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Africa Roundup: MEST, Airbus and Microsoft expand in Africa, while Afrostream shutters
Oct 05, 8:30AM
MEST appointed Aaron Fu as its new Managing Director, as the Accra based incubator scales up its presence across Sub-Saharan Africa. Founded in 2008, MEST operates as a training program and seed fund for African innovators to build successful commercial tech companies. Fu told TechCrunch he plans to focus on the incubator’s continued expansion. The organization currently has offices or… Read MoreZefo, an online store for secondhand goods, gets $9.2M Series B led by Sequoia India
Oct 05, 7:54AM
Zefo, which bills itself as “India’s fastest growing used goods marketplace,” said today that it has raised $9.2 million in Series B funding. The round was led by returning investors Sequoia India and Helion Venture Partners, with participation by Beenext. Read MoreOhio State University launches its new Digital Flagship University with Apple
Oct 05, 7:25AM
Ohio State University has announced a new digital education initiative in collaboration with Apple that includes a new iOS Design Lab on its Columbus campus and the distribution of iPad Pros to incoming first-year students. Called the Digital Flagship University, the project starts this academic year with the goal of allowing Ohio State’s community to “develop modern mobile skills… Read More21Buttons, a social-commerce app dedicated to fashion, closes $10M Series A
Oct 05, 7:00AM
21Buttons, a social-commerce app that lets fashion influencers share their wardrobe, has closed $10 million in Series A funding. The round is led by Kibo Ventures, and JME VC. Read MoreBambino app helps parents find babysitters recommended by their neighbors
Oct 05, 4:19AM
Parenting young children involves a lot of logistics, including what to do with them when you need to run a last-minute errand, go to an appointment or just have a few hours to decompress. For parents who don’t have friends or relatives they can call on for babysitting, this can be tricky. Bambino wants to help by connecting parents with nearby babysitters who have already been… Read MoreCrunch Report | Google's Big Ol' Hardware Day
Oct 05, 3:00AM
All the goodies, like Pixel 2, Pixelbook, Clips, Home Mini and Pixel Buds from Google’s Hardware Event, self-driving car company Voyage is testing cars at a retirement home and the EU says Ireland isn’t taxing Apple enough. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
Instagram Stories launches cross-posting to Facebook Stories
Oct 05, 1:13AM
Facebook Stories might not be a ghost town for long. After testing in Portugal last month, TechCrunch spotted the option to syndicate your Instagram Stories to Facebook Stories appearing to US users. Now Facebook confirms this feature is officially rolling out, and everyone should have it soon if not already. The only exception is businesses, since they’re not allowed on Facebook… Read MoreCan Google's AI-powered Clips make people care about lifelogging?
Oct 05, 12:22AM
Lifelogging once seemed like an inevitability. Between social media and the increasing ubiquity of cameras, we were all clearly moving toward a sort of constant documentation of our lives’ events. Or at the very least, missing important moments seemed destined to become a thing of the past. Thing is, lifelogging solutions have either flat out sucked or contained some sort of fatal flaw. Read MoreAlexa is about to disappear into other devices, thanks to a new technology
Oct 04, 11:38PM
The reason you have an Amazon Alexa sitting on your coffee table or by a couch is because it needs to be able to hear you clearly when you speak. Too near the TV and it’ll go ordering strange things whenever someone says “Alexa!” What is required is the kind of sophisticated technology that can listen for a human voice while ignoring all the other noise around. Read MoreGoogle dropped the Pixel's headphone jack to lay the groundwork for a bezel-free phone
Oct 04, 11:34PM
Another domino has fallen in the march toward a post-headphone jack world. Today Google became the latest company to drop the once ubiquitous port from its phones, though it hardly devoted any time to its own courageous move. The driving motivation for dropping the jack is pretty clear after a quick survey of the mobile landscape: the Pixel is moving to an edge-to-edge display. “The… Read MoreThe hard tech behind Google's simple Clips camera
Oct 04, 11:10PM
Maybe the biggest surprise of Google’s hardware event today was the launch of Clips, a small stand-alone AI-driven camera that can capture up to three hours of video and images and then automatically select the best moments for you. I’m not sure how well Clips will do in the marketplace, but technically, it’s a fascinating product. Read More'Stranger Things' hype reaches SNES levels with retro-style demake for iOS
Oct 04, 11:09PM
In case you’ve been living in the upside-down for the last few weeks, the second season of “Stranger Things” is imminent. And you know what that means… media tie-ins! Today we’ve already had AR “stickers” at Google’s event, but iOS gets a much more compelling item: a full-on SNES-style demake of the show. Read MoreChatting corporate greed with Mr. Monopoly, hero of the Equifax Senate hearing 🎩💸
Oct 04, 10:50PM
In a particularly dark week for America, one ray of hope shone bright, its monocle glinting bravely in the harsh media flash. Enter Rich Uncle Pennybags, the board game fat cat better known as the Monopoly man, who made a high-profile appearance at today’s Senate hearing on the Equifax hack. Read MoreKiip expands its mobile rewards platform to Amazon's Fire TV
Oct 04, 10:26PM
Mobile rewards startup Kiip isn’t limited to mobile devices anymore. The company is launching its first integration on Amazon’s Fire TV. Co-founder and CEO Brian Wong said Kiip was actually approached by its launch partner, the developer of the trivia game QuizTix, which asked if Kiip could build an ad and reward experience for smart TVs. And that’s what Wong’s team… Read MoreThe Pixel 2/Home Mini bundle is a big deal for Google Assistant
Oct 04, 10:25PM
Today’s Google event was a non-stop two hour deluge of Assistant news. Yet one small, overlooked announcement may have been the biggest bit boost to the company’s burgeoning AI ecosystem so far. The simple decision to include a Home Mini in early Pixel 2 shipments could prove a more successful method for spreading the Assistant gospel than anything Google has done to this point.… Read More3D printing brain scans helps doctors with a tricky diagnosis
Oct 04, 10:06PM
When there’s a problem in the brain, it pays to be precise — every millimeter counts with something like a tumor or blocked artery. But it can be extremely difficult to understand the exact shape and size of these things, which makes them difficult to diagnose and treat, as well. But 3D printing a replica of the growth or damage may make doctors better able to do so. Read MoreThe Pixelbook is Google's first real attempt at a mainstream laptop
Oct 04, 9:51PM
Google used its annual hardware event to announce the Pixelbook. This is essentially the third iteration of the company’s Chromebook Pixel laptop, though with the Pixelbook, the company is taking a new approach. I’m not just talking about the fact that this is a very thin 2-in-1. What’s different this time is that the company actually believes it can make a laptop for the masses. Read MoreGoogle's WaveNet machine learning-based speech synthesis comes to Assistant
Oct 04, 9:13PM
Last year, Google showed off WaveNet, a new way of generating speech that didn’t rely on a bulky library of word bits or cheap shortcuts that result in stilted speech. WaveNet used machine learning to build a voice sample by sample, and the results were, as I put it then, “eerily convincing.” Previously bound to the lab, the tech has now been deployed in the latest version… Read MoreFirst impressions of the $49 Google Home Mini
Oct 04, 9:09PM
Today, Google showed off its answer to Amazon’s Echo Dot. It’s called the Google Home Mini. It’s $49, comes in three colors and is actually a pretty snappy little device that’s worth taking a look at. We had some time to get up close and personal with the device; here are some of our first impressions. Read MoreHands-on with the $159 Google Pixel Buds
Oct 04, 9:06PM
Google’s Pixel Buds are a $159 pair of wireless earbuds that bring Assistant and real-time translation features right into your ears. They’re not quite like the AirPods and they’re not quite like anything else out there, but you’re not going to get the most out of them unless you have a new Pixel 2. I had a chance to try them out and here are some first impressions. 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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