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Meet Cody, The Casual Fitness Coach And Social Discovery Tool For Everyone Else
Jun 22, 1:00AM
Rather than simply adding another me-too product to an already-crowded space, two former Microsoft product managers launched Cody earlier this year to offer an experience they think has been missing from the world of mobile fitness. Co-founders Pejman Pour-Moezzi and Paul Javid tell us that the majority of fitness apps today tend to cater to hardcore fitness enthusiasts, who get a lot of mileage out of wearable gadgets and obsessive data-tracking.Thanks To A Six-Figure Purchase By Reputation Changer, Brand.com Is A Thing Now
Jun 22, 12:03AM
My boss Alexia Tsotsis is going to love this one. With a name like Reputation Changer, you can imagine that an online reputation management company would be stuck in the shadow of Reputation.com (which itself was formerly known as Reputation Defender). The solution? It's changing its name, and purchasing a memorable URL of its own — Brand.com.Microsoft And Oracle Will Announce Major Cloud Computing Partnership Next Monday
Jun 21, 11:20PM
Microsoft's CEO Steve Ballmer, its Azure chief Satya Nadella and Oracle's president Mark Hurd are holding a joint press conference next week, just two days before Microsoft's Build developer conference is scheduled to kick off in San Francisco. The press event follows Oracle's earnings call that featured remarks by Oracle CEO Larry Ellison about a series of major partnership announcements next week, including one with Salesforce.com.France's Dailymotion Finds Stateside Tech Partner In Video Editing Service Givit
Jun 21, 11:20PM
In other video news this week, the video editing app Givit has announced its integration with Dailymotion, the second largest social video site globally after YouTube. It is the first U.S. app to be built into the France-based Dailymotion's API.Edward Snowden Charged With Espionage
Jun 21, 11:04PM
According to the Washington Post, the U.S. government has brought the hammer down on NSA leaker Edward Snowden, charging him with one of the most serious offenses: espionage. Snowden, who is holed up in Hong Kong, is currently searching for asylum with the help of fellow leak-enthusiast, Julian Assange of Wikileaks.Ask A VC: Mayfield Fund's Navin Chaddha On The Consumerization Of Digital Health Care
Jun 21, 9:40PM
In this week's episode of Ask A VC, Mayfield Fund Managing Director Navin Chaddha sat down in the hot seat to answer reader questions.Facebook Security Bug Exposed Personal Account Information, Emails And Phone Numbers, Six Million Accounts Affected
Jun 21, 9:03PM
A Facebook security bug exposed users' personal contact information (email or phone number) to other users who were connected to them; the bug has affected six million accounts.Google Makes Google News In Germany Opt-In Only To Avoid Paying Fees Under New Copyright Law
Jun 21, 8:34PM
Google News in Germany will soon change. Starting August 1, it will only index sources that have decided to explicitly opt-in to being shown on the search giant's news-aggregation service. Google News remains an opt-out service in the other 60 countries and languages it currently operates in, but since Germany passed a new copyright law earlier this year that takes effect on August 1, the company is in danger of having to pay newspapers, blogs and other publishers for the right to show even short snippets of news.Gillmor Gang Live 06.21.13. (TCTV)
Jun 21, 8:05PM
Gillmor Gang Live - Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Recording for today has concluded.Tobii And Synaptics Partner On Ultrabook Prototype With Eye Tracking Tech
Jun 21, 7:59PM
You will gaze at your computer, and your computer will gaze back. That's the inevitable path of progress in interface design, as evidenced by ongoing projects from companies like Leap Motion, Umoove, pmdtechnologies and more. Now, Sweden's Tobii Technology is taking a step forward with its own approach, via a prototype ultrabook design created in partnership with touchpad company Synaptics.Snapchat Has A Patent That Could Help It Become The Defacto Camera App
Jun 21, 7:55PM
Snapchat could use a different weapon to be the first camera app opened: speed. Snapchat has a patent, "Single mode visual media capture," on its technology that allows the user to take a picture by tapping the camera button and a video by holding down the same camera button. Photos are simply taken by the tap, and videos end when you release the camera button, or after ten seconds.Aiming To Disrupt Payday Lending, a16z-Backed LendUp Now Offers Instant Online And Mobile Loans
Jun 21, 7:30PM
Y Combinator-incubated LendUp launched in October with backing from Kleiner Perkins, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Kapor Capital and others, to bring a fresh solution to an old problem: You have to pay your bills now, but you don't have the money to pay them. Rather than turn to predatory lenders and banks, with their high interest rates, borrow money from friends or cover your eyes and hope they go away, what do you do?Instagram Hit 5 Million Video Uploads Within 24 Hours
Jun 21, 6:44PM
Judging by the massive spike in selfies (and response selfies) and lunch shots in our Instagram feeds following the debut of their new video functionality, it certainly seemed like a successful launch. Now, thanks to some stats that the team just shared with us, we know exactly how well it did right out of the gate.Scrooser Is A Motorized Scooter From The Future
Jun 21, 6:40PM
The unfortunately-named Scrooser (the creators are from Dresden so maybe it sounds better in German) is actually surprisingly cool. It looks like a standard, two-wheel kick scooter but actually has a motor built in and it can go about 15 miles per hour on a good day.Thankful Registry Is A Wedding Gift Registry For Thoughtful Couples
Jun 21, 6:30PM
Registries present an etiquette quandary for engaged couples. Open one at a major retailer, fill it with suggestions from a checklist and you end up looking greedy (how many newlywed couples really need a gravy boat?). Skip the registry, and you risk receiving multiple toasters from well-meaning guests. Thankful Registry tackles that problem by re-imagining registries as a way for couples to sign up for a thoughtful selection of items while connecting with gift buyers.YouTube To Live Stream Wimbledon Matches For The First Time
Jun 21, 6:23PM
YouTube has been getting deeper into live-streaming sports lately and today, Google’s online video site announced that it will live-stream the Wimbledon tennis tournament, too. The company says YouTube will stream “the key moments of the tennis, interviews, behind the scenes and press conferences” throughout the two-week tournament. The coverage, which will be sponsored by Rolex, will be available on the Wimbledon YouTube channel, starting Monday, June 24. The Wimbledon channel debuted in 2006, and this year marks the tournament’s first foray into live-streaming the matches. The coverage will be available “anywhere YouTube Live is available.” There are some geographic restrictions, though. The live video and full broadcast will be restricted to the U.S., Canada, South America (except Brazil), the U.K., Netherlands, Belgium, Cyprus and New Zealand. Highlights will be available globally except for the U.K., the U.S., South America, Germany, Austria and Italy. All other content will be available on a global basis. As Google tells me, tennis is about as popular as baseball on YouTube according to searches, but both are still well behind soccer. Currently some of the most popular sports channels on YouTube that stream live video include the UFC’s and WWE’s channels, but YouTube has also recently streamed major soccer tournaments, cricket matches and similar sporting events with a worldwide audience. Given that YouTube offers live streaming in its mobile apps, as well as through Google TV and its web-based “leanback” experience, this actually puts YouTube in direct competition with the traditional TV broadcasters that generally had a lock on major sporting events coverage.Adobe Photoshop CC Proves That The Cloud Isn't A Cure-All Refuge From Software Piracy
Jun 21, 6:20PM
Adobe released Photoshop CC this week, as part of its Creative Cloud-only revamp of the entire Creative Suite of software products it offers. The new version of Photoshop offers some exclusive new features, which I've covered previously, but the cloud-based and subscription nature of the program were seen by many as a way of counteracting the rampant piracy that greets each new edition of Adobe's software.This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Instagram Video, Samsung Stuff, And MakerBot
Jun 21, 6:16PM
Did you hear? Did you hear? Instagram now has video! It may or may not be better than Vines. Samsung released a bunch of computers and cameras and phones with strange names. That was fun. And of course, 3D printing sweetheart Makerbot sold for $400 million to Stratasys.Need An Artificially Intelligent Robotic System For Sorting Trash? ZenRobotics Has Them.
Jun 21, 5:53PM
When Jufo Peltomaa and Tuomas Lukka were figuring out what to do next after selling Hybrid Graphics to Nvidia seven years ago, they knew it had to involve one thing. Robots. “Our business plan was — let’s do something cool with robots!” Peltomaa said. The pair, plus their third co-founder Harri Volpola, are one of the most interesting entrepreneurial teams out of Finland today. Lukka is the country’s youngest ever Ph.D. after getting his degree in quantum chemistry at the age of 20 and Peltomaa is an early 1990s pop star from one of the country’s first rap groups, a past career he kind of wants to leave behind. They didn’t know exactly what these robots would do, so they did hours and hours of interviews with different potential customers. “The question we asked was, ‘How can we help you? What are you losing money on right now?’” he said. They looked at a number of industries like warehouse logistics and food companies. They stumbled on a problem which wasn’t only just lucrative, but also interesting from a technical perspective. There were problems with getting machines to pick up oddly-shaped objects. They decided to settle on robotic recycling, with the European Union alone seeing 3 billion tons of waste each year and the regional construction industry generating 900 million tons of demolition waste annually. They would build a system that would sort through trash and pick out things that could be recycled for extra revenue like wood or metal. Their solution, which can cost anywhere up from a starting price of a half-million dollars, uses off-the-shelf industrial robots that are enhanced by artificial intelligence to determine whether trash rolling through on a conveyor belt is recyclable. ZenRobotics’ system is also bolstered with several load sensors which detect things like surface area and weight. The robots weigh trash as they lift pieces and calculate the price a piece could be redeemed for. There are also infrared scanners and metal detectors built into the system as well. “These are the same kinds of robots that are used in Volkswagen factories,” Peltomaa said. “They are standard industrial robots. They are honed to be really reliable. What we are developing behind them is artificial intelligence software.” They can also maintain the systems remotely so they can monitor if any parts in the system are starting to wear down ahead of time. Peltomaa says thatUK Spy Agency Allegedly Taps Into Transatlantic Cables To Collect Data, Pays Companies For Cost Of Cooperation
Jun 21, 5:11PM
According to the latest set of documents from Edward Snowden that were released by the Guardian today, the Britsh spy agency GCHQ has been tapping into 46 transatlantic fiber-optic cables that carry data between Europe and North America to collect and store email messages, Facebook posts and other information for at least the last 18 months. Though the program, code-named "Tempora," has supposedly been built up over the last five years.If at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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