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Google Calendar's newest feature uses machine learning to help you actually accomplish your goals
Apr 13, 5:07AM
Google Calendar has launched a new feature called Goals that uses machine learning to help you figure out when you have time to pencil in stuff like spending time with your family or exercise. The feature is now available for Calendar’s Android and iOS apps. Read MoreSan Bernardino iPhone was hacked using a zero-day exploit
Apr 13, 3:55AM
When terrorists attacked and killed 14 people in San Bernardino, an iPhone 5c was recovered. The phone was said to contain pertinent information that the FBI really wanted their mitts on, and the Washington Post today reports that it was able to, with the help of professional hackers using a security flaw in the iPhone that was previously unknown. Read MoreEverything the tech world says about marketing is wrong
Apr 13, 2:00AM
The biggest problem in marketing in the tech world today is that too many marketers do not know the first thing about marketing. Read MoreLogitech snaps up wireless earbuds maker JayBird for $50M
Apr 13, 1:22AM
Consumer gadgets standby Logitech has acquired JayBird, a maker of fitness-focused wireless earbuds and trackers, for $50 million in cash, the companies announced today. “The Jaybird team will have all the scope to innovate they had before,” said Rory Dooly in a post on the Logitech blog. “They’ll continue to feed the Jaybird brand and design products like the latest… Read MoreTestlio raises $6.25M to expand its testing-as-a-service empire
Apr 13, 1:01AM
Mobile testing startup Testlio today announced it raised a $6.25 million round of funding led by Altos Ventures and Vertex Ventures. The company is aiming to make it easy to do QA for mobile app developers, making it easier to test their apps on a variety of devices in a variety of circumstances. The company also plans to move beyond purely mobile testing. Read MoreFacebook Alive
Apr 13, 12:57AM
“You never slow down, you never grow old.” Tom Petty isn’t playing the F8 after-party, but his song encapsulates the point of Facebook’s conference — a social network won’t go extinct if it’s reactive, personalized, and urgent. Everything launched today is designed to eschew the generic. To wrap around the user and bend to their whims to create a… Read MoreNASA selects 13 early-stage, high-concept moonshots for $100K funding each
Apr 13, 12:23AM
Ah, spring — when a young engineer’s fancy lightly turns to harvesting icy moons for rover fuel. NASA has announced the recipients of its yearly National Innovative Advanced Concepts awards, and they’re just as out there as the planets and other stellar objects they propose to mine, analyze and explore. Read MoreSprimo takes a personal approach to purifying your air
Apr 12, 11:31PM
We’ve written about a number of air purifiers before, but Sprimo is taking a different approach — instead of trying to clean all the air in the room, it creates a personalized stream of clean air for individual users. Now, a phrase like “personalized stream of clean air” might sound a little silly, but CEO Ray Combs and CTO Harold Han (who has a Ph.D. in chemistry from… Read MoreEverything announced at Facebook's F8 conference today
Apr 12, 9:24PM
At Day 1 of Facebook’s F8 developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg laid out the company’s 10 year roadmap and made tons of new announcements. From the Live API to chatbots to a whole new VR camera, here’s everything you need to know. Read MoreFacebook's Instant Articles is now open to all publishers
Apr 12, 9:09PM
As previously announced, Facebook today opened its Instant Articles format to all developers. Using Instant Articles, publishers can show Facebook mobile users a fast-loading and mostly distraction-free view of their posts while still also showing them a limited amount of their own ads (or use Facebook’s Audience Network to monetize their content) and measure pageviews through tools… Read MoreSalesforce and Zendesk want to help brands manage Facebook Messenger traffic
Apr 12, 8:42PM
No sooner had Facebook announced it was opening up Messenger for developers to build bots, when two players with an eye on sales and service in the enterprise — Salesforce and Zendesk — announced new products to manage Messenger traffic on their respective platforms. Salesforce announced Salesforce Messenger, a way for customers to communicate directly with brands through the… Read MoreFacebook launches video Rights Manager to combat freebooting
Apr 12, 8:31PM
There’s an epidemic of stolen videos on Facebook. Business Pages rip videos from YouTube, TV or other Pages, and then post them on Facebook as their own to gain more engagement and fans. This is known as “freebooting.” Video makers were pissed off about it because they were losing video views to others who didn’t have permission to use their clips. Slate sounded the… Read MoreHabito is another London startup aiming for a slice of U.K.'s lucrative mortgage market
Apr 12, 8:14PM
Habito, founded by Daniel Hegarty, pitches itself as the UK’s “first digital mortgage broker” — though Trussle may disagree — and offers an ‘fully automated’ brokering service to help you find the most suitable mortgage and make an application. Read MoreThe era of AI-human hybrid intelligence
Apr 12, 8:00PM
You hear a lot these days about the potential for impending doom as AI becomes ever smarter. Big names are calling for caution: the futurist optimism of protagonists like Ray Kurzweil is outweighed by the concern expressed by Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking. And Swedish philosopher Nick Bostrom’s scary thought experiments around what AI might lead to could well sustain a new… Read MoreFacebook starts allowing "Sponsored Messages" ads
Apr 12, 7:16PM
Facebook launched its Messenger chatbot platform today, but how will it make money on it? By charging businesses to send re-engagement messages to people who’ve already voluntarily started a conversation with them. These “Sponsored Messages” are currently in testing, with a small test of advertisers, and are being heavily monitored by Facebook to prevent them getting spammy.… Read MoreUber shared 14 million users' info with the government, transparency report says
Apr 12, 6:40PM
Uber released its first-ever transparency report today, following in the footsteps of other major technology companies and detailing the kinds of information it shares about riders and drivers with the U.S. government. Between July and December 2015, Uber disclosed information about 14 million users to law enforcement and regulatory agencies, according to its report. Most of the data —… Read MoreNew study shows women in tech ask for less — and receive it
Apr 12, 6:37PM
According to a new study published by the data science team at Hired, a jobs marketplace for tech workers, the average female candidate sets her expected salary at $14,000 less than men. Relatedly or not, 69 percent of the time, men receive higher salary offers than women for the same job title at the same company. (On average, employers pay women 3 percent less for the same roles, though… Read MoreFacebook lets users record Facebook profile videos in third-party apps
Apr 12, 6:31PM
Facebook today launched the Facebook Profile Expression Kit, which gives third-party developers a way to publish videos recorded on their apps as profile pictures on Facebook. The service was announced at the company’s annual developer conference, f8, in San Francisco today. Videos that are recorded on third-party services can now be used as profile videos with the new tools. Details are… Read MoreMobile publishing and monetization startup Marfeel adds support for Facebook's Instant Articles
Apr 12, 6:30PM
Marfeel, a startup that helps publishers adapt to mobile, now supports publishing Instant Articles on Facebook. That might not sound like a big breakthrough — basically, it just means Marfeel can repackage articles for Facebook’s new, native publishing format. However, it illustrates today’s mobile strategy means much more than just creating a mobile website or app.… Read MoreFacebook releases Bot Engine to create much smarter bots
Apr 12, 6:28PM
Messenger is all about bots now. As expected, Facebook unveiled the Send and Receive API at its F8 conference. It lets you create bots for Messenger to search for things and interact with businesses. But what if you want to use machine learning and create more complex scenarios? Meet the Bot Engine, Facebook’s more powerful bot framework. 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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