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It’s official, SES will be first company to launch on a used SpaceX rocket | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 8 | 30 | Luxembourg based satellite company announced today that they’ve made an with SpaceX to be the first company to launch a payload on a used Falcon 9 rocket. The re-flight, scheduled to take place late this year, will mark the next big milestone on SpaceX’s path toward rocket reusability. To date, Elon Musk’s rocket c... |
Randstad buys Monster for $429M as recruitment consolidation continues | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 8 | 8 | Yet one more significant piece of M&A in the online recruitment industry. Today Holdings, an Amsterdam-based human resources and recruitment specialist, that it would acquire job hunting portal , for $429 million in cash. The deal works out to per share in cash and is a premium on Monster’s share price at closin... |
This is the new “Nearby” tracker in Pokemon Go | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 8 | 8 | The “Nearby” tracking system in Pokemon Go — the one that’s supposed to let you actually figure out where Pokemon are hiding without walking aimlessly — has been broken since day two or three after launch. It went from kinda working with a functional-if-confusing “footprint” system (three footprints = far, one footprin... |
Google Maps adds rides with Uber rivals Grab and Go-Jek in Southeast Asia | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 8 | 8 | There was once a time when Uber’s big advantage over the competition was . That’s long passed now. Earlier this year, — and that now includes Grab and Go-Jek in Southeast Asia. Customers across Grab’s six countries in Southeast Asia can now book a licensed taxi, motorbike taxi or private car straight from the Maps a... |
Crunch Report | Walmart buys Jet.com | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 8 | 8 | Tito Hamze
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‘Smart’ locks yield to simple hacker tricks | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 8 | It’s an open secret that the Internet of Things (if we must call it so) is pretty terrible, whether in standards, interoperability or security. You don’t really expect good security in a smart light bulb or coffee maker, though. A smart , however, really shouldn’t be quite this easy to hack. Two different presentations... |
Nintendo’s NES Classic Edition will add saving throughout gameplay | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 8 | Sorry purists: New players of classic NES games on the upcoming micro system from Nintendo won’t have to rely on barbaric codes that recall progress, or single session playthroughs to beat games. Speaking with French language radio show (via ), Nintendo of Canada comms person Julie Gagnon told listeners that the cons... |
Rackspace sells Cloud Sites unit to Liquid Web | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 8 | 8 | for over a week that was for sale, but today instead of the whole kit and kaboodle, the company announced it was selling its Cloud Sites web hosting unit to . The fact that Liquid Web is itself a cloud web hosting company would seem to make the two a perfect match, allowing the company to expand its business throug... |
Machine learning and “molecular Tinder” may change the game for OLED screens | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 8 | To say there are a lot of molecules out there is kind of an understatement. So searching for one or two in particular is like looking for a needle in a galaxy-spanning haystack. Fortunately, the science of machine learning and the irrepressible need for humans to swipe left and right on things make the search a lot eas... |
Valuations wilt | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 8 | 8 | A year ago, startup valuations hit a 12-year peak as the numbers of companies joining the billion-dollar-plus club soared. Today, those numbers are looking far more run of the mill. So suggests a new survey published by law firm Fenwick & West, which analyzed the venture financings of 195 Silicon Valley-based companies... |
Driving new revenue sources through a digital ag revolution | Arama Kukutai | 2,016 | 8 | 8 |
Ever since the acquisition of the first “Ag Unicorn” ( ), a flood of new digital agriculture startups has been trying to turn investor interest into market traction. Adding to the surge in market interest, to create a global agrochemical giant and earlier this year show that the big ag players are hungry for grow... |
Nonprofits and NGOs, apply to showcase at Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt SF | Neesha A. Tambe | 2,016 | 8 | 8 | Nonprofit groups and NGOs are now for exhibit space in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt SF on Monday, September 12 or Tuesday, September 13. TechCrunch’s diversity program serves as a platform to provide startup and tech access for underrepresented groups. This year, we are formalizing the inclusion of Nonprofit... |
The White House releases policy to help government agencies go open source | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 8 | 8 | The White House (led by United States Chief Information Officer ) has been pretty vocal about using technology to improve how government operates. They want to make sure code helps, not hurts, government agencies, and that the U.S. government can use technology just as effectively as a private company can. In March th... |
Internet Archive posted 10,000 browser-playable Amiga titles – go, play | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 8 | Seriously, go. Enjoy yourself. It’s Monday. We’ll still be here when you get back. It’s bound to be a long week. The world is coming apart at the seams. Your boss won’t notice if you play a round or two of from the comfort of your own browser (Firefox seems to work best on my end). We can’t vouch for the quality of a... |
GM testing Cruise’s self-driving tech with Bolt EVs on Arizona roads | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 8 | GM is putting its to good use in Arizona: The self-driving car startup acquired by the automaker in March is trialling its tech on public roads in Scottsdale. Cruise tweeted about the autonomous testing expansion, which uses Chevrolet Bolt all-electric vehicles, and which adds to the core fleet of testing vehicles al... |
Twilio beats expectations with revenue of $64.5M in solid Q2 earnings | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 8 | Twilio, exceeded revenue expectations today after the bell. Immediately share prices increased in after-hours trading before falling back to the market closing price. The cloud-communications company reported revenue of $64.5 million and a loss per share of $0.08. Twilio beat revenue by over 10 percent. Analysts had e... |
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Music streaming social network Whyd is switching its focus to hardware | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 8 | 8 | French startup started off as a social network for music lovers. Going forward, the company is going to focus on releasing a connected speaker. For existing users, the social network isn’t going away. Whyd is open-sourcing it and still hosting it at . Launched in 2012, Whyd has been looking at ways to . The social ... |
The massive Yuneec Typhoon H is pure aerial video magic | John Biggs | 2,016 | 8 | 8 | an era of true drone magic. First let’s get one thing out of the way: this thing costs $1,300. For the faint-hearted that price is surprisingly high. It includes a surprisingly powerful – if confusing – remote control and a full 360-degree 4K camera that is mounted under the drone like a sort of gimbal-powered webcam.... |
German insurance startup Clark closes €13.2M Series A | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 8 | 1 | When I spoke with Jan Beckers, chairperson of fintech company builder , earlier this year, he was particularly bullish about the insurance sector and the shake up he expects insurance brokering to receive because of new technology. That’s something we are starting to see happen. Enter one of FinLeap’s existing portfol... |
The Instax Share SP-2 adds just enough modern magic to the instant print renaissance | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 8 | is worth a thousand digital ones. The SP-2 is a Wi-Fi picture printer, a device that harkens back to the glory days of Polaroid by giving you a pocket-sized, physical version of your favorite snaps from your smartphone, whenever and wherever you want one. It’s the sequel to the Share SP-1, Fujifilm’s original portable... |
Learn News Feed strategy from Facebook VP Adam Mosseri at Disrupt SF | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 8 | Come to TechCrunch’s to hear how your company can win at and adapt to the Facebook News Feed. We’ll have Facebook’s VP of Product Management for News Feed about what gets seen and what doesn’t, and how to take capitalize on its frequent algorithm changes. Mosseri has been working on News Feed since 2008 and now he ... |
Uber’s deal with Didi is a win-win for everyone — except the ‘Anti-Uber Alliance’ | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 8 | 1 | Many in the media and tech industry see as a failure for the U.S. ride-hailing giant. It’s easy to believe that the sale of Uber China’s operations to its closest rival is a face-saving exercise, an inevitable outcome for a U.S. company that tried to beat the odds and succeed in China. But the more you chew over the ... |
Facebook is testing video ads during Live broadcasts | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 8 | 1 | If you watch a lot of Facebook Live broadcasts, get ready to see some ads. The company is now testing short video ads that will play during breaks in Facebook Live broadcasts, they . The move shouldn’t be a surprise for anyone who follows Facebook and their various video products. Video ads are lucrative for Facebook ... |
NSF dedicates $35 million to improving software used in science and education | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 1 | Big data is more important than ever in just about every scientific discipline — and the data is bigger than ever, too. To help manage that data and get it into the hands of scientists and students, the National Science Foundation is putting $35 million towards a pair of software institutes that will build the tools ne... |
Publishers dodged a bullet in their war with Facebook | James G. Brooks, Jr | 2,016 | 8 | 1 |
Last year at this time, many publishers were wrestling with the question of what to make of Facebook Instant Articles. Facebook’s audacious proposition was that it would host content from publishers on Facebook, with no link back to those publishers’ sites. In return, the publishers could either run their own ads and... |
Here’s the 18th batch of companies from 500 Startups | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 8 | 1 | We’re already halfway through the year, which means it’s time for another batch from 500 Startups to start rolling out. This year, 46 companies are going through 500 Startups’ 18th batch, ranging from traditional B2B tools to a smart pill case that helps track whether or not people are taking their medication. 500 Star... |
Didi wins, Uber retreats, but Chinese riders and drivers lose | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 1 | No one wants to fight a land war in Asia, not even Uber. It could have burnt mountains of cash battling for market share with local ride app juggernaut Didi Chuxing, between marketing, discounts, and driver incentives. Instead, Uber surrendered. It’s in exchange for a 20% stage in the merged company, while Didi has in... |
Why Minecraft predicts the future of collaborative work | Jim Fowler | 2,016 | 8 | 1 |
Kids are the ultimate beta testers. As soon as they figure out what a new technology is for, they try to make it do something else. They push boundaries, break rules, play with possibilities and share their results in real time. When I see how my son and his friends play Minecraft, I see the future of engineering and... |
Crunch Report | Uber China Merges with Didi Chuxing | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 8 | 1 | Tito Hamze
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In-car cameras let autonomous vehicles track passengers as well as pedestrians | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 1 | Powerful sensors and software have made autonomous cars impressively aware of their surroundings — but it isn’t just obstacles, pedestrians, and other cars that a vehicle’s AI needs to watch out for. It also needs to know what’s going on inside itself, and researchers from Fraunhofer are hard at work making that happen... |
Southeast Asia-based Carousell raises $35M for its social commerce app | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 8 | 1 | , a four-year-old startup from Singapore behind a listings app that enables peer-to-peer selling in Southeast Asia, has closed a $35 million Series B round to grow its reach into new countries and increase product development. The company is seen as one of the darlings of Singapore’s nascent startup ecosystem, given th... |
Apple wants you to think about the iPad Pro as a computer | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 8 | 1 | You can’t say you haven’t seen this coming. Apple CEO Tim Cook has said again and again that the is the company’s vision of the future of computing. And today, Apple is confirming this vision with a new ad. For the first time, Apple is calling the iPad Pro a computer. The ad ends with the tagline “Imagine what your c... |
OmniVirt brings 360-degree advertising to big publishers | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 8 | 1 | is promising to help publishers and advertisers tap into the potential of virtual reality. It’s not the only startup working on VR/360-degree ads (other companies in the market include and ), but co-founder and COO Michael Rucker said OmniVirt stands out by offering a 360-degree ad experience in the mobile browser ... |
Glassdoor sued by user whose email was ‘leaked’ instead of BCC’ed | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 8 | 1 | A little over a week ago, Glassdoor began emailing its users to let them know of an update to the site’s terms of service. But rather than BCC’ing its anonymous reviewers, Glassdoor dumped their email addresses into a regular ol’ CC field, effectively outing at least 600,000 members of the site. Now, one of those outed... |
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Elizabeth Holmes is finally presenting her technology to scientists, including a “miniLab” | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 8 | 1 | Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is presenting her blood analysis technology to a room full of scientific experts for the first time today at the American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC) conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Her big focus? A customizable, tabletop mini lab. The company has been widely cr... |
To catch a Pikachu: NY Governor moves to ban sex offenders from Pokémon GO | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 1 | When you think about it, the ability for someone to put a “lure” on a spot of their choosing and attract young Pokémon fans to their location is slightly disturbing — which is why New York Governor Andrew Cuomo is trying to ban paroled sex offenders from playing Pokémon GO and other online games. “At my direction, the ... |
Clinton campaign to hold fundraiser at Black Hat hacker conference this week | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 8 | 1 | Cybersecurity issues have plagued Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign for months, from her long-running email controversy to the recent hacks of the Democratic National Committee and the campaign itself. But cybersecurity experts appear to be embracing Clinton’s campaign — a fundraiser will be held for the ca... |
Salesforce buys word processing app Quip for $750M | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 8 | 1 | is continuing its buying spree to expand the kinds of cloud-based apps and services that it offers to its customers beyond basic CRM. The company has just that it is acquiring , the cloud-based word processing app that was co-founded by Bret Taylor, formerly CTO of Facebook. We understand from two sources very clos... |
Glowforge raises $22 million to popularize its 3-D laser printers, catalog of materials | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 8 | 1 | Of all the ways to make a 3-dimensional object, is still the freshest, whether what’s involved is plastic extrusion, milling away wood or metal, or the spinning of cells into functional living tissues. Now, a company that makes a desktop laser cutter and engraver for home or office use, , has raised $22 million to s... |
Brexit one month on: currency lows and talent fear | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 8 | 6 | a referendum vote in the UK delivered the shock verdict that a small majority of the British public wanted the country to leave the European Union. Next came the resignation of the Prime Minister and a precipitous drop in the value of the pound, which remains languishing far below its former heights. Various economic ... |
Tesla moves forward on $2.6B SolarCity acquisition | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 1 | Early this morning, Tesla announced that it had come to an agreement to acquire SolarCity in . Tesla first announced it back in June. In the wake of the announcement, both Tesla and SolarCity stock is being traded down. The . Rather, the deal will be moving forward at $25.37 per share. This is a loss of over $200 m... |
Skully officially admits it’s over | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 8 | 6 | It took more than a week for remaining Skully execs to admit to themselves it was time to shut down. But late last night the company finally sent customers an email, which was obtained by TechCrunch, telling them it has officially closed its doors. The startup’s troubles have been brewing for several months but came to... |
Are coding bootcamps only for the rich? | Prasid Pathak | 2,016 | 8 | 6 |
Paul Fain, in , says one of the biggest criticisms levelled against bootcamps is they “don’t attract many low-income students.” The evidence certainly seems to support this. According to bootcamp industry-watcher , 79 percent of bootcamp students have a Bachelor’s Degree or higher enrolling. Additionally, Course R... |
Mindshow turns you into a VR actor in your own production | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 8 | 6 | For all of the talk there is about content being the one thing that’s really missing in VR, it’s pretty difficult for consumers to dive into VR and make anything. Visionary VR is aiming to change that with their new product called , which gives run-of-the-mill VR users the ability to dive into the medium and create a ... |
Neon Fever Dream is a gripping thriller set at Burning Man | Contributor | 2,016 | 8 | 6 | Below is an excerpt from
by Eliot Peper. Neon Fever Dream is about a dark secret hidden in the swirling dust and exultant revelry of Burning Man. It’s a fast-paced thriller with a diverse cast that weaves together everything from the ripple effects of the Sri Lankan civil war to the impacts of new technology on inte... |
Demystifying the booming mobile advertising market | Eric Stein | 2,016 | 8 | 6 |
We’re on the verge of another digital revolution. I’ve seen it before, when I was at DoubleClick in 1997, and I’m seeing it now as begins to take over the hearts and minds of marketers, and corporations. At DoubleClick, I helped start our international operations and targeted large brands to convince them of the ... |
Reminder: We’re meeting in Columbus on Wednesday | John Biggs | 2,016 | 8 | 6 | I’ll be in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, August 10, to hold a night of pitches and open mic shenanigans so bring your guitar and pitch deck. The event will be at O’Toole’s 4796 W Broad St, right off I-270. We’ll start at 7 p.m. sharp with pitches, so get there after work. And at 8 p.m. we’ll have an open stage with liv... |
Gillmor Gang: Foot Traffic | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 8 | 6 | The Gillmor Gang — Keith Teare, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, August 5, 2016. The Gang is polled on Google’s AMP attack on the Web, the percentage of time on desktop vs mobile, and whether deep linking on Apple TV represents the new binge in media. Oh, and Trump meets FourSquare wa... |
Tesla’s best-laid plans will have a challenge in convergence | Richard Hui | 2,016 | 8 | 6 |
Driverless cars and ridesharing are poised to bring about the next big tectonic movement that technology provides for the human experience. In much the same way that the mobile phone has transformed the way we live, autonomous vehicles and transportation sharing promise to change the way we move. Tesla’s recent annou... |
Airbnb raising a reported $850M at a $30B valuation | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 6 | Tech unicorn and sharing economy darling Airbnb has informed the State of Delaware that it’s raising another heap of cash. TechCrunch independently verified that Airbnb indicated in a 28 page filing on July 28th that it has plans to bring in additional late-stage capital. Almost a year after its last raise of $1.6 bill... |
Stand up against the stand-up | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 8 | 6 | It’s custom; it’s tradition; it’s dogma; it’s a cargo cult. It is well-intentioned, but all too often, ill-advised. It’s done because it is the thing one does. It wastes your time, shackles your mind, kills your productivity. It is the ritual that so many software developers suffer silently through, every day It is the... |
Canon presents strong case with the EOS 5D Mark IV’s 30.4MP sensor and 4K | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 8 | 24 | One of the most beloved camera series out there, the Canon EOS Mark 5D was due for a refresh. Announced today, of the EOS 5D brings a 30.4 megapixel full frame sensor with 4K video capability, so this is truly an elite camera. Some of the specifications that have come to our attention include a full-frame 30.4 megapixe... |
MIT spinout NuTonomy just beat Uber to launch the world’s first self-driving taxi | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 8 | 24 | for , but the U.S. giant has been beaten to the punch for actually introducing autonomous vehicles by a far lower-profile company that is working on the other side of the world in Singapore. NuTonomy, a three-year-old company that span out of MIT, announced that its first autonomous vehicles available for public hire... |
Crunch Report | North Korea Netflix Clone | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 8 | 24 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Fujifilm debuts improved X-A3 mirrorless and fast, weather-proof 23mm lens | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 24 | It’s a good day for photographers who favor the Fujifilm system. The camera company announced an update to its X-A series mirrorless cameras and solid new lens today. The X-A3’s main update is the sensor, a new 24.2-megapixel model — up from 16 on the X-A2. Unfortunately, although the megapixel count is similar, it isn... |
Why AI consolidation will create the worst monopoly in US history | Vinod Iyengar | 2,016 | 8 | 24 |
Forget Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — we need a trust-buster like Teddy Roosevelt, who in 1902 attacked the Northern Securities Company, a railroad holding company led by J.P. Morgan and James J. Hill. Amid the flurry of recent tech M&A deals, you would be forgiven for missing a relatively quiet acquisition: Appl... |
‘MegaMIMO 2.0’ wireless routers work together to triple bandwidth and double range | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 24 | Wireless interference is one of those things that we tend to not think about, because, well, we can’t see it. But routers are all over the place, sometimes several in a room when you’re in an office, conference, or campus — and make no mistake, it’s an epic battle at the frequencies they share. Some enterprising resear... |
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Uber offers retirement plans to drivers as legal battle continues | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 8 | 24 | Uber drivers are being given the opportunity to save for retirement. The announcement comes as Uber’s legal battle over whether it should categorize drivers as employees or independent contractors continues, and Uber tells TechCrunch that it designed the retirement savings feature based on driver feedback. Last week, a... |
MIT’s new way to make metal could significantly lower air pollutants | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 24 | Serendipity has long been a staple of scientific study, and a new discovery by MIT is no exception. Researchers at the school were trying to build better batteries, but . The study resulted in a brand new, far less polluting way to make antimony, which itself isn’t very applicable in a broader manufacturing context, bu... |
Harvard’s Octobot is the first autonomous machine to be made with all soft robotics | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 24 | For years roboticists have been looking into using softer materials for parts rather than the usual metal and plastic — sometimes even building . But this Octobot from Harvard is the first that not only contains no hard parts but is also entirely autonomous. Robert Wood and Jennifer Lewis, both at the Wyss Institute f... |
HP reports better than expected $0.48 EPS and $11.9B revenue in Q3 | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 24 | After the close of the bell, technology stalwart announced better than expected numbers . This comes after a relatively flat week on the public markets for the company. Analysts an adjusted EPS of 44 cents on $11.44 billion in revenue. Instead, HP reported an EPS of $0.48 cents and revenue of $11.9 billion. The EPS... |
Whisker sensors could control the robots of the future | John Biggs | 2,016 | 8 | 24 | Rats and other whiskered animals use senses that we don’t yet possess. In addition to being able to run mazes and lick our faces to confirm we aren’t covered in BBQ sauce, scientists have confirmed that some animals use their flowing front whiskers to sense wind position, a technique that could be used in future direct... |
Customized online prescription acne treatment provider Curology raises $15M | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 8 | 24 | David Lortscher was one of a few dozen people practicing dermatology in New Mexico when he realized a huge problem in the field: There weren’t enough dermatologists, and people were skipping out on visits because they thought it was for more affluent people or took too long. So Lortscher decided to start , which provi... |
Payment innovation: Take the better option now | G. Nagesh Rao | 2,016 | 8 | 24 |
During my travels through Vietnam and Sri Lanka as an , I saw and met with amazing innovators and change agents looking to build on their nation’s respective digital and technological economies. These high-tech entrepreneurs are working to ease and enable democratization of information and resources for those off-li... |
Astronomers have found the closest exoplanet to Earth | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 8 | 24 | For the first time, astronomers have a planet orbiting our sun’s nearest neighbor. The newly identified (a planet outside our solar system) is officially the closest known exoplanet to Earth, located at a distance of 4.25 light-years away. They’re calling it Proxima b, and it orbits around our nearest stellar neigh... |
Optimization startup SigOpt raises $6.6M | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 8 | 24 | , a company aiming to “ ,” announced today that it has raised $6.6 million in Series A funding. When startups talk about optimization, they often mean trying out a few different variations and then choosing the ones that get the best results. With SigOpt, it’s more of a continual process, where the technology can look ... |
Twitter’s new button lets you accept private messages from your website | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 24 | Twitter today continues to push forward with its increased emphasis on its messaging feature, with the rollout of that allows visitors to privately message an individual or company directly. The feature, now one of several website buttons available, follows the company’s recent test of a change to brands’ customer su... |
CRV, the venture firm, campaigns against Trump in new statement | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 8 | 24 | The U.S. presidential election is fast approaching, and a growing number of VCs who’ve historically shied from making taking sides publicly, are , , and about who they are backing and why. The early-stage venture firm CRV, formerly known as Charles River Ventures, is taking things a step further, having just publis... |
Halo 5: Forge gives PC users level creation powers on September 8 | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 24 | , the level creation tool that lets players build their own worlds and create new game experiences for Halo 5: Guardians, has come to Windows 10 PCs. The free download puts gamers in the developer’s seat, and adds support for mouse and keyboard, and up to 4K resolution, likely beating out the Xbox One add-on in terms o... |
Best Buy bets on VR for the holidays with 500 stores demoing Oculus Rift | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 24 | Best Buy has provided in-person demonstrations for Oculus Rift basically since there were real Oculus Rift headsets to demonstrate – the retailer announced back in May it would provide demos at 48 locations in the U.S. Now, it’s doubling down on that bet, with a plan to give customers a taste of VR in 500 locations in ... |
Leap Motion shows off Interaction Engine for their VR hand-tracking tech | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 8 | 23 | VR makes the most sense when you don’t have to learn the controls and stuff just works. Today, Leap Motion dropped an early access beta version of their Interaction Engine which makes it easier for developers to build VR environments can adroitly manipulate with their hands. In a , the company calls the engine “a laye... |
Crunch Report | New Tesla Model S Upgrade | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 8 | 23 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Ford leads $24M investment in India-based vehicle rental company Zoomcar | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 8 | 24 | Ford is continuing to invest in tech startups, this time with an emerging market twist. Hot on the heels of , the automotive giant has backed , a Zipcar-like company that operates in India. Subsidiary Ford Smart Mobility led a $24 million Series B round, with participation from returning investors Sequoia Capital, No... |
Tech is primed for an upswing | Ben Schippers | 2,016 | 8 | 23 |
The past 15 months has created a lot of confusion around where the sector is going. I’m constantly being asked by entrepreneurs if the timing is right to start a new business and would I invest in these current markets? Yes and yes. The endless chatter about the bottom falling out, valuations being too high (they w... |
The 48 startups that launched at Y Combinator S16 Demo Day 2 | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 23 | The world’s most prestigious startup school launched 48 companies today at part 2 of its Summer 2016 Demo Day. Nanoparticle analytics and delivery robots were amongst the products revealed in the B2B, biotech, enterprise, edtech, fintech, and hardware verticals. You can that launched yesterday, and from the first h... |
Listen to the premiere of TCBC, a new podcast from TechCrunch | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 23 |
TechCrunch has a new podcast, and it’s , 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. It’s something new we’re trying, and hopefully it helps bring home the stories we cover here at TechC... |
Narrative Science can now describe your Tableau charts for you | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 8 | 23 | ‘s shares soared 13 percent on Tuesday following that it has appointed a new CEO and that the data analytics provider has partnered with a Chicago-based company that develops natural language generation (NLG) tools. The result of the partnership is Narratives for Tableau, a free Chrome extension that automaticall... |
White House LGBTQ Tech and Innovation Briefing addresses national issues | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 8 | 23 | The country faces a plethora of issues that affect millions of people every day. Although there has been some progress as a society around pro-LGBTQ legislation and healthcare, there is a lot left to be done around poverty, criminal justice reform, federal statistics around LGBTQ people, youth solutions, mental health,... |
Live video minus Facebook equals Alively | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 23 | SMS is terrible, yet it’s still the way more than half of video gets shared on mobile. Meanwhile, Facebook is trying to turn everyone into famous broadcasters when most people just want to show close friends what they’re up to. That’s why Facebook’s product manager for Live, Vadim Lavrusik, defected from the social net... |
New York Times journalists reportedly targeted by Russian hackers | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 8 | 23 | The FBI is reportedly looking into hacking attempts against U.S. journalists that may have been orchestrated by Russian intelligence services. New York Times journalists were among those targeted, and the report. The New York Times that its Moscow bureau was targeted, but said the paper has no reason to believe t... |
YC-backed CoinTent says it can help publishers deal with ad blockers | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 8 | 23 | might be the solution for publishers worried about the money they’re losing to ad blocking. The San Francisco-based company started with a focus on paywalls, but it’s recently moved into offering publishers ( ) a broader range of solutions to deal with ad blockers. That doesn’t just mean inserting more ads. CEO Bradle... |
Hollywood’s take on cybersecurity | David Hunt | 2,016 | 8 | 23 |
It can be tough going to the as a expert. From the soapy stolen-identity flick “The Net” to the slick, punchline-packed take on surveillance depicted in “Ocean’s Eleven” and “Speed,” films handling the very real issues of internet security and modern computer science are overwhelmingly unrealistic (and far too re... |
NSF puts $110 million toward building out the XSEDE national computing initiative | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 23 | It’s in the country’s best interest to stay at (or at least near) the forefront of advanced computing techniques, and the National Science Foundation has just to make sure that happens. , or the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment, is a “virtual organization” established in 2011 and composed of memb... |
This all-analog DNA circuit calculates without going digital | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 23 | It’s a sign that we’re living in the future when using our own genetic machinery as is nothing new — but make no mistake, it’s still very early days in this field and there are plenty of surprises ahead. Today’s surprise, for instance, is the use of DNA to do exact arithmetical calculations entirely in analog. One mi... |
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Postleaf is an open-source blogging platform for the design-conscious | John Biggs | 2,016 | 8 | 23 | Content management systems are boring until you have to use one. You can install a little Drupal or WordPress, pick up some , or just dump to , the graveyard for posts about protein shakes and VC funding. But what if you could roll your own CMS? And what if you made it really cool? That’s what Cory LaViska did. LaVis... |
EVEN Electric will sell only EVs, but not in the US | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 8 | 23 | EVEN Electric may be based in Ottawa, Ontario, but it has its sights set on selling electric vehicles from multiple brands worldwide. The sales and distribution network — not a dealership — will have new and pre-owned EVs available via centralized processing centers in several countries. Buyers order their car online, ... |
Tesla’s new Model S P100D adds range and cranks Ludicrous Mode up a notch | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 23 | Tesla has a for the Model S and Model X line of electric vehicles, which includes an improved Ludicrous Mode that boasts a 2.5 second 0-60 mph time on the Model S, which is 0.1 second faster than the Model S’s previous max, and only 0.2 seconds off one of the fastest accelerating production cars available. The 100kWh... |
A look inside Hyperloop One’s wildly fast future | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 8 | 23 | What’s really going on at – the futuristic transportation system proposing to shoot humans from point A to B at 750 miles-per-hour? The startup from Hyperloop Transportation to Hyperloop One and in the Nevada desert this spring; announced in Series B funding; suffered an executive and the former co-founder fi... |
STX Entertainment acquires VR studio Surreal | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 8 | 23 | Virtual reality is quickly earning a reputation in Hollywood beyond its nerdy niche, with many industry professionals shifting resources and attention to catching this platform wave early. , the Hollywood TV and film studio behind flicks like and , has just acquired VR content producer to begin powering some of th... |
New .blog TLD opens up early registration applications | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 23 | One of the few new top-level domains that actually makes sense, .blog, is starting the process of registration. Automattic, which runs WordPress.com and a number of other , owns .blog and is handling applications at . The company isn’t deviating from the usual methods: a “sunrise” period began a few days ago during w... |
Lisn’s new app lets you stream songs for your friends while chatting | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 23 | The joy that comes from listening to music with friends is something that’s been around ever since…well, ever since music. But today, thanks to digital services that let you listen anytime, anywhere, music is now more often a solo experience. A new app called wants to change that, by offering you a way to listen to m... |
Samsung will launch the Gear S3, its newest smartwatch, on August 31 | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 8 | 15 | Samsung will introduce (yet) another smartwatch this month. The Korea-based giant teased a launch event at the IFA electronics show in Germany, the date to for is August 31 and, as the invite above rather heavy-handedly hints, this will be the Gear S3. , according to analyst estimates. Samsung was one of a number of ... |
Google launches Duo video-calling app, a dull cross-OS FaceTime rival | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 15 | Can Google spring back from its social failures with a bare-bones video-calling app that unites iOS and Android users? Today it’s , which lets you video call people one-on-one via their phone number. You can watch our video demo of Duo here: Duo is best understood as a no-frills FaceTime competitor that works with And... |
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Peter Thiel’s moral sleight of hand | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 8 | 15 | In this case, Gawker wasn’t just forced to take down the video, it wasn’t simply penalized or fined. It was forced to declare bankruptcy (the company’s appeal is ongoing), as was founder Nick Denton. Daulerio may have to follow suit. (Personal bias alert: One of the authors of this post used to write for Daulerio, whil... |
Another Salesforce acquisition with BeyondCore enterprise analytics grab | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 15 | Business analytics platform BeyondCore will be officially joining Salesforce, by BeyondCore CEO Arijit Sengupta. BeyondCore is an enterprise analytics tool that bolsters business intelligence with computational and statistical analysis. While Salesforce could have gone fishing and come up with a number of business int... |
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