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Launching at YC's Demo Day, mRelief has a new tool to make public assistance more accessible
Mar 18, 1:31AM
After years of hearing the private sector in the U.S. complain about the inefficiencies of government, investors are beginning to marshall their resources to help solve the problem. And no organization exemplifies that notion of harnessing private industry tools for public good more than mRelief, a non-profit launching in the latest Y-Combinator batch of companies. Read MoreLegaltech set to bail out legal services
Mar 18, 1:00AM
We all remember the horrors that followed the failure of the subprime. All of a sudden, we faced a collapse of the entire financial system. Surrounded by bankruptcy and devastation, even the optimists struggled to see the light at the end of the tunnel. It appears that the loss of trust in the banking system has opened the world’s eyes to alternative forms of dealing with our finances.… Read MoreHere's why NASA is setting fire to a cargo ship in space
Mar 18, 12:53AM
Next Tuesday, Orbital ATK will launch their Cygnus cargo vehicle to the International Space Station (ISS). Cygnus will bring the astronauts on station food, water, and a 3-D printer, among other supplies. Normally, after supplies are unloaded from Cygnus, the crew would fill the cargo ship with trash and send it back to Earth to burn up in the atmosphere. This time, before Cygnus breaks… Read MoreMicrosoft launches first preview of its Edge browser with extension support
Mar 17, 11:34PM
Extension support has long been one of the weaker features in Microsoft’s browsers. With Edge, the company now offers a new, more modern browser, and starting today, users who signed up for the Windows Insider program can try the first preview release of Edge with support for extensions. This doesn’t come as a complete surprise, of course. Extensions were always on… Read MoreHow the 'wonks' of public policy and the 'geeks' of tech can get together
Mar 17, 8:00PM
Technology innovates and disrupts, while public policy regulates and controls — at least according to conventional wisdom. The skirmish between Apple and the FBI is a prime example: Apple is refusing to allow policy to dictate how encryption should be included in products. It’s nearly impossible to ponder emerging resource-sharing technologies without thinking of the restrictive… Read MoreINNOVATE2016: The role of the FTC and federal regulators in Silicon Valley
Mar 17, 7:30PM
The FTC is involved in regulatory issues fundamentally important to Silicon Valley — especially data privacy and the “gig economy” of sharing services like Uber and Airbnb. Read MoreAutomatic braking to be standard by 2022
Mar 17, 7:17PM
The US Department of Transportation (USDOT), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) announced today that by 2022, all new vehicles made by 20 manufacturers will have automatic emergency braking as standard equipment. The 20 automakers that are part of the agreement cover 99% of the US market for new vehicles. The list includes… Read MoreNextbit cancels CDMA version of Robin smartphone, issues refunds
Mar 17, 6:40PM
After already delaying the CDMA by a few months, Nextbit has decided to cancel the production of the CDMA Robin for Verizon and Sprint networks outright, Recode reports. The company is now refunding Kickstarter backers and offering them a 25% discount on the GSM version should they choose to get one. Read MoreGoogle could be selling Boston Dynamics because even Google thinks these robots are terrifying
Mar 17, 6:32PM
Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. isn’t happy with Boston Dynamics, its robotics subsidiary. According to a report from Bloomberg, Alphabet executives think that Boston Dynamics is unlikely to generate substantial revenue in the next few years and is hard to work with. Toyota or Amazon could be interested in acquiring Boston Dynamics for their manufacturing or warehouse operations. Read MoreUS DOT and Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs aim to create new public transit and Wi-Fi networks
Mar 17, 6:09PM
Sidewalk Labs’ Flow technology, which the company says will help cities understand where citizens want to travel and how to transport them to those destinations more efficiently, fairly, and safely, will be rolled out at no cost in the cities that are the finalists in the Smart City Challenge. Read MoreTwitter kills TweetDeck for Windows, automates log-ins for TweetDeck users
Mar 17, 5:37PM
Twitter today rolled out a change that will make it easier for users who switch between its desktop application TweetDeck and its website, by no longer requiring users to log in to TweetDeck separately. That is, if users have the Twitter website open and are already logged in, they’ll be able to skip the log-in process on TweetDeck. Related to this news, Twitter says it’s also… Read MoreKanye West's 'The Life of Pablo' is the first SaaS album
Mar 17, 5:30PM
Kanye West dropped a new album, sort of. It’s not really finished yet – he’s still publicly tweaking lyrics, arranging the song order, adding and subtracting material. In the technology industry, we would call The Life of Pablo a minimum viable product. That may sound like a pejorative term, but a minimum viable product is actually incredibly important. Read MoreGoogle: Defeating Go champion shows AI can 'find solutions humans don't see'
Mar 17, 5:24PM
Much was written of an historic moment for artificial intelligence last week when a Google-developed AI beat one of the planet’s most sophisticated players of Go, an East Asia strategy game renowned for its deep strategic and thinking. Read MoreBumble launches contextual filters for profile pictures, starting with the 2016 presidential election
Mar 17, 5:00PM
Swipe-based dating is hard work. With hundreds of potential suitors to swipe through, most of us just take a few seconds to glance at a picture and bio before we decide if we’re going to swipe left or right. So, to help users quickly make an informed decision about which way to swipe, Bumble is taking a page from Snapchat’s book and launching filters for users’ profile… Read MoreThe REVL Arc is a 4K smart action camera with a built-in gimbal
Mar 17, 4:00PM
Part of the Y Combinator Winter 2016 class, REVL just launched a smart action camera that solves the two worst things about action cams: shaky footage and a cumbersome editing process. Developed by ex-NASA, Sikorsky and HP engineers, the REVL Arc has a built-in motorized gimbal to keep the camera’s view level with the horizon. Read MoreBroadcaster Sky jumps into virtual reality, launches new content studio and readies VR app
Mar 17, 3:56PM
European pay-TV broadcaster Sky — a long-time investor in virtual reality startup Jaunt — has positioned itself as a more direct content player in the VR world. Today the company — which has 21 million subscribers and is majority owned by 21st Century Fox — launched Sky VR Studio, a production unit dedicated to creating immersive video content specifically for VR… Read MoreNintendo's first smartphone app, a social game called Miitomo, launches in Japan
Mar 17, 3:50PM
As promised last fall, Nintendo has launched its first mobile smartphone application – but it’s not a new Mario game, and the app is for now only available in Japan for the time being. Today, the company unveiled “Miitomo,” a social app that lets users create cartoon-like avatars of themselves – like the “Miis” that Nintendo introduced with the launch… Read MoreGoogle's GV leads $21M Series B in bioscience firm Cambridge Epigenetix
Mar 17, 3:41PM
VC firm GV (née Google Ventures) has made another investment in Europe — its seventh — leading a $21 million Series B round for epigenetic sequencing tech company and Cambridge University spin-out, Cambridge Epigenetix. Read MoreAlibaba is working to bring virtual reality into its e-commerce services
Mar 17, 3:11PM
Alibaba has formally thrown its hat into the virtual reality ring after the Chinese e-commerce giant announced its own VR research lab, dubbed GnomeMagic Lab. The company invested in red hot augmented reality company Magic Leap earlier this year, in a deal that put Alibaba vice chairman Joe Tsai on the board, and it has tinkered with 360 degree panoramic video for Youku Tudou — the… Read MoreDigg unveils a news bot for Slack, coming soon to other messaging platforms
Mar 17, 3:07PM
News aggregator Digg may no longer be the internet force it once was, but it still offers an interesting and engaging selection of curated news articles and videos across a number of categories, from science and technology to viral Internet memes. Now, the company will bring those articles to its users in messaging and communications applications, beginning with Slack, instead of requiring… 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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