Just in time for the weekend, Netflix today the launch of a new service called , which the company describes as a way to make short playlists of your favorite Netflix titles. “It’s like a mixtape, but for Netflix,” the site explains. The new tool lets you create these lists based on a genre or theme of some sort, th... |
Getting ripped with BowFlex’s ‘smart dumbbells’ | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 15 | Let’s just push past the whole inherent irony of naming a product category “smart dumbbells,” shall we? This is 2016, we’re living in the future. And really, if something isn’t connected to a smartphone, does it really exist? No. Of course it doesn’t. BowFlex has been showing off it for a couple of years now, and, mu... |
Encrypted comms company Silent Circle closes $50M Series C | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 7 | 15 | Encrypted comms company Silent Circle, which also makes a security-focused Android smartphone called the Blackphone, has announced it’s closed a $50 million Series C round of financing, led by Santander Bank. The company was in the news recently on account of brought against it by former business partner Geeksphone f... |
NASA shows off the design for its Mars 2020 rover | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 15 | The rover NASA plans to send to Mars in 2020 is taking shape, and today its near-final design was revealed, along with details on several of its cool new instruments. (Check out an absolutely huge version of the image above .) In an effort to save costs and, really, because it makes a lot of sense, the Mars 2020 rover... |
Wrike launches project management tool for marketers | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 7 | 15 | The team behind spent the last few years building a general-purpose project management service that businesses can to their own needs. That clearly worked, because as Wrike CEO Andrew Filev told me, the company’s revenue grew 120 percent last year and it now has about 400 employees and 12,000 businesses on its paid... |
Elon Musk adamantly standing by improving radar even though it’s so close to lidar | Mark Lelinwalla | 2,016 | 7 | 15 | In the past, Elon Musk has rejected Lidar, saying it’s unnecessary to achieve full driving autonomy. But in taking to his Twitter account between late Thursday night and early Friday morning, the Tesla CEO couldn’t help but announce improvements to the automaker’s radar … which isn’t Lidar, even though the end results ... |
A Vice President Pence would be bad for building US culture of innovation | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 15 | With a , it’s official that Governor Mike Pence of Indiana will be Donald Trump’s running mate. But Gov. Pence’s record in the tech industry has been clumsy at best. At first glance, the plans sound robust. $100 million to support university entrepreneurship, $30 million a year for a state investment fund, $500 mill... |
Crunch Report | Hyperloop One founder’s lawsuit | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | Tito Hamze
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Uber and Gilt are selling passes for unlimited uberPOOL rides in NYC | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | Here’s a great deal: Uber and Gilt City are teaming up to offer a rides in New York City. The deal is being called a “commute card” and can only be used Monday through Friday during commuting hours (7-10am and 5-8pm) in Manhattan. These are the same hours during which Uber offers $5 flat rate uberPOOL rides in NYC. A... |
Magic Leap says it will debut its product . . . “hopefully soonish” | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | Anyone hoping that would share exact plans today about when it will debut its “mixed reality” technology was probably a little disappointed. At a Fortune conference in Aspen this afternoon, Magic Leap founder and CEO Rony Abovitz and company CMO Brian Wallace called the company’s products “very real” and “not a resea... |
Oxford study shows how tiny bacteria ‘wind farms’ could power electronics | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 7 | 15 | A team of scientists from Oxford University used a virtual prototype to demonstrate how the natural movement of bacteria could be harnessed to turn cylindrical rotors and provide a steady power source. The study, , showed that the chaotic swarming effect of bacteria can be organized into biologically driven power plan... |
Opening the gates on Indian financial data | Piyush Khaitan | 2,016 | 7 | 12 |
India’s digital landscape is changing faster than we can imagine, and it could mean huge improvements in financial access for many. As we speak, three key factors are converging to create a new, more robust digital ecosystem in India, permanently changing the way we do business. The proliferation of smartphones, a go... |
FiveAI picks up $2.7M to build AI-driven software for autonomous vehicles | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | is a rather ambitious U.K. startup that’s building AI-driven software to help accelerate the development of autonomous vehicles. The young company wants to apply the latest developments in computer vision and AI/machine learning to enable self-driving cars to do more of the heavy-lifting in regards to understanding an... |
AR helmet maker Skully investors boot founders, replacing them with Martin Fitcher as CEO | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | Anonymous sources have confirmed to TechCrunch that Skully co-founders Marcus and Mitch Weller have been kicked out of the company by investors. Marcus served as CEO of Skully while his brother Mitch served as chief of staff and provided business operations, product management, and material logistics support to the com... |
Bvddy, now on Android, matches athletes of like skill to play and get fit together | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | About 80 percent of the U.S. adult population, aged 18 and older, each week to meet federal guidelines, according to the most recent available data from the Centers for Disease Control’s Healthy People 2020 study. That means a majority of us are pretty lazy, ‘Murica. The guidelines only call for moderate to light aer... |
Invites sent out for Samsung’s August 2 Unpacked smartphone event | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | Samsung just mailed out invitations for its Samsung Unpacked 2016 event, where it’s expected to unveil its latest Note smartphone. The event is taking place August 2 at 11AM EST, and will be live-streamed on . The device is likely going to be called the Note 7, something seemingly confirmed by the language on the invi... |
Comcast business phone service is down and small businesses are freaking out | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | Comcast’s business phone service seems to be having a . While the company that some customers may be experiencing problems with phone service, the issue seems to be pretty widespread, with reported outages in dozens of cities across the country. Apparently inbound and outbound calls are either not being completed at... |
Oculus launching the Rift without the Touch controllers probably wasn’t a great move | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | The Oculus Rift launch has been a rocky one that hasn’t exactly left fans of the highly influential consumer VR platform . Today, Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe announced a few things ( ). He clued us into the fact that after three-and-a-half months, the Oculus team has at last caught up with pre-orders and that Oculus’s co... |
Sen. Al Franken questions Niantic over Poképrivacy policy | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | Always with his finger on the pulse, Senator Al Franken (D-Minn.) today sent an official letter to Niantic asking about particulars of the Pokémon Go privacy policy. “I am concerned about the extent to which Niantic may be unnecessarily collecting, using, and sharing a wide range of users’ personal information without ... |
More EVs—and more kinds of EVs—are expected to be sold this year | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | If it seems like EVs are everywhere, you’re closer to being right this year than ever before. expects the EV market to grow 62% year over year in 2016, which adds up to nearly 200,000 EVs being sold this year. Navigant points to long-range battery electric vehicles (BEVs) with price tags under $40,000, like the ($3... |
Google aqui-hires deep search engine Kifi to enhance its Spaces group chat app | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | Google has made to help it continue building out its latest efforts in social apps. The search and Android giant has hired the team behind , a startup that was building extensions to collect and search links shared in social apps, as well as provide recommendations for further links — such as this tool, . Terms of ... |
Watch the Indiebio Demo Day here | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | TechCrunch is pleased to bring you Indiebio’s Demo Day this Thursday, July 14th from San Francisco. Backed by , Indiebio is the largest life sciences accelerator to date. Indiebio provides each startup in the accelerator with $250,000, lab space, and expert mentors including 23andMe co-founder Linda Avey and father of... |
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Juno probe’s tiny sensors to perform big science around Jupiter | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | One of the striking things about the probe, , is its simple and streamlined design — compared to other spacecraft, at least. The engineers had a hell of a time packing everything in there, but it helps when critical sensors have shrunk in size from “breadbox” to “soup cracker.” Nikolaos Paschalidis, now at NASA’s Go... |
Uber for 911 transport is a horrible idea | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | The Washington D.C. Fire and EMS Department , according to NBC Washington. It’s a horrible idea. Washington’s plan is to hire a team of nurses who could evaluate a caller’s condition over the phone and direct them to an Uber if they are deemed stable. Already this is odd given that the purpose of an emergency responder... |
An interview with the anonymous founder of PostGhost | John Biggs | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | was a service that stored and displayed the deleted Tweets of celebrities and politicians. Created as a way to keep public discourse honest, citing a failure to comply with API rules. The resulting brouhaha led me to track down the anonymous founder and ask him or her a few questions about what happened.
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Pokémon Go updated to address privacy concerns | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | After users and press noticed that when signing up, to modify the permissions required. Now, less than 24 hours after Niantic made that promise, the update is live, and limits asked-for info to just “Know who you are on Google” and “View your email address.” The new Google permissions setting means that the game’s ... |
Is Section 702 on the verge of reform? | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | that authorizes the government’s bulk collection of internet data is being tested in a federal appeals court, giving anti-surveillance advocates hope that reform might be on the horizon. The 9th Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals heard arguments last week about the warrantless surveillance of an American, Mohamed Mo... |
Android Pay launches in Australia | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 13 | Google is continuing the expansion of Android Pay in Asia Pacific after , its most significant launch in the region to date. Android Pay initially landed in Asia with last month, and today it is in Australia, which has a population of around 22 million people. , Android represented around 64 percent of smartphones ... |
Ousted Hyperloop One co-founder Brogan BamBrogan is suing Shervin Pishevar, claims harrassment | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 7 | 12 | Recently departed co-founder Brogan BamBrogan has filed a restraining order against the company’s former head of legal Afshin Pishevar and a lawsuit against both Afshin and his brother and BamBrogan’s former startup partner Shervin Pishevar. Hyperloop One, the brainchild of Elon Musk to transport people and goods acr... |
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