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Google+ Will Now Let Users Identify Their Gender Using Their Own Words
Dec 11, 5:14AM
Today’s been a busy one for Google news — with updates to Hangouts, Android Wear, Cardboard VR, the Cultural Institute, and more — but the company is also making an important change to Google+ that provides more gender identification options for its users. Read MoreApple Will Launch iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 With LTE Support In China This Week
Dec 11, 4:24AM
The cellular models of the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 3 will launch in China this week, Apple announced today. Both models support TD-LTE and FDD-LTE, which have been rolling out in China since the end of last year, and are already listed on the company’s China site. Read MoreGoogle To Close Its Google News Service In Spain On December 16 In Response To New Law
Dec 11, 3:30AM
Google is saying adios to Google News in Spain, after announcing it will close the service down on December 16 in response to a new law. Read MoreZype Helps Video Publishers Look Beyond YouTube By Building Their Own Sites And Apps
Dec 11, 1:51AM
Video startup Zype unveiled its online video platform today, which it says can help publishers grow and monetize their audiences. To be clear, it’s not trying to compete with YouTube or other video players like BrightCove. Yes, it has created a video player of its own, but the main focus is on helping companies build an online presence for their videos and serving those videos from… Read MoreNew "Shingled" Hard Drives Hold Terabytes For Pennies A Gig
Dec 11, 1:24AM
While the last time most of us thought of shingles was when we were itchy in eighth grade, Seagate has been thinking of them as a way to store data. Called Shingled Magnetic Recording (SMR) Drives, Seagate’s new drives can store eight terabytes of data for about 3 cents a gigabyte. The catch? These are great back-up drives but they’re not very fast. At 5,900 RPM and an average… Read MoreThe Estimable @LiquidSnute On The Future Of Starcraft And Being A Pro Gamer
Dec 11, 1:14AM
At the IEM San Jose event this weekend, I got the chance to catch up with LiquidSnute, a Starcraft professional gamer who has become well-known in the past year for his in-game skills. Snute plays for Team Liquid, perhaps the best-known Starcraft team that isn’t based in Korea, the country that remains the central hub of the game. Read MoreGoogle's YouTube App For Android Updated With Material Design, Adds Search Filters
Dec 10, 11:58PM
Slowly but surely, Google is updating each of their own Android applications to fit in with Android’s new “Material Design” motif. The latest one to get the makeover treatment: YouTube. Read MoreBox Files Third-Quarter S-1 Update Amid Improving IPO Climate
Dec 10, 11:47PM
Box filed its third quarter S-1 update today, almost nine months after they originally filed the document required for an initial public offering. This time the numbers look a bit better, but there were still enough negatives to continue to raise some red flags. Still, given the improving IPO climate in Silicon Valley, Box appears closer to finally pulling the IPO trigger. Read MoreSidecar Follows The Competition, Starts Charging A $1 "RideSafe" Fee
Dec 10, 11:39PM
Last year, Uber introduced a “Safe Rides” fee that added a $1 charge to uberX fares. This fee, they said, was meant to help them cover the cost of background checks, vehicle screenings, and “the development of safety features.” When Lyft introduced a similar fee, they dubbed it “the trust and safety fee.” Read MoreChef'd Uses Crowdfunding To Roll Out Recipe-And-Ingredient Delivery Service For Gourmet Meals
Dec 10, 11:31PM
Chef’d is the latest startup promising to deliver the tools (and by tools I mean recipes and ingredients) you need to cook delicious meals at home. We’ve written about existing services like Plated and Blue Apron (which announced recently that it’s selling more than 1 million meals each month), plus even newer competitors like Gobble (well, newer if you don’t count… Read MoreIntuit Buys UK's Acrede To Expand Its Global Payroll Services
Dec 10, 10:43PM
Intuit has quietly made another acquisition today to expand its accounting and back office management business, this time focusing on payroll. Acrede, a Jersey, UK-based provider of global, cross-border and cloud-based payroll services, is joining Inuit; and its CEO and founder, Karen Paterson, is being named Intuit’s director of payroll platform. Financial terms and other details of… Read MoreTC Droidcast Episode 30: Cardboard VR, How Do You Wear Your Android Wear
Dec 10, 9:40PM
This week, Google dropped so many updates today that we couldn’t help but talk about them, including new specs and software for the Google Cardboard smartphone-based VR program, and an updated version of Android Wear that supports custom watchfaces (officially, whereas before they were everywhere but not built using any kind of proper API). Darrell Etherington, Kyle Russell and Greg… Read MoreThe Uno Noteband Doesn't Waste Time With Notifications
Dec 10, 9:13PM
The Uno Noteband is a wearable designed for those who want the convenience of getting notifications on their wrists but don’t want to spend a bunch of time fiddling with a two-inch screen when they’ve got a perfectly good smartphone in their pocket. Read MoreThe Effect Of HubSpot's CRM Launch On Salesforce
Dec 10, 9:00PM
After several years of relatively stagnant waters, what was a dull CRM landscape dominated by one player is heating up dramatically these past months. Salesforce officially put their $3.5b market acquisitions building blocks together on a “Marketing Cloud” at last month’s Dreamforce event. It also announced its entry into health care and targeting a $1 billion in… Read MoreHappn Attracts $8 Million To Roll Out Its Tinder-Like App Globally
Dec 10, 9:00PM
French dating app Happn just raised an $8 million Series A round from Alven Capital and DN Capital, as well as business angels, such as Fabrice Grinda. As a reminder, Happn uses your phone’s location to show you potential matches. Every time you cross someone’s path, this person’s profile will be added to the top of your feed. Then, you can like people and potentially… Read MoreHere's What Happens When Thousands Of Gamers Pack A Sports Arena To Watch Esports
Dec 10, 8:51PM
At an event in San Jose this weekend, TechCrunch went full esports. The confab, the Intel Extreme Master digital tournament, saw professional players from around the world duke it out in League of Legends and Starcraft 2, two of the most popular video games around. The event was more than just a tournament, however, with booths, gaming stations, and an oddly flexible laptop also hanging… Read MoreGoogle Brings Museums To Mobile Users, Armchair Travelers With New Technology Platform
Dec 10, 7:49PM
Google announced today it’s making a platform available to museums that enables them to build mobile applications that take advantage of Google technology, including Street View and YouTube, to bring their exhibits to anyone with a smartphone. Through partnerships between museums worldwide and the Google Cultural Institute, there are now 11 museums and cultural institutions that have… Read MoreXiaomi Ready To Talk Patents With Ericsson After Sales Ban In India
Dec 10, 7:39PM
Chinese phone company Xiaomi has said it is ready to talk to Ericsson to overcome a temporary ban that was slapped on its smartphone business in India. Read MoreGoogle Live Channels For Android TV Hints At Live TV Capabilities Coming Soon
Dec 10, 7:37PM
Google has a new app available on the Play Store that provides some insight into how it will bring live content to its Android TV platform. The Google Live Channels app isn’t yet even compatible with the Nexus Player, the first device out there available to consumers boasting Android TV, but it looks primed to support live content from built-in tuners, IP-based tuners and other sources.… Read MoreGoogle Updates Its Cardboard VR App, Launches SDKs For Android And Unity
Dec 10, 7:29PM
Google Cardboard was the big surprise of this year’s Google I/O, and Google today announced that more than 500,000 of these extremely minimalist, phone-based virtual reality viewers have shipped since then. The early cardboard app was a lot of fun, but over the last few months, it felt like development had stalled a bit. Today, however, the company is launching an update to the… Read MoreIf 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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