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The EFF calls on HP to remove DRM from its printers
Sep 27, 2:01PM
The Electronic Frontier Foundation has called on HP to restore customer’s ability to use third-party ink cartridges in its Office Jet printers. It is also urging consumers to sign a petition, which as of this posts’s publication, has nearly 7,500 signatures. In an open letter to HP Inc. President and CEO, Dion Weisler, activist Cory Doctorow calls on the company to take five… Read MoreBot Metrics gives developers the tools to measure and analyze their chat bots
Sep 27, 2:00PM
Bot Metrics, an San Francisco-based company that specializes in — you got it.. — metrics and analyze of chat bots has landed funding to help developers and early bot enthusiasts get a better understanding of their services and users. Read MoreWink's smart home hub gets some key upgrades for its second generation
Sep 27, 1:42PM
The smart home has come a long way in the two-plus years since the original Wink Hub was launched as a spinoff of New York-based hardware crowdsourcer, Quirky. Among other things, a number of major players like Amazon, Google and Apple have stepped up their attempts to provide a central ecosystem for the increasingly populated world of connected home devices. But while the competition has gotten… Read MoreTranslation CEO Steve Stoute joins Genius' board of directors
Sep 27, 1:30PM
A music industry veteran and the CEO of Translation, Steve Stoute, is joining the board of directors of Genius, which provides song lyrics and meanings, while also being an online knowledge project. Genius’ current board of directors includes Stoute, co-founders Tom Lehman and Ilan Zechory, Andreessen Horowitz general partner, Ben Horowitz and Dan Gilbert, owner of Quicken Loans and… Read MoreAmazon brings free Prime same-day delivery to Toronto and Vancouver
Sep 27, 1:14PM
Amazon continues to roll-out its free same-day delivery offering for Prime subscribers, adding Toronto and Vancouver to the list of cities where it’s available. The free same-day option applies to items labeled as eligible via the ‘Prime FREE Same-Day’ tag located next to the price in a product’s listing. Orders placed earlier in the day will be delivered by 9 PM,… Read MoreWatch Elon Musk reveal his plan for colonizing Mars right here
Sep 27, 1:02PM
Elon Musk is giving a keynote speech at the International Astronautical Congress today, with an hour-long talk titled “Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species.” The talk kicks off at 2:30 PM ET, and we’ll be covering it to bring you all the details of Musk’s plans to get humans to Mars (and beyond?). Musk doesn’t just want us to touch the face of these… Read MoreColor Genomics raises $45 million to provide cheaper genetic tests that detect cancer risk
Sep 27, 1:01PM
Othman Laraki and Elad Gil were sitting on Twitter’s roof deck after their previous company Mixer Labs had been acquired. Gil had brought a small hard drive with him — which happened to contain data on his genome being sequenced — and Laraki wanted to take a look at the data. That led to the the original hypothesis of Color Genomics: what if you could apply the same principles… Read MoreWaylens Horizon action camera for cars captures the thrill of driving
Sep 27, 1:00PM
At a glance 157 degree wide angle f/2.4 aperture 1/1.8″ image sensor 1080p 30/60pfs, 720p 120/60fps Pros Camera design itself is top notch Built-in OLED touchscreen Cons Included mounting hardware for cable not great Expensive at $499 Connecting the car The Waylens Horizon is essentially a conical, dense metal camera replete with optics, onboard processing power and battery.… Read MoreKustomer, founded by Salesforce alums, nabs $12.5M to repair customer care
Sep 27, 1:00PM
The need to contact customer support is the bane of many a modern consumer’s existence: not only is it likely that you are doing it because you have a problem that needs fixing, but you are inevitably sucked into a vortex where you have to sit on the phone for ages (or wait in stasis for emailed replies), repeat your details several times to subsequent assistants, and potentially… Read MoreBlue's latest podcasting mic goes super portable
Sep 27, 1:00PM
Blue Raspberry brings to mind Slurpees as much as anything. The name of Blue Microphone’s latest offering is seeming an homage to its longstanding Blueberry condenser mic, but then, between the Snowball, the Spark, the Tiki and the Yeti, there’s seemingly no rhyme or reason to the microphone’s naming conventions. What the company does have, however, is some real clout… Read MoreWith Daily Mix, Spotify taps algorithms to make infinite playlists from your favorite tunes
Sep 27, 1:00PM
Are you a Spotify user who has a list of favorite bands and songs, but do not have the motivation to find and organize all of them into useful playlists? Today, the streaming company is launching a new service called Daily Mix that is partly aimed at you. Tapping into your own history of albums and tracks that you have listened to on the platform, Daily Mix brings together a… Read MoreThe mPod is a 3-D body scanner coming to a gym near you
Sep 27, 12:58PM
Looking in the mirror or stepping on a scale can tell us much about our bodies and wellbeing, but not with the greatest precision. Now, a Sydney, Australia-based company called mPort is bringing its mPod body scanners to gyms and malls in the U.S., where they think users will be interested in getting granular data about their bodies. The mPod, which looks like a large photo booth or a small… Read MoreThe SMOVE stabilizes and charges your phone for steady video shoots
Sep 27, 12:57PM
When unmanned aerial vehicle makers and gimbal engineers get together they like to have a few beers and make something like the SMOVE. Designed to connect to a regular smartphone the SMOVE is basically a steadicam for your iOS or Android device, allowing you to take steady shots in rough conditions, follow faces in front of the camera, and even take seamless panoramas. The SMOVE team… Read MoreNearly four weeks in, about 60 percent of Galaxy Note 7 units have been exchanged in the US and Korea
Sep 27, 12:50PM
One would have been hard-pressed to dream up a worse beginning to the month for Samsung. As Apple was readying its next big iPhone reveal, the company was scrambling to do damage control for a phone that was supposed to be its next big thing. Around three-dozen battery-related incidents were reported by Sept. 2, the company outlined its recall plans. Everyone from the FAA to the MTA have… Read MoreHinge closes the door on casual dating to focus on serious relationships
Sep 27, 12:32PM
Hinge, the dating app that uses Facebook to connect you with friends of friends, has today announced that it will be sunsetting its original app. In its place, Hinge will be launching an entirely new version of the app, focused on relationships. The new app, built from the ground up, will go live on October 11. Oh, and by the way, the new app will be a paid app for all users. CEO Justin… Read MorePullstring launches bot-authoring tools for fun & profit
Sep 27, 12:01PM
Pullstring — née ToyTalk — today launched its eponymous product out of private beta and into the hands of creators of conversational interfaces everywhere. Out of the box, creators can make bots for Facebook Messenger, Slack, Skype, Kik, Telegram and — using the company’s Web API — pretty much every other platform out there. Read MorePearl's RearVision is a backup camera for those who want the best rear view
Sep 27, 12:00PM
At a glance Wireless, solar-powered design Dual HD cameras with 1/3″ CMOS sensors 175-degree field of view Pros Incredibly easy to set up Image quality, both day and night Cons Must be turned on manually Expensive Quick and painless The out-of-box experience for Pearl’s RearVision is really well designed. Even packaging is done right, with a folding two-sided box that… Read MoreLaunching a "Google for sound", Deepgram raises $1.8 million
Sep 27, 11:45AM
Deepgram co-founders, 20-year-old wunderkind Noah Shutty and his University of Michigan lab supervisor Scott Stephenson, definitely have faith in sound. The two left behind promising research in particle physics, researching the creation of Dark Matter in the bowels of underground Chinese bunkers, to develop what they call a “Google for sound”. Much as the Google search engine… Read MoreMapping startups hope they can chart a new course to success
Sep 27, 11:30AM
Alphabet, Apple and Uber may be spending billions on exhaustive new mapping technologies to power the self-driving car revolution, but there’s a new generation of companies betting that a combination of crowdsourcing and artificial intelligence will enable them to navigate their way to success in the wild world of international geographics. Some companies are choosing to go deep into… Read MoreGoogle expands its initiative to provide free Wi-Fi hotspots in emerging markets
Sep 27, 11:29AM
Google today announced a collection of updates aimed at helping get ‘the next billion’ internet users in India and emerging markets online. One of the more subtle yet interesting components to that push is the launch of Google Station, a project to enable public Wi-Fi hotspots. 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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