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Uber's first self-driving cars will start picking up passengers this month
Aug 18, 11:53AM
In an interview with Bloomberg, CEO Travis Kalanick revealed that the company is preparing to introduce self-driving cars to its fleet of drivers in Pittsburgh this month. The company will deploy around 100 modified Volvo XC90s outfitted with self-driving equipment. Read MoreGartner: Android's smartphone marketshare hit 86.2% in Q2
Aug 18, 11:46AM
What growth there is left in the smartphone market continues to center on emerging markets where consumers are upgrading from feature phones. Read MoreNextHealth raises $8.5M from Norwest to drive down medical costs
Aug 18, 11:34AM
One of the few remaining universal truths is that healthcare costs are too high. Insurance companies are bucking under the pressure from the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and they are willing to try almost anything if it means reducing costs. With a shiny $8.5 million Series A from Norwest Venture Partners, NextHealth will be making that exact promise of reducing healthcare costs to U.S.… Read MoreNokia's Ozo VR camera now more affordable, heading to China
Aug 18, 10:16AM
Nokia has reduced the price of its high end VR camera Ozo by $15,000. The new global price-tag for the teardrop-shaped device, which captures 360° spherical video and 360×360 surround sound to create immersive content for viewing via virtual reality devices, is $45,000. Read MoreUber ups its focus on India with new booking options exclusive to the country
Aug 18, 9:51AM
Many speculated that India is the next battleground for Uber after it agreed to sell its China business last month, and the U.S. company certainly does seem to be increasing its focus on India after it launched two new features that, while subtle, could help it win more customers in the country. Read MoreMeesho wants to make selling through WhatsApp more efficient and less painful
Aug 18, 5:54AM
Meesho is a Shopify for mobile that targets the many thousands small business that rely on WhatsApp for sales and marketing. Read MoreCrunch Report | Getting to the bottom of NSA hack
Aug 18, 3:17AM
An interview with TC’s cybersecurity reporter Kate Conger about the NSA hack, Instagram brings us concerts and sporting events, Casper now offers dog beds for delivery, Amazon has a curated store for Product Hunt’s featured items, and Univision buys Gawker. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
Engaging kids in design-based learning
Aug 18, 3:00AM
While most kids their age are glued to various digital devices, often wasting hours playing mindless games or watching cat videos, 164 fourth and fifth graders, along with eight elementary school teachers, have been using those same devices to explore new paths to learning. Read MoreReigns is a medieval game of life or death (mostly death)
Aug 18, 1:55AM
Reigns is a new gaming app, currently featured as a favorite by Apple. You are a king and the answer to whether you live or die — and how — is in the cards. Quite literally. As ruler, you are presented with a deck. Each card is someone in your kingdom who is asking for help or notifying you of a problem on the rise. How you answer determines your fate. A swipe to the left is one… Read MorePicture This Clothing turns your kid's crayon art into a sweet dress
Aug 18, 1:29AM
It’s a magical world we live in, people. Where once our brilliant crayon drawings were condemned to live forever two-dimensionally on a piece of dog-eared construction paper, now they can be given the life they deserve — either as an endearingly grotesque plush doll or, with this new service, an awesome dress. Read MoreCoursera's co-founder Daphne Koller set to start anew at Calico
Aug 18, 12:54AM
In a blog post, Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller announced she is leaving the company to join Alphabet subsidiary Calico. Koller founded Coursera with Andrew Ng back in 2012 after working together on artificial intelligence research at Stanford. The two supported the company’s growth until Ng left to become chief scientist at Baidu’s research arm. Today Coursera has grown… Read MoreSocial investing site Instavest raises $1.7M in seed funding
Aug 17, 11:50PM
Part of YC’s Winter 2015 class, Instavest is a startup trying to turn investing — an activity most of us are used to doing privately — into a social activity. The site launched about a year and a half ago with the goal of helping average retail investors learn from others who have more experience in investing and the stock market. Today the startup announced… Read MoreBlockai's new tool combines tweeting and claiming copyright
Aug 17, 11:13PM
Blockai is supposed to help photographers and artists defend their intellectual property. Now it’s launching a new feature to make that process easier — or at least better-integrated with Twitter. Previously, Blockai users would go to the startup’s website to upload their work, creating a record in a public database (namely, the blockchain) stating that they’re the… Read MoreY Combinator's Multiply Labs launches a 3D-printed vitamin with a time-release twist
Aug 17, 10:23PM
There have been quite a few “clean” vitamin and supplement startups popping up lately — Olly, Ritual, Elysium Health and Nootrobox are just a few of the venture-backed chosen in the space — and many offer different combinations for better hair, brain power, focus and energy in several different packages and subscription plans. Elysium even claims to help with… Read MoreCisco and Fortinet say vulnerabilities disclosed in 'NSA hack' are legit
Aug 17, 10:14PM
A group calling itself the Shadow Brokers dumped data online this weekend that it claimed to have stolen from the Equation Group, a hacking team widely believed to be associated with the NSA. Firewall makers Cisco and Fortinet have now confirmed that vulnerabilities included in the data dump affected their products — a disclosure that lends credence to the theory that the Equation Group… Read MoreDevices could recycle radio waves instead of transmitting them with new 'interscatter' technique
Aug 17, 10:07PM
If we’re ever to have things like smart contact lenses and permanent brain implants, one of the things we need to figure out is the power problem. Those devices need energy for collecting, processing and especially transmitting data — but that last one might not be a problem anymore, thanks to a new technique called interscatter communication. Read MoreHuawei replaces Xiaomi at top of Chinese smartphone market
Aug 17, 9:44PM
The most recent numbers out of analyst firm IDC show a major shakeup in the Chinese smartphone market for Q2. During an especially rough quarter, local handset maker Xiaomi’s shipment dipped significantly from 17.1 to 10.5 million year over year, according to the firm. The 38 percent drop was enough to knock the company down to the fourth position, as Huawei took over the top spot with… Read More"Mr. Robot" is now a mobile game that's played through a fake messaging app
Aug 17, 9:18PM
The hit cybersecurity-focused TV show “Mr. Robot,” a psychological thriller popular among the tech crowd for its relatively accurate portrayal of hacking, is now a mobile game. Released by Telltale Games in association with NBCUniversal, and developed by Night School Studio in collaboration with Universal Cable Productions, the game is played through the fictional E-Corp messaging… Read MoreCisco confirms it will cut up to 5,500 jobs, or 7% of its global workforce
Aug 17, 8:24PM
We caught wind earlier this week that Cisco was planning a major cost-cutting operation to reduce its costs by around 15% throughout the month. It looks like the first stage of that is a round of cut jobs, with Cisco announcing as part of its earnings report that it will cut up to 5,500 jobs, or 7% of its workforce. The move isn’t unexpected as Cisco works to transition to a new era where… Read MoreAirbus wants to make self-flying airborne taxis a real thing
Aug 17, 8:22PM
Ford might be looking to put self-driving cars into service for on-demand taxi scenarios by 2021, but that’s thinking small by Airbus standards – the aircraft manufacturer wants to make autonomous flying taxis a real thing for dense urban areas where traffic congestion is a real and growing problem. You probably won’t be able to hail a flying taxi by 2021, but Airbus wants to… 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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