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Listen to TCBC Episode 2: Brian Heater on IFA, Galaxy Note 7 and more | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 29 |
In case you , TechCrunch has a new podcast, and it’s TCBC, a show where I speak to a different writer on staff each week about their beat, the stories they’re following, and the tech news that’s most important to them right now. This week, it’s almost time for IFA, the CES of Europe (the other CES of Europe tha... |
New sensor system can predict when senior citizens are heading for a fall | John Biggs | 2,016 | 8 | 29 | Falling is awful. It causes irreparable harm to senior citizens and the fear of falling reduces senior citizen mobility drastically, creating a feedback loop that can be catastrophic. Now, thanks to a team at the , caregivers can predict falls up to three weeks out, allowing for care and assistance before its needed. ... |
Instagram Stories diverges from Snapchat by suggesting who to follow | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 29 | Who decides who’s cool? Snapchat refuses to recommend accounts for fear of feeling heavy-handed. Maybe it learned from Twitter, whose old one-size-fits-none suggested user list immediately made it noisy, impersonal and ruled by an oligarchy. But Instagram is betting that algorithmically personalized suggestions could m... |
New York subway is offering free ebooks (and Wi-Fi) for your commute | John Biggs | 2,016 | 8 | 29 | In an effort to highlight its upcoming launch of more in-train Wi-Fi (not to be ), the New York MTA, Transit Wireless, and publishing powerhouse Penguin Random House are getting together to release ebooks and articles timed to your commute. This project mirrors a product launched in London last year. As notes, even ... |
Facebook’s Trending Topics algorithm already screwed up | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 8 | 29 | Well, that was fast. Three days after Facebook said it would who curate the Trending topics section and replace them with a purely algorithmic system, the company trended a . The mistake seems like an easily avoidable one — the story on Kelly, which claimed that she had been booted from the conservative-leaning Fox ... |
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg hopes to show off his Jarvis-like home AI next month | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 29 | Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is living at least a few years out ahead of anyone reading this post – the founding executive told an audience in Rome ( ) today that he hopes to demonstrate his home’s artificial intelligence system, which controls things like air conditioning, lighting and more based on things like face a... |
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Google’s new app Crowdsource asks users to help with translation, transcription & more | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 29 | A new Google application called has quietly appeared on Google Play, asking users to perform brief tasks that will help improve the quality of Google services like Maps, translation, image transcription, and more. The app, surprisingly, doesn’t offer any sort of rewards or micropayments in exchange for users’ work, h... |
Crunch Report | Intel’s VR headset | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 8 | 16 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Intel will start producing ARM chips to boost foundry business | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 8 | 16 | Chip maker Intel and British semiconductor IP company ARM an agreement that could help boost the chip giant’s custom foundry business. The deal, revealed today at the the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, will allow Intel Custom Foundry to make ARM processors for third parties. made it clear that the company i... |
Journeying from entrepreneur to investor and back again | Navin Chaddha | 2,016 | 8 | 16 |
Jonah Goodhart started his entrepreneurial journey while still in college at Cornell University. What started out a bit haphazardly with an email list turned into solid learning opportunities that have informed his business decisions along the way. After the acquisition of his second company, Right Media by Yahoo in ... |
The OMEN series is HP showcasing it has real PC gaming savvy | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 8 | 16 | The arrival of new gaming products from HP is very infrequent. After all, HP isn’t a PC gamer’s first choice in hardware, at all. Well if you’re Hewlett-Packard, what do you do? Well, you design a complete PC gaming line, evidently. HP’s efforts begin with the OMEN X desktop, a tower with support for dual GeForce GTX 1... |
The next $1 billion startup acquirer won’t be a tech company | Alex Taussig | 2,016 | 8 | 16 |
Acquisitions starting with a “B” are not uncommon in the tech industry in Silicon Valley. Roughly two to four billion-dollar deals have gone down each quarter (on average) over the last few years. The recent purchases of by GM and by Unilever turned heads for another reason: The buyers were as non-techie as you c... |
Univision wins auction to acquire Gawker Media | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 8 | 16 | Univision has won the auction to acquire Gawker Media’s websites and business. , reporting the acquisition price was $135 million and would cover all seven of Gawker’s websites. The company’s founder Nick Denton confirmed the deal in an email to reporters: Gawker Media Group has agreed this evening to sell our business... |
Intel unveils a ready-to-fly drone, the Aero, to win over developers | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 8 | 16 | At the on Tuesday, Intel unveiled a new, hardware product — a ready-to-fly drone; specifically, a quadcopter, aimed at software developers rather than casual hobbyists or commercial drone operators. Intel’s drone is a fully assembled unit that runs on Intel’s Aero Compute Board with a Linux operating system, RealSens... |
Barnes & Noble drops its CEO after deeming him ‘not a good fit’ | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 16 | Easy come, easy go in corporate bookseller land. Less than a year after starting his gig as company head, Ronald D. Boire has been unceremoniously let go from his CEO gig at Barnes & Noble. The once ubiquitous book store chain made the announcement today in a somewhat , noting that its Board of Directors, “determined ... |
Twitch is acquiring popular video game community and software maker Curse | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 8 | 16 | Live streaming video platform (a ) is doubling down on video games with the acquisition of a significant player in the world of video game communities: . The terms of the deal are undisclosed and Twitch declined to comment beyond the . Curse operates myriad websites and services — some of them were created in-hous... |
Operator fuses bots with humans to build cyborg shopping experts | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 16 | Big purchases are scary to make online without anyone there to quell your fears and answer questions. wants to give you the same peace of mind, not with mechanical chat bot responses, but through real humans with knowledge about whatever you’re buying. Today Operator 2.0 launches with a new Discovery tab where curato... |
In Japan, Priuses can talk to other Priuses | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 8 | 16 | While the US waits to get in Cadillacs next year, has already rolled out a pretty robust V2V, or vehicle-to-vehicle, system in three models available in Japan. The latest version of the Prius, the Lexus RX, and the Toyota Crown, a luxury sedan sold in Japan, all have the ITS Connect system available as an option. T... |
How to prevent your IoT devices from being forced into botnet bondage | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 8 | 16 |
A Delaware-headquartered brick-and-mortar jewelry store recently lost access to its online resources after subduing a major, multi-staged DDoS attack — the sort of hack that brings down server by burdening it with huge amounts of simultaneous requests. DDoS attacks are nothing new, but are. The main culprit behind... |
Cogito leverages human behavior to nudge customer relationships | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 16 | We’ve all had crappy customer service calls. Primed by staticky elevator music and the ever-mysterious agitating echo, most of us come into calls with strained patience. On the line, customer service and sales agents are paid to build relationships, but after a long day of working with callers (who typically only call ... |
Food-sharing startup Josephine doesn’t want to be like the rest of the gig economy | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 8 | 16 | Silicon Valley’s gig economy isn’t known for being very supportive of its core workers — the ones working on the ground, making deliveries and picking up and dropping off passengers. The “best” cases in point are Uber and Lyft, two on-demand ride companies that have been . “We’ve been thinking a long time about how t... |
China launches the first quantum communications satellite – and what is that, exactly? | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 16 | Congratulations are in order for China: by , the country has achieved an interesting — if somewhat difficult to explain — milestone in space and cryptography. Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS), nicknamed Micius after the philosopher, lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center at 1:40 AM local time (late ... |
Soylent begins shipping its $2 nutritional bars | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 16 | Interested in a lactose-free, animal-free, nut-free nutritional bar made with soy protein, algal flour, and some sort of sugar made from beets? If that sounds delicious to you (???), then you’ll be glad to hear that the is now shipping. The latest in the growing lineup of meal replacement products from the Andreessen ... |
Ford acquires SAIPS for self-driving machine learning and computer vision tech | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 16 | Ford outlined a few of the ways it’s aiming to , and part of the plan involves acquisitions. CEO Mark Fields revealed at a press event in Palo Alto today that the automaker , an Israeli company focusing on machine learning and computer vision. It’s also partnering exclusively with Nirenberg Neuroscience, to bring mor... |
Joy aims to be a smarter wedding planner for the modern bride | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 8 | 16 | Planning a wedding is right up there with moving and job hunting as one of the most stressful things you’ll do in life. I would know. I’m getting married in 10 days. So when Y Combinator startup approached me about their intelligent wedding planner startup I was already in the eye of the storm using the in the U.S. ... |
Nvidia’s GTX 10-series notebooks deliver VR power on the go | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 16 | Eventually, we’ll never leave our VR-enabled domiciles. But until that happens, we occasionally need to go outside – and Nvidia’s mean that when you do, you can at least take VR with you. The new 10-series GPUs for notebooks follow the 10-series desktop line launched earlier this year, which , the first card by the ... |
Ford to ship self-driving cars without steering wheels, brake or gas pedals by 2021 | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 16 | Ford says it’s going to deliver self-driving cars by 2021 – and these will ship in volume, and will also lack steering wheels, brake or gas pedals, offering full Level 4 self-driving features which don’t require a human driver at all, the company announced at a press conference in Palo Alto today. The car maker says th... |
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Philips Hue announces a $40 motion sensor to automagically turn your lights on | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 8 | 28 | is expanding its line up of smart light devices with a motion sensor. This one is pretty straightforward — when you walk in front of the sensor, your Hue lights will turn on. What’s different from other motion sensors? It works on battery, so you can put it anywhere around your home, such as the corner of a hallway, a... |
INNOVATE2016: How digital can reinvent American government | Andrew Keen | 2,016 | 8 | 28 |
One of America’s leading experts on the technology of government is , the executive director of Deloitte’s . Eggers’ great observation, articulated in his new book , is that digital technology offers a unique opportunity for American government to reinvent itself. Yes, he acknowledges, the US government often does... |
How connected cars are turning into revenue-generating machines | Kumar Abhimanyu | 2,016 | 8 | 28 |
History repeats herself, but she mumbles. Some have expressed that she enjoys rhymes or puns. One must lean in close and listen carefully to understand exactly what she’s getting at. Most of the time we can only in retrospect discern what she was trying to say. Sometimes, though, history’s intent is clear. Evidence s... |
Can foreign tech companies win in China? | Edward Tse | 2,016 | 8 | 28 |
People have often referred to Google, Facebook and Twitter as cases where foreign tech companies are blocked in China. In reality, while Facebook and Twitter were indeed blocked, Google chose to withdraw because they didn’t want to comply with Chinese censorship regulations. It’s important to note that most foreign t... |
What Salesforce’s acquisition of Quip means for enterprise software startups | Jon Lee | 2,016 | 8 | 28 |
A new player has entered the productivity race. For decades, Microsoft reigned as the market leader in productivity — until Google pushed into the space with Google Apps. Now, with the of , Salesforce is joining Microsoft and Google in the race. The implications, however, extend far beyond productivity and CRM... |
Retooling AI for the workplace | Dan Reich | 2,016 | 8 | 28 |
One of the first computers required punch cards. I repeat, punch cards. Yes, you would take a piece of paper with tiny holes and use it to interact with the device. Now we have computers the size of soda cans that sit in your house and control your lights, provide weather updates, solve math equations and tell jokes,... |
All deals on AngelList will soon be private (plus other updates you should know) | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 8 | 28 | Earlier this week, we with Naval Ravikant, cofounder of five-year-old , a popular platform that matches startups with early-stage investors. Three million people, including 50,000 accredited investors, have created profiles on AngelList since its founding, and AngelList now uses that information to pair startups wit... |
Meesho wants to make selling through WhatsApp more efficient and less painful | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 8 | 17 | but it continues to frustrate the many small businesses that rely on it for sales but suffer for its lack of advanced features. Messaging services like Line, WeChat and even Facebook Messenger have become platforms that let business users get dedicated usernames and accounts, manage group chats, set up stores and use ... |
Walter Duncan of Quick Key has some fascinating fixes for our edtech problems | John Biggs | 2,016 | 8 | 28 | Guys like Walter Duncan know what they’re talking about when it comes to edtech. Before becoming co-founder of Quick Key, Duncan spent years teaching in schools public and private and knows what teachers deal with on a daily basis. His product, which reduces the amount of time it takes for teachers to grade tests, is i... |
Crunch Report | Getting to the bottom of NSA hack | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 8 | 17 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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5 ways beacons are transforming the enterprise | David Chao | 2,016 | 8 | 28 |
Bluetooth beacons are proven technology. So why isn’t anyone using them effectively? Sure, companies are using them. Google uses “beacons” — you’ll find a of their use in retail and other B2C contexts. with iBeacons in their stores. , pushing to customers special deals on sandwiches and McNuggets. By 2015, wer... |
Engaging kids in design-based learning | Gian Paolo Bassi | 2,016 | 8 | 17 |
While most kids their age are glued to various digital devices, often wasting hours playing mindless games or watching cat videos, 164 fourth and fifth graders, along with eight elementary school teachers, have been using those same devices to explore new paths to learning. In 15 classrooms across Texas and Virginia,... |
Reigns is a medieval game of life or death (mostly death) | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,016 | 8 | 17 | Reigns is a new gaming app, currently featured as a favorite by Apple. You are a king and the answer to whether you live or die — and how — is in the cards. Quite literally. As ruler, you are presented with a deck. Each card is someone in your kingdom who is asking for help or notifying you of a problem on the rise. Ho... |
Picture This Clothing turns your kid’s crayon art into a sweet dress | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 17 | It’s a magical world we live in, people. Where once our brilliant crayon drawings were condemned to live forever two-dimensionally on a piece of dog-eared construction paper, now they can be given the life they deserve — either as an endearingly grotesque plush doll or, with this new service, an awesome dress. is from... |
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Coursera’s co-founder Daphne Koller set to start anew at Calico | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 17 | In a blog post, Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller the company to join Alphabet subsidiary Calico. Koller founded Coursera with Andrew Ng back in 2012 after working together on artificial intelligence research at Stanford. The two supported the company’s growth until Ng left to become chief scientist at Baidu’s resear... |
Social investing site Instavest raises $1.7M in seed funding | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 8 | 17 | Part of YC’s Winter 2015 class, is a startup trying to turn investing — an activity most of us are used to doing privately — into a social activity. The site launched about a year and a half ago with the goal of helping average retail investors learn from others who have more experience in investing and the stock mar... |
Huawei replaces Xiaomi at top of Chinese smartphone market | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 17 | The out of analyst firm IDC show a major shakeup in the Chinese smartphone market for Q2. During an especially rough quarter, local handset maker Xiaomi’s shipment dipped significantly from 17.1 to 10.5 million year over year, according to the firm. The 38 percent drop was enough to knock the company down to the four... |
Devices could recycle radio waves instead of transmitting them with new ‘interscatter’ technique | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 17 | If we’re ever to have things like smart contact lenses and permanent brain implants, one of the things we need to figure out is the power problem. Those devices need energy for collecting, processing and especially transmitting data — but that last one might not be a problem anymore, thanks to a new technique called in... |
“Mr. Robot” is now a mobile game that’s played through a fake messaging app | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 17 | The hit cybersecurity-focused TV show “ ,” a psychological thriller popular among the tech crowd for its is now a mobile game. Released by in association with NBCUniversal, and developed by in collaboration with Universal Cable Productions, the game is played through the fictional E-Corp messaging app, allowing p... |
Blockai’s new tool combines tweeting and claiming copyright | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 8 | 17 | is supposed to help photographers and artists defend their intellectual property. Now it’s launching to make that process easier — or at least better-integrated with Twitter. Previously, Blockai users would go to the startup’s website to upload their work, creating a record in a public database (namely, the ) statin... |
Y Combinator’s Multiply Labs launches a 3D-printed vitamin with a time-release twist | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 8 | 17 | There have been quite a few “clean” vitamin and supplement startups popping up lately — , , and are just a few of the venture-backed chosen in the space — and many offer different combinations for better hair, brain power, focus and energy in several different packages and subscription plans. Elysium even claims... |
Cisco and Fortinet say vulnerabilities disclosed in ‘NSA hack’ are legit | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 8 | 17 | A group calling itself the Shadow Brokers dumped data online this weekend that it claimed to have stolen from the Equation Group, a hacking team widely believed to be associated with the NSA. Firewall makers Cisco and Fortinet have now confirmed that vulnerabilities included in the data dump affected their products — a... |
Cisco confirms it will cut up to 5,500 jobs, or 7% of its global workforce | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 8 | 17 | We that Cisco was planning a major cost-cutting operation to reduce its costs by around 15% throughout the month. It looks like the first stage of that is a round of cut jobs, with Cisco announcing as part of its earnings report that it will cut up to 5,500 jobs, or 7% of its workforce. The move isn’t unexpected as C... |
Airbus wants to make self-flying airborne taxis a real thing | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 17 | Ford might be looking to put for on-demand taxi scenarios by 2021, but that’s thinking small by Airbus standards – the aircraft manufacturer wants to make for dense urban areas where traffic congestion is a real and growing problem. You probably won’t be able to hail a flying taxi by 2021, but Airbus wants to put a... |
Step trackers in Happy Meals let you tone your McNuggets | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 17 | The latest move by McDonalds to distance itself from its enduring image as a greasy, unhealthy fast food apocalypse is once sure to please fitness-conscious parents: for a limited time, every Happy Meal now comes with a working pedometer. is a simple device that comes in six colors that, once activated, tracks a kid’s ... |
Netlify, a service for quickly rolling out static websites, raises $2.1M | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 8 | 17 | Mathias Biilmann — a former CTO of a firm that built websites for small businesses — says developers have gotten so used to using Github as a central workflow, they expect the entire rest of the developer experience to work the same way. “The way that a front-end developer would work would be to go into a server and ch... |
Marvel’s TV universe expands with ‘Runaways’ order from Hulu | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 17 | Pretty soon, there will be a Marvel universe version of every kind of content, and the next genre up for inclusion is the teen drama. Hulu has placed an order for an adaptation of , the Marvel Comics series featuring a rag-tag bunch of teenagers trying to be heroes in the face of the ultimate arch-nemeses – their pare... |
Autonomous buses take to the busy streets of Helsinki | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 17 | Make way for robot! Two driverless buses will be hitting the streets in Helsinki for some real-world testing for the next month or so, reports . The EasyMile minibuses have previously been tested on public roads in Finland , but this is the first time they’ll be mixing it up with everyday traffic there. Finnish law, ... |
Why startups need a defensive IP strategy | Joe Medved | 2,016 | 8 | 17 |
One of the things I really love about working with startup founders is that they are by nature an optimistic crowd: They set out to build amazing things, change the world and fundamentally shift the way people view things. What they often don’t realize, though, is that in the midst of brutal competition, the path to ... |
Garena’s Nick Nash explains the business behind Southeast Asia’s $4B tech giant | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | Quick, name a unicorn in Southeast Asia! The most obvious names that come to mind might be Grab, the Uber rival that is , Lazada, the e-commerce company , or perhaps Go-Jek, the motorbike taxi on-demand service in Indonesia that . How about ? Despite a low profile, the games company is valued at close to $4 billion... |
Crunch Report | Robots are everywhere | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | Tito Hamze, Jason Kopek, John Mannes
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Breaking news: Bill Maris is leaving GV | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | Bill Maris, who founded (formerly known as Google Ventures) in 2009, is leaving the unit at the end of this week, according to a from Recode. Maris, a neuroscience student at Middlebury who cofounded an early web hosting company before joining Google, is reportedly being replaced by David Krane. Krane is a managing p... |
While many on-demand food startups fail to deliver, iFood picks up $30 million to expand in Latin America | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | Startup food delivery businesses may have spoiled globally, but investors in Latin America think at least one startup has a fresh take on the industry. The Brazilian on-demand food delivery company, has picked up $30 million in new financing to expand regionally and solidify its grip over the online food delivery mar... |
CareSkore gets $4.3M to bring machine learning to preventive care | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | Among other things, wants to use machine learning to anticipate mortality. However, the newly endowed platform is more than just a Facebook poll that tells you how you’ll meet your end this Christmas by being squashed by a falling piano. Storm ventures, Cota Capital, Rising Tide Fund and Liquid 2 Ventures are rallyin... |
UPDATE: Twilio’s IPO and the rise of the next 100M developers | Anshu Sharma | 2,016 | 8 | 10 |
recently exceeded expectations with an that priced them at . For some, this proves that are the future of business. While they are certainly an indispensable asset, as more and more businesses turn to the cloud, what about the rest of us? What about the admins and the marketers and those who are equally importan... |
Yelp will soon let you skip the line at restaurants thanks to Nowait partnership | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | and announced a partnership that will enable Yelp users to check nearby restaurants’ wait times and “get in line” remotely from the Yelp app. Yelp will be making an $8 million strategic investment as part of the partnership, which was announced as part as yesterday. Based in Pittsburgh, PA, Nowait is a mobile plat... |
Toyota Research Institute provides $22M to University of Michigan for AI studies | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | Toyota Research Institute (TRI), a Toyota R&D organization headquartered in Silicon Valley, is providing in an initial research grant with the University of Michigan. The funding follows Toyota’s opening of a third research facility for TRI at the U of M campus, which it officially . The funding is earmarked for art... |
How Apple will convince us to love the dongle | John Biggs | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | Hi, and welcome to my obligatory hot take on the we’re about to see rolling out of Apple. I’m not an absolute fan of this idea, but we’ve seen this sort of behavior from Apple before — most notably the move from the 30-pin dock jack that probably caused a bit of an , forcing users and most notably hotels to upgrade ... |
Former Facebook engineers launch Fabric, an automated personal journal of your life | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | Technology has made it simple to record and archive our digital memories through posts, snapshots, videos and more, but it can sometimes be a struggle to surface our past – our memories, activities and other experiences – in an easily accessible way. A new mobile application called , built by two former Facebook engin... |
Kyocera’s new rugged handset doubles as an action cam | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | Rugged is just kind of Kyocera’s thing, when it comes to handsets, and does its best to uphold that tradition with a Military Standard 810G grade rugged body and IP68 certification, which its dustproof and can withstand a two meter dunking for up to 30 minutes. None of that’s really all that different for the line, b... |
No Man’s Sky players discover over 10M unique in-game species overnight | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | The space exploration game features biodiversity that would make Earth weep with envy, and players are incredibly avid taxonomers. Hello Games founder Sean Murray tweeted today that players have racked up over 10 million species discoveries thus far in-game, which is around five to 6.5 times the number of known spe... |
NASA awards companies $65 million to develop habitats for deep space | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | NASA is serious about going to Mars, and not just for a quick visit, either. It just , spread over two years and six companies, for the purpose of developing and testing deep-space habitats that could be used on the way to — and on the surface of — the Red Planet. It’s part of the organization’s NEXTStep (not to be co... |
Innovaccer raises $15.6M to give businesses one stop for all their data | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | Abhinav Shashank was working on an academic project at Harvard with his colleagues Kanav Hasija and Sandeep Gupta — figuring out how to pool together large data sets from hundreds of different sources and APIs and manage them — when his business colleagues started asking him to help apply those tools. The result was In... |
Tor’s new social contract includes ‘no backdoors’ pledge | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | It hasn’t been the best summer of PR for the Tor anonymizing browser, given that one of its prominent developers — Jacob Appelbaum — stepped down amid allegations of “sexual mistreatment” in . So it’s perhaps not too surprising that the pro-privacy organization has decided now is the time to publish a social contract,... |
Quizlet launches a redesign with an eye towards international expansion | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | the popular app that lets students create interactive study sets and prepare for tests in any subject, is unveiling a redesign today, including a new website, logo and redesigned mobile apps soon to come. The new Quizlet was created with an eye on international expansion. The San Francisco edtech startup now offers tr... |
XPRIZE launches AI 2020 competition with IBM Watson | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | Close your eyes. What do you see when you think about artificial intelligence? defying human orders? savagely murdering her maker? What about taking over the country from deep inside the Pentagon? With a new competition, to think slightly more pragmatically (or at least less apocalyptically dystopian) about the... |
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Palantir acquires data visualization startup Silk | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | ‘s co-founder and today that private data analytics unicorn would be acquiring the company. The transaction appears to be an acqui-hire, with members of the Silk team directly joining Palantir in new roles. Founded in 2010, Silk helps data journalists, activists, NGOs and businesses without the need for complex so... |
Algolia wants to bring transparency to service-level agreements | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | (SLAs) are key when it comes to choosing a service that is going to play an important part for your own service. Cloud hosting services have an SLA, software-as-a-service products have an SLA, even . Software-as-a-service startup just its SLA, and it’s interesting to see how the company is wording its policy. SLA... |
Facebook’s 360 video Guide and Heatmap can steer or track where you look | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 10 | Facebook has to train people how to make great video if it wants it “at the heart” of its services like Mark Zuckerberg promised, so today it launched a slew of . Creators can now see the audience demographics of their video viewers, what moments were most engaging in their live broadcasts, and how shares and cross-po... |
SEC looks into Hampton Creek’s mayo buy back scheme | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 8 | 19 | The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a preliminary inquiry into Hampton Creek after it was of running a secret project to buy up its own mayonnaise product from stores. Bloomberg, which first the news of the buybacks, now says the agency is looking at whether the startup inappropriately counted revenue ... |
Crunch Report | Samsung Drops Galaxy Note 7 | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 8 | 19 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Lyft pauses Carpool service | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 8 | 19 | Well, that was fast. Less than five months ago, . The idea was that people would pick up passengers on their way to work and make anywhere from $4 to $10 per ride. The service, which was only available in the San Francisco Bay Area, has since shut down because not enough drivers were interested in participating, . “W... |
Is big data in big trouble? | Dave Mariani | 2,016 | 8 | 19 |
We recently saw two critical developments in the big data and analytics space. ( ) released earnings and missed their forecast by $0.05; their stock dropped 5 percent. Then ( ) announced a revenue miss that sent the stock into a downward spiral. What’s going on with the business intelligence (BI) and Hadoop space... |
Snowden docs link NSA to Equation Group hackers | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 8 | 19 | A group calling itself the ShadowBrokers dumped data online last weekend that it claimed to have stolen from a hacking team widely believed to be linked to the NSA. The data contained and ignited speculation that the NSA had been hacked. Expert analysis of the data suggested that the NSA and the Equation Group are on... |
Making earphones customized for hearing ability, Even tunes up $2 million | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 8 | 19 | MeQ Inc., the company behind earphones, the tunable earbuds that adjust to users’ unique hearing abilities, has raised $2 million as it looks to expand its business. Financing came from firms like Firstime Venture Capital, whose managing director, , the former chief executive of the Israeli arm of the advertising f... |
Nova Credit launching from Y Combinator to give immigrants access to U.S. credit | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 8 | 19 | Access to credit and establishing a credit history aren’t a luxury for people living in the US, they’re a necessity. A credit score is required to rent most apartments, get credit cards, and essentially make a way in the modern American world But for millions of immigrants (roughly 15 million) landing on U.S. shores — ... |
Facebook’s new teens-only app Lifestage turns bios into video profiles | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 19 | “What if I figured out a way to take Facebook from 2004 and bring it to 2016? What if every field in your profile was a full video?” asks Facebook’s 19-year-old product prodigy Michael Sayman. The answer is for people 21 and under, which Facebook is launching today. It asks for your happy face, sad face, likes, disli... |
Trans women and non-binary femme tech entrepreneurs have a new legal resource | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 8 | 19 | Transgender and gender non-conforming people are at risk of injustice and discrimination in education, housing, healthcare, public accommodations and employment. As a result of such widespread discrimination against trans and gender non-conforming people, they can be subject to exclusion from spaces that offer tools an... |
Google will phase out Chrome apps for Windows, Mac and Linux | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 19 | First, if you’re using Chrome apps on Windows, Mac or Linux, I’m sorry for your loss. Second, please take some solace in the fact that you really were one of a kind. As , active usage numbers were pretty low for the offering. Today, approximately 1% of users on Windows, Mac and Linux actively use Chrome packaged apps,... |
InsiteVR grabs $1.5M in seed funding to bring 3D models to life in VR | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 8 | 19 | Most of the companies raising funding in the VR space right now are focused on entertaining potential consumers. Perhaps getting less attention are the companies jockeying to provide cool solutions for the enterprise. just raised a $1.5 million seed round to tap into the architecture and construction markets and make ... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 08.19.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 8 | 19 | – Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page G3’s Facebook page |
Steve Jobs enters the International Photography Hall of fame alongside Annie Leibovitz and Ken Burns | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 19 | It’s the 50th anniversary of the International Photography Hall of Fame, a museum and foundation in St. Louis, and among the inductees this year are some real whoppers: Annie Leibovitz, Ernst Haas, Ken Burns… and Steve Jobs. Say what you will about the plague of Instagramming millennials descending on the fair field of... |
Amazon’s latest original pilots now streaming, including ‘The Tick’ | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 19 | Want to sit in judgement of original content and decide its fate? Now’s your chance — Amazon’s latest slate of original , and it includes , a Kevin Bacon-starrer adapted from the novel by Chris Kraus; , yet another incarnation of the comic character who first graced TV in a much-beloved three-season animated series ... |
Facebook’s new teens-only app Lifestage turns bios into video profiles | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 19 | “What if I figured out a way to take Facebook from 2004 and bring it to 2016? What if every field in your profile was a full video” asks Facebook’s 19-year old product prodigy Michael Sayman. The answer is for people 21 and under Facebook is launching today. It asks for your happy face, sad face, likes, dislikes, bes... |
Mimo’s new app teaches you how to code on your iPhone | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 19 | Apple’s is popularizing the idea of learning to code on mobile devices, not desktop computers. But its focus is only on teaching kids to code in Swift. A new application called goes beyond that, with mini-lessons for not only Swift, but also HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, SQL and more. The idea with Mimo is to brea... |
Reimagining the ecosystem for identity verification | Dylan Casey | 2,016 | 8 | 19 |
What’s in a name? When it comes in the form of a password, everything. The password has long been the safeguard — and in many cases, the only one — to protect our online identity. With increased mobility, and our need to stay constantly plugged in, our online identity today extends into almost every touch point of ou... |
More new Pokémon revealed for Sun and Moon, and one is a pile of sand | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 19 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1hsh267tUM] The Pokémon Company, what is going on right now. How is it possible that one of the new pocketable monsters you created for Pokémon Sun/Moon is actually a pile of sand?? Look: What are you doing to me? Do you think this is okay? Here’s what the sand blob evolves int... |
There’s an Apple-1 up for auction | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 19 | Yeah, you could pick up (now $29,000), but can you really call yourself an Apple fan if you don’t own an Apple-1? That earliest of Apple paraphernalia is about as rare as they come, but if you act fast (and drop a boatload of money), you can snap one up now. Fundraising site Charitybuzz has early computers up on it... |
UK spy agencies’ use of mass surveillance backed by external reviewer | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 8 | 19 | The UK government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has supported the inclusion of bulk collection powers contained within the controversial Investigatory Powers bill. The opposition Labour party had called for a review of bulk powers, arguing the government had yet to make an operational case for their i... |
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