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Apple acquires Turi, a machine learning company | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 8 | 5 | Word just started going around the rumormill that Apple has acquired Turi, a company that describes itself as a “machine learning platform for developers and data scientists.” We reached out to Apple for confirmation, and sure enough — we got the standard reply they give when they’re confirming an acquisition but not s... |
Christoph Waltz gets goofily patriotic in Samsung’s new Galaxy Note 7 spot | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 5 | https://youtu.be/GfUhExdNjK8 He’s won a couple of Oscars, he’s worked with some of the best directors in the biz, and he’s even played a Bond villain. So, where does Christop Waltz go from here? Phone commercials, obviously. The acclaimed actor has signed on with Samsung for a silly new ad touting the company’s eager... |
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The social app redundancy engine | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 5 | Tumbled glass has a definite appeal: It’s eye-catching, has a pleasant variety of colors, and feels nice in the hand. And making it just takes time, and repetitive motion – throw some glass in a rock tumbler for about a week and voila – what comes out is better than what came in. But it’s also ultimately just glass. Th... |
Playbuzz launches an analytics product to help publishers create viral content | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 8 | 5 | has been offering publishers to create interactive/social media-friendly content like galleries, lists and polls. Now it’s giving them new ways to track the effectiveness of those tools. The company is announcing the launch of its analytics product, Impact — which was previously in beta testing with select partners,... |
Weekly Roundup: Didi buys Uber China, Instagram’s Snapchatty ‘Stories’ and new emoji | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 8 | 5 | This week tech companies worked their angles for the Rio Olympics, Uber China gave into Didi Chuxing and Instagram cloned Snapchat with an ephemeral new feature. Here are this week’s top stories in tech. You can receive the , if that’s your kinda thing. , its former competitor. The two companies will retain distinct b... |
Amazon wants more people to develop speech-based adventure games for Alexa | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 5 | Amazon’s plucky little voice assistant already has a fairly broad skill set – but gaming has never really been Alexa’s strong suit. Granted, the AI is no Xbox, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t some potential for a little gaming fun. A few developers have already created titles for the platform, adventure games that ar... |
Nike and Zeiss created a $1,200 pair of sunglasses for Olympians | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 5 | I recently spent $175 on a pair of Warby Parker sunglasses. I’m not proud of that, but my eyesight sucks now because I’m old and it’s sunny because it’s the summer. Suffice it to say, I now wear them indoors and at night both to get the most out of my purchase and to pay homage to Canadian songster Corey Hart’s seminal... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 08.05.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 8 | 5 | – Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare and Steve Gillmor. Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page G3’s Facebook page |
Crunch Report | Instagram Launches Stories | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 8 | 2 | Tito Hamze
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Bitcoin drops 20% after $70M worth of bitcoin was stolen from Bitfinex exchange | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 8 | 2 | , one of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges online, has suffered a major hack. The company has posted a , and while it doesn’t mention a total amount, one of their employees confirmed on Reddit that the total amount stolen was 119,756 bitcoins.
That amount converts to about $77,000,000 based on a price o... |
Elizabeth Holmes quietly stepped down from Obama’s business ambassador program | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 8 | 2 | Elizabeth Holmes, the founder and CEO of beset blood analysis startup Theranos, is no longer mentioned on the Presidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship (PAGE) . Holmes announced she had joined the Obama administration’s entrepreneurial PAGE program, which notably includes AOL CEO Steve Case, Airbnb founder ... |
Pokémon Go tops $160M in global revenue, time spent in-app remains high | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 2 | I’m still trying to , but Niantic’s recent changes to the game don’t seem to be putting a damper on player appetite just yet — new reveals that users are still spending, on average, around 26 minutes per day in the app in the U.S., which is actually a slight increase compared to the average play duration the week pri... |
Green Commuter gets you to work in Tesla Model X | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 8 | 2 | A vanpool is like a carpool, but a van can take more people to work in one trip. It is also significantly less cool-looking. But vanpoolers in Los Angeles need no longer worry about the potential for being uncool during the ride to work: has launched in the city with a fleet of all-electric, zero-emissions SUVs. Gree... |
Review: Leica T serves its purpose as a great artisan tool | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 8 | 2 | are few reasons why you or I would want to have a Leica camera. After all, it’s not a necessity: fast-shooting, high-megapixel and wide-aperture touting cameras all exist from the likes of Sony, Nikon and Canon — all with unique traits that make them suited for different photography styles. But Leica’s style is unique... |
Navigating mobile content with app streaming | Wally Nguyen | 2,016 | 8 | 2 |
People are very comfortable movies, TV, music, video games and more. In fact, Cisco 75 percent of the world’s mobile data traffic be video by 2020. However, the idea of apps on mobile devices, for better or worse, has lagged far behind. Since the introduction of the Apple Store in 2008, we’ve been condition... |
Tableau Software’s Q2 earnings fall short of estimates | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 8 | 2 | Data analytics provider reported second quarter earnings after the bell today. The Seattle-based company posted a loss due to higher than expected expenses for the quarter, while still beating analyst’s expectations in terms of revenue. For the three months ended June 30, Tableau total revenue of $198.5 million and... |
China has actually built an elevated bus that travels above car traffic | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 8 | 2 | If you’ve ever been surfing through random videos on Facebook or another social media site you’ve probably seen the concept video of that Chinese train/bus hybrid thing that can travel over cars (and over traffic). But that was just a rendered concept. And, like me, you probably thought that even though it was an amazi... |
Video distribution startup Zype raises $2M | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 8 | 2 | has raised another $2 million as it helps publishers deliver (and make money from) video across devices. Added to that Zype announced last year, this brings the New York City startup’s seed round to $3.6 million. The round was led by Revel Partners, with participation from Point Nine Capital, Alpine Meridian Venture... |
MIT creates video you can reach out and touch | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 2 | Strictly speaking, video isn’t an interactive medium, but a new research project from MIT aims to change that: The school’s through which viewers can reach out and “touch” objects in videos, manipulating them directly to achieve effects similar to what you’d expect if you were actually touching the object live in the... |
The new age of empathy | John Biggs | 2,016 | 8 | 2 | past videos on Facebook and Twitter for a while now, wondering why social media is so fascinated by puppies being saved from floods, babies hearing for the first time and grandmothers who have something sassy and wise to say about body acceptance. And, recently, I’ve come to realize what is going on. Whether it seems ... |
Watch wall-walking spiderbots weave ‘impossible’ structures with carbon fiber | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 2 | Normally, the notion of setting a pair of spiderbots free in your house would seem alarming. But if you knew that they were weaving you a strange and mathematical hammock while you were gone? Suddenly that fear turns to wonder — and eventually, a nap. The Mobile Robotic Fabrication System for Filament Structures was de... |
Etsy shows signs of life in Q2 earnings with merchant sales hitting $669.7 million | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 2 | If you’re an investor, you’re somewhere between ecstatic and off the rails after two days of gains totaling more than 23 percent. Fortunately for investors, the fun hasn’t stopped. The e-commerce site specializing in handmade goods posted its second quarter earnings just after the bell today. Investors reacted by tra... |
High-tech updates to the retail experience | Michael Hsieh | 2,016 | 8 | 2 |
Sometimes one must look to the past to define the future. Once upon a time the milkman delivered milk directly to your home. The Avon and Tupperware ladies had private parties in the comfort of a neighbor’s house. The Hoover salesperson demonstrated the vacuum cleaner on your living room carpet. It was a high-touch, ... |
Watch 500 Startups’ Demo Day here | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 8 | 2 | TechCrunch is pleased to bring you 500 Startups’ Batch 17 Demo Day today, August 2nd, starting at 1:00pm PT. 500 Startups is a global seed fund and startup accelerator founded by Dave McClure and Christine Tsai. 500 has invested in a variety of technology startups all over the world and maintains regional funds focused... |
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Medium nabs Embed.ly to add to its list of publisher tools | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 2 | announced today that it has acquired to support publishers with backend APIs for embedding content. Embed.ly supports writers by providing analytics on content and customized recommendations and promotions. Their APIs are currently used by an all-star list of publishers, including The New York Times, NPR and The Atl... |
The NFL is the first sports league on Snapchat Discover | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 2 | The NFL and Snapchat heart each other, and will continue to heart each other for multiple years to come: The two an extension to their “strategic partnership” today, which includes Snapchat’s first official sports league Discover channel, an NFL-programmed collection of piping hot football fan service content. The NF... |
Latest Amazon Elastic MapReduce release supports 16 Hadoop projects | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 8 | 2 | today, which includes, among other things, support for 16 open source Hadoop projects. As AWS continues to hone its various tools to help customers manage myriad enterprise functions in the cloud, this latest one is aimed at data scientists and other interested parties looking to manage big data projects with Hadoop. ... |
People.ai is using machine learning to rewrite the sales ops playbook | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 8 | 2 | , a company bringing machine learning algorithms to sales operations, is emerging from stealth. The platform uses machine learning tech to give sales reps what it calls a predictive playbook on how to close deals based on past success. People.ai also shows managers how well team members are doing in relation to this st... |
Paving the way for the autonomous truck | Charles Chilton | 2,016 | 8 | 20 |
Google has long held the spotlight in developing driverless technology; however, with the emergence of and Elon Musk’s announcement of a , “driverless trucks” are coming to the forefront of the autonomous vehicle conversation. One major reason the trucking industry is so interested in driverless technology is a ch... |
Gillmor Gang: Predictions | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 8 | 20 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, August 19, 2016. The Gang goes mobile as in cars, autocurated Twitter notifications, the real reason bots are important, and a tribute to the inventor of all things debated. Bye bye. @stevegillmor, @Scoble... |
Developing a global financial architecture | Nik Milanovic | 2,016 | 8 | 20 |
An odd paradox exists in the way capital moves around the world — or doesn’t — from developed to developing countries. A few specific technology hurdles halt the flow of money, at the personal level, from transferring wealth to and investing in emerging markets. Issues with ledgers of exchange, unique identifiers, tr... |
How carbon nanotubes could give us faster processors and longer battery life | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 8 | 20 | Carbon nanotubes are one of those supermaterials — a cylinder with a diameter of one or two nanometers — that are full of dreamy applications, ranging from supercomputers to ultra-efficient smartphones. The problem is, they are difficult to manufacture, and commercializing these applications may require 10 or 15 years.... |
The reality of VR porn | John Holden | 2,016 | 8 | 20 |
Tech and porn are intimately connected. The porn industry has been an early adopter of new tech time and time again, and virtual reality is just the latest tech star the industry wants to get into bed with. Investment bank and asset management firm Piper Jaffray estimates that (after video games and NFL-related con... |
Ads are bad, and also terrible | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 8 | 20 | Every so often, I find myself forced to use the Web on a browser without uBlock or an equivalent; and every time, I think to myself “How do people live like this?” The un-ad-blocked web is a miserable cesspool of autoplaying video and hysterical calls to action, slow to load, hard to look at. It’s even worse on your ph... |
Rakuten buys struggling bitcoin startup Bitnet to create a ‘blockchain research lab’ | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 8 | 18 | that it has acquired the assets of Bitnet, a bitcoin wallet startup it invested in, which will be used to create a ‘blockchain lab’ for the Japanese retail giant. The transaction is undisclosed but it follows in July which speculated that a deal was in the works. for Bitnet nearly two years ago, which was led by H... |
Crunch Report | Uber’s self-driving cars | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 8 | 18 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Espresa wants to help companies pamper their employees | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 8 | 18 | The range of benefits that Silicon Valley companies offer employees may vary from dental, vision and 401(k) all the way to yoga massages, car washes and beauty services. With tech giants like and making a big deal about the benefits they offer, delivering and managing perks is a key part of any company’s strategy to... |
Analytics company Heap raises $11M | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 8 | 18 | today that it has raised $11 million in Series A funding. We’ve written about before — it aims to collect data about every tap, swipe and other action that a user takes on a website or app. CEO Matin Movassate said this should allow anyone at a company to answer any question they might have about user behavior wit... |
What the Fitbit lawsuit means for clinical researchers | Daphne Kis | 2,016 | 8 | 18 |
Fitbit is facing a regarding the accuracy of their heart-rate data, which have been shown to be inaccurate by a margin of up to 20 beats per minute by at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. This news risks sending back to the drawing board many of us who have been optimistically experimenting with bi... |
A pocket-sized power bank that’ll help your laptop stay alive | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 18 | I’ve lived through a lot of live blogs in my life, mostly by the skin of my teeth, desperately watching as my battery ticks down, hoping desperately that the company is nearing the finish line. Of course, the fact that both my personal work computers sometimes feel like they’re on their last legs doesn’t help much, but... |
Tesla Model S aftermarket wireless charging is almost here | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 18 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZevHlvaE7A] Aftermarket EV charging company Evatran is almost ready to start shipping its to Tesla Model S owners who pre-ordered the product, and a new video shows the production system in action. As you can see, what the company offers is a way to create a drive-up wireless... |
Nintendo 3DS sales up 80% year-over-year on Pokémon Go success | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 18 | Nintendo had a very good month in mobile gaming, according to . The 3DS won in both hardware and software sales for the analyst firm’s latest tracker report, with the 3DS and its family of systems (including New 3DS, 3DS XL and 2DS devices) up 80 percent for July this year versus July 2015. Pokémon Omega Red and Alpha... |
Microsoft helps Mac users ditch Evernote for OneNote with new tool | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 18 | Microsoft is for Mac users to ditch Evernote in favor of OneNote, its rival note-taking app, and a part of the Microsoft Office suite. The company has today released a new app called the which allows Mac users to move all their saved items from the Evernote for Mac application into OneNote automatically. This is no... |
Jobless in the self-driving economy | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 18 | Uber’s self-driving cars will hit the road this month, earlier than anticipated. That’s an exciting surprise…unless of course you’re a driver. They won’t be the only ones affected, though. The consequences of robot-induced unemployment could eventually ripple through the rest of the economy. What will happen to Uber’s ... |
At Rothenberg Ventures, the rise and fall of a virtual Gatsby | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 8 | 18 | nberg Ventures, the four-year-old, San Francisco-based seed-stage venture firm, may be on the brink of implosion, say several sources close to the firm. We that several high-level employees had parted ways with Rothenberg, including its director of finance and the head of its SF office, who happen to be father and so... |
The business side of the Karma reboot | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 8 | 18 | In 2009, I went to what was probably the saddest auto show Detroit has ever seen. It was the January after the economy collapsed and auto makers were teetering on the edge of going bust. But there were a couple of bright spots in the hall filled with smaller car companies, where Tesla and Fisker Automotive both had veh... |
The art of interviewing 10x engineers | Elisa Schreiber | 2,016 | 8 | 18 |
Today’s employees are being pursued by large technology companies and startups alike, making recruiting top talent highly competitive and difficult. Companies looking to gain a competitive recruiting edge need to create a thoughtful interview process that sets their organization apart and focuses on how candidates wi... |
Genesis owners can now start their engines with Amazon Alexa | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 18 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azHf-sKjIB8] Amazon’s Alexa skill set continues to grow, and owners of the Genesis G80 and G90 from Hyundai’s standalone luxury car brand are the latest to benefit. Genesis now uses lets Amazon Echo, Tap, Dot and Fire TV owners use voice commands to remotely start their engine, ... |
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Realizing the potential of drones, yet preserving our privacy | Brian Wynne | 2,016 | 8 | 18 |
Searching for a new home in a different city is hard, especially if you want a sense of the neighborhood and a true picture of what prospective properties look like. Wouldn’t it be great to have a close-up view of that seemingly perfect house on the market from all angles, as well as a bird’s-eye view of the yard? Go... |
Dexter, the betaworks-backed platform for building bots, raises $2.3 million in seed | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 8 | 18 | , the company that helps people build integration-based apps, has today . The funding round was led by Rakuten Ventures, with participation from Social Starts and betaworks. Dexter lets developers build integration-based apps without all the messy work of building the actual infrastructure. Using plug-and-play block... |
Goodbye, Gawker | John Biggs | 2,016 | 8 | 18 | While the fate of Gawker is still unclear – last-minute Hail Mary media saves are the norm when it comes to online properties (even if it does ) – what is clear is that Gawker as we once knew it is dead. The current staff probably won’t stick around only to fall under some less beneficent ruler and Univision doesn’t w... |
Google will soon open a dedicated space for startup developers in San Francisco | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 8 | 18 | Google today that it plans to set up a new space for developers and startups at in San Francisco, just a few blocks from its main San Francisco office on . The idea here is to provide a 14,000 square-foot space (which accounts for about one floor in the building) for the next class of Google’s equity-free and to... |
Twitter is introducing a quality filter to clean up your notifications tab | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 8 | 18 | Twitter just unveiled that will let everyone filter low quality notifications from bots and spammers. Twitter has had in the past, and the company is now taking actions to make it a more welcoming place. Twitter is wording this new quality filter as a tool to hide notifications from bots and duplicate tweets from s... |
Reverie Classic is a crowdfunded watch with some beautiful bones | John Biggs | 2,016 | 8 | 27 | There are two kinds of crowdfunded watches – fashion accessories and real efforts at classical design and workmanship. Thankfully the holds the latter place. The Classic is made by Samuel Tay who previously crowdfunded and built the a handsome, nautical-themed automatic that did quite well. The Classic costs $350 a... |
Startups will overtake enterprises in the new AI ecosystem | Hossein Rahnama | 2,016 | 8 | 27 |
Artificial intelligence pops up as a buzzword every few years, but it has never moved beyond novelty status. This time, though, it is here to stay, and are poised to drive the economy forward. Indeed, we are beginning to see glimpses of it. Newcomer , for example, has gained law firm clients by developing a full... |
Why founders should care where their VCs get their money | Elizabeth “Beezer” Clarkson | 2,016 | 8 | 27 |
Fundraising for a startup is a notoriously stressful process. Vast amounts of ink have been spilled dissecting every aspect of what works when pitching a venture capitalist, and there are countless out there that promise to help entrepreneurs close deals. But for all the attention paid to venture capitalists, and f... |
We have an excess of mobile payment apps because of power, not money | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 18 | is up with all the mobile payment solutions hitting the market? Hint — it has almost nothing to do with money. Every week it seems like another retailer, bank, or technology company launches a mobile payments solution. Apple Pay, Android Pay, , Walmart Pay…Pre Pay…Over Pay… …it’s all a bit much. Rather than money or ... |
The API for absurdity | David Lee | 2,016 | 8 | 27 |
Every important technology goes through a hype cycle. You’ve probably seen the Gartner Hype Cycle diagram: inflated expectations, followed by despair and eventually a pragmatic understanding of the technology’s value. World-changing promises tend to turn into mundane reality — if they don’t fall off the roller coaste... |
Gillmor Gang: Unborn Child | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 8 | 27 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, August 26, 2016. Oh no, Volumetrics meets the Beatles in a trip forward down memory lane. Eventually we even discover the chewy center. Plus the latest G3 (below) with Mary Hodder, Elisa Camahort Page, F... |
What this month’s Jet.com sale means for the future of retail | Toby Russell | 2,016 | 8 | 27 |
One in ten retail in the United States –- a projected $373 billion in 2016 -– happens online. Forrester total U.S. online retail will grow to $500 billion by 2020. That number will only continue to increase globally as more businesses take core operations to the web. Retailers grasp the web-focused future of the ... |
Weekly Roundup: Zero-day hacks rock Apple, WhatsApp changes privacy policy | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 8 | 27 | August, the weekend of months. This week a zero-day hack rocked Apple, WhatsApp announced a major privacy change and Tesla announced a new model that takes Ludicrous Mode to the next level. Would you rather get the Weekly Roundup in your inbox? Hackers are . The latest example was an Apple zero-day hack targeting acti... |
Tech and Trump | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 8 | 27 | I won’t insult your intelligence by pretending to be unbiased. I think exactly what you’d expect a Canadian who lives in San Francisco to think: …But my search for an answer has led me to the uncomfortable sense that the tech industry is partly responsible for Trump’s support. There exists a popular narrative that Tr... |
Blendle clocks up 1M signups for its pay-per-article journalism platform | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 8 | 11 | Pay-per-article journalism startup , which aggregates the written work of different publishers onto a single, ad-free platform where readers can pick and choose which stories to consume, paying a few cents per article, is touting passing one million registered users. It’s taken Blendle just over two years to amass thi... |
Crunch Report | Gasoline is so 2015 | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 8 | 11 | Tito Hamze, Jason Kopek, John Mannes
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Heres the new Star Wars: Rogue One trailer that just dropped during the Olympics | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 8 | 11 | . While most new trailers tend to drop in the wee hours of the morning, Disney just blasted one out right as most people on the east coast were prepping for bed. Thanks, Olympics! Here’s the second trailer for , the first of Disney’s spinoff/origin movies, which is coming out on December 16th — or a little more than... |
Understanding debt | Paul McKinlay | 2,016 | 8 | 27 |
Without leverage, the private equity sector as we know it wouldn’t exist. While some tech execs and VCs recoil at the thought of using leverage, the truth is that the Innovation Economy has accessed debt for more than 35 years. , , and have all made headlines of late by raising enormous debt rounds. This has ser... |
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After China, India looms as Uber’s next battleground | Ajay Chopra | 2,016 | 8 | 11 |
Earlier this month the ride-sharing world when Uber announced that it would sell its China business to primary competitor Didi for an ownership stake of 18% in the combined China entity, valued at $35 billion, with While some may focus on , the crux is that Uber was in a no-win situation in probably the largest r... |
How digital has redefined go-to-market strategy | Babar Khan Javed | 2,016 | 8 | 11 |
We are all familiar with , and as disruptors. But how many of you know ? doctHERs is a healthcare company that is empowering women to fulfill their Hippocratic oath in the face of cultural and social constraints that leave many of them otherwise unable to practice medicine after marriage. In conservative areas,... |
Having conquered Chess and Go, the robots move to master Foosball | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 11 | We’ve come a long way since the days of selecting a CPU player for the other Pong paddle, tank or hand-to-hand combatant. Now the computers are taking it to us, in meatspace, and seemingly no tabletop activity is safe from their depredations. The latest to succumb to computer domination? Foosball. (Or “table football” ... |
Both Trump and Clinton are taking on carried interest, so why aren’t investors nervous? | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 8 | 11 | During every U.S. presidential election season, at least one candidate vows to repeal deductions. Meanwhile, venture capitalists do their part and argue against it. The issue is near and dear to their hearts because carried interest treats investment partners’ salary as an investment and not income, taxing it at long... |
Reddit is currently experiencing a major outage | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 8 | 11 | I’ve gotten so much work done in the past 90 minutes or so that Reddit has been down. Like it’s almost hard to believe. I returned some calls, responded to a bunch of emails and worked on writing out some thoughts for another story. I did all this while refreshing Reddit’s home page that highlighted the “emergency main... |
The best apps to download before watching the Perseid meteor shower tonight | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 8 | 11 | The Perseid meteor shower, which comes around every year at this time, will peak tonight and early tomorrow. This year’s event is particularly special because astronomers are an outburst of shooting stars at twice the normal rate. The best time to watch the show is between midnight tonight and dawn Friday morning. Be... |
Facebook rolls out code to nullify Adblock Plus’ workaround again | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 11 | Adblock Plus launched a to Facebook’s today that ham-handedly removes posts from friends and Pages, not just ads, according to a statement provided by Facebook to TechCrunch. “We’re disappointed that ad blocking companies are punishing people on Facebook as these new attempts don’t just block ads but also posts fro... |
Hewlett Packard Enterprise picks up SGI for $275 million | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 11 | The last decade-plus hasn’t been great for SGI. The company formerly known as Silicon Graphics declared Chapter 11 in 2009. That same year, it was sold to Rackable for a song, with that company somewhat confusingly changing its own name to SGI (short for Silicon Graphics International) during the process. Now former co... |
Simplenote, the planet’s most useful piece of software, is now open source on iOS, macOS and Android | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 11 | If you’re not using , you’re missing out. This… well, simple note app has been a standby and lifesaver for me for years, though occasionally I have worried about its future: Will it survive if , , goes under or gets bought itself? What if the servers go down? Is there a god, and if so, does he or she use Simplenote,... |
Zenoti raises $15 million for spa bookings | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 8 | 11 | A cloud-based management platform, Zenoti helps spa chains with everything from billing to inventory management. They aim to create a tailored enterprise software experience for what they believe to be an under-served industry. “Wellness enterprises need an integrated solution to support new business models like monthl... |
Deliveroo drivers hold protest in London over possible changes to the way they are paid | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 8 | 11 | Just days after , a popular on-demand restaurant food delivery startup in Europe, that it had raised another $275 million in funding, a number of the startup’s self-employed couriers in London have been holding a protest over possible changes to the way they are paid. It’s being that after trialling a new payment ... |
iTank: “A three-wheeled scooter is the future” | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 8 | 11 | The Kickstarter campaign for the three-wheeled scooter began this week. It’s brought to you by Kartik Ram, the same guy behind the that debuted this spring. Before we get into the question of whether a three-wheeled scooter really is the future, as Ram said in a phone interview, here are the details of the iTank: “... |
Morrissey thinks his gory new anti-meat mobile game is more important than ‘Pokémon Go’ | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 11 | Songster and perpetual master of subtlety Morrissey has teamed up with pals at PETA to produce , a mobile and desktop browser-based app that turns saving cuddly 8-bit farm animals from a gruesome death into a fun, Tetris-like puzzle game. Morrissey believes his bloody new anti-meat mobile game is more important than “... |
Test the security of your apps with Verify.ly | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 8 | 11 | It’s not easy for the average user to determine whether or not the apps on his or her iPhone are trustworthy. Some apps scoop up contact lists, others unnecessarily harvest your location data, and some even send your login credentials over insecure HTTP connections. But, if you’re not a developer, it can be difficult t... |
Advice for Snapchat from the world’s first Pokémon Go master | Nick Johnson | 2,016 | 8 | 11 |
With a nearly $18 billion valuation, Snapchat has decided it’s time to make money. The company recently launched a massive expansion of its advertising, including in-stream ads that now play in its Stories feature, as well as an API that will make it much easier for advertisers to buy ads. Given Snapchat’s aspiration... |
Tesla’s Autopilot 2.0 said to add triple camera system and more radar | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 11 | Tesla’s Autopilot is set to get a major update soon, according to multiple reports, and a details some of the new hardware improvements that will pave the way for its arrival. The autonomous driving assistant for Tesla vehicles will benefit from a new front-facing triple camera array, Elecktrek reports, and will also... |
New Pokémon in Sun and Moon include sad fish, surfing Raichu | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 11 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py2LxgWBaRQ&w=854&h=480] Please, please let me visit the room where new Pokémon are created. I want to know exactly what was going on when the team came up with Wishiwashi, a small, sad fish that becomes a group of slightly less sad fish when it reaches a certain level. Wishiwas... |
Some Pokémon Go players given lifetime bans are being let back into the game | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 8 | 29 | Did you get banned from playing Pokémon Go after downloading an app that you thought might make the game more fun? Well, it turns out that you might be able to get back into the smash hit title after all. A couple of weeks ago, with “lifetime” bans for those who used third-party “add-on” apps to get ahead of the rest... |
You earn a million dollars a year and can’t get funded? | David Frankel | 2,016 | 8 | 29 |
The funding environment is so overheated that it often seems like no idea is too silly to attract investment. might be surprised by how many companies struggle to raise money — even those that manage to bootstrap their way to a (or more) in revenue. Plenty of startups that are going concerns, led by compelling ... |
Alphabet’s David Drummond leaves Uber’s board amid mounting competition | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 8 | 29 | David Drummond, who joined Uber’s board of directors in August 2013, stepped down several weeks ago, Uber has confirmed to TechCrunch. first reported the news. At first blush: no surprise whatsoever. Earlier this month, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick said the company’s first fleet of self-driving cars (as soon as this mo... |
Sufferers of iPhone 6’s ‘Touch Disease’ may soon have a class action lawsuit | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 29 | iPhones around the world are dying in a peculiar way, and Apple isn’t doing right by affected users, asserts . The plaintiffs are three in number for now but hope to elevate the case to class action status. It all concerns “Touch Disease,” a problem an unspecified but apparently large number of users (i.e. at least se... |
ET is that you? Astronomers detect intriguing signal 95 light-years away | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 8 | 29 | Are we alone in the universe? An international group of astronomers has an interesting radio signal spike, one that could possibly be of alien origin, from a star system located 95 light-years away. Scientists who search for extraterrestrial intelligence in the universe, a field known as SETI, find the powerful signa... |
In a first, FAA allows PrecisionHawk to fly drones where pilots can’t see them | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 8 | 29 | The Federal Aviation Administration has given permission to a drone tech startup called to fly its unmanned aerial vehicles beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS) in U.S. airspace. The exemption represents a first in the country, and comes on the same day that the FAA implemented its governing the way that busines... |
uSens shows off new tracking sensors that aim to deliver richer experiences for mobile VR | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 8 | 29 | Startups in the VR space are increasingly growing confident that consumers will want to interact with objects in the virtual world the same way they do irl — with their hands. is showing off the first line of its Fingo hand-tracking developer kits. The sensors have an eye toward mobile VR and integrate inside-out posi... |
Recapalypse now | Craig Hanson | 2,016 | 8 | 29 |
Over the last couple of years of boom times for venture capital-backed startups, round sizes ballooned and valuations filled with all that hot air. Valuations of new financings have started declining significantly since the beginning of the year, leaving a number of companies hanging on precariously high in the air w... |
Updates to Apple hardware this year will focus on power users | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 29 | Apple’s roadmap for the rest of the year (and perhaps a bit beyond that) appears to take aim at big spenders and power users, if we can trust inside information — as one generally can. Expect updates to the iPad, MacBook Air and Pro and Thunderbolt display. The pendulum is swinging the other direction after last year... |
Revelator raises $2.5M to build a business platform for digital music | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 8 | 29 | Bruno Guez has — he hosted a show on public radio, founded Quango Music Group and even worked as the creative director of music at Cirque de Soleil. Over that time, he said he’s watched as changes in the music industry outpaced the tools available to artists and labels. “There were no modern platforms for the B2B seg... |
For law enforcement, the rule must be no implementation without representation | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 29 | that the police in Baltimore were working with a company called, appropriately enough, Persistent Surveillance, which deployed aircraft equipped with high-resolution cameras, recording entire regions of the city for hours on end for law enforcement to browse through. You should read of the program if you’re curious.... |
NHTSA releases raw 2015 traffic fatality data, calls for tech companies to analyze | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 29 | The number of traffic fatalities in the U.S. in 2015 was up 7.2 percent from the year prior, to 35,092, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is doing things a little differently this year with respect to that data, since it’s a troubling departure from the overall recent trend of a decreasing total nu... |
3D-print your own bones from everyone’s favorite fossil, Lucy | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 29 | Admit it: You’ve always wanted your very own Australopithecus. Unfortunately, they’re extinct — but the best known representation of our 3-million-year-old ancestor, the famous fossil Lucy, is now more accessible than ever. Researchers have so amateur paleontologists around the world can print their very own. The Uni... |
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