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Bar Roulette routes your Uber to a random bar nearby
May 07, 12:15AM
Want to go party the night away but not sure where to go? Bar Roulette’s brand new iOS app has you covered. Press a button to summon an Uber, and it will take you to a bar picked from the highest-rated bars on Yelp and Foursquare. The twist? The app won’t tell you where you are going until you arrive. It aims to break you out of your routines and add a bit of adventure to your life. Read MoreWest Ham becomes first English Premiership football club to sign an e-sports player
May 06, 10:39PM
West Ham United has become the first football team in the U.K. to embrace e-sports after the club signed pro gamer and World Cup runner-up Sean Allen, aka Dragonn. Read MoreA $1 paper-based test can detect the Zika virus in around two hours
May 06, 10:25PM
“For our group it’s become an interesting case study in how quickly a group can mobilize in the face of an outbreak,” Dr. James Collins explains over the phone. The MIT biomedical engineering professor has been fielding press inquiries all day, in light of a newly published paper detailing the cheap, fast and effective tool his team developed to diagnose the growing threat of… Read MoreRelay is a beautiful app for creating and sharing custom maps
May 06, 9:20PM
Today’s mapping applications are focused on helping you navigate from one spot to the next, or discovering the businesses around you. But they tend to be utilitarian in nature, and not what anyone would describe as “fun” to use. A new mapping application called Relay changes that. This simple, expertly designed app lets you create custom maps for your upcoming trips, so you… Read MoreGillmor Gang LIVE 05.06.16
May 06, 8:06PM
Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording has concluded for today. Our live chat stream during the show broadcast Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page HERE G3’s archive on ustream G3’s Facebook page HERE Gillmor Gang’s Facebook page HERE G3’s archive on ustream G3’s Facebook page HERE Read MoreRethinking security for the Internet of Things
May 06, 8:00PM
Many people scoffed in January 2014 when Cisco CEO John Chambers pegged the “Internet of Everything” as a potential $17 trillion market, five to 10 times more impactful on society than the Internet itself. Two years later, it seems that Chambers’ prediction for the phenomenon more commonly known as the Internet of Things (IoT) could be on the conservative side. Read MoreLenovo is launching a new $500 million startup fund
May 06, 7:46PM
Chinese tech giant Lenovo is investing $500 million in startups after it announced a new fund. Unlike other corporates, Lenovo has a history of making deft investments. Its first fund, created in 2010 and $100 million in size, includes Israeli facial recognition startup Face++, publicly listed Chinese firm iDreamsky and biometrics specialist Nok Nok Labs among its 40-plus company portfolio. Read MoreEnclave Audio delivers 5.1 surround sound (almost) wirelessly
May 06, 7:36PM
In the list of things that we want science to solve I suspect the creation of a wireless 5.1 speaker system that is easy to use and set up ranks up there in between a cure for shingles and the colonization of Mars. Thankfully, there are people on the job. Enclave Audio has been working on a wireless 5.1 sound system since 2013 and they recently released their first product at CES, the CineHome HD. Read MoreResearchers have developed a flexible holographic smartphone screen that plays a mean game of 'Angry Birds'
May 06, 7:16PM
The first thing you do upon developing a flexible holographic smartphone display? Fire up a game of Angry Birds, naturally. All the rest of that smartphone functionality can wait until you’ve finished a few rounds of slingshotting avian missiles. Maybe it’s not the first thing — but it was clearly high on the list of the Human Media Lab researchers who developed the HoloFlex.… Read MoreMusical.ly raising $100 million at $500 million valuation for social music videos
May 06, 7:04PM
Musical.ly, the app that makes it easy to create music videos, is in the process of raising about $100 million in funding, at around a $500 million post-money valuation, TechCrunch has learned. The details are still being finalized, but the plan is for GGV Capital and Qiming Venture Partners to co-lead the round, with participation from Greylock Partners and DCM. Headquartered in Shanghai… Read More13 TechCrunch stories you don't want to miss this week
May 06, 6:21PM
TechCrunch is gearing up for the Disrupt NY Hackathon and conference. This week, the battle between Brazilian authorities and WhatsApp continued, Tesla shared details about how effective its bioweapon mode is and Uber got hit with another lawsuit. Here are the stories you don’t want to miss. Read MoreRewardStyle helps influencers make money from social
May 06, 5:59PM
These days, you can’t swing a bag of cats around without hitting some sort of social influencer. But how do these people make money from their content? RewardStyle, a Dallas-based startup, provides a platform for influencers and bloggers to get paid for all the sales they inspire out of consumers. Though the company has been operating under the radar, it has grown to generate more than… Read MoreUber appoints former EC VP Neelie Kroes to its public policy board
May 06, 5:19PM
Taxi app Uber, which continues to battle regulatory clamp downs and legal confrontations in Europe, has appointed a former VP of the European Union’s executive arm, the European Commission, to its public policy advisory board as it looks to grease the gearbox of its regional fortunes. Read MoreTo the next POTUS: For communities of color, encryption is a civil right
May 06, 4:35PM
Communities of color don’t have the luxury of such complacency. For too long, unwarranted and unconstitutional surveillance has targeted the most vulnerable Americans — people of color, immigrants, welfare recipients, and political activists who challenge the status quo. Read MoreThe tech geek's burden
May 06, 4:00PM
The tech geeks are coming to government. Whether they’re in our cities as Code for America volunteers or part of the federal U.S. Digital Service and 18F, programmers, data scientists and UX designers are starting to find their place in the public sector. This is a good thing. The more accomplished technology professionals devoting their talents to public service, the better. However… Read MoreGoogle connects BigQuery to Google Drive and Sheets
May 06, 4:00PM
Google today announced that it is bringing some of its Google Cloud Platform and Google Apps tools a little bit closer together. BigQuery, Google’s serverless analytics data warehousing service, will now be able to read files from Google Drive and access spreadsheets from Google Sheets. There has long been something of a firewall between Google’s cloud computing services and its… Read MoreThe TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off is coming to Stockholm just in time for the summer
May 06, 3:55PM
Hello startup friends! The TechCrunch team had a great idea — the summer is right around the corner, so we’re going to celebrate Nordic startups with a Meetup + Pitch-Off in Stockholm for the first time ever on June 7. “What a great idea, how do I get involved?” you’re probably thinking right now. So here’s what’s up. As the name suggest, the… Read MoreWant more screen space on your smartwatch? Put a ring on it…
May 06, 2:58PM
Can two wearables be better than one? Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) will be presenting some new research next week in which they demonstrate a technique aimed at extending the available screen space for smartwatch wearers by adding an additional wearable into the mix: a ring. Read MoreThe dehumanization of Facebook Messenger
May 06, 2:57PM
I used to answer every message. Not any more. When Messenger buzzes, now I don’t know if it will be a friend or a bot. Every chime forces me to do a little Turing test in my head. Was I expecting to be pinged by a pal? Or is it 8:11pm again and TechCrunch’s bot is sending me another daily digest. Read MoreAnnouncing the Disrupt NY Hackathon judges and API workshops
May 06, 2:39PM
The TechCrunch Disrupt NY Hackathon kicks off tomorrow, and we’re honored to welcome the hackathon’s stellar judges. 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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