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Experimental "stretchy" optical fibers could warn about disease early
Oct 17, 2:55PM
A new type of optical fiber – a channel capable of transporting light – developed by MIT and Harvard Medical School researchers could make it far easier to detect the onset of disease early, or track the progress of healing and treatment. The new “stretchy,” rubber-like optical fiber created by the team can be stretched and bent, and is made almost entirely of water in… Read MoreAn accident with a racing drone caused an MLB pitcher to miss a playoff start
Oct 17, 2:49PM
Everyone has their hobbies. And Trevor Bauer, pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, likes to build racing drones. And anyone that has ever built racing drones know they need a lot of maintenance – manually installing and swapping out propellers, batteries etc. But Bauer had a slight mishap while repairing one of his drones last Thursday – less than 48 hours before he was supposed… Read MoreeBay's new high-end furniture shop, eBay Collective, includes a visual search engine
Oct 17, 2:45PM
Ebay this morning launched a new site, dedicated to shopping for furniture and other items for the home. Called eBay Collective, the site also takes advantage of technology from the company’s recently announced acquisition of visual search engine Corrigon, which it bought for under $30 million. On eBay Collective, the technology has been integrated to power a “Shop the… Read MorePBS debuts its own tablet for kids, the Playtime Pad
Oct 17, 2:09PM
The public broadcaster PBS today unveiled a new plan to bring its children’s television programming to its young audience, who spend more time behind tablets rather than sitting in front of TV sets. It’s debuting its own branded tablet, called the Playtime Pad. The tablet, which is produced by Ematic will come preloaded with PBS Kids’ entertainment, including games,… Read MoreApple reportedly doesn't want to build a car anymore — just its brain
Oct 17, 1:58PM
Apple has been working on a not-so-secret car project for years. Project Titan, as it is called internally, has already gone through a bunch of leadership and roadmap changes. According to a new report from Bloomberg, the company is now scrapping plans to build an electric car. The car team is focusing on autonomous driving technology instead. Even more intriguing, it looks like Apple is… Read MoreRockstar teases Red Dead Redemption follow-up
Oct 17, 1:37PM
Rockstar is toying with the emotions of fans of its popular western adventure game Red Dead Redemption, with a couple of teaser images that are clearly leading up to a big announcement. Fans and industry observers suspect we could finally see the studio announce a sequel to the 2010 Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 game. Red Dead Redemption was itself a follow-up to Red Dead Revolver, a… Read MoreCisco strengthens Spark meetings management with Worklife acquisition
Oct 17, 1:37PM
Cisco announced today that it was acquiring Worklife, a member of the Y Combinator winter 2015 class, for an undisclosed amount of money. Worklife was founded with the idea of improving online meetings, something that Cisco has been working on for years. It of course owns WebEx and it has been trying to enhance that experience in recent years with Cisco Spark. Cisco intends to add the… Read MoreZipwhip nabs $9M from Microsoft + others to let landlines send and receive SMS texts
Oct 17, 1:11PM
Consumers have made a big shift to using mobile phones as their primary, and often sole, telephone, but as they have done so, they’ve also created something of a rift in the business world: many of the companies that count those consumers as customers are still using landlines — 275 million businesses in the U.S. alone — resulting in a feature gulf between how the two… Read MoreZTE's not-so-mini Axon 7 Mini is up for pre-order
Oct 17, 1:00PM
Things are a little askew when we start referring to 5.2-inch handsets as “mini,” but then, that’s just the crazy, upside down world we live in. And really, for ZTE, it’s just a way of differentiating its new handset from its flagship, which, for the record is only just slightly larger at 5.5-inches, which was announced about a month or so before the Axon 7 Mini. But… Read MoreEcobee launches a sub-$200 version of its smart thermostat
Oct 17, 1:00PM
In the world of alcoholic and soft drinks, the word “lite” implies that a beverage is a little less bad for you, and therefore you can consume more, obviously. In the world of smart thermostats, it apparently entails a price cut. The ecobee3 lite cuts a full $80 of its namesake (and, for that matter, its chief competitor, the latest Nest), while maintaining the majority of the… Read MorePresident Obama explains why you can't run the U.S. like a startup
Oct 17, 12:45PM
Last week, the White House held its Frontiers Conference in Pittsburgh, with a focus on what the U.S. government is doing for the future, in areas including space exploration, smart cities and more effective police accountability. President Obama ended the conference with a speech that included some real talk for startup founders and others in Silicon Valley who might think the White House… Read MoreTesla and Panasonic will make solar cells in Buffalo if SolarCity deal succeeds
Oct 17, 11:52AM
Tesla and Panasonic have agreed to begin production of photovoltaic (PV) cells for use in solar power home installations that works with Tesla’s Powerwall and Powerpack solar storage products. The arrangement is non-binding at this stage, however, and will depend on the Tesla acquisition of SolarCity going through to take effect. If the SolarCity/Tesla deal does close, Panasonic will… Read MoreWhat the heck is Station F? Find out from Roxanne Varza at Disrupt London, Dec 5-6
Oct 17, 10:56AM
TechCrunch Disrupt in London is on December 5-6. Seen the HBO/Sky show “Silicon Valley”? Yes, this is the real-life version. But unlike the show, this can catapult startups into the stratosphere. And we have amazing content and speakers to match the startups you’ll see launched. Today we’re delighted to say Roxanne Varza is also joining. Varza is the Director of Station… Read MoreScience and technology will make mental and emotional wellbeing scalable, accessible, and cheap
Oct 17, 10:30AM
If it were an issue for you, what would you pay to get rid of stress, anxiety, loneliness, sadness, physical and mental pain, or depression? Or conversely, what would you pay to be happy, feel connected, feel understood, change bad habits into better ones, have a healthy brain as you age, or to fulfill your full potential and really thrive? Read MoreTesla's "unexpected" new product reveal postponed til Wednesday
Oct 17, 10:22AM
Tesla has moved a new product launch that had been planned for today to next Wednesday, according to CEO Elon Musk. Read MoreTesla told to stop using "misleading term Autopilot" in Germany
Oct 17, 9:25AM
Germany’s Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) has asked Tesla to stop using the term ‘Autopilot’ to refer to its driver assistance technology because of the risk of misleading consumers about the capabilities of the technology. Read MoreBezahlt is a new German invoice financing startup from the founder of Kreditech
Oct 17, 9:00AM
It was long-rumoured that Sebastian Diemer, who co-founded credit scoring and loans company Kreditech, was doing another startup in the fintech space and today that new venture de-cloaks. Bezahlt.de, which, along with Diemer, counts numerous other ex-Kreditech employees as part of its founding team, is taking aim at the German ‘factoring’ market. Read MoreVC firm Daphni announces its first $165 million fund
Oct 17, 6:42AM
Paris-based VC firm Daphni is announcing its inaugural fund for seed and Series A investments. The team will manage a $165 million fund (€150 million) and try some new things when it comes to venture capital in Europe. On paper, Daphni looks like many other funds. A bunch of limited partners have given a big pile of money so that a team of tech-savvy people can invest everything in startups.… Read MoreK Fund is a new €50M VC fund investing in early-stage Spanish startups
Oct 17, 6:00AM
Joining the likes of Kibo Ventures, Seaya Ventures, Nauta Capital, and JME Ventures, Spain has a new VC on the block. K Fund is a €50 million fund that will invest in Spanish startups with an international outlook, making lead investments at both the seed and Series A stages, writing checks of between €100,000 to €2 million. I’m also told it will do follow-on rounds with a maximum… Read MoreWTF is a container?
Oct 17, 3:00AM
You can’t go to a developer conference today and not hear about software containers: Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos and a bunch of other names with a nautical ring to them. Microsoft, Google, Amazon and everybody else seems to have jumped on this bandwagon in the last year or so, but why is everybody so excited about this stuff? To understand why containers are such a big deal, let’s… 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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