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Apple Changed Its Site's Code So The Word "click" Doesn't Look Like…
Feb 26, 2:32AM
If you squint, you can see how the word “click” might look inappropriate. But Apple’s too prim and proper for that. So when it wanted the tagline for its new desktop operating system El Capitan to be “There’s more to love with every click”, it made a tiny, hilarious tweak to its website’s CSS code. By adding a little extra spacing between each letter… Read MoreThe Politics Of The Internet Of Things
Feb 26, 1:00AM
The prospective scale of the Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to fill anyone looking from the outside with the technical equivalent of agoraphobia. However, from the inside, the view is very different. Looked at in detail, it is a series of intricate threads being aligned by a complex array of organizations. As with any new technological epoch, questions around shape, ownership… Read MoreBarriers To Augmented Reality Are Holding Us Back From The Holodeck
Feb 25, 9:00PM
There is more money and talent invested in virtual and augmented reality than ever before. Indeed, more than $3.5 billion has been invested into virtual and augmented reality startups in the past two years. The industry is growing fast; Goldman Sachs suggests the combined hardware and software market for VR and AR will reach, on a base case, $80 billion by 2025, with a potential to reach more… Read MoreMeet Brain, The AI Engine That Wants To Replace Search
Feb 25, 8:30PM
Fifteen miles away from where Larry Page and Sergey Brin worked out of their first office developing the technology that would become Google, a team of eleven engineers no older than 20 are hard at work on developing what they hope will be its replacement. Their adoptive home, for the moment, is the co-working space Tim Draper set up as part of his Draper University startup program,… Read MoreApple Files Motion To Vacate The Court Order To Force It To Unlock iPhone, Citing Constitutional Free Speech Rights
Feb 25, 8:08PM
In a discussion with Apple executives today, TechCrunch was informed that Apple had filed a Motion to Vacate in the case of the FBI compelling Apple to assist in unlocking an iPhone belonging to Syed Farook. Read MorePro-ISIS Hacker Group Video Threatens Twitter, Facebook CEOs Over Account Suspensions
Feb 25, 7:34PM
Twitter and Facebook have recently claimed to be stepping up their fights against extremist content being hosted on their platforms. Indeed, there is some evidence that certain tactics to counter extremists’ appropriation of mainstream social media platforms — such as Twitter deploying repeat account suspensions — is having an impact on the spread of extremist propaganda. Read MoreOpera CEO: Sale To Chinese Consortium Wasn't Our Decision
Feb 25, 7:20PM
After months of rumor, Opera finally confirmed two weeks ago that its board had accepted a takeover offer from a consortium of Chinese firms for the price of $1.2 billion. I had a chance to sit down this week at MWC with Lars Boilesen, the CEO of Opera, and HÃ¥kon Wium Lie, the company’s CTO and inventor of cascading style sheets (CSS). In this wide-ranging and candid interview, we… Read MoreTablets Are Dead
Feb 25, 7:08PM
In 2010, tablets were supposed to be the new hot thing. Apple released the first iPad, Samsung was working on the Galaxy Tab and countless others were about to flood the market with Android tablets. Six years later, there weren’t any tablets at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Companies and consumers have moved on. Tablets are dead. Read MoreMark Zuckerberg Asks Employees To Stop Crossing Out "Black Lives Matter" On Facebook's Walls
Feb 25, 6:14PM
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is asking his employees to stop being ignorant and racist (my words, not his). In an internal memo obtained by Gizmodo, Zuckerberg said he was disappointed by the “several recent instances of people crossing out ‘black lives matter’ and writing ‘all lives matter’ on the walls at MPK.” MPK, one of Facebook’s buildings in… Read MoreTuring Robotics Drops Android And Sets Up Shop In Finland Amid Global Security Concerns
Feb 25, 6:00PM
To ensure complete data security and privacy for TRI’s Turing Phone owners, TRI moved its manufacturing operations to Salo, a city with an impeccable history in mobile phone production,” said Steve Chao, the CEO of Turing Robotics. Read MoreFacebook Officially Launches Canvas Ads That Load Full-Screen Rich Media Pages In-App
Feb 25, 5:59PM
Instant Articles, meet Instant Ads. Facebook wants to give advertisers an immersive way to reach people without making them leave the social network. So today it officially launched its ad Canvas for all advertisers. When users click a Facebook News Feed ad connected to Canvas, it opens a full-screen, rich media page inside of Facebook rather than forcing users to wait for a mobile website… Read MoreNetflix Now Testing Autoplaying Trailers
Feb 25, 5:27PM
Netflix is again testing how to best integrate teaser trailers into its user experience. At Mobile World Congress, the company talked about a test of autoplaying video trailers that would begin to play when users hovered over a title. But the company is also quietly testing a different format of teaser trailer, as well. Some Netflix members are now seeing audio and video teasers as they… Read MoreZumper Acquires PadMapper And Relaunches It With An Updated Interface
Feb 25, 5:00PM
Zumper, the Kleiner-backed apartment rental platform that launched at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2012, has acquired PadMapper, the popular map-centric apartment rentals site that was once embroiled in a prolonged legal fight with Craigslist. Read MoreMicrosoft Begins Making Progress On Nadella's Broad Security Vision
Feb 25, 5:00PM
Last fall, Mr. Nadella came to Washington and in a comprehensive speech the Microsoft CEO laid out Microsoft’s broad vision for security in the enterprise. Today, the company made a series of announcements in a lengthy blog post from Microsoft Chief Information Security Officer Brett Arsenault that starts to bring that vision into clearer focus. It’s probably not a… Read MoreYouTube Now Lets You Blur Random Objects In Videos
Feb 25, 5:00PM
Back in 2012, YouTube added a new feature that allows you to automatically blur all faces in a video. Today, it’s going a step further. You can now draw a rectangle around any object in a video, and YouTube will then blur it and automatically follow it as it moves through a scene. Read MoreNew Levitating 3D Printing Technology Prints In Mid-Air
Feb 25, 4:50PM
Imagine printing something with multiple print heads while the object in question was floating in space. Please. Imagine it because I have no idea what is going on here. A new “levitating” 3D printing technology pioneered by Boeing uses a central nugget of magnetic material. Read MoreIn The Apple Encryption Debate, Can We Just Have The Facts Please?
Feb 25, 4:00PM
As Apple and federal law enforcement continue to hurl rhetoric about encryption, one thing has become crystal clear: today’s encryption debate is neither healthy nor well-informed. Read MoreExamining The Top 4 Fintech Predictions For This Year And Beyond
Feb 25, 4:00PM
Alongside “Unicorn” and “Grexit/Brexit,” “Fintech” was considered one of the top 10 financial buzzwords of 2015. But fintech isn’t a newcomer to this list — and for good reason. For a few years now, fintech companies have moved from the margins to the mainstream. They are building tech-enabled financial platforms that serve consumers better… Read MoreCREXi Brings Commercial Real Estate Dealmaking Online
Feb 25, 3:46PM
It’s a familiar pitch — taking an industry that relies on outdated technology and rethinking it with modern, web-based tools. The industry in this case is commercial real estate, and the startup trying to rethink the process is CREXi, whose name stands for commercial real estate exchange. To be clear, it’s far from the only online marketplace for these kinds of properties… Read MoreWho Lives And Dies In A Down Economy
Feb 25, 3:38PM
The Bay Area is well-acquainted with boom and bust cycles, and while it’s too soon to declare that the tech economy has turned, recruiters see early indicators that it’s happening. Indeed, a handful of job placement executives confirms what recent headlines about layoffs already imply: The market is softening for numerous sectors of the startup world, as well as at publicly… 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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