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Uh-oh! Crowdfunded social robot Jibo won't now ship internationally
Aug 11, 9:22AM
Jibo, a cutesy social robot pitched to crowdfunders in mid 2014 as ‘the world’s first social robot’ but since delayed and yet to arrive in the market some nine months after its original due date, is now only going to ship to backers in the U.S. and Canada. Read MoreLogitech's new Pop Home Switch simplifies smart home control
Aug 11, 7:01AM
Logitech has a new device called the Pop Home Switch, and it’s a bit different from their usual offerings. A company known for Universal Remotes encrusted with physical keys, touchscreen displays and all manner of interaction options is instead going for single-button simplicity. The Pop is a broad button about the size of your palm, which connects to a hub that plugs directly into an… Read MoreDelivery startup Glovo scores €5M Series A, backers include Postmates investor Entreé Capital
Aug 11, 7:00AM
The latest on-demand delivery startup to pick up backing is Barcelona-headquartered Glovo. The company operates a local on-demand delivery service similar to Postmates in the U.S. or the U.K.’s Jinn, and is disclosing €5 million in Series A funding. Read MoreGarena's Nick Nash explains the business behind Southeast Asia's $4B tech giant
Aug 11, 6:24AM
Nick Nash, President of Garena, discusses his company and its new focus on e-commerce and payments in Southeast Asia. Read MoreCrunch Report | Robots are everywhere
Aug 11, 4:20AM
Palantir acquires Silk, Abundant Robotics has built robots that pick apples, Adidas is building a robot factory to build shoes, and Berkeley Labs is building mini robots to map the galaxy, Macbook Pro could have a second screen and Touch ID, the White House’s new messenger bot lets citizens send messages to the president, Elon Musk wants to build solar roofs. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
Breaking news: Bill Maris is leaving GV
Aug 11, 1:53AM
Bill Maris, who founded GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) in 2009, is leaving the unit at the end of this week, according to a new report from Recode. Maris, a neuroscience student at Middlebury who cofounded an early web hosting company before joining Google, is reportedly being replaced by David Krane. Krane is a managing partner at GV; he joined the venture arm in 2010, after… Read MoreWhile many on-demand food startups fail to deliver, iFood picks up $30 million to expand in Latin America
Aug 11, 12:30AM
The Brazilian on-demand food delivery company, iFood has picked up $30 million in new financing to expand regionally and solidify its grip over the online food delivery market outside of the US. Read MoreCareSkore gets $4.3M to bring machine learning to preventive care
Aug 10, 11:45PM
Among other things, CareSkore wants to use machine learning to anticipate mortality. However, the newly endowed platform is more than just a Facebook poll that tells you how you’ll meet your end this Christmas by being squashed by a falling piano. Storm ventures, Cota Capital, Rising Tide Fund and Liquid 2 Ventures are rallying behind the Y Combinator graduate with today’s… Read MoreUPDATE: Twilio's IPO and the rise of the next 100M developers
Aug 10, 10:00PM
Twilio recently exceeded expectations with an IPO that priced them at over $1 billion. For some, this proves that developers are the future of business. While they are certainly an indispensable asset, as more and more businesses turn to the cloud, what about the rest of us? What about the admins and the marketers and those who are equally important to a business but don’t code? Read MoreYelp will soon let you skip the line at restaurants thanks to Nowait partnership
Aug 10, 9:57PM
Yelp and Nowait announced a partnership that will enable Yelp users to check nearby restaurants’ wait times and “get in line” remotely from the Yelp app. Yelp will be making an $8 million strategic investment as part of the partnership, which was announced as part as Yelp’s 2Q earnings release yesterday. Based in Pittsburgh, PA, Nowait is a mobile platform that has… Read MoreToyota Research Institute provides $22M to University of Michigan for AI studies
Aug 10, 9:49PM
Toyota Research Institute (TRI), a Toyota R&D organization headquartered in Silicon Valley, is providing $22 million over four years in an initial research grant with the University of Michigan. The funding follows Toyota’s opening of a third research facility for TRI at the U of M campus, which it officially announced in April this year. The funding is earmarked for… Read MoreHow Apple will convince us to love the dongle
Aug 10, 9:09PM
Hi, and welcome to my obligatory hot take on the nearly confirmed no-headphone-jack iPhones we’re about to see rolling out of Apple. I’m not an absolute fan of this idea, but we’ve seen this sort of behavior from Apple before — most notably the move from the 30-pin dock jack that probably caused a bit of an e-waste problem, forcing users and most notably hotels to… Read MoreFormer Facebook engineers launch Fabric, an automated personal journal of your life
Aug 10, 9:07PM
Technology has made it simple to record and archive our digital memories through posts, snapshots, videos and more, but it can sometimes be a struggle to surface our past – our memories, activities and other experiences – in an easily accessible way. A new mobile application called Fabric, built by two former Facebook engineers, aims to solve that problem. Co-founders Arun… Read MoreNo Man's Sky players discover over 10M unique in-game species overnight
Aug 10, 8:39PM
The space exploration game No Man’s Sky features biodiversity that would make Earth weep with envy, and players are incredibly avid taxonomers. Hello Games founder Sean Murray tweeted today that players have racked up over 10 million species discoveries thus far in-game, which is around five to 6.5 times the number of known species on earth, depending on whose numbers you trust. While… Read MoreNASA awards companies $65 million to develop habitats for deep space
Aug 10, 7:39PM
NASA is serious about going to Mars, and not just for a quick visit, either. It just committed $65 million, spread over two years and six companies, for the purpose of developing and testing deep-space habitats that could be used on the way to — and on the surface of — the Red Planet. Read MoreKyocera's new rugged handset doubles as an action cam
Aug 10, 7:22PM
Rugged is just kind of Kyocera’s thing, when it comes to handsets, and the new DuraForce Pro does its best to uphold that tradition with a Military Standard 810G grade rugged body and IP68 certification, which its dustproof and can withstand a two meter dunking for up to 30 minutes. None of that’s really all that different for the line, but the Pro does bring a newfound focus on… Read MoreInnovaccer raises $15.6M to give businesses one stop for all their data
Aug 10, 7:22PM
Abhinav Shashank was working on an academic project at Harvard with his colleagues Kanav Hasija and Sandeep Gupta — figuring out how to pool together large data sets from hundreds of different sources and APIs and manage them — when his business colleagues started asking him to help apply those tools. The result was Innovaccer, a set of software that mashes together data from… Read MoreQuizlet launches a redesign with an eye towards international expansion
Aug 10, 6:59PM
Quizlet, the popular app that lets students create interactive study sets and prepare for tests in any subject, is unveiling a redesign today, including a new website, logo and redesigned mobile apps soon to come. The new Quizlet was created with an eye on international expansion. The San Francisco edtech startup now offers translated and localized versions of its study tools in German,… Read MoreXPRIZE launches AI 2020 competition with IBM Watson
Aug 10, 6:20PM
Close your eyes. What do you see when you think about artificial intelligence? Hal 9000 defying human orders? Ava savagely murdering her maker? What about ARIIA taking over the country from deep inside the Pentagon? With a new competition, XPRIZE and IBM Watson challenge us to think slightly more pragmatically (or at least less apocalyptically dystopian) about the implications of… Read MoreTor's new social contract includes 'no backdoors' pledge
Aug 10, 5:34PM
Pro-privacy organization Tor, which distributes anonymizing web browser tools, has published a social contract — promoting what it dubs its commitment to ‘advancing human rights’. 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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