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DeepMind's first NHS health app faces more regulatory bumps

Jul 20, 10:05AM

DeepMind Streams It’s fair to say that Google-owned AI company DeepMind’s big push into the health space via data-access collaborations with the UK’s National Health Service — announced with much fanfare in February this year — has not been running entirely smoothly so far. But there are more regulatory bumps in the road ahead for DeepMind Health. Read More



Kinsa's new Smart Elmo Thermometer is Sesame Street's first connected device

Jul 20, 10:00AM

SS-Lifestyle_Mom_Baby A Sesame Street partnership is a big coup for any company – let alone one that’s only existed for four years and produced two Indiegogo-backed products. But Kinsa’s line of smart thermometers clearly struck a chord with the team behind everyone’s favorite educational monsters. The hardware startup’s third official product is also the first connected device to get… Read More



Trim personal finance bot raises $2.2 million to save you money

Jul 20, 10:00AM

unnamed Ever wonder how much you spend each month on Uber? The newly released Trim chatbot will tell you in a text. Trim also helps you manage subscriptions, set up spending alerts and check your bank balance. But there is no app, only a bot that can be linked to SMS or Facebook. “Anything that you can do on your mobile banking app, you can do with trim with the exception of moving… Read More



Product comparison engine Versus acquired by Germany's MenschDanke Group

Jul 20, 8:00AM

Versus Versus, the Berlin-based product comparison site and engine backed by Earlybird Venture Capital, and Dave McClure’s 500 Startups (amongst others), has been acquired by Germany’s MenschDanke Group, which owns several shopping and online discount properties. Read More



Pokemon Go is a hit at Hot Topic, but hardly happening at Home Depot

Jul 20, 4:01AM

poketopic As Pokemon Go moves into the real-world partner marketing business with McDonald’s, one might wonder what businesses potentially stand to gain the most from association with Niantic’s world dominating location-based collect’em game. Well, Red Robin should plan a Squirtleburger™, if data gathered by location analytics firm Placed is any indication. The company used info… Read More



Twitter finally bans Milo Yiannopoulos, one of its most notorious trolls

Jul 20, 3:34AM

twitter-140-media Twitter has permanently suspended Milo Yiannopoulos, an editor at the conservative news outlet Breitbart and one of its most notorious trolls. The expulsion of Yiannopoulos, who counted more than 300,000 followers on the service, comes just one day after he urged on a hateful mob that harassed ‘Ghostbusters’ actress Leslie Jones to the point that she quit Twitter. Jones received… Read More



Crunch Report | Using Bitmoji in Snapchat

Jul 20, 3:00AM

You can now use Bitmoji in Snapchat, apply to be verified on Twitter, Twitter will stream two NBA shows, Pokemon Go is launching in Japan tomorrow and Google gets a record number of data requests. All this on Crunch Report. Read More



Pokémon Go launch in Japan postponed after email leak

Jul 20, 2:47AM

A woman holds up her cell phone as she plays the Pokemon Go game in Lafayette Park in front of the White House in Washington, DC, July 12, 2016.  Pokémon Go mania is sweeping the US as players armed with smartphones hunt streets, parks, rivers and elsewhere to capture monsters and gather supplies in the hit game. The free application based on a Nintendo title that debuted 20 years ago has been adapted to the mobile internet Age by Niantic Labs, a company spun out of Google last year after breaking ground with an "Ingress" game that merged mapping capabilities with play. As of July 11, 2016 Pokémon Go had been downloaded millions of times, jumping topping rankings at official online shops for applications tailored for smartphones powered by Apple or Google-backed Android software.    (Photo: JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) Game-maker Niantic has postponed today’s scheduled launch of Pokémon Go in Japan after internal emails leaked out on to the internet. Read More



Unilever buys Dollar Shave Club for reported $1B value

Jul 20, 2:23AM

dollar shave club Unilever creates and captures a unicorn with its plans to acquire Dollar Shave Club. Announced this evening, the $130 billion dollar multinational consumer goods company is speculated to be paying $1 billion, all cash, for the startup, according to reports from Fortune. If the pricing is true, the transaction will be the third largest ever in e-commerce, only beaten by zulily… Read More



Only the privileged fear a robot revolution

Jul 20, 1:00AM

Technology Helping Children Leading venture capitalists, scientists and CEOs all have the same prediction for AI: machines will take jobs away, “eat the world” and, ultimately, overthrow humanity. These histrionics have driven a widely accepted negative narrative about this technology’s potential impact on humanity. That needs to change. Bringing AI into the mainstream world should be met with hope… Read More



After 3 weeks, Worldpay still fumbling millions of Etsy transactions

Jul 20, 12:35AM

Worldpay HQ Etsy users had another bad week as payment processor Worldpay continues to cause problems. Late last week, some Etsy users began reporting that they had experienced duplicate charges. The forum on Etsy for duplicate charges is approaching one thousand posts. In a statement, Worldpay admitted to causing the duplicate charges for Etsy users in its attempts to rectify the problem.… Read More



One professor's quest to 3D scan every fish in the sea

Jul 20, 12:04AM

Thoracocorax-stellatus-Spotfin-hatchetfish If you were wondering what a mottled sculpin looks like, there are plenty of pictures available online. But while they may satisfy a curious tidepooler, the discerning ichthyologist demands more. That’s why a professor at the University of Washington is getting full 3D scans of every fish in the sea — every species, anyway. Read More



Car sharing leads to reduced car ownership and emissions in cities, study finds

Jul 19, 9:47PM

car2go_Toronto_2 Cars are one of the top contributors to greenhouse gas emissions globally, and cars in cities can be especially heavy with their contributions, owing to traffic and population density. And while encouraging everyone to bike or use public transit probably isn’t going to convince everyone to ditch car ownership, car sharing services seem to be winning more city denizens over, and a new… Read More



Harassment of Ghostbusters' Leslie Jones shows Twitter needs to change

Jul 19, 8:54PM

Cast member Leslie Jones poses at the premiere of the film "Ghostbusters" in Hollywood, California U.S., July 9, 2016. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni Leslie Jones, the star of the new “Ghostbusters” reboot and a cast member on “Saturday Night Live,” announced she was leaving Twitter after trolls bombarded her with racist comments. “I leave Twitter tonight with tears and a very sad heart,” Jones tweeted before going silent on her account, where she’d spent the last several days battling trolls. Read More



Facebook wants to use fluorescence to make its laser drones work better

Jul 19, 8:41PM

fluorescence materials excited with UV light in lab A team of physicists and electrical engineers at Facebook published a new idea for using luminescence to improve signal detection in free-space optical communication today. Facebook, in a partnership with Internet.org, has been developing drones to deliver basic internet access to remote locations around the globe. Last year, the company came out with a plan, codenamed Project Aquila, to… Read More



Facebook throws shade at Snapchat's anti-creepy business

Jul 19, 8:21PM

Where? “They’re going to hit some challenges and marketers are gonna start to ask questions when they get out of the experimental budget phase,” Facebook’s head of adtech said about Snapchat today. While Facebook tries to collect as much data about users as possible to prove its ads work, Snapchat has tried to avoid being creepy, despite that hindering its potential… Read More



Reco thinks books are better when they're recommended by people you trust

Jul 19, 8:10PM

reco-main I still love books, and I still have a fair amount of trouble finding new ones to read that I’ll actually enjoy. Helping with discovery is the idea behind Reco, a new mobile app from Canadian bookseller and retailer Indigo, which provides users with a social network based around books, and people’s love thereof. “We have a kind of obsessive focus on who our customers are,… Read More



Microsoft's Q4 earnings beat Street with $22.6B in revenue, $0.69 EPS

Jul 19, 8:09PM

microsoft-earnings Microsoft today reported earnings for its fourth fiscal quarter of 2016, its first earnings report after announcing its proposed acquisition of LinkedIn. The company’s earnings came in at a non-GAAP revenue of $22.6 billion ($20.6 billion GAAP) and $0.69 of non-GAAP per-share profit ($0.39 GAAP), and were well above expectations. Like in previous quarters, the results reflect strong… Read More



Google introduces speedier ads to its Accelerated Mobile Pages program

Jul 19, 8:08PM

google-amp-android-phone Google has been working to create a faster news reading experience through its Accelerated Mobile Pages project. Now it’s bringing something similar to online ads. AMP is an open framework for creating articles that load more quickly, particularly on mobile. (They also can be sped up by loading from Google’s cache.) At the time the program was announced, Google said it would… Read More



How international students are keeping US colleges afloat and powering the tech industry

Jul 19, 8:00PM

International House at the University of Chicago Think back on your college experience and you may recall the presence of an on-campus residence set aside for international students. The fact that there was likely only one house for all the students probably made you think your school didn’t have a large international contingent. Now consider the fact that nearly 1 million foreign students attend colleges and universities across the U.S. Read More




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