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3D-Printed Microfish May Soon Inject Themselves In Your Body

Aug 26, 6:06PM

98074_web Not unlike those fortune-telling fish you used to get at joke shops a new form of 3D-printed microfish – fish, not fiche – can wiggle and jiggle and wriggle inside you, dropping off medicine and cleaning up toxins as they go. Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have created nano-sized fish out of materials that can react to their environment, allowing them to… Read More



Two Lies And A Truth About "The Bubble"

Aug 26, 6:00PM

bubbles There has been a lot of discussion about startup valuation over the past few months. Luminaries across the industry have chimed in, suggesting we’re returning to a time of irrational investment valuations hearkening back to the bubble of the late 90s. My colleagues and I at Sapphire Ventures are seeing the rise in private market valuations firsthand. The stage at which we invest, the… Read More



T-Mobile Refuses To Block Access To The Pirate Bay

Aug 26, 6:00PM

logo_pirate_bay_black_and_pink_desktop_1440x900_hd-wallpaper-10067 It seems that the #Uncarrier has a soft spot for pirates, but perhaps only when they’re being asked to deal with them without a court order. T-Mobile’s Austrian branch is refusing to comply with a request from a music rights group to block access to the popular torrenting site The Pirate Bay in the country, Torrent Freak reports. The Pirate Bay has faced particularly strong… Read More



Windows 10 Now Runs On 75 Million Devices

Aug 26, 5:33PM

windows10-laptop Microsoft is 7.5 percent of the way to its goal of a flat billion devices running Windows 10 in the next few years. Today the software giant announced that its latest operating system, Windows 10, is now running on 75 million machines. Read More



Facebook Is Adding A Personal Assistant Called "M" To Your Messenger App

Aug 26, 5:31PM

Pasted_Image_8_26_15__10_21_AM We’ve been hearing rumblings that Facebook was working on an “assistant” within Messenger (along with others), but today we’ve gotten the details that pull it all together. This puts the company squarely in competition with Apple, Google and Microsoft in the digital personal assistant space. In a Facebook post, Facebook Messenger lead David Marcus spoke a bit about… Read More



Meet YouTube Gaming, Twitch's Archenemy

Aug 26, 4:59PM

2 Game Page YouTube just launched YouTube Gaming on the web, Android and iOS. As expected, YouTube Gaming goes head-to-head against Twitch, mirroring many popular features of the existing gaming streaming giant. Read More



Dodge Kickstarter Fees And Take Crowdfunding On Your Site With Celery Launch

Aug 26, 4:50PM

Celery Launch Why pay Kickstarter or Indiegogo 5% when most crowdfunding traffic comes from project creators and their own promotion? And why publicize a crowdfunding page that will only live for a month instead of a business’ own website that can take orders forever? That’s the idea behind Celery Launch, which lets people accept crowdfunding, pre-orders, and traditional purchases from their… Read More



Coin Unveils The Next Generation Of Its All-In-One Credit Card

Aug 26, 3:59PM

coin Coin, the device that wanted to replace all of your credit cards with a… card, is prepped and ready to dig into the future with Coin 2.0. Coin 2.0 uses NFC and is EMV-compatible so that users can not only tap to pay, the way you would with Apple Pay on an iPhone, but can integrate their chip-and-pin cards to the device. The original Coin, debuted in November 2013 on Kickstarter,… Read More



Amazon Underground Features An Android App Store Focused On "Actually Free" Apps

Aug 26, 3:31PM

Amazon Underground Amazon just announced a new store for Android apps and games called Amazon Underground. While the company already has the Amazon Appstore, Amazon Underground is a brand new section as well as a new app to download premium apps for free. Here’s how it works. Read More



Yahoo Announces New Tumblr Sharing Tools And Native Video Ads For Developers

Aug 26, 3:19PM

Simon Khalaf Simon Khalaf, Yahoo’s senior vice president of publisher products, today outlined some big shifts in the mobile ecosystem and unveiled some new tools for mobile developers. He made the announcements on-stage at the Yahoo Mobile Developer Conference in New York City and in related blog posts. Let’s start with the developer tools. The first one is Tumblr In-App Sharing.… Read More



Codementor, A Learning Platform For Developers, Launches Live Group Classes

Aug 26, 3:05PM

Codementor Codementor, an open marketplace for code instructors, is ramping up its services with the launch of live group classes. The startup, a Y Combinator alum, also announced that it has doubled its seed funding to $1.2 million. Its new investors include Techstars Ventures, 500 Startups, and Foundry Group syndicate FG Angel. Read More



Vim On A Typewriter Will Endear You To Grizzled Unix Experts

Aug 26, 2:52PM

typewriter_underside There have been many mechanical keyboard solutions in the past few years, most notably an IBM Selectric with serial out that let you klack away like Ada Lovelace directly into a printed email. However, the real Holy Grail has been the ability to transmit mechanical key presses directly to a computer using a few bits of electronics. Well, it’s been done and it’s glorious. An… Read More



Apple Loses 'Swipe To Unlock' Patent In German Court

Aug 26, 2:41PM

slide-swipe-unlock Apple has lost a challenge in the German court system that sought to overturn an earlier ruling, which voided its patent for ‘swipe to unlock’ in Europe. The patent (EP1964022) was granted back in 2010 and was used to win an injunction against Motorola smartphones (back when Moto was owned by Google) in 2012. Motorola has since appealed the injunction, with a decision dependent… Read More



PayPal's Instant Checkout Platform One Touch Goes Live In Over A Dozen More Markets

Aug 26, 2:24PM

paypal-one-touch PayPal today expanded its instant checkout service known as One Touch to 13 new markets worldwide, including a wide swath of European countries along with Australia. The system, which lets mobile and web users use PayPal to pay for purchases without having to continually re-enter their username and password across merchants’ sites or apps, has also now been rolled out to 100 percent… Read More



Martian's New Smartwatch Hides The Power Inside An Unassuming Package

Aug 26, 2:13PM

IMG_5441 The Martian Voice Communicator tries hard make you think it’s not a smartwatch. The model I tested, a black faux diver with a non-working bezel and quartz movement, looks more like a drugstore Timex than a piece of precision electronics. However, hidden inside the normal-sized case is one of the better notification systems I’ve used. The company has been making smartwatches since… Read More



This Week On Bullish: Radical Transparency

Aug 26, 2:00PM

BullishLogoSample1 Hello friends and welcome back to Bullish, a weekly show from TechCrunch designed to see how long I can sit under lights and not sweat through my makeup. Jokes aside, Bullish is our first talk show, and we’re glad that you are here. This week, I’m very happy to report that we brought Buffer co-founder and COO Leo Widrich back to headquarters for a chat about salary transparency,… Read More



Sony Crammed A Full-Size Speaker Into This Silly TV Remote

Aug 26, 2:00PM

SRS-LSR100 Remember the coolest cooler? It was a cooler with a speaker, a blender, big wheels, USB power, lights and more. Sony is releasing its own version of the coolest cooler! Here it is, a weirdly shaped TV remote that comes with a built-in speaker, making it the least practical TV remote in the world. Read More



Portal Lets You Use Your iPhone As A Wireless Thumbdrive

Aug 26, 1:53PM

portal Portal, a recently launched Android app that lets you move large files between your computer and your smartphone via your Wi-Fi connection, has today made its way to iOS. The new version offers a better alternative to something like Apple’s AirDrop, for example, as it lets you transfer as many files as you’d like, with no file size limits, while also not counting against your data… Read More



Let's Talk About Uber, Congestion And Urban Air Quality

Aug 26, 1:01PM

parked cars The U.K. government’s Department for Transport (DfT) has released updated statistics on the number of taxis and private hire vehicles operating in England — which shows a marked increased in the latter since 2013. In case you were wondering, ride sharing service Uber soft-launched in London in summer 2012. Coincidence? I’d wager not. Read More



Google's Container Engine For Running Docker Containers On Its Cloud Platform Is Now Generally Available

Aug 26, 1:00PM

Docker Google Google’s Container Engine, its service for running and managing Docker containers on its cloud platform using its open source Kubernetes system, is now out of beta and generally available. This means Google now considers it ready for production use and backs it with a 99.5 percent uptime SLA. Google made an early bet on containers for running its own data centers and over the last year… Read More




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