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AWS shoots for total cloud domination
Dec 02, 5:17PM
AWS held its annual re:Invent customer conference this week — and as it revealed one new service after another, one thing became clear: the company with a marketshare lead that is by Gartner’s estimate 10 times bigger than its 14 closest competitors combined, has no plans to slow down or rest on its laurels. If that market lead isn’t enough to shake up the competition… Read MoreEmotibot wants to help chatbots know how you really feel
Dec 02, 4:30PM
Emotional intelligence is a hard thing to achieve, even in humans. But it’s especially difficult in robots, and maybe even more so in chatbots, whose available tools for picking up on emotional cues are quite limited. Emotibot is a Chinese startup focused on making sure personal assistants, chatbots and virtual customer service agents can accurately understand the emotional state of… Read MoreNFL games come to CBS's streaming service, starting this Sunday
Dec 02, 3:44PM
CBS this week announced a significant deal with the NFL that could bring more subscribers to its over-the-top streaming service aimed at cord cutters, CBS All Access. Starting this Sunday, viewers will be able to watch all NFL games on CBS via the service, including regular, preseason, and postseason games. CBS All Access, in case you’re unfamiliar, is the network’s attempt at… Read MoreAmazon isn't playing nice with Plex's new cloud service
Dec 02, 3:00PM
Media server software Plex, which helps you organize your own library of movies, TV shows, photos, and music, is now making it easier to access the content you’ve saved on other cloud storage services with an expansion of its Plex Cloud service. The company has added support for online services Google Drive, Dropbox, and Microsoft’s OneDrive – meaning you can stream your… Read MoreThe periodic table gets four new official additions
Dec 02, 2:53PM
Nihonium, Moscovium, Tennessine and Oganesson are officially official. This week, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry added numbers 113, 115, 117 and 118 to the Period table of elements (114 and 116 – Livermorium and Flerovium – were added in 2012). While all of the above were initially synthesized between 2002 and 2010 and officially recognized by the IUPAC in… Read MoreUber accused of helping drivers break taxi laws in Danish test case
Dec 02, 12:45PM
Uber’s European business has been indicted in a Danish court on charges of assisting two drivers of breaking local taxi laws, Reuters reports. Read MoreDidi's CTO explains why China's ride-sharing giant has a data advantage
Dec 02, 12:25PM
China’s Didi Chuxing made headlines this year when it announced along with Uber that it would be taking over Uber’s business in its own country. Uber’s sale of its Chinese business included taking a 5.89 percent stake in Didi, and as Didi disentangles Uber China from the rest of the Uber network this week, we spoke to Didi co-founder and CTO Bob Zhang about what the company… Read MoreTechCrunch Disrupt London Hackathon is tomorrow, get your tickets and meet our MCs
Dec 02, 10:38AM
The Hackathon begins tomorrow and we are thrilled to announce that Claire Donoghue and Marily Nika will be joining us as MCs. Here’s a little bit more about the dynamic duo who will be running our Hackathon. Marily Nika received a PhD from the Dpt. of Computing Science at Imperial College London, where she created a model for predicting internet-based phenomena, such as virality.… Read MoreWeChat, China's top messaging app, no longer tells users when it censors their messages
Dec 02, 10:26AM
Users of WeChat, China’s most popular messaging app, are having conversations secretly censored without their knowledge, according to a new report from Citizen Lab. Read MoreReports of a Facebook fake news detector are apparently a plugin
Dec 02, 12:58AM
Update: The feature appears to be an implementation of the Chrome plugin B.S. Detector, which some users took as a test by Facebook itself. We’ll continue to investigate but for now it looks like this is not a Facebook feature. Yes, the irony is rich. Facebook is showing red warning labels above fake news links in the News Feed for some users in what appears to be a limited test. Read MoreSnapchat Spectacles, Oculus Touch and Product Hunt: Listen to TCBC 10 with Fitz Tepper
Dec 02, 12:53AM
Spectacles are all the rage, but me and this week’s guest Fitz Tepper have already stopped using ours pretty much. Maybe we’re just not cool. Still, the hardware from Snapchat parent Snap, Inc. is the most interesting gadget created in recent memory, and Snap’s future plays in hardware should be exciting to watch. Fitz is also set to get Oculus Touch next week at launch,… Read MoreTwitter buys startup Yes, Inc. and scores a new VP of product in the process
Dec 02, 12:07AM
One-hundred and forty-three. That’s not the new character limit or the number of heads of product Twitter has employed over the few years (though close). That, rather, is the amount of times the new fellow filling that role has tweeted over the course of the past nine years — a number that includes two recent updates from the past couple of hours acknowledging the gig, one of… Read MoreBullpen closes its third fund at $75 million to back post-seed stage startups
Dec 01, 11:54PM
Bullpen Capital, a venture firm that specializes in post-seed stage deals, has closed its third fund at $75 million. The firm invests in companies that previously closed a seed round of investment and showed solid signs of traction, but have been dubbed too early for traditional VCs. Bullpen founder Paul Martino said, “Our rounds get the CEOs real coverage. We put founders in bootcamp… Read MoreMotorola won't release a new smartwatch any time soon, which doesn't bode well for Android Wear
Dec 01, 10:03PM
Two key things we learned during a Motorola press event in Chicago this week: 1) The company’s bullish on modular phones and 2) Not so much with smartwatches. The Lenovo-owned smartphone maker’s head of global product development Shakil Barkat told the audience that, “We don’t see enough pull from the market at this point to put out a new product,” when speaking… Read MoreBOTS Act punishing online scalpers passes Senate, moves on to the House
Dec 01, 9:32PM
Scalpers who use bots to slam ticket websites and snatch up a huge proportion of seats at popular shows may soon find themselves in violation of federal law. The Senate and House have both passed versions of a bill criminalizing the practice. Read MoreJuniper Networks acquires cloud optimization service AppFormix
Dec 01, 9:15PM
AppFormix, a cloud operations management and optimization startup, today announced that it has been acquired by publicly traded networking company Juniper Networks. AppFormix was founded in 2013 by Sumeet Singh, who previously worked at Microsoft and Cisco. At Microsoft, he started the Windows Azure Networking team. AppFormix works with any OpenStack or Kubernetes distribution and helps… Read MoreThe Moto Mods ecosystem expands with a car dock and Mophie battery backup
Dec 01, 8:40PM
At launch, the Moto Z was compatible with three different modular backings (four if you count the shell projector): a Motorola pico projector, a speaker from JBL and an Incipio battery pack. Shortly after launch, the company brought a little camera brand legitimacy to the ecosystem with a Hasselblad back featuring 10x optical zoom. Not a huge number, sure, but it was certainly a more… Read MoreYou can now wear Spectacles indoors with Rochester Optical's lenses
Dec 01, 8:38PM
If Snap’s Spectacles are really about sharing your life with the world, we need a solution for capturing the majority of our lives that occur boxed inside buildings. This solution could come in the form of replacement lenses or in the form of an entirely new device. Niche lens manufacturer Rochester Optical gave us the first one today with replacement lenses for Spectacles that… Read MoreOculus shows off the 50+ launch titles for its Touch motion controllers
Dec 01, 8:36PM
Oculus is gearing up for a major hardware launch next week with its $199 Touch motion controllers. That’s nice and all but as we’ve learned, VR hardware is really only as good as the software that exists to shows off its strengths. Oculus seems to be getting this and it’s ensuring that a swath of titles exist that make good use of the new input type. Today, Oculus… Read MoreEarthquake-sensing mobile app MyShake captures hundreds of temblors large and small
Dec 01, 8:13PM
Back in February, seismologists at UC Berkeley released MyShake, an app that passively monitors for seismic activity, both watching for earthquakes and warning users if one is underway. In the months since its introduction, the app has outperformed its creators’ expectations, detecting over 200 earthquakes in more than ten countries. 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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