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We’re looking at cyberbullying the wrong way | Matt Klein | 2,016 | 9 | 24 |
It has been that Twitter has an abuse problem. Whether it was the , the article or the unveiling of the platform’s own , many are blue in the face from yelling at the platform. However, blaming Twitter is a narrow-minded argument and a misunderstanding of the true problem at hand. By no means is Twitter faultle... |
Taking a swing for the Grammys with the new Lip Sync Battle app | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 24 | The art of the lip sync has had a profound impact on the state of our…ok no, but dammit is lip synching fun. For those of you locked in a Faraday cage, pretending to sing has become all the rage these days. You have , , and of course the ever entertaining LL Cool J and Chrissy Teigen . On the show, celebrities battl... |
The ugly reality of an Oculus founder’s politics | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 9 | 24 | It hasn’t been a great couple of days for Facebook PR. For one thing, the company admitted that, due to an error, . For another, that Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is backing the pro-Donald Trump organization Nimble America, a group dedicated to promoting anti-Hillary Clinton memes. Now, the video views story is more... |
Messaging app Telegram adds selfie masks, DIY GIFs | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 9 | 24 | With what looks to be an eye on Snapchat’s selfie-loving fanbase, messaging platform Telegram has beefed up its in-app photo editor in what it dubs an “ ” — including an option that lets users customize selfies by adding cartoon masks that automatically align on their faces. Snapchat of course has a . The Telegram fea... |
Brian Solis talks about why AI won’t suck | John Biggs | 2,016 | 9 | 24 | This week I got the chance to talk to a private hero of mine, Brian Solis. Solis is a digital analyst and speaker who talks about the future and how big brands – Coke, IBM – will interact with humans. His new book and it’s designed to help big companies survive the changing tides of business and tech. Luckily, howeve... |
Why is San Francisco trying to strangle its golden goose? | Carl Szabo | 2,016 | 9 | 24 |
Detroit doesn’t place burdensome regulations on automobile manufacturers; Idaho doesn’t put undue restrictions and hurdles in front of potato farmers; and California takes steps to protect its farmers — because these industries are part of the lifeblood and identity of their respective states. These industries do mor... |
Camera manufacturers, you’re still missing the point. Be better. | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 9 | 24 | This is a photo of a sunset over Cologne. It was taken on a mirrorless camera, copied to my smartphone using Wi-Fi, edited using , then shared to Instagram within a couple of minutes of being taken. If my camera didn’t have Wi-Fi, it would probably still be sitting on a memory card somewhere. That would have been sad.... |
Why Salesforce might be interested in Twitter | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 9 | 24 | , and Salesforce.com could be a chief suitor. At this point, with so many possible bidders being reported, it’s hard to know what’s going to happen (if anything). But the big question for many is why Salesforce would even be interested in the consumer-facing social network. While nobody could say with certainty that th... |
Hands-on with Pictar, which adds buttons and wheels to your iPhone camera | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 9 | 24 | There’s no denying that your smartphone’s camera is getting better and better for every generation, but what’s a poor photography nerd to do about controllability? ’s Pictar is shipping soon, and might be just the thing to teach your iPhone some additional photography skills. At Photokina, I had a chance to try it m... |
A Google self-driving car was involved in crash in Mt. View today | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 9 | 23 | A Google self-driving Lexus RX 450h was involved in a crash with a van in Mountain View, Calif. on Friday afternoon, according to local police. Another driver ran a red light and crashed into the car. Thankfully, nobody was injured in the accident. Google issued the following statement with details about the crash: “A ... |
Yi’s camera brings some underdog to the Micro Four Thirds market | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 9 | 24 | You may know from its or its fancy, , but at Photokina, the company launched its first mirrorless Micro Four Thirds camera, the Yi M1. Sporting a 20 mpx , a high-quality 3-inch touch-screen and a raft of sharing-friendly features, it’s crashing into a space that has been stale for a while. Cheek to cheek At launc... |
Home furnishings retailer Dot & Bo closes down | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 23 | Online furniture retailer has abruptly closed its doors today. The San Francisco-based company said in an announcement that it had been in “deep discussions to be acquired by a prominent public company” but, after those talks broke down, it had no option but to shut down. Dot & Bo contacted customers via email to inf... |
Oculus founder admits he funded pro-Trump group, but says he won’t vote Trump | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 23 | A day after that he had donated money to , Oculus founder (and Facebook employee) Palmer Luckey has come clean about his activities. Well, kinda. Luckey, whose wealth is estimated at $700 million courtesy of two years ago, — on Facebook, of course — that he had provided $10,000 in financial backing for the ‘alt-... |
Snapchat’s 10 second video glasses are real and cost $130 | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 9 | 23 | Snapchat’s long-rumored camera glasses are . The startup’s first foray into hardware will be a pair of glasses called “Spectacles” and will go on sale this fall for $129.99, and confirmed to TechCrunch by the newly rebranded Snap Inc.. The glasses will only come in one size, but in three colors – black, teal and c... |
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Crunch Report | Twitter’s four possible buyers | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 23 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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$129 Google WiFi router that can team up with others tipped for Oct 4 | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 23 | Google will build upon its OnHub strategy with a new simple Wi-Fi router for the home, according to a new report from . Dubbed simply Google WiFi, It will cost $129, the site reports, and will debut at an event Google has announced for October 4, where many suspect the search giant will reveal its latest own-brand And... |
Twitter scores with NFL deal | Dror Ginzberg | 2,016 | 9 | 23 |
With the start of the new NFL season upon us, across the U.S. — and indeed across the whole world — are turning their attention to who the winners and losers will be this year, and who’ll be making their way to Super Bowl LI on at NRG Stadium in Houston, Texas. With plenty of interactive and innovative ways for ... |
Police are increasingly using social media surveillance tools | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 9 | 23 | We’re approaching a level of social unrest that we haven’t seen since the days of the Civil Rights movement. That means law enforcement agencies are trying to figure out how to manage and circumvent the unrest — a lot of which has resulted from the police killings of unarmed black people — through surveillance. You may... |
Oh Snap! Looks like Snapchat could be rebranding | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 23 | Ephemeral media app Snapchat appears to be doing a little disappearing itself. A and suggest that the company (though probably not the app) is preparing to rebrand as Snap, Inc. alongside its first piece of hardware, a pair of camera-equipped sunglasses called Spectacles. , taken after a copyright claim by Snapch... |
Apple’s iTunes soon to serve up “Spoken Editions” of publishers’ content | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 9 | 23 | If you prefer listening to the news over reading the news, you’ll soon have a new way to do so, via iTunes. In the near future, you’ll be able to browse through a variety of podcasts focused on turning media publishers’ articles and news into audio content, dubbed “Spoken Editions.” On iTunes, podcasts branded “Spoken ... |
Hands-on with HP’s fun little photo printer | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 23 | HP, it seems, will always be a printer company. It’s an inescapable part of the company’s DNA. Precisely what shape that takes moving ahead, however, is another question entirely. After all, printers and ink cartridges aren’t flying off the shelf like they once were, which means the company has to get creative. Sometim... |
Jonah Peretti on staying innovative with BuzzFeed Open Lab | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 9 | 23 | What’s a media company doing making stuffed animals that can read your emotions? Figuring out the future, apparently. Received wisdom in business is that young companies innovate so naturally they don’t need help or special programs to foster innovation. So when a young media business like starts an innovation “lab,”... |
Apptio rises 41% in cloud IPO | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 9 | 23 | The cloud software company, which targets CIOs, went public during a slow year for tech IPOs. Only a handful have braved the market following the dismal performance of last year’s tech stocks. Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta told us they were confident they were ready for this step. “We have been preparing for this moment for a... |
Leica and Huawei express their love for each other with a joint research lab | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 23 | Before the iPhone 7 made dual lenses cool… no, scratch that, Huawei and Leica made it cool first (and ). The result of their collaboration, , has sold well enough that the two companies are taking their relationship to the next level — moving in together. In a joint research facility in Germany, that is. The Max Bere... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 09.23.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 9 | 23 | This was a LIVE recording session of – today with: John Taschek, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page G3’s Facebook page |
The 5 technologies that are going to define the next decade in cities | Colin O’Donnell | 2,016 | 9 | 23 |
Cities have always been hubs of technological experimentation, shaped by the people who inhabit them and the tools they use. We can still see the marks, both charming and garish, from technologies of years past — from old aqueducts to telephone booths to the damage done by cars. The next wave of real-time technologie... |
Maluuba wants to make chatbots smarter by teaching them how to read | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 9 | 23 | its first Siri-like personal assistant at TC Disrupt San Francisco four years ago. Since then, the company has raised $11 million and has licensed its technology to a number of handset manufacturers that now use it to power their own personal-assistant features. As Maluuba’s head of product Mo Musbah told me, the co... |
Marketers say Facebook video metrics scandal is overblown | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 9 | 23 | “The issue is being hugely overblown. Marketers do not care about it, and it has zero impact on spend.” That’s the response of Jason Stein, founder and CEO of 250-employee social marketing agency , to a report strongly criticizing an error in Facebook’s “average duration of video viewed” metric. The paper called the... |
Weekly Roundup: Apple’s auto rumors, GoPro’s new devices and CZI’s $3B pledge | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 9 | 23 | This week, Yahoo came clean about a 2014 hack, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced a huge investment to cure disease, rumors swirled around possible car tech purchase targets for Apple and the AI startup space continued to heat up with a few chat bot acquisitions. These are the top stories of the week. We got ... |
The biggest problem with Snapchat’s geofilter product | Travis Bernard | 2,016 | 9 | 23 | Snapchat’s current geofilter product is a nightmare for event managers, brands, and any commercial business because anyone can coat-tail or hijack the space. Let’s say you’re holding a political rally at City Hall, and you want to buy a geofilter for the augmented Snapchat space at the event. When you go to purchase it... |
How legacy brands and retailers can keep up with our tech-driven world | Mona Bijoor | 2,016 | 9 | 15 |
The U.S. apparel industry is currently valued at , and with the high number of dollars pouring into the retail economy, are looking to technology to foster deeper connections with consumers and elevate the overall shopping experience. Whether it’s in-store or online, technology is becoming a lever to bolster brand... |
The end of the automotive supply chain | Alex Moazed | 2,016 | 9 | 15 |
Over the next 10 years, the differentiating source of and value in the industry will not be car parts or engines. Instead, it will be a network of software developers. The autonomous car will be here before we know it. Tesla autonomous technology has already amassed 100 million-plus miles. Legacy car manufacturer... |
Leica’s new instant camera has a selfie mode | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 15 | The Sofort is a strange duck. It’s a $300 instant camera by premium manufacturer Leica that looks a bit like a real world version of the Instagram logo. The price puts it well over Fujifilm’s offerings that also run on the Japanese company’s Instax technology, but this Leica we’re talking about here, so it’s really onl... |
Are drones actually a sector or just another layer in the enterprise SaaS stack? | Michael Berolzheimer | 2,016 | 9 | 15 |
The world is abuzz — the past several years have been an exciting time for drones. From videos of drones flying to marketing shots like , drones have gained the attention of consumers, enterprises and governments. Their ability to shoot remarkable photography and capture data, and potentially violate privacy and pro... |
Canon borrows a few tricks from its DSLR line for its latest mirrorless | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 15 | Canon’s already got a handful of mirrorless cameras under its belt, but the company hasn’t quite committed itself to the format in the same way we’ve seen from likes of Sony, Olympus and Fujifilm. The company’s latest, unveiled early in the lead up the big Photokina event in Cologne next week, looks to mark a much whol... |
Pre-orders for the Fove 0 eye-tracking VR headset go live November 2 | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 9 | 15 | The first consumer VR headset to integrate eye-tracking is about ready for primetime. , a from Disrupt SF 2014, will begin taking pre-orders for the eye-tracking headset, now officially called the Fove 0, at There were a number of production issues that the rollout of the Kickstarter-backed headset until fall fro... |
Unilever said to be the early frontrunner to acquire The Honest Company | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 9 | 15 | We’re hearing from our sources Unilever has been in serious talks with the Honest Company, and may very well win the bid for the e-commerce startup, though our sources stressed that the deal is in early stages. As usual, the deal is fluid and the final details could change (or not happen at all), and the exact price in... |
Rize teaches 3D printing some long-awaited new tricks | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 9 | 15 | Boston-based has developed a new type of 3D printing which eliminates the need for lengthy post-printing clean-up processes. The Rize text on the side of this grabby-hand isn’t printed on the object – it is part of the 3D printed plastic. Using a patented technology the company calls , its printers are able to imb... |
Optimizely targets developers with its new testing platform, Optimizely X | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 9 | 15 | has helped to popularize A/B testing — the idea of trying out different versions of a website to see which one performs better. However, co-founder and CEO Dan Siroker said the practice has largely been limited to marketers testing relatively superficial changes, such as the text or the layout of a page. So today, a... |
Spotify will launch its streaming service in Japan this month | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 15 | After more than a year of hinting, Spotify is finally coming to Japan this month. The Swedish music streaming service will go live in the country before the end of September, a source at the company confirmed to TechCrunch. that the launch was imminent. The publication, one of Japan’s leading business publications, sa... |
How virtual reality is transforming the sports industry | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 9 | 15 |
After , virtual reality made its reappearance last year with headsets such as Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard and Oculus Rift. But this time, it’s here to stay and, in less than a year, it’s already drawn attention and investment from and , and has made huge impact across , . Sports is one of the domains wher... |
20-minute hot take: 2017 Volvo S90 Pilot Assist | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 9 | 15 | I’ve spent the last couple of days at a driving event, and the last car of the two dozen or so I drove was the with the latest version of IntelliSafe, which includes City Safety, Pilot Assist, and more. I’ve already put my name on the list for a more extensive test drive, but even with less than 30 minutes of drive... |
Here’s how to watch Thursday Night Football on Twitter tonight | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 9 | 15 | Twitter’s big day is finally here. Tonight is the first night of NFL’s Thursday Night Football, which will be streamed all season on Twitter (as well as CBS and NFL Network as cable partners). Twitter reportedly beat out companies like Facebook and Amazon for the exclusive mobile stream, and at the time it was a big wi... |
Amazon Echo owners spend more on Amazon, says NPD | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 15 | We all suspected the Echo’s purpose was – at least in part – to drive more Amazon sales. And that’s exactly what’s happening, according to a new study by . The research company found that owners of the Echo spent around 10 percent more after they bought the voice-powered smart speaker than they did before. The NPD Gro... |
Singapore’s ViSenze raises $10.5M to bring the benefits of AI to e-commerce | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 15 | There’s another round of funding for an artificial intelligence startup in Asia that’s focused on e-commerce. Fresh from last month, now Singapore-based has a $10.5 million Series B raise. Existing investor Rakuten Ventures led the round alongside WI Harper Group and Enspire Capital. A number of other investors a... |
Just how vulnerable is election technology? | Larry Alton | 2,016 | 9 | 15 |
This year’s electoral process has been unconventional, to say the least, and most voters are either polarized or frustrated (sometimes both) with how we got to this point. Now, as this volatile election approaches the final threshold of November, citizens are skeptical about whether our electoral system — particularl... |
Official CPSC recall goes out for Galaxy Note 7 — replacements will be available September 21 | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 15 | The flaming train wreck that is the Galaxy Note 7 recall finally has its official from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and there’s now a hard date for when you can swap your phone for a new one: September 21. The CPSC previously issued a brief saying it was working on an official recall — but that the delay... |
T-Mobile’s top brass warns some iPhone owners against iOS 10 upgrades | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 15 | Maybe don’t go upgrading to iOS 10 just yet, T-Mobile customers. The magenta-drenched uncarrier has to warn owners of the iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPhone SE against rushing into Apple’s latest major mobile operating system update after widespread reports of lost network connections. Apple is working to resolve th... |
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When music and technology collide | Jessica Naziri | 2,016 | 9 | 15 |
Some might say that technology is killing the music industry. But if you look around, there’s a beautiful marriage there — the music industry is evolving every day, and artists are embracing technology in new and innovative ways. Take for example, Microsoft, which has been teaming up with bands such as Phantogram, Ne... |
500px’s new app lets pros edit RAW photos, license their work and find jobs | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 9 | 15 | 500px, the photo-sharing service aimed at professional photographers, is today launching a new mobile app aimed at serving the needs of this audience by offering editing tools along with a way to license their images through the company’s custom photography service. The company last year rolled out its global photograp... |
Crunch Report | Tesla Upgrades AutoPilot | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Email or IM? Rush’s app combines them both — with productivity tools thrown in too | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | Email? IM? IM? Email? The rise of mobile messaging apps has challenged email as the primary communications channel for all things, including work — what happens when you blend them together? That’s the approach taken by , an app that combines email and messaging, but also includes your calendar and other productivit... |
Guess what Dog PC does | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | In this world, there are dogs. And also there are PCs. But dog PCs? “Ridiculous,” you say. But ladies and gentleman, I have seen the future of dog computing, and it is Dog PC. The PC for dogs. What kind of company would produce such a PC for dogs? Tesla, naturally. Not, mind you, the Tesla that makes electric cars. T... |
Mobalytics is a coach for competitive gamers | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | If there’s one industry that’s consistently blowing past expectations, it’s competitive gaming. The e-sports market is expected to reach nearly a half-billion dollars this year, and gamers who take part in it are constantly trying to heighten their skills. is aiming to bring visual analytics to competitive gamers so t... |
$10 will get you a wire for your wireless AirPods | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | Life is strange sometimes. Like, sometimes you buy a $160 pair of wireless headphones, and all you want to is find a way to add another wire to the thing. $10 might be a small price to pay, if it stands between you and losing one of those precious new that Apple announced earlier this week – far and away the largest ... |
Lucy wants to make it easier for expectant parents to find and book support services | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | , a Bay Area startup, which was founded this April and launched its beta today, reckons it’s found an underserved not-so-niche market to target: expectant parents. The team presented on stage today here at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016, after being lifted from startup alley as the day’s wildcard battlefield company. Lucy ... |
ZAP brings the manufacturing process to the cloud | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | “Today it takes two to five years to get a factory to produce a car,” begins John Dogru. “A product’s timing to market is everything, and there’s a lot of latency. How do we, for the first time in history, go from the design to product instantly?” Rapid prototyping technologies like 3D printing have long dangled the pr... |
Rex Animal Health is using genomics to keep livestock healthy | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | A startup called wants to protect livestock from illnesses that can quickly turn into epidemics, and help farmers breed animals with the healthiest and most attractive traits. Today at , Rex unveiled technology to help veterinarians provide clinical support at the point on the farm, and predict the genetic causes of... |
Robin is automating lawn care with robots and putting an end to checks under the doormat | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | A well-kept lawn is one of the most common mixed blessings with which homeowners can treat/afflict themselves. Robin is a startup looking to take as much pain out of the process as possible, both by improving the way you hire and pay for your yard’s care, and soon, by putting a robot on the job. “We were trying to find... |
MedRepublic launches a platform for overseas surgeries | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | [gallery ids="1385210,1385220,1385217,1385209,1385228,1385207,1385218,1385219,1385239,1385238,1385237"] “What we’re doing is opening the door for people that are underserved in the United States or Canada,” said Page. MedRepublic is “allowing patients to have options to save their life.” He estimates that Americans spe... |
BlazingDB uses GPUs to manipulate huge databases in no time | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | Gathering petabytes of data about your customers is cool, but how can you take advantage of this data? lets you run high-performance SQL on a database using a ton of GPUs. The company is introducing a free community edition of its solution on stage at in our Battlefield competition. If you’ve been running complicat... |
Lyft paid to paint pink SF’s famous van on a stick | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | Lyft has creative control over that . “Notice a little more pink during your drive on the 101? The newly-painted Lyft van is just one of the ways we made ourselves at home,” Lyft wrote on a blog post that has since been deleted. Lyft has confirmed to TechCrunch that the company leased the historic building, which is j... |
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TVTY raises further $6.7M to sync online ad campaigns with offline events | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | , a startup that enables online ad campaigns to sync with offline events to make online marketing more timely and relevant, has raised $6.7 million in further funding. led the round, while previous investors Partech International and 360 Capital Partners also participated. The company says it will use the new capital... |
ProductBoard helps product managers figure out what to build next… and why | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | today is launching a service for digital product managers that helps them better organize user research and determine which features deserve priority. Making its public debut at , this product management platform is already being used by over 100 paying customers during its beta to establish their product roadmaps an... |
Keeping track of warehouse inventories with an army of fully autonomous drones | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | When they wanted to stash the Ark of the Covenant away at the end of the first film, the government did what any self-respecting bureaucratic institution would, filing it away in a giant warehouse. Navigating even the most well-appointed warehouse spaces can get tricky, and keeping tabs on missing inventory a downrig... |
Pundit launches an audio social media app for millennials | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | Co-founders Billy Shaw Susanto and Chris Aston told TechCrunch that they believe their forum for “bite-sized talkshows” will be used by young millennials who are looking to make voice chat more fun. “Unleash your inner Oprah,” Susanto said on stage. They hope that filters such as monster and robot voices set this apart... |
Breinify tells online retailers what customers want to buy at a specific point in time | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | Think of the last time you shopped online. You probably navigated to a home page that featured a dozen or so items, only one or two of which you may have actually been interested in. And while retailers try to use things like purchase history to predict what you want to buy, we all know that never really works. Why wou... |
Restb.ai offers custom computer vision as a service | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | Custom computer vision is the promise of bootstrapping Barcelona-based b2b startup . The team is pitching its machine learning algorithms at businesses wanting to fix a pain-point or aiming to enhance what they can offer their customers by being able to automatically determine what is in a particular image. While tech... |
UnifyID wants to bury the password once and for all | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | The old-fashioned password gets little respect from hackers these days. In fact, it’s barely a speed bump for them to get past. The hacker can find your password or even the answers to your “security” questions for sale on the internet black market. , a participant in this year’s TechCrunch Disrupt SF Battlefield comp... |
Tim and Marni talk AOL, Yahoo and Verizon, but don’t go to White Castle | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 9 | 12 | Hi and . As the bosses of my boss’ boss, I just want to say that y’all did a really really great job on stage today. Glad to know that things are . It sounds like you’ve bitten off a pretty big bite of company with the deal and I’m glad to hear that y’all are taking your time digesting that Yahoo behemoth. Tim, whe... |
Apple works to fit the smart home under a single roof | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | Wait for others to take the first steps, let things mature a bit, then swoop in with a simpler, more unified solution. It’s the first entry on the first page of the Apple playbook. And it tends to work like a charm. If you’re reading this, odds are pretty good that you’re in possession of some small piece of the connec... |
Meet the London startup powering Just Eat’s new illuminated scooters | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | , the online take-out ordering behemoth, has announced a brand refresh today with a new fancy logo and strap-line: “Find your flavour”. The latter is in reference to the publicly-listed company’s new mission to create the “world’s greatest food community”. Their words, not mine. However, PR puffery aside, Just Eat is a... |
For your videos, Valossa knows if you’re happy or sad | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | Video analytics platform just launched , a platform to help video creators, advertisers and other video boffins figure out what’s going on in video. In addition to computer-vision tricks (“Man on a beach”, “car interior”, “ “), the platform can do sentiment analyses (person is happy / person is sad / person is con... |
Stephen Curry on social media, charity and robotic referees | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | Two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry closed out the second day of Disrupt San Francisco by discussing his recent forays into technology investments and charitable organizations, kicking things off by talking , the social media startup he co-founded with former Davidson teammate Bryant Barr. “We met back in 2005,” the Splash... |
Crunch Report | iOS 10 Available Today | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes, Haje Jan Kamps
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These are the six finalists in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 Startup Battlefield | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | Over the last two days, over 5,000 attendees (along with hundreds of thousands of people tuning in online) have watched 25 companies duke it out for the right to call themselves the Startup Battlefield Winner at Disrupt SF 2016. lets you run SQL queries on a database, using GPUs to do the heavy lifting for incredible ... |
White House’s DJ Patil wants to disrupt the criminal justice system with data | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 today, I had a chance to chat with DJ Patil, the nation’s deputy chief technology officer for data policy and chief data scientist. We talked about what he’s been up to at the White House lately, the criminal justice system and a recently-launched data justice initiative. in May 2015, 75 ... |
UK’s national cyber security unit working on automated defenses | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | The CEO of the UK’s new National Cyber Security Centre wants industry and government to work more closely together to combat cyber crime. Giving his first public speech as CEO of the NCSC, at the in Washington today, Ciaran Martin warned that far too many unsophisticated cyber attacks are succeeding, going on to disc... |
Nvidia’s tiny new self-driving AI computer sips power | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | Nvidia revealed a new configuration of its in-car autonomous driving computing platform today, which vastly improves power efficiency and drops physical size compared to the original unveiled at CES earlier this year. The new single-core configuration will be used by Baidu in its own self-driving cars, as part of the... |
Myki rolls out a password manager that locks all your info away on your phone | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | Everything is getting hacked to the point that it’s getting kind of ridiculous — and everyone needs to have secure passwords. The trouble, however, is making them tough to crack and also being able to remember them. That’s led to a blossoming ecosystem of password management services like OnePassword. But if you ask An... |
WeConnect is an app to support addiction recovery | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | Keeping close, quantified track of personal progress is absolutely imperative for one group of people: recovering alcoholics and drug addicts. And it’s this often isolated segment of society that the startup behind the app is aiming to help. The team was chosen as today’s wildcard battlefield startup here at TechCrun... |
Giftbit lets retailers create their own e-commerce currency | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | , a company that operates a digital gift card marketplace for online retailers, is launching a new product today at that will enable merchants to easily create their own custom currency — meaning gift cards, promo codes and refund credits — without having to build their own, internal systems. Available as an API, the... |
Apple also released watchOS 3 today and here’s what’s new | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | Today has been a massive Apple update day. The company released , and also watchOS 3. After announcing it at WWDC, it’s finally here — and it’s a huge update. I won’t all the changes with watchOS 3. Instead, I’ll focus on three topics — speed, app switching and watch face switching. With watchOS 3, your favorite a... |
Affectiva and Uber want to brighten your day with machine learning and emotional intelligence | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | Your phone doesn’t know how you’re feeling — but you may want it to if that capability came with a few fringe benefits. Affectiva makes emotion-detection software, and CEO Rana el Kaliouby was full of ideas today at Disrupt SF as to how it could be deployed, from gifs to Ubers. “We’re obsessed with emotional AI, we wak... |
Amaryllis Nucleics makes transcribing genes quicker, better and cheaper | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | The ability to read and record genes sits at the base (base pair, if you will) of biotech companies worldwide. So improvements to that ability are kind of like upgrading the specs of the industry itself. That’s what aims to do with its vastly improved method of transcribing genes from RNA. Now, it’s worth noting befo... |
Chatbot Sensay wants to connect the world by sharing knowledge | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | . ; — but how many of those are actually useful? Nobody can go through that many bots individually, but it is certain that few early players in the “chatbot rush” have taken off in a major way. , one contestant at the Battlefield, is aiming to be that first breakout cross-platform chatbot — but, unlike most that ... |
Spincle allows everybody to shoot VR content on their smartphones | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | VR content is really in the hands of the early adopters at the moment. For most consumers there’s just not much accessibility in creating VR moments. Launching today out of Startup Battlefield, is aiming to bring VR content capture to mobile in a way that’s highly shareable. Quite a few apps have tried their hands ... |
Sqreen’s security shield automagically blocks attacks on your web app | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | French startup protects your web apps and services with little effort from your side. If you don’t want to deal with security yourself, Sqreen is a software-as-a-service product that automatically watches for attacks and protects your server in real time. The company is participating in the Battlefield at . If you a... |
Google’s Diane Greene talks AWS and machine learning at TechCrunch Disrupt | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | Diane Greene, executive vice president of Google Cloud Enterprise, appeared on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco with TechCrunch editor Matt Burns today, and talked about her role running Google’s massive cloud business. She came on board last year when , and she immediately brought with her enterprise credibi... |
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Apple’s iPhone 7 will be super limited in stores and all jet black and Plus models are sold out | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | Apple has issued a statement tonight that is essentially setting expectations for those who hoped they’d be able to walk into an Apple store on Friday and pick themselves up an iPhone. The statement makes it clear that all iPhones will be in short supply for walk-in customers without a reservation. The statement also i... |
Create hassle-free slideshow presentations online with Slides | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 9 | 13 | Meetings are probably never going to die — and, along with that, neither are presentations. But the traditional route for making presentations is getting a little outdated, with tools like PowerPoint getting updated regularly but lacking a certain simplicity to them. That’s why Owen Bossola and Hakim El Hattab decided ... |
Crunch Report | Uber self-driving cars begin working in Pittsburgh | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Google launches final release version of Angular 2.0 | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | After Google launched the first version of its in 2010, it quickly became one of the hottest web technologies. Since then, the web has changed, though, and when Google announced in 2014, it created quite a stir in the web development community because this new version wasn’t just an update, but instead a complete r... |
The future of human computer interaction will be multimodal | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | We have been using the computer mouse for decades to interact with our technology. Touchscreens brought us a new way to input commands to our gadgets, but they rely on the same fundamental idea of the click. Even the new 3D touch on the iPhone 7 is just an incredibly sophisticated way of using the hand to answer a yes ... |
Timeular’s cute little box makes the hellish task of filling out your time sheets fun | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | Anyone who has ever worked with clients will know the pain of tracking your time. Yes, it’s important to know how long you spent so you can bill correctly, but it is tedious, hellish and horrid — and, added to that, too often left until the last minute, when it becomes harder to remember what was done. Enter and it... |
Shervin Pishevar: The first Hyperloop will likely be built overseas | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | Shervin Pishevar, well-known venture capitalist and co-founder in the two-year-old L.A.-based futuristic transportation company came to today to chat about shooting across the world people and things — faster than the speed of sound. But just how soon will we see that happen? Pishevar says his team is “full steam a... |
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