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SFMTA Rolling Out MuniMobile Transportation Payments App Nov 16
Nov 07, 7:38PM
Out of beta and ready for the masses of San Francisco’s public transportation commuters, MuniMobile will roll out November 16, 2015. MuniMobile is the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s (SFMTA) app enabling city riders to load payments for their trip on their smartphone instead of fumbling for change and waiting in line to buy tickets at the station. Nearly one… Read MoreGillmor Gang: Notification Rap
Nov 07, 7:02PM
The Gillmor Gang — Dennis Crowley, Om Malik, John Borthwick, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Monday, November 2, 2015. The Gang of Four reprise the Notifications Summit and fill in some of the blanks of the Case of the Missing Session 3. Plus, the latest G3 (below) with Halley Suitt Tucker, Mary Hodder, Rebecca Woodcock, Francine Hardaway, and Tina Chase Gillmor. @stevegillmor @dens… Read MoreAn Inconvenient Proof
Nov 07, 7:00PM
An Inconvenient Proof refers to the fact that personalization algorithms proselytize via code. Designed to scrutinize our lives, they’re also programmed to influence our behavior. Created by humans, every algorithm is imbued with the biases, business goals and personal agendas of their manufacturers. This doesn’t make artificial intelligence malevolent. But unless individuals… Read MoreCalifornia Is Winning The Digital Privacy Fight
Nov 07, 4:00PM
Starting in 2016, tech companies can tell law enforcement in California to come back with a warrant for access to digital data. That’s because California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (CalECPA), a landmark digital privacy law that requires California police to obtain a warrant from a judge before they can access electronic… Read MoreProtonMail On Battling A Sustained DDoS Attack
Nov 07, 4:00PM
Encrypted webmail provider, ProtonMail, has been fighting a wave of DDoS attacks since November 3 that, by last Friday, had taken its service offline for more than 24 hours. At the time of writing the attacks are still coming. Read MoreLeveraging Technology To Make Credit Credible
Nov 07, 2:00AM
The small-dollar credit (SDC) market — think payday and auto-title lending — is ripe for innovation and disruption. Most of the $44 billion industry consists of high-cost, low-quality products that lead people into cycles of repeat usage and mounting debt. Regulatory burdens, reputational risk and the tough economics of making small loans profitable have limited the supply of… Read MoreThe Tech Gender Gap Has Only Gotten Worse, But Steve Jobs' Contemporaries Think It Can Be Fixed
Nov 06, 11:28PM
When Apple released the original Macintosh in the mid-1980s, the percentage of women majoring computer science was on the rise: 37 percent of computer science graduates were women. But in 1984, the same year Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh, that trend reversed. In 2010 only 18 percent of computer science graduates were female. Onstage at an event in Palo Alto, the women who were closest… Read MoreCrunchWeek: Diversity, Candy, And Books Of Faces
Nov 06, 10:39PM
Welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk the biggest things in tech. This week we’re chatting about Twitter’s issues with diversity, Activision paying a lot of billions for the maker of the addictive game Candy Crush (hear Megan talk about her recovery), and Facebook’s earnings. They crushed it. So: As our resident… Read MoreInnovating In A World Of Patent Lawsuits
Nov 06, 10:00PM
Apple seems to get caught in lots of patent fights. Since 2009, Nokia has sued Apple (they settled), Apple has sued HTC (they settled), Kodak sued Apple (Kodak is appealing), Motorola Mobility sued Apple (Apple is appealing) and Apple and Samsung filed more than 40 lawsuits against each other (still fighting it out in the U.S.). The list goes on. With so much energy spent in patent lawsuits… Read MoreGoogle Acquires Fly Labs To Join Its Google Photos Team
Nov 06, 9:28PM
Today, Google acquired Fly Labs to join its Google Photos team. The company aimed to help people edit videos and photos and it sported 3 million downloads over the past 18 months. Their suite of apps (Tempo, Fly and Crop) will be made available for the next three months. You’ll still be able to use them, but there will be no more updates. We're excited to announce that we've… Read MoreLinux Ransomware Is Now Attacking Webmasters
Nov 06, 8:54PM
A new bit of ransomware is now attacking Linux-based machines, specifically the folders associated with serving web pages. Called Linux.Encoder.1 the ransomware will encrypt your MySQL, Apache, and home/root folders. The system then asks for a single bitcoin to decrypt the files. From Dr.Web Antivirus: Once launched with administrator privileges, the Trojan dubbed Linux.Encoder.1… Read MoreDoodle Partners With Paperless Post To Bring Easy Scheduling To Your Event Invitations
Nov 06, 8:27PM
Doodle makes it easy to schedule things with friends, coworkers, whoever — but scheduling isn’t the only thing that you need to organize an event. So the company has also connected its tools to the invitation process, by rolling out an integration with Paperless Post. Doodle CEO Michael Brecht said this is the Zurich-headquartered company’s first big US partnership, and… Read MorePeggy Johnson, Microsoft's Deal Boss, On Reaching Silicon Valley
Nov 06, 8:22PM
If you had a few dozen billion dollars, an appetite to cut deals and a desire to change your image a few states away, how would you go about it? That is a question Microsoft is trying to answer. Cash-rich, profitable and sporting new leadership, the company wants to change its image in Silicon Valley. Long ensconced in the Pacific Northwest, the company has boosted its focus on the Bay Area. Read MoreThis Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Chronos, comScore, And The Ario Smart Lamp
Nov 06, 8:00PM
In case you want to opt out of the smart watch trend without having a dumb watch, Chronos is there for you. comScore made moves this week in the world of mergers and acquisitions, while the Ario smart lamp went live (and surpassed its goal) on Kickstarter. We discuss all this and more on this week’s episode of the TC Gadgets Podcast, featuring John Biggs, Matt Burns, Romain Dillet,… Read MoreEmergence Capital Investor Wants To Show Off Entrepreneurs' Super Powers With Graphic Novel
Nov 06, 7:26PM
They may have the latest gadgets, but the men and women of Silicon Valley are rarely thought of as superheroes. Joseph Floyd, an Emergence Capital investor, wants to change that. Floyd noticed that many of the mainstream role models children look up to are athletes and celebrities, while many founders and engineers shy away from the media. He hopes with his upcoming graphic novel,… Read MoreHere's That Insane Surprise Star Wars Trailer Scene-By-Scene As GIFs To Tear Apart
Nov 06, 7:12PM
A new Star Wars trailer appeared on Disney’s Japanese YouTube channel this morning, seemingly out of nowhere. The biggest surprise? It wasn’t just a bunch of previously seen footage rearranged. While we’d seen plenty of it before, there’s tons of new footage within. As is tradition now, we’ve torn the new trailer apart scene-by-scene as GIFs ready to be watched… Read MorePerfecto Is A Marketplace For Bikes That Are Not Stolen
Nov 06, 6:51PM
Launched last month, Perfecto is a bike marketplace that verifies buyers, sellers, and bicycles, essentially eradicates the potential of stolen bikes being sold as legit ones. As bicycle commutes becomes a larger trend in cities worldwide, the market for secondhand bikes is skyrocketing. Traditional marketplaces like Craigslist are exacerbating this problem, as there is no safeguards in place… Read MoreFox Shows On Hulu Will Offer Reduced, Only 30-Second-Long Ad Option
Nov 06, 6:46PM
Hulu may have introduced a commercial free-tier to improve the user experience for those who can’t stand watching ads, but a new deal with Fox Networks has the potential to make the ad-supported version of Hulu less painful as well. This week, Fox and Hulu announced a new type of ad format would be arriving on Hulu for the first time: engagement ads. Viewers who opt for this sort of… Read More13 TechCrunch Stories You Don't Want To Miss This Week
Nov 06, 6:36PM
This week, Prop F was struck down, Facebook reported continued growth and Twitter traded in stars for hearts. TC Cribs visited the Love Nest, a Palo Alto co-living space that’s part commune and part startup incubator. On Bullish, we talked with Joyce Kim of Stellar about the impact of non-profits inside the tech world. These are the tech stories to catch you up on this week’s… Read MoreYahoo Rolls Out A New, Flickr-Powered Image Search That Returns Your Own Photos
Nov 06, 6:35PM
Yahoo announced today an upgrade to its image search engine which now includes a combination of web results as well as images from its photo-sharing site Flickr, including your own photos. The way the service works is that signed-in users will see desktop search results that offer a combination of Flickr’s top public photos, images from people you follow on Flickr, and a selection 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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