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Volvo Brings Cloud To The Car To Transmit Safety Data Automatically

Mar 04, 9:04AM

Smart Volvo Imagine you’re driving down the road in winter and you encounter black ice. Your car swerves treacherously, and as it does, the built-in sensors in the automobile sense this, collect the location of your car and share the data to the cloud. The next car equipped with this advanced system that comes down the same road will get a warning communicated from the cloud, as it approaches… Read More



Uber's First Acquisition Will Be Mapping Tech Startup deCarta

Mar 04, 7:41AM

uber Uber is on course to make its first acquisition with San Jose-based map tech startup deCarta in its headlights. Read More



Kleiner Trial Is A Front Row Seat To A VC Firm In Flux

Mar 04, 6:40AM

shutterstock_172376132 “Didn’t you tell Ms. Pao at the time that one of the reasons you chose Randy Komisar to be a board partner was that Randy ‘needed a win?’” asked Alan Exelrod, the lead counsel for the plaintiff in the case of Ellen Pao V. Kleiner Perkins. This came during a particularly tense point in the questioning of John Doerr in San Francisco’s Superior Court today.… Read More



Glympse Launches A New App To Help Drivers Share Their Locations

Mar 04, 5:00AM

Glympse-in-VW-dash-map Glympse was one of the earliest smartphone-based location services, but the company’s focus on utility kept it out of the hype cycle. Today, it’s back with a new app that makes it easier for drivers to share their location. Glympse for Autos is meant to allow drivers to share their locations with their families without being distracted. Read More



Nvidia Announces The $199 Shield Set-Top Box

Mar 04, 3:26AM

Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang Nvidia today unveiled its plan to further its push into user hardware with a new device aimed at the Apple TV and Roku, which it’s calling the Shield. Read More



Alibaba Is Expanding Its Cloud Services To The U.S. To Give Amazon New Competition

Mar 04, 3:05AM

Alibaba Alibaba, the Chinese commerce firm which held the largest IPO in history last year, is bringing cloud computing services in the U.S. after it announced plans to open a data center in Silicon Valley. Read More



Product Hunt Mobile Will Make You An App Collector

Mar 04, 2:53AM

Product Hunt Ryan Hoover is becoming the iconic modern founder. Big on transparency. Quick to admit mistakes. And always trying to galvanize the Product Hunt community. So rather than wait for its upcoming launch, today Hoover previewed Product Hunt‘s next iOS build by livestreaming its developer’s work in progress via Meerkat. The new mobile version of community product review site Product… Read More



Valve Announces Source 2, And It'll Be Free

Mar 04, 12:59AM

valve guy It’s been a good week for game developers. Unreal Engine 4 went free. Unity 5 came out, and a massive chunk of its once premium features went free. And now: Valve has just announced Source 2, the next generation of their Source game engine… and sure enough, it’s “free to content developers”. Best known as the engine that powers games like Half-Life 2, Team… Read More



Valve Announces Steam Link, A $49 Gadget For Streaming PC Games To Any Room In Your House

Mar 04, 12:38AM

Steam controller Valve continues its push into hardware, as the company has announced that it plans to release a new gadget later this year that will let Steam users stream games from their PCs to any room in the house. Valve says the new gadget, which it’s calling the Steam Link, will sell for $49 when it arrives in November. Read More



Sony Will Ship Its Project Morpheus VR Headset In The First Half Of 2016

Mar 03, 11:21PM

DSC_0011 We’re live in a rather humble little room at the W hotel in San Francisco, where Sony is showing off the latest prototype of its Project Morpheus VR headset to a handful of reporters. Externally, the latest prototype looks… about the same. At this point, though, it’s what’s on the inside of a VR headset that counts. Without beefy hardware inside, that sense of… Read More



The Battle Is For The Customer Interface

Mar 03, 11:00PM

middleman In 2015 Uber, the world’s largest taxi company owns no vehicles, Facebook the world’s most popular media owner creates no content, Alibaba, the most valuable retailer has no inventory and Airbnb the world’s largest accommodation provider owns no real estate. Something interesting is happening. Since the industrial revolution the world has developed complex supply chains,… Read More



Pebble's CEO Discusses The Company's Second Product Launch

Mar 03, 10:25PM

pebbletime With the most-funded project ever (with 24 days left to go in its campaign!), Pebble has managed to bring in nearly 60,000 backers to support their unique approach to the smartwatch concept. As other manufacturers look to bring devices for your wrist to market bearing marked similarity to their phones, Pebble has gone in the other direction, focusing on its seven-day battery life and a… Read More



Google Contacts Gets A New Look

Mar 03, 10:00PM

2015-03-03_1339 Google Contacts is getting an update. Contacts sits at the core of services like Gmail, Google+, Hangouts and others, but it never felt like Google was putting a lot of resources into this service. Now, it’s not only getting a new look, but also a couple of new features that will make using it a bit easier. The new look takes its cues from Google’s other services that have adopted… Read More



Microsoft Turns To Software To Move Hardware

Mar 03, 9:37PM

Screen Shot 2015-03-03 at 12.55.21 PM Microsoft announced two new phones yesterday, the Lumia 640 and the Lumia 640 XL. The inexpensive devices are designed to handle global communications, built with dual-SIM slots and the like. They also included something curious: Free Office 365 for a year. The company currently offers a Surface bundle that includes Office 365, and a cheap HP laptop recently shipped with the same. I confirmed… Read More



Curious About Apple Watch Apps? WatchAware Provides Interactive Previews

Mar 03, 9:34PM

apple-watch-gif Apple’s first wearable is right around the corner, and the Apple Watch will likely debut along a very healthy selection of third-party apps. It might be hard to envision just how those apps will work, however, especially for potential buyers who don’t have the luxury of being able to wander over to an Apple Store and check one out in person. WatchAware, a new site from the… Read More



42Floors Lays Off Half Of Staff As It Cuts Brokerage Team, Refocuses On Search

Mar 03, 9:08PM

42floors1 42Floors, the startup that’s built a platform for finding and leasing commercial office space, has laid off around half of its staff as part of a plan to refocus on its core search business, TechCrunch has learned. A total of 14 people across 42Floors’ San Francisco and New York offices were let go today, we’re told. That’s around half of 42Floors’ workforce. The… Read More



YC Backed Gradberry Curates Technical Talent

Mar 03, 8:55PM

gradberry Gradberry is launching today out of Y Combinator to connect companies with vetted technical talent. Candidates quickly build a talent profile, connecting their GitHub, online portfolios and projects, and LinkedIn account. The talent profile is then vetted by the Gradberry team and approved candidates are passed along to specific employers. Read More



"FREAK" Security Flaw Discovered Lurking In Many Computers For Decades, Apple Promises Fix Next Week

Mar 03, 8:49PM

flaw Ugh — another week, another nasty widespread security bug to worry about. The twist this time: this one has apparently been around since the 90s. Read More



Twitter Adds Friend-Finding And Two-Step Authentication To Its Login Service Digits

Mar 03, 8:23PM

digits_find_friends_launch Twitter’s Digits, a developer-facing service launched last fall that offers a way to integrate a simpler, password-free login option into third-party mobile applications, has been expanded today with a pair of new features, including a friend finding function and two-step verification. While already Digits was offering a more secure way for users to log into apps by using their phone… Read More



TC Droidcast Episode 40: Samsung Galaxy S6 And HTC's VR Headset

Mar 03, 7:58PM

new-droidcast-banner This week’s Droidcast is all about Mobile World Congress, where HTC unveiled some surprises in addition to the HTC One M9, and Samsung changed up its design strategy with a new take on the Galaxy that replaces boring old plastic with exciting metal and glass. Will the premium look make up for trade-offs in terms of user accessible storage and batteries, and can in-house processors push… Read More




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