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Hack for the environment at the Disrupt SF Hackathon | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 9 | 9 | This weekend, hundreds of developers and engineers will pack into the Disrupt SF conference space for our , a 24-hour race to build a brand-new product. Competitors will present their inventions on stage and win prizes, in a TechCrunch tradition that’s launched products like GroupMe. But this year, we’re doing things ... |
Incoming McAfee CEO Chris Young on his company’s post-Intel future | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 9 | to spin off its security unit into a reincarnation of McAfee, attention is quickly turning to Chris Young, the guy tasked with steering the security ship through tumultuous waters and back toward relative independence. Young has been running Intel’s Security Group for quite some time now as senior vice president and g... |
User’s guide to Disrupt SF 2016 | Emma Comeau | 2,016 | 9 | 9 | Hard to believe that Disrupt SF is just around the corner! Check out this guide for helpful event info. We want you to have a successful experience at Disrupt. Check out these tips to have a great day. Disrupt SF’s location at is great because it is close to public transit and easily accessible via any shared ride se... |
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Coupa is the latest unicorn to file for an IPO | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 9 | 9 | Yet Coupa is amongst a small group of tech companies that are expected to IPO this fall. Many are being advised not to go public too close to the U.S. presidential election, in case an unexpected outcome (Trump) wreaks havoc on the markets. |
Facebook steps in to prove the value of chatbots with Tommy Hilfiger | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 9 | 9 | Here come the fashbots, and this time they might actually be useful. Facebook’s seemingly half-baked chatbot platform soured many on the potential of conversation user interfaces. The first bots built by outside developers back in April were clumsy and more trouble than just using a website. So Facebook’s Creative Shop... |
Dropbox responds to accusations its Mac desktop client hacks OS X security | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 9 | 9 | Dropbox has responded to concerns about how it implements the desktop client of its cloud storage service on Apple’s macOS platform, conceding it needs to do more to communicate how the integration functions and the permissions it’s requesting. “Clearly we need to do a better job communicating about Dropbox’s OS integr... |
Galaxy Note 7 recall gets government treatment as the CPSC piles on | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 9 | The Consumer Product Safety Commission has finally weighed in on the Galaxy Note 7 debacle, urging users not just to be careful, , but to “power them down and stop using or charging the device.” Samsung preemptively after reports of spontaneous combustion, which the manufacturer blamed on bad lithium-ion batteries... |
Opportunities and challenges in commercializing space privately | Qasim Mohammad | 2,016 | 9 | 9 |
The dawn of the age was, in many ways, a direct response to heightened competitive political and military rhetoric from major global superpowers in the latter part of the previous century. The pressure to conquer stemmed from the threat of progress by foreign nations, and, consequently, an ideology. But when gove... |
Google’s WaveNet uses neural nets to generate eerily convincing speech and music | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 9 | Generating speech from a piece of text is a common and important task undertaken by computers, but it’s pretty rare that the result could be mistaken for ordinary speech. A new technique from researchers at Alphabet’s DeepMind takes a completely different approach, producing speech and even music that sounds eerily lik... |
Rebecca Minkoff’s Fashion Week show uses augmented reality to help real women shop the look live | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 9 | 9 | Not only is augmented reality helping us capture all the Pokémon, it’s also made its way to fall preview show at this Saturday. About 350 fashion-forward individuals will get an up-close look at the new line in person, but those not able to snag a ticket can feel like they are right there with a 360 live experience ... |
Twitter launches an Alexa app | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 9 | 9 | Too lazy to read your tweets? Now, Amazon Alexa can just read them to you instead. Yes, that’s right: Twitter today has an , which means you can listen to the latest from Twitter right on your Echo speaker or other Alexa-powered device. The new app can give you general information on trends, or deliver information fr... |
Crunch Report | Facebook Snapchat Clone in Poland | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 30 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Meerkat, star app of 2015, is officially dead | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 9 | 30 | Remember ? It came out of nowhere in early 2015 — a star of SXSW, in particular — and was on everyone’s tongue for weeks. Then came Periscope, a strikingly similar competitor built mostly in stealth mode, and word that Twitter had acquired it for nearly $100 million dollars before much of the world even knew it existe... |
The Cancer Moonshot needs a heavy dose of computational infrastructure | Julia Fan Li | 2,016 | 9 | 30 | Top cancer researchers recently reported their findings and recommendations to President Obama and Vice President Biden’s Cancer Moonshot task force. To my surprise, in the Blue Ribbon Panel’s report heavily concentrate on enabling computational infrastructure. Each recommendation included these key words: sharing da... |
Honest Co. is reformulating its soaps after ingredients controversy | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 9 | 30 | The consumer products startup founded by Jessica Alba, , on Friday told that it plans to reformulate its dish soap, laundry detergent and other cleaners after an earlier controversy over their ingredients. The Honest Co. markets its products as gentler, healthier and more environmentally sustainable than those of ma... |
Here’s how you can stop jumping back and forth between Google’s calendar and map apps | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 30 | Logistics are difficult, especially when every day you’re trying to keep track of 9 meetings, 13 phone calls, a dinner, a post-dinner, and a post-post-dinner. In a recent update, Google has decided to do its part to make daily logistics easier . Now when you open Google Maps, you’ll be able to see upcoming travel arra... |
Twitch announces Twitch Prime, Loyalty Badges and video uploads | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 9 | 30 | Twitch, the video game live-streaming service acquired by Amazon , kicked off its annual TwitchCon conference this afternoon with a keynote. With keynotes generally come a bit of news… and sure enough, here’s what’s new: The first Twitch Prime “loot” bonus: Twitch Prime members will get access to Tyrande, from Blizzar... |
Rosetta goes out in a blaze of glory — and science | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 30 | Let’s all take a moment and pour one out metaphorically for Rosetta, the pioneering spacecraft that gave our newly spacefaring race its first comet landing. The orbiter early this morning, making a controlled crash into the comet’s surface, destroying itself in the process but gathering valuable data down to the last... |
Weekly Roundup: Snapchat’s new Specs, Beyoncé is a tech investor and SpaceX’s plans to colonize Mars | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 9 | 30 | This week, Elon Musk revealed SpaceX’s plan for humans to inhabit Mars, Google rebranded its cloud services and rumors swirled about a Twitter bid. These are the top stories of the week, and The little blue bird may find a new home soon. Word is that are all eyeing a Twitter bid. If Google buys, . But of all. All... |
Apple is screwing up HomeKit; here’s how they can fix it | Daniel Conrad | 2,016 | 9 | 30 |
The real magic of the Internet of Things happens when devices work together. It will be magic when Siri, on your iPhone, can adjust your thermostat or confirm that you locked the back door; when your door lock can tell your sound system you’re home and you don’t even have to push a button to start the music. That’s n... |
Nutanix up 131% on first day of trading | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 9 | 30 | With clients like Toyota and Best Buy, Nutanix aims to make it easier for businesses to manage their data centers. Its cloud offerings are making infrastructure “invisible, so the businesses can focus on applications and services,” CEO Dheeraj Pandey told TechCrunch. David Blumberg of Blumberg Capital also invested in ... |
Twitch appears to be getting its own version of Amazon Prime, called “Twitch Prime” | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 9 | 30 | It appears that are not the only thing Amazon has been working on with the live-streaming site it owns. A small number of Twitch users are now reporting seeing a new section called “Twitch Prime” pop up in their profiles. According to a banner ad spotted by one user, Twitch Prime will include perks like “free loot ev... |
Nintendo shows off some highly nerdy features of the NES Mini | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 30 | Nintendo has further taken the wraps off the — which is to say, the one we’re all buying ourselves as soon as it’s available. An aggressively retro-themed video released today visually demonstrates three of the NES Mini’s features. Brace yourselves, it’s about to get real nerdy in here. Most relevant to the average pl... |
Apply now for Include Office Hours with First Round Capital! | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 9 | 30 | TechCrunch Include are happening this October 10th! Phin Barnes and Bill Trenchard from in San Francisco 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 t... |
Yahoo open sources its porn-detecting neural network | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 30 | Ever wonder how things get marked NSFW on the internet? It’s Yahoo. Yahoo does it — with their special-made, smut-trained, porn-detecting neural network. And now you can, too, because the team behind the system has . I guess you could say they’re down to fork. I jest, of course: Yahoo’s algorithm doesn’t do it all. In... |
PewDiePie’s new game “Tuber Simulator” hits the top of the App Store, crashes | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 9 | 30 | What happens when the world’s biggest YouTube star Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg to download and play his new mobile game? The game promptly shoots up to the top of the App Store, and the . That’s what happened, at least, following the and launch of “PewDiePie’s Tuber Simulator,” the video star’s latest game, whic... |
New Google Tilt Brush demo shows what it’s like to paint with friends in VR | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 9 | 30 | One of the more fun usages of virtual reality to have already emerged is Google’s Tilt Brush. The VR painting simulator is often one of the first things I demo to first-time VR users and it really allows people to lose themselves in a VR world and make it whatever they want it to be. Art is more fun with friends, and i... |
So now we have a federal CISO | Jeff Williams | 2,016 | 9 | 30 |
So now we have a (Brigadier General [retired] Gregory J. Touhill) as part of the (Office of Management and Budget). But what does that really mean? We have had a series of leaders who have played a similar role over the years. Do you remember our first “Cyber Czar,” Richard Clarke? Clarke later wrote a book calle... |
Atomic is like Google Docs for interface prototyping | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 9 | 30 | Meet , a prototyping service for your next mobile app or website. It works in your browser, but it’s a lot more powerful than you’d expect. Atomic handles animations and lets you make interactive designs. And you can collaborate on your designs with your team in real time. The startup launched the this week adding a... |
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Facebook “Messenger Day” is the chat app’s new Snapchat Stories clone | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 9 | 30 | Facebook is stealing the Stories format and invading countries where Snapchat isn’t popular yet. Today in Poland it launched “Messenger Day”, which lets people share illustrated filter-enhanced photos and videos that disappear in 24 hours, just like on Snapchat. By using the international popularity of Messenger to spr... |
9 tricks to appear smart in brainstorming meetings | Sarah Cooper | 2,016 | 9 | 30 |
During these largely pointless exercises, the point is to contribute using the mere gravitas of your presence, make other people’s ideas seem like your ideas, and look like a true leader by questioning the efficiency of the whole process. Here are 9 tricks to make you look like you’re the creative force on your team.... |
Clinton campaign and Dems get $20M from Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 9 | 8 | It’s no secret that of her presidential opponent Donald Trump when it comes to fundraising from Silicon Valley — but the second-largest donation of the election season just pushed her financial lead even further. The $20 million infusion comes from Asana and Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz and his wife Cari Tuna... |
Crunch Report | Airbnb Fights Discrimination on Platform | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 8 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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AI can make your money work for you | Nathan Richardson | 2,016 | 9 | 8 |
The way we thought of apps back in 2008 is how we’ll view artificial intelligence ; 2016 will look like the AI stone age. Although apps have created completely new behaviors, especially in the fintech space with mobile banking and shared payments, the app economy, unfortunately, seems to be reaching a peak, and mone... |
The Swiss watch industry is doomed | John Biggs | 2,016 | 9 | 8 | slide in Tim Cook’s keynote that probably made the watch industry potentates choke on their oysters St Jacques. It was a simply a clear comparison between Apple Watch sales and sales of traditional watch brands, both high and low. And it wasn’t good. At the bottom of the barrel was Japan’s Casio, makers of heavy-duty ... |
FAA warns not to check your Galaxy Note 7 or fly with it on | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 8 | An exploding phone is by no means a good thing, but if it has to explode, it’s hard to think of a worse place for it to do so than on a plane. Well, not hard, but it’s definitely a bad one. In the wake of the occasional combusting Galaxy Note 7 and its , the FAA has advised passengers to exercise caution when flying... |
Peak Design and building a company on the Kickstarter platform | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 9 | 8 | away in stealth mode on new products and services with an Apple-esque fear of news leaks. decided to go to the other extreme, building a company in full view of its audience — and in the face of its competitors. Because they eschewed traditional investors in favor of a series of Kickstarter campaigns, I decided to ta... |
NASA has successfully launched OSIRIS-REx, their first asteroid sample return mission | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 9 | 8 | NASA’s spacecraft has successfully launched from Cape Canaveral with the help of 1.2 million pounds of thrust provided by an Atlas V rocket. The spacecraft will journey to a near-Earth asteroid known as Bennu and return an asteroid sample to Earth. This will be NASA’s first asteroid sample return mission. Designed to... |
The U.S. names its first chief information security officer | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 9 | 8 | A former Air Force general and Department of Homeland Security official has been appointed as the first federal chief information security officer, the White House announced today. Gregory Touhill will take charge of cybersecurity across the federal government, planning and implementing policy changes to make the natio... |
Breathometer teams up with Philips to take on bad breath | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 9 | 8 | Eighty million people in the U.S. struggle with bad breath — many of them don’t even know that they do, but the people around them are likely all too aware. Last year at CES, teased a connected device called Mint that measures a user’s breath and gives them some tips on how to improve their oral health. At IFA this y... |
It’s a long, hard road from idea to IPO | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 9 | 8 | It may not seem it, but coming up with an idea for your startup is probably the easiest part of launching your own company. As one industry insider told me, there are a million ways to screw up that idea through poor execution, and many, many lose their way. Yet a precious few fight through the problems and the challen... |
Revel Systems inks payments deal with Shell as rumors swirl of a sale to IBM | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 9 | 8 | that point-of-sale startup is in early acquisition negotiations with , and while both Revel and IBM declined to comment when we asked about it, a deal that the startup announced today could provide an interesting clue for why a company like Big Blue might be interested in buying it. Today Revel announced a deal wit... |
How to watch Disrupt SF 2016 | Travis Bernard | 2,016 | 9 | 8 | Everyone has a different preference for how to watch Disrupt, so we’re giving you tons of options. Here’s what’s on deck for the show. The event kicks off with the Hackathon on Saturday, September 10 at Pier 48 in San Francisco. Hackathon presentations start at 11:30 am on Sunday, September 11, and the main event takes... |
Snapchat could buy startups without raising money via new credit line | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 9 | 8 | Buying cool is the best way for big companies to stay cool. Snapchat rightly believes in itself, and now it’s getting bankers to bet on that vision without selling its precious equity. Snapchat has secured a line of credit led by Morgan Stanley, potentially with other banks participating, . Snapchat can borrow against... |
Chipotle to test burrito delivery by drone with Project Wing at Virginia Tech | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 9 | 8 | Alphabet’s innovation lab X has a drone-focused team called Project Wing which has just announced a plan to commence aerial burrito delivery, in partnership with Chipotle, on the campus of Virgina Tech next week. Project Wing’s mission it to make fully autonomous, or self-flying drones, that can deliver anything to any... |
Restaurant tech startup Salido raises $2M | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 9 | 8 | , a startup that describes itself as “the restaurant operating system,” is announcing that it has raised $2 million in additional funding. This round from strategic investors doubles . Phil Suarez, who to launch well-known restaurants including ABC Kitchen and the eponymous Jean-Georges, led the new funding. Founded... |
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SpotHero is ready for the future of autonomous parking | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 9 | 8 | is not new to the on-demand parking game. It raised in 2012, and another in Series B funding in 2015. This for a service that allows drivers to prepay for a parking space in a garage via app before the car ever leaves the driveway. “You can reserve a spot for three hours or three days,” said SpotHero co-founder an... |
Actev Motors, co-founded by Tony Fadell, prepares to start shipping its smart go-karts | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 9 | 8 | , a young, Mountain View, Ca.-based company, is gearing up to ship its eagerly anticipated all-electric smart go-karts beginning this fall. The vehicles, for kids ages 5 to 9, cost roughly $1,000, including a Formula One-like body kit that comes in silver or red, and shipping. They come with a lot of neat features th... |
To compete with Amazon, Walmart should cut itself in half | Tien Tzuo | 2,016 | 9 | 8 |
wasn’t pretty. Overall revenue growth came in at a tepid 0.7 percent for the first of the fiscal year. Its e-commerce sales grew 11.8 percent, but the total e-commerce market is tearing ahead at 15 percent quarterly growth, which means they’re actively losing that market. Oh, and it , a massively unprofitable e... |
Announcing the Disrupt SF Hackathon sponsor prizes and API workshop schedule | Contributor | 2,016 | 9 | 8 | This year’s TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon is set to be the best yet. We’re a few days away from the main event and are giddy with excitement. Check out the sponsor prizes and agenda of events to prepare yourself for an amazing hackathon experience. Team with the ‘Best Voice User Experience Using Amazon Alexa’ will wi... |
The transformation of sport will bring rich rewards | Simon Baker | 2,016 | 9 | 8 |
The inflation-busting deals being secured by sports rights owners around the world demonstrate the unwavering value of live sports. for live Premier League TV rights for three seasons from 2016-17, representing a 70 percent increase on the previous cycle. Meanwhile, for rights to the Olympics through 2032 and the... |
China’s anti-trust regulators are investigating the Didi-Uber deal | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 1 | China has opened an investigation to determine whether violates national anti-trust laws. The development — which was — was confirmed by Didi. “We are in communication with the authorities,” a spokesperson told TechCrunch. At this point there is no indication when the probe, which was triggered by feedback, will be... |
Crunch Report | SpaceX Rocket Explodes at Cape Canaveral | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 1 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Apple might live-tweet the iPhone 7 launch from its @apple account | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 1 | Apple is upping its Twitter game after it took the wraps off an official account on the microblogging service. The account — — has been around for some time. It has already picked up more than 55,000 followers at the time of writing but, as of today, it got an official Apple feel with a company profile pic and back... |
Google ends modular phone Project Ara, though licensing may be an option | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 9 | 1 | After three years of development, starting at Motorola then transferred to Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group, Project Ara is being “suspended” and ultimately, is cancelled. Even after selling Moto to Lenovo in 2014, Google has touted the modular smartphone project as not only an alternative to current sma... |
A totally real conversation between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg about a rocket | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 1 | |
Apple patches zero-day vulnerabilities in Safari and OS X | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 1 | The aimed at activist Ahmed Mansoor last week prompted a quick response from Apple, with a patch for iOS arriving the day of the news. Turns out the three (!) zero-day exploits deployed against Mansoor kind of worked against Safari and OS X, as well. Apple issued a patch today to fix that, but you’ll need Yosemite or ... |
Intel could put fireworks out of work, gets FAA permission to fly drone fleets at night | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 9 | 1 | As r Among others, CNN has obtained the right to fly a tethered drone over people for news gathering purposes; PrecisionHawk obtained an exemption to fly its agricultural drones “beyond the line of sight,” or where operators can’t see them with the naked eye; and BNSF Railroad has obtained the right to fly over people ... |
Despite looming jail time, Gurbaksh Chahal is back as Gravity4 CEO | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 9 | 1 | Gurbaksh Chahal is back as CEO of Gravity4, the adtech startup he founded and was forced to relinquish control of after his probation was revoked in a domestic violence case, according to a post on the company’s website. Chahal handed the reins of the company to his sister, , after a judge found in July that he by a... |
We’re one step closer to the Holodeck with this 20-camera 3D body-capture setup | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 1 | Have you ever been in a VR conference call and thought, well, I know what everyone looks like from the , but what about the other sides? The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications has your back — and theirs. Researchers there have created a powerful multi-camera setup that captures in 3D every aspect of someone a... |
43 million passwords hacked in Last.fm breach | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 1 | Crikey: 43,570,999 user accounts were breached in a hack of Last.fm that occurred in March of 2012, . Three months after the breach, in June of 2012, Last.fm “We are currently investigating the leak of some Last.fm user passwords. This follows recent password leaks on other sites, as well as information posted online... |
How CIOs climb from the back room to the boardroom | Tom Frangione | 2,016 | 9 | 1 |
Today more than ever, technology is transforming how enterprises do business. The IT profession has evolved from being reactionary to proactive, and CIOs now have a seat at the table to drive company strategy. Greylock COO Tom Frangione catches up with Kim Stevenson, Intel COO for the Client and Internet of Things Bu... |
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No, Palo Alto isn’t going to ban coding | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 1 | A in The New York Times on a culture clash taking place in Palo Alto set off a bit of speculation as to the possibility of “a ban on coding,” as the article put it. Well, don’t worry. That’s not going to happen. It was Mayor Patrick Burt himself who was quoted in the piece, and whose office was reported as looking int... |
Glitzy watch manufacturer MB&F announces the Balthazar clockwork robot | John Biggs | 2,016 | 9 | 1 | Today in Part 23 of our series entitled Goofy Rich-Person Gadgetry, we present the MB&F Balthazar, a posable robot that tells the time and has a “dark side.” First, a little context. This is basically a “novelty” designed by a watchmaker to sell to rich people. It’s entirely hand made and features an exposed mechanism ... |
Blue Apron’s “Farm Egg” makes me question everything | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 9 | 1 | It may seem as simple as just that. An egg. The food that Atkins and Paleo diets made popular once again. The food that draws one of many dividing lines between vegetarians and vegans. But this particular egg is one of the more layered, even scrambled (if you will), symbols of Silicon Valley startup-dom. It’s easy to d... |
At Pear Demo Day, 13 companies to watch | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 9 | 1 | As dozens of Teslas baked in the sprawling Palo Alto parking lot of a local law firm yesterday, 100 top investors packed into a high-ceilinged meeting room. There, they listened as 13 startups deliver four-minute presentations about why they’re worth watching. The companies — all of them roughly six months old or young... |
Bradley Tusk, Hemant Taneja and Ted Ullyot are talking policy at Disrupt SF | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 9 | 1 | It’s a question every major startup must answer eventually: What do you do when the regulators come knocking? The answer varies depending on who you ask — for Uber, the solution used to be holding firm and butting heads with regulators, but in more recent years the ridesharing company turned to former Obama advisor t... |
Tech and government: The state of our union | Matt Weinberg | 2,016 | 9 | 1 |
Technology innovators tend to operate with an ethos that they consider diametrically opposed to that of government, frequently leading to friction and adversarial attitudes. They view tech as fast-moving, inventive and needing to be free of bureaucracy — while government is staid, stodgy and constrained by restrictiv... |
Crunch Report | DJI Folding Drone Leaked Photo | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 6 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Star Trek and Harry Potter have ruined business travel | Mark McSpadden | 2,016 | 9 | 1 |
Most of us techies agree that optimal travel is (Star Trek) or (Harry Potter). The dream is instantaneous point-to-point transport. All business transportation should be evaluated based on how close it comes to approaching this ideal. Because modern travel isn’t instantaneous, our main metrics are productivity — ... |
iZettle buys intelligentpos to expand from mobile payments to commerce solutions | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 9 | 6 | While Square continues to take , a would-be homegrown rival has made its first acquisition to expand from mobile payments into a wider set of commerce solutions. — the Swedish mobile payments startup backed by the likes of Intel, American Express and Spanish banking giant Santander — has bought , whose cloud-based ... |
3D printing technologies explained | Filemon Schoffer | 2,016 | 9 | 6 |
If you’ve ever been lost in the midst of all the , you know how hard it is to get a grip on the different machinery, applications and companies involved. Patent disputes, crafty marketing teams and feuds amongst inventors have led to a point where identical go by different trademarks and are limited in their a... |
Robots and on-board ovens deliver on Zume’s promise of better pizza | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 1 | a time when the Pizza Hut Stuffed Crust pizza was enough to get people excited. Today, in a world of and custom-modified , being excited about pizza is just not as easy as it used to be. founder Julia Collins and her Elon Musk-esque approach to pizza doesn’t care much for the rest of the pizza industry. In her min... |
Motoring community DriveTribe secures $6.5M from 21st Century Fox | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 9 | 6 | , the vertical online community for motoring fans by former Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, has now secured $6.5 million (£4.9 million) from 21st Century Fox. The move comes less than three weeks after the announcement of its $5.5 million Series A funding, led by and . The site ... |
What’s next for the U.S. drone market? | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 9 | 6 | Following a major for the domestic drone industry last week, industry insiders are expecting a big uptick in dollars invested in U.S. drone-tech companies — just maybe not an immediate one. As we previously reported, the U.S. Department of Transportation and the Federal Aviation Administration implemented , or Small... |
Buddha was a data scientist | Tara Cottrell | 2,016 | 9 | 6 | More than two millennia ago, wandering the footpaths of ancient India, preaching in village huts and forest glens, was biohacking his health. He tried holding his breath so long his ears exploded, and even the gods assumed he was dead. (He wasn’t.) He then tried extreme fasting, reducing down his daily meals until h... |
LG keeps the second screen and adds more cameras for its Nougat-sporting V20 flagship | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 6 | A day after IFA and Labor Day and mere hours before Apple takes the stage in the same city — LG really doesn’t have a knack for timing. It’s unfortunate to say the least. Here in the States, the company has been hovering around third place in smartphone market share. Globally, that number is a few spots lower, as compa... |
The Coros LINX is a smart bike helmet that makes sense | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 6 | are thick on the ground, a full gadget ecosystem is hard to come by. Seattle startup is looking to change that with the LINX, a helmet-app combo (with handlebar controller) that lets you listen to music, take calls, get turn-by turn directions and track progress made along your route. I’ve tried it, and this thing ac... |
Squire makes software for barbershops | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 9 | 6 | , a company that launched last week at Y Combinator’s Demo Day, makes software for barbershops. Not salons or beauty parlors or wherever else you get your hair cut… just barbershops. So what makes a barbershop so unique that it warrants its own software platform? A few things. First, most customers book a barbershop ... |
OEMs and startups: The incubator at Jaguar Land Rover HQ | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 9 | 6 | The first question you might have when learning that Jaguar Land Rover has its technology headquarters in Portland, OR, is, “Why?” There’s an easy answer for that question, said Rupert Poole, Senior Collaborations Manager of Future Technology at the facility in Portland. JLR, as it’s known, already had a relationship w... |
Samsung investigating reports of Galaxy Note 7 explosions | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 1 | Samsung is looking into reports from multiple users that the recently released Galaxy Note 7 has issues wherein a few . A Samsung spokesperson told TechCrunch that they’re “conducting a thorough inspection,” and reported earlier that a potential recall of all Note 7 devices is one option on the table. Here’s Samsung... |
Pinterest brings on a new head of engineering who specializes in image search | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 9 | 6 | Pinterest said it has hired Li Fan, the former head of image search at Google, as the company’s new head of engineering. Much of Pinterest’s most promising technology involves searching for objects within photos and then using that technology to rank and display the most relevant content to users, whether that’s throug... |
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Lost in translation: Streaming in China | Yoel Zanger | 2,016 | 9 | 6 |
The rapid growth of streaming is taking the globe by storm, but no country seems to have the market potential for OTT video streaming quite like China. While , it is not a surprise that more than 720 million Chinese internet users seem like the next big opportunity. The reality, however, is less than perfect. Prior ... |
There’s still a gender wage gap in tech | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 9 | 6 | and recently declared that there’s no wage gap between men and women at their respective companies. That’s cool, I guess, but that type of men-versus-women analysis is far too simplistic. There’s still a major wage gap that affects transgender and gender non-conforming people in the tech industry. Between December 20... |
Obama and Clinton weigh in on cyber warfare tactics | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 9 | 6 | into American political organizations’ networks are driving discussions about the rules of engagement for cyber warfare, and forcing America’s own hacking of foreign governments into the light. President Barack Obama told reporters at the G-20 summit in China that he has been in discussions with other world leaders, i... |
Postmates is raising at least $100 million to fuel its on-demand ambitions | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 9 | 6 | We’re hearing from sources that Postmates, which is among a few companies that are seen as operating in the difficult on-demand space, is raising at least $100 million in a round led by Founders Fund. Sources stressed that the round has not closed, and that things may change over time. Despite the challenges of working... |
Callstats.io raises $3M Series A round for its WebRTC analytics service | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 9 | 6 | , a relatively new web standard that allows you to make audio and video calls from your browser without plugins, is becoming increasingly popular. But as more companies and products adopt it, the need for getting better insights into how these calls perform (or when they drop and why) also increases. specializes in m... |
What to expect from Sony’s PlayStation event | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 6 | Sony is having a PlayStation event tomorrow in New York, where it plans to provide an update on its PlayStation business and PS4. Most people agree that means it’s going to show us a couple of PlayStation hardware updates, including a previously announced more powerful PlayStation 4 (supposedly codenamed “Neo”) with su... |
How Facebook News Feed Works | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 9 | 6 | ultimate guide to how Facebook chooses what to show in your News Feed, and how you can get your content seen by more people. Understanding how the News Feed works is tough because the algorithm is always changing. So TechCrunch launched this research project for today’s 10th anniversary of News Feed, interviewing Face... |
French on-demand delivery startup Tok Tok Tok to close, sells tech assets to Just Eat | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 9 | 6 | The European on-demand delivery fall out continues. This time it’s the turn of France’s , a Postmates-styled , which sent an email to customers earlier today announcing that it was shutting down and that the startup’s tech platform has been acquired by an “leading player” in the industry. However, TechCrunch has le... |
Retail POS service Green Bits wants to revolutionize the budding marijuana industry | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 9 | 6 | With the sale of marijuana either for recreational or medicinal purposes becoming legal in more and more states, new and existing retailers are struggling to find ways to keep track of inventory while remaining compliant with various state and federal laws. , a cloud-based financial management application, are tackling... |
Investing in AI offers more rewards than risks | KR Sanjiv | 2,016 | 9 | 24 |
It’s difficult to predict how artificial intelligence technology will change over the next 10 to 20 years, but there are plenty of . By 2018, more than 3 million human workers; by 2020, smart machines will be a top investment priority for more than 30 percent of CIOs. Everything from to is already being replac... |
Former Rothenberg employees allege mistreatment and cash management problems | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 9 | 24 | As TechCrunch has previously reported, there’s been an from the Rothenberg “ecosystem,” amid claims of a significant breach of and other unconventional behavior by the venture firm’s founder, Mike Rothenberg. This week, we have learned more details about alleged employee abuses within Rothenberg Ventures, recently re... |
Gillmor Gang: Just A Scratch | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 9 | 24 | The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, September 23, 2016. With two days until the First Debate, the waiting’s almost over and the voting begins on all available channels. Cast your ballot now! Plus the latest G3 (below) with Mary Hodder, Elisa ... |
The hopes and headaches of Snapchat’s glasses | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 9 | 24 | only company cool enough to possibly dismantle the Google Glass stigma. Awkward, useless, and a threat to privacy are how many think of computers you wear on your face. Can Snapchat show off the masterful marketing and smooth execution required to produce a product that won’t die on stores shelves or in a desk drawer?... |
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