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TC AppleCast 13: Life With Apple Watch
May 01, 10:53PM
On this week’s AppleCast, we get into the Apple Watch experience, since we’ve both now been actively using them for at least a few days. We expand on our thoughts regarding the device at length in our extensive review, but here on the podcast, we talk about very different aspects of the device, including how first-hand experience differed from what we thought we’d find… Read MoreProtecting Users' Location Data From An Unconstitutional Search
May 01, 10:00PM
Location data is highly sensitive. It contains information about where we live, our daily habits and our network of friends. We discover new places to go; avoid traffic on the way there; swipe to meet new friends once we’ve arrived; and even turn up the thermostat before we get home. When data knows this much about us it requires careful protection. Read MoreCrunchWeek: Secret's Demise, Botched Earnings, And Microsoft Goes Viral
May 01, 8:53PM
Hello from New York, friends, where TechCrunch’s staff has taken up residence to put on a small confab that you might have heard of. This week, the lovely Anthony Ha, the brilliant Colleen Taylor and myself are on hand, and on foot, to dig our way through the week. This time around, Microsoft managed to go viral by promising to guess your age, Twitter and LinkedIn hit the skids after… Read MoreThe User's Guide To Disrupt NY 2015
May 01, 8:44PM
The TechCrunch Disrupt NY Conference is almost upon us and we’ve partnered with some amazing companies to make your experience this year better than ever. Read MoreIAC-Owned Ask.fm Acquires Recipe Network Foodily
May 01, 8:36PM
IAC-owned social network Ask.fm has acquired the entire team behind recipe network Foodily, the companies are announcing today, which includes those focused on product, engineering and design. These nine team members will now be tasked with the continued development of Ask.fm’s Q&A platform, while the Foodily website and mobile app will be maintained by a separate division within IAC. Read MoreGillmor Gang LIVE 05.01.15
May 01, 8:07PM
Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today – Friday, May 1, 2015. LIVE chat during LIVE recording session Gillmor Gang on Facebook Our sister show, G3, on Facebook Our sister show, G3’s archives on Ustream Read MoreHobnob Lets You Create Personalized Event Invites To Send By Text
May 01, 6:36PM
There are a number of services today that allow you to create and send digital invitations to birthdays, parties and other events, where the invites themselves are sent out via email, social networks, or even by postal mail if you choose. But a new application called Hobnob, launching now, is designed instead to support invite delivery entirely via SMS and MMS. This means recipients will… Read MoreEyeWire Is Making Neuroscience Research Cool Again
May 01, 6:00PM
Thanks to a little startup sprouting up from Boston, I was able to map out a small section of a neuron through EyeWire, a company that’s gamifying its neuroscience research in order to enlist the help of people from all over the world. To understand how the brain works, scientists need to figure out how electrical impulses travel through its vast network of 85 billion neurons,… Read MoreApple Confirms Tattoos Can Affect Apple Watch's Heart Rate Sensor Readings
May 01, 5:00PM
Apple has updated its Apple Watch support documentation, confirming that the device may have issues when worn by users who have wrist tattoos. The changes were added following a series of reports from new Apple Watch owners who found that their tattoos seemed to interfere with the smartwatch’s ability to track their pulse, or cause other problems. Apple now says that permanent and… Read MoreMeet The Disrupt NY 2015 Speakers And Judges
May 01, 5:00PM
Disrupt NY is just a few days away, and we have some of the most iconic entrepreneurs and thought leaders in the tech industry lined up to speak throughout the three-day-long conference. You can still buy general admission tickets for Disrupt NY here. These are the speakers we are proud to announce and when you can expect to see them take the stage. Kayvon Beykpour is the CEO and cofounder… Read MoreDeep-Learning, Image-Analysis Startup Descartes Labs Raises $3.3M After Spinning Out Of Los Alamos National Lab
May 01, 4:55PM
After being incubated in a government lab for seven years, Descartes Labs — a deep-learning image analysis startup — has raised $3.3 million of its own funding and spun off as a private company. Descartes Labs is focused on taking satellite imagery, turning it into something coherent and analyzing it for useful data. Descartes Labs formally spun out of Los Alamos National Labs… Read MoreAcceleprise Accelerator Aims $3.5M Fund At Early Stage Enterprise Apps
May 01, 4:07PM
Acceleprise Ventures, a San Francisco-based incubator anchored by investor Sean Glass, announced a new $3.5 million fund with a pronounced enterprise app bent. It also announced 10 newly funded companies. The company works with 8-12 pre-seed B2B companies per round to help them grow from acquiring their first customers “to building scalable and repeatable processes that can fuel… Read MoreMicrosoft Acquires Surface 3 Pen Tech From N-trig
May 01, 3:57PM
Microsoft has confirmed the acquisition of pen technology used in the Surface Pro 3 and Surface 3, from supplier and longtime partner N-trig. The Israeli company is a key patent-holder for digital stylus and writing recognition tech, as well as the supplier behind the pen input technologies used by both Microsoft and many of its OEM partners. So this brings in-house one of the technologies… Read MoreStart-Up Chile SCALE Fund Makes Its First 9 Investments
May 01, 3:22PM
Start-Up Chile SCALE, the follow-on fund backed by the Chilean government to boost local startup growth, is making its first nine investments. The nine companies, all graduates of Start-Up Chile’s past three classes, will receive $100K each in equity-free funding. In exchange, the founders agree to keep their companies in Chile for at least a year and serve as mentors to three Chilean… Read MoreJoin New York Mayor Bill de Blasio At TechCrunch Disrupt NY
May 01, 3:11PM
The best thing about Disrupt is that it brings together so many amazing people. To wit: New York Mayor Bill de Blasio will join us on stage at Disrupt New York for an amazing interview with our own Kim-Mai Cutler. Mayor de Blasio succeeds a Disrupt favorite, former Mayor Mike Bloomberg, on our stage and will talk about the future of and in New York. A former New York City Public Advocate… Read MoreTinder Sees Huge Jump In App Revenue Rankings, Courtesy Of Tinder Plus
May 01, 3:03PM
Dating app Tinder’s move into the subscription business seems to be paying off. According to remarks made by parent company IAC during its quarterly earnings reported this week, the company is pleased with Tinder’s penetration rates – it reached its current level of penetration quicker than IAC’s OkCupid did, in fact – and renewal rates are higher than any… Read More11 Stories You Don't Want To Miss This Week
May 01, 2:52PM
From Tesla’s Powerwall to Microsoft Build, here are the top stories from the past week. Read MoreRocana Lands $15M To Bring Big Data Analysis To IT Ops
May 01, 2:00PM
Rocana (formerly ScalingData) announced $15 million in Series B funding led by Google Ventures with General Catalyst Partners, Toba Capital and Paul Sagan (former chairman at Akamai and current executive in residence at General Catalyst) also contributing. This round brings the total raised to $19.4 million. Rocana aims to simplify and speed up how companies running large data center… Read MoreOver-The-Air HDTV Makes Xbox One A Near-Perfect Cord-Cutting Console
May 01, 1:25PM
Microsoft announced support for over-the-air TV broadcasts, including HD content, early in April. I’ve been using the setup since, after enrolling in the Xbox One Preview program and receiving a Mohu Leaf indoor HDTV antenna and a Hauppauge 955Q USB TV tuner to take it for a test ride. The end result is that, for me at least, Xbox One is closer than ever to achieving its vision of being… Read MoreMeerkat Launches Its Android App To All
May 01, 12:10PM
Live video streaming app Meerkat beat Twitter’s own Periscope to market on iOS, and now it’s available on Android for all, with no Periscope app for Google’s mobile OS to be seen. The Meerkat app for Android carries a “Beta” label, as did a previous version that was locked down only to a select group of invitees, but it doesn’t appear to have that many… 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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