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Improving search and advertising are the next frontiers for voice-activated devices
Dec 20, 11:30AM
Despite millions of orders for voice enabled devices, vendors have yet to map the uncharted territory of voice enabled search and advertising. Indeed, as voice search expands — to the tune of 50 percent of all searches by 2020 (according to some estimates) — so, too, do opportunities for platforms to cash in beyond products and services. In fact, in an earnings call last year,… Read MoreAlibaba Cloud is opening its first data center in India
Dec 20, 10:43AM
Alibaba is bringing its cloud computing business into India as it continues to expand its first-growing business unit. The Chinese firm said today that its first data center on Indian soil will come online in January and be based out of Mumbai. The business already has clients in India, but a local presence will allow it to better service customers in the country, it added. Beyond offering… Read MoreBlow to Uber in Europe as top court rules it's a transport service
Dec 20, 9:08AM
Europe’s top court has provided the final verdict on a multi-years legal challenge brought by EU taxi associations to Uber’s claim that it’s just a technology platform — with the CJEU today ruling it’s a transport service. Read MoreLitecoin founder Charlie Lee has sold all of his LTC
Dec 20, 8:21AM
Charlie Lee, the former director of engineering at Coinbase, is selling almost all of his holdings in Litecoin (LTC), the cryptocurrency that he founded in 2011. Lee explained in a post on Reddit that he is selling all of his LTC coins — bar a number of physical coins he keeps as collectibles — to avoid the conflict of interest that comes with his influence and position as LTC… Read MorePayPal backs pan-European savings deposit marketplace Raisin
Dec 20, 7:00AM
Raisin, the savings deposit marketplace that lets you shop for a better interest rate across Europe, has picked up backing from PayPal. Described as a “strategic investment,” the new funding round remains undisclosed. Read MoreCoinbase is investigating claims of insider trading from its Bitcoin Cash launch
Dec 20, 6:50AM
Coinbase is investigating whether its employees took advantage of inside knowledge to profit on the launch of bitcoin cash (BCH) when it was added the popular crypto exchange. The company, which recently raised $100 million at a valuation of $1.6 billion, finally added support for BCH — a fork of bitcoin — on Tuesday after much demand from users. But, in true Coinbase fashion,… Read MoreMobike lands investment from Line to grow its bike-sharing service in Japan
Dec 20, 5:16AM
Dock-less bike rental company Mobike is teaming up with messaging app firm Line to boost its presence in Japan. Line, which is Japan’s most popular messaging app with 71 million users in the country, is making an undisclosed investment in Mobike Japan, the Chinese firm’s entity in the country. The deal will see the Mobike service integrated into the Line app the same way that it… Read MoreCrunch Report | U.S. Government Blames North Korea for WannaCry
Dec 20, 4:00AM
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Coinbase halts Bitcoin Cash trading as price briefly hits $8,500
Dec 20, 3:06AM
After just announcing full support for Bitcoin Cash, buying and selling on Coinbase and GDAX is temporarily disabled. For about an hour Coinbase and GDAX were both showing Coinbase Cash prices at around $8,500, which is almost three times higher than the $3,500 price it’s trading at on all other exchanges. Read MoreCoinbase now lets you buy and sell Bitcoin Cash
Dec 20, 1:20AM
Coinbase has just added full support for Bitcoin Cash (BCH) – meaning you can now send, receive, buy and sell the cryptocurrency. All users will also be credited an amount of Bitcoin Cash equal to their Bitcoin balance during the hard fork that occurred August 1st, 2017. Bitcoin Cash trading will also be available on GDAX, Coinbase’s institutional-focused exchange. Update: As of… Read MoreBio-programming toolkit maker Asimov launches with $4.7M from Andreessen Horowitz
Dec 19, 10:45PM
Biotech is one of today’s many hot tech frontiers, but one thing holding it back is that it’s significantly less amenable to traditional computing techniques than other areas. A new startup is working on bridging the gap between the digital and the biological by creating a set of computer-aided biology design tools. It’s a prescient enough idea that it has attracted $4.7… Read MoreThe future of source code security is consensus-based
Dec 19, 10:00PM
The security landscape is ever-changing. It is the most non-constant industry on the planet. New threats appear and new solutions are built to squash them. Rinse, repeat. It’s a never-ending cycle in what seems like no end in sight. What’s the promised land? Can we ever reach an end-state where all software running across the world is secure and 100 percent free of breaches? Read MoreGoogle's Tacotron 2 simplifies the process of teaching an AI to speak
Dec 19, 9:48PM
Creating convincing artificial speech is a hot pursuit right now, with Google arguably in the lead. The company may have leapt ahead again with the announcement today of Tacotron 2, a new method for training a neural network to produce realistic speech from text that requires almost no grammatical expertise. Read MoreStitch Fix is crashing after its first-ever earnings report
Dec 19, 9:36PM
Stitch Fix’s first earnings report is not going well for the company, as its shares went into a tailspin after a significant run up over the past month following its IPO when it delivered its results its most recent fiscal quarter. Stitch Fix, a personalized apparel company that ships a box of recommended items that users can buy or send back, closed up just 1% on its first day of… Read MoreIs the time finally right for platform-agnostic cloud gaming?
Dec 19, 8:13PM
We’ve heard it all before. Gaming in the cloud, the ability to play the most demanding titles, regardless of the limitations of our own hardware. That was the dream of OnLive, way back in 2010. It was a dream that didn’t end particularly well for the company. Parsec co-founder and CEO Benjy Boxer, for one, believes the service’s ultimate failure was a matter of bad timing. Read MoreWhite House petition site goes offline prior to late January relaunch
Dec 19, 8:10PM
The White House petition portal established by the Obama administration is on pause, at the moment. The site, known as We The People, allows anyone to make a petition and collect digital signatures online. According to the site’s maintenance page, the relaunch won’t change the rules or erase the site’s archives. Read MoreReview: GoPro HERO6 Black
Dec 19, 8:04PM
GoPro has always occupied a fairly tight niche of camera users. In fact, there are almost certainly more people who own the action camera than have lives gnarly or radical enough to actually need them. With this laser focus has come GoPro’s ability to continue optimizing fully with each new update to its HERO series. This action camera expertise is on full display with their latest… Read MoreReview: GoPro Fusion 360 camera
Dec 19, 8:03PM
Spherical cameras seem to be one of the more undesired tech trends to be pushed on people in the past couple of years. Consumer tech companies have opted to develop these expensive products as a segue into capturing the user-generated VR vertical, but with VR itself in a rather tenuous position, the market for a pricey spherical camera seems suspect. Enter GoPro. Read MoreTwitch announces reality show for up-and-coming streamers
Dec 19, 7:45PM
Twitch is planning to highlight some of its most promising users in a reality show called Stream On. The Amazon-owned video game streaming service says the show is for participants who are “right on the cusp of making streaming full-time a possibility.” More concretely, it’s holding auditions for users who have already achieved Partner status — the FAQ discourages… Read MoreFacebook opens its social VR Spaces platform to HTC Vive
Dec 19, 7:36PM
As Facebook looks to keep its VR dream moving, the company is opening its nascent social VR platform to run on headsets that the company doesn’t build. Today, a VR exec at the company announced that Facebook Spaces would be gaining support to run on the competing HTC Vive headset. The move opens up the platform to a wider audience inside what is still a very tight niche of users. Users… 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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