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Dubai could be the first to hop on Hyperloop One’s global shipping train | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 8 | 15 | tells TechCrunch it might be building its crazy fast transportation system at the Jebel Ali port in Dubai if all goes according to plan. And it could be the first place to build an actual Hyperloop for commercial use, says CEO Rob Lloyd. “It’s got the infrastructure, regulatory movement and kind of capital in place ne... |
500 Startups’ Dave McClure on portfolio diversification and the return opportunities of “spray and pray” | Harry Stebbings | 2,016 | 8 | 15 | |
Hangouts On Air moving from Google+ to YouTube Live on September 12 | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 8 | 15 | Google today that Hangouts On Air will move from Google+ to YouTube Live on September 12; users will be asked to migrate to YouTube Live. In an email to TechCrunch, Google confirmed that Hangouts on Air isn’t shutting down, but will move to YouTube Live. “We’re focusing our live streaming efforts on YouTube Live and ... |
Using artificial intelligence to create invisible UI | Martin Legowiecki | 2,016 | 8 | 15 |
Interaction with the world around us should be as easy as walking into your favorite bar and getting your favorite drink in hand before your butt hits the bar stool. The bartender knows you, knows exactly what drink you like and knows you just walked through the door. That’s a lot of interaction, without any “interac... |
Snapchat is acquiring mobile search app Vurb for $110M+ | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 15 | Snapchat could help you organize a night out with friends or get a digest of the day’s news thanks to its acquisition of mobile search startup . TechCrunch caught wind of the impending deal over the weekend and now reports Snapchat is in the closing stages of talks to pay $110 million for Vurb (75 percent stock, 25 ... |
A first look at the Alta Motors all-electric-motorcycle factory | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 8 | 15 | Motorcycle makers have opened the doors to their new factory in Brisbane, California, and TechCrunch was on the scene for a first look. A quick trip from downtown San Francisco, the factory is in a low and unassuming concrete structure. Inside, it’s surprisingly quiet, thanks in part to the fact that the motorcycle... |
Fixed-wing drones not quite taking off in commercial market, a new DroneDeploy study finds | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 8 | 15 | of the commercial and industrial drones market this week, revealing bad news for the makers of fixed-wing drones — quadcopters are far outpacing this type of unmanned aerial vehicle in every industry. Fixed-wing drones, like the eBee Ag, Aero-M and Lancaster, promise performance benefits, including endurance and... |
LinkedIn sues anonymous data scrapers | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 8 | 15 | LinkedIn is trying to lock down its exclusive relationship with its users. The professional networking company filed suit against 100 unnamed individuals last week for using bots to harvest user profiles from its website. The lawsuit is a preliminary step to revealing the identities of the scrapers — LinkedIn intends t... |
Twitter reportedly in talks with Apple to bring its app and NFL games to Apple TV | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 8 | 15 | In an email to TechCrunch, a Twitter spokesperson declined to comment. So far, users can access their Twitter timelines on Apple TV thanks to but they cannot post or retweet, Football fans in the US can gain online access to live and on-demand preseason games iPhone users can also download and watch live game str... |
Naborly lets landlords screen tenants automagically | John Biggs | 2,016 | 8 | 15 | Picture this: you own a nice building in San Francisco and you want to rent to some good old-fashioned salt-of-the-earth folks for not much money. I realize this is a fantasy but play along. How do you confirm the tenants you bring in are not a bunch of deadbeats? has some ideas. The startup, founded by Dylan Lenz, Z... |
Researchers track the trackers through 20 years of the archived web | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 15 | Everywhere you go on the web, trackers are working to reconstruct your every move. But who tracks the trackers? That’s just what researchers at the University of Washington are doing, with purpose-built tools and liberal use of Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. is an effort to quantify a trend we all have more or le... |
Bumble is finally monetizing with paid features to better help you find a match | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 8 | 15 | Bumble’s that they are getting ready to turn on monetization features in their girl-dominated dating app, and now they’ve finally done it. Starting today users will be able to pay for a package subscription model that will get them three new features for $9.99 per month, with discounts available if you prepay for 3 o... |
Apple releases its 6th developer betas for iOS, macOS, watchOS and tvOS | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 15 | Barely a week after Apple released its fifth developer beta builds of its iOS, tvOS, watchOS and MacOS Sierra platforms, the sixth beta releases have now arrived in short order. Given the quick turnaround time, there isn’t much that’s changed between the previous and current builds, besides some minor bug fixing, it ap... |
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Crunch Report | Beam is acquired by Microsoft | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 8 | 12 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Stop listening to your bankers and go public, says top late-stage team | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 8 | 15 | has become a major investing powerhouse over its 22-year-old history by funding relatively undiscovered but mature companies; buying sizable stakes in later-stage, venture backed companies; and acquiring positions in publicly traded tech companies that TCV sees as undervalued. The firm, which is headquartered in Palo ... |
Early-bird Disrupt SF ticket sales extended by one week | Contributor | 2,016 | 8 | 12 | Don’t say we don’t ever give you anything, startup fans! While early-bird ticket sales were originally scheduled to end today, we’ve decided to give you one more week to save $1,000 on tickets to . You now have until next Friday, August 19, to get your Disrupt tickets for the deeply discounted price of just $1,995 api... |
A prescription for preventing 3D printing piracy | Roy S. Kaufman | 2,016 | 8 | 12 |
In the year 2000, the music business was still strong. Record companies produced albums and shipped these physical objects to the stores that sold them. The internet was slowly becoming a system of mass consumption and distribution, but most consumers still purchased physical media. And while the record industry was ... |
Gurbaksh Chahal sentenced to a year in jail | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 8 | 12 | A San Francisco judge has sentenced former RadiumOne and Gravity4 CEO Gurbaksh Chahal to . However, the judge also granted a stay on the sentence pending an appeal from Chahal’s lawyer, . After being accused of attacking a woman in his apartment, Chahal pleaded guilty to misdemeanor battery charges — a deal that invo... |
People are still crazy about Pokemon Go | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 8 | 15 | If you’re still playing , then you’ve likely invested enough time and energy to care about this DIY Pokemon Go helmet. Before we go any further, this video is obviously for fun and isn’t available for sale — worth mentioning since I’m sure more than a few people got excited about this. YouTuber (and self-proclaimed ... |
Music video app Triller becomes a social network | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 8 | 12 | Mobile app isn’t just a simple way to make music videos anymore — it recently added social features that allow users to follow other users and explore their videos. I should probably back up a second and explain what Triller is. It’s an iPhone and Android app that allows you to create a video by taking a snippet of y... |
GM expressed interest in buying Lyft, but Lyft declined | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 12 | Close partners GM and Lyft were apparently nearly even closer: and TechCrunch has separately confirmed that the carmaker expressed its interest in purchasing Lyft, going so far as to specify a price it would’ve been wiling to pay. Lyft apparently explored what other strategic partners might be offering before decidin... |
Werner Herzog’s meditations on a connected world | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 8 | 12 | From that have stumped the worlds greatest super computers to the mind-reading potential of the most refined MRIs, these are a few of the innovations that most impressed director Werner Herzog as he explored the potential of the Internet in his new film “ .” Premiering August 19, the new Herzog documentary (and t... |
Pokémon Go changes everything (and nothing) for AR/VR | Tim Merel | 2,016 | 8 | 12 |
“Stop calling Pokémon Go AR,” say the purists. But who cares what you call something that is so successful? Just be glad it happened, and let’s figure out what it means for the AR/VR industry. Pokémon Go is the singularity for AR/VR that everyone was waiting for, but looks very different to what everyone expected. It... |
Facebook’s next big platform: Your camera | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 12 | everything. For a decade, its strategy has been to provide the canvas, then let developers paint it however they want. That’s because there’ll always be another game. Another app. Another… selfie filter? The hot trend in consumer social networking has progressed from text update sharing to gaming to one-off utilities ... |
How to make your own ‘Han Solo frozen in carbonite’ fridge | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 12 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSc1bfTMn4I] Growing up, I can remember spending a lot of time thinking about what it would be like to be frozen in carbonite, the way Han Solo was after being betrayed by Lando on Bespin in T I never imagined it might feel like you were a fridge, but a new video on Adam Savage... |
Weekly Roundup: MacBook Pro’s big update, Walmart buys Jet and Facebook’s adblocking saga continues | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 8 | 12 | This week, reports hinted at what could be the most impactful MacBook Pro update in years, Walmart leveled up in the ecommerce space with its $3 billion purchase of Jet.com, and the Facebook adblocking war raged on. These are the top stories of the week. Get ready for . According to , Apple is planning to unveil new 1... |
You don’t need a Google+ profile to post reviews on Play Store anymore | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 8 | 12 | The Google Play Store will not require you to have a Google+ account to write reviews anymore. In an email to TechCrunch, Google confirmed the news that “a G+ profile is no longer needed to post a review.” Rumors that the change was happening were first reported , which quoted several tips from its readers. As of toda... |
Georgia Tech’s low-power gesture recognizing camera is designed to always be on | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 12 | Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology designed to never shut off. The system was designed specifically as a method for waking up devices, never turning off, while running off of ambient power. In order to do so, the camera had to be capable of detecting specific patterns, rather than just waking up any time i... |
Gillmor Gang LIVE 08.12.16 | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 8 | 12 | – Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page G3’s Facebook page |
North Korea reportedly won’t let its Olympians have those free Samsung phones | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 8 | 12 | The Olympics are a testament to the human spirit, physical greatness, nation pride and, of course, swag. So, so much swag. Because let’s be real, if you train your entire life for a once-every-four-years event, you’d damn well better get a nice goodie bag. Samsung certainly did its part at this year’s games. As the Off... |
Qubie is an open hardware solution for tracking wait times at voting places | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 12 | With an incredibly important national election coming up, it’s more critical than ever that everyone who can vote does — and is able to. Election tech firm is hoping to help avoid overflowing voting locations with a simple, open source device that automatically monitors waiting times and keeps voters and officials in... |
Microsoft Flow, the company’s IFTTT competitor, comes to Android | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 12 | , the company’s workflow management tool, has now arrived on Android. The app, a competitor of sorts of IFTTT and Zapier, offers an interface where you can mash up two or more services in order to create workflows – like getting a text when you receive an important email, or copying images from Instagram to Dropbox, sa... |
How Bon Entendeur mixed French sound bites with electronic music and thrived on SoundCloud | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 8 | 12 | you mix sound bites from French artists and politicians with eclectic music ranging from electro swing, nu-disco, remixes of classical French hits, lounge music and more? You get more than ten million plays on SoundCloud, play your music on a yacht near the Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy and become a popular mus... |
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MIT’s DuoSkin turns temporary tattoos into on-skin interfaces | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 12 | [vimeo 178334883 w=800 h=450] Your next tattoo could be functional as well as aesthetic. A new MIT Media Lab product created in partnership with Microsoft Research turns temporary tattoos into connected interfaces, letting them act as input for smartphones or computers, display output based on changes in body tempera... |
Backed by White House, Zipline to test U.S. medical drone delivery | Jake Bright | 2,016 | 8 | 12 | On the heels of a recent White House initiative announced after its first San Francisco based robotics startup will test drone delivery of medical supplies to remote U.S. communities. Pending FAA approval, Zipline flights will demonstrate the “viability of unmanned aircraft technology in disseminating critical care... |
Gillmor Gang: What Ailes You | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 8 | 13 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, August 12, 2016. Why Twitter should call itself the Peacock Network, why many are fleeing Facebook until after the election, why social video is moving into corporate life, and why I’m going to help Trumpty continue hi... |
SpaceX succesfully launches another satellite, brings home another rocket | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 8 | 13 | At 1:26am ET, SpaceX launched their Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral and, once again, recovered the first stage of that rocket on a drone ship floating in the ocean. More importantly, SpaceX successfully completed the primary mission of today’s launch by inserting their payload, the JCSAT-16 satellite, into Geostati... |
Edtech is the next fintech | David Bainbridge | 2,016 | 8 | 13 |
Fintech is a factor of the fourth industrial revolution that has completely taken the world by storm and forever revolutionized how we bank. But many believe it is still in its infancy, with figures suggesting the same: — a whopping 67 percent over the same period last year. So why the screaming surge to success? F... |
The Pokémon Go influence on new tech | Dr. Roger Smith | 2,016 | 8 | 13 |
Pokémon Go has changed the trajectory of the world on a scale just slightly smaller than Google Search and Facebook, but still to a magnitude that will be felt through all industries in the coming years. To many, it looks like a very simple game that incorporates a few unique and compelling features. But this game ha... |
Hearing is like seeing for our brains and for machines | Nils Lenke | 2,016 | 8 | 13 |
There is an array of neural net machine learning approaches that are simply more than just “deep.” In a time when neural networks are increasingly popular for advancing voice technologies and AI, it’s interesting that many of the current approaches were originally developed for image or video processing. One of those... |
The story of Naked Wines | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 8 | 13 | I f you’re a big fan of wine but still want to run a startup, there may not be that much innovation you can get away with on the product side. Wine, when all is said and done, is still wine. That doesn’t mean you can’t turn the industry inside out by turning the traditional winery business model on its head — and that’... |
How Frank Abagnale thinks like a con artist to improve security | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 8 | 13 | Frank Abagnale, Jr’s ignominious youth as a clever con artist was made famous in the 2002 movie, , starring Leonardo DeCaprio as a young Frank, but Abagnale, as you might imagine, would rather talk about the life he led after he got caught, went to jail and paid his debt to society. It was then that he turned his conn... |
The Onion Omega2 lets you add Linux to your hardware projects | John Biggs | 2,016 | 8 | 13 | Need a tiny, $5 computer to build a robot that will bring you your slippers, initiate a massage chair session, and pour out your daily dose of bourbon?
can do all that and more. This tiny board is Arduino-compatible but also runs Linux natively. This means you can plug it in and get a command line or access the syst... |
After the correction comes The Conclusion | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 14 | now it’s time for a season of shut downs, sell outs, and saving face. The circle of life includes the stage of death. That doesn’t mean these founders did anything wrong, just not quite enough right. Their experiments are coming to an end. Two years ago a bunch of startups raised two years of runway. An abundance of e... |
Digital media unioning, one year later | Lowell Peterson | 2,016 | 8 | 13 |
I would like to report reasons for hope. Collective action is not only possible in the face of an economy in transformation; it is effective. In the last year, writers, editors, producers and other content creators at “digital native” companies , , , and have all won representation with the (WGAE). These inn... |
China is disrupting global fintech | Joshua Bateman | 2,016 | 8 | 14 | |
It’s time to publicly shame United Airlines’ so-called online security | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 8 | 13 | Dear executives of United Airlines, I have some advice for you. 1: Fire whoever is in charge of your online security. 2: Burn down the building in which they worked; it may be tainted. 3: Salt the ground so nothing ever grows there again, to be safe. 4: Hire somebody competent who will not infuriate your users while si... |
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Killing technology innovation in the public markets | Chad Cardenas | 2,016 | 8 | 14 |
In 2004, Google finally went public in a long-awaited offering, via Dutch auction, that lit the public markets on fire. But Google’s S-1 filing was probably as unusual as anything the technology markets had ever seen: The company promised to not deliver quarterly guidance to investors, and instead promised to invest ... |
Why LinkedIn should kill the résumé and replace it with the experience graph | Garry Golden | 2,016 | 8 | 14 |
Imagine a future where individuals can illustrate their progression of lifelong learning and training and its links to their real-world performance. In this version of the future, the once-ubiquitous résumé has been ousted by the experience graph. The graph itself will grow out of ExperienceAPI (xAPI), a data specifi... |
Blab shuts down, founders promise new app on the way | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 8 | 14 | Livestreaming app Blab, which amassed 3.9 million users in just one year, shut down this weekend, its CEO Shaan Puri announced with a post on Medium late Friday. The app, which competed with Twitter’s Periscope, Facebook Live, IBM-owned UStream.tv and other media companies in the livestreaming game, was created at , a... |
I want a companion ship | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 14 | a drone with automated follow features that not only includes a camera for cataloging your many feats, but also has an on-board voice assistant to and a cellular connection to get stuff done for you while you’re out and about. It’s time for friendly flyers; it’s time we each had a companion ship. I don’t know who gets... |
The IoT threat to privacy | Christine Bannan | 2,016 | 8 | 14 |
As the Internet of Things becomes more widespread, consumers must demand better security and privacy protections that don’t leave them vulnerable to corporate surveillance and data breaches. But before consumers can demand change, they must be informed — which requires companies to be more transparent. The most dange... |
Big data’s humble beginnings | Joe Apprendi | 2,016 | 8 | 14 |
Clicks. Once upon a time they were the most powerful tool in assessing online ad performance. A humble beginning, but much has changed. The data-driven measurement and predictive analytics technologies that launched adtech and are now being applied to nearly everything — and yet, it’s easy to forget the road that l... |
Augmented reality makes prototyping easy on Shaper’s Origin CNC machine | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 22 | Innovations in 3D printing have done their part to inspire maker-culture. We print, or at-least try to print, drones, human organs, and even medications. Additive techniques are practical and accessible for much of the prototyping process. However, just because we can print synthetic drugs with 3D printers, doesn’t mea... |
Crunch Report | Kobe Bryant gets into the VC game | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 8 | 22 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Ringling Bros. new space-themed show brings Cirque to the circus | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,016 | 8 | 22 | There are two things that pop into my head when I hear . The first is “are they are still around?” And the second is “I really hope those animals are OK.” And I am pretty sure I am not alone with either sentiment. For the first time in 150 years, the historic entertainment brand is completely overhauling the show and ... |
Pax Labs brings in Deezer’s Tyler Goldman as new CEO | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 8 | 22 | , the folks responsible for the Ploom and the Juul and the Pax loose-leaf vaporizer, have today announced some leadership changes. Former Deezer CEO Tyler Goldman will be taking over as CEO, and Pax co-founder James Monsees will continue on at the company as Chief Product Officer. Pax Labs launched in 2007 with the ori... |
Coding needs a new youth movement | Josh Seides | 2,016 | 8 | 22 |
Let’s face it — coder or not, at one point or another you’ve thought of tackling web design. Or mobile app development. Or database querying. Or something else from the evolving list of savvy, modern languages out there. (Yes, there are .) For non-coders, the lack of control and reliance on developers plays into the... |
After nearly two years, NASA regains contact with lost spacecraft | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 8 | 22 | After attempting to regain contact for nearly two years, NASA has finally communications with the sun-studying satellite, STEREO-B. At 6:27 p.m. ET, NASA received a downlink signal from the spacecraft using the ground-based communication antennas in the . STEREO-B is one of two spacecraft that orbit the sun and make ... |
All 44 startups that launched at Y Combinator S16 Demo Day 1 | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 22 | Farm drones, autonomous security guards and next-generation tampons were among the products presented at today’s Y Combinator startup accelerator Summer 2016 Demo Day 1. You can check out write-ups of all 44 below. And here are TechCrunch’s picks for , plus writeups of the YC’s increased international outreach effort... |
Report assesses UK’s ISP-level blocks of piracy sites as effective, but glosses over risks | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 22 | A study from Carnegie Mellon University and subsequent analysis by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation indicate that the U.K.’s blockage of more than 50 websites was indeed effective at reducing piracy, but neither addresses the fundamental problems with the approach. April saw the publication of “Websit... |
The case of alpha business models and beta technology | Shefi Ben-Hutta | 2,016 | 8 | 22 |
is on a mission to vertically develop its telematics expertise and find new sources of revenue across different sectors by (dedicated to data collection and analytics). It’s no surprise that Allstate’s own brands, such as and (which only announced the release of a telematics app called Streetwise Drivers Clu... |
Apple rolls out macOS Sierra developer beta 7 & public beta 6 | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 22 | Apple has just dropped the 7th developer beta for macOS Sierra, along with the macOS Sierra Public Beta 6, for other early adopters of the new version of the Mac operating system first shown off at this year’s WWDC 2016. The release follows on the heels of which arrived on Friday. At the time, it wasn’t clear if macO... |
Proxy raises $1.6 million to kill the card key, and make the internet of things more accessible | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 8 | 22 | A startup called has raised $1.6 million in seed funding to help people use internet-enabled devices of every kind without all the annoying login processes and standalone apps for each separate device. Proxy’s cofounders Denis Mars and Simon Ratner said they were inspired to create their technology, in part, by the o... |
Happy 25th birthday, Linux | John Biggs | 2,016 | 8 | 22 | Linux will turn 25 years old on August 25, the day Linus Torvalds sent out his with a new operating system. “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I’d like any feedback on thin... |
Amazon’s Prime Now service starts delivering test drives from Hyundai | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 22 | Amazon’s same-day delivery service Prime Now, which is today available in more than a couple of dozen U.S. metros, is experimenting with another type of service that goes beyond traditional purchases: it’s offering consumers the ability to test drive cars. Specifically, Amazon has partnered with Hyundai to offer test d... |
Android Nougat comes out of beta | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 8 | 22 | Google surprised everyone when it launched a public beta of the . Annual updates are nothing new for Android, but not only did this announcement come very early, it also offered users the option to easily install the beta with an over-the-air update. Now, half a year later, Nougat is and available for Google’s own... |
Roll your own business cards with this 3D-printed embosser | John Biggs | 2,016 | 8 | 22 | While we all know the best business cards are printed on bone paper with lettering in Silian Rail, the second best business cards are the ones you roll yourself right in front of your intended recipient. This lets you do just that. Built by maker Paul Myers, the embosser rolls paper between two 3D-printed tubes to pr... |
LendUp fights big banks with $47M for compassionate credit cards | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 22 | Banks win when the poor lose. Credit cards can trap people in debt and bleed them dry with late fees. But it’s this exploitative experience that makes banks vulnerable to fintech startups like that are willing to undercut them and make up margin with software efficiency. It’s that strategy of building an enduring con... |
With Meizu’s MX6, Android imitation is the sincerest form of flattery | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 8 | 22 | Chinese smartphone manufacturers are very much on the ascent, but it’s been a pretty mixed bag. Some have offered some truly exciting hardware to market (read: Nexus 6P) and others, well, not so much. Founded in 2003, Meizu is relatively new entrant on the scene, but the company knows how to make a nice piece of hardwa... |
Twitter for iOS gets ‘night mode’ support | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 22 | Twitter is rolling out night mode to users of its official iOS app, the company announced today. Night mode turns Twitter’s dark-text-on-light-background interface upside down, giving a darker look that should be easier to read at night or in dimmer indoor environments. Rolling out today – we're bringing night mode to ... |
Microsoft tests Project Sonoma, a team chat app for managing shift workers’ schedules | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 8 | 22 | Microsoft has quietly released a new productivity application to both and the called Project Sonoma. The app is aimed at those who work outside of a traditional office environment, like shift workers, waiters, and others who need to keep track of ever-changing schedules and who need to chat with co-workers at times.... |
Crunch Report | WhatsApp Shares user data with Facebook | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 8 | 25 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Apple zero-days mark a new era of mobile hacking | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 8 | 25 | engineering and architecture, Ivan Krstic, told a rapt audience at the Black Hat security conference earlier this month that his notoriously secretive company was ready to open up its vulnerability reporting process to researchers. The thinking behind the bug bounty, according to Apple, is that discovering zero-day vu... |
Thrive Market thinks it can be an affordable online Whole Foods | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 8 | 25 | We spoke to co-CEOs Nick Green and Gunnar Lovelace in the above video about their plans for expansion and why they think they can stand out in what’s already a competitive landscape. The mission of Thrive Market is “making healthy living affordable and accessible for every American family,” according to Green. The $60 ... |
The Analogue Nt mini console is a loving tribute to NES history | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 8 | 22 | The isn’t an NES – it’s better. The third-party system created by designer Christopher Taber is a work of art in its own right, crafted from a solid piece of aluminum and offering internals that boast no-compromise gameplay experience, vs. what you’d get from a home hack using emulation software. Analogue’s Nt mini i... |
How data science fights modern insider threats | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 8 | 25 |
are the biggest cybersecurity threats to firms, organizations and government agencies. This is something you hear a lot at and read about in , white papers and surveys — and these insider threats are becoming increasingly , as well as . This seemingly unstoppable growth accentuates the problem and shortcomings ... |
NASA completes another splashdown test on Mars-bound Orion spacecraft | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 8 | 25 | NASA today tossed into a pool a mock-up of their Orion spacecraft with two crash-test dummies sitting inside to simulate a return-to-Earth splashdown scenario. The test lasted all of about 10 seconds and is the ninth test of a 10-part water impact series NASA began conducting in April. For today’s test, Orion was swung... |
Dropbox is resetting passwords for accounts that haven’t changed them since mid-2012 | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 8 | 25 | Dropbox is requiring users who have not changed their passwords since mid-2012 to reset their passwords this afternoon. The action appears to be related to continued fallout over where credentials for 117 million accounts were posted online. In recent months, treasure troves of user credentials and passwords — — ha... |
SpaceNet satellite imagery repository launched by DigitalGlobe, CosmiQ Works and NVIDIA on AWS | John Mannes | 2,016 | 8 | 25 | A consortium of companies, including , and , today launched , an open-data initiative aimed at improving image analysis tools. The data are being hosted by Amazon Web Services as part of a partnership. With an increase in the number of CubeSats, high-resolution satellites and drones of every shape and size, we hav... |
Songkick raises new $15M round from Access Industries, expands US operations | Mike Butcher | 2,016 | 8 | 25 | , which allows you to track the gigs of your favorite music artists and buy tickets to concerts, has raised a further $15 million in funding from . Songkick says it now plans to use the money to “enhance the connection between artists and fans,” increase ticket sales and prevent scalping. Songkick’s app and web platfo... |
Finally, a Bluetooth speaker that matches my axe and flannel | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 25 | There’s no shortage of portable Bluetooth speakers out there, but lord are a lot of them ugly. What I need is something that will not look amiss sitting on a stump next to me while I hew a yew in my red plaid flannel. Wait, what’s this one?! The Rock Out 2 is the latest from GoalZero, which is better known for its sola... |
Jabra’s Sport Pulse and Coach running headphones take big steps | Stefan Etienne | 2,016 | 8 | 25 | headphone field is as wide as it is colorful. It’s one that Danish wireless headset maker Jabra has been involved with for some time now, with its simply named Sport line. The company’s latest two entrants up the ante, bringing new fitness tracking metrics and coaching to the table, in an attempt to set themselves apa... |
Facebook’s video editor is embarrassingly old, and Apple is creeping | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 8 | 25 | screwed up if Apple is about to one-up you on social. Facebook hasn’t upgraded its video editor in well over three years. Lagging far behind Snapchat, YouTube and even Instagram, it’s a stretch to even call the featureless artifact a video editor. All you can do with an uploaded video is trim the ends and toggle the ... |
WeVideo revamps its online video editor for HTML5 | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 8 | 25 | has rebuilt its browser-based video editor using HTML5 instead of Flash. For many of you, the whole debate about HTML5 versus Flash may seem like . But Flash is taking a while to die completely — Google Chrome, for example, continues to . CEO Krishna Menon said that in the case of WeVideo’s new editor ( ), the big c... |
The new collaboration economy | Rod Drury | 2,016 | 8 | 25 |
Technology is creating a new generation of companies that increasingly choose to collaborate as a coordinated ecosystem, even if they have overlapping or competitive offerings. This transparent way of doing business is transforming the way services are delivered and products are developed. There are a number of facto... |
Naval Ravikant on China money into Silicon Valley: This trickle could become a tsunami | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 8 | 25 | , the online platform that matches startups with early-stage investors, has grown by leaps and bounds since its 2010 founding — and so have its ambitions. In fact, the company, which already bills itself as both the biggest seed-stage firm in the world, and the world’s largest hiring platform for startups, also aims to... |
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2017 Audi A4 driver assistance review | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 8 | 25 | The has an all-new suite of advanced driver assistance systems, joining Volvo, Honda, Ford and others in making semi-autonomous safety features available in cars we can buy today. Activating the adaptive cruise control and lane-keeping systems isn’t intuitive; there’s a second stalk under the turn signal stalk wher... |
Exploits patched by Apple today hint at years of surreptitious government hacks | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 8 | 25 | You’ll want to be updating your iOS devices to 9.3.5, the version released today by Apple — especially if you’re a prominent human rights activist. A recently thwarted attack on just such a person employed not one but zero-day exploits addressed by the patch. The subsequent investigation suggests these were the work ... |
AAA study sheds light on AEB systems | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 8 | 25 | Automatic emergency braking systems, or AEB, will be installed in 99% of all new passenger vehicles . Toyota has promised to have it on all of its vehicles , and many vehicles already have the sensors and technology in place. But that doesn’t mean every system on every vehicle works exactly the same way. That’s why AA... |
Grabr, the international shopping and delivery platform, picks up $3.5 million | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 8 | 25 | , the peer-to-peer marketplace that lets anyone become an international shopper, has today announced the close of a $3.5 million seed round led by Alexey Repik from RBV Capital. Konstantin Nikolaev of N-Trans Group also participated in the round, along with various angel investors. Grabr works like this: Shoppers who a... |
Navisens raises $2.6 million to power its crazy accurate inertial smartphone/AR tracking | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 8 | 25 | Whether you’re clumsily attempting to find where your Uber is parked or trying to find your friend at a crowded venue, it’s clear that GPS has some major limitations that need to be fixed. wants to gather reliable mapping data from users’ smartphones without even touching GPS, instead relying on sensors like the gyros... |
Garmin releases its first luxury smartwatch, the Fenix Chronos | John Biggs | 2,016 | 8 | 25 | announced the , an amazingly elegant smartwatch with all the features of their standard GPS exercise watches – the – with a case and aesthetic that would be at home in a fine watch shop. That’s right: this is the first fancy smartwatch that you could wear in the boardroom, bedroom, and gym. Oh, and it costs $1,499.... |
Mark Zuckerberg Is Building A Real-Life Version Of Iron Man’s Digital Assistant ‘Jarvis’ | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 3 | Mark Zuckerberg is known for setting himself tough challenges — whether that’s , , or ( ) trying to solve global Internet access — but this year the Facebook founder just took things to another level. His personal project for 2016 is to bring Jarvis, Iron Man’s trusty digital assistant, to life. That isn’t exactly tr... |
Samsung Goes After Sonos With A New Wireless Soundbar System | John Biggs | 2,016 | 1 | 3 | Wireless whole-home audio is a tough nut to crack. Only a few folks – primarily – have cracked it but Samsung is hot on the whole-home kick with the HW-K950, a Dolby Atmos-enabled soundbar that includes three forward-facing and two upward speakers. The HW-K950 can connect to subwoofers and rear speaker units wireless... |
Ford Is Adding Support For Apple CarPlay And Android Auto To Its Vehicles | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 1 | 3 | At last, at last, at last. Ford is finally adopting Apple’s CarPlay and Android Auto for its in-car infotainment system, so the carmaker announced ahead of CES 2016 in Las Vegas this week. , the third iteration of the company’s connected car technology, last year, and that system will soon include support for both Goog... |
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