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Bigelow Aerospace partners with ULA to launch private space habitats
Apr 14, 4:04AM
Through a new partnership announced this week, United Launch Alliance (ULA) will work with Bigelow Aerospace to launch a large inflatable habitat on an Atlas V rocket in 2020. The size of the habitat will be based off of Bigelow’s B330 module, which is named for its total expanded volume of 330 cubic meters. The announcement comes shortly after Bigelow Aerospace had their smaller… Read MoreGestigon and Renault know if you're ready to take the wheel
Apr 14, 2:34AM
Between the current advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and the future, the completely autonomous car rests in some potentially treacherous semi-autonomous territory. Renault has enlisted the help of gesture-control experts at gestigon to help ease the transition from vehicles taking care of driving tasks to humans taking over driving duties. Read MoreObama appoints tech veterans from Microsoft and Uber to cybersecurity commission
Apr 14, 1:13AM
The President has just released the list of appointees to the Committee on Enhancing National Cybersecurity — and it’s more or less what you’d expect: higher-ups from the big players in tech, plus some academics and the former director of the NSA. Wait, what? Read MoreInterim guidelines to the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act
Apr 14, 1:00AM
Despite the objections of many privacy advocates and security professionals, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) is now the law of the land. Slipped into the 2016 federal omnibus spending bill, CISA permits private entities to share information about cyberthreat indicators (CTIs) and defensive measures against cyber attacks, both with each other and with the federal government. Read MoreBurr-Feinstein encryption bill is officially here in all its scary glory
Apr 14, 12:14AM
Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein released the official version of their anti-encryption bill today after a draft appeared online last week. The bill, titled the Compliance with Court Orders Act 2016, would require tech firms to decrypt customers’ data at a court’s request. Read MorePayPal Credit expands to the UK with an interest-free option for purchases over £150
Apr 13, 11:12PM
After separating from eBay, PayPal has been on a march to grow both its international business and transactions beyond basic e-commerce. Today it is taking a step to do both, with the U.K. launch of PayPal Credit — a service that lets consumers use their PayPal accounts to spread out online payments for goods as a replacement for traditional credit cards. It will give consumers… Read MoreFacebook's new chatbots still need work
Apr 13, 10:34PM
Facebook debuted chatbots for Messenger this week to much fanfare, promising consumers a new way to interact with their favorite businesses over the company’s popular messaging service. The idea is that Messenger users could simply “chat” with these automated software programs to do things like read the latest news from CNN, get a weather report or even go shopping. In… Read MoreOhio State's woven-in antennas take us one step closer to smart jeans
Apr 13, 10:23PM
Wearables may be the next big thing, but what about the wearables we already wear? Integrating electronics into everyday clothes is still some distance off, but researchers at Ohio State University have taken an important step: weaving circuits into clothes with enough precision to integrate them with ordinary PCBs. Read MoreAirbnb's VP of engineering on the sharing economy
Apr 13, 9:30PM
The sharing economy, which is sometimes referred to as collaborative consumption, has become a household term — at least in the tech industry — that signifies peer-to-peer exchanges through technology. “The fact that there are so many terms going around these things is almost a function of the fact the industry is so new,” Airbnb VP of Engineering Mike Curtis told me… Read More
Journalist Matthew Keys sentenced to 2 years in hacking case
Apr 13, 9:27PM
Former Reuters journalist Matthew Keys was sentenced today to two years in prison on hacking charges. He faced a maximum sentence of 25 years. During his sentencing hearing, Keys tweeted, “This whole process has been exhausting.” Keys was convicted last October of violating the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA), in a bizarre case that led to the temporary defacement of a… Read MoreHouse committee votes unanimously for Email Privacy Act
Apr 13, 9:18PM
Maybe you’ve delighted in reading some of Hillary Clinton’s more humorous emails, released in several stages over the past year — there’s the one where she calls Harriet Tubman her “home girl,” or the time she jokes about Chinese hackers messing with her contacts. But imagine someone digging into your old emails and reading through all your bad jokes,… Read MoreVine releases a Watch button because scrolling is too much work
Apr 13, 9:10PM
Vine, Twitter’s social network turned entertainment platform, is today announcing a new way to consume content on the app. The company is introducing a “Watch” button, which will let users watch a particular channel or account without needing to scroll. When a user presses the watch button on a certain account or channel, videos in that feed will play back-to-back… Read MoreThreaded messaging is coming to Slack
Apr 13, 7:19PM
In an interview with Walt Mossberg, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield said threaded messaging — perhaps one of the service’s most important missing components — is finally coming. Butterfield told Mossberg that Slack had been using threading internally for months while testing what the best version of the tool would be for the service, which will hopefully come out in the… Read MoreEverything announced at Facebook's F8 conference
Apr 13, 7:15PM
This means developers will now be able to use React Native to write apps for the Windows laptops, tablets and phones, as well as Samsung devices that run on Tizen, including some of its smartwatches and TVs. Read MoreRegulators plan to revoke Theranos' federal license and ban founder Elizabeth Holmes
Apr 13, 7:06PM
Theranos might find itself homeless soon. A federal agency plans to force founder Elizabeth Holmes out of her blood analysis startup for two years and take away the California lab’s federal license. First reported in the Wall Street Journal, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services sent a letter dated March 18 proposing sanctions barring Holmes and company president Sunny… Read MoreRegina Dugan exits Google to lead Facebook's Building 8, a new R&D lab
Apr 13, 6:51PM
Talent wars may never cease in Silicon Valley. Facebook today announced it has hired former Google vice president of advanced technology and projects, Regina Dugan, to head up a new group dubbed Building 8. According to a company statement, Dr. Dugan’s department will combine R&D with product development, and focus on technologies that “fluidly blend physical and digital… Read MoreVeteran Apple designer leaves for GoPro to be VP of Design
Apr 13, 6:39PM
Longtime Apple industrial designer Danny Coster is joining GoPro. Coster had worked at Apple since the early 1990s, and helped Apple re-establish itself after Steve Jobs returned. Now he has to do that to GoPro. GoPro’s stock popped on the news and is trading up on the day. The news comes from The Information and an internal email sent from GoPro’s founder and CEO, Nick… Read MoreFacebook will soon be able to automatically tag your friends in videos
Apr 13, 6:19PM
Facebook is making big strides in using its artificial intelligence systems for image recognition, but it’s also working on bringing this technology to video. As the company demoed at its F8 developer conference in San Francisco today, it has a team working on automatically tagging people in videos. As Facebook’s director of machine learning Joaquin Quiñonero Candela said during… Read MoreAndroid N Developer Preview 2 hits with Vulkan, shortcuts, less-generic emoji
Apr 13, 6:17PM
Developers, start your fastboots! Android N’s Developer Preview 2 is now live for OTA updates or manual flashing. This update brings a mixed bag of features and fixes. Read MoreLegal health isn't easy for digital health companies
Apr 13, 6:00PM
With the recent announcement of the Apple CareKit, an open-source platform to simplify the development of healthcare apps for iOS devices, it appears that the digital health industry is primed to become even more robust in 2016. As the convergence of healthcare and technology continues, technology companies (and investors) are increasingly finding themselves lost in a thicket of unique… 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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