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French Senate Backs Bid To Force Google To Disclose Search Algorithm Workings
Apr 17, 11:11AM
In France, the upper house of parliament yesterday voted to support an amendment to a draft economy bill that would require search engines to display at least three rivals on their homepage. Read MoreThis Tiny Sensor Turns Your Thumbnail Into A Trackpad
Apr 17, 11:05AM
Like the football phone or the Dick Tracy 2-way wrist radio, humankind has always dreamt of melding two technologies together to create a synergistic improvement on our meager, exhausting existence. Today we have NailIO, a solution that adds a ray of light to our user interface needs by melding touchpads and thumbs. What is NailIO? It’s a wearable sensor that sits on your thumbnail. You… Read MoreSoundbrenner Pulse Helps You Get Down To Your Own Sick Beat
Apr 17, 8:13AM
If you find yourself staying out too late with nothing in your brain, perhaps you could use the Soundbrenner Pulse. This haptic smartwatch won’t make calls or manage your calendar for you but it will buzz out time while playing a musical instrument, allowing you to stay on the beat while you’re wailing on the sax or burbling on your kazoo. The watch is, quite simply, a wearable… Read MoreJoin Us At The TC Pitch-Off In Budapest And Zagreb
Apr 17, 7:24AM
Ahoy, Hungary and Croatia, TC is in town and we’d love to see you. As part of Startup AddVenture, we’ll be holding a mini pitch-off in Budapest and Zagreb. We’ve been through this part of the world a few times but this time we’re giving away two tickets to Disrupt New York to the winners so you’ll want to take part. I will be in Budapest on April 18 starting at 9am… Read MoreSnapchat Is Paying Ex-Apple Exec Scott Forstall 0.11% To Be An Advisor
Apr 16, 10:40PM
A leaked email from the Sony Pictures hack indicates Snapchat set aside .11% of its stock for former Apple head of iOS Scott Forstall to be an advisor. Michael Lynton, Sony Pictures’ CEO, is a Snapchat board member, so when his email was stolen by hackers protesting the release of The Interview, sensitive Snapchat information came to light. WikiLeaks recently made those emails easier… Read MoreGlossier CEO On Building A Skincare, Cosmetics Empire Online At Disrupt NY
Apr 16, 9:47PM
The world’s major cosmetics companies like L’Oreal and Shisheido are at least a century old. But a New York-based startup from a former fashion assistant at Vogue and W is making waves. Emily Weiss is the founder and CEO of Glossier, a skincare and cosmetics line that raised $8.4 million from Thrive Capital and other investors. It started with a beauty blog she founded… Read MoreEyeEm Raises $18M To Expand Its Photo Marketplace
Apr 16, 9:45PM
Photo-sharing startup EyeEm has raised $18 million to accelerate the expansion of its recently launched photo marketplace, CEO Flo Meissner announced on Medium this afternoon. EyeEm’s marketplace leverages the app’s social aspect to generate content that feels truer than most stock photography, giving even amateur photographers a chance to monetize their hobby. To help find… Read MoreThe Rolling Robot From The Star Wars Trailer Actually Exists And It's Awesome
Apr 16, 9:25PM
Remember that incredibly neat soccer-ball lookin’ robot from the Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer? The fans started debating about it pretty much immediately, as they tend to do. How the hell did it work? It had to be CGI, right? NOPE! Its name is BB-8, and it’s totally real. Read MoreEstablishing Trust In The Bitcoin Ecosystem
Apr 16, 9:00PM
On October 31, 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto proposed “a system for electronic transactions without relying on trust.” Yet, it can be fairly argued that trust, or a lack thereof, has been at the heart of the troubles in the Bitcoin ecosystem since that day. While the technology has been and continues to be robust, the failure of a few individuals to meet their fiduciary or legal… Read MoreEtsy Closes Up 86 Percent On First Day Of Trading
Apr 16, 8:04PM
It turns out Wall Street investors like those homespun crafts. Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade goods, went public today. Shares opened at $31 on the NASDAQ, popping up 94 percent from the initial set price of $16 per share. The company closed its first day of trading at $30 per share, an 86% percent rise from its initial price. Read MoreShyp CEO Kevin Gibbon Will Be At Disrupt NY To Chat About Shipping And Returns
Apr 16, 8:02PM
In just a few weeks, Shyp co-founder and CEO Kevin Gibbon will join us at Disrupt to chat about the evolution of on-demand services and the impact easier returns could have on e-commerce as a whole. Read MoreGoogle Updates Chrome Beta With Support For External MIDI Keyboards And A New Permissions API
Apr 16, 7:00PM
Chances are you’ve seen a few web-based virtual instruments that use the Web Audio API. Now, assuming developers support this, you’ll be able to use your MIDI-compatible keyboard to play these with the help of the latest beta version of Chrome. Google today released this update with support for the Web MIDI API, an upcoming standard for connecting keyboards to the browser. Read MoreHere's The Brand New Second Trailer For Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Apr 16, 6:12PM
IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED. Rumors were that Disney et. al were going to release a second Star Wars: The Force Awakens trailer today… and here it is. Read MoreYahoo Mail's Contact Cards Get More Rapportive-Like With LinkedIn And Twitter Integrations
Apr 16, 5:46PM
Yahoo Mail’s smart “contact cards” have been updated today to include support for Twitter and LinkedIn information. Through Yahoo’s partnerships with these two social services, the contact cards, which appear when you hover over a person’s name in a message, can now display a person’s most recent tweets in addition to company, title, phone number and more. Read MoreWith Judge Analytics, Ravel Law Starts To Judge The Judges
Apr 16, 5:45PM
From murder and terrorism to patent conflicts and sexual discrimination lawsuits, courtrooms are home to some of the most important dramas in our society. While our top retailers can identify people who are pregnant weeks before even the consumer has realized it themselves, lawyers continue to argue cases before judges with data based on a handful of anecdotes from other attorneys. Ravel Law… Read MoreGoogle Will Still Support Chrome On Windows XP Until The End Of The Year
Apr 16, 5:32PM
If you are using Chrome on Windows XP — and for the love of God, I hope you don’t — you’ll still get updated versions of Chrome until the end of the year. The Chrome team today announced that even though it had planned to phase out Windows XP support this month, users of Microsoft’s antiquated and insecure operating system will still get regular updates and… Read MoreThe $25 Million Fine Isn't The Real AT&T-FCC Story
Apr 16, 5:21PM
It’s easy to focus on big financial penalties. All of us intuitively feel the pain of writing the FCC a check for $25 million. But if you’re focusing on the monetary pay out in the FCC’s consent agreement with AT&T for a data privacy lapse, you’re missing the real story. First, you need to be paying more attention to the agency that’s doing the fining here:… Read MoreThe New HowAboutWe Will Let You Order A Date On Demand
Apr 16, 5:11PM
HowAboutWe, five years old and recently acquired by digital dating giant IAC, is relaunching its mobile app today with a bevy of new features and updated pricing. The most notable update comes in the form of Tonight, a feature that allows users to essentially order a date on-demand. With Tonight, users can opt-in for a date tonight, put in a specific time, and HowAboutWe will search through… Read MoreGoogle Announces Certification Program For Cardboard Clones
Apr 16, 5:08PM
Google Cardboard has been a surprise hit among early adopters, giving an intentionally cheap, approachable device that opens the door to more people having their first virtual reality experience. Providing affordable hardware for optics and input and a software layer that ties into the tools app and game developers already use has made Android a major destination for those looking to experiment… Read MoreInstagram Reinforces Ban On Nudity And Sharing Other People's Photos
Apr 16, 5:01PM
“1. Post your own photos and videos. 2. Keep your clothes on.” These and the rest of Instagram’s rules aren’t changing, but they’re being clarified in an update to its Community Guidelines today. The question will be how far Instagram goes to enforce its ban on sharing what you don’t own the rights to, given that’s some of its most popular content. 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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