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Google's Next Version Of Android Is Called "Marshmallow"
Aug 17, 5:35PM
Google has made it a thing to name its Android OS versions after food. Letter by letter in the alphabet (har har). But not just any food, food that’s really bad for you. This version, which has been called “M” until now, had its name unveiled today: The statue just got unveiled! :D #Android #Marshmallow pic.twitter.com/VDl69cvrFN — Akshat Mittal (@itsreallyakshat)… Read MoreWuala, The Secure P2P Cloud Storage Service Acquired By LaCie, To Shut Down
Aug 17, 5:13PM
In a blog post to customers, secure P2P cloud storage service Wuala just announced that it is to shut down. Read MoreGoogle's Project Sunroof Tells You How Well Solar Would Work On Your Roof
Aug 17, 5:11PM
Google now lets you see if your house is a good candidate for installing solar panels. Project Sunroof, a 20 percent project by Google engineering lead Carl Elkin, shows you how much solar power your roof could generate using Google Maps and the data it has about the surroundings of your home. This means it can take into account local weather, your roof’s orientation and how much shade… Read MoreHow IoT Will Change Your Relationship With Insurance
Aug 17, 5:00PM
Between TVs, refrigerators, ovens, light bulbs, cars, fitness trackers and jewelry, it seems like everything these days is connected to the Internet. It’s probably safe to say that you’re already using a few connected devices in your daily life. You’re not alone; Business Insider Intelligence estimates there will be nine billion IoT (Internet of Things) devices worldwide by 2018. Read MoreCollege Job Finder Campus Job Rebrands As WayUp
Aug 17, 4:54PM
Campus Job, a startup that connects college students with local job opportunities, has changed its name to WayUp. Launched in September of 2014 by recent grads Liz Wessel and JJ Fliegelman, WayUp provides a platform for college students to find part-time work with companies looking for campus reps or other temporary employees. In April, the company raised a $7.8 million Series A round led… Read MoreAipoly Puts Machine Vision In The Hands Of The Visually Impaired
Aug 17, 4:20PM
It’s 3.30am in the featureless Singularity University meeting room I’m peering into via Skype and I’ve just asked Marita Cheng to take a photo of the buttons on her co-founder, Alberto Rizzoli’s, shirt. It’s definitely one of the stranger requests I’ve made of tech founders, at any time of day, but the pair don’t bat an eyelid — and in half a… Read MoreTwitter's MoPub Sees Big Growth In Native Ads
Aug 17, 4:05PM
Twitter-owned mobile ad exchange MoPub is releasing some new numbers about the growth of native advertising. Native advertising is a fuzzy term, but it usually refers to ads that have been customized to resemble editorial or user content. MoPub allows publishers to create their own custom native ads, and although it’s been saying that the format is growing, it’s offered scant details. Read MoreiRobot and CyPhy Co-founder Helen Greiner To Talk Robotics, Drones And Founding Companies At Disrupt SF 2015
Aug 17, 4:03PM
When it comes to the complex world of robotics, Helen Greiner is an expert. She was one of the co-founders of iRobot, the robotics company responsible for the wonderful vacuuming Roomba robot, and she founded and currently helms CyPhy Works, which develops UAVs for search and rescue missions and bridge inspections. We’re stoked to announce that Greiner will be joining us live on stage… Read MoreAway, The Direct-To-Consumer Luggage Brand, Packs Up $2.5 Million
Aug 17, 4:02PM
Bringing down the cost of luxury goods through direct-to-consumer sales isn’t a new trend. We’ve seen companies like Warby Parker, Casper and more succeed in the space. But today, a new company is coming out of stealth to bring the D2C value proposition to the world of luggage. Away, founded by Jen Rubio and Stephanie Korey, is looking to bring a high-end portfolio of luggage… Read MoreLast Week To Get Your Early-Bird Tickets To Disrupt SF
Aug 17, 4:00PM
If you somehow still haven’t picked up your ticket to Disrupt SF, the time to act is now. You only have until 11:59 p.m. PT on August 21 to purchase tickets at the early-bird price of $1,995, a full $1,000 off the full retail price of $2,995. Read MoreUber's New Update Gives Food Delivery As Much Attention As Transportation
Aug 17, 3:01PM
Uber is quietly rolling out an update today where Uber Eats (Uber’s prepared food delivery service available in NYC, Los Angeles, Toronto, Austin, Chicago, and Barcelona) is getting a major facelift. First noticed by analysts at Cowen, the update changes where Uber Eats is listed in the app. While previously bundled in with options like UberX and UberPOOL, Uber Eats is now a… Read MoreCircle Medical Brings A Full Service Medical Practice To You
Aug 17, 2:59PM
Circle Medical, launching from this summer’s Y Combinator batch, is a full service medical practice that will come to you. While other doctor-on-demand startups like Heal have existed for a while, Circle Medical’s goal is to provide a service that can used as a regular part of your life, not just in emergencies or last-minute situations. To achieve this, the startup focuses on… Read MoreMarketInvoice, The U.K. Invoice Finance Platform, Raises Further $10M
Aug 17, 7:06AM
The U.K.’s MarketInvoice, which plays in the peer-to-peer lending space by enabling businesses to raise money from institutional investors and high net worth individuals by ‘selling’ outstanding invoices, has raised a further £6 million (~$10m) from existing investors Northzone, and the family offices of Paul Forster. It adds to a £5 million round the London-based… Read MoreJeff Bezos Says The New York Times' Amazon Expose Got It All Wrong
Aug 17, 6:54AM
This weekend’s must-read story from the world of tech was this long New York Times report on the working culture. (Go ahead and read it if you haven’t yet.) Read MoreIndia's Housing.com Buys Real Estate Sales Software Startup HomeBuy360 For $2M
Aug 17, 6:01AM
Housing.com, the SoftBank-backed real estate platform in India, recently let go of its controversial CEO. Today it’s back in the news for more positive reasons, after it announced a $2 million acquisition that will give it new software chops for serving real estate professionals. Read MoreLinux Foundation Launches Open Mainframe Project
Aug 17, 4:06AM
It’s 2015 and you might think of the mainframe as a vestige of an earlier computing era, but these mega machines still play a role inside large institutions running intensive workloads. And as though to prove its ongoing utility, The Linux Foundation announced it was launching the Open Mainframe Project today, an open source endeavor devoted to helping companies using mainframe… Read MoreIBM Teams With Canonical To Put Ubuntu Linux On Mainframes
Aug 17, 4:01AM
You might not think that ‘Linux’ and ‘mainframe’ belong in the same sentence, but IBM has been putting various flavors of Linux on its mainframe computers for 15 years. Today IBM and Canonical announced that the two companies were teaming up to build one running Ubuntu Linux. The new unit is called the LinuxOne. The announcement comes as part of a broader strategy… Read MoreSeagate, Toshiba, Scality And Others Launch Kinetic Open Storage Platform For Smart, Low-Overhead Cloud Object Storage
Aug 17, 4:01AM
Two years ago, Seagate debuted a new technology for hard drives that essentially gives applications direct access to some of its drives over an Ethernet connection to store objects using key-value pairs. This reduces the overhead that comes with traditional file systems and file servers and allows vendors to pack more drives into their racks. Seagate made drivers for this technology available… Read More
PLUMgrid Partners With Linux Foundation To Open-Source Its IO Visor Project
Aug 17, 4:01AM
The Linux Foundation and PLUMgrid today announced an alliance of hardware manufacturers, Linux distribution vendors and others that aims to advance Linux networking and virtualization for modern data centers. Other partners in this alliance include Barefoot Networks, Broadcom, Canonical, Cavium, Cisco, Huawei, Intel, and SUSE. The project will be based on PLUMgrid’s existing IO… Read MoreAn (Important) Disproof Of The One-Time Pad
Aug 17, 3:44AM
In a recent TechCrunch article I was quoted calling the one-time pad a “unicorn”. Inevitably, I was roundly criticized. But what none of the commenters (or myself) realized, however, was how appropriate the term “unicorn” was. The perfect security of the one-time pad, like a unicorn, is imaginary. Claude Shannon’s seminal proof of the perfect secrecy of… 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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