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If you're flying via Haneda Airport, you can now ask this robot for directions
Sep 02, 12:26PM
Robots are friends! Or at least, at Haneda Airport if you see one of the little buddies above, you can feel confident approaching it and ask it it for help. The Hitachi EMIEW3 humanoid robot begins its first proof-of-concept tests at the major international airport in Tokyo today, opening in Passenger Terminal 2 and providing helpful info to travellers in both English and Japanese. The EMIEW3… Read MorePrimavera, Alibaba's Ant Financial dunk $460M into KFC's new spinout Yum China
Sep 02, 12:21PM
After raising $4.5 billion at a $60 billion valuation earlier this year, Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial — which operates the Alipay payments service — is hungry to put some of that money to use to build out its business. The company, alongside key Alibaba investor Primavera Capital, is investing $460 million into Yum China, a new spinout from Yum Brands — the parent company… Read MoreNintendo's NX console said to ditch discs and go back to cartridges
Sep 02, 11:59AM
Nintendo wants to harken back to its heydays with the new, unreleased Nintendo NX console in more ways than one: A new WSJ report says it’ll use cartridges in place of discs, which have been standard on the game company’s home consoles since the introduction of the GameCube in 2001. Cartridges are still in common use elsewhere in the Nintendo console lineup – it’s… Read MoreNow there's a wireless version of Bower & Wilkins' P7 headphones
Sep 02, 11:33AM
Bower & Wilkins, a British audio company started in 1966, is releasing a Bluetooth version (that means wireless, friends) of their well-received P7 headphones. I had the chance to review the wired pair a year ago, and said they’re where “audiophiles meet the bourgeois“. After all, the earcups are made from memory foam and the hinge design looks more like a fine art… Read MoreLG's Amazon Echo competitor will get Alexa functionality
Sep 02, 10:59AM
LG’s SmartThinQ Hub looks a lot like the Amazon Echo. It’s the first that occurred to me when it was announced right around CES of this year, and it was probably the first thing that occurred to you, too. And like the Echo, LG’s tall black speaker tower connects to various smart home devices, streams music and offers up notifications. When it was announced, it appeared that… Read MoreYou probably don't need a $3,200 gold-plated Walkman
Sep 02, 10:17AM
I mean, yeah, it sounds good. It’s a $3,200 Walkman. It had better sound good. And hey, it sounds even better when paired with a $2,300 pair of Sony headphones (MDR-Z1R) and that new $2,200 Sony headphone app (NW-WM1Z). That’s a grand total of $7,700 for me to listen to a really crisp cello cover of “Every Breath You Take.” Is it worth it? That’s not for me to… Read MoreRocket Internet lost $690M in first half of 2016, thanks mainly to its fashion business
Sep 02, 9:32AM
Rocket Internet is gearing up for its upcoming results day on September 22 with a warning: its financials aren’t going to be pretty. Read MoreICANN's globalization creates peril and promise
Sep 02, 9:30AM
At the end of this month, the US government will finally give up “control” of the internet. In a quiet blogpost, Larry Strickling, the US government’s assistant secretary for communications and information announced that he had “informed ICANN…that…[the US government] intends to allow the IANA functions contract to expire as of October 1”. That sentence may… Read MoreSamsung confirms it is recalling the Galaxy Note 7 after reports of explosions
Sep 02, 8:27AM
Samsung has confirmed that it is recalling the Galaxy Note 7, its newest smartphone, following reports that some devices exploded. Read MoreChina's anti-trust regulators are investigating the Didi-Uber deal
Sep 02, 6:48AM
China has opened an investigation to deter whether Didi’s Chuxing’s impending acquisition of Uber China violates national anti-trust laws. Read MoreApple might live-tweet the iPhone 7 launch from its @apple account
Sep 02, 5:43AM
Apple is increasing its Twitter game after it activated a new @Apple account on the microblogging service. Read MoreGoogle ends modular phone Project Ara, though licensing may be an option
Sep 02, 4:44AM
After three years of development, starting at Motorola then transferred to Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group, Project Ara is being “suspended” and ultimately, is cancelled. Even after selling Moto to Lenovo in 2014, Google has touted the modular smartphone project as not only an alternative to current smartphone design, but the future… Read MoreCrunch Report | Space X Rocket Explodes at Cape Canaveral
Sep 02, 3:00AM
SpaceX rocket explodes at Cape Canaveral, DraftKings raises $150 million, Periscope adds a new way to monetize, Facebook launches Instant Video, and Apple is set to clean its abandoned apps from the App Store. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
Tech and government: The state of our union
Sep 02, 1:00AM
Tech innovators tend to operate with an ethos that they consider diametrically opposed to that of government, frequently leading to friction. Given the current regulatory, legal and political climate in our country, and while technology becomes increasingly more pervasive in our society, there is a need for the tech community to devote greater attention to what’s happening in… Read MoreA totally real conversation between Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg about a rocket
Sep 02, 12:31AM
Read MoreApple patches zero-day vulnerabilities in Safari and OS X
Sep 02, 12:30AM
The apparently government-sponsored hackery aimed at activist Ahmed Mansoor last week prompted a quick response from Apple, with a patch for iOS arriving the day of the news. Turns out the three (!) zero-day exploits deployed against Mansoor kind of worked against Safari and OS X, as well. Apple issued a patch today to fix that, but you’ll need Yosemite or El Capitan to receive… Read MoreIntel could put fireworks out of work, gets FAA permission to fly drone fleets at night
Sep 01, 11:38PM
As regulations governing the commercial use of small drones in the U.S. went into effect this week,companies immediately began obtaining exemptions from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to these rules. Among others, CNN has obtained the right to fly a tethered drone over people for news gathering purposes; PrecisionHawk obtained an exemption to fly its agricultural drones “beyond… Read MoreDespite looming jail time, Gurbaksh Chahal is back as Gravity4 CEO
Sep 01, 11:35PM
Gurbaksh Chahal is back as CEO of Gravity4, the adtech startup he founded and was forced to relinquish control of after his probation was revoked in a domestic violence case, according to a post on the company’s website. Chahal handed the reins of the company to his sister, Kamal Kaur, after a judge found in July that he violated his probation by attacking a woman in his apartment and… Read MoreHow CIOs climb from the back room to the boardroom
Sep 01, 11:30PM
Today more than ever, technology is transforming how enterprises do business. The IT profession has evolved from being reactionary to proactive, and CIOs now have a seat at the table to drive company strategy. Greylock COO Tom Frangione catches up with Kim Stevenson, Intel COO for the Client and Internet of Things Businesses and Systems Architecture Group, to discuss how startups can sell… Read MoreWe're one step closer to the Holodeck with this 20-camera 3D body-capture setup
Sep 01, 11:28PM
Have you ever been in a VR conference call and thought, well, I know what everyone looks like from the front, but what about the other sides? The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications has your back — and theirs. Researchers there have created a powerful multi-camera setup that captures every aspect of someone in 3D and dumps it straight into a VR experience. 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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