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Samsung’s Gear S3 goes a little too big | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | Samsung’s never shied away from going big. Big phones, big TVs, big watches. In fact, that was one of the defining characteristics for the first few generations of the Gear line, the first few of which were really more wrist-worn tablet than smartwatch. Things thankfully mellowed out a bit last year with the introducti... |
Tim Cook explains to Apple employees why he met with President-elect Trump | Matthew Panzarino | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | In a series of answers to questions posted on Apple’s internal employee info service Apple Web today, CEO Tim Cook commented to employees on some hot-button topics. We obtained some of the answers to interesting questions about a few topics, including the fate of the Mac — but more on that later. First up is probably t... |
NASA tech could track firefighters where GPS can’t reach | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | In the chaotic environment of a fire or disaster area, knowing where your fellow firefighters and first responders are is of the utmost importance, but GPS and other positional tracking systems aren’t always reliable. A project from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory aims to solve this with a tracker that relies on a tot... |
Microsoft’s plan to use machine learning to improve eyecare in India | John Mannes | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | Competition that results in better care for people suffering from visual impairments is the right kind of competition. Following , Microsoft India announced this morning that , the Microsoft Intelligent Network for Eyecare, to bring data-driven eyecare services to India. Whereas DeepMind’s swing at ophthalmology targ... |
Hyundai’s future mobility plans include wearable robotic assistants | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | Hyundai has some details around how it’s exploring autonomous driving, and the carmaker is also looking at other aspects of personal mobility, via robotics. This is not unique to Hyundai; for years other automakers like Toyota and Honda have been exploring how personal robotics complete the mobility picture. But Hyun... |
5-year, 2-petabyte digital survey of the night sky is the largest ever released | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | Astronomers have a powerful new resource in the Pan-STARRS survey of the night sky, carried out over five years and half a million exposures from the top of Mauna Kea on Maui. The two petabytes of data released publicly today cover three quarters of the night sky and show billions of stars, galaxies, asteroids and othe... |
Putting data back into the hands of owners | Dr. Jans Aasman | 2,016 | 12 | 19 |
Ever wondered why your physician owns the information from your blood work? Or why your dentist owns your x-rays. Or some financial services company owns your credit information? Most people forget that social media companies own the messages, pictures and videos that they post everyday. The pervasiveness of this par... |
HandUp just expanded its gift card program for homeless people in SF | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | HandUp, a startup combating homelessness, just announced the expansion of its gift card program in San Francisco. The $25 gift cards, last August, enables homeless people to redeem them at Project Homeless Connect and Glide. Starting today, homeless people can also redeem the gift cards at the Mission Neighborhood Res... |
Samsung’s slim Notebook 9 line gets a boost | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | Samsung’s gone the simple route with its latest notebooks — right down to the name, which likely unintentionally invokes a very vibe. Less than a year after launch, the line’s 13- and 15-inch models are getting a refresh, because the company just couldn’t wait the few extra weeks for CES. The laptops are getting a ... |
Nintendo learns a multi-billion dollar lesson that Mario is no guarantee for success | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | Nintendo has not had a good past few days, despite its original superstar Mario finally hitting the iPhone. The company’s shares have dropped about 15 percent in the past five days, which once again shaves off a rather significant amount of the company’s market cap. On the year, Nintendo’s still up by more than 50 perc... |
A strange tale of Central European startups, angry investors, and secret NDAs | John Biggs | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | story appeared in the Polish press. It was about an American consultant living in Denver who had been promising them investor contacts and customers in America. The story started breathlessly enough. Here it is in translation: The “American Dream” is something that grips the imagination of almost every startup found... |
79 percent of Americans now shop online, but it’s cost more than convenience that sways them | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | Eight in 10 Americans are now shopping online, according to a out this morning. That’s 79 percent of U.S. consumers who shop on the web or their phones, up from just 22 percent back in 2000. Over half (51 percent) have also bought something from their mobile phone, the study found, and 15 percent purchased after clic... |
Hyundai’s self-driving system aims at affordability | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | Automaker Hyundai wants you to know that it’s also embracing the race to autonomous driving — but it’s also hoping to do so in a way that differs from the approaches of most automakers, in striving for tech that will both be available in vehicles owned by individuals, and that will actually be affordable for a good por... |
Zuckerberg’s Jarvis home AI is like an Alexa that learns your musical tastes | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | Mark Zuckerberg set himself an ambitious personal project for 2016 – build a connected artificial assistant to help him automate certain tasks at home, including things like controlling the lights, watching for visitors and operating appliances. that his task actually turned to be “easier than [he] expected” in some ... |
Facebook encourages text statuses with new colored backgrounds | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 12 | 19 | Facebook’s core attraction isn’t news articles you could find anywhere, it’s intimate posts from your real friends. That explains why Facebook is trying to make highly personal text statuses as eye-catching as photos with the new test of a colored background option. The feature lets users select a color that appears be... |
2016’s top programming trends | Martin Puryear | 2,016 | 12 | 26 |
Last January I wrote a predicting the major programming trends of 2016. But in the software development world, things can change very quickly. It can be difficult to see the high-level trends clearly through all the chatter about shiny new development languages, frameworks and tools. So, as we near the end of 2016,... |
Apple leaps into AI research with improved simulated + unsupervised learning | John Mannes | 2,016 | 12 | 26 | Corporate machine learning research may be getting a new vanguard in Apple. Six researchers from the company’s recently formed machine learning group that describes a novel method for simulated + unsupervised learning. The aim is to improve the quality of synthetic training images. is a sign of the company’s aspiratio... |
No Signal: Egypt blocks the encrypted messaging app as it continues its cyber crackdown | Farid Y. Farid | 2,016 | 12 | 26 |
After a week of blocking the secure messaging app Signal in Egypt the service is back online thanks to new features added by its parent company . Last week Egyptian users raised the alarm about their inability to access the highly encrypted app popular among activists, including important whistleblower Edward Snowde... |
Oculus engineer Dov Katz arrested in sting after allegedly soliciting sex from a 15-year-old girl | John Biggs | 2,016 | 12 | 26 | Seattle police arrested Oculus’ Head of Computer Vision Dov Katz on December 23rd in a sting operation in which a police officer posed as a 15-year-old girl. Katz allegedly arrived at an Embassy Suites in Tukwila, Washington with $600 after agreeing in texts messages to pay $300 for sex without a condom. Katz told poli... |
Watch this smartphone-assisted robot beat the pants off of humans in air hockey | John Biggs | 2,016 | 12 | 26 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZmp9elPgKo] It’s the holidays and that means it’s time to watch robots cream humans in bouts of skill. The latest example of robotics winning over a meatbag? This amazing powered by a smartphone, Arduino board and a plotter-like robotic arm. The system works by watching the p... |
How to grow your app | Jesse Michels | 2,016 | 12 | 26 |
While there is a canon of growth strategies in the social space, the main theme of these interviews is really encapsulated by a quote from former VP of Growth at Facebook Alex Shultz: “Mark has said he thinks we won because we wanted it more, and I really believe that. We just worked really hard. It’s not like we’re ... |
New regulations could limit Didi’s taxi on-demand service in China’s top cities | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 12 | 21 | There’s trouble in China for ride-sharing services after authorities in Beijing and Shanghai agreed to institute new regulations that could significantly reduce the driver pool for services like Didi Chuxing and Uber. According to rules that have , taxi on-demand services can only use drivers who are registered to l... |
Nokia reignites Apple patent battle with a spate of new lawsuits | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 21 | Five years after burying the hatchet with Apple, Nokia’s back at it again. The one-time phone-making juggernaut announced this week that it’s ready to go back to court in a big way, filing multiple lawsuits aimed squarely at Cupertino. The company celebrated the filings with detailing the claims, which stem from 32 p... |
Uber stops San Francisco self-driving pilot as DMV revoked registrations | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 21 | Uber has confirmed that it will stop its self-driving pilot in San Francisco, following a meeting today with the California DMV and Attorney General’s office. The DMV revoked the registration on 16 self-driving test vehicles Uber was using in its pilot. The DMV tells TechCrunch that it invited Uber to complete its perm... |
BitTorrent Live’s “cable-killer” P2P video app finally hits iOS | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 12 | 21 | Cable companies rule TV because they control the expensive wires and satellites that can deliver low-latency live content at scale. Cable companies can then dictate how much per monthly paying subscriber they offer the channel owners for access because there are few alternatives for live distribution. And the cable com... |
Apps for holiday shopping | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 12 | 21 | The holidays are almost here and there is still a little time left for last-minute shopping. Instead of sifting though all your discount emails, we found some apps that will help you save money and make both your online and in-store shopping experience easier.
Online shoppers may want to check out Slice, which make... |
Check out the 2016 TechCrunch Gift Guide | Travis Bernard | 2,016 | 12 | 21 | Check out the 2016 TechCrunch Gift Guide . |
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Neurable nets $2 million to build brain-controlled software for AR and VR | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,016 | 12 | 21 | As consumers get their first taste of voice-controlled home robots and motion-based virtual realities, a quiet swath of technologists are thinking big picture about what comes after that. The answer has major implications for the way we’ll interact with our devices in the near future. Spoiler alert: We won’t be yelling... |
Refurbished Apple Watches are now available through the official store | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 21 | It was only about a month ago that Apple to its refurbished online offerings, along with iMacs and MacBooks, and now the company’s got another key addition. Starting this week, the company has added Apple Watches to its official refurbed store, with prices starting at $229 for the 38mm version of the first-generation ... |
Disney’s making Snapchat shows, and the first is an aftershow for The Bachelor | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 21 | Disney’s ABC TV group is embarking on a journey into Snapchat original programming creation, and it’s starting with , its storied 21-season franchise that chronicles the epic romance of a random person and a selection of around two dozen potential matches selected for their potential to generate interesting TV. I say ... |
Misfit shoots for simple with the Phase hybrid smartwatch | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 21 | I’ve been mostly enjoying my time with the Phase, thus far. It might be all the time I spent with the of late, but it feels good having a relatively reasonably sized watch on again. Something that’s not flashy like the , something that, honestly, you forget you even have until you need it. The Misfit Phase isn’t a g... |
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Semantic Machines hopes to best Google in the conversational AI game | John Mannes | 2,016 | 12 | 21 | I believe it was Sartre who wisely said hell is conversational AI. Despite the best intentions of engineers, today’s machine learning really is the savior and handicap of personal assistants. Berkeley-based startup might suffer the same Achilles’ heel, but its team of 18 artificial intelligence PhDs thinks it can get... |
Everyone got into the tech M&A game in 2016 | John Mannes | 2,016 | 12 | 21 | Neither public markets nor tech giants offered any solace in 2016 for the ever-growing list of private unicorns. with valuations over $1 billion, the most in history. While interest in an all-expenses paid trip to the NYSE valuation guillotine was at an all-time low, non-traditional Fortune 500 companies did pluck a ... |
This guy combined an iPhone and an HTC Vive to make a virtual camera (sort of like the ones used for Avatar and Inside Out) | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 12 | 21 | When a movie is more CG than it is real — think movies like Avatar or any of Pixar’s stuff, where all or nearly all of the environment is rendered — a new challenge appears: the camera. Getting a fake camera (like the one in a rendering program) to move and behave like a real camera (like the one that the camera guy is... |
Waymo enters formal talks with Honda to collaborate on self-driving | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 21 | Former Google self-driving car project Waymo is wasting no time demonstrating its readiness to enter into commercial agreements — the Alphabet-owned autonomous driving technology company is in formal discussions with Honda on partnering up to use Waymo self-driving software and sensors on Honda vehicles. Honda announce... |
GM taps 500 Startups to find early-stage investments in upcoming classes | Matthew Lynley | 2,016 | 12 | 21 | GM has made a number of big acquisitions and investments in the past few years. It and , Uber’s biggest competitor. For the most part, GM acknowledges that it needs to figure out how to tap into new aspects of the automotive experience, CTO Jon Lauckner said. But all these companies start somewhere. And GM is lookin... |
Move over Cas9, CRISPR-Cas3 might hold the key to solving the antibiotics crisis | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 12 | 21 | Researchers at North Carolina-based think they have a potential cure for antibiotic resistance using CRISPR’s lesser-known Cas3 enzyme. Most of the interest in CRISPR technology centers around the enzyme Cas9, which acts as a type of genetic scissors, allowing scientists to snip out, edit and replace DNA at certain i... |
Artificial leaf captures light to power drug production | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 21 | Drug production is generally a matter of big factories churning out millions of aspirin or ibuprofen tablets a day, but there’s a lot to be said for manufacturing common drugs on a small scale, close to where they’re used. Researchers from the Netherlands have created an efficient and simple method for doing so that us... |
Zuckerberg implies Facebook is a media company, just “not a traditional media company” | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 12 | 21 | Mark Zuckerberg gave new insights about how he sees Facebook’s role in informing the world today during a one-on-one year-end chat with COO Sheryl Sandberg. Facebook’s CEO also lent support to employees trying to fight fake news today, though reports indicated some employees were dissatisfied by his initially tepid r... |
Waggle raises $2.3 million because the internet doesn’t have enough funny animal videos | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | A startup called raised $2.3 million in seed funding to become the go-to destination for animal lovers and pet parents online, and for sharing all the cute pups and madcap kitteh adventures they have to offer. The New York City-based startup was incubated at , the venture arm of the production company behind premium... |
Here’s the first live gameplay demonstration of the Nintendo Switch | Fitz Tepper | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | Tonight Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé ( ) went on Jimmy Fallon to show off some gameplay from Super Mario Run, Nintendo’s first iOS game that launches next week. And after playing Super Mario Run Fils-Aimé, surprised everyone and opened a gold cube containing the , Nintendo’s new next-generation conso... |
‘Super Mario Run’ and the shape of Nintendo to come — an interview with Reggie Fils-Aimé | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | Mario’s accomplished a lot in the three and a half decades he’s spent in the public spotlight. He’s been a plumber, a soldier, a doctor, refereed basketball and tennis, played baseball and raced cars, made toys and worked at a brewery. He’s lived through every Nintendo console and watched generations of competitors ris... |
The rise of the family office venture investor | Paul Karger | 2,016 | 12 | 21 |
Companies currently raising rounds of venture investment are inevitably learning some hard truths. Primarily, VC dollars aren’t as readily available as they were in previous years, and for the companies that are receiving funding, they’re finding that the terms are becoming increasingly less palatable. The good news ... |
Breather raises $40 million for stylish workspaces on-demand | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | A mobile app that lets users find and book stylish workspaces on-demand, , raised a Series C round of $40 million. The funding brings Breather’s total capital raised to $73 million. led the round joined by , , and Menlo Ventures’ Managing Director Venky Ganesan told TechCrunch, in an e-mail, that Breather pitch... |
Microsoft outlines future mixed reality and cellular PCs with Intel and Qualcomm partnerships | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | If you weren’t anywhere near Shenzhen today, you likely missed some of the stories coming out of Microsoft’s . The company used the opportunity to highlight a number of partnerships and plans designed to hasten the next step in Windows evolution. At the top of the list is Project Evo, a collaboration with Intel design... |
Coverage from Disrupt London 2016 | Travis Bernard | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | null |
Light’s multi-lens L16 camera gets wider aperture but longer wait | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | We’re all curious to see whether Light’s crazy 16-lens camera can live up to its own hype, but it looks like we’ll have to wait just a little bit longer for the already-delayed gadget. On the bright side, so to speak, the camera is getting a significant improvement to its many lenses’ apertures. , Light’s creators writ... |
This ‘artificial iris’ is like a pair of programmable shades in contact lens form | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | Smart contact lenses have been the stuff of science fiction for a long time, but as with jetpacks and faster-than-light travel, we’re still waiting on them. Research is ongoing, though, and a project at the University of Ghent shows promise not just in advancing the technology but providing some therapeutic value, as w... |
Heavy-hitting KKR just raised a $711 million tech growth fund | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | , the global investment firm, is announcing a $711 million close this morning on its KKR Next Generation Technology Growth Fund, which it plans to use to back growth-stage companies in the technology, media and telco industries in North America, Europe and Israel. It’s a new product for the firm, though you might have ... |
Starbucks adds a virtual barrista, sous vide eggs and a Tencent partnership to its menu | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | At the today, the coffee and retail giant revealed some plans for 2017, including new foods comings to its cafes, and features heading to its incredibly popular mobile app. Notably absent among its announcements were any media and entertainment-related plans. In terms of its tech, Starbucks announced artificial intel... |
Airbnb’s plan to compromise with cities as regulatory challenges pile up | John Mannes | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | Airbnb looks to be making a key strategy change with regards to its global lobbying efforts. After a that , Airbnb is rallying behind an age-old political tool — the compromise. Any good negotiation comes with table strategy. In Airbnb’s case, this takes the form of a prescriptive list of policy recommendations, as w... |
What the drone industry wants from the FAA and Trump | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | The commercial drone industry in the U.S. hasn’t heard much from the President-elect about his plans for rulemaking that will impact their business and global competitiveness. Last month, Associated Press broke the story that Trump is interested in , wresting that responsibility from the Federal Aviation Administratio... |
Alto’s next mobile gaming adventure is an Odyssey | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | Alto’s Adventure is still to pick up and play on the commute, on the airplane or basically anywhere I have both my iPhone and a few minutes to spare. The endless snowboarding adventure is one part mobile game and one part “in the zone” chill-out experience. But now there’s going to be a follow-up, and it’ll be more t... |
Harvesting next-gen technologies for the farm | Michael Dix | 2,016 | 12 | 7 |
It’s entirely possible — even probable — that the evolutionary, cutting-edge developments in the 21st century world of agriculture over the past few years have slipped under your radar. Fair enough, you’re busy. We get that. But that doesn’t mean that a massive and relatively stealthy disruption isn’t happening as we... |
Facebook just secured an e-money license in Ireland, paving the way for Messenger payments in Europe | Steve O'Hear | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | Paving the way for friend-to-friend payments to come to Facebook Messenger in Europe (and after the functionality debuted in the U.S. ), Facebook has quietly secured an e-money license from the Central Bank of Ireland. A quick search of the state bank’s shows that Facebook Payments International Limited was granted ... |
Tread connects car enthusiasts via plate numbers | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | It is not uncommon in the automotive enthusiast community to admire another’s ride. The best most people could do was give a thumbs-up as they passed or leave a note on a parked car’s windshield. But no more; this is 2016. Today launches, an app that connects enthusiasts using their license plate numbers. There are ma... |
Google open sources Embedding Projector to make high-dimensional data more manageable | John Mannes | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | This morning, , Embedding Projector. The tool will help machine learning researchers to visualize data without having to install and run TensorFlow. Dimensionality, and vectors in general, is not something that most of us find easy to understand. The problem is that we all live in a three-dimensional world. We are tau... |
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Used-car marketplace Beepi shuts down outside of CA, merges with stealth Fair.com | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | After going through nearly $150 million in funding, peer-to-peer used-car marketplace is shifting gears. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the startup is shutting down its operations outside of California, laying off 180 staff, and merging its remaining business with , a new venture co-founded by several car ... |
Niantic confirms new Pokémon are coming | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | Niantic, the creator of the massively popular smartphone game, Pokémon Go, has confirmed that new Pokémon characters will be unveiled this Monday. |
CNote looks to upend traditional savings with the help of good timing | John Mannes | 2,016 | 12 | 7 | Believe it or not, the money you have in your savings account right now is probably losing you money. In today’s economy, inflation outpaces the interest rates that banks pay to encourage saving money — this makes penny pinching less prudent than many might think. Catherine Berman, a former Managing Director at Charles... |
Commerce Dept. to send “digital attachés” to Mexico, South Korea and four other nations | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 9 | The is opening six new international markets for its Commercial Digital Attaché program, according to the U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, who spoke with TechCrunch today in San Francisco. The attaché program, which began in March this year, establishes commercial officers in countries where U.S. businesses... |
Oculus releases developer preview of Carmel WebVR product | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 12 | 9 | Many in the industry believe the next frontier for VR is web-based experiences that can be visited and absorbed across platforms. There are still quite a lot of unknowns when it comes to WebVR, but Oculus is looking to start shedding some of the mystery through its own browser. Today, the company launched the Carmel De... |
Data minimization — the new design rules for startups | Nathan Kinch | 2,016 | 12 | 9 |
Wait, what? Yes, you read correctly. “Data” and “minimization,” two words that have rarely been used in the same sentence, now represent one of the critical product design rules we must apply if we’re to build products that to the human beings we aim to serve. A little confused? Not to worry. Let’s “Simon Sinek” th... |
Segment adds Google BigQuery to expand its customer data platform | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 12 | 9 | helps businesses from services like Google Analytics, Mixpanel and Salesforce — and send that data to a variety of destinations, whether it’s an attribution product or a data warehouse. The company that it’s expanding its offerings by integrating with BigQuery, Google’s data warehousing service. This might seem li... |
Obama orders review of Russian election hacking | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 12 | 9 | President Obama has ordered intelligence agencies to conduct a complete review of the hacks and leaks that led up to and may have influenced the presidential election, according to White House homeland security and counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco. “The President has directed the Intelligence Community to conduct a... |
Sixa secures $3.5M as it launches its cloud computer for developers | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 12 | 9 | The promises of the cloud era have been many, but when it comes to hardware, most people have preferred to keep their personal PCs on-hand or on-location. is aiming to free the PC and move computing to the cloud with its low-latency virtual machines geared toward developers. The recent Y Combinator grad just closed a ... |
How our AI called a scenario for Trump being elected and the ‘why’ behind it | Shaunak Khire | 2,016 | 12 | 9 |
As the world was collectively watching results of the 2016 election , we got a barrage of emails from people congratulating our AI for predicting a Trump win. Now before I dive into self praise, some context: After the first debate, we did a small experiment based on a random sampling of social media posts using lab... |
New Michigan law prepares for autonomous future | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 12 | 9 | Michigan Governor Rick Snyder visited the Automotive Hall of Fame in Dearborn, MI, which honors the automotive past, to sign a bill that aims to enable the automotive future. The law creates regulations for testing, using and selling in the state and clarifies how these vehicles will be used on public roads. The law ... |
Verizon won’t push Samsung’s Note 7 bricking update, but the other carriers will | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 9 | Early this morning to finally extinguish the on-going fire that is the Note 7 once and for all here in the States by way of a software update that won’t allow the troubled phone to charge at all. Apparently not everyone involved is onboard with the move. Verizon (the parent company to TechCrunch’s parent company) qui... |
Gamer chat app Discord hits 25 million users, can now be used in developers’ own games | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 9 | Jason Citron, who previously founded and sold the early mobile social gaming network OpenFeint, in May 2015. This — a challenger to incumbents like Skype and Teamspeak — has since grown to 25 million registered users, who are sending 100 million messages per day across its platform. Now, Discord is launching its ne... |
Super Mario Run needs a constant internet connection to run | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 9 | It a bit of news that will surely shift the value proposition of Mario’s long-awaited iPhone debut for legions of underground commuters, Shigeru Miyamoto that will only work on a device with a constant internet connection. The legendary game creator chalked up the decision to security concerns, fears that an offlin... |
Samsung’s latest software update stops the Note 7 from charging altogether | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 9 | As the prolonged garbage fire that is 2016 draws to a close, Samsung seems to finally be putting the final nails in the coffin of the Note 7 saga. Admittedly, the last couple of months have mostly been a few isolated death rattles, but believe it or not there are still some devices in the wild, in spite of the company’... |
Occipital shows off a $399 mixed reality headset for iPhone | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 12 | 9 | Mobile VR is an Android game, but as more and more rumors flourish about the next iPhone, some companies are looking to get developers ready to bring iOS users into the world of VR. announced today that it is launching a mixed reality platform built upon its depth-sensing technologies called . The headset is availabl... |
Workplace by Facebook begins to take shape | Ron Miller | 2,016 | 12 | 9 | has been now, but it’s clear that Facebook has big plans for its enterprise social product. Just this week, at TechCrunch Disrupt in London, to integrate enterprise applications with Workplace, putting it in direct competition with Slack, . But Workplace hopes to differentiate itself from the enterprise social pac... |
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Formation 8 founder Jim Kim and longtime VC Paul Lee partner on a new fund called Builders | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 12 | 9 | Jim Kim, who most recently co-founded the venture firm , is launching a brand-new venture firm called that a $200 million fund, judging by a recent SEC filing. His co-founder is Paul Lee, who left the Chicago venture firm Lightbank in 2014 and last year launched a startup studio called Roniin that we last year. I... |
Yahoo Answers makes its official mobile debut | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 9 | Yahoo Answers has officially launched on mobile. As Yahoo’s experimental app code-named Yahoo Hive had been rebranded as Yahoo Answers Now — a move that indicated Yahoo’s plans to bring its desktop Q&A site to the App Store. However, at the time, the app still required an invite in order to test it out — that restric... |
Facebook corrects more metrics affecting ad reach, streaming reactions, plus Like & Share counts | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 9 | Facebook today it’s correcting a few more issues with its metrics in areas like audience estimation for ads, live video reaction counts and its Like and Share buttons. Though the fixes are referencing several of Facebook’s more high-profile products, the issues being addressed aren’t as significant as the ones Facebo... |
John Glenn | John Biggs | 2,016 | 12 | 9 | , John Glenn had a problem. Glenn, the first American in orbit, was inside his capsule, the Friendship 7. Mission Control wanted him to take over the capsule’s manual controls. During the effort the automatic systems failed, leaving him in full control of one of the most complex artifacts ever created by humankind. He ... |
Our robotic overlords have written us a Christmas Carol! | John Biggs | 2,016 | 12 | 9 | As we roll toward the end of humanity and the moment of robot takeover, it’s important to start learning the songs and customs of our inhumane artificial overlords. Researchers at the University of Toronto, for example, showed an AI a picture of a Christmas tree and asked it to write a song about it. The result? A song... |
Podotree, Korean chat app Kakao’s content business, raises $107M at a $428M valuation | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 12 | 9 | Kakao, the Korean mobile and web giant, is beefing up its social media and content businesses after its Podotree affiliate raised 125 billion won (around $107 million). The deal values it at 500 billion won, Kakao confirmed — that’s approximately $428 million. The company is best known for its Kakao messaging service, ... |
Consider ethics when designing new technologies | Gillian Christie | 2,016 | 12 | 31 |
In the weeks since the U.S. presidential election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been firefighting. Not literally, but figuratively. Widespread accusations assert that his social media company contributed to the election’s unexpected outcome by propagating fake news and “filter bubbles.” Zuckerberg has harshly ref... |
Stroy Moyd’s dating show in an Uber goes from meme to mainstream | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 31 | For years, Oakland-based stand-up comic has been driving for Uber and Lyft part-time to generate supplemental income. It’s a familiar story to anyone in a creative industry — even though Moyd was headlining at like the and and opening for icons like Dave Chappelle at in Oakland, comedy didn’t always pay his bi... |
Reverse-engineering the universal translator | Vadim Berman | 2,016 | 12 | 31 |
Cinema critics keep raving about a sci-fi drama by Denis Villeneuve focusing on one linguist’s attempts to decipher an alien language. Star Trek recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. As a language geek and a sci-fi fan, I felt it only logical to look into the feasibility of the universal translator, the device ... |
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Kayako’s CEO on building a bootstrapped business | Felicia Shivakumar | 2,016 | 12 | 31 | Shoor saw a pain point and spent over a decade building a product to solve it. He found customers where he could and adapted to a market that moved online. By being flexible, he opened opportunities for himself and his company. There is no clear path to success and stories like his show that the strength of your idea... |
Toymakers are the early adopters pushing AR into the mainstream | Amir Bozorgzadeh | 2,016 | 12 | 31 |
In the race to greater consumer adoption, augmented reality is emerging as the early leader, thanks to its adoption by a key consumer market. The technology has always been a wonder, drawing its strength from its capacity to make just about any subject come to life, popping out of the real ground beneath our feet and... |
How male allies can support women in technology | Jennifer Manry | 2,016 | 12 | 31 |
The couldn’t be more aptly named: It truly is a celebration of the technical innovation, inclusive focus and relentless drive of women in tech. We were thrilled to be a small part of the celebration this fall, along with 15,000 other women technologists and male allies. You’ve hopefully heard a lot about the moveme... |
Weekly Roundup: Obama imposes sanctions on Russian intelligence, Snapchat and Oculus eat up startups | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 12 | 30 | Trump’s U.S. election triumph sent Silicon Valley into a spiral of uncertainty, Facebook addressed its fake news problem, the IPO landscape saw little action and the UK separated form the EU. Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. and launched its Spectacles hardware product. Twitter is still fighting its abuse problem, Yaho... |
2017 will be a strong year for venture capital | Matt Murphy | 2,016 | 12 | 30 |
What does my crystal ball say about the outlook for venture capital in 2017? The building blocks of a better year are in place. Many venture capital firms are flush with cash, startup valuations have become more reasonable, technology industry M&A is robust and the technology IPO market is improving. Moreover, the ob... |
Why you probably won’t invest in the next unicorn | Winter Mead | 2,016 | 12 | 30 |
Value creation in enterprise tech is often driven by a cohort of exits, while value creation in consumer tech is generally driven by large, individual exits — a phenomenon I recently dug into. What the data revealed is that, in recent years, there is a trend of larger consumer exits, such as Facebook, Twitter and Wha... |
Meet the five startups vying for Best App at the 10th Annual Crunchies Awards | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 12 | 30 | 2016 sucked, if we’re being honest with ourselves. But the year wasn’t a total waste. The world of tech offered up a few shining stars in 2016, and in the era of apps, five standouts were nominated as finalists for The Best App of 2016 award. As the show grows nigh, we thought it might be helpful to let you get to know... |
Uru finds the best places to introduce ads in online videos | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 12 | 30 | New York City-based startup is working on a new way for video publishers to make money. Imagine watching a normal-looking online video — except that on some of the surfaces (say, on the cabinet behind the stars of a cooking video), you’ll see logos or other art promoting a sponsor. Okay, that might actually sound a b... |
The real political divide is education | Steve Welch | 2,016 | 12 | 30 |
The two main political parties in this country are about to face a challenge that will create a complete realignment as politicians are forced to choose between robots and people. Vespasian ruled Rome from AD 69 to AD 79. The emperor was one of the first heads of state to encourage the development of art, science and... |
Russia sanctioned and SpaceX looks back to the stars: It’s The Daily Crunch | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 30 | Russia gets a parting gift from Obama, SpaceX wants to move back to more controlled explosions, plus internet matrimony. All that and more in The Daily Crunch for December 30, 2016. And if you’re one of the growing number of ailing wearable companies, maybe think twice before bickering in public. The White House may be... |
LG’s Hub Robot sounds like a mobile Amazon Echo | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 30 | LG and Samsung have really taken advantage of the calm before the CES storm by teasing out their product announcements, one by one. LG’s certainly ahead in terms of sheer strangeness here, having already announced a floating speaker and a wearable speaker collar. The Seoul-based electronics giant will also apparently b... |
SpaceX loads Iridium satellites for first Falcon 9 mission since explosion | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 30 | The payload is now on board for SpaceX’s first return to launch following its September 1 explosion of a Falcon 9 rocket on a launchpad during fueling. The proposed launch is currently awaiting clearance by the FAA for a launch window that opens January 7 and goes through January 9. A return to flight for SpaceX would ... |
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