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Yahoo shares tumble as investors fear Verizon acquisition trouble | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 12 | 15 | TechCrunch is owned by Verizon, but we do not have inside information on the latest deal conversations. (We’ve reached out, but haven’t been given a comment). One could also expect that Verizon executives would want to be certain that Yahoo didn’t withhold information about the hack in the deal negotiations. If Yahoo k... |
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Nintendo Switch patents tantalize gamers with possibilities of VR, touchscreen, new controllers | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 15 | Everyone is , but the company continues to be cagey about critical details like the resolution, the presence or absence of a touchscreen and so on. Well, speculation will certainly heat up with the appearance of a nearly 150-page patent application that gamers are still poring through for hidden info. The patent docum... |
The government body that oversees the security of voting systems was itself hacked | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 15 | The U.S. Election Assistance Commission, which is responsible for testing and certifying voting systems, among other things, was hacked around the time of the election, . The EAC confirmed a “potential intrusion” in a statement issued to TechCrunch. This isn’t a smoking gun for a stolen election or anything like that; ... |
A closer look at the 3D-printed Adidas 3D Runners | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 15 | The 3D Runners aren’t going to change the sneaker world. Not yet, at least. For now, the technology isn’t affordable or scalable enough for the mainstream shoe-buying public. The $333 price tag is simultaneously a nod to the technology that gave the shoes life and a reminder of its still prohibitive nature. But unlike ... |
Next Entertainment wants to make it possible to live stream for a living | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 15 | A Taiwan-based startup called has raised $25 million in an outsized Series A round of funding for apps that make it possible to live stream for a living. The company’s founder and CEO, Andy Zhong, is no stranger to tech and new media. He previously started , a social gaming company acquired by a Chinese conglomerate... |
Mercedes launches car-sharing service Croove | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 12 | 15 | For something like a century, car makers have sold one car to one person one time and then waited for them to wear out that car and come back to the dealership for another one. Increasingly, that model is outmoded, and Mercedes-Benz is putting another nail in that model’s coffin with . The car-sharing service launched... |
Rivvr brings wireless VR to the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 12 | 15 | Wires don’t really exist in anyone’s conception of the future. Often they’re just needed for powering devices, but in the case of high-quality VR, the headsets rely on wires to connect to high-end PCs that provide the brains. is looking to cut the cords with its hardware solution that will provide wireless play to bot... |
Oracle CEO Safra Catz joins Trump transition team | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 12 | 15 | Oracle’s chief executive Safra Catz will join President-elect Donald Trump’s transition team, an Oracle spokesperson told TechCrunch. Catz was one of several top tech executives that , his children and his advisors yesterday at Trump Tower in New York. Catz was the most outspokenly optimistic attendee prior to the mee... |
Verizon is letting Samsung brick the Note 7 after all, but waiting until after the holidays | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 15 | About a week ago, Samsung announced that it was finally ready to be done with this whole Note 7 situation, once and for all. The company issued a release stating that it would issue a software update here in the States that would effectively brick the troubled handset, rendering it inoperable when not plugged directly ... |
GM will begin testing and building self-driving cars in Michigan | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 15 | GM is going to start building its next generation of self-driving vehicles at the Michigan plant where it builds its Chevrolet Bolt, the company’s CEO Mary Barra announced Thursday. It will also be testing vehicles on public roads in metro Detroit, GM said. GM is already testing self-driving vehicles using autonomous s... |
8Bitdo’s NES30 and Retro Receiver for NES Classic is the ideal wireless controller | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 15 | If you are one of the lucky few who either managed to get an NES Classic Edition already, or who will likely be getting one this holiday as a gift, then you’ll notice right away that the controller included is barely usable, thanks to a short cord. That’s where comes in. The included cord is so short that there’s alr... |
NextView Ventures is looking to raise at least $50 million for a third fund | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 12 | 15 | , one of few seed-stage venture firms in Boston, is looking to raise at least $50 million for a third fund, shows an that was processed yesterday. The firm closed its second fund with $40 million in 2014 and its debut fund with $21 million in 2012. NextView was founded in 2010 by three former veterans of other ventur... |
Eaze CEO steps down | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 12 | 15 | Keith McCarty, founder of the well-funded pot delivery startup , is stepping down from his position as CEO. Instead, the startup’s chief product and technology officer Jim Patterson will take on the role and McCarty will remain on the board of directors “as a strategic advisor on company growth,” says a on the site ... |
Why the Trump administration needs a chief data officer | Bob Muglia | 2,016 | 12 | 15 |
After President-elect Donald Trump’s surprising win — despite almost all national polls showing Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton a virtual lock for victory — a narrative has emerged that the stunning result was a loss for big data, too. “Tonight, data died,” Republican strategist Mike Murphy said on MSNBC. In truth... |
Mario arrives as Pokemon Go peaks, with declining downloads, falling revenue | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 15 | The phenomenal mobile hit Pokémon Go has peaked, just as the anticipated Nintendo title vying for mobile users’ attention and the chance to best Pokémon’s record-breaking numbers. According to new data from App Annie, Pokémon Go has seen declines in both downloads and revenue over the past several months, though it’s... |
Twitter cuts Dataminr access for law enforcement fusion centers | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 12 | 15 | Facing pressure from the , Twitter announced that it will limit the data access it formerly provided to domestic surveillance hubs. Twitter’s has been to prohibit the use of its data for surveillance, but a social media monitoring firm it partially owns, Dataminr, has repeatedly taken government contracts that give ... |
Watch Plug and Play’s winter summit demo days here | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 15 | , the international corporate innovation and venture capital firm, is holding its this week in Silicon Valley. At the two-day event, dozens of startups that have come through one of Plug and Play’s many accelerator programs will pitch their products and services to executives at corporations and early-stage investors... |
Are encrypted direct messages coming to Twitter? | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,016 | 12 | 15 | Following his chat with whistleblower Edward Snowden, dropped a hint about what privacy features might be in the cards for Twitter. In the tweeted exchange, Dorsey and Snowden continued the Tuesday, veering back to the topic of Twitter itself. When Snowden asked if Twitter might consider making the platform’s priva... |
Android Pay is now available in Japan | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | Android Pay continues its international rollout with today, some six weeks after reached Japanese shores. Google has partnered with Rakuten to power Android Pay using its Rakuten Edy payment system, which is available at over 470,000 locations in the country, including stores like Family Mart, Lawson, McDonald’s and... |
Google has reportedly stopped developing its own self-driving car | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | Google has reportedly shelved its long-standing plan to develop its own autonomous vehicle in favor of pursuing partnerships with existing car makers. that Google’s self-driving car unit — known internally as Chauffeur — is working with established automotive names to develop cars that will include some self-driving f... |
Crunch Report | Super Nintendo World Theme Park | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
Tito Hamze
Joe Zolnoski
Joe Zolnoski TechCrunch C/O Tito Hamze
410 Townsend street
Suite 100
San Francisco Ca. 94107 |
Facebook Events app comes to Android | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | that launched in October on iOS is . The Facebook Events app helps you browse nearby happenings, see the dates of your upcoming Facebook Events as well as imported calendars and aggregates wall posts and alerts from Events to declutter your main app’s notifications. The Events app hasn’t proven too popular on iOS, os... |
Real-time motion capture system from Disney Research uses as few sensors as possible | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | Serious motion capture setups often involve dozens of optical markers, inertial sensors or both, making them a pain to set up and tear down, and producing a ton of data. produces high-quality results from just a handful of sensors by making some smart assumptions about how the body works. The researchers noted that a... |
Google taps Van Jones and Anil Dash to discuss race and algorithmic bias | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | You may remember that time Google was under fire for wrongfully , and the time . Today at Google’s Mountain View headquarters, the company acknowledged its shortcomings, as well as the shortcomings of other technologies in relation to racism and bias, at Decoding Race, the fourth installation of Google’s Race@ series... |
TrademarkVision uses machine learning to make finding logos as easy as a reverse image search | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | A company’s logo is an important part of its identity, but the process behind defining, registering and protecting these trademarks is a convoluted and rather archaic one. A startup called aims to simplify it by replacing that laborious and arcane process with what amounts to a machine-learning-powered reverse image s... |
SpaceX pushes first crewed launch of Dragon capsule to 2018 | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | SpaceX had intended to launch its first Dragon capsule with a human crew on board in 2017, as part of a NASA mission. The planned launch has been pushed back to 2018, however, representing a delay of around half a year. SpaceX has pushed back the timing for the momentous mission as it revamps its fueling procedures for... |
The Firefly 2 offers a smooth, cool draw for your vaping pleasure | John Biggs | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | It’s getting nigh on Holiday Season and how better to celebrate the old Yule log than with a nice herbal vaporizer. The is a very clever and very well-built convection vape that creates a smooth, flavorful draw and can extract the maximum in herbal pleasure out of a little bit of material. Like the Firefly 2 is for... |
Google’s head of diversity is leaving the company | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | Google’s head of diversity, Nancy Lee, is retiring from Google after several years of leading the company’s global diversity and inclusion team, TechCrunch has learned. Lee, who originally joined Google’s legal team back in 2006, has been working on diversity at Google for the last few years. She started her diversity ... |
Colonel panic: KFC loyalty club system hacked | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | Did someone order their chicken extra risky? KFC has alerted members of its Colonel’s Club loyalty system in the U.K. that its website had been targeted and several accounts potentially compromised. The 1.2 million members of the club, who can earn and cash in “Chicken Stamps” over repeated visits to the restaurant cha... |
Watch Netflix’s ‘The OA’ trailer and ask yourself WTF is happening | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvHJtez2IlY] Netflix makes so many original shows we don’t even hear about some of them until they’re airing imminently — that’s the case with , a new freaky supernatural mini-series with an 8-episode season debuting December 16. The show looks spooky as heck, following the sto... |
Here’s what the back of Fisker Inc’s EMotion electric sport sedan looks like | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | Henrik Fisker’s newest electric car company, Fisker Inc., continues the gradual reveal of its first car, the EMotion. I certainly have a lot of feelings looking at this — feelings like skepticism that this vehicle will ever make it to production. But Fisker Inc. maintains that it will, and that once it does, it’ll have... |
Trulia founder Pete Flint is now a VC with NFX Guild | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | , a young mentorship-driven startup accelerator that was already managed by three powerhouse partners — James Currier, Gigi Levy-Weiss and Stan Chudnovsky — just added another impressive name to its roster: Pete Flint, the co-founder and longtime CEO of the real estate site . (You might remember that Zillow, the real ... |
In Founders Den, a private club that relies on the power of persuasion | Connie Loizos | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | If you live in San Francisco and know much about tech startups, you’ve likely heard of , a shared office space and private club for startups and investors that leases 8,500 square feet on a nondescript block in San Francisco. Founders Den accommodates between 12 and 15 startups at a time, each of them with six or fewe... |
Room-service robots — and that’s just the start | Ramamurthy Sivakumar | 2,016 | 12 | 12 |
At a popular hotel nestled in the heart of Silicon Valley, two long-separated technologies came together not long ago — all in the name of toothpaste. A small robot, outfitted with 3D cameras, was loaded up with a bath kit, a newspaper and a spare towel. It then took the supplies, rolled out of the lobby, called for ... |
Apple’s new TV app goes live on Apple TV, iPhone and iPad | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | Apple’s is now available to all users, thanks to the iOS and tvOS updates rolling out today. The app, offers Apple TV, iPhone and iPad users a single destination to access the TV shows and movies from across the apps you have installed on your devices, while also helping you keep track of favorites programs, search... |
Apple may participate in $100 billion SoftBank fund | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | With a fundraising target of $100 billion, Apple’s participation would mean that the world’s largest tech company would be investing in the world’s largest tech fund. SoftBank itself is investing about $25 billion and the Saudi Arabian government is expected to contribute $45 billion. |
Hundreds of new and redesigned emoji come to iPhone & iPad with iOS 10.2 | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | Along with the launch of for Apple TV, Apple today also began rolling out the latest version of iOS, which at last brings the expanded lineup of new emoji to all users. In iOS 10.2, there are hundreds more emoji to choose from, including more diverse characters, more emoji representing different professions, more foo... |
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Opera Mediaworks will change its name to AdColony | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 12 | 12 | Opera Mediaworks will have a new name in the new year — AdColony. Mediaworks started as of mobile browser company Opera, but it split off when a Chinese consortium (and took the Opera name with it) earlier this year. AdColony, meanwhile, was a mobile video ad startup that was . It continued to operate within Media... |
Forget Spectacles, group messaging is Snapchat’s most important launch in 2016 | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | There was neither fanfare nor pizzazz, but yesterday Snap — — quietly shipped a new feature that could dent other messaging apps and obstruct upcoming social startups. . It’s an obvious part of any chat app but something that hadn’t been present in Snapchat until this week. A messaging app introducing groups is not r... |
Crunch Report | Google Spins Out Waymo, A Self-Driving Car Company | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
Tito Hamze
Joe Zolnoski
Joe Zolnoski TechCrunch C/O Tito Hamze
410 Townsend street
Suite 100
San Francisco Ca. 94107 |
Everything that happened at Disrupt London 2016 | Anna Escher | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | The doors to TechCrunch Disrupt London 2016 opened December 5 at the Copper Box Arena in London. The two-day conference hosted more than 2,300 attendees, with hundreds of thousands more tuning in online. You can also watch the full panels from Disrupt London on , and catch select segments on . During Startup Battlefi... |
Pokémon GO fitness gains were short-lived | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | During the supreme madness of the Pokémon GO season this summer, it wasn’t uncommon to hear people talk about how the insanely popular game was boosting activity levels and making people walk miles more than they did before. That effect appears to have been significantly overstated, according to . Now, to be clear, th... |
Disqus lays off 11 as it plans a deeper focus on data | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | Some downsizing and refocusing is underway at , the startup incubated at Y-Combinator that became an early mover in the business of offering a plug-in to help online publishers manage comments on stories. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that the company has laid of 11 people, about 20 percent of its small staff, ... |
Apple’s standalone support app hits the U.S. App Store | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | Apple’s is now hitting the U.S. App Store. The app, which had quietly debuted last month outside the U.S., lets you access product documentation, schedule appointments, as well as chat, email or schedule calls with an Apple Support technician, among other things. While the ability to look for nearby stores and schedu... |
Scanadu to shut down support for its Scout device per FDA regulation and customers are mad | Sarah Buhr | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | Medical startup informed customers today it will no longer support its Scout device starting May 15, 2017. The reason? Though Scanadu has been working with the Food and Drug Administration to get full approval for this and other devices, it seems Scout didn’t make the cut. Scanadu came out of the X Prize Foundation’s ... |
Electron is trying to sell a blockchain makeover to the UK’s energy sector | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | UK startup is hoping to convince the energy sector to buy into the transformative potential of blockchain technology — and, down the line, unlock commercialization opportunities for over the top services running on a decentralized infrastructure platform. At this point it’s built a demo platform on the , and has pum... |
Munchery tries to win over commuters with a pop-up shop in San Francisco | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | Food delivery startup is trying its hand at brick-and-mortar sales, opening a pop-up shop in San Francisco that we spotted this week. In the competitive and cluttered market for online food delivery, Munchery is distinct in that it sells chef-prepared meals that just need to be heated, meal kits with recipes and pr... |
The International Space Station’s network bandwidth will be doubled by new upgrades | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | The internet connection on the International Space Station and other platforms in orbit is that will double its capacity, NASA announced today. But they aren’t sending up a new router or satellite; the improvements are mainly terrestrial. The ISS and dozens of satellites rely on the Space Network, a more or less unif... |
Uber snooping lawsuit exposes data and security practices | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | Uber fired Ward Spangenberg this February on his 45th birthday. Now he’s suing the tech giant, claiming that he was terminated as a result of age discrimination and because he blew the whistle about insecure data practices at Uber just a few weeks before his shares vested. Spangenberg has also made some of his own user... |
The Daily Beast brings Cheat Sheet news summaries to its mobile app and Alexa | Anthony Ha | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | launched a new version of today, incorporating one of the IAC-owned news site’s main features — , which provides brief (150 to 200 word) summaries of the day’s top stories. The Cheat Sheet gets prominent placement in the app. In fact, it’s now one of two main sections, along with Top Stories. And that’s not the onl... |
How to DIY a Westworld host at home | John Mannes | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | to see the limitations of this world, the dead ends. We here at TechCrunch choose to see the possibilities. Looking back at the first season of Westworld, I have to say I’m impressed at the nuanced approach Lisa Joy and Jonathan Nolan take to artificial intelligence. Reveries, backstories and even the idea of hosts tr... |
Google introduces WebVR API to latest Chrome beta on Android | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | Today in a , Google shared that the latest beta of Chrome for Android has adopted the WebVR API which will allow users to enjoy online content through Chrome with a VR headset. Introducing the WebVR API in Chrome Beta for Android, with support for VR headsets like View. — Google VR (@googlevr) In the pat, you mi... |
Tech companies should probably come out against a Muslim registry now | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | With the Trump administration looming a hazy, ominous shade of toxic creamsicle orange on the horizon, some in tech are . Others won’t go so quietly, especially when it comes to the apparently hyperpartisan issue of facilitating genocide. After The Intercept’s Sam Biddle if they would provide data for a hypothetical... |
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Microsoft to open Cortana virtual assistant to third-party devices and apps | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | Microsoft is making Cortana , so that they can integrate their own services in Cortana-powered devices. The news comes after an that Cortana would be coming to some IoT devices via next year’s Creators Update for Windows 10. Cortana’s new Skills Kit and Devices SDK run approximately parallel to Amazon’s Alexa Skills... |
It’s not you, it’s the post-seed gap | Paul Martino | 2,016 | 12 | 13 |
Record numbers of startups are failing to advance from their seed round to Series A. This glitch in the funding ecosystem is older than you may realize. Between 2009 and 2012, if 100 startups raised seed money, an average of just about 30 would secure a Series A, according to a new from Mattermark. For founders, th... |
A single typo may have tipped the election | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | Among the many exasperating lapses detailed in on Russia’s apparent interference with the 2016 election, one in particular stands out — the scale of its repercussions matched only by its banality. It seems that the hack of John Podesta’s emails may have been the result of a single typo in an email intended to warn hi... |
SyncThink uses VR to help test athletes for concussions on the field | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | Concussion from high-impact sports like football have gathered a great deal of attention over the past decade as studies have emerged detailing some of the long-term impact of repeated head trauma. , which was founded by Dr. Jamshid Ghajar who heads the Stanford Concussion and Brain Performance center, is aiming to dis... |
These custom 3D-printed topographical maps could make nice stocking stuffers | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 13 | If you intend on delaying your gift-buying to the degree that you have to 3D print a few just before go time, you’re in luck. This easy to use little tool lets you quickly select, customize, and print out a tiny topographical map of anywhere in the world. , as it’s called, is pretty easy to grok. Put in a location and ... |
Just Eat pays up to £240M for Delivery Hero’s UK ops, £66M for Canada’s SkipTheDishes | Ingrid Lunden | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | Yet more regional consolidation is underway among the giants of take-out and delivery startups in Europe as they gear up to compete more aggressively against newer entrants like Deliveroo and Uber Eats. Today, Berlin-based announced that it is selling its UK business, which operates as hungryhouse, to rival for £20... |
Pebble says its smartwatches should continue to work in 2017 | Jon Russell | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | , Pebble has reassured its smartwatch owners that they aren’t about to suddenly stop working. There’s much uncertainty around the future of its watchers after the announcement of the deal. , which is ominous for anyone who wears one. Pebble hasn’t made any guarantee about the future of its services, but that it inte... |
Car sharing network Turo launches in the UK | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | A lot of us have cars, but not a lot of us use cars – estimates suggest our cars are sitting unused as much as 95 percent of the time, which is kind of insane if you think about it. That’s why things like exists, which lets people rent out their vehicles on-demand via an app, Airbnb style. Turo is expanding to the UK... |
Crunch Report | Amazon Drone Delivery Begins in U.K. | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
Tito Hamze
Joe Zolnoski
Joe Zolnoski TechCrunch C/O Tito Hamze
410 Townsend street
Suite 100
San Francisco Ca. 94107 |
Codementor raises $1.6 million to become elite marketplace for freelance developers | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | (incorporated as Peer Idea Inc.) has raised $1.6 million in seed funding to grow its online education business into a marketplace for elite freelance developers who are among the top-rated mentors on its site. Based in Mountain View with a development office in Taiwan, Codementor is a graduate of Techstars in Seattle.... |
Omnity search engine finds documents relevant to yours — regardless of language | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | With the amount of published research, patents, white papers and other written knowledge out there, it’s hard to be even reasonably sure you’re aware of the goings-on around a certain topic or field. is a search engine made to make it easier by extracting the gist of documents you give it and finding related ones from... |
Uber ordered to stop self-driving vehicle service in San Francisco | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | Uber has been ordered by state regulators to stop using self-driving cars in California, according to the , at least until it secures the necessary permit issued by the state to allow companies to test autonomous vehicles on public roads. The California Department of Motor Vehicles saying Uber was expected to secure... |
Magic Leap may call its mixed reality device the Magic Leap One | Lucas Matney | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | In response to the news that Magic Leap’s VP of PR Andy Fouché for the same stealth startup its chief marketing exec left for last month, the secretive mixed reality company has released a smidgen of news related, assumedly, to its mixed reality device for consumers, the name. Magic Leap One. In a statement detailing ... |
A tale of two Amazon deliveries | Natasha Lomas | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | A jovial middle-aged man pokes the order button on a touchscreen from the comfort of his armchair. Minutes later he’s ambling through the bucolic Cambridgeshire countryside at the bottom of his garden to pluck a parcel from the ground. It’s his Amazon delivery materializing like manna from heaven — thanks to the . One... |
What kind of bird is that? Snap a picture and the Merlin Bird Photo ID app tells you | Devin Coldewey | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | Is that a bufflehead? A coot? Maybe a loon? Get close enough to take a picture and the will tell you in seconds — sort of like a Shazam for would-be ornithologists. The photo ID capability has actually been a part of the greater Merlin ecosystem for more than a year, but the Cornell birders behind it just recently ad... |
Adding encryption to cameras won’t solve photojournalists’ problems | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | When the Freedom of the Press Foundation , encouraging the company to implement encryption features into its cameras, it missed the point. Yes, encryption is a great idea, but when dodging bullets in war zones, in tin-pot dictatorships or nasty cutlery if you’re filming gangs, it isn’t going to help you. As a phot... |
Photojournalists demand encryption, Light is giving it to them | John Mannes | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | Against the backdrop of falling bombs in Aleppo, to executives at major camera companies asking them to take responsibility for the lack of encryption on today’s devices. Legacy manufacturers don’t currently offer encryption, which, in certain scenarios, can be the difference-maker in protecting valuable footage in ho... |
Lucid Motors unveils the Air, a new luxe electric car with a 400-mile range | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | California-based Lucid Motors revealed its today, a fully electric sedan aimed at the “executive” market, with a 400-mile range rating from its onboard 100kWh battery, a 2.5-second 0-60 mph time and a target market date of 2018. The vehicle prototype was shown off today at a special unveiling event in Fremont, Califo... |
Uber says self-driving car ran red light due to “human error” | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CdJ4oae8f4] An Uber spokesperson says the incident in the video above was definitely caused by an error on the part of a human driver – full statement: Uber is aware of the incident depicted in the video above, which appears to show one of its self-driving test SUVs running a ... |
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Dropbox is slightly more diverse than it was last year | Megan Rose Dickey | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | Dropbox today , showing a slight increase in overall representation of underrepresented minorities at the company. Dropbox is now 3% black, up from 2% black last year, and 6% Latino, up from 5% last year. Regarding senior leadership roles, Dropbox increased the percentage of women in those roles from 21% last year to ... |
Yahoo discloses hack of 1 billion accounts | Kate Conger | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | Yahoo has suffered another hack. The company disclosed today that it has discovered a breach of more than one billion user accounts that occurred in August 2013. The breach is believed to be separate and distinct from the theft of data from that Yahoo reported this September. Troublingly, Yahoo’s chief information se... |
Runchkins is Trunk Club for kids, with an optional buy-back power-up | Haje Jan Kamps | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | You know what it’s like… you’ve just bought the cutest little outfit for the tiniest person in your family, and they promptly go and grow out of it. If that sounds familiar, might just be about to become your most favoritest startup. Nothing says Christmas more than some delightful Bokeh. Aaaah. Bokeh. The concept is... |
Confirmed: Zola wedding registry raises $25 million from Lightspeed Venture Partners | Jordan Crook | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | , the online wedding registry for engaged couples, has confirmed that it raised $25 million in Series C funding led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to . We on the round in late November, at which time sources said the company was valued at $200 million, pre-money. Zola lets couples put together a wedding re... |
Apple pulls watchOS update after reports of bricked devices | Greg Kumparak | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | Do you have a second generation Apple Watch? Did you think you had a watchOS update waiting for you, only to have nothing show up when you went to grab it? Don’t worry: you’re not crazy, nor alone. Apple has pulled the release of watchOS 3.1.1 following reports that the update was breaking watches. 3.1.1 was first rele... |
Ashley Madison settles with the FTC over online dating hack | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,016 | 12 | 14 | More than a year after its , Ashley Madison will settle up. After news emerged that the company was subject to an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission, the company now faces a $17.5 million settlement as a result of the multi-state investigation. Lucky for Ruby Corp., the online dating service’s , it will on... |
Alibaba is back on U.S. blacklist of “notorious marketplaces” | Lora Kolodny | 2,016 | 12 | 22 | The USTR dropped its calling out marketplaces that are rife with counterfeit and pirated goods this week. Many of the shopping centers and sites listed in this “Special 301” report were absolutely predictable, like Beijing’s Silk Market, St. Petersburg-based social network VK.com, or The Pirate Bay, which was formed b... |
Jason Kilar on founding Vessel and the wonderful world of customer service | Navin Chaddha | 2,016 | 12 | 22 |
Jason Kilar’s interest in customer service was sparked by a visit to Disney World when he was 10 years old. The wonder he felt as he walked underneath the train station and out onto Main Street stays with him to this day. It was a turning-point for him, even at that young age. Eventually, Kilar would intern at Disney... |
Crunch Report | Uber Ordered to Stop Self-Driving Pilot in SF | Khaled "Tito" Hamze | 2,016 | 12 | 22 | Tito Hamze, John Mannes
Tito Hamze
Joe Zolnoski
Joe Zolnoski TechCrunch C/O Tito Hamze
410 Townsend street
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The Canary Flex is a cool little camera with some kinks to work out | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 22 | The security camera space was different when Canary blew past $1.9 million in pledges on Indiegogo way back in 2013. These days, it’s a packed space with high-profile competition from Nest, Netgear, Blink and Netatmo, to name just a smattering. The original Canary camera was an imperfect but solid debut from the New Yo... |
Twitter overcharged video advertisers, issues refunds | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 12 | 22 | Now it’s Twitter copying Facebook… but in the worst way. Following of inaccurate metrics by Facebook, today broke news that Twitter overcharged some advertisers. Between November 7th and December 12th, a source tells BI that video ad buyers were overcharged up to 35 percent. Twitter apparently informed these adv... |
Uber explains why it looks like its app is still tracking your location, long after drop-off | Sarah Perez | 2,016 | 12 | 22 | Uber responded today to that its app continues to check users’ locations even when they hadn’t used the ride-hailing service for days or weeks. The company explained that the issue is being caused by the iOS operating system itself, not direct tracking by its app. Many users had realized that Uber’s app appeared to h... |
Facebook kills off exact location sharing in Nearby Friends, adds “Wave” | Josh Constine | 2,016 | 12 | 22 | Nearby Friends didn’t turn into the Foursquare-killer it could have been, but Facebook is still trying to help people meet up in person… with a few changes. Facebook has removed the precise location-sharing feature from , which now only lets you opt-in to broadcasting your approximate distance from friends and current... |
Autonomous cars seen as smarter than human drivers | Kristen Hall-Geisler | 2,016 | 12 | 22 | PwC released the results of its latest survey on the future of automotive technology, and it seems Americans are coming around to the idea of autonomous cars, ride hailing and car sharing. So much so that 66 percent of respondents said they think autonomous cars are probably smarter than the average human driver. , a g... |
Uber lawsuit alleges employees were misled on equity compensation | Katie Roof | 2,016 | 12 | 22 | The lawsuit claims that Uber promised a more tax favorable type of options at the time employees were hired and then later changed the plan. The case alleges that at least 100 others on the Uber staff may have been impacted and that these stock options can potentially be worth “hundreds of millions of dollars” to emplo... |
In 2017, Airbnb needs to grow into your full-fledged travel bookings hub | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,016 | 12 | 22 | Airbnb can find you a well-appointed place to crash during your next big trip, but it’d really prefer to hang out every step of the way. To that end, in 2017, we can expect Airbnb to expand its horizons considerably, moving well beyond the vacation rentals that it’s remained synonymous with since . As the company conf... |
Tesla tops 2016 Consumer Reports’ customer satisfaction survey | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 22 | Tesla has claimed the top spot in , which polls subscribers about their cars and their feelings toward the brands that make them. Ninety-one percent of Tesla owners polled would buy another Tesla vehicle in the future, the survey found. Consumer Reports’ survey pool covered more than 300,000 different vehicles, and Te... |
How technology is merging with the human body | Daniel Waterhouse | 2,016 | 12 | 22 |
The gulf between “human” and “machine” is closing. Machine learning has enabled virtual reality to feel more “real” than ever before, and AI’s replication of processes that were once confined to the human brain is ever-improving. Both are bringing technology into ever-closer proximity with the human body. Things are ... |
Google hits the reset button | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 12 | 22 | , Google always held its biggest event of the year, its I/O developer conference, in San Francisco. This year, however, it moved it out (and outdoors) to an amphitheater in Mountain View, right next to its campus. Looking back, that move now feels symbolic. In many ways, 2016 was a year of change for Google: It was the... |
ClusterHQ, an early player in the container ecosystem, calls it quits | Frederic Lardinois | 2,016 | 12 | 22 | , an early player in the container DevOps ecosystem, today that it is shutting down operations immediately. “Unfortunately, it’s often the who end up with arrows in their backs. And sometimes, archery injuries are ,” the company’s CEO Mark Davis writes in a blog post today. “For a confluence of reasons, the Cluste... |
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Uber deploying self-driving cars from San Francisco pilot in Arizona instead | Darrell Etherington | 2,016 | 12 | 22 | Uber will be rolling out its third-generation self-driving test vehicles, which are sensor-lated Volvo XC90 SUVs, in Arizona following their loss of registration in California. An Uber spokesperson tells TechCrunch that the cars actually left for Arizona by truck on Tuesday morning, and that they will be deployed there... |
Signal for Android update ducks censorship, adds stickers and doodles | Taylor Hatmaker | 2,016 | 12 | 22 | As mainstream interest in online privacy expands, wants to grow along with it. This week, the app added two features, one a serious response to international censorship and the other a light, fluffy feature set meant to make the app even more user friendly for those who might be new to this whole encryption thing. As... |
LG takes the fun out of CES by announcing five phones ahead of time | Brian Heater | 2,016 | 12 | 22 | That’s one way avoid the CES scrum – just go ahead and start making all of your announcements before the show even starts. LG will likely still have a few other tricks up its sleeve at Vegas in a few weeks, but the company picked Christmas week to start unloading its show announcements, including . The set it pretty u... |
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