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The impending bot backlash | Rob LoCascio | 2,016 | 6 | 2 |
Everyone seems to be jumping on the bot bandwagon. Chatbots are not only being touted as the end of apps, but also the next paradigm in human-computer interaction — and, if you believe the hype, the end of many customer service jobs, too. But bots are unlikely to live up to these outsized expectations anytime soon. T... |
You can now use Apple Pay to pay for Seamless and Grubhub deliveries | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 6 | 2 | Delivery fiends rejoice, you can now use Apple Pay to get your food delivered even faster. Grubhub just rolled out an update to the Grubhub and Seamless iOS apps that let customers check out using Apple Pay. Considering the company did $2.4 billion in food sales last year, and 60 percent of this was via mobile ordering... |
Tribune Publishing rebrands as tronc, terrible puns ensue | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 6 | 2 | Tribune Publishing, owner of newspapers including the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times, just that starting on June 20 it will rebrand as tronc*, Inc. — short for “tribune online content.” The company is pitching this as part of its broader move to digital, which also includes the development of troncX*, a “conte... |
Facebook kills off Notify news app | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 6 | 2 | Facebook’s attempt at a real-time, notification-based news app is shutting down. Today Facebook sent an alert to users telling them “Thanks for using . We’re transitioning parts of Notify into other Facebook products, and the app will no longer be supported.” in November, allowing users to select from over 70 publish... |
Uber accused of wage stealing in new lawsuit from New York drivers | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 6 | 2 | The (NYTWA) and 10 Uber drivers have filed a lawsuit against the company, accusing Uber of stealing wages. The group representing 5,000 Uber drivers in New York filed the new claims today and says the rideshare giant unfairly skims driver wages without offering the added protections they’d get as employees. The suit ... |
Apple App Store goes down | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 6 | 2 | It appears that the Apple App Store, on both mobile and desktop, is experiencing some technical difficulty. The outage to have started around 3:30pm ET, and Apple’s Support site . At first, it was only the App Store that was malfunctioning, not allowing users to download new apps or search through the store. Users a... |
Wype will come clean your car where it sits | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 6 | 2 | Recently, I wrote about , the Tinder of car shopping. That prompted Andy Kim, co-founder of , to contact me. His business is one letter off from Wyper, after all, so in the interest of disambiguation, here’s the scoop on the car-detailing company that is more like Uber than Tinder in the app comparison game. Wype is ... |
Want your app to be #1 on the App Store? Just give away a free sandwich | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 6 | 2 | Chick-fil-A Chick-fil-A One, their new app that offers mobile payments, order ahead, a rewards program and more. Specifically, customers will be able to customize their order on the app before heading into the restaurant, so they can skip the line upon arrival. And the rewards system will surprise users with differen... |
Samsung debuts truly wireless exercise earbuds and a new version of the Gear Fit | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 2 | The field is getting mighty crowded, but Samsung’s not backing down from its big fitness push. Today the company is unveiling two new wearables — an update to its Gear Fit activity tracker and the IconX, a pair of completely wireless earbuds aimed at runners. The company kicked off a pre-briefing with a little marketin... |
Commerce at Twitter is not dead | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 6 | 2 | The reports of commerce’s death at Twitter have been greatly exaggerated, according to a by Nathan Hubbard, Twitter’s head of commerce. Last month BuzzFeed reported that had put Buy Buttons, product pages and other commerce efforts on the “back-burner,” and the commerce team was shifted into other divisions. But no... |
Grab adds Alipay support to its taxi on-demand service in Southeast Asia | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 6 | 20 | Grab, the billion-dollar company rivaling Uber in Southeast Asia, just made a move to tap into Chinese tourism after it added support for Alipay, China’s largest digital payment service. Grab only began this year — it started out resolutely cash only — so it makes sense that it is now moving quickly to tap Alipay, pa... |
Dartmouth graduated more women than men in engineering this year | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 6 | 20 | Dartmouth just became the first national research university to graduate more women than men in the engineering department. More women have been going into engineering in the last several years, according to the , and women made up 37 percent of the class in Dartmouth’s engineering school in 2015. But women tipped the... |
Walmart sells Yihaodian, its Chinese e-commerce marketplace, to Alibaba rival JD.com | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 6 | 20 | Walmart is partnering with China’s second largest e-commerce firm, JD.com, as it aims to take a larger bite out of the world’s most populous country. , the U.S. retail giant said it has sold Yihaodian, its online commerce marketplace, to JD.com. Walmart will retain the Yihaodian direct sales business, but rather than o... |
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Analog computing and biological simulations get a boost from new MIT compiler | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 20 | And more often than not, that way is analog, not digital. Even the impulse-like action potentials in the brain are more complex than computers’ 1s and 0s — and digital simulations of cells and systems struggle to take that into account. Analog electronic circuits are a powerful tool to bring to bear on these difficult... |
The changing trade secret and patent equilibrium | Manny Schecter | 2,016 | 6 | 20 |
It is no secret that trade secrets are essential to the success of many businesses. Nearly all of us are aware of examples of highly treasured trade secrets, such as the recipe for Coca-Cola, the formula for WD-40 and the methodology for creating the nooks and crannies in Thomas’ English Muffins. Less-known is the gr... |
Former Postmates COO Peter Hazlehurst is back with his own seed-funded startup | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 6 | 20 | In April of last year, made news when he left his position as COO of Postmates just after joining the on-demand delivery company. He said at the time he was looking for more responsibility and possibly to . Now Hazlehurst — who previously spent seven years as the chief product officer of Yodlee and another two-and... |
A tronc is born | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 20 | The best satire is indistinguishable from the subject matter it addresses. And sometimes the subject matter is indistinguishable from satire. For the foreseeable future, the absurd rebranding of tronc and will exemplify the latter. I’m still not entirely sure this isn’t some absolutely brilliant hoax. If it is, well ... |
Tripstir helps you find friends while you’re traveling | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 6 | 20 | is a new app that helps you share travel plans and tips with your friends. Think of it as a way to avoid those exasperating moments when you come back from a trip and you realize that one of your friends was in the same place at the same time — but you’re only finding out when it’s too late. Basically, you use Trip... |
Tim Cook to host fundraiser for Paul Ryan | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 20 | Tim Cook is scheduled to hold a fundraiser for House Speaker Paul Ryan, just weeks after Apple reportedly pulled its support from the Republican National Convention. Cook will co-host the breakfast fundraiser with Apple’s treasurer, Gary Wipfler, according to . The money raised at the June 28 breakfast will benefit Ry... |
mRelief is helping ensure low-income kids get access to meals this summer | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 6 | 20 | During the school year, 22 million children in the U.S. receive free or reduced-price breakfasts and lunches, but during the summer, four out of five of those children can no longer count on a meal every day. Today, is launching a new web and text messaging tool for low-income families to easily figure out where and ... |
One of the industry’s earliest VCs, David Morgenthaler, has passed away | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 6 | 20 | David Morgenthaler, one of the industry’s earliest venture capitalists, passed away on Friday in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, at age 96. Morgenthaler founded the firm in 1968, well before venture capital could yet be considered an industry, even a small one. According to Morgenthaler Ventures, he was also “instru... |
Taylor Swift and other big names join the music industry’s campaign against YouTube | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 6 | 20 | The music industry is ramping up its campaign against YouTube. Musicians, , sent a petition earlier this year to the U.S. Copyright Office to amend the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Now there’s an open letter to Congress signed by stars like Paul McCartney, Taylor Swift and U2 expressing a similar sentiment. Music... |
More cars than phones were connected to cell service in Q1 | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 6 | 20 | Millions of people in the United States have mobile phones, and we’ve had them for years. We may upgrade phones or change plans, but cell phones and plans are generally sold to people who already have devices. But cellular services aren’t out of new devices to connect—now they’ve got cars. In the first quarter of 2016,... |
China beats China with world’s fastest supercomputer | John Mannes | 2,016 | 6 | 20 | The world’s previous fastest supercomputer, Tianhe-2, has been unseated by the Sunway TaihuLight. The Chinese supercomputer will be located at the National Supercomputer Center at Wuxi. Supercomputers are frequently benchmarked with the Linpack benchmark. The Sunway TaihuLight . The closest U.S. competitor sits in thi... |
Is enterprise genomics good enough yet? | Mark Kaganovich | 2,016 | 6 | 20 |
Genomics will make the dream of targeted therapies a reality, which will have a massive health and economic impact. Yet most large life science enterprises, from pharma to providers, have yet to fully adopt genomics as part of their toolkit for clinical trials, development, commercialization and diagnostics. When wil... |
HTC exec: exclusives are a bad idea for VR | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 20 | Last week at E3, we had a chance to speak with some of the biggest names in VR, from to — but that list that wouldn’t be complete without some input from HTC. The smartphone maker was, perhaps, something of a dark horse in the space, but its Vive headset has scored high rankings among industry stalwarts, positioning... |
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Microsoft Flow, a tool for managing workflows, launches on iOS | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 6 | 20 | , the company’s recently launched workflow management tool, has now arrived on mobile in the form of an iOS application. Essentially a direct competitor to IFTTT, Microsoft Flow on the web, offering an interface that lets you mash up up two or more cloud services in order to create workflows – like those that let you... |
VR is the future of porn, and it’s a creepy future indeed | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 20 | This got real weird, real fast. And not just because I was demoing the technology in the middle of the E3 floor, surrounded by fellow show-goers. It’s just — well, even after all the explainers in the world, it’s hard to sufficiently brace your mind for all that virtual reality porn entails. It occupied a small space, ... |
Alternative lenders aren’t going away, they’re just misunderstood | Charles Birnbaum | 2,016 | 6 | 20 |
What a difference a year makes. In 2015, was a marketplace-lending leader with a $7 billion market cap, and the media was heralding the . Now, with Lending Club and OnDeck Capital’s shares getting pummeled by public market investors, news outlets are asking . The same pundits who once lauded the potential of newc... |
For more diversity in the workplace, start with technical roles | Elizabeth Ames | 2,016 | 6 | 18 |
The lack of diversity in terms of gender, race, ethnicity and age is well documented in the technology industry. Public data shared by major tech employers show that women only represent 25 to 45 percent of their entire workforce. The disparity gets worse in technical roles — for the past five years, women have been ... |
VR skateboarding at E3 | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 18 | I’ve been skateboarding for longer than I care mention, and I still had to hold onto the damn railings. I’m going to blame it on the screwy sense of orientation one experiences in virtual reality, but it probably owes just as much to my fear of falling off a mechanical skateboard simulator in the middle of the crowded ... |
Contact CI’s Exotendon system brings touch to VR | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 18 | Sometimes the coolest demos at a convention are tucked away in the back corners, far from the bright lights and big booths industry stalwarts. One of the hidden gems of this year’s E3 arrives courtesy Contact CI. The small Cincinnati-based startup was showing of its developer kit for the first time at the event, featur... |
Will the next Siri be empathetic? | Rupa Chaturvedi | 2,016 | 6 | 18 |
AI assistants are having their moment. Just a week ago, , an AI capable of carrying on an “ongoing two-way dialog.” It joins a field crowded with Apple’s , Amazon’s , Microsoft’s , Facebook’s , the unreleased and a whole host of others. But right now, while these assistants can book a meeting, tell you the wea... |
Gillmor Gang: M & A | Steve Gillmor | 2,016 | 6 | 18 | The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, June 17, 2016. You’d think, and John Borthwick did, that this Gang would be all about WWDC and actionable notifications in iOS 10 and Apple TV’s deep link reboot of the set top box. We did get there by the very end, bu... |
Flipping the office telepresence model | Peter Hirst | 2,016 | 6 | 18 |
What if I told you that you could visit three continents in one day without leaving your office and truly feel like you were there in person? That you could move down a hallway or across a stage, make eye contact and feel, well, more like a human being than just a face on a screen? Earlier this year, Paul McDonagh-Sm... |
Only in Norway: Fish food company wins startup pitch competition | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 6 | 18 | Imagine for a moment that you are a tech journalist. You’re traveling to Norway, a country dear to your heart, and you want to come back reporting positive news about the startup scene there. You are invited, among other things, to the final round of . The winning company, MiniPro, doesn’t have an internet presence.... |
Learn deeply, but baby, don’t fear the Skynet | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 6 | 18 | Who’s afraid of AlphaGo? Everyone who’s anyone, you might think. Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Stephen Hawking have all about the “existential threat” of AI, just as “deep learning” neural networks are revolutionizing the AI field. Should we be scared for our jobs? Or even our species? Fear not, I have answers! They are... |
As the smartphone wars reheat, the threat of chilling innovation looms | G. Nagesh Rao | 2,016 | 6 | 18 |
Bill Gates recently penned to the 2016 presidential candidates, imploring them to support something he hopes “every candidate will agree on in November: America’s unparalleled capacity for innovation.” Politics aside, it’s hard to argue with his call to action. From prolific inventors like George Washington Carver ... |
Partech ends up raising $440 million for its growth fund | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 6 | 27 | You might remember that I covered a $240 million growth fund from Paris-based VC firm back in . As I noted at the time, it was just the first closing and other limited partners kept investing in this fund. The very same growth fund is now bigger at $440 million (€400 million). Everything I wrote a couple of years ag... |
New York has passed a bill legalizing daily fantasy sports | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 6 | 18 | Early this morning, on the last day of the current session, The New York Assembly passed legislation legalizing daily fantasy sports throughout the state of New York. While the bill still needs to be signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo, its passing is a big win for the entire industry. Due to the large concentration of dai... |
Disrupt 旧金山峰会邀请全球华人参会 (Announcing a Disrupt SF attendee-friendly for Chinese speakers） | Ned Desmond | 2,016 | 6 | 27 | null |
YCombinator makes every SimCity player’s dream reality with new research initiative | John Mannes | 2,016 | 6 | 27 | Ever wanted to design a city from scratch? All those years tinkering with SimCity and Legos are going to finally start paying dividends for a lucky few. is looking for to address everything from the creation of affordable housing to the design of public spaces in its new research undertaking. The buzz-word smart-ci... |
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How the ancient art of origami is inspiring cutting-edge technology | Don Basile | 2,016 | 6 | 27 |
Long before the 3D printer, was the original genius at creating lifelike forms out of a flat surface. Folding brings with it the ability to collapse, flex and unfurl structures at will, which has huge potential for a variety of engineering applications. From digestible pills that could provide alternatives to inv... |
Attention Asian startups: Apply for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF! | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 6 | 27 | Calling startups in Asia and across the world — for our Startup Battlefield competition at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco this September! Startups are at the core of what we do here at TechCrunch. Beyond writing about them every day on TechCrunch, they are a hugely important focus of our events whether it’s TechCru... |
Airbnb sues San Francisco over new rental legislation | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 27 | its beef with the city of San Francisco to court. The short-term rental company filed suit today over a new law that requires Airbnb to verify that its hosts have registered with the city before showing ads for their homes online. The suit aims to block the law from going into effect as scheduled on August 1. San Fran... |
Writing aid for the blind provides a case study for “compassionate engineering” at Carnegie Mellon | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 27 | New mobile games and robot butlers are all well and good, but there are also many applications for the latest technology in poverty-stricken school districts and in the service of the disabled. A Carnegie Mellon project that targets both of those things is creators as an exercise in what they call “compassionate engin... |
Pocket Tripod is a credit-card-sized phone holder that fits in your wallet | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 6 | 27 | The is repeating its crowdfunding success from a few years ago, creating an updated, universal version of its incredibly popular credit-card-sized tripod that fits in your wallet. Now available for pre-order for Android users and people who like to stick cases on their phones, it’s a tremendously useful piece of kit ... |
Thrive Market raises $111 million for its online organic grocery store | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 6 | 27 | Thrive, which competes with similar online grocery services like , believes there is a significant market opportunity to make natural foods more accessible to consumers and they’ve been growing fast. Launched less than two years ago, the startup is on track for over $120 million in annual revenue, the team tells Tech... |
So, does anybody want Twitter? | John Mannes | 2,016 | 6 | 27 | Twitter is in trouble. In a move out of a middle school flag football game, to join its team. The sheer size of the transaction has reignited conversations about who will be picked next to join the super special circle of public mega-cap tech companies. Vultures have been circling Twitter for well over a year, but th... |
How digital marketers can get better results with less capital | Vishal Agarwal | 2,016 | 6 | 27 |
There has been much talk of late about the and what will happen to when everyone is forced to spend more wisely. Spending wisely should always be an objective regardless of the economic conditions. But this is especially true for who control a large share of the budget at many companies — and who are the most a... |
Cryptography pioneer Marty Hellman calls for compassion in personal, cyber, and international threats | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 6 | 27 | It’s been a long time since Marty Hellman and his collaborator Whitfield Diffie ushered in a new era of private communication with their invention of public key cryptography — but better late than never when it comes to , referred to by some as the Nobel Prize for technology. The two shared the 2015 award, only recent... |
Iris Automation is bringing eyes, and situational awareness, to drones | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 6 | 27 | New in the U.S. ostensibly make it easier for companies to put flying robots to work whether that’s in media, construction or agriculture. But drones are still limited to flying within the “line of sight,” or the range where a human operator can see them. So we can’t have pizzas, or prescriptions, delivered by drones... |
Google for Education partners with TES to expand the reach of VR Expeditions content in classrooms | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 6 | 27 | Next-gen edtech and virtual reality are both high-stakes platforms that have quite a bit of potential when it comes to defining our near-future. The marriage of the platforms may be far from ready for primetime, but there is a lot of flirtation happening in the space right now thanks to some major players. Today, Googl... |
Google Earth and Maps get sharper satellite imagery with new update | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 6 | 27 | , Google engineers figured out a way to stitch together satellite imagery to remove clouds, giving Google Earth and Google Maps users a better and more comprehensive view of the ground below. Today, the company has repeated the process, but this time with newer, crisper imagery from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey’... |
Facebook rolls out Slideshow movie-maker to compete with Google and Apple | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 6 | 27 | Most people can’t shoot compelling videos, and static photos are boring. That’s why the tech giants are all pushing their own versions of automatic movie makers based on your media. This month, coming to iOS 10 Photos, already has its Movies Assistant and today Facebook is rolling out Slideshow to all iOS users aro... |
Fujifilm finally updates its smartphone photo printer | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 27 | It’s been a long time coming, but Fujifilm’s finally ready to offer up the sequel to its Instax Share Smartphone Printer SP-1. Two-and-a-half years after debuting the peripheral at CES, the company returns this week with the fittingly named , which promises some key improvements over its warmly received predecessor. C... |
Meet the team hacking Sundar Pichai and Channing Tatum | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 27 | If you follow tech executives or famous actors on Twitter, you’ve probably seen references to something called OurMine several times over the last few weeks. That’s because a group of three hackers called OurMine have been finding their way into accounts belonging to Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Spotify CEO Daniel Ek, Ama... |
Google opens up its Virtual Reality field trips for all, debuts new apps and services for teachers | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 6 | 27 | On the heels of Google this morning also unveiled aimed at expanding use of Google products and technologies in the classroom setting. At the today, the company introduced a number of new tools for educators, ranging from a to an expansion of its Google Cardboard-assisted “Expeditions” program, plus several new ... |
UK surveillance bill’s logging of web activity a huge risk to privacy, peers warn | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 6 | 27 | A former senior chief in the U.K.’s Met Police and now a Lib Dem peer in the House of Lords has warned about major risks to the privacy of web users’ personal data from a provision in the that would require ISPs to retain information on the websites and services accessed by their users for a full 12 months — so calle... |
Watch this short Sci-Fi movie with a script written by an AI | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 6 | 11 | You know when you just keep pressing the predictive text button on your mobile phone and the sentence just starts making less and less sense? Well, that type of functionality isn’t just for absurdist poetry, you know; the team behind Sunspring used the same technology — an LSTM Neural network, to be precise — to write ... |
Google, Baidu and the race for an edge in the global speech recognition market | Daniel Faggella | 2,016 | 6 | 11 |
Speech recognition technology has been around for more than half a decade, though the — like voice dialing or desktop dictation — certainly don’t seem as sexy as today’s burgeoning virtual agents or smart home devices. If you’ve been following the market for any length of time, you know that a slew of significant... |
Congrats to former TechCrunch co-editor Alexia Tsotsis on graduating from Stanford | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 6 | 11 | Today, the former co-editor of TechCrunch, Alexia Tsotsis, is graduating from at the Graduate School of Business. She’s coming away with a Master of Science degree in business — and she did it in a year. I’ll always remember her as a fantastic work partner who was the yin to my yang. A person who would not hold back f... |
FFS, Facebook | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 6 | 11 | For your convenience. For your security. To better serve you. To offer you the best experience. To better fit our future plans. To comply with regulations. To optimize our resources. These are the blandly vicious lies that companies proffer when they want to take something away from you. I thought I was used to this ga... |
Investment opportunities in the autonomous vehicle space | Rob Toews | 2,016 | 6 | 11 |
As companies race to bring autonomous vehicles (AVs) to market, investment activity in the space is heating up. General Motors made headlines in March when it . A few weeks later leading venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz entered the space, announcing investments in two early-stage autonomous startups, and ... |
Line’s beauty and fashion portal rolls out its Persian carpet | Amir Bozorgzadeh | 2,016 | 6 | 11 |
, a designed to deliver the latest news on , and lifestyle, debuted in Iran this May. , the tech giant well-known for popular messaging app, is backing the foray into the destination site space in the Islamic Republic. The will offer daily content produced by a team of local Iranian staff writers and a foru... |
Why there will never be an Uber for healthcare | Tom Valenti | 2,016 | 6 | 11 |
You should walk away from anyone who says there can be an “Uber for healthcare.” It is the equivalent of someone saying they “have a bridge to sell you.” Or, more precisely, it shows a complete lack of understanding for how healthcare works and how positive health outcomes are actually achieved. Generally, when one s... |
Hacker takes over Oculus CEO’s Twitter account, announces new CEO | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 6 | 29 | Oculus CEO Brendan Iribe had his Twitter account hacked Wednesday; the hacker took the opportunity to promptly announce a new CEO for the virtual reality company. This is just the latest in a string of tech CEO’s having their Twitter accounts compromised, this attack does not appear to be from the same hacker group res... |
Ayesha Curry launches a new food-delivery startup | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 6 | 29 | Want to eat like Steph Curry? Now you can. Ayesha Curry, the wife of NBA all-star Stephen Curry, has a new food delivery startup. The company is called , and will deliver ingredients and recipes directly to your door on a weekly basis. sign up now for updates on my meal-kit delivery! Let's GATHER together and cook! ... |
Watch Microsoft Accelerator’s London Demo Day here | Samantha O'Keefe | 2,016 | 6 | 29 | TechCrunch is pleased to bring you Microsoft Accelerator’s London Demo Day on June 30th from 7:30-10:00am PT, 3:30-6pm GMT. The Microsoft Accelerator is an immersive three- to six-month program aimed at helping entrepreneurs get through the challenges of building a company, finding customers and scaling to global marke... |
IBM demos an employee hack for gathering live video data via drone | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 29 | The system, which started as a pet project for Trice, is able to gather and transmit data in real-time, offering up such useful contextual information as precise location (latitude, longitude, altitude), compass heading, and the pitch of the camera. “Think of an insurance adjuster,” says Trice. “You want to use the a... |
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The rise of the overbanked and the opportunity to serve them | Brian Buckingham | 2,016 | 6 | 29 |
Meet Alvin, a Silicon Valley executive in his late-30s. Alvin has accounts with three banks, an online brokerage account and has borrowed from no less than nine lenders in the past five years. In today’s world, why wouldn’t he? Quick and easy enrollment processes, fee-free offers, mobile apps to keep on top of things... |
MoneyLion brings traditional banking ever closer to obsolescence | John Mannes | 2,016 | 6 | 29 | The lingo of personal finance is rapidly changing. Mint has replaced our nagging parents and significant others who think our spending is out of control. Wealthfront and Betterment took away our personal wealth managers. Heck, we don’t even have to go to a bank anymore to get a loan with SoFi or Lending Club. Since 201... |
Global counter-terrorism database World-Check leaks online | Lucia Maffei | 2,016 | 6 | 29 | At least one non-authorized person obtained sensitive information following the leak of global counter-terrorism database , owned by Thomson Reuters. Chris Vickery, a security researcher at the software company MacKeeper, that a copy of the World-Check database from mid-2014 had come into his possession. “No hacking... |
HTC Vive announces $10 billion VR Venture Capital Alliance | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 6 | 29 | VR technologies are going to be requiring a shit ton of capital as they look to make the crossover from R&D phases to mass market adoption. HTC is certainly looking to do its part to make sure that the headset technologies it is building have a broader ecosystem to fall into. Today, at the in Shanghai, HTC Vive annou... |
This portable 200W “laser bazooka” is terrifying and unnecessary — and I want one | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 6 | 29 | Have you ever played with a laser pointer? Those usually cap out at around 0.005 watts. This guy built a “laser bazooka” that, at 200 watts, comes in at about 40,000 times stronger than that. While YouTuber styropyro built his bazooka out of materials torn from a bunch of broken DLP projectors and “a stack of lithium b... |
Tech’s real role in student debt | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 29 | Clinton announced her yesterday in front of a gathering of entrepreneurs and startup founders. Almost immediately, the proposal began to generate criticism. The controversial portion of Clinton’s proposal isn’t the section on encryption, net neutrality or any of the other divisive policy issues that plague the tech i... |
Google-backed undersea cable between US and Japan goes online tonight | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 6 | 29 | Google started making investments in a number of undersea cables back in 2008, but one of its largest investments was in the $300 million between Japan and the U.S. West Coast. Back in 2014, Google that it was joining a consortium of six companies, including NEC, China Mobile, China Telecom, Global Transit and KDDI... |
Impact Engine closes its accelerator and a $10 million impact fund | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 6 | 29 | An accelerator that backed for-profit, for-good ventures, , is abandoning the bootcamp approach and shifting its focus to investing in these startups as a seed fund, according to CEO and Partner Jessica Droste Yagan. Based in Chicago’s , Impact Engine also closed a $10 million fund to support this pivot. The fund is ... |
ProducePay raises $2.5M to bring cashflow to farmers | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 6 | 29 | has raised $2.5 million to solve what CEO Pablo Borquez Schwarzbeck said is a major issue for farmers — getting paid in a timely manner for their crops. Borquez Schwarzbeck explained that farmers usually have to cover the cost of not just growing the produce, but also shipping — and then they have to wait for it to ge... |
Move Loot, a YC-backed furniture resale marketplace, shuts down, sells customer list to Handy | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 6 | 29 | There’s some closure (literally and figuratively) for , the furniture resale marketplace that we wrote earlier this month . The startup — backed by nearly in funding from a list of top investors that included Y Combinator, GV, Index, Metamorphic and Sherpa — has shut down its business and sold access to its custome... |
This is how anti-paparazzi clothing works | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 6 | 29 | If paparazzi have a right to take photos ( ) and newspapers are allowed to print photos taken by paparazzi ( ), it stands to reason that those in the brief spotlight of an eager photographer’s flash have a right to fight back, too (they do). Anti-paparazzi clothing has been around for a while, and if you’ve ever wonder... |
It’s official: Kleiner just pulled off a $1.4 billion fundraise | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 6 | 29 | So much for losing its mojo. Despite and in recent years that have sometimes rivaled those of a telenovela, and even with its most famous member, John Doerr, , Kleiner Perkins has raised two new funds totaling $1.4 billion, show newly processed SEC filings. The firm’s digital growth fund — its third — has secured ... |
Here’s a big list of all the “Ok, Google” commands you’ve probably forgotten | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 6 | 29 | Voice commands! They’re the pinnacle of intuitivity, right? I mean, you’re just talking! Except when they aren’t intuitive at all. Like when a command you’re worked before… doesn’t, because you’re forgetting you used slightly different wording last time. It’s the challenge that invisible voice interfaces like Android... |
Shasta Ventures is raising a $300 million fifth fund | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 6 | 29 | is raising up to $300 million for a fifth fund according to a new that lists managing director Jason Pressman and Rob Coneybeer (Coneybeer co-founded Shasta with fellow managing directors Tod Francis and Ravi Mohan in 2004; Pressman joined the following year). Shasta appears to be sticking with its knitting with its... |
Google.org, Omidyar Network backing Fast Forward, the accelerator for tech nonprofits | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 6 | 29 | An accelerator that helps tech nonprofits develop their products and raise grant money, , has attracted $1.25 million in philanthropic funding of its own. Backers include big names in venture capital and tech. and donated the largest share, along with AT&T, The Nasiri Foundation and Rita Allen Foundation. Fast F... |
A post-seed round is not a bridge | Paul Martino | 2,016 | 6 | 29 |
Every month I get emails from CEOs and investors that say something like this: “We are seeking a bridge for our company. Since we already raised our seed and you do post-seed, we thought you would be ideal to speak to about this.” My admittedly terse reply is always: “Bullpen does not do bridges.” Because I send this... |
Crunch Report | Magic Leap Brings Star Wars to Life | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 6 | 16 | Tito Hamze
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Why most of London’s tech sector believes Brexit will prove a disaster | James Silver | 2,016 | 6 | 16 |
A decision over the U.K.’s future membership in the European Union is now just days away, with indicating a race to the wire. Among the most fearful of a potential is big business, whose main lobby group, the Confederation of British Industry, which represents some 190,000 businesses, has of a “serious economic... |
Liftoff delivers personalized ads that are designed to drive actions, not installs | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 6 | 16 | Mobile marketing startup pitches itself as a way for mobile advertisers to focus on what really matters — not installs, but rather purchases and other actions that result in revenue. It’s not a unique idea. After all, we’re seeing more platforms adopting ads designed for re-engagement — in fact, the format is suppose... |
Gravitational waves have been detected for the second time in history | Emily Calandrelli | 2,016 | 6 | 16 | For the second time in history, scientists have directly detected gravitational waves. And just like that, a new era of astronomy is underway. Like the gravitational wave detected, scientists believe that the signal was created by the collision of two black holes, albeit a completely different binary black hole syste... |
Airbnb launches campaign to ease registration requirements for SF hosts | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 6 | 16 | Airbnb is fighting back against new legislation in San Francisco that aims to hold the short-term rental company accountable for ensuring its hosts register with the city. The law, finalized on Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors, requires Airbnb to verify that its San Francisco hosts have registered with the city and ... |
Peer-to-peer dress rental startup Curtsy lets you rent out your wardrobe | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 6 | 16 | Consider yourself stylish? Those with good taste and a wardrobe to match could find themselves getting richer for it with a new peer-to-peer clothing rental platform from latest batch. Called , the startup began when one University of Mississippi sorority sister realized she could earn a living by renting out her cl... |
Heads up Twitch, Facebook just hired gamer Snoopeh for its e-sports division | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 6 | 16 | 459,000 years. That’s how long Twitch users spent watching other people play video games last year, and Facebook wants a piece of the pie. It might sound weird, but e-sports are wildly popular, and Facebook is getting serious about owning those video views. A source tipped us off that Facebook has hired e-sports super-... |
Review: ExoLens’ Zeiss iPhone lenses turns your phone into a full-fledged camera | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 6 | 16 | Anyone even remotely interested in cameras knows that lenses are the gold standard. But the 170-year-old company’s lenses can cost thousands of dollars each, making them pretty inaccessible for amateur photographers. But that is now changing, as the company has teamed up with the brand to release three Zeiss lenses... |
Zeiss made a really premium Google Cardboard headset | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 6 | 16 | Google Cardboard’s biggest appeal has always been its accessibility. Heck, they send the headsets out with the newspaper. Zeiss is taking things in a different direction with the One Plus (not to be confused with the less spacey OnePlus), a $129 VR headset for smartphones that features a premium build and, naturally, t... |
A device called the Remo spots a market for automating wall mount air conditioners | Jay Donovan | 2,016 | 6 | 16 | I’m usually cautious about Kickstarter campaigns, but when the data looks right I’m encouraged to peer deeper. Haruumi Shiode reached out to me with his (which remotely controls wall unit air conditioners), and I have to admit the numbers looked interesting even though this is a business model I would have never cons... |
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