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Zendesk’s “Automatic Answers” taps machine learning, AI to generate bot-style email responses | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 7 | 13 | Chat bots have in recent months, and now we’re seeing some interesting examples of how that technology, where computers interact and respond to human requests, is being used to solve other problems. Today, is taking the wraps off “Automatic Answers”, a service for businesses to reply to emails from customers without... |
A modern-day Renaissance: APIs fuel a cultural shift in businesses | Ross Mason | 2,016 | 7 | 13 |
Since 2000, have gone bankrupt, merged, been acquired or fallen off the list for not keeping up with the ever-changing technology landscape. As software proliferates every corner of a business, IT is being crushed by project demands from business users who require applications and data to be always available and al... |
Made In Space plans to create a superior optical fiber in microgravity | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 7 | 13 | , the company that owns and operates a on the International Space Station, has announced their next big project: growing optical fiber in microgravity. The company is scheduled to send a new manufacturing product to the ISS in the first quarter of 2017. If initial tests are successful, the company could begin produci... |
DigitalGlobe unveils next-generation imaging satellite | John Mannes | 2,016 | 7 | 13 | It’s really frustrating when that super-fly Snapchat you took at 55 mph of the unreleased Tesla Model 3 you caught in the wild turns out blurry. DigitalGlobe will be able to snap that picture from 400 miles away, at 17,000 mph, with its new satellite. TechCrunch got a sneak preview of ‘s, nearly billion-dollar, satell... |
The US women’s Olympic volleyball team is using a wearable by VERT to monitor jumps | Mark Lelinwalla | 2,016 | 7 | 13 | The road to the for the U.S. women’s volleyball team has included grueling six-hour practice sessions, sparking the need for players to train smart — not just hard. After all, one critical injury could derail the team’s chances of a successful showing on the world stage. That’s where a tiny wearable by comes into p... |
Pokémon Go will soon get ads in the form of sponsored locations | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 7 | 13 | After having become of all time, Pokémon Go will soon include advertising, according to its developer. In an , Niantic CEO John Hanke said that “sponsored locations” would provide a new revenue stream, in addition to in-app purchases of power-ups and virtual items. In other words, retailers and companies will be gra... |
Lightroom for iOS receives the gift of universal RAW support | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 13 | Adobe’s Lightroom is a widely used tool among photographers, but the mobile version has always been hampered by poor RAW support — . Previously limited to DNG files, Lightroom for iOS now has the ability to open and tweak . It’s great news for pretty much everyone, and will make it much easier for photographers and e... |
This AI-powered VC is smarter than your local startup cash dispensary | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 7 | 13 | You don’t have to sit through a lot of pitches before your will-to-live-o-meter points to “kill me now.” Imagine you’re a VC, sitting through your fifteenth pitch that day — are you still going to be enthusiastic? Probably not. So what happens if you could instead feed your pitch deck into a chatbot that gives you feed... |
Blockchain-based banking backend Vault OS from ex-Googler emerges from stealth mode | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 13 | Despite holding the vast majority of the world’s wealth (or perhaps because of that), banks aren’t exactly hotbeds of cutting-edge tech, often relying on decades-old systems for everyday tasks. ThoughtMachine, a company led by ex-Google engineer Paul Taylor, is looking to change that with a modern, fully integrated, bl... |
Endangered ferrets are being saved by drones that drop vaccine-laced M&Ms | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 7 | 13 | Here’s your weird but interesting technology story for the day. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is to save endangered black-footed ferrets in rural Montana. The ferret’s main source of food is prairie dogs, which are being killed by the , a disease spread by rats and fleas that has . To date, biologists ha... |
The Canadian Army is testing out bionic knee braces | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 13 | Halifax-based announced today that it has delivered the first 60 in of a planned 190 bionic knee braces to the Canadian Army, part of a $1 million (CAD) contract awarded to the company. The UpShots are the military grade version of the company’s assistive wearable, which utilizes liquid spring technology, promising li... |
Farmigo shuts down its online farmer’s market | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 7 | 13 | , an online farmer’s market that allowed consumers to shop for locally grown food via the web, then pick up those orders at nearby locations, says it will now be shutting down its delivery service. According to an penned by Farmigo founder and CEO Benzi Ronen on the startup’s homepage, the company can no longer conti... |
Getaround for camera gear ShareGrid raises $1M | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 7 | 13 | Even if you’re an active photo or video creative, chances are that your gear will be gathering dust on a shelf at least part of the time. At the same time, other photographers and filmmakers are in need of equipment. If that sounds like a rather fantastic business opportunity, , raising $1 million from and to grow... |
Crunch Report | More affordable Tesla Model X | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 7 | 13 | Tito Hamze
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The future of car ownership that no one is talking about | Ned Ryan | 2,016 | 7 | 13 |
It has never been more clear that transformational change to one of the world’s largest industries is just around the corner. Car ownership is supposed to change — and when it does, it is predicted to be one of the most monumental displacements of wealth the world economy has ever seen. But there are a lot of conflic... |
Linux users can now make Skype calls from the web in Chrome | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 7 | 13 | The Alpha version of Skype based on WebRTC inherits the same features as the Alpha version of the Skype for Linux client. Thanks to ORTC, users were able to make free voice and video calls on Skype without needing to download an app or browser plug-in. “This is our initial step on our path to replicate ORTC capabilitie... |
Nintendo’s new magic | John Biggs | 2,016 | 7 | 13 | morning hours I pad down the hallway in my grandmother’s ranch-style home in Martins Ferry, Ohio. It’s June 1986. I’m eleven years old and still in my pajamas. The house has cooled overnight and it’s even a bit chilly but as the sun rises the dark roof will warm up and grandma will send me into the basement or to the ... |
Pokémon Go tops Twitter’s daily users, sees more engagement than Facebook | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 7 | 13 | Pokémon Go has quickly become one of the most viral mobile applications of all time. The game is now the biggest ever in the U.S.; it has now topped Twitter’s daily users, and it sees people spending more time in its app than in Facebook, according to reports from various tracking firms. An had pegged Pokémon Go as ha... |
Land Rover’s lead engineer explains autonomous off-road driving | Mark Lelinwalla | 2,016 | 7 | 13 | When you’re Land Rover, you can’t just test connected and autonomous vehicles on regular roads. You have to live up to your rugged, but polished brand, simultaneously. That’s precisely why the automaker is testing off-road connected convoy research vehicles. It’s all a part of the company’s ambitious plan to create a f... |
Line’s share price jumps 50% on Tokyo debut as IPO raises over $1.1B | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 14 | Fresh from a positive listing in New York on Thursday, messaging company Line saw its share price jump as high as 50 percent after it listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange in its native Japan. In total, the company raised over $1.1 billion from the dual listing, which makes it the biggest tech IPO of 2016 to date. The com... |
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The 3 biggest sales mistakes enterprise software companies make | Philip Levinson | 2,016 | 7 | 14 |
For early- to mid-stage B2B software and SaaS companies, selling in to the enterprise is hard. Getting a lot of enterprise customers to pay for your solution on a repeated and long-term basis without seeing your sales growth stall out at $15-25 million ARR? That’s really hard. Welcome to the challenging world of ente... |
Crunch Report | Nintendo is Relaunching the NES | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 7 | 14 | Tito Hamze
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One year since the New Horizons Pluto flyby, here’s what we learned | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 7 | 14 | One year ago today, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft Pluto and forever changed how we think about this frozen world. After more than nine years and three billion miles of traveling through the solar system, New Horizons swung by Pluto and its moons on July 14 , 2015. Although the spacecraft was moving at over 30,000 mp... |
Senate committee calls out Elon Musk, wants answers on Tesla Autopilot | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 7 | 14 | The U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation has called out Tesla CEO Elon Musk to answer some questions about the company’s Autopilot technology, and what the Silicon Valley automaker is doing to educate drivers about it. Sen. John Thune, chairman for the committee, seeking a response from Musk ... |
Dropbox’s Lepton lossless image compression really uses a ‘middle-out’ algorithm | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 14 | It’s not Pied Piper, but there are similarities. The “middle-out” algorithm that has its roots in the in HBO’s “Silicon Valley” may have been fictional, but something like it can be found in Lepton, a cool new lossless image compressor created by Dropbox. Lepton reduces the file size of JPEG-encoded images (and that’... |
Mushroom leather, tiny Zika detectors and lab-made breast milk debut at IndieBio’s third demo day | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 7 | 14 | room at the Folsom Street Foundry in downtown San Francisco this afternoon as people poured in to check out the latest innovations from Indibio’s third demo day. The accelerator’s demo day has grown so big we’re now . But it was just a couple years ago that the only pure biotech accelerator launched out of SOS Venture... |
How far does the Pokémon brand have to carry Pokémon Go? | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 7 | 14 | How far can the Pokémon brand carry Pokémon Go? Will its popularity fade after that initial burst of activity thanks to the power of its brand? That’s a huge question that’s circulating now that the game has immediately popped to the top of the App Store and has cemented itself as one of the most successful game launch... |
Autopilot was off when Tesla Model X in Pennsylvania crashed | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 14 | The Tesla Model X that had autopilot disabled at the time, Elon Musk announced on Twitter. This info comes straight from the vehicle’s own logs. Onboard vehicle logs show Autopilot was turned off in Pennsylvania crash. Moreover, crash would not have occurred if it was on. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) Tesla has been criti... |
Tesla’s longtime VP of Production joins a venture firm ahead of its new fund raise | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 7 | 14 | Greg Reichow, who in May left his post as Tesla’s vice president of production (and reportedly as one of its ), has joined as an investor. If the Eclipse brand isn’t entirely familiar, it may be soon, given its growing star power. Venture geeks might recall that Eclipse was originally part of Formation 8, a firm tha... |
Zoom.ai believes an automated assistant is the fix for a weighty workload | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 14 | wants to give managers and others in enterprise a gift that has a very high value in business: Time. Company founder Roy Pereira told me at Montreal’ Startupfest that while tools are making us more productive, we’re also expected to handle more, and that’s causing a growing problem his startup hopes to address with AI... |
Mentat will apply for jobs on your behalf and guarantee you get an interview | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 7 | 14 | Did you know nowadays there are more people who dislike their jobs than like them? While there was once a time where the vast majority of Americans were happy with their current job, now anywhere from 50 to 70 percent of employees are with their current position. Combine that statistic with the fact that of millenn... |
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Ava promises to clone high-end wines without using any grapes | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 7 | 14 | You’ve heard of turning water into wine, but Alec Lee and his founding team of bioengineers have taken to their San Francisco laboratory to turn molecules into wine. “We create the wine without any grapes, yeast or any kind of fermentation,” Lee, the founder of , told TechCrunch. Ava does this by analyzing molecular p... |
Apple needs single sign-on to solve the tvOS adoption problem | Paul Müller | 2,016 | 7 | 14 |
Just ahead of ’s recent annual ( ) held in San Francisco, we looked at the performance of . , we found that tvOS apps retained poorly compared to their phone- or tablet-based sister apps. Our conclusion was that any updates to tvOS must focus on solving this retention problem if tvOS is to be a success. WWDC rol... |
T-Mobile is giving its customers unlimited data to play Pokemon Go an unlimited amount | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 7 | 14 | Pretty much every PR agency under the sun has had a meeting this week trying to determine how they can get a slice of the Pokemon GO popularity, and, to be fair, so has every newsroom. But now it’s time for T-Mobile to bask in the sunshine with its contribution to the media lightning storm. T-Mobile announced today tha... |
Atlassian acquires Statuspage | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 7 | 14 | today that it has acquired , a Y Combinator- service that allows online businesses to keep their users updated about the status of their online services. The financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. This marks Atlassian’s first acquisition since . Adding a service like Statuspage, which launched t... |
SwagBot will autonomously roll them little dogies along rough Australian ranchlands | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 14 | Is nothing sacred? The rugged trails that over history have been trod by cowboys, gauchos, ranch hands, and in Australia, swagmen, are now to be presided over by cold, calculating machines. is the vanguard of our incoming steer-driving overlords, its independent all-wheel drive churning carelessly the mud in which onc... |
Ford shows how humans and robots work hand-in-hand on its assembly line | Mark Lelinwalla | 2,016 | 7 | 14 | Your next colleague could be an industrial robot. Ford has a pilot project which could pave the way for humans and robots to eventually work hand-in-hand in all of the automaker’s assembly lines worldwide. The automaker has new collaborative robots, known as in Ford’s assembly plant in Cologne, Germany. The task invo... |
Dave McClure talks numbers on 500 Startups’ international advantage | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 14 | 500 Startups founding partner Dave McClure took the stage at Startupfest in Montreal on Thursday to chat with festival co-founder Phil Telio, and while a lot of what he covered was the McClure Classic Hits playlist you might recognize if you’ve ever seen him speak, he also shed some light on what he sees as 500 Startup... |
Microsoft triumphs in warrant case against U.S. Government | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 7 | 14 | In a surprise federal court ruling, Microsoft has won its lawsuit against the United States Government over a warrant for a customers’ emails. The company has been fighting since 2013 to resist turning over the emails, which are stored in an Irish data center. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled today t... |
Bad UX kills | Colin O’Donnell | 2,016 | 7 | 22 |
It clogs systems, causes accidents, wastes energy and makes people unhappy. It’s more than a experience on a website — in cities, user experience ( ) design can actually . We’re talking about signage, public spaces, civic and emergency communications and other forms of urban design that influence our daily routin... |
Dots & Co. tweaks the Dots games by adding a friendly companion | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 7 | 22 | , the follow-up to the popular puzzle games Dots and Two Dots, earlier this week. If reading about the new game isn’t enough for you, you can watch me try it out in the video above. In many ways, Dots & Co. should feel pretty familiar to fans of the previous games. Your goal is to clear as many dots as you can by c... |
Crunch Report | WikiLeaks Publishes DNC Emails | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 7 | 22 | Tito Hamze
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Running at 150,000 RPM, this tiny motor could help satellites keep on course | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 22 | Free space is clearly at a premium for tiny satellite designs like ASU’s Femtosat. The future is small in space: picture Cubesats the size of toasters and an inch across . A newly invented motor that’s both tiny and powerful goes hand in hand with that vision, providing compact spacecraft with the ability to adjust t... |
Redbox is giving streaming another shot | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 22 | After unceremoniously on it Instant service back in 2014, your friendly neighborhood DVD dispenser Redbox is ramping up to give streaming another go. The movie distributor, whose vending machines have become a supermarket mainstay across the US, is taking another shot at Netflix with a small beta roll out for “a small... |
Waiting for the right professional network | Ashwin Ramasamy | 2,016 | 7 | 22 |
I recently asked an investor for some SEO advice (because he had run B2C companies). He came on a call to give his opinions on what we had done till then with SEO. I thanked him on LinkedIn. A few hours later, another SEO consultant offered his input. Curiously, he had a recommendation on his profile, from this inves... |
A $99 add-on that promises to bring 3D sound to standard headphones | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 7 | 22 | 3D sound, it’s, ahem, all around you. From the look (or, rather, sound of it), hardware startups are convinced that the effect is set to be the next big thing in consumer audio, and Kickstarter, accordingly, is littered with headphones that promise a more immersive listening experience akin to the recent VR boom. Most ... |
Pokémon Go is doing a lot of good, here are 3 surprising ways | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 7 | 22 | “What are they doing?” That was the question an older woman, probably around 70 or so, asked me yesterday. She was pointing to a group of 18-ish boys and girls near a YMCA, the biggest (and, so far, only) Pokestop in the city where I live. Without exception, the teens were all staring at their smartphones. “They’re pla... |
Judge finds Gravity4 CEO Gurbaksh Chahal violated probation in domestic violence case | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 7 | 22 | A San Francisco judge ruled today that adtech CEO Gurbaksh Chahal violated his probation in a domestic violence case. Judge Tracie Brown ordered Chahal to surrender his passports to the court on Monday and will determine his sentence on August 12. After his guilty plea, Chahal was as CEO of RadiumOne. He went on to f... |
Car breakdowns reach record high despite boost in auto technology | Mark Lelinwalla | 2,016 | 7 | 22 | In spite of the progress of car tech overall, the number of vehicles breaking down is actually spiking. , the American Automotive Association (AAA) tended to a record-high 32 million drivers with vehicle breakdowns last year. The main causes? A lot of flat tires, but also electronic keyless ignitions that sapped batte... |
Weekly Roundup: Elon Musk’s master plan, Peter Thiel speaks at RNC and iPhone 7 leak | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 7 | 22 | History was made this week in tech as Peter Thiel wowed the crowd at the RNC, Elon Musk exposed Master Plan Part Deux and we saw yet another iPhone 7 leak. Want to receive the Weekly Roundup in your inbox? I would too. Now you can. . Billionaire investor and Silicon Valley wild card speaking on economic disparity, b... |
RNDMWRK randomizes remote work with subscription spaces | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 22 | Toronto entrepreneur David King learned something over the past four months, doing random bringing people together for random dinners at restaurants in Toronto: Many of the people participating were freelancers and entrepreneurs, and many of them wanted somewhere to work more often than they wanted a dinner party. He a... |
WikiLeaks publishes 19,252 DNC-related emails packed with personal information | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 22 | WikiLeaks has put online a searchable database of thousands of emails sent to and from top figures in the Democratic National Committee — many of which contain personal and financial information of private citizens. Transparency in government affairs is one thing, but this seems careless — and callous. The 19,252 email... |
‘Star Trek Beyond’ points the 50-year-old franchise back at the stars | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 7 | 22 | Let’s start with the obvious: is a pretty good movie, but it doesn’t quite make it into the top tier of films like , and . , which opens today, starts with the crew of the Enterprise in the middle of its five-year, deep space mission. This is exactly what Captain James T. Kirk (played by Chris Pine) asked for a... |
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In school or a recent grad? Get your cheap student tickets to Disrupt SF now | Contributor | 2,016 | 7 | 22 | Are you an undergraduate or graduate student looking to attend the best startup show in San Francisco? Student tickets to are still available at the deeply discounted rate of just $300. These tickets were previously only available to students currently enrolled in school, but we’re now expanding their availability to... |
Apple says Pokémon Go is the most downloaded app in a first week ever | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 7 | 22 | Apple has told TechCrunch that has broken an impressive App Store record. While the game was only available in a few countries at the time, the app has attracted more downloads in the App Store during its first week than any other App Store app has in its first week, ever. Pokémon Go initially launched and Apple ... |
Hacking poverty through mobile tech and social entrepreneurship | Thane Kreiner | 2,016 | 7 | 22 |
In Silicon Valley the term “hacker” has evolved to connote high praise for someone particularly creative, ingenious and adept at finding clever new ways to accomplish a difficult task. It’s with that framework in mind, rather than some of the other meanings that “ ” usually represents, that I suggested during my rece... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 07.22.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 7 | 22 | – Keith Teare, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page G3’s Facebook page |
Why did Unilever pay $1B for Dollar Shave Club? | Ryan Caldbeck | 2,016 | 7 | 22 |
Deja Vu moment: when another giant of consumer products is hoping to buy its way to success rather than innovate. This week, the news was Unilever buying five year old Dollar Shave Club for $1B. Last week, hundred year old Danone buying Whitewave foods. We’re likely to see many more more this year, if not just this q... |
NASA’s Curiosity rover can now pick which bits of Mars to scan on its own | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 22 | Curiosity may be an older dog (the rover landed on Mars in 2012), but it’s still picking up new tricks. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory recently revealed (via ) that the robot can now pick its own targets when choosing rocks to scan with its laser spectrometer, a task formerly reserved for remote operation by scienti... |
Rocket Internet’s Jabong sold to Flipkart-owned rival Myntra for $70M | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | Finally, Rocket Internet has managed to sell Jabong, its fashion e-commerce site in India, after more than a year of speculation. Myntra, the fashion portal which , has stepped up and bought its rival in . The deal is all in cash but it is not completed yet, it is expected to close within Q3 2016. Flipkart CEO Binny ... |
OpenStack will soon be able to run in containers on top of Kubernetes | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | , the open source project that allows enterprises to run an AWS-like cloud computing service in their own data centers, added support for containers over the course of its last few releases. Running OpenStack itself on top of containers is a different problem, though. Even though CoreOS has done on thanks to its od... |
N26 launches its investment product in Germany | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | A few days after , (formerly known as Number26) is partnering with fellow German fintech startup to add a new service to its banking offering with its first investment product for German customers. vaamo manages different portfolios of risky and not-so-risky assets thanks to so that you don’t have to micro-manag... |
Southeast Asia tech media company E27 raises $2.2M | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | Singapore-based media company E27 has closed a SG$3 million (US$2.2 million) Series A round as it looks to redevelop its tech-focused news website and events business following some tough times. The company previously raised seed rounds, the most recent being , and there had been for the past month or so. Now the co... |
Crunch Report | Verizon Buys Yahoo | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | Tito Hamze
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A Florida judge has ruled that Bitcoin isn’t money | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | Ever since it moved into the mainstream Bitcoin has had a bit of an identity crisis. Mainly because no one is really sure whether it should be considered money or property. The IRS , the Commodity Futures Trading Commission , and most Bitcoin advocates like to say it’s the world’s most advanced currency. However, tod... |
Google’s Android Phone app now identifies spam callers | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | There’s nothing worse than answering a call from a number you don’t recognize and getting locked into an awkward sales or marketing call. Well, those incidents may be less frequent for many after to its phone app for Android. The Android phone app received a major update in 2013 when it added caller ID for incoming c... |
Oculus update paves the way for room-scale VR on the Rift | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | The Rift’s best days are still ahead of it as Facebook’s virtual reality company prepares to drastically improve user experience by introducing its room-scale tracked motion Touch controllers in Q4 of this year. An update to Oculus Home is apparently prepping for Touch’s arrival by enabling users to connect multiple Oc... |
Amazon partners with U.K. government to test its drones | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | Amazon today that it has partnered with the U.K. government to test some of the technologies that may one day enable its drone delivery service. In a partnership with the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), Amazon now has the permission to explore beyond-line-of-sight operations in rural and suburban areas (someth... |
NIST declares the age of SMS-based 2-factor authentication over | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | 2-factor authentication is a great thing to have, and more and more services are making it a standard feature. But one of the go-to methods for sending 2FA notifications, SMS, is being left in the dust by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. NIST creates national-level guidelines and rules for measuremen... |
The future is a smarter world of dumber devices | Tom Goodwin | 2,016 | 7 | 25 |
With smartphones in all of our pockets, it’s easy to laugh at Thomas Watson’s remark that “there is a market for about five computers.” But what if he was off by only four computers instead of four billion? In the early 2000s, we lived in an era of expensive storage and slow connectivity. Those of us tasked with p... |
Pokémon Go estimated at over 75M downloads worldwide | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | Pokémon Go has already earned one official record — . But it’s going to break a lot more records still: app analytics firm estimates that it hit , another record, and overall the company says that PoGo has racked up more than 75 million installs across iOS and Android based on their data. The time it took Pokémon G... |
AOL’s Tim Armstrong explains the Yahoo acquisition and what’s next | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | Following a months-long bidding process, Verizon announced this morning that it’s . The goal, it seems, is to merge Yahoo with AOL (which ) to form a single organization that can compete with digital media giants like Google and Facebook. (AOL, by the way, owns TechCrunch.) The deal is expected to close in the first ... |
CrunchMatch registrations are now open for investors and startups | Contributor | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | At this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016, TechCrunch introduced a new networking tool called CrunchMatch that helped 19 investors and 65 startups make a total of 88 connection meetings at Disrupt. At , TechCrunch is looking to take those connections to a whole new level. And to do that, we need all you investors and ... |
Google Maps gets a cleaner look and starts highlighting areas of interest | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | It’s been a busy week for the Google Maps team. As we reported , the Google Maps apps are getting a Wi-Fi-only mode and the team is also bringing to the mobile apps. The company kept the biggest announcement , though: Google Maps on iOS, Android and the web is getting a new and cleaner look with a more subtle color... |
Google’s Omnitone surround sound project brings us closer to web-based VR | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | As has been the case with so many industries, the pendulum of VR will eventually swing back from dedicated apps toward web-based systems — and when that happens, Google will be ready. It published details of a new method for delivering serious surround sound over the web — a system it calls . Plain ol’ multi-channel s... |
Veeso wants to share your smiles and eye-rolls in VR | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | First-time VR experiences seem to bring about a pretty wide variety of emotional reactions from the people who try it, but right now there aren’t too many ways to actually convey how you’re feeling inside virtual reality. is aiming to become one of the first VR headsets to capture how you’re feeling through their sens... |
Scale lets companies outsource their human-powered tasks with one line of code | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | A new startup called , officially launching today, wants to make it easier for businesses to outsource their core processes and tasks that require people, not algorithms, to handle. This could include anything from appointment scheduling to more complicated matters like content moderation, transcriptions, and more. To... |
Zenefits gets a small fine in resolving regulatory concerns in Tennessee | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | Zenefits has been under fire for skirting regulation, resulting in the ouster of its previous CEO Parker Conrad and a heavy-duty overhaul underway of the company. The results of that effort are now seemingly starting to emerge, starting first with a resolution in Tennessee which will cost the company $62,500 and allow ... |
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24 tech experts weigh in on what exactly a ‘decentralized web’ means | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 7 | 25 | You may have seen some chatter here and there about the “decentralized web” — it’s something , for instance. But there isn’t a really clear definition of what the term means — and really, considering its nature, it would be surprising if there were. There are, therefore, a variety of opinions, as Syracuse University’s... |
Gillmor Gang: Monetize This | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 9 | 3 | The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, September 2, 2016. Waiting for latency can be a lonely thing, but the media march toward live streaming reaches new urgency. Plus the latest G3 (below) with Mary Hodder, Elisa Camahort Page, Francine Hard... |
The EU’s new regulatory environment might help fintech flourish | Dennis Mitzner | 2,016 | 9 | 3 |
The EU’s efforts to regulate financial markets has opened new opportunities for global operators looking for universal to tap into the lucrative 28-country marketplace. While over-regulation can stifle growth, the industry, in pursuit of consumer trust, has a lot to gain from a clearly defined regulatory framew... |
The death of localhost and the rise of cloud development | Tyler Jewell | 2,016 | 9 | 3 |
If there was any skepticism when Marc Andreessen declared software was “ Software development’s migration to the cloud is rooted in two longstanding, competing interests within IT departments: those of IT administrators and developers. The former favor stability, security and control, while the latter — a group Steph... |
IoT’s killer app is not home security | Jon Hedren | 2,016 | 9 | 3 |
Photo courtesy of Flickr/ . The IoT “dream” as sold by the industry is pretty cool, but it’s still just a dream. For now, these devices remain generally shoddy, insecure and easily breakable — and must be treated that way, especially when the stakes are high. |
Mark Zuckerberg’s Africa tour tracks tech’s growing interests on the continent | Jake Bright | 2,016 | 9 | 3 | After a surprise Nigeria visit to meet with techies in Lagos, Mark Zuckerberg took his this Thursday. There, the Facebook CEO visited the iHub innovation space, reviewed the BRCK mobile Wi-Fi device, had lunch with Kenyan ICT Cabinet Secretary and met with tech leaders and Erik Hersman. Like the Lagos expedition,... |
Growing up in Generation AI | Remi El-Ouazzane | 2,016 | 9 | 3 |
Machine learning approaches are leading to AIs being implemented in everything from medical imaging to stock trading. They are allowing machines to think in more human ways, while still bringing to bear the enormous benefits of big data. In 2016, many believe we are at the beginning of the next generation of computin... |
Tales from the alternate era of the Ara | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 3 | day away from outlets, so I reach into my pocket and fish around for a battery module. The zoom camera pack clips out easy, making room for the added battery capacity, which should give me enough juice to get through the evening. I slip the camera module back into my pocket; I won’t need it, since at the party I’m hea... |
A different glimpse at VR’s future through Qualcomm’s eye-tracking headset | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 3 | Poor Qualcomm. Always the reference design, never the retail unit. It’s like being the guy behind the guy, the comedian’s comedian, the power behind the product that doesn’t get to reap the pomp and circumstance of retail displays and big and flashy press conferences. The San Diego-based company did kick off IFA a few ... |
We’re at peak complexity — and it sucks | Tom Goodwin | 2,016 | 9 | 3 |
Virtually all companies are doing digital transformation wrong. We’re placing it around the edge, keeping it at arm’s length, like it’s a problem and not an opportunity. If companies are to succeed, we need to rebuild around what’s possible, with the greatest toolkit we’ve ever seen. We talk a lot about the vast chan... |
As Turkey’s coup creates a new political reality, startups turn east for growth | Elmira Bayrasli | 2,016 | 9 | 3 |
Turkey an . For the past year the country has incurred bombings, the rise of extremists, growing authoritarianism and censorship and, this past July 15, an attempted coup on its democratically elected government. Still, the country’s entrepreneurs and investors soldier on. Aytül Erçil, the founder of the visual re... |
As e-sports’ popularity explodes, betting needs to be regulated | Aurangzeb Durrani | 2,016 | 9 | 3 |
E-sports betting has boomed in the last five years, attracting investments from celebrities, investors and entrepreneurs like — , David Stern, has talked about it on many forums. Gambling in e-sports has charmed stakeholders, but it may have created a monster in the gaming industry. As with every growing industry, i... |
Cinemapocalypse Now? | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 9 | 3 | Let’s talk box office! Because it’s one of my pet obsessions; I’ve long been curious how the rise of new entertainment tech (Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, Pokémon Go) will impact movies, our oldest and most storied cultural commons. And because I was trawling through Box Office Mojo’s numbers, as you do, and happened to st... |
Fossil sure has a lot of different smartwatches | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 3 | Fossil’s not messing around here. , the company announced plans to pick up fitness tracking company Misfit for $260 million, and, all the while, it’s been announcing connected wearables under its own name by the boatload. The company’s Q line, home to its various fitness trackers and smartwatches, includes a number of... |
A circular satnav designed to blend in with a scooter | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 3 | Like Garmin, TomTom’s been getting . No wonder, really — it’s a space that’s seen exponential growth over the past few years, as in-car GPS systems have, at best, flatlined, thanks to the near ubiquity of smartphones. But TomTom’s not giving up the ghost. The company’s been playing around in the space to see what, if ... |
At long last, the player piano does multi-room audio | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 3 | We all knew in our hearts that if we just waited long enough, the Internet of Things would come around to self-playing pianos; that surely the cloud would incorporate that last vestige of ol’ timey technology. And now, here at IFA, the least portable of home audio systems has . Or, as Yamaha opens its decidedly hyperb... |
Drop partners with Bosch to let users monitor their oven remotely | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 3 | This could actually go a ways toward easing my obsessive dial checking on the way out the door in the morning. Drop, they of connected kitchen scale fame, is partnering with Bosch to to the German appliance maker’s kitchen devices. The deal, announced at IFA in Berlin, starts simply, with the company’s Series 8 oven,... |
The emerging Darwinian approach to analytics and augmented intelligence | Mark Palmer | 2,016 | 9 | 4 |
Much has been made about the business implications of recent, rapid advancements in cognitive computing — that is, the possibility of advanced analytics tools to help human knowledge workers glean actionable insight from vast and deep lakes of historical, transactional and machine-generated information. When utilized... |
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