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Encryption under fire in Europe as France and Germany call for decrypt law

Aug 24, 11:40AM

Bernard Cazeneuve and Thomas de Maizière A fresh chapter of the crypto wars looks to be opening up in Europe, after the French and German interior ministers took to a podium yesterday to lobby for a law change that would enable courts to demand that Internet companies decrypt data to help further criminal investigations. Read More



DroneDeploy raises $20 million to help any business put drones to work

Aug 24, 10:00AM

An elevation map created using DroneDeploy. A San Francisco-based startup called DroneDeploy has raised $20 million in Series B funding to grow their drone data management platform. The drone tech startup closed its Series B deal just before the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is scheduled to implement new rules governing commercial and industrial drone use. The Part 107 rules, announced by the FAA in June this year, will take hold… Read More



Extra early-bird Disrupt tickets end 9/19

Aug 24, 9:00AM

TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015. Image ©Dan Taylor/Heisenberg Media.    For bookings contact - dan@heisenbergmedia.com or +447821755904 Attention, startup fans in the U.K. and around the world. While December may seem like a long way away, TechCrunch Disrupt London will be here before you know it, so it’s time to start thinking about getting your tickets to the best startup show in Europe. Tickets to Disrupt London are available now through September 19 for the extra early-bird price point of just £800, a full £400 of… Read More



Prisma adds offline mode to its crazy popular art filter app

Aug 24, 8:06AM

Prisma offline Art filter app sensation Prisma, which has revved up from nothing to an incredible 55 million+ downloads for its iOS and Android apps in just two months this summer, has now added an offline mode. Read More



PowerEgg, the ovoid flying robot, lands this October for $1,288

Aug 24, 8:04AM

PowerVision's PowerEgg Today, Beijing-based PowerVision made its ovoid camera drone, the PowerEgg, available to international customers via pre-order on the company’s website for $1,288. Customers who pre-order a PowerEgg will also get a backpack designed to fit the drone, its charging station, decorative stand and remote controls along with their orders. The company says the backpack is valued at… Read More



Stratasys debuts new 3D printing tech, partnerships with Ford and Boeing

Aug 24, 8:00AM

unnamed-2 Stratasys has one of those classic founder stories. According to the company, inventor S. Scott Crump got the bright idea to make a toy frog for his daughter using a hot glue gun full of plastic and candle wax. That goofy little experiment marked both the birth of the company and the creation of FDM — fused deposition modeling – the technology that forms the basis of most… Read More



Leap Motion shows off Interaction Engine for their VR hand-tracking tech

Aug 24, 6:31AM

throw VR makes the most sense when you don’t have to learn the controls and stuff just works. Today, Leap Motion dropped an early access beta version of their Interaction Engine which makes it easier for developers to build VR environments can manipulate sophisticatedly with their hands. In a blog post, the company calls the engine “a layer that exists between the Unity game engine… Read More



Crunch Report | New Tesla Model S Upgrade

Aug 24, 3:14AM

Tesla, Model, S, Range, P100D, Google, Strikes, Silicon Valley, advertisers, Ycombinator, demo day, comapnies, Slideshow, ads, Pinterest, instapaper, acquires, buy, tech, news, Silicon Valley, Tito, hamze, TechCrunch, crunch, report Read More



The 48 startups that launched at Y Combinator S16 Demo Day 2

Aug 24, 3:05AM

yc-all-demo-day The world’s most prestigious startup school launched 48 companies today at part 2 of its Summer 2016 Demo Day. Nanoparticle analytics and delivery robots were amongst the products revealed in the B2B, biotech, enterprise, edtech, fintech, and hardware verticals. You can check out our write-ups of all 44 startups that launched yesterday, and TechCrunch’s picks for the top 7 from… Read More



Tech is primed for an upswing

Aug 24, 2:00AM

Two boys (6-8) on swings, rear view (B&W) The past 15 months has created a lot of confusion around where the technology sector is going. I’m constantly being asked by entrepreneurs if the timing is right to start a new business and would I invest in these current markets? Yes and yes. Read More



Listen to the premiere of TCBC, a new podcast from TechCrunch

Aug 24, 1:44AM

tcbc-draft5c TechCrunch has a new podcast, and it’s TCBC, a show where I speak to a different writer on staff each week about their beat, the stories they’re following, and the tech news that’s most important to them right now. It’s something new we’re trying, and hopefully it helps bring home the stories we cover here at TechCrunch, giving you additional context that can be… Read More



Live video minus Facebook equals Alively

Aug 23, 11:57PM

Alively Feature SMS is terrible, yet it’s still the way more than half of video gets shared on mobile. Meanwhile, Facebook is trying to turn everyone into famous broadcasters when most people just want to show close friends what they’re up to. That’s why Facebook’s product manager for Live, Vadim Lavrusik, defected from the social network to start his own video streaming iOS app… Read More



Narrative Science can now describe your Tableau charts for you

Aug 23, 11:21PM

NarrativeScience2 Tableau Software‘s shares soared 13 percent on Tuesday following the announcement that the data analytics provider has partnered with Narrative Science, a Chicago-based company that develops natural language generation (NLG) tools. The result of the partnership is Narratives for Tableau, a free Chrome extension that automatically creates written explanations for Tableau… Read More



White House LGBTQ Tech and Innovation Briefing addresses national issues

Aug 23, 11:06PM

megan smith white house lgbt The country faces a plethora of issues that affect millions of people every day. Although there has been some progress as a society around pro-LGBTQ legislation and healthcare, there is a lot left to be done around poverty, criminal justice reform, federal statistics around LGBTQ people, youth solutions, mental health, the environment, education and inclusion in tech. Today at the White… Read More



New York Times journalists reportedly targeted by Russian hackers

Aug 23, 10:18PM

new-york-times-building The FBI is reportedly looking into hacking attempts against U.S. journalists that may have been orchestrated by Russian intelligence services. New York Times journalists were among those targeted, CNN and the AP report. The New York Times confirmed that its Moscow bureau was targeted, but said the paper has no reason to believe the attack was successful. It’s not yet clear why the… Read More



NSF puts $110 million toward building out the XSEDE national computing initiative

Aug 23, 9:59PM

illustris_box-2_xsede It’s in the country’s best interest to stay at (or at least near) the forefront of advanced computing techniques, and the National Science Foundation has just put $110 million down to make sure that happens. Read More



YC-backed CoinTent says it can help publishers deal with ad blockers

Aug 23, 9:13PM

newsmoney CoinTent might be the solution for publishers worried about the money they’re losing to ad blockers. The San Francisco-based company started with a focus on paywalls, but it’s recently moved into offering publishers (including GQ) a broader range of solutions to deal with ad blockers. That doesn’t just mean inserting more ads. CEO Bradley Ross described CoinTent as… Read More



Hollywood's take on cybersecurity

Aug 23, 9:00PM

mrr_elliot_gallery_25 It can be tough going to the movies as a cybersecurity expert. Films handling the very real issues of internet security and modern computer science are overwhelmingly unrealistic. As we get our tickets and popcorn ready for “Snowden,” it’s a good time to take a look at the handful of film and TV projects that actually got hacking, and the complicated business of security in… Read More



This all-analog DNA circuit calculates without going digital

Aug 23, 8:43PM

DNA It’s a sign that we’re living in the future when using our own genetic machinery as a form of calculator or storage is nothing new — but make no mistake, it’s still very early days in this field and there are plenty of surprises ahead. Today’s surprise, for instance, is the use of DNA to do exact arithmetical calculations entirely in analog. Read More



Postleaf is an open-source blogging platform for the design-conscious

Aug 23, 8:31PM

Screen Shot 2016-08-23 at 4.21.53 PM Content management systems are boring until you have to use one. You can install a little Drupal or WordPress, pick up some Squarespace, or just dump to Medium, the graveyard for posts about protein shakes and VC funding. But what if you could roll your own CMS? And what if you made it really cool? That’s what Cory LaViska did. LaViska is the founder of SurrealCMS and has been making it… Read More




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