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Deepgram's speech search engine is now free for journalists until Election Day
Oct 10, 2:28PM
During a contentious election filled with accusations of lies and denials, not to mention overworked fact-checkers, a company that can help journalists more easily find soundbites in audio recordings, Deepgram, is making its service free to journalists. The audio search technology relies on artificial intelligence, and has been likened to a “Google for sound” – meaning that… Read MoreDisney builds a jolly, one-legged hopping robot
Oct 10, 2:22PM
Researchers at Disney Research in Pittsburgh have built a single-legged hopping robot that can currently bounce around 19 times without falling over. The project by Zachary Batts, Joohyung Kim, and Katsu Yamane began as a computer simulation and finally a hardware product. The researchers based their system on Marc Raibert’s hopping controller and it’s controlled by a linear… Read MoreSamsung confirms 'adjusting' Note 7 production in wake of new incidents
Oct 10, 1:56PM
This is probably about as close to a full confirmation of last night’s reporting that Samsung has temporarily halting production of the Galaxy Note 7. In another cautiously worded statement issued this morning, the hardware maker told TechCrunch, We are temporarily adjusting the Galaxy Note7 production schedule in order to take further steps to ensure quality and safety matters. The… Read MoreA 3D upgrade that could make you care about Microsoft Paint again
Oct 10, 1:42PM
It’s hard to remember a time when Microsoft Paint wasn’t shorthand for something ham-handedly drawn on a free computer art program. And the while, the software giant has upgraded the app with some regularity in the 30+ plus years since it was first introduced along with Windows 1.0, it will take a lot of doing to remove its association with poorly crafted memes. It seems likely… Read MoreOnline music and audio recording studio Soundtrap scores $6M Series A
Oct 10, 12:00PM
Soundtrap, a cloud-based music and audio recording platform, has raised $6 million in Series A funding. Nordic VC firm Industrifonden led the round, with participation from an array of existing investors and other new backers, including Peter Sterky, former CFO and COO of Spotify. It brings total funding to $8.5 million. Read MoreGlisser closes $1M seed to spice up PowerPoints with interactivity
Oct 10, 11:47AM
Glisser, a London-based startup on a mission to end tedious presentations by letting presenters include real-time polls and Q&As, has closed a $1 million seed round. Read MoreFormer Twitter VP Rishi Garg is now a VC at Mayfield
Oct 10, 11:30AM
Rishi Garg has joined the early-stage venture firm Mayfield as a general partner. The move seems a natural one, given Garg’s career arc to date. While readers might recall that Garg’s last full-time gig was Twitter’s VP of corp dev, a role he left in July 2015, he spent the previous two years leading M&A at the payments company Square and before that, logged time… Read MoreVectary raises $2.5M for easy 3D modelling + community platform, moves to NYC
Oct 10, 11:19AM
A space has opened up in the last few years as 3D printers have become more affordable, and that is the space for simple 3D designing tools. As VR takes off, that will also be a brand new space for such tools, in order to design new objects and environments. In this area is Thingiverse, a large online 3D printing community, although it lacks 3D modelling functionality. There is also Autodesk… Read MoreThese chatbots want to help you manage your money
Oct 10, 11:17AM
Can a chatbot help you manage your money? Three London-based fintech startups are betting on the answer being yes and have jumped aboard the messaging gravy train as they seek to entice millennials to their respective platforms. Read MoreCounting your reps, so you don't have to
Oct 10, 5:51AM
The Smart Fitness Bar is hardly the first smart piece of gym equipment. If anything, it’s part of a growing trend, an attempt to capitalize on a growing fascination with connected fitness and the ongoing compulsion to add smartify every dumb product we have. Heck, back in July, I tried a set of “smart dumbbells,” and indeed, you don’t have to be a smart dumbbell to… Read MoreJust Eat backs Flypay to help restaurant and pub chains consolidate their tech
Oct 10, 5:00AM
Just Eat, the online takeout ordering behemoth, has invested in U.K. startup Flypay, which has built a platform to help restaurant and pub chains consolidate their various and disparate technology solutions. The size of the round is £3.5 million and serves as an extension to the company’s previous Series A that saw it pick up £7 million led by media brand TimeOut. Read MoreSamsung is reportedly temporarily halting production of the Galaxy Note 7
Oct 10, 1:59AM
A little over a month after issuing a recall of its high-end handset and at the end of weekend littered with multiple reports of malfunctioning replacement units, Samsung has reportedly suspended production on the Galaxy Note 7. In the wake of announcements by AT&T and T-Mobile that the carriers will halt sales of the phone, Korean news agency Yonhap is reporting that the electronics… Read MoreTwo carriers halt sales of the Galaxy Note 7 as reports of problematic replacements pile up
Oct 10, 12:22AM
You know what? It might be time to just go ahead and trade in that new Galaxy Note 7 for something else entirely. Thankfully, most of the major carriers here in the US have made it fairly easily to trade the problematic handset in for a completely different phone. And AT&T and T-Mobile have since taken things a step farther by halting sales of the device as the US Consumer Product… Read MoreWhat 'mobile' should mean for healthcare
Oct 10, 12:00AM
Ask a set of healthcare professionals about the future and they’ll answer: “Mobile.” But after a number of recent discussions with healthcare executives, I’ve noticed the industry is lacking a clear definition of what “mobile” really means. Read MoreThe Fitbit Flex 2 can go in the pool with you
Oct 09, 10:53PM
Apple’s latest Watch was met with great applause when the company announced in September the thing could take a dive in the pool and keep on ticking. But the price and other bells and whistles of the Watch might be too much for those just looking for a simple way to track steps, laps and calories. Enter Fitbit’s Flex 2, which starts shipping tomorrow morning. It’s a… Read MoreIndustrial robots will replace manufacturing jobs — and that's a good thing
Oct 09, 7:00PM
There is no denying that the U.S. and Canada have been losing jobs to offshore competition for almost half a century. From 2000-2010 alone, 5.6 million jobs disappeared. Interestingly, though, only 13 percent of those jobs were lost due to international trade; 85 percent of job losses stemmed from “productivity growth” — another way of saying machines replacing human workers. Read MoreTesla to unveil "unexpected" new product October 17
Oct 09, 5:58PM
Tesla will unveil something on Monday October 17, according CEO and founder Elon Musk. It’ll be a new product, he said in a Tweet on Sunday, which will be “unexpected by most,” and which will be separate from a Tesla/SolarCity product unveiling on the 28th. Tesla product unveiling on the 17th (unexpected by most), followed by Tesla/SolarCity on the 28th — Elon Musk… Read MoreDigital comics startup Madefire launches its first virtual reality app
Oct 09, 4:00PM
When digital comics startup Madefire announced its latest funding round a few days ago, co-founder and CEO Ben Wolstenholme said the company was getting ready to move into virtual and augmented reality. He lived up to that promise in very short order, launching a preview app for Samsung’s Oculus-powered Gear VR platform and demonstrating it at New York Comic Con. Wolstenholme has told… Read MoreDisruptor Beam is developing a multiplayer strategy game based on The Walking Dead
Oct 09, 3:09PM
Game developer Disruptor Beam has already adapted Game of Thrones and Star Trek to the world of smartphones and tablets. Now it’s adding The Walking Dead to that list. CEO Jon Radoff said The Walking Dead: March to War will be a multiplayer strategy game for iOS and Android, where players (potentially tens of thousands of them on a single map) compete with each other for resources and… Read MoreWith a €20 million Series A Snapp opens up ride-sharing in Iran
Oct 09, 11:30AM
Investors have turned Iran into the latest country to embrace the ride sharing and car-hailing app phenomenon. The Iran Internet Group has secured a €20 million Series A round of financing for its ride-sharing application, Snapp. The South African mobile phone company MTN led the round and is the sole investor. MTN is also a major shareholder of Irancell and Iran Internet Holdings. The… 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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