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And the winner of Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF 2016 is… Mobalytics | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | beginning, there were 25 startups. After three days of incredibly fierce competition, we now have a winner. Startups participating in the have all been hand-picked to participate in our highly competitive startup competition. They all presented in front of multiple groups of VCs and tech leaders serving as judges fo... |
EU digital copyright reform proposals slammed as regressive | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | The European Commission’s proposals to reform the region’s copyright rules, published in , have been criticized by tech companies and digital rights groups as regressive and a missed opportunity to modernize hopelessly outdated rules. The accused the EC of ignoring EU citizens responses to an earlier consultation on... |
MegaBots debuts a trailer for its new web series, outlines its giant fighting robot kit | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | In the shadow of AT&T Park, two Bay Area-based engineers took to the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF to showcase their plans for a new kind of sports league. Dressed like a matching pair of flamboyant American flags, Gui Cavalcanti and Matt Oehrlein debuted a trailer for an upcoming web series following MegaBots’ journe... |
Boston Dynamics CEO Marc Raibert demos the Spot at Disrupt | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | The audience at Disrupt got a surprise visit from Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot. While the company’s is quite popular, it’s even more impressive to see one of Boston Robotics’ robots in action. Boston Dynamics founder and CEO Marc Raibert got interviewed by TechCrunch’s Brian Heater. The two of them spent some time com... |
Airbnb tests outsourcing management to Superhosts to grow inventory and loyalty | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | As , the $30 billion private accommodation renting portal, continues to mature and inch its way to an IPO, it is adding more ways to bring in more properties and hosts to its platform. TechCrunch has learned that Airbnb is working on a new service under the name “Experienced Hosts,” where it connects would-be hosts ... |
Sapphire Ventures has $1 billion in fresh funding to invest | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | , a Palo Alto, Ca.-based venture firm funded solely by the German software giant SAP, has secured a whopping $1 billion to invest across two new funds: a $700 million growth fund, and a $300 million early-stage tech fund. The capital places the group into a ever-growing circle of venture groups that have raised north o... |
Estimote announces the Mirror, a dongle that turns any TV into a smart beacon system | John Biggs | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | Imagine walking into a store, picking up a pair of shoes, and seeing specs for the kicks appear on a TV next to the display. Or imagine standing in front of an airport departures screen and seeing your flight appear and then a map displaying the best route to your gate. These use cases were supposed to be the killer ... |
MOTI wants to help build positive habits with a little glowing robot | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | It can take a lot to build a positive habit — whether that’s stretching every morning, drinking enough water or remembering to go on a run. Kayla Matheus and Laura Day hope to make that a little easier with a small robot that sits on your table or desk called MOTI, . But how would that help? Basically, the duo want to... |
Anker launches sister brand for home automation | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | Smartphone accessory brand is mostly known for its battery packs, chargers and other popular gizmos for gadget fans. In addition to its tech-on-the-go brand, it today announces the launch of (pronounced ‘you-fee’), a new brand for a line of products aimed to make your home life a bit more high-tech. The RoboVac 20 ... |
Former GV CEO Bill Maris is reportedly raising up to $500M for his own fund | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | Looks like that was fast. published this afternoon by CNBC, former Google GV CEO Bill Maris is talking with investors about raising his own fund, with “preliminary plans” to raise between $350 million and $500 million. We haven’t been able to confirm the report just yet; we hope to update this post shortly. Maris fo... |
Tuurnt connects you with friends with some unique social tools | John Biggs | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | Fabrice Mishiki wanted to create a social media tool to help connect influencers, fans, and friends together in a way that hadn’t been done before. He created . The app starts with your traditional social sharing system. You take videos or photos and post them. Your friends can reply with their own videos and, if you ... |
Brew it (cider) yourself with Alchema | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | Things are starting to get a bit crowded in the world of automated home brewing, with startups like PicoBrew, Brewie and BrewBot all more or less vying for the same small sliver of space. And while these machines have raked in their share of dough through crowdfunding efforts, it seems pretty likely that actual retai... |
U-Gym massages you during exercise | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | I’m a big fan of massages, so I stopped dead in my tracks when I came across a company in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 Startup Alley earlier today. Taiwan-based is a deep layer muscle massager that you can wear while exercising. U-Gym uses medium-frequency electrotherapy to stimulate your muscles, nerves and meridi... |
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African technology training program Andela to invest in its graduates’ startups | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 9 | 14 | , a company in need of capable, skilled developers, will eventually invest in the startups from those who complete its four-year program. According to Andela co-founder and COO Christina Sass, speaking on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, the company has a broader agenda beyond simply connecting businesses with African... |
Crunch Report | Yahoo confirms huge data breach | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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SGN becomes Jam City and announces a new Peanuts game | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | Mobile gaming company SGN today that it has a new name, . This isn’t the first time the company has rebranded — it was called MindJolt before and then in 2012. The change may be an inevitable reflection of the company’s — and the industry’s — transition from social to mobile games. CEO Chris DeWolfe (who previou... |
Facebook miscalculation significantly inflated average video view times for years | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | Facebook has come clean on a slight error in how it presented video view time on its platform. A mismatch in how average video view time is and how it is — resulting in that number being reportedly inflated by half or more, for a short period of two years. The issue came to light in a post to : We had previously *... |
Samsung says half of recalled Note 7s in the US have been exchanged – mostly for new Note 7s | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | In case you were wondering when you’ll stop receiving those “please turn off your Samsung Galaxy Note 7” warnings before takeoff, well, we’re halfway there. Samsung announced today that “about half” of the affected phones — they mean to say, the exploding ones — have been exchanged. Samsung Electronics America, Inc. an... |
Did I time travel or play Animation Throwdown for the entire day? | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | Animation Throwdown is a new game from that pits the company’s popular adult cartoons Bob’s Burgers, Family Guy, King of the Hill, American Dad and Futurama against each other. One hundred and twenty thousand people have rated this game. It has a four and a half star rating. 4.5 stars! Is it that good? I’d say so. ... |
Google open sources image captioning model in TensorFlow | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | Pretty much 100 percent of my generation is obsessed with Instagram. Unfortunately, I left the platform (sorry all) back in 2015. Simple reason, I am way too indecisive about which photos to post and what pithy caption to give them. Provided by Google Fortunately, with ample spare time, those who share my problem can n... |
23andMe’s Anne Wojcicki has a plan to include better genetic data from people of color | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | One of the first consumer genetic testing companies, says it aims to be at the forefront in gathering genetically diverse data throughout the world. The company just launched a standalone today as a way to offer those interested in their genetic lineage the ability to trace ancestors and relatives just by spitting ... |
Who invests in hardware? | Chris Quintero | 2,016 | 9 | 22 |
We’re still in the early days of the hardware renaissance. Driven by decreased development costs, shorter times to market and a shift in hardware business models away from commoditized consumer electronics to recurring revenue and software services, VCs have poured money into hardware startups. Last year we . Invest... |
Voxels are in vogue among indie developers | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | — well, cubical, really. That’s the feeling I got from the amount of voxel-based offerings on the show floor at PAX West — and these 3D pixels fit the bill whether they’re powering a stylized dungeon crawler or simulating a whole planet. If you’re not familiar with voxels, think of them as virtual particles that can b... |
Airbnb files $555M round with the SEC led by Google Capital and TCV | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | Airbnb formally filed a Form D with the Securities and Exchange Commission this afternoon announcing that it had raised $555,462,180 in an equity deal. indicating that it had intentions to raise additional late-stage capital. At the time, that the company was attempting to close an $850 million round. . However, ac... |
Stick a Raspberry Pi into a Nintendo cartridge for some retro DIY fun | John Biggs | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | In a particularly clever if destructive hack, a maker named Zach cleared out the guts of an and stuck in a and an Amazon USB hub to create the ultimate retro NES emulator. It even fits back into its original sleeve for easy storage. The project is surprisingly simple. All you really need to do is crack the cartridg... |
Gfycat raises $10 million to help creatives fire up the memes | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | A startup called (which is pronounced “Jiffy Cat”) has raised a mammoth $10 million seed round to turn its already popular user-generated content platform into a revenue generating concern. On the content creation side of its business, the startup reports that 2.5 million unique users have already created 25 million “... |
Instacart raises guaranteed delivery payout rates, removing tipping option | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | Instacart COO Ravi Gupta will say that a bad day working in the on-demand economy can be plenty demoralizing even if offset by good well-paid days, and Instacart is going to be making some changes in order to even things out. Today, the company said it is removing its tipping option in favor of raising guaranteed deliv... |
Yahoo confirms state-sponsored attacker stole personal data of “at least” 500 million users | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | As indicated by an earlier , Yahoo today it’s working with law enforcement to investigate a data breach which affected the account information of “at least” 500 million users. The company says that the user account information was stolen from its network in late 2014 by what it now believes to be a state-sponsored a... |
Google launches its Daydream VR development tools out of beta | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | Google’s VR platform Daydream is now ready for developers’ full attention, thanks to the release of the new Google VR SDK, which exited from beta today. The kit will allow developers to build VR experiences for Daydream-ready phones and headsets, the company says, and now supports integration with Unity and Unreal game... |
Grocery deliveries via rolling drone will kick off in Washington, D.C. this fall | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | Rolling robots will soon be making U.S. house calls, beginning with a trial run in Washington, D.C. this fall. Municipal regulators have approved use of Starship Technologies’ rolling delivery drones for urban delivery via sidewalk, reports , giving the Estonian startup a vector for its first states-side public tests.... |
AutoMobility LA announces its top 10 startups | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | AutoMobility LA, the new name for the press days before the public in November, has announced the ten startups competing for visibility and mentoring opportunities. The board that chooses the finalists includes executives from companies small and large, new and old: Lyft, Google, NVIDIA, Local Motors, and General Ele... |
YouTube puts $1M behind Creators for Change | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | YouTube might be one of the only communities on earth more eccentric than Silicon Valley. You can find videos of , , and . That said, the site has been home to some incredibly moving and world-changing content. While most of us immediately think of videos like the pepper spraying of students protesting at UC Davis a... |
Singapore-based music startup buys 49% stake in Rolling Stone | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 9 | 25 | The company behind iconic music magazine Rolling Stone has sold a 49 percent share in the business to a startup from Singapore in a bid to grow its international reach. U.S.-based Wenner Media announced the sale of its stake to Singapore’s BandLab this weekend, although the price paid was not disclosed. BandLab is run ... |
Intuit wants to turn TurboTax into a platform | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | Intuit’s stores highly detailed financial data for millions of users who import their W2s, their banking data, info about their mortgages and more. Right now, all of this data is locked into TurboTax, but the company is now thinking about how it can do more with it by giving its users the option to share this data wi... |
Apple acquires another machine learning company: Tuplejump | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 9 | 22 | Apple is on a machine learning company buying spree. After buying and , Apple has now acquired an India/US-based machine learning team, Tuplejump. We’d been hearing rumors of another acquisition in this space by Apple for some time. While Apple won’t outright confirm it, when asked about Tuplejump this morning, a re... |
WTF is clickbait? | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 9 | 25 | , once and for all: Clickbaiting is the intentional act of over-promising or otherwise misrepresenting — in a headline, on social media, in an image, or some combination — what you’re going to find when you read a story on the web. Currently, clickbait is often characterized by wording like, “You won’t believe” or “Wha... |
Apple has done nothing wrong | Lisa De Simone | 2,016 | 9 | 25 | Having read the European Commission’s original , , the Treasury’s about the European Commission’s actions and a lot of in the , in my opinion, the EC is over-reaching in their on Apple. The European Commission is basing their argument on Apple receiving illegal state aid, which requires a determination that an ... |
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Food delivery startup Deliveroo expands with Business tier for corporate accounts | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 9 | 25 | Fresh from this August at around a $1 billion valuation, Deliveroo is now taking the next step in its bid to corner the market in Europe and other markets for high-end, high-concept restaurant food delivery; and turn the Deliveroo business profitable in the process. The startup is launching a new service catering spe... |
We hear Blue Bottle Coffee is raising funding, but the company says no | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 9 | 25 | : Since the publication of the story, a representative from Blue Bottle reached out to TechCrunch to say that the company is not currently raising financing. We’ve updated with new detail, and the original story follows with additional context: The coffee wars of San Francisco are back on! Sources initially told TechCr... |
🎶 Can’t wear Snap sunglasses at night 🎶 | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 9 | 25 | Unless you plan on bumping into stuff, don’t expect to record after-dark concerts and parties on your . The company formerly known as Snapchat (they really should have just changed it to the 👻 emoji, Prince-style) confirms to me its new camera glasses are not currently built to be worn at night. Their lenses are like... |
Unpicking the Gordian knot around blockchain patents | Dr. Justin Hill | 2,016 | 9 | 25 |
Earliest mentions of the term “bitcoin” in patent titles and abstracts date back to around 2009, while the term “blockchain” begins to appear in patent titles from around 2011. As of June 22, 2016, there were 492 published patent families directed to the theme of blockchain and 192 relating to bitcoin. Patent applica... |
Marc Andreessen suddenly deletes all his tweets, goes on Twitter break | John Mannes | 2,016 | 9 | 25 | The Twittersphere was just a little bit quieter this morning after Marc Andreessen, father of the Tweetstorm, . While there’s no clear answer from him or others as to why he decided to take a break, Andreessen is not the first popular Silicon Valley figure to abruptly leave the service. Earlier this summer, Sam Altman... |
How to pull workers back from the brink of burnout | Mercedes De Luca | 2,016 | 9 | 25 | In August, Marissa Mayer kicked up a dust bowl of criticism when she told that Google’s early success had a lot to do with 130-hour work weeks. There was plenty of outrage — but none of it will do the average American knowledge worker a bit of good. The 130-hour workweek backlash doesn’t move us toward more sane work... |
Sol vs. Sol, for the fate of humanity | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 9 | 25 | I happened to spend much of this week in Abu Dhabi, from whence came, conveniently, the most important news of this week, month, year, and arguably decade. Yes, bigger than the American election; yes, bigger than the long-awaited rise of machine learning; yes, bigger than Elon Musk’s one-two punch of space travel and e... |
New York Governor signs daily fantasy sports bill, DraftKings and FanDuel can operate again | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 8 | 3 | Back in June, on the last day of the New York Assembly’s legislative session, the state , paving the road for the return of incumbents DraftKings and FanDuel to resume operating in the state. The next week we , who explained that passing the bill was so important because it not only meant his company could resume oper... |
Crunch Report | First private company to go to the Moon | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 8 | 3 | Tito Hamze
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Elastica’s chief executive Rehan Jalil on being an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley | Navin Chaddha | 2,016 | 8 | 3 |
came to the U.S. to attend graduate school, then took a job at Sun Microsystems, accidentally assuring that the Silicon Valley would become home base for the young immigrant for the rest of his career. Recognizing that he wanted to make a positive impact on the world, Jalil started his entrepreneurial journey by fou... |
AirHelp raises $12 million to deal with airline customer service for you | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 8 | 3 | AirHelp wants to “take all that hassle and paperwork away from people,” co-founder and CEO Henrik Zillmer tells TechCrunch. We “saw an opportunity in automating the process so we could handle thousands of claims and not necessarily have to do it manually.” This is particularly useful in Europe, where customers are lega... |
How the microbiome will lead a revolution in the consumerization of personalized medicine and diet | Kobi Gershoni | 2,016 | 8 | 3 |
The human meaning all of our microbes’ genes — reshape the of and . Following the human genome project, technological advancements have brought us much closer to acute precision in disease diagnosis and treatment. , considered by some scientists “ ,” has the potential to change the way we diagnose and treat ... |
Splice launches rent-to-own pricing model for software synths | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 3 | One by one, most software has succumbed to the cloud; Designers have Adobe, gamers have Steam, programmers have GitHub and now musicians have Splice. The company likes to call their service a rental, but it’s more like a mortgage. For $9.99 a month, users can use a desktop app to access the synth. Splice will let users... |
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VIPKID nabs $100M to link Chinese kids with native speakers to learn English | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 8 | 3 | As and continue to into the online education market, startups building platforms with a lot of traction are reaping the rewards. In the latest development, a company out of China called — which has built a popular platform connecting children aged between five and 12 years with native English speakers for one-t... |
Average broadband speed in US rises above 50 megabits for the first time | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 3 | Speedtest has released its , and there’s actually quite a bit of good news in there. Speeds are steadily increasing despite machinations within the industry, and in fact the average in the U.S. just went north of 50 megabits for the first time ever. That average, 54.97 megabits per second is 42 percent higher than the... |
Intel shows off mystery depth-sensing virtual reality accessory | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 8 | 3 | An Intel engineer just tweeted out a photo of a new VR sensor prototype and suggested that VR would play a large role in the company’s developer conference late this month. In the since-deleted tweet, He told us an accessory like this could track hand movement as well as IR-tracked controllers. The system could also s... |
Rethinking the customer relationship in medtech | Kyle Samani | 2,016 | 8 | 3 |
In light of Dollar Shave Club’s recent sale, I started thinking about other industries that haven’t yet by leveraging the cloud. A significant majority of FDA-approved medical devices — and their associated business models — should be rethought around the idea that the cloud is a core feature of the product. makes... |
Tesla misses Q2 earnings, delivers 14,402 vehicles | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 3 | Tesla missed its Q2 earnings targets today in after the close of the market. Tesla executives are not wavering on yearly targets, despite a slower than expected quarter. All of this comes amidst a seemingly never-ending wave of Tesla headlines dominating Silicon Valley over the last few weeks. The energy company born ... |
The impending online shopping split: buy boutique or buy Amazon | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 3 | It’s been a rough couple of months for Amazon competitors. First and essentially has a fire sale, then Jet.com, which accumulated big funding and big hype pre-launch, is . A Wal-Mart exit isn’t the upstart victory against an industry giant originally foretold in Jet’s creation myth – it’s more like the two survivors ... |
Jack Dorsey gets a much-needed strong second quarter performance from Square | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 8 | 3 | Jack Dorsey really needs a hit. After Twitter’s weak second-quarter showing, and both stocks not performing well in the past year, Dorsey — as the lead of both companies — needs to show investors his strategies are working (and that he can run both companies). Well, he certainly got one today. Square reported its secon... |
The White House requested input on artificial intelligence, and IBM’s response is a great AI 101 | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 3 | The field of artificial intelligence is so huge, and the potential applications so numerous, that it would be folly to try to explain it all in one — no, wait, IBM just did. In June, the White House , or RFI, about the possibilities and risks of AI. “The views of the American people, including stakeholders such as con... |
Basis Peak watches recalled, service shutting down due to overheating | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 8 | 3 | Basis Peak, a fitness watch tracking your health and sleep habits, is now being by the company after reports of overheating. The Intel subsidiary first sent a statement about the overheating issues in mid-June and is now asking customers to stop wearing their watches and is shutting down service “immediately.” “We ha... |
Lyft hits record 13.9M monthly rides, sees 5X quarterly growth in Concierge rides | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 3 | Lyft is seeing record ridership, including an all-time high of 13.9 million rides during July, first and confirmed by TechCrunch via sources familiar with the matter. In addition to the total ride increase, along with a new record for monthly active riders of over 3 million, Lyft also saw significant growth in the us... |
Study identifies 20 ‘second Earth’ candidates with potential to harbor life | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 3 | Finding life beyond Earth means combing through an incredibly vast array of potential planetary candidates, but one hopes to add some additional specificity to the search. The international group of scientists behind the study examined the over 4,000 planets outside of our solar system (exoplanets for those In the kn... |
Microsoft’s Excel API, which lets developers access data stored in spreadsheets, hits general availability | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 8 | 3 | After a relatively short beta, Microsoft today announced that the — a way for developers to programmatically use Excel for Office 365 for doing calculations, building dashboards and more — is now generally available. Microsoft first announced the and then detailed its plans for turning Office 365 into more of a p... |
ReachNow expands BMW car sharing to Portland | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 8 | 3 | After launching in Seattle in April, BMW’s car sharing service is expanding down the I-5 corridor to Portland, Oregon. In Seattle, more than 13,000 people signed up in the first month, and ReachNow was able to add 150 vehicles and expand its service area by late June. It’s likely the Portland expansion will follow th... |
Owlchemy Labs nabs $5 million to keep on building crazy VR games | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 8 | 3 | Owlchemy Labs wants you to reach out and grab VR content with your hands. The Austin-based VR studio just secured a $5 million Series A led by Qualcomm Ventures with participation in the round also coming from HTC, The VR Fund, Colopl VR Fund and Capital Factory. Right now the studio, founded in 2010, is best known amo... |
Crunch Report | Facebook Anti-Clickbait Algorithm Change | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 8 | 4 | Tito Hamze
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Amazon launches Prime Air, its own dedicated cargo planes to speed delivery | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 8 | 4 | or self-driving trucks may not be here any time soon for Amazon.com. But the e-commerce juggernaut plans to launch its first ever branded cargo plane, , at Seattle’s SeaFair Air Show on Friday. The plane is a a Boeing 767-300 operated by Atlas Air, an existing provider of air cargo services for Amazon.com. In a press... |
Zynga plummets 9% in after-hours trading | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 8 | 4 | Social game developer tumbled 9 percent in after-hours trading following the second quarter 2016 earnings announcement after the bell today. The company a net loss of $4.4 million, while still beating analysts’ expectations in terms of revenue. For the second quarter ended June 30, the San Francisco-based maker of ... |
DJI puts temporary restrictions on its drones in Brazil during the Olympic Games in Rio | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 8 | 4 | Tomorrow marks the first day of the Olympic Games in Rio. And have announced the establishment of temporary flight restrictions that will prevent their users from flying into air space around sports arenas in six Brazilian cities hosting international athletic competitions. The restrictions — or “temporary updates to... |
Google celebrates Olympics with Doodle Fruit Games | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 8 | 4 | The Olympics kick off this week and to celebrate, Google is featuring a in the Google App for iOS and Android every day for the next seven days (and they will all be available for ten days after that). So if you couldn’t make it to Rio (which may be for the better, given all the the city ) you can now guide a bu... |
App lets visually impaired in India hear books in their native language | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 4 | For the millions upon millions of visually impaired people in India, it can be difficult getting hold of the audiobook they want in the language they need it in. A project from Carnegie Mellon University and partners aims to fix that with a free, easily extensible Android app that can be quickly trained to read texts a... |
What can happen when mortgage lenders become VCs | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 4 | in Silicon Valley is no joke. It’s difficult for tech workers and it’s even more difficult for those not touched by the modern gold rush. One mortgage originator, Opes Advisors, is incorporating (RSU) and to make it easier for techies to move from incubator to nest egg. But what appears helpful to a population that s... |
Apple announces long-awaited bug bounty program | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 8 | 4 | null |
Valve opens up the HTC Vive’s tracking system to third-party developers | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 8 | 4 | One of the most technically advanced features of the HTC Vive virtual reality system is the way it tracks a user’s motions inside their play space. Valve, which collaborated with HTC to build the Vive, just opened its ‘Lighthouse tracking system’ up to third-party hardware developers building on the SteamVR platform to... |
The four cybersecurity terms everyone is talking about at Black Hat | Monzy Merza | 2,016 | 8 | 4 |
As the saying goes, knowledge is power. And when it comes to cybersecurity knowledge, every year thousands descend on Las Vegas for the conference to acquire as much of it as they can. For some, it’s an opportunity to share research and to demonstrate the fragility of computing systems. For others, it’s a chance to... |
This neural network tries to tell if you’re being sarcastic online | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 4 | One of the perils of text-based communication is the lack of cues that clearly signal irony being employed — no doubt we’ve all had our own mishaps behind this particular issue. Researchers from Portugal have had enough, though, and built a neural network that tries to determine whether you or your virtual interlocutor... |
Nissan’s working BladeGlider sport EV prototype calls to car lovers | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 4 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLlbGSOogUQ&w=746&h=448] Nissan is bringing a working version of the BladeGlider all-electric sport concept it first to Rio to ride the hype wave of the Olympics. The car is cool enough to merit hype in its own right, as a performance-engineered zero emission EV from a company ... |
What healthcare IT can learn from HP | Paul Brient | 2,016 | 8 | 4 |
Long before HP was known for PCs, laser printers and Carly Fiorina, it was a manufacturer of test equipment for electrical engineers. One reason its products succeeded was because they were designed by the very people who ultimately used them. HP designers possessed a deep understanding of the product use case and em... |
Niantic acknowledges that Pokemon are way too hard to catch now, promises a fix | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 8 | 4 | About two days ago, Pokemon Go players noticed a change — and it wasn’t . All of a sudden Pokemon were much, harder to catch. They dodged more, hopped over your ball more often, and worse yet, if you manage to get one inside your Pokéball, odds were seemingly higher than ever that they’d bust out and immediately r... |
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NASA’s Curiosity rover gets an adorable mobile game for its fourth anniversary | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 4 | What’s a good gift for a Martian rover who’s just turning four? Water, obviously. Barring that, however, a fun little mobile game will do. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory enlisted the skills of GAMEE to develop , created in honor of Curiosity’s fourth year on the red planet. It’s a simple little game for iOS, Andro... |
Mobile app search company Quixey raises $30M in debt funding | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 8 | 4 | Mobile search company Quixey has raised an additional $30 million in debt funding. The company touts its ability to help users find content within their apps. More recently, it says it has developed technology that can take you straight from the search results to personalized actions like showing nearby friends in Face... |
How computer-assisted art will help humans embrace the rise of the robots | Motti Nisani | 2,016 | 8 | 4 |
For many people, the robot-populated future is a zero-sum game; it’s either going to be us or them running things. Headlines — and not just on conspiracy theory websites — are rife with dire predictions like “ ” and “ ” Lest one think they will be spared because they are in a “creative” or “people-oriented” disciplin... |
Facebook built, but won’t launch, a “Facebook Stories” Snapchat clone | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 4 | Facebook built its own version of Snapchat Stories, called Quick Updates, but will not release it. Though launched this week, Facebook isn’t going to follow suit. created a special place to share within the Facebook app but outside of the News Feed. Accessible from a button at the top of the feed, Quick Updates woul... |
Pokémon Go is now live in 15 more countries in Asia, but not India or China | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 8 | 5 | The wait is over for many Pokémon Go fans in Asia, after the smash hit game went in the continent. The full list of new countries are: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Solomon Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, and Palau. A m... |
LinkedIn posts a huge second quarter that really doesn’t matter | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 8 | 4 | LinkedIn has likely ended with a bang its run as an independent company built upon a network of professionals, clearly beating out what Wall Street sought. Of course, this report is largely moot. Earlier this year, LinkedIn announced it would be acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion. Microsoft beat out several bidder... |
Zeta Interactive acquires Acxiom Impact for over $50M | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 8 | 4 | , the marketing-focused big data and analytics firm that recently , today announced it has bought , ‘s marketing automation solution for enterprise marketers. Sources close to the companies tell me the acquisition price was just north of $50 million. Zeta Interactive, which was co-founded by David Steinberg and form... |
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Robots will cover the Olympics for The Washington Post | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 8 | 5 | The Washington Post today that it will use artificial intelligence to report key information about the Olympics. The software will contribute The Post’s coverage of Rio 2016 by posting raw data and short updates, while a team of human reporters will provide readers with analysis and more in-depth articles. Heliograf, ... |
Carnegie Mellon’s Mayhem AI takes home $2 million from DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 5 | The 2016 DARPA has concluded, and the winning team — Carnegie Mellon University’s ForAllSecure — is taking home the $2 million grand prize. What’s that you say — what’s the Cyber Grand Challenge? I’m glad you asked! Like the other challenges the Defense Department’s R&D arm has offered, the CGC is focused on autonomy... |
New rules fuel the growth of the commercial drone industry | Frank Vallese | 2,016 | 8 | 5 |
There are new regulations that will lower the barriers to entry for the commercial operation of drones — and it’s about time. The challenge for the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been to establish a framework of rules to regulate how small unmanned aircraft systems (small UAS, or drones) can be used safely... |
The ‘McDonald’s of the future’ features touchscreens and free fries | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 5 | Previously known as the starting point of the Pony Express and the place where Jesse James died and Eminem was born, St. Joseph, Missouri now has a new claim to fame, as the home the future of fast food. It’s a future that apparently includes lots of touchscreens and, for a limited time, unlimited fries. The self-styli... |
NASA funds long shots aiming to make electric and eco-friendly aircraft | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 5 | One of these days we’re going to see aircraft go electric, just as cars are — but not for a while. In the meantime, we can’t slack off when it comes to the research that will make it possible. NASA has that may help make planes more efficient and green. It’s part of the organization’s , which has dozens of such inte... |
Google’s self-driving car CTO departs the project | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 5 | Google’s self-driving car project is losing Chris Urmson, who served as the unit’s CTO and lead technical resource after going the company from Carnegie Mellon. Urmson has considerable status among roboticist in the world of autonomous vehicles, but said in a announcing his departure that he was “ready for a fresh ch... |
These guys made a motorcycle look (and sound!) like a Star Wars Speeder Bike | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 8 | 5 | I’ve never been a big motorcycle guy. I have the hand/eye coordination of a sleepy toddler, and I’m pretty sure I’d hurt myself within about two minutes of firing up the engine. This bike wants me to give it a try anyway. Built by Wisconsin-based machining/customization shop , it’s a custom bike modeled after the most... |
Tecla’s tech makes Pokémon Go more accessible for wheelchair users | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 5 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sYFasIrNeU] Toronto-based B corporation thought Pokémon Go using its Tecla product, an assistive hardware device designed to make it easier to use smartphones, tablets and users for people who might not generally be able to interact with these gadgets, including, for example,... |
Incipio acquires Griffin, adding yet another accessory maker to its portfolio | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 5 | Incipio just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Shortly after after announcing that it had acquired up budget headphone maker Skullcandy, the Irvine-based accessories conglomerate has for an undisclosed amount. The Nashville mobile peripheral manufacturer will join an sizable brand portfolio that already includes Incas... |
Facebook snatches up team from Eyegroove, a musical selfie app | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 5 | The team from a startup called , a “musical selfie” app, has joined Facebook. According to a message on the company’s website, most of the small team who worked on the app will now be focused on building new experiences for Facebook users that will help them to “create, share and connect.” Founded in late 2013, the Ey... |
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