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ClassPass Live launches offering on-demand workouts from home
Mar 14, 4:16PM
ClassPass has today announced the launch of ClassPass Live, an at-home workout platform that connects users with fitness teachers via live video. ClassPass Live was first announced in December of last year. The company purchased a studio in Industry City, along with hiring instructors to develop a proprietary ClassPass workout for users and run classes. […]
Google is using Maps to turn every video game into an earth-sized epic
Mar 14, 4:01PM
Video games are about to look a lot more like the real world. If you’ve enjoyed the thrill of driving through GTA V and spying out Los Angeles landmarks, then that’s a sentiment you’re probably going to start feeling a lot more often while you play video games. Google is making its Maps API play nice […]
PlayTable uses blockchain to connect video games and physical objects
Mar 14, 4:00PM
I’ll be honest: When I first got the pitch for “the first blockchain-based video game console,” I assumed it must be some kind of gimmick. But Jimmy Chen, co-founder and CEO of Blok.Party, said the Ethereum blockchain is “a critical part of this experience,” allowing his team to create “this seamless bridge between the digital […]
Microsoft announces its first cloud regions in the Middle East
Mar 14, 3:41PM
Microsoft today announced its plans for a major expansion of the Microsoft Cloud with the launch of its first cloud regions in the Middle East. These new regions, which are scheduled to go online in 2019, will be located in Abu Dhabi and Dubai and will host the company’s usual Azure, Office 365 and Dynamics 365 […]
Google announces ban on cryptocurrency ads
Mar 14, 3:28PM
A little over a month after Facebook updated its advertising policy to include a blanket ban on cryptocurrency, Google is following suit. Shortly after reporting that it had removed 3.2 billion "bad ads" in 2017, the search giant issued an update to its advertising policy page, highlighting a ban on: Binary options and synonymous products […]
Insta360 teases new 'FlowState' stabilization tech for 360 cameras
Mar 14, 3:00PM
360-degree camera maker Insta360 just released a video that shows off a new feature it’s calling “FlowState,” which stabilizes a ‘flat,’ traditional HD video frame by extracting it from a 360 capture. This might be a familiar technique if you’ve followed what GoPro and Rylo are doing with their own 360 cameras, but Insta360’s take […]
Concur Labs wants to help you do your expenses in Slack
Mar 14, 3:00PM
Concur Labs, the slightly more experimental arm of SAP’s travel booking and expense management service Concur, today announced an integration with Slack that may actually make managing your expenses a bit easier and less annoying. Using the new Concur Slack bot, users will, among other things, be able to submit receipts and enter their basic […]
Pilot raises $15M to bring bookkeeping into the modern era
Mar 14, 3:00PM
The first time Waseem Daher, Jessica McKellar, and Jeff Arnold worked together on a startup, they built one that allowed administrators to patch security updates to a system without having to restart it. So it might come as a bit of a surprise that the next big technical challenge the three MIT graduates want to tackle […]
Microsoft announces breakthrough in Chinese-to-English machine translation
Mar 14, 2:46PM
A team of Microsoft researchers announced on Wednesday they’ve created the first machine translation system that’s capable of translating news articles from Chinese to English with the same accuracy as a person. The company says it’s tested the system repeatedly on a sample of around 2,000 sentences from various online newspapers, comparing the result to […]
Codementor launches Dev Protocol, which uses blockchain to help developers build their reputations
Mar 14, 2:03PM
Dev Protocol is a new project that uses blockchain to give software developers a secure place to build their professional reputations. Created by Codementor, an online mentoring platform and on-demand marketplace for software developers, one of Dev Protocol's goals is to make the industry a more level playing field. "You can take it from job […]
Interfaith social network Pray.com raises $14M Series A to add new features to its mobile app
Mar 14, 2:00PM
Pray.com, an interfaith social networking app for members of religious communities, has raised a $14 million Series A led by TPG Growth. Previous investors Science Inc. and Greylock Partners also returned for the round, which brings the Santa Monica-based startup’s total funding, including a seed round announced last June, to $16 million. Founded in 2016, […]
LUS Brands, backed by Y Combinator, wants you to love your curls
Mar 14, 2:00PM
Sahar Saidi has had curly hair her whole life, and spent most of that life straightening and treating her hair to try to conform to the media’s idea of beauty. But with the rise of social media, Saidi noticed a trend. People with curly hair were becoming more and more comfortable wearing their hair naturally […]
Rocket Lab's next launch vaults it into full commercial operation
Mar 14, 1:59PM
Rocket launch startup Rocket Lab is moving from its initial testing phase into proper commercial operations with its next mission. The company’s past two launches, “It’s a Test” and “Still Testing” were (you guessed it) primarily tests of its Electron launch craft vehicle and launch process, but its next mission, dubbed “It’s Business Time” (kudos […]
Algolia adds search analytics so that you can optimize your search results
Mar 14, 1:33PM
Algolia had made a tiny acquisition to complement its product offering. The company is acquiring the technology behind SeaUrchin.IO — the team of two behind this product is not joining Algolia. For those not familiar with Algolia, the startup has developed an impressive search engine API. In just a few lines of codes, you can […]
YouTube to add Wikipedia background info on conspiracy videos
Mar 14, 1:08PM
YouTube is taking action on the proliferation of conspiracy videos found on its platform: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki told an SXSW panel Tuesday that the company would be introducing so-called “information cues” sourced from relevant Wikipedia articles on videos that talk about popular conspiracy theories. These will appear as text boxes that can prevent alternative […]
Broadcom gives up and drops Qualcomm bid
Mar 14, 1:06PM
It was already a complicated deal, but it now looks like Broadcom's plans to take over Qualcomm are done. The company announced that it would respect Donald Trump's block and drop its Qualcomm bid. "Although we are disappointed with this outcome, Broadcom will comply with the order," Broadcom said in a statement. At one point, […]
WhatsApp will not share user data with Facebook until it complies with GDPR, ICO closes investigation
Mar 14, 12:04PM
Facebook, its popular messaging app WhatsApp, and the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) have reached a truce in their long-running investigation over how Facebook and WhatsApp share user data. The ICO today announced that it has closed its investigation and concluded that WhatsApp and Facebook, in fact, cannot and do not share user data for anything […]
IBM partners with Cloudflare to launch new security and DDoS protection features
Mar 14, 11:00AM
Over the course of the last few years, Cloudflare built a global network of data center locations and partnerships to expand its DDoS protection, security tools and website acceleration services. That kind of expertise is hard to beat, so maybe it doesn’t come as a surprise that even a global technology juggernaut like IBM today announced […]
IBM launches bare metal Kubernetes
Mar 14, 11:00AM
Containers are quickly becoming the standard way for deploying new applications in the cloud and that’s even true for the most traditional of enterprises. It’s no surprise then that every major cloud provider is betting on containers — and more specifically on the open source Kubernetes container orchestration service. IBM has long offered its own […]
A Hippocratic Oath for artificial intelligence practitioners
Mar 14, 10:30AM
Oren Etzioni Contributor Share on Twitter Oren Etzioni is CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and has been a professor at the University of Washington's Computer Science department since 1991. He has also founded or co-founded several companies, including Farecast (sold to Microsoft in 2008) and Decide (sold to eBay in 2013), and […]
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