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Google Launches First Beta Of Its Zync Visual Effects Renderer On Google Cloud Platform
Aug 11, 5:13PM
Google, the largest subsidiary corporation of Alphabet, wants movie studios to use its cloud to render their special effects. Last August, Google acquired Zync, a visual effects rendering service that allows studios and independent artists to render their works in the cloud. Today, the company announced that it will open up the first beta of Zync on its Cloud Platform next week on August 20. Read MoreGnip Launches Full-Archive Search API To Provide Instant Access To Nine Years Worth Of Tweets
Aug 11, 5:00PM
Social data company Gnip, acquired by Twitter last year, has become an indispensable tool for all types of companies. Data, especially social data, is necessary to make decisions on things like timing a product launch or putting together a new marketing campaign. Until now, companies have been able to pull instant reports using up to 30 days worth of historical tweets. Today, through Gnip,… Read MoreYour Edgy Startup Idea Is Stupid
Aug 11, 4:45PM
First it was glitter and dicks. Then it was on-demand everything. Then it was breasts. Startups, please: stop. 2015 has been the year of the awful idea. It began early on this year with a number of services that wanted to send your enemies glitter and cardboard penises. They had all the trappings of a traditional startup – media blitzes, wild founders, and wacky ideas about social… Read MoreSketchfab Adds Animations To Its 3D Model Sharing Platform
Aug 11, 4:37PM
3D model repository Sketchfab just added a nifty little feature that should appeal to 3D animators. You can now upload animated models to Sketchfab, and the website will endlessly loop the animation. Currently, the startup supports FBX files, such as files generated by Mixamo. Read MoreInboxVudu, The AI-Based Email Prioritizer, Launches An App For iOS And Apple Watch
Aug 11, 4:05PM
InboxVudu, the system that helps you prioritize important emails, is today launching an iOS app and an Apple Watch app. The service uses machine learning to recognize phrases and sentences that may indicate an important email, and packages those priority messages into a little digest for you. InboxVudu also puts task-based requests into a task list for you, and sends instant alerts for the… Read MoreA Programmer Is Recreating The Classic Game Night Trap In The Browser
Aug 11, 3:28PM
Our sister site Engadget has a fun interview with a programmer who is currently porting live action video game Night Trap to the browser using HTML5. Why? Because Night Trap, one of the first video games to use live-action video interspersed with game play, is awesome. The creator, Dave Voyles, is a technical evangelist at Microsoft and he wrote that he relished the challenge of recreating… Read MoreMarkhor Takes The Middleman Out Of Designer Shoemaking
Aug 11, 3:21PM
Markhor founder Waqas Ali spent the first half of his life without ever using the Internet. He grew up in a small village in Pakistan, and recalls using Google for the first time in 2007 after he moved to Lahore to attend college. When Ali returned home to Okara for summer break, he was inspired to start Markhor while talking to a local shoemaker about Facebook. The man had heard that… Read MoreThis Natural Language Interface Aims To Let Anyone Make Animations Jump
Aug 11, 3:16PM
UK-based animation tech and post-production effects studio iKinema has been demoing a natural language interface for controlling animations which CEO Alexandre Pechev reckons could prove its worth in a future of virtual and blended reality — assuming wearables like Magic Leap and Microsoft’s HoloLens make it big. Read MoreMakerbase Is An IMDb Of Who Made Your Favorite Apps And Websites
Aug 11, 3:08PM
A new service called Makerbase wants to make it easier for anyone to discover who built some of the most popular websites and apps people use every day. The idea, which is described as an “IMDb” for people who make software, is the latest project from ThinkUp’s founders – Lifehacker founding editor Gina Trapani and early blogger and entrepreneur Anil Dash.… Read MoreDigitalOcean Teams Up With Bitnami, Now Lets You Install Over 100 Web Apps With A Few Clicks
Aug 11, 3:00PM
DigitalOcean has made a name for itself as a hosting service that focuses on simplicity. Now, the company is making it easier to install complex applications on its service with the help of Bitnami. DigitalOcean users get two free months of Bitname access. Support applications include everything from basic WordPress, Ghost and Drupal installs to more complex services like GitLab for version… Read MoreFacebook Brings Auto-Play Video Ads To Apps In Its Mobile Ad Network
Aug 11, 3:00PM
Facebook’s making a killing with its native, in-feed, auto-play video ads, and now it’s going to let other developers earn money off them too. Today Facebook announced that its opening up its own best performing ad units to publishers that show Facebook’s Audience Network ads to monetize their apps. Facebook says Audience Network publishers using its native ad units get 7X… Read MoreY Combinator, Tim Cook Back Nebia, A Shower That Uses 70% Less Water
Aug 11, 2:48PM
As a health spa owner in Mexico City, Carlos Gomez Andonaegui often fretted about the cost of water. Mexico’s capital city, with more than 20 million people in the metropolitan region, sits at an altitude of more than 7,000 feet in the heart of the country where it is near no major natural water sources. Two enormous systems dating back to the 1940s and 1970s elevate water by more than… Read MoreSymantec Sells Veritas Division To Private Equity Group For $8B
Aug 11, 2:34PM
Symantec announced today that it had sold its Veritas division to The Carlyle Group, a Washington, DC-based private equity firm for $8 billion in cash. The move comes after Symantec, mostly known as a computer security company, announced it was splitting into two separate publicly traded companies last fall. The first was going to be Symantec, which as you might expect focused on security… Read MoreYC-Backed Bizzy Helps Brands Send Fewer Emails With Better Conversion
Aug 11, 2:04PM
There’s nothing worse than a clogged inbox, and though it might not appear so, ecommerce brands don’t want to be the object of your resentment from over-emailing. Bizzy, a YC-backed startup, aims to help ecommerce brands make more of an impact in fewer emails. The company uses an algorithm that looks at how often a customer purchases products to determine if/when they should receive… Read MoreWildcard Debuts A News-Reading App Designed For The Mobile Age
Aug 11, 1:16PM
Besides messaging, snapping photos, and checking the weather, news reading has become one of the top activities done on mobile phones. It’s so popular, in fact, that Apple is introducing its own native News app in iOS 9, due out this fall. But not without some competition in the marketplace. The latest contender to enter the arena is Wildcard, a news app with a unique look and feel… Read MoreCanonical's Ubuntu Phones Now On Sale Globally
Aug 11, 12:07PM
Mobile market latecomer Canonical claims “latent demand” for its tardy but alternative smartphone OS has encouraged its OEM partner, BQ, to open up availability of its handsets to buyers anywhere in the world, not just in Europe. Read MoreFindTheBest Becomes Graphiq, Launches New Visualization Tools For Publishers
Aug 11, 12:04PM
Over the past six years, FindTheBest has been rolling out search and comparison shopping tools (18 in all) to cover everything from companies to schools to gadgets to real estate. At this point, founder and CEO Kevin O’Connor said that calling the company FindTheBest no longer makes sense — and so it’s rebranding as Graphiq. O’Connor, who previously co-founded… Read MoreIn The Age of Disruption, Customer Love Is More Important Than Ever
Aug 11, 11:34AM
Think about how frustrated you were the last time you waited for your cable guy to show up, or how annoyed you got when you settled into the back of a cab, only to have the driver tell you he wouldn’t take a credit a card. What about the time you had to pay a hefty fee for the right to text and use data on your smartphone outside of the country? These scenarios are probably all too… Read MoreStoryCorps App Plans Ambitious Oral History Project For Thanksgiving
Aug 11, 11:12AM
Over the past 12 years, oral history project StoryCorps has collected interviews with over 100,000 people. Most of these recordings are stored at the Library of Congress, creating what StoryCorps claims is the “largest single collection of human voices ever gathered.” Now the non-profit hopes to double that number in just one weekend during “The Great Thanksgiving Listen.” Read MoreNew System Lets Designers And Researchers "Draw" In 3D Space
Aug 11, 10:51AM
A new 3D interactive system created by researchers at the University of Montreal allows designers and builders to “draw” in scenes in real time. By projecting images on a thin material, the system, called Hyve-3D, allows you to swipe through scenes and make colors and shapes appear on walls and floors. It also allows for multi-user interaction – one designer can sketch… 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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