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Big data and the Death Star
Mar 14, 2:00AM
The Star Wars movies have captured the imaginations of everyone, from baby boomers through millennials on down to tots. It seems like everyone has been talking about the latest episode in this saga. Around the water cooler, discussions begin with “Have you seen it?” Being a database company, the topic around this office is, of course, “How much data do they need to manage in… Read MoreLike player coaches, tech CTOs should know how to code
Mar 14, 1:00AM
They seem as anachronistic as helmetless hockey players, the no-dunking rule and bullpen carts. But the player-coach was once a familiar figure in pro sports. Bill Russell and Lenny Wilkens in the NBA. Curly Lambeau and George Halas in football. The first six World Series were won by guys who filled out the lineup card and also were on it. This form of multi-tasking fell out of favor decades… Read MoreWherefor lets you search for vacations based on how much you want to spend
Mar 14, 12:34AM
As a travel enthusiast, it was a problem Ryan Wenger had often encountered; how can a person search for a flight and hotel based on the amount of money they want to spend rather than by destination only? Setting out to solve this problem, Wenger quit his job as an attorney and founded Wherefor.com (now a team of eight). Read MoreFuture Finance raises $171M to grow its student loan platform in Europe
Mar 14, 12:18AM
Future Finance — a startup based out of Dublin that provides loans to students using big data algorithms to asses their credit-worthiness — is today announcing a large round of funding of its own to build its business out in Europe. The company has raised £119 million ($171 million) — £19 million in equity and £100 million towards future loans made through the… Read MoreHow emerging tech can solve ad desensitization
Mar 13, 11:00PM
Advertising has lost sight of a very basic concept: The pleasure principle. In the “golden days,” the 1960s and 1970s, colorful creative in a full-page spread was enough to create buzz — and that’s not just Mad Men nostalgia talking. With the advent of the Internet, new technology had the power to make advertising more poignant; instead, the worst-case scenario happened. Read MorePlay your Steam first-person shooters in full virtual reality with MyDream Swift
Mar 13, 10:48PM
As the launch dates of the Oculus Rift and the HTC Vive virtual reality headsets approach, so does the release of a ton of awesome VR gaming content. To gamers with full Steam libraries however, it’s kind of a shame that once they put the headset on, most of their favorite content is no longer available to enjoy. MyDream Swift is looking to bring old Steam content into the next… Read MoreAfter the Satoshi Roundtable, is there a way to bridge the bitcoin divide?
Mar 13, 10:30PM
The opposing views of those advocating for preserving the current implementation of Bitcoin (Bitcoin Core), and those who believe that the block size needs to be increased immediately to overcome scalability challenges, has balkanized the Bitcoin developer community into mainly two camps. Read MoreThe two misconceptions dominating the encryption debate
Mar 13, 8:30PM
When vulnerability is injected into technology used worldwide, it becomes everyone’s liability. Read MoreBuilding a brand-new Internet
Mar 13, 8:00PM
We do not possess the ability to read the future, and yet we can predict with a high level of certainty that we will see more major cybersecurity incidents in 2016 and 2017. The world’s cybersecurity capability is not able to advance in line with the growing vulnerabilities. Incremental security changes will not work. We need disruptive innovation. Read MoreWikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales blasts "deranged" companies editing their own pages
Mar 13, 7:34PM
In a chat with Guy Kawasaki at South by Southwest, Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales spoke out about self-interested parties editing their own pages on the Internet’s collaborative encyclopedia. “Companies think it’s a powerful marketing tool but I think they’re deranged and should leave us alone,” said Wales. Yet he believes that the best public relations teams… Read MoreNASA tests first rocket engine designed to send humans to Mars
Mar 13, 6:39PM
NASA has successfully tested their first RS-25 rocket engine for the agency’s next heavy lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), for 500 seconds. The SLS, which will use 4 RS-25 engines in its core stage, is designed to take humans to deep space destinations like asteroids or Mars. NASA stated that “the next time rocket engine No. 2059 fires for that length of time, it will… Read MoreNowThis teams up with immigration lobby group FWD.us
Mar 13, 5:32PM
Video news startup NowThis is partnering with FWD.us, the immigration lobbying group backed by Mark Zuckerberg and other tech executives, to tackle one of the biggest issues in this year’s election cycle. Last night at South by Southwest, the two organizations announced a partnership where NowThis is creating a video series focused on immigration. NowThis President Athan Stephanopoulos… Read MoreInnovation center for black and Latina founders opens this summer in Atlanta
Mar 13, 5:00PM
digitalundivided, an organization geared toward advancing equity in tech, is opening an innovation center for black and Latina female founders in tech this summer. Located in downtown Atlanta, GA, the BIG Innovation Center will be home to a four-month long accelerator program as well as a paid developer internship program for students interested in computer programming. digitalundivided hopes… Read MoreUlysses for iPhone makes me consider writing articles on my phone
Mar 13, 3:35PM
Ulysses is a Markdown text editor for small and big projects. It works quite well for anything between a blog post and a novel. And Ulysses is also the kind of apps we need on iOS. It's an expensive $25 app that provides nearly all the features of its desktop equivalent. In other words, it's a serious app to do serious work with a clear business model. And of course, everything stays… Read MoreWhy Apple is right to resist the FBI
Mar 13, 3:00PM
The FBI wants Apple to do something no private company has ever been forced to do: break its own technology. Specifically, the FBI wants Apple to build a new version of its mobile operating system (iOS, or GovOS) so that the contents of an iPhone can be removed from an iPhone used by Syed Farook, one of the gunmen in the San Bernardino shooting. Read MoreDefeated Go world champion beats DeepMind AI in penultimate match
Mar 13, 10:41AM
Machines 3, humans 1… That’s the current score in a five-match series being played out between DeepMind’s AlphaGo and human Go world champion, Lee Sedol. Read MoreHow to train your human, part II: Products that make habits last
Mar 13, 5:00AM
In the first part of this series, we learned about designing products that use good triggers and motivators to get users like Joe to engage in healthy behaviors. Now, how can we ensure that these new behaviors become long-term habits? In this second part, we return to Nir Eyal’s Hooked model to look at reinforcing Joe’s behavior through rewards and an investment in your product. Read MoreHow new domains are building better brands
Mar 13, 12:00AM
New domain extensions have accumulated some pretty big numbers over the last couple of years. Collective registrations for the new GTLDs (generic top-level domains) have now surpassed 13 million, according to NTLD stats. This number is not small by any means. Read MoreDriving the new American century
Mar 12, 8:00PM
The World Economic Forum, the Detroit Auto Show and CES all occurred recently, and each has driven a great deal of discussion around self-driving cars. The expectation is that within a decade we will begin to see autonomous vehicles on the streets and a correlated reduction in accidents, traffic congestion and demand for parking. Read MoreNetflix and the creation of global monoculture
Mar 12, 7:30PM
While internet connects us and unites us, it also has the potential to facilitate a kind of imperialism and monoculture. 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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