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SolarCity accused of misappropriating solar company Cogenra’s trade secrets | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 9 | 27 | Solar company is suing Elon Musk’s over the use of shingling technology the company alleges SolarCity took from Cogenra and used to create a world-record breaking solar panel. Cogenra says it shared its “most precious and confidential trade secrets, manufacturing processes, and other intellectual property with Sile... |
ClassPass sacrifices 10% of customers in pursuit of healthier margins | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 9 | 27 | service for fitness classes, became a household name because of one simple innovation. Combining the breadth of a marketplace with a subscription pricing structure sparked a handful of similar startup launches (like Vive, which does the same thing with hair blowouts). But more importantly, it was the turning point fo... |
Supermodel Natalia Vodianova joins Disrupt in London to talk about digital philanthropy | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 9 | 11 | is beginning to appear over the horizon. We’ve already announced that Accel’s will be on our stage. Today we’re delighted to say that we’ll also be joined by world-famous supermodel Natalia Vodianova. The Russian model, philanthropist and occasional film actress is well-known for her rags to riches life story and fo... |
With a team hailing from around the world Imprompt.io hacks on the fly communications | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 9 | 11 | The team hailed from Lagos, New York, and suburban New Jersey and had been up for nearly 24-hours working on , a new collaboration tool for meetings on-the-fly for the . It’s a problem the hacking team knew quite well. Hailing from the coding staffing company , which pairs top-tier developers from Africa with startu... |
A cautionary tale about humans creating biased AI models | Matt Bencke | 2,016 | 9 | 11 |
Most artificial intelligence are built and trained by , and therefore have the potential to learn, perpetuate and massively scale the human trainers’ biases. This is the word of warning put forth in two illuminating articles published earlier this year by Jack Clark at and Kate Crawford at . Tl;dr: The field ... |
Toyota’s VR drive through a Syd Mead-created world is a near-future trip | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 11 | How do you convince a potential car buyer your vehicle is a future-focused choice? One way is to get one of the most iconic creators of cinematic futurescapes to help you build a virtual world that people can drive the car through themselves. Toyota enlisted , the creative visionary behind and ‘s vehicles, architec... |
Toyota’s Prius Prime is engineered to give hybrid owners more EV feels | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 11 | Toyota’s Prius Prime is an updated take on the company’s popular hybrid, with more emphasis on the EV aspects of the vehicle, including a battery with double the driving capacity, and a few other tweaks that push the car closer toward the EV end of its dual identity, including an acceleration feature that lets the elec... |
US buyers gorge on startups while Europeans nibble | Joanna Glasner | 2,016 | 9 | 11 |
U.S. companies have a massively greater appetite for startups than their European counterparts. Over the past five years, U.S. companies have purchased about four times as many startups as European acquirers, according to a new report from CrunchBase and entrepreneurship foundation . The study looked at about 6,00... |
Michelle Obama asked girls to build solutions to improve access education | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 9 | 11 | Worldwide, there are 62 million girls without access to traditional education due to a lack of resources, safety and general attitudes about girls and women. In order to address this issue, First Lady Michelle Obama teamed up with AOL (TechCrunch’s owner) to launch the Let Girls Build track as part of the Built By Girl... |
Why app development is going micro | Peter Yared | 2,016 | 9 | 11 |
Application development has long been fraught with peril: Projects become bloated, expensive and never ship. Implementation technologies tend to match the bloat, ranging from Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) to Business Process Management (BPM). The “micro” trend in application development is focused on deliverin... |
AI is for real and intelligent apps is its vehicle according to Madrona Group’s Matt McIlwain | Jasper Kuria | 2,016 | 9 | 11 |
I think the most important thing about being successful in the venture business is being able to work with these great entrepreneurs. We try to find them at an early stage then roll up our sleeves and help them be successful. I spend a lot of time understanding team DNA. Why are they motivated to start a company? Wha... |
‘For the Love of Spock’ pays tribute to Star Trek’s logical heart | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 9 | 11 | No one person can take sole credit for ’s success, . But Leonard Nimoy could make a pretty strong claim to being the franchise’s heart, or at least its face to the outside world, having portrayed Trek’s most iconic character on the original show, plus the animated series and six feature films. And that’s before his a... |
CrunchLetter gives writers anxiety with AI powered VC newsletter generator | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 11 | by Alexander Crosson and Naveen Kulandaivelu at today’s TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon may be giving us tech journalists early warning signs of our forthcoming replacement by AI. While nowhere near advanced enough to conduct independent due diligence or investigative reporting, their project, , is aimed squarely at ... |
Dooze is an alarm clock with consequences | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 9 | 11 | I’m not a morning person and the snooze button on my alarm clock regularly gets a workout. If you suffer from the same issue (and own an Amazon Echo or similar Alex-enabled device), then maybe is for you. , and built the project during our Disrupt SF Hackathon this weekend. It gives you a strong incentive to avoi... |
Doge Ball: remotely play with your dog and give it treats | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 9 | 11 | Do you own a dog or a cat and also hold down a job that takes you out of your house? Chances are that if you do, you’ve bemoaned a common challenge: how do you make sure your pet doesn’t get too lonely while you are away? A project called , presented today at the Disrupt SF 2016 Hackathon, has developed a new piece of... |
PointShop.space wins the Disrupt SF 2016 Hackathon Grand Prize | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 11 | Nearly 1,000 eager participants converged upon Pier 48 yesterday for an all-night Hackathon, helping kick off Disrupt with a cold and foggy view of the San Francisco Bay Bridge (as though there were any other kind). The near capacity army of developers, coders, roboticists, engineers and all-purpose hackers broke up in... |
Last Mile Club helps you find fellow passengers who want to split a cab | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 9 | 11 | At the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 Hackathon, a team demonstrated a new ride-sharing app called Last Mile Club, which aims to help travelers with the final leg of their trip – getting from the airport to the hotel. Built over the weekend, the Android application addresses this often overlooked – and expensive – part of ... |
TheHighFlyers helps you join the mile-high chat club | John Biggs | 2,016 | 9 | 11 | When friends Eli Byers, Chad Fegley, Amrita Chawla, and Mari Lliguicota fly they’re usually bored. They spend a lot of time in the air and they wanted something that would make the miles go by faster. Their solution? . This clever hackathon hack lets you see when you’re passing cool stuff outside of the plane and ev... |
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SafeZone guides you to safe spaces in crises | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 9 | 11 | The five person crew that developed Safe Zone wanted to do something more meaningful than creating just another geo-based social app. So on this, the 15th anniversary of the September 11th terrorist attacks, at the TechCrunch SF Disrupt 2016 Hackathon the team rolled out SafeZone, an app that guides users to safe space... |
With PeppAR Waiter, SoftBank’s cute robot shows you your food in 3D before you order | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 11 | Crappy photos in restaurant menus be gone! Robots and augmented reality are here and ready to kill you off. That’s the plan for the future, at least, as — an ambitious and forward-looking project from the hackathon this weekend — showed us. Developed by , who was involved in no fewer than four entries in the hac... |
ESPN’s fantasy football site isn’t working on the most important day of the season | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 9 | 11 | Service has been restored and ESPN provided us with the following statement: “ESPN Fantasy is restored and we will continue to monitor. We identified a backend data access issue and resolved as quickly as possible. The issue did not impact data for teams, leagues or rosters. We sincerely apologize to all ESPN fantasy ... |
The Autism Solutions bot helps autistic kids | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 9 | 11 | With one out of every 64 American children being affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder, it’s a huge problem worth working on. Shriya Sreeju (aged 6) agrees. She presented the powered robot to the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon audience today. “Pepper shows you a flash card on its screen,” Shriya explains. “If the kid s... |
Food delivery startup Takeaway.com raises $368M in IPO, valuing it at $1.1B | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | And it’s off to the races for another takeout food delivery business going public. Today, it was ‘s turn, an Amsterdam-based company with operations across Europe, which listed on Euronext Amsterdam. Takeaway.com priced its shares at €23 each ($25.82), giving the company an enterprise value of around €849 million ($95... |
Andreessen: “I feel 50 pounds lighter” without Twitter | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | null |
Crunch Report | Beyonce, AI Partnerships and Instacart Shopper Boycotts | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Shazam is finally profitable after a billion downloads | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | Shazam, the mobile and desktop app that acts as a digital ear and song identifier, crossed the 1 billion download mark recently, according to a on Thursday. The London-based company, , also announced that it has achieved profitability, at long last, thanks to a new focus on advertising sales, alongside revenue from ... |
HBO’s new show Westworld explores the hedonism and horror of VR | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | What if you could shoot or screw whoever you wanted without consequences? Would you feel bad about your decisions? Would you pity your victims, even if their digital memories were wiped clean? HBO dives into the heady, murky depths of virtual reality ethics with its new show , premiering October 2nd. Based on Jurassic... |
Virtual reality looks to its adolescence | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | VR to grow up. After more than two years of heavy public hyping since Facebook’s 2014 for $2 billion, virtual reality is reaching an important turning point. VR has been promoted up and down the street and consumers seem to have grown oversaturated with all the media coverage of expensive tech that’s inaccessible to t... |
Prowler.io raises $2M to help AI systems make smarter choices | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | As we inch closer to a time when we may rely on truly autonomous devices to move us or do things on our behalf, the need for software that’s able to think on its feet (or mid-air) will be essential. Now, an artificial intelligence startup working on this emerging area of machine learning has raised a seed round of fund... |
Spotify could out-dance Apple if it does acquire SoundCloud | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | SoundCloud as a company is a disaster, but it’s the only streaming service with the DJ sets and remixes kids love. So it makes perfect sense that Spotify is in advanced talks to acquire SoundCloud, the reports. Spotify already declined to buy it twice over the past year and a half; talks broke down over pricing. But ... |
The Gravy Helmet | John Biggs | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | I t was a hot September night and we were being chased by a ghost. My two friends, Jon and Shane, were sweating. We’re older men, a little wide around the waist, and it was hot down in the basement. We had cleared away the kids’ toys and set up two optical sensors and a high-powered . We were playing with the HTC Vive... |
Google’s Waze Carpool pilot expands to San Francisco-area commuters | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | Google-owned Waze is slowly increasing the scope of its Bay-area commute service trial, but now the service is available via the standard Waze app for anyone who wants to sign up to be a driver, or through a separate, dedicated for riders. Google is still capping trips for both riders and drivers to two rides a day, ... |
Level is a pair of fitness glasses that might be able to tell if you have diabetes or other diseases | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | A pair of glasses, once relegated to nearly blind and blurry-eyed nerds, could one day save your life. At least that’s the pitch from . The eye exam provider just launched a new pair of smart glasses called Level that, for now, focus on fitness. Level not only provides the wearer with keen vision but also counts their... |
Watson Financial Services is born out of IBM’s purchase of Promontory Financial Group | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | If Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest had a big data eating contest brother, IBM would be a serious contender for first place. Today the tech stalwart announced that it had To make sense of this deal, you have to avoid relegating Promontory into the small box of financial services. Instead, it’s most practical to think of... |
Innovation is in all the wrong places | Tom Goodwin | 2,016 | 9 | 29 |
I live a pretty cosmopolitan futuristic life atop a glass skyscraper in New York City, but I’ve yet to get a pizza delivered by drone, order a taxi from Alexa or open a hotel door with my smartwatch. I’ve also not booked a hotel from a bot (because trying that drove me crazy) nor consumed news from one, because that’... |
Volvo to target luxury buyers with self-driving car coming in 5 years | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | High-end vehicle, chauffeur included? You can see why it makes sense that Volvo would target the luxury end of the market with its upcoming self-driving car. Volvo announced plans to field a vehicle by 2021, thanks in part to a that will let it leverage some of their work, but now we have some more details, including... |
Watch Alchemist Accelerator’s Demo Day Right Here | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | TechCrunch is pleased to bring you ‘s Demo Day, today, September 29th, from 3-5pm PT. Alchemist is one of those rare programs that focuses on enterprise startups. But these aren’t your parents’ enterprise companies. Pitches today will span products that create a mortgage marketplace, increase connectivity and help app... |
HP issues non-apology for blocking third-party ink cartridges | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | HP was recently caught in the act using a “security update” to prevent its printers from operating with a number of recycled and third-party ink cartridges. After much outcry the company has relented and is issuing a rollback option — but they’ll be damned if they admit any wrongdoing. “We are committed to transparency... |
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The first episode of the MegaBots webseries takes a wrecking ball to its six-ton robot | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | Seems like we’ve been waiting forever for the big showdown between Team USA and Japan. We’re seemingly no closer at the moment, but at least the team at MegaBots can offer a bit of good old-fashioned destruction to tide us over before the massive machines go toe-to-toe. In the premier of its new web series (the traile... |
MightyTV’s Tinder-style TV recommendation app comes to Android | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | , an app that helps you figure out what to watch next, is now . The startup is led by AdMeld co-founder Brian Adams, and it presents users with a stack of movie and TV recommendations which you swipe through, Tinder-style. If you’ve seen something already, you can say whether or not you liked it, which will influence ... |
Broadband access creeps along but DDoS attacks explode | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | Akamai released its quarterly reports today, one detailing quality of access and the other attacks on companies and infrastructure. The slow march continues towards a better and faster internet for everyone — and that includes hackers. Broadband adoption is measured at various levels — 4, 10, 15, and 25 mbps — and it... |
Contractors are preparing to boycott Instacart over elimination of tips | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 9 | 29 | Online grocery service is facing a boycott from shoppers who are unhappy about the company’s in favor of raising guaranteed delivery rates. Although Instacart the move as a way to smooth out the earnings curve for its shoppers, some of those affected by the change say it will instead reduce their incomes dramatic... |
The race to be the all-in-one app | Navneet Singh | 2,016 | 9 | 16 |
There’s no denying that app fatigue is posing a challenge not just for new app discovery, but for new behavior discovery. If I weren’t completely tethered to the existing apps on my smartphone, I could be exploring new categories of apps that would enable new use cases that could eventually simplify and enrich my lif... |
Robots pave the way for our sci-fi future now | Allan Martinson | 2,016 | 9 | 16 |
Walmart is experimenting with autonomous shopping carts. Domino’s, Uber and Auro are heavily invested in autonomous driving research. Robots are serving as security guards, performing surgery, checking inventory at grocery stores, assisting in warehouse work, delivering our room service and even hunting for . As rob... |
Apple just killed one of the best battery saving hacks for your iPhone | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 16 | — assuming that — but you probably didn’t know that Apple has quietly killed off one of the neatest — and least-known — battery life hacks. If you’re anything like me and want to squeeze as much juice as possible from your iPhone’s battery (without carrying around an external power pack — which too needs to be charg... |
What do you call a ‘non-entrepreneur? Cuba’s best hackers | Elizabeth Gore | 2,016 | 9 | 16 |
What a highly innovative person who builds a product out of nothing and launches something that will change people’s lives? Everywhere besides Cuba, ’d this person an . would never expect in the land of communism, censorship and classic cars that would find a hotbed of entrepreneurship. Technically, it d... |
The FAA asks airlines to prohibit powering up or charging the Galaxy Note 7 on flights | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 16 | A day after the Consumer Product Safety Commission formally issued a recall of Samsung’s occasional explosion-making Galaxy Note 7, the FAA is offering against the troubled phablet. A week or so ago, the Federal Aviation Administration issued a fairly benign suggestion, “strongly advis[ing] passengers not to turn on ... |
Venture capital is a hell of a drug | Eric Paley | 2,016 | 9 | 16 |
There has been lot of money sloshing around the startup world for the past few years. Cheap and accessible has advantages: More founders get the opportunity to pursue big dreams and previously “unfundable companies” not only raise huge amounts of money, but some ultimately achieve unicorn status. Discussions abou... |
Two million people streamed the NFL on Twitter last night and loved it | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 9 | 16 | The numbers on last night’s debut of NFL’s Thursday Night Football on Twitter, and they are pretty damn good. More than 2M people watched the game on Twitter, to 48M who watched it on TV. The average user also spent 22 minutes watching on Twitter, compared to 25 minutes watching on TV (which is the only stat that is... |
Grindr wants tech people to combat LGBTQ inequalities | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 9 | 16 | Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people make up . Meanwhile, trans people are almost . In short, there’s a bevy of issues that negatively impact the LGBTQ community. It’s time to do something about that. Grindr, the hookup app for gay men, is taking advantage of its massive reach ( ) and putting it towar... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 09.16.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 9 | 16 | This was a LIVE recording session of on September 16th starting at 2pmPT/5pm/ET – with: John Borthwick, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page G3’s Facebook page |
Bazillion Beings are AI-driven bots that have to earn their keep… or die | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 9 | 16 | Back in March Microsoft CEO Nadella announced “ ” while The Economist calls chat bots “ ”. So that’s the hype taken care of but what does a bot-driven world look like, especially in the context of the Artificial Intelligence that’s theoretically supposed to drive them? , a company exhibiting in Startup Alley at TechCru... |
Highlights from Disrupt SF 2016 | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 9 | 16 | The doors to TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 opened September 12 at Pier 48 in San Francisco. The three-day conference hosted over 5,000 attendees, with hundreds of thousands more tuning in online. In fact, Disrupt SF 2016 was the first media conference to stream on Periscope Live in full, making it one of our most watched ... |
Google Maps picks up mapping analytics and visualization startup Urban Engines | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 16 | This isn’t so much an acquisition as a welcoming back into the fold. Urban Engines was formed in 2014 by a bunch of former Google employees, with backing from Google Ventures and Eric Schmidt. The startup was formed to help deal with urban congestion and improve user commutes. Last February, the company launched a self... |
Meet Snugb Tulip, a smart baby cam to monitor your little one’s health | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 9 | 16 | Tulip, a cute little gumdrop-shaped baby monitor from is outfitted with a versatile camera that gathers data on room temperature, humidity and air quality around your baby’s crib. The camera can move in multiple directions for wherever your wee one has crawled and the device comes equipped with a wireless pulse oxime... |
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There’s an Intel modem and an extremely skinny A10 chip inside the iPhone 7 | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 16 | While the rest of the iPhone obsessed world was getting ready to stand in line or just impatiently waiting for their pre-order to arrive, the teams at iFixit and Chipworks were sharpening their tools like underfed lumberjacks sitting down to a steak dinner. Both sites offered liveblogs of their iPhone 7 (and 7 Plus) te... |
Hard questions about bot ethics | Amir Shevat | 2,016 | 9 | 16 |
are becoming a part of our life. I wake up in the morning and tell Alexa to play my Brazilian samba, I let Amy set my meetings and I check stats and reports in Slack. builders and users alike are starting to understand that are an integral part of our life. But what are the rules that govern these new tech frien... |
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News orgs sue FBI for details on San Bernardino iPhone exploit | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 9 | 16 | The Associated Press, Vice Media and Gannett, the parent company of USA Today, sued the FBI today in an attempt to uncover information about how the law enforcement agency was able to unlock an iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the San Bernardino shooters. The Justice Department initially sought to force Apple to crea... |
Anyone can prototype and build with Shaper’s Origin CNC machine | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 16 | CNC machining is not a new concept, but it has typically been relegated to the hands of skilled professionals with enough money to bankroll the expensive devices. The complexities of computer vision make Shaper’s machine considerably easier to use than its rivals. There is no reason to sweat the details on the Origin... |
Underrepresented founders: apply now for Include Office Hours with USV | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 9 | 16 | TechCrunch Include are happening in NYC on September 27! Albert Wenger and Andy Weissman of will join TechCrunch to provide valuable advice and feedback to startups. Launched in 2014, Include is TechCrunch’s diversity program, aimed at facilitating opportunities for underrepresented groups in tech to take their sta... |
Behold! It’s the tiniest MAME cabinet in the galaxy | John Biggs | 2,016 | 9 | 16 | In the world of MAME cabinetry – essentially a subculture of arcade lovers who build amazing cabinets for their emulators – the goal is usually to either recreate the arcade games of yore or build something really wild. built something really wild. Originally a weekend project, this MAME cabinet is a few inches tall ... |
Lydia grabs $7.8 million for its peer-to-peer payment service | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 9 | 28 | French startup raised $7.8 million (€7 million) from and in order to expand to other European countries. The startup lets you easily pay back your friends without any fee using a mobile app — among other things. Think about it as a sort of Venmo for France. While Lydia has only been available in France, with toda... |
Singapore’s Greyloft lands $1.1M to build a real estate agency for the digital era | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 28 | Singapore-based has raised $1.1 million to build out its vision of what a real estate agency should look and function like in today’s digital era. Wait! Estate agents? Aren’t they the bad actors that spoil things for everyone? It’s true that many startups attacking the real estate have chosen to disintermediate agent... |
Spotify finally launches in Japan, the world’s second largest music market | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 28 | Afters years of waiting, its music streaming service in Japan. that the launch would happen before September is out, and the company just about delivered on that timeframe. Spotify has had an office in Tokyo for at last 18 months, but protracted negotiations with record labels and the music industry have seen compe... |
Didi Chuxing makes information security push with new U.S. research lab and hires | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 28 | Didi Chuxing, China’s largest ride-hailing company, has hired two distinguished security experts to lead a new U.S.-based research center as part of a major push to increase its data security efforts. , whose 30 year work history includes starting Palo Alto networks, and , who worked with Gong at FireEye and spent tim... |
Crunch Report | Facebook’s futuristic frozen facility | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 28 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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A look inside how Here Be Dragons is pioneering VR storytelling | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 9 | 28 | is a term for describing dangerous or unexplored areas. It’s also the new name of Chris Milk’s VR creative studio, formerly know as Vrse, that’s looking to explore the dangerous world of spherical video. The VR production studio is aiming to continue rediscovering storytelling techniques for the immersive medium. Wi... |
Meet the I.D., Volkswagen’s first purely electric car on track for 2020 | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 28 | Volkswagen did indeed debut its first dedicated electric car at the Paris Motor Show, as heavily teased. The I.D. revealed at the show is still labeled a “concept,” but VW says it’s due to become a buyable car in 2020, with a total range of ups to 373 miles per charge, driven by a 168hp electric motor. The concept desi... |
With a new Costco partnership, Ticketmaster’s developer outreach hits the right notes | Arik Hesseldahl | 2,016 | 9 | 28 |
Living in San Francisco for a few years, you learn a few things about the fall: First, the weather tends to be hotter and sunnier than the summer months. Second, you learn to avoid the area around the area around the Moscone Convention Center in late September and early October. That’s when the software giants Oracle... |
FBI director warns that hackers have been ‘poking around’ voter registration systems | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 28 | The systems underlying our elections process are more important than ever this year, and the bad guys know it too. FBI director James Comey that “bad actors have been poking around” voter registration systems lately. “This is very different than the vote system in the United States, which is very, very hard for someo... |
Facebook, Amazon, Google, IBM and Microsoft come together to create the Partnership on AI | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 28 | The world’s largest technology companies hold the keys to some of the largest databases on our planet. Much like goods and coins before it, data is becoming an important currency for the modern world. The data’s value is rooted in its applications to artificial intelligence. Whichever company owns the data, effectively... |
Some of Samsung’s washing machines are reportedly exploding now, too | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 28 | Probably not the kind of thing Samsung was hoping it would be dealing with in the wake of a , but here we are. And from the company’s media relations wing: It is important to note that Samsung customers have completed hundreds of millions of loads without incident since 2011. That message comes after the U.S. Consum... |
Why have some of Silicon Valley’s top investors started investing in Latin America? | Julie Ruvolo | 2,016 | 9 | 28 |
Latin America just might be the most overlooked emerging market on the planet. The venture dollars in Latin America can’t hold a candle to or China (compare China’s $11.8 billion in new VC funds for the first half of 2016, down 14 percent according the WSJ, to Latin America’s , and the region’s 600 million inhabit... |
Better ingredients, better companies | Shawn Carolan | 2,016 | 9 | 28 |
As an electrical engineering student at the University of Illinois, I had little money. I lived on ramen noodles freshman year and perpetually hunted for deals. I was overjoyed to find a pizza restaurant whose Tuesday-night special of two large cheese pies for $8 could provide a week of gourmet dinners. Papa John (a ... |
Facebook’s F8 2017 conference outgrows SF, hits San Jose April 18th-19th | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 9 | 28 | Facebook couldn’t fit all the developers for its into San Francisco’s Fort Mason any more, so at San Jose’s McEnery Convention Center on April 18th and 19th, 2017. Registration hasn’t started yet but will follow the same rules as last year, which you’ll want to follow if you’re trying to get a seat as it always sel... |
Aetna will help cover the cost of customers’ Apple Watches | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 28 | Aetna just in a big way. The healthcare provider announced a number of different iOS-only apps aimed at quantifying wellness and streamlining the healthcare management process that are set to arrive early next year. It’s also investing a ton in the Apple Watch, providing the wearable for all of its 50,000 or so emplo... |
Google’s home delivery service, Google Express, hits New England | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 9 | 28 | Google today announced an expansion of its home delivery shopping service , which is now available across a large part of the East Coast. The service lets online shoppers order consumer products like electronics, clothing, health and beauty items, home décor and even dry good groceries, from either the web or a dedica... |
Skymind raises $3M to bring its Java deep-learning library to the masses | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 28 | , along with tools for implementation, today closed $3 million in financing from , , , , and . Skymind was previously part of Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 batch and has taken money from Joe Montana’s and a number of other prominent angels. Chris Nicholson, the company’s co-founder and CEO, decided to start the c... |
A robot learns to cope with the loss of an eye in an experiment carried out on the ISS | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 28 | Humans are pretty good at ballparking distances, even with one eye closed — but it turns out computer vision systems have a hard time with it. Researchers hope to fix that, or at least make robots a little more robust, by teaching them to navigate a space — in zero gravity, to boot. The reason we’re so good at it is t... |
The 12 startups making their case at ERA Demo Day | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 9 | 28 | F They also pair participating startups with an industry-relevant mentor to help bring the startup to market. This year, the eleven of the twelve startups . One such notable alumni of the program is , a software company that assists clients with managing complaints — currently, they assist Burj Khalifia building mana... |
LoftSmart raises $1.7 million for its local rental marketplace for college towns | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 9 | 28 | My first home-way-from-home was a room in a house with an unrepeatable nickname on West College St. in Oberlin, OH. I lived with 8 other people in a two-story, rambling warren filled with rooms and roomlets that had been created over the years to shelter increasing numbers of people in the same finite amount of space. ... |
In the aftermath of Italy’s quake, tech supported relief efforts | Marcello Mari | 2,016 | 9 | 17 |
On August 24th, a warm summer night, all of Europe was shaken when an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the moment magnitude scale, hit central Italy. “The town [Amatrice] doesn’t exist anymore…..it’s all gone,” said Sergio Pirozzi, mayor of the small town of Amatrice during an interview immediately after the tragedy. More... |
How smart materials will literally reshape the world around us | Max Moruzzi | 2,016 | 9 | 17 |
Over the past few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been the white-hot center of a flurry of activity. Startups that create embedded sensors for physical things have been snapped up by larger companies at a rapid pace, with deals for IoT startups totaling more than $30 billion in the past four years. The IoT ma... |
Brazil’s tech-sector bright spots beckon as it begins to emerge from long economic crisis | Romero Rodrigues | 2,016 | 9 | 17 |
Brazil showed off its cultural brilliance, spirit and national pride on a grand stage during the recent Olympic Games in Rio. Despite a prolonged macroeconomic crisis, the world’s ninth largest economy is showing positive signs that it may roar back as an investment magnet and innovation powerhouse — especially drive... |
SpaceX’s Mars Colonial Transporter can go “well beyond” Mars | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 17 | Elon Musk just teased that one of SpaceX’s more future-focused projects might be more ambitious than previously thought. On Twitter, the SpaceX CEO revealed that the company’s Mars Colonial Transporter (MCT) will need a new name, since in fact, it “can go well beyond Mars.” Turns out MCT can go well beyond Mars, so wil... |
Catching Pokémon with the new Pokémon Go Plus | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 17 | Go Plus has finally arrived, giving Pokémon Go players a way to catch critters and collect items without ever taking their phones out of their pockets. After only a few hours playing with the Go, I already feel like it has a good chance of pulling me back into the game, at least for a little while, and the entire expe... |
Gillmor Gang: Nickel and Dime | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 9 | 17 | The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, September 16, 2016. It’s multiple streaming networks and the Third UI as the Gang meanders from iOS 10 to Twitter’s Apple TV global network debut. Debate prep for the deep learners. @stevegillmor, @Bort... |
What do you call a tech unicorn that goes public? | Ravi Mhatre | 2,016 | 9 | 17 |
Are tech IPOs coming back? That is an ever-present question in Silicon Valley during any lull in the flow of shining private companies that get anointed as public companies. And we certainly have been in a long lull. This year, just one venture-backed tech company, , has made it public, compared to an average of 37 ... |
Fox files suit against Netflix for employee poaching | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 17 | 20th Century Fox is looking to get an injunction against Netflix to prevent it from luring away employees under contract, according to a new lawsuit filed with an LA court. Recent Netflix hires Tara Flynn and Marcos Waltenberg were apparently the proverbial straws that broke the camel’s back, as both ex-Fox employees h... |
Microsoft will close its Skype office in London | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 17 | Microsoft is going to close Skype’s London office, in a move that could impact the jobs of the nearly 400 people employed there. The company told the that is will “unify some engineering positions,” but that it “will be entering into a consultation process to help those affected by the redundancies.” The London offic... |
A kid held up a sign with his Venmo ID on ESPN and thousands of people sent him money | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 9 | 10 | Each Saturday during the college football season ESPN hosts College GameDay, an pre-game show with a bunch of football experts and hundreds of screaming college kids in the background. Today one of those screaming college kids was , a student who brilliantly decided to hold up a sign with his Venmo username asking his... |
Consumer Physics, creators of the SCiO molecular scanner, respond to Kickstarter claims | John Biggs | 2,016 | 9 | 17 | Like most small products with a cult following, . Those detractors took to the Internet recently to complain that the handheld molecular scanner, which raised $2.5 million in 2014, still hasn’t shipped. The result? Negative press and plenty of Tweets. I asked SCiO’s creator, Dror Sharon, what was going on with the dev... |
Why I’m giving my company Election Day off | Hicham Oudghiri | 2,016 | 9 | 10 |
This year’s U.S. presidential election is confusing for everyone. The popularity contest that has become the election is diluting our time, attention and ability to think critically. Which is ironic, given that we are more connected to information than we have ever been before, and the computation necessary to model ... |
Facebook isn’t just fighting ad blockers, it’s fighting the underlying causes of blocking | Roy Rosenfeld | 2,016 | 9 | 10 |
Independent publishers are terrified of platform dependency these days, and for good reason: According to Parse.ly, Facebook is the to their sites. Facebook and Google together account for 65 percent of digital ad revenue, according to Pew’s State of the News Media 2016 . To put that in perspective, that’s up from... |
At Amazon the Flywheel Effect drives innovation | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 9 | 10 | When Amazon CTO Werner Vogels talks about his company’s philosophy around innovation, it’s probably a good idea to listen. Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos has always found a way to capitalize on technology trends, whether being an early online retailer, seeing the future of cloud computing and forming Amazon Web Serv... |
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