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Robots, jobs and the human fear of change | Steve Cousins | 2,016 | 12 | 3 |
When it comes to technology’s impact on the economy, there continues to be concern that robots and other advances will lead to unemployment. But what does history really tell us about the impact of new technologies on jobs and the economy? And more importantly, what happens to America’s ability to compete in a global... |
Why Reed Hastings is the nation’s best chance for curbing the influence of money in politics | Bradley Tusk | 2,016 | 12 | 3 |
Donald Trump’s election proved and disproved a lot of political gospels, but one key issue no one is talking about is how the election underscored the growing inefficacy of political tv ads. Trump was wildly outspent on television in the primaries and then again by Hillary Clinton in the general. It didn’t matter. Pa... |
These science superstars just won the 2017 Breakthrough Prize | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,016 | 12 | 4 | Today at the 5th annual , some of Silicon Valley’s biggest names will award more than $25 million to scientific research in departments across the globe. The event splices together research scientists far more accustomed to red tape than red carpets with tech’s deepest-pocketed and most idealistic upper echelons. The ... |
Impraise lets you tell your coworkers what a good job they’re doing | John Biggs | 2,016 | 12 | 4 | “We’ve come a long long way together, through the hard times and the good. I have to celebrate you baby, I have to praise you like I should using a 360-degree feedback tool sold as as SaaS by founders who went through Y-Combinator in S14 and have offices in New York and Amsterdam,” Fatboy Slim once wrote and nowhere ar... |
We need new candidates to run for office, and startups can help | Jim Cupples | 2,016 | 12 | 4 |
This presidential election pitted two candidates who were Why is this happening in our golden age of technology, when information is widespread and organizing easier than ever? We don’t like the candidates we see because we don’t have enough leaders, and I mean that in a political sense. We simply don’t have enough ... |
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GoPro releases the $299 Karma Grip handheld stabilizer | Matt Burns | 2,016 | 12 | 4 | The GoPro Karma Grip is now available. The camera maker announced today that the handheld stabilizer is for sale in select stores and GoPro.com for $299. This is the same handheld grip that shipped with the — at least before the drone for battery issues. The Karma Grip competes directly with the DJI Osmo though bot... |
How to make debt pay | Joe Xavier | 2,016 | 12 | 4 |
Not all debt is bad debt. It’s conventional wisdom in the world of finance that the strategic use of debt builds better companies. The same is true for software. Companies that are strategic in their use of debt — in this case, — can develop products quicker, push them out faster and win in the market. The key word... |
User’s Guide to Disrupt London 2016 | Leslie Hitchcock | 2,016 | 12 | 4 | Disrupt London 2015 Startup Battlefield winner Jukedeck. Hard to believe that Disrupt London starts tomorrow! Check out this guide for helpful event info. We want you to have a successful experience at Disrupt. Check out these tips to have a great day. Make sure to download the latest Disrupt app to connect and mes... |
How will Silicon Valley respond to Trump? | Andrew Keen | 2,016 | 12 | 4 |
Kapor Capital founding partner isn’t happy. Klein, one of technology’s leading social activists and impact investors, has been “deeply troubled” by the election of Donald Trump. She is particularly disgusted by what she calls the “unleashing” of “horrific behavior” since the election, such as what she fears might... |
Artificial intelligence and the evolution of the fractal economy | Nikolas Badminton | 2,016 | 12 | 4 |
Money makes the world go round, or so they say. Payments, investments, insurance and billions of transactions are the beating heart of a fractal economy, which echoes the messy complexity of natural systems, such as the growth of living organisms and the bouncing of atoms. Financial systems are larger than the sum of... |
Mischief managed: 5 hackathon hacks for Potter fans inspired by the Marauder’s Map | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 12 | 4 | Great news, Potter fans: Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is no longer the only place in the world where you can find a working , the magical piece of parchment that let Harry Potter and others track the movements of people as they went around the Hogwarts campus and its many public and secret passageways. T... |
Three cheers for Valley capitalism | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 12 | 4 | It’s easy to be critical of the tech industry, and even easier to be critical of capitalism itself. Let us all continue to do so; criticism is valuable. But let’s remember that we do so because they are so important. Capitalism is still what lifts the world’s least fortunate out of poverty, and technology increasingly ... |
VeeCee gives kids a shoppable wish list with virtual currency | Jonathan Shieber | 2,016 | 12 | 4 | Giving kids a new way to get the things they want, with greater parental oversight, is a hack created by a four-person team from London’s Barking Dagenham suburbs. The group’s pitch was handled by 12-year-old, — the youngest presenter at this year’s Disrupt London hackathon. A programmer since 9, Odubanjo may be ... |
The Emotion Journal performs real-time sentiment analysis on your most personal stories | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 12 | 4 | Andrew Greenstein, an app developer from San Francisco, started journaling a few months ago. He tries to write for five minutes every day, but it’s challenging to set aside the time. Still, he’s read that journaling reduces stress and can help with goal-setting, so he’s trying to make it a habit. At the Disrupt London ... |
Welcometo.site wants to be your virtual receptionist | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 12 | 4 | Checking in at a co-working space or business to meet with somebody can often be a hassle that involves some phone tag and back and forth. , one of the many projects that came out of our today, wants to make this easier. It combines Cisco Spark’s messaging and video service with maps from ArcGIS and PubNub’s real-ti... |
Wandered.space helps you explore the cool spots all around you | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 12 | 4 | is a service for those moments when you want to explore the area around you, but don’t know where to go. It was created this weekend at TechCrunch’s Disrupt London hackathon by a team of three coworkers from Seattle-based . One of them, Skyler Hartle, told me that they were inspired by their visit to London and decid... |
The Emotion Journal wins the Disrupt London 2016 Hackathon Grand Prize | Romain Dillet | 2,016 | 12 | 4 | night at the Copper Box Arena in London. The arena hosted the handball competition of the Summer Olympics a few years ago. But this weekend has been all about a different kind of competition — the Hackathon. Some of them were participating in our event for the first time, while others were regular hackers. Their cha... |
My Bricks Online puts your smartphone in Lego to make playtime fun again | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 12 | 4 | Lego! Lego! Lego! Who doesn’t like Lego? One of the most fascinating entries to the hackthon at TechCrunch Disrupt London makes the beloved bricks even more fun thanks to a smartphone. is a project that lets kids — or adults! — build Lego that uses a phone to add music or sound effects to the toy. The idea is to give ... |
Disrupt Hackathon app Notim.press/ed algorithmically detects fake news | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 12 | 4 | Fake news is a moving target. Greedy publishers constantly start new websites of deceit, preventing manual blacklists from keeping up. That’s why one TechCrunch Disrupt London Hackathon team took an algorithmic approach to detecting fake news. (a clever URL that reads “Not Impressed”) lets you enter a URL and instantl... |
HazMap wants to be like Pokémon Go for reporting hazards in public spaces | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 12 | 4 | No one wants to be that person who falls in a ditch when they least suspect it. With , a project that came out of the Disrupt London 2016 Hackathon, you can ensure you’re not that person. Created by software engineer Oras Al-Kubaisi and risk management insurance provider Craig Polley, HazMap uses to let people crowd... |
Jooble makes finding jobs easier in developing countries | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 12 | 4 | According to the latest from , there are 2.6 billion smartphone subscriptions globally, and that number looks to jump to 6.1 billion smartphone users 2020, with much of the growth coming from developing countries. What that means: people who haven’t had access to modern luxuries are increasingly able to access valua... |
Court upholds warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens under Section 702 | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,016 | 12 | 5 | The U.S. federal appeals court has ruled in a case that began with a and will end with unique implications for the private digital communications of American citizens. Digital privacy advocates had hoped that the appeals case for a contentious portion of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) known as .... |
Trivago files to raise up to $428 million in IPO | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 12 | 5 | null |
Microsoft researchers sound off on the next decade in tech | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 5 | It’s Computer Science Education Week, in case you didn’t know, and in honor of this hallowed period Microsoft is publishing the thoughts of a few of its scientists and engineers on what will change in the tech world over the next decade. Seventeen women were asked to chime in — an effort to highlight their voices in a ... |
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Facebook begins asking users to rate articles’ use of ‘misleading language’ | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 5 | A survey asking users about “misleading language” in posts is the latest indication that Facebook is facing up to what many see as its responsibility to get a handle on the fake news situation. At least part of its solution, it seems, is to ask users what think is fake. The “Facebook Survey,” noticed by of Philadel... |
GoDaddy buys WordPress services startup WP Curve | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 12 | 5 | Web-hosting firm GoDaddy is beefing up its services after it acquired , a bootstrapped startup offering services and support for WordPress websites. The deal is undisclosed, but it will see NYSE-listed GoDaddy pick up WP Curve’s customer base, assets and “a few dozen” of its 39-person team, the firm told TechCrunch. W... |
Fitbit’s up and Apple’s down in IDC’s latest wearable market numbers | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 5 | IDC’s latest are in, and everything looks to be coming up Fitbit. As smartwatch numbers declined, the larger wearable space is up overall, thanks in no small part to the Charge manufacturer. According to IDC’s numbers, Fitbit commanded nearly a quarter of the entire category at 23 percent, a year-over-year increase o... |
Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube collaborate to remove ‘terrorist content’ from their services | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 5 | Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube today announced they would cooperate on a plan to help limit the spread of terrorist content online. The companies said that together they will create a shared industry database that will be used to identify this content, including what they describe as the “most extreme and egr... |
Hacker News calls for “political detox,” critics cry censorship | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 5 | Can social media even exist without political debate? What about trolls? , the social news site run by Y Combinator, is trying to find out. The head of the Hacker News community since 2014, Daniel Gackle (whose HN handle is “dang”) on Monday initiated a site-wide To introduce the temporary ban on political content, G... |
The clever, absurd RokBlok rides your vinyl’s grooves like a hipster race car | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 5 | : Sometimes you think a gadget is new when it was Sometimes you see a gadget and think simultaneously, “that’s insanely clever,” but also just “that’s insane.” was one of those situations for me: Who but a mad genius would have thought of a record player that propels itself along the groove like a little remote cont... |
Why education should become more like artificial intelligence | Sylvain Kalache | 2,016 | 12 | 5 |
Artificial intelligence is all around us. It’s in our cars, our homes and our pockets. IBM is teaching to understand, reason and even to learn — helping to translate information into knowledge that can help drive more informed decision-making in medical care. Leading tech companies ship AI free within their product... |
OpenAI’s Universe is the fun parent every artificial intelligence deserves | John Mannes | 2,016 | 12 | 5 | Every parent’s worst nightmare is a student spending more time playing video games and surfing the web than studying for school. But the team over at OpenAI believes that a “fun parent” approach could actually bring us all one step closer to the elusive generalized intelligence. , was created to train and measure AI f... |
The latest Android Nougat update brings a piece of Pixel to Nexus phones | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 5 | starts going live today as an over-the-air update — a roll out that will continue through the next several weeks to a select number of Google-approved devices, including the Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 9, Pixel, Pixel XL, Nexus Player, Pixel C and General Mobile 4G (Android One), along with devices enrolled in ... |
Flutterwave aims to unify Africa’s fragmented payment systems and empower small businesses | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 5 | of entrepreneurs in Africa, but their ambitions are often hampered by the lack in many countries of reliable and affordable digital payment systems. , from , wants to empower individuals and small merchants to take part in the thriving digital economy by letting them accept payment however it’s offered, and receiv... |
Netflix goes big on unscripted programming with 20 original shows planned for 2017 | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 5 | Netflix is making headway on its to fill half its library with original content. According to Netflix’s Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos, the company is planning to release about 20 unscripted series next year, bringing it closer to its goal of having 1,000 annual hours of original programming available on its serv... |
The TC Disrupt London Startup Battlefield finalists are InsideDNA, LiftIgniter, Oxehealth, PhenixP2P and Seenit | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 12 | 5 | Disrupt London Day 1 was a massive success. DeepMind’s Mustafa Suleyman . Autonomy founder Dr. Michael Lynch . And Boston Dynamics’ Marc Raibert showed off . But the heart of Disrupt has always been the Startup Battlefield, and this year’s London crew was no different. Twelve companies (plus a Wild Card) took the Di... |
Netflix becomes the Top Grossing iPhone app for the first time | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 5 | Netflix’s decision in its iOS app over a year ago has helped the streaming service steadily gain more subscribers, and surge up the Top Grossing charts in the Apple App Store. Back in November of last year, reaching the No. 9 position. Today, Netflix has reached another milestone, as the app has earned the No. 1 To... |
Tyson Foods launches new venture fund to back food and agriculture startups | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 5 | , one of the world’s largest makers and marketers of meat products, has announced the formation of a $150 million venture capital fund to back food and agriculture startups. According to Tyson’s Executive Vice President of Strategy and New Ventures, Monica McGurk, the fund will seek to invest in startups solving proble... |
How blockchain can help fight cyberattacks | Ben Dickson | 2,016 | 12 | 5 |
Imagine a computing platform that would have no single point of failure and would be resilient to the these days. This is the promise behind blockchain, the distributed ledger that underlies cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Ethereum and challenges the traditional server/client paradigm. In 2009, Bitcoin became the... |
Vault is automating investment to offer affordable retirement plans beyond 401(k) | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 12 | 5 | Former JP Morgan financial advisor Randy Fernando got the idea for his fintech startup Vault — selected as audience choice for the startup battlefield here at Disrupt London — after his mum asked him whether there were any retirement plan benefits she could offer staff as a hiring incentive at her small business pre-sc... |
“Bullsh*t and spin”: Autonomy founder mocks HP’s $5B fraud suit against him | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 12 | 5 | How could Dr Michael Lynch raise a $1 billion venture capital fund while being sued for $5 billion over alleged fraud in the $11 billion sale of his company Autonomy to HP? “The reality is, that doesn’t take much time” since he has a team of lawyers on the case, Lynch said on stage during TechCrunch Disrupt London. HP ... |
Emotionally intelligent computers may already have a higher EQ than you | Andrew Thomson | 2,016 | 12 | 2 |
From to to , the idea of creating robots that can understand, compute and respond to human emotions has been explored in movies for decades. However, a common misconception is that the challenge of creating emotionally intelligent computing systems is too great to be met any time soon. In reality, computers are ... |
What interns and new grads really get paid at top tech companies | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 2 | From woefully to legendary hiring bonuses at huge Silicon Valley companies, it’s hard for job seekers to know what they’re worth in tech. It’s even harder when they’re new to the rat race. One undergraduate computer science student at , Jesse Collins, has taken it upon himself to gather data from undergrads and recen... |
ESA commits half a billion to its next Mars lander despite predecessor’s crash | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 2 | The European Space Agency is doubling down on Mars, dedicating nearly half a billion dollars to its follow-up mission to the planet’s surface — even though the first one quite literally cratered. But an ambitious joint plan to redirect an asteroid’s moon has been scuttled in order to find the funds. In October, the ESA... |
A sneak peek at Propel’s battling Star Wars drones | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 2 | Last year’s breakout Star Wars toy was, without question, . It was the perfect synergy of technology and intellectual property, which brilliantly captured ’ breakout star droid. In the lead up to , there isn’t a single toy running away with the title, but are a pretty strong contender. Unveiled via a teaser this s... |
As acquisition talk surfaces, Pebble stays quiet about Time 2 shipping | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 2 | When about a Fitbit acquisition of Kickstarter king Pebble, concerned backers were understandable concerned about what the news would mean for the status of their unreleased devices. While its hard to know how such a move might ultimately impact support for the company’s existing line of products, at the very least, ... |
Snapchat will make Los Angeles a stronger tech hub | Justin Choi | 2,016 | 12 | 2 |
If you were to write a history of Silicon Valley, you could do it by looking at a series of major diaspora. Companies like Google, Yahoo, Oracle and PayPal attract top talent for years; when they reach maturity or a major liquidity event, their talent disperses and germinates into the next generation of companies. Th... |
Augmented reality treatment reduces phantom pain in missing limbs | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 2 | Phantom limb pain is a mysterious ailment: people with amputations experience aches and acute pains in an arm or leg that isn’t there — making the problem notoriously difficult to treat. But a new type of therapy using augmented reality is surprisingly effective at reducing even the most intractable phantom pain. The A... |
The NFL will reportedly relax their social media rules so teams can post more GIFs and videos | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 12 | 2 | About a new social media policy that effectively banned teams from posting any video-based content during games. The backlash was tremendous, with fans and teams criticizing the NFL for negatively impacting fan’s social media experiences, especially during a TV ratings slump. But now it seems the NFL has decided to re... |
Copy and paste trick could unlock iOS 10 devices in Lost Mode | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 2 | Lost and stolen iOS devices could be at risk if ne’er-do-wells learn of this blunt-force method of getting past Activation Lock. No special equipment or technical know-how is required, which means any geek off the streets can do it. Fortunately, it’s easily fixed — but until that happens, you might want to be a little ... |
Hands On With DirecTV Now, AT&T’s new streaming service for cord cutters | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 2 | This week, AT&T for cord cutters, who aren’t ready to subsist entirely on Netflix, YouTube and whatever else they can watch for free around the web. Launched on Tuesday, DirecTV Now offers access to over 120 live TV channels, in addition to on-demand programming, and the option to add on premium networks like HBO and... |
Facebook invests $20M to catalyze affordable housing development in Menlo Park | John Mannes | 2,016 | 12 | 2 | Across the Bay Area, affordable housing remains hard to come by. In a climate where many displaced residents point their blame at the techies, Facebook has decided to invest $20 million in what it calls “ .” In just the last six years, San Mateo County has added 54,000 new jobs while only building 2,148 new housing uni... |
Beddit 3 knows if you’ve been sleeping. It knows if you’re awake. | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 12 | 2 | Jolted into existence with campaign back in 2013, followed by a version 2 that was sold in Apple Stores all over the world, is back with a third generation of its popular addition to the Quantified Self movement: sleep tracking. The product went on sale in September and immediately sold out, and the company is stil... |
Nigeria’s Black Friday sales test the e-commerce models of startups Jumia and Konga | Jake Bright | 2,016 | 12 | 2 | Africa’s two leading e-commerce startups, and , topped their 2015 Black Friday merchandise sales in Nigeria—even as the country weathers currency volatility and recession. The shopping spree of the continent’s most populous nation has become a de facto test event for each venture’s business model. Collectively backe... |
AWS shoots for total cloud domination | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 12 | 2 | AWS held its annual — and as it revealed one new service after another, one thing became clear: the company with a marketshare lead that is by Gartner’s estimate combined, has no plans to slow down or rest on its laurels. If that market lead isn’t enough to shake up the competition, according to data from Gartner, ... |
Emotibot wants to help chatbots know how you really feel | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 2 | Emotional intelligence is a hard thing to achieve, even in humans. But it’s especially difficult in robots, and maybe even more so in chatbots, whose available tools for picking up on emotional cues are quite limited. is a Chinese startup focused on making sure personal assistants, chatbots and virtual customer serv... |
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Pandora shares up 11% on acquisition report | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 12 | 2 | null |
Facebook blocks links to B.S. Detector, fake news warning plugin | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,016 | 12 | 2 | Not only is Facebook along with links to potentially specious news—it’s now blocking links to the . Over the past week, some Facebook users reported seeing next to links from established fake news domains, apparently without realizing a third party was responsible. We reported this phenomenon, later clarifying tha... |
NFL games come to CBS’s streaming service, starting this Sunday | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 2 | CBS this week a significant deal with the NFL that could bring more subscribers to its over-the-top streaming service aimed at cord cutters, CBS All Access. Starting this Sunday, viewers will be able to watch all NFL games on CBS via the service, including regular, preseason, and postseason games. CBS All Access, in ... |
Amazon isn’t playing nice with Plex’s new cloud service | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 2 | Media server software Plex, which helps you organize your own library of movies, TV shows, photos, and music, is now making it easier to access the content you’ve saved on other cloud storage services with an expansion of its Plex Cloud service. The company has added support for online services Google Drive, Dropbox, a... |
The periodic table gets four new official additions | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 2 | Nihonium, Moscovium, Tennessine and Oganesson are officially official. This week, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry added numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118 to the Period table of elements (114 and 116 – Livermorium and Flerovium – were added in 2012). While all of the above were initially synthesized be... |
iStockNow tells you which Apple Stores have AirPods in stock right now | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 12 | 20 | One of the best things about Apple’s retail strategy is that when it comes to inventory, they don’t ignore their brick-and-mortar stores like some other retailers do. So while the initial inventory of a product like AirPods may sell out online within minutes of going up on Apple’s site, you can typically count on Apple... |
Crunch Report | Cyclists Don’t Like Uber’s Self-Driving Cars | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 12 | 20 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
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Uber, California DMV and Attorney General’s office to meet on Wednesday | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 20 | Uber is going to meet with California’s Department of Motor Vehicles and the state’s Attorney General’s office on Wednesday afternoon, as first reported by and confirmed by TechCrunch via the DMV. The meeting’s specific purpose wasn’t shared, but it’s definitely going to involve discussions around the company’s deplo... |
Turkey maintains Tor block, flicks social networks offline for 12 hours | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,016 | 12 | 20 | In light of the assassination of , Turkey further tightened its already restrictive limits on certain forms of internet use. The most recent censorship thrust followed the revelation that the state within its borders. Turkey appears to have clamped down on social app use for a roughly 12-hour period following the in... |
BMW to open a new autonomous driving development center near Munich | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 20 | BMW has already staked its claim in the self-driving production timeline, with plans to release an autonomous electric car by 2021. To help meet that goal, the carmaker is aimed at developing connected and automated driving tech in Unterschleissheim, Germany near Munich. The facility is designed to begin operations in... |
The White House’s report on AI and the economy warns of increasing inequality | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 20 | The White House has issued a sequel to on how the U.S. should approach artificial intelligence and its effects on various groups and institutions. focuses on the potential economic effects of AI, and while it’s far from a dark outlook, it does warn that with improper handling, automation could drive further inequal... |
With a bet on diversity, Blizzard reveals Overwatch’s queer character | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,016 | 12 | 20 | After months of , Blizzard finally revealed which member of Overwatch’s colorful cast of characters counts themselves part of the LGBTQ community. The much-anticipated reveal came in a centered around Tracer, the spritely Londoner with gravity-defying hair who proved to be an early fan favorite and the literal face ... |
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Nielsen will acquire Tribune-owned Gracenote for $560M | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 12 | 20 | Tribune Media Company today that it has agreed to sell (which provides metadata around TV, music and other media) to Nielsen. Gracenote says it provides the data for 12 million movie and TV listings and more than 200 million music tracks. It was first in 2008, then (not to be confused with its spinoff Tribune P... |
Automakers aren’t really advertising electric vehicles | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 12 | 20 | There are more plug-in vehicles available now than there were a decade ago, and the sales of those vehicles are growing. are up about a third this year over last year, and November 2016 marked 14 consecutive months of record-setting EV sales in the U.S. And yet the grand total of all plug-in vehicles sold in the U.S.... |
Cloud security vendor Zscaler bats away patent infringement lawsuit | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 12 | 20 | , one of the world’s largest cybersecurity companies, closed its giant acquisition of Blue Coat Systems , ushering in a new regime under incoming CEO Greg Clark. He hasn’t wasted much time in disparaging upstarts in the market, either, including the well-funded, venture-backed companies , and . Now, lawsuits may b... |
Greylock just hired Josh McFarland, who sold his Greylock-backed company to Twitter | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 12 | 20 | James Slavet says he has been trying to recruit entrepreneur Josh McFarland for eight years. That’s just two years after Slavet joined the early-stage venture firm as a partner in 2006. Apparently, Slavet’s charm offensive is finally paying off. The firm is announcing today that McFarland is becoming Greylock’s 10th ... |
How Google’s Search business and humanity’s information is disappearing | Steve Newcomb | 2,016 | 12 | 20 |
Search, Google’s crown jewel, and humanity’s way of finding the world’s information, has big problems. These problems threaten the internet as we know it; if they’re allowed to continue developing, unchecked, the consequences will be far-reaching and severe. Collectively, these threats are called Dark Matter. Dark Ma... |
Twitter’s CTO Adam Messinger is leaving the company along with VP of product Josh McFarland | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 12 | 20 | Twitter CTO Adam Messinger, who has been the company’s CTO for almost four years and with the company for five years, said today he was leaving the company. Twitter VP of product Josh McFarland is . Messinger made the announcement in — no surprise — a tweet: After 5 years I’ve decided to leave Twitter and take some ti... |
You won’t be able to fix Apple AirPods yourself and you probably shouldn’t try | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 12 | 20 | When it comes to headphones — particularly those of the in-ear variety — DIY repairs are generally a no-go. If it’s a frayed wire shorting out, sure, grab your soldering iron and get to tinkering… but if it’s anything more complicated than that, you’re probably looking at buying a new pair. It’s no surprise, then, that... |
Honda’s CES teaser reveals community car smarts, personal mobility plans | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 20 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-XMA6YAh5c&w=680] Honda is going to reveal a number of announcements around its forthcoming “cooperative mobility ecosystem” at this year’s CES in January, and the car maker just dropped a teaser to preview some of what it’s going to talk about. Three new features are teased in... |
I blame all of us for this terrible trailer for The Emoji Movie | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 20 |
Listen, it’s not only your fault that The Emoji Movie is a thing that exists; but you’re at least partly to blame. And so am I. We all have to deal with the fact that this movie got greenlit because of what we’ve done. Your first act of penance is to watch the above. Then, watch it again – that’s no less than we... |
Moth eyes inspired the design of this hypersensitive camera | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 20 | If you wanted to see in the dark, you could do worse than follow the example of moths, which have of course made something of a specialty of it. That, at least, is what NASA researchers did when that will capture the faintest features in the galaxy. This biomimetic “bolometer detector array,” as the instrument is cal... |
Facebook Live Audio makes talk radio social, starting with the BBC | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 12 | 20 | Book readings, interviews, and news radio are coming to Facebook thanks to its new feature launching today with a few publishers and authors before opening up next year. A complement to its Facebook Live video streaming, it could bring audio-first content like podcasts to the News Feed, and provide a low-bandwidth re... |
7-Eleven delivers 77 packages via drone in first month of routine service | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 20 | In the most brand synergistic accomplishment of all time, convenience chain 7-Eleven has completed 77 drone deliveries during month one of its commercial service in Reno, Nevada. Yes, that’s Triple 7s in America’s Other Big Gambling Town. The drone service is operated by Flirtey, a commercial drone service provider sta... |
Uber brilliantly sets self-driving battle at permission, not existence | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 12 | 20 | Should Uber’s self-driving taxis be allowed on the road? If Uber’s shrewd strategy plays out, we’ll never even ask. Instead, Uber wants to divert everyone’s attention to a much less consequential question: Does Uber even need a permit to test self-driving taxis? The genius here is that it doesn’t matter if it wins or l... |
Uber’s Middle Eastern rival Careem raises $350M at a $1B valuation | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 12 | 18 | 2016 is almost out but there’s just time to anoint one more ride-sharing unicorn. Careem, one of Uber’s lower profile rivals in emerging markets, has taken a step into the global limelight today after it announced that it has raised $350 million led by Japanese e-commerce firm Rakuten and Saudi Telecom Company (STC). T... |
India’s NoBroker raises $7M more to connect home owners with buyers and renters directly | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 12 | 18 | , the India-based property startup that wants to make property agents obsolete, has landed $7 million in fresh funding to expand its service. The company connects property owners with prospective buyers or rental tenants directly with no need for a broker, as the name suggests. , and this new raise is an extension of ... |
Online Korean beauty retailer Memebox raises $60M more to sharpen its focus on the U.S. | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 12 | 18 | Memebox, that sells Korean beauty products in the U.S. and Asia, has raised $60 million. The cash is an extension of the firm’s Series C round which initially closed at . The company said the money will go towards continuing its operations and increasing its global footprint. Korea, its home market, remains its larg... |
Here’s our first look at Waymo’s new self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivans | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 18 | Waymo, the Alphabet company that was previously Google’s self-driving car project, has a new addition to its vehicle fleet: 100 Chrysler Pacifica hybrid minivans, which were produced by Fiat Chrysler specifically for the purpose of making them fully autonomous using Waymo’s tech, onboard computer power, sensors and t... |
WTF is Brexit? | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 12 | 18 | 23, 2016, the polls closed on a UK referendum on EU membership and the counting began. The next morning Europeans woke to the news that the British public had voted to leave the 28 Member State bloc called the European Union. The result was 52 per cent to leave, 48 per cent to remain. The ugly word — coined ahead of... |
“Find my Phone” is an amazing short film about a stolen cell | John Biggs | 2,016 | 12 | 18 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpN9NzO4Mo8] For your weekend consumption I present Find my Phone, a 30 minute film about a stolen phone. The filmmaker, Anthony van der Meer, rigged an Android cellphone with , a command-and-control system for Android that can survive a memory wipe. The app allowed van der Mee... |
The cleantech conspiracy | Jon Evans | 2,016 | 12 | 18 | This, if you squint and adjust your tinfoil hat in just the right way, is the real story of the US election: the Russian candidate defeated the Saudi Arabian candidate. Why them? Because they’re more desperate than anyone else. Both are failed, fragile petrostates propped up only by oil money; so both see cleantech, an... |
The Future of TV isn’t apps | Tom Goodwin | 2,016 | 12 | 18 |
technology arrives we typically misuse it. Rather than rethinking what’s possible and transforming industries, we consistently use it to embellish what we’ve done before. Photo courtesy of Flickr/ The new world of TV is unbundled from time, removed from pipe and device agnostic. Our viewing habits have become more... |
“Darth Ventures” and the efficacy of Sith management techniques | Scott Lenet | 2,016 | 12 | 18 |
Everyone loves to joke how venture capital is the “Dark Side,” and most of the VCs I know are good-natured about simply accepting the comparison. It’s probably better than “vulture capital,” which was how we were ridiculed when I first started in the business in the early 90s. At my prior fund, my DFJ Frontier co-fou... |
Growth as a false signal in Y Combinator startups | Doug Renert | 2,016 | 12 | 18 |
One has to appreciate how Paul Graham built Y Combinator into the world’s flagship accelerator and handed it off to others to continue its impressive run at the top of the heap. In fact, I have yet to meet a founder who regrets joining the program. But after stepping away from the YC scene for five years* and then re... |
The carrot and stick of data breaches | Michael Kende | 2,016 | 12 | 27 |
Data breaches are on the rise. Just recently we saw confirming Yahoo! suffered another large, embarrassing breach (this time of more than one billion user accounts in August 2013). And the story continues to unfold around whether or not Russia breached United States cyber systems in hopes of influencing the 2016 pr... |
Technology dispersion is accelerating | Sebastiaan Vaessen | 2,016 | 12 | 18 |
Copycats are a dying breed. Each month the gap shrinks between a new digital service emerging in the U.S. and it being copied in other markets. This trend has big implications for global businesses, forcing them to rethink investment and innovation strategies. India is a good example of just how quickly technology di... |
An Amazon Echo may be the key to solving a murder case | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 12 | 27 | Internet-connected devices may start helping in criminal cases. As first reported in , police in Bentonville, Arkansas have issued a warrant to Amazon, asking the company to hand over data from an Echo device to help prosecute a suspected murderer. James Andrew Bates, the suspect in the case, was charged with first-de... |
Rent the Runway raises $60 million | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 12 | 27 | Hyman told Recode that the company is now profitable on an Ebitda basis and has grown its revenue to over $100 million. TechCrunch has obtained documents that show that as of last year, the company was forecasting $121 million in revenue for 2016. This is up from $44 million in 2014. “This new round of funding will all... |
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