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Apple's head of legal says it refused China's request for its source code
Apr 20, 5:11AM
Apple’s head of legal has denied a long-standing rumor that it has collaborated with the Chinese government to provide its source code. Read More
Samsung Pay will launch in Singapore "as early as Q2 2016"
Apr 20, 4:18AM
Samsung has already said it will launch Samsung Pay in Singapore this year, but today it set a more definite timeline–sort of. The company announced that the service will be available in retail stores “as early as Q2 2016,” the day after rival Apple Pay rolled out in Singapore for the first time. Read More
How paid journalism must work online — and why Blendle can't
Apr 20, 3:00AM
I write. I work with writers. I studied English — many of my friends became journalists. The future of being able to charge for quality material online is really important to me. However, to make progress in this area, I think the industry needs to stop pinning its hopes on the same dead ends that come up again and again. To me, one of these is microtransactions for material. Read More
Tech coalitions pen open letter to Burr and Feinstein over bill banning encryption
Apr 20, 1:39AM
A group of tech coalitions has written an open letter to Senators Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), concerning their bill requiring all encryption to be breakable on command, which achieved infamy in record time following the leak of a draft earlier this month. Read More
Apple is finally adding full web previews for tvOS apps
Apr 20, 12:04AM
Apple is finally getting around to adding web previews for tvOS apps — correcting a rather baffling and prolonged omission. Read More
Snapchat's crazy "3D Stickers" just came to iOS. Here's how to use them
Apr 19, 11:06PM
About a week ago, Snapchat flipped on a new feature: the ability to “pin” emojis to objects in your videos, and have those emojis track that object and move around with them. It was only for Android users when it launched last week, but it’s hitting iOS today. Here’s how to use them. Read More
PillDrill is a home medication scanning system for keeping track of prescriptions
Apr 19, 9:35PM
The fight to drag the healthcare system kicking and screaming into the 21st century often overlooks the little picture in favor of larger systematic fixes. But for many users on multiple meds, the only thing standing between them and an incorrect or missed dosage is a big, plastic box from the drugstore sporting embossed letters of the days of the week. Read More
Mad scientist shrinks Arduino to size of an AA battery
Apr 19, 9:30PM
The hardware tinkerers and prototype mavens out there will invariably have stumbled across the Arduino platform. Completely open source and always pushing the limits for collaboration, there are a ton of different development boards available, but none are as awesome as Johan Kanflo’s AAduino. Behind the delightfully punny name, you’ll find an Arduino-compatible board the size of an… Read More
EFF sues DOJ for access to secret court orders on decryption
Apr 19, 9:12PM
Does the government secretly force companies to decrypt their customers’ messages, build backdoors or hand over their source code so that law enforcement officials can pick through it for vulnerabilities? Those are the questions at the center of an Electronic Frontier Foundation lawsuit filed today against the Justice Department. Read More
TechCrunch launches a personalized news recommendations bot on Facebook Messenger
Apr 19, 9:07PM
We’re excited to announce the launch of the first cross-platform and personalized news recommendations bot on Facebook Messenger. The bot is part of Facebook’s “Agents for Messenger” program revealed at F8, and it will help our readers get the news they want from us in a more conversational way. Read More
OneWeb will mass-produce historic number of satellites with new Florida factory
Apr 19, 9:05PM
OneWeb Satellites, the joint venture between OneWeb LLC and Airbus Defense and Space, has selected Florida to be the home of their satellite manufacturing facility. Located in Exploration Park near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the factory will turn out most of OneWeb’s 900 satellites that will be used to provide global Internet coverage. OneWeb satellite factory to be located… Read More
Yahoo reports flat earnings amid acquisition talks
Apr 19, 8:27PM
Wall Street is watching Yahoo today, but not just because of its first quarterly earnings announcement that was reported after the bell. The company is for sale and reportedly has a slew of bidders, including TechCrunch’s parent, Verizon. Yahoo’s Board of Directors has been considering what’s called a “reverse spin,” to separate Yahoo’s core assets from… Read More
Intel announces it's slashing 12,000 jobs
Apr 19, 8:12PM
Intel just announced it was slashing its workforce by 11 percent, calling it in all its corporate press-speak glory “a restructuring to accelerate its transformation.” Sure. What it means in real human terms is that 12,000 people will be losing their jobs worldwide, and that is never a good thing to hear. Read More
Banks and fintech in 2025: An unlikely alliance
Apr 19, 7:00PM
Banking as we know it is in the midst of its first fundamental remaking in centuries. What’s driving this transformation? Two major shifts: our transition to interacting with money digitally instead of physically, which opened finances to tech disruption, and a tech wave that has changed the way consumers define ease and convenience. Read More
Postmates launching 15-minute food delivery service in NYC tomorrow
Apr 19, 6:54PM
On-demand delivery startup Postmates is launching Pop, its 15-minutes-or-less food delivery service, in New York City tomorrow at 11am ET. With Pop, which launched in San Francisco back in October, Postmates features a daily curated list of lunch items that you can receive in 15 minutes or less. Pop will be available from 34th street down to the Bowery in New York. Upon launch, there will be… Read More
Apple and the FBI spar at Congressional hearing on encryption
Apr 19, 6:40PM
The FBI’s legal battle with Apple over an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters was rehashed today before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which heard testimony from law enforcement officials and technologists about the role encryption plays in criminal investigations. The FBI’s executive assistant director for science and technology, Amy Hess, and… Read More
Tech fatigue
Apr 19, 6:25PM
This isn’t a rant post. But if you have worked in tech for long enough, you know this feeling — tech fatigue. At some point, everything new feels old, everything different feels dumb. If you get stuck in this circle of endless cynicism, you need to ask yourself the important questions. Read More
'Steve – The Jumping Dinosaur' is a simple game you can play from the iOS Notification Center
Apr 19, 6:24PM
Casual gaming, say hello to super-duper casual gaming. A mobile game that you can play in your iPhone’s Notification Center — yes, without even unlocking your phone — is now the No. 15 top game in Apple’s U.S. App Store and is flirting with becoming a top 50 Overall app. Called “Steve – The Jumping Dinosaur Widget Game,” the game is a very simple… Read More
Mesosphere open sources its data center OS
Apr 19, 5:47PM
Mesosphere‘s Data Center Operating System (DC/OS) aims to allow developers and admins to treat a data center as a single computer that runs applications in software containers. It’s based on a number of open-source projects, including the Apache Mesos cluster manager and projects like the Chronos scheduler and the Marathon container orchestration platform. Now, Mesosphere is… Read More
Capital One open sources Cloud Custodian AWS resource management tool
Apr 19, 5:39PM
Capital One is a huge organization with lots of compliance issues related to being a financial services company. It also happens to be an Amazon Web Services customer and it needed a tool to set rules and policies in an efficient way around AWS usage. Last July it started developing the tool that would become Cloud Custodian; today it announced at an AWS event in Chicago that it was making… Read More
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