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Watch Fifth Grader Ari Get Fitted For A Brand New 3D-Printed Hand
Aug 05, 5:00PM
During the 2015 Special Olympics World Games in Los Angeles last week, a fifth grader named Ari stopped by a booth set up by Google. The booth had information about its “Impact Challenge” for disabilities. What Ari didn’t know is that her life would change before she left the games. A few volunteers from AIO Robotics swung by and fitted Ari for a new colorful prosthetic… Read MoreFacebook Launches "Live" Streaming Video Feature, But Only For Celebrities
Aug 05, 5:00PM
Before Periscope and Meerkat jumpstarted the mobile livestreaming craze, Facebook was already quietly working on its own way to let public figures broadcast live videos to their fans. Today, Facebook is launching “Live” as a feature in its Mentions app that’s only available to celebrities with a verified Page. VIPs can start a Live broadcast that’s posted to the News… Read MoreThis Startup Empowers Youth Of Color To Tackle Social Issues With Technology
Aug 05, 4:36PM
Enza, a youth innovation and leadership incubator, recently held a free, five-day residential program at Stanford University for 26 youth of color to brainstorm technology solutions that address issues in their communities. So, for five days, these high school students participated in an intensive bootcamp with an emphasis on coding, business development and social justice. The program… Read MoreYC-Backed MicroHealth Helps Patients Manage Chronic Illnesses
Aug 05, 4:33PM
MicroHealth, a mobile health startup in Y Combinator’s current class, is launching today to help patients take control of their chronic illnesses. The company was started by Spanish brothers Dr. Marc Lara and Miguel Lara in 2011, who previously spent ten years researching digital health and holding clinical trials at Columbia University Medical Center. Through a disease management… Read MorePayable Raises $2.1M To Build Out A Payroll Platform For Contractor-Based Businesses
Aug 05, 4:28PM
Gig economy or not, it looks like part-time or flexible jobs are becoming a more structural part of the labor market. But software hasn’t necessary improved to help contractor-based businesses to manage their payroll. So a team of Intuit veterans went through Y Combinator to build a platform called Payable that will easily let contractors measure and bill their hours and… Read MoreMicrosoft Sway Exits Preview, With New Windows 10 App In Tow
Aug 05, 4:23PM
Microsoft announced this morning the general availability of its “digital storytelling” app called Sway, the latest addition to the Microsoft Office suite. The app, which was first introduced 10 months ago, allows users to create, share and collaborate on interactive presentations that combine text, images, videos and other media. The app is rolling out now to all Office 365 for… Read MoreGoogle Fiber Is Headed To San Antonio
Aug 05, 4:20PM
While this news isn’t exactly exciting for me just yet, being in San Francisco, Google has announced its next expansion city for Fiber…San Antonio. If you’re keeping score, here are the cities that are current Fiber neighborhoods and those that are waiting to become one: This is the first announcement since the end of January, when Google announced that Fiber would be heading… Read MoreLowe's Invests In SoloPro, A Service That Unbundles Real Estate Agent Services
Aug 05, 4:17PM
SoloPro, a service that unbundles real estate services and gives buyers a 3 percent rebate when they buy a home through the service, today announced that it has received a strategic investment from home improvement giant Lowe’s venture arm. Neither Lowe’s Companies Venture Capital nor SoloPro disclosed the value of the investment, but it’s likely a relatively modest number… Read MoreFacebook Empowers Pages To Provide Customer Support Over Private Messages
Aug 05, 4:01PM
A business publicly debating customer problems on their Facebook Page’s wall is a recipe for a PR disaster. So today Facebook is giving Pages more options for privately messaging people who complain. Along with its Businesses On Messenger program, Facebook is squarely aiming to usurp telephones as the channel for customer support. Starting today, business Pages will be able to… Read MoreInsurance Is The Next Frontier For Fintech
Aug 05, 4:00PM
We have entered a golden age for fintech. LendingClub and OnDeck recently exited through massive IPOs, and global investments in the fintech space hit $3 billion last year. This outpouring of innovation and investment has spread across the financial sector, spanning mobile banking, small business lending, financial advisers, credit scoring, savings and more. Read MoreRed Hat's Updated Enterprise OpenStack Platform Promises To Simplify OpenStack Deployments
Aug 05, 4:00PM
Red Hat today launched its Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 into general availability. The distribution combines Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server, the latest OpenStack release (“Kilo”), and the company’s services for installing and managing OpenStack Clouds into a single product. Red Hat says this update will make it easier for cloud operators who want to use OpenStack… Read MoreGraava Is A $249 Action Camera That Edits Highlight Videos For You
Aug 05, 4:00PM
Your GoPro is great until you have to edit all those hours of footage to find the cool moments. Graava does that automatically. Starting pre-orders today for $249 (eventually $399), the Graava action camera uses motion, audio, accelerometer, and GPS sensors plus voice cues to detect the highlights of your footage. Choose how long you want your highlight reel to be, Graava’s app edits… Read MoreNew Zero-Day Exploit Can Completely Brick Your Mac
Aug 05, 3:47PM
It’s Black Hat season, meaning that we are getting a new batch of zero-day exploits showing how insecure our gadgets are. Xeno Kovah and Trammell Hudson found a serious zero-day vulnerability in OS X letting malware creators completely brick your Mac without any way to reset it to its factory status. Apple told The Guardian that it is working on a fix for both Yosemite and El Capitan. Read MoreAnchors Away And Shiver Me Timbers! Antlos Puts You And And Your Friends On A Boat
Aug 05, 3:28PM
Yachting has an image problem. When you think of a big old sailboats you mostly imagine rich leathery men in boat shoes who smoke big cigars and try to hit rare pink dolphins in the head with with their keel. Antlos, a new boat and skipper hiring service, aims to change that. The service, based out of Venice, Italy, offers all-inclusive boat trips around various vacation hotspots including… Read MoreMachine Learning Used To Predict Fine Wine Price Moves
Aug 05, 3:26PM
Curiosity about the limits of machine learning led former trader, UCL academic and startup founder, Dr Tristan Fletcher, to apply techniques more typically found in normal asset class trading to the alternative and, on the surface, more chaotic arena of fine wine pricing. Read MoreDish Beats In Q2, But Its Streaming Service Sling TV Isn't Helping Stem Subscriber Loss
Aug 05, 3:22PM
Dish Networks finally offered some insight into the traction of its over-the-top streaming TV service, Sling TV, in its second quarter earnings. The company reported for the first time that Sling TV had reached 169,000 subscribers by the end of March 2015 – a figure that roughly falls in line with earlier reports of the company topping the 100,000 mark that same month. The company… Read MoreAffirm Acquires Coding Bootcamp Lending Startup LendLayer
Aug 05, 3:07PM
Affirm has completed a talent acquisition of LendLayer, a startup that provides lending for accelerated learning programs like Hackbright Academy. LendLayer partnered with a number of accelerated learning schools like Coder Camps and the New York Code + Design Academy to offer payment plans for those accelerated learning programs. It’s an acqui-hire, and it’s certainly an… Read MoreWeWork's First Acquisition Is Building Information Modeling Firm Case
Aug 05, 3:00PM
WeWork, the NYC tech (and real estate) darling valued north of $5 billion, has today announced its first acquisition. The company will be acquiring Case, a building information modeling and consultancy firm, for an undisclosed amount. Case launched in May 2008 with a plan to bring better technology and information flow to the process of architecting and constructing a building. With the… Read MoreLOT Polish Airlines Now Accepting Bitcoin
Aug 05, 2:32PM
I’m not a big fan of the “X accepts bitcoin” type of post but this one is near and dear to my heart – and actually interesting. LOT Polish airlines, the official Polish air carrier, is now accepting bitcoin. That does that mean? It means that you’ll soon be able to pay BTC to go to KRK. The transactions are being handled by PSP, a Polish payments platform backed by… Read MoreTarget Launches Beacon Test In 50 Stores, With Expanded Rollout Later This Year
Aug 05, 2:10PM
Target, the second largest general merchandise retailer in the U.S., announced this morning that it will start testing beacon technology in 50 of its stores nationwide. With beacon technology, the company says it will be able to send information about deals as well as recommendations directly to consumers’ smartphones, provided they opt in to receive these alerts. Initially, 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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