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WhatsApp's stories hit 450M users, stealing the globe from Snapchat
May 01, 6:54PM
Snapchat neglected the international market in its early years, and now WhatsApp has snatched that growth opportunity. WhatsApp’s clone of Snapchat Stories, ‘WhatsApp Status’, now has 450 million daily active users. That’s compared to just 187 million daily users on all of Snapchat. This update comes after Facebook said WhatsApp Status and Instagram Stories had 300 […]
Smart dresser helps dementia sufferers put their clothes on right
May 01, 6:45PM
It goes without saying that getting dressed is one of the most critical steps in our daily routine. But long practice has made it second nature, and people suffering from dementia may lose that familiarity, making dressing a difficult and frustrating process. This smart dresser from NYU is meant to help them through the process while reducing the load on overworked caregivers.
Goldman Sachs CFO Martin Chavez and Roblox CEO David Baszucki to hit up Disrupt SF
May 01, 6:34PM
We’ve already got a star-studded lineup prepped to speak at Disrupt SF, running September 5 to September 7. So far, we’ve announced appearances by Sophia Amoruso, Carbon’s Dr. Joseph DeSimone, Adidas’ Eric Liedtke, Ripple’s Brad Garlinghouse, Michael Arrington, and Drew Houston. But given that today is the last day to purchase early bird tickets, we […]
Instagram's 'Explore' section is getting a makeover
May 01, 6:24PM
Instagram is getting a revamped “Explore” section to improve discovery, the company announced this morning during the keynote address at Facebook’s F8 developer conference. The update will better organize its suggestions into topical channels based on your own interests and tastes, so you can more easily find the type of content you’re looking for. Before, […]
Facebook's AR camera effects platform comes to Instagram
May 01, 6:21PM
The augmented reality platform on Facebook has largely been hampered by the fact that it’s only on Facebook. Well, today the feature lands on Instagram, where it will arrive it front of an audience more devoted to photo-sharing in a platform more suited to AR filters. The filter platform will operate a little differently on […]
Facebook's Safety Check now lets people share first-person accounts from disaster zones
May 01, 6:17PM
Facebook today announced an update to its Safety Check feature that expands the tool from simply allowing you to mark yourself as safe to sharing a bit more information about what’s happening on the ground. Facebook says it has activated the Safety Check feature, which launched back in 2014, more than 1,000 times. These new […]
Workplace, Facebook's enterprise version, now has 52 SaaS apps and bots, opens up for more integrations
May 01, 6:16PM
Workplace, the more secure, closed enterprise version of Facebook that competes against the likes of Slack, Microsoft Teams and Hipchat as a platform for employees to communicate and work on things together, says that it today has tens of thousands of organisations using its platform. Now to pick up more, and to bring more of […]
Instagram launches video chat
May 01, 5:38PM
Facebook today announced that Instagram, its popular photo-sharing platform, is getting support for video chats, among a couple of other new features. As Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg noted in his F8 keynote today, quite a few Instagram users already use the platform’s live video feature to chat with friends. “People use live video […]
Facebook and Instagram Stories open to sharing from other apps
May 01, 5:33PM
Facebook is recruiting help to make its Stories more interesting than Snapchat’s. Starting with Spotify, SoundCloud and GoPro, third-party apps can now let their users share to Facebook Stories and Instagram Stories. Rather than screenshotting, users will be able to hit a button to share a photo or video of a playlist, song or mini-movie […]
Facebook is launching a new Groups tab and plug-in
May 01, 5:32PM
Facebook is rolling out a new Groups tab and plugin, announced CEO Mark Zuckerberg during his opening keynote at Facebook’s F8 developer conference this morning. The addition of the new Groups tab on Facebook will make groups a more central part of the Facebook experience, the CEO explained. “In a community, you can meet new […]
Oculus TV is the VR set-top streaming box you never knew you needed
May 01, 5:30PM
Alongside the launch of the Oculus Go headset today, Oculus announced that it is working on a new element of its in-headset experience that will appeal to users interested in binging TV inside VR. It’s called Oculus TV and the company hopes that it will evolve to become a quick-and-easy way for VR users, by […]
$199 Oculus Go VR headset goes on sale today
May 01, 5:30PM
Today, at Facebook’s F8 developer conference, the company announced that its cheap and capable Oculus Go virtual reality headset will be going on sale today. The headset costs $199 for the version with 32GB of onboard storage, and $249 for the 64GB variety. We also finally have eyes on the full hardware specs, which only […]
Facebook tiptoes into translation within Messenger
May 01, 5:30PM
Facebook could use more evidence that it brings the world together rather than tearing it apart. Luckily, technology is finally catching up with the dream of letting people become friends across language barriers. Today at its F8 conference, Facebook announced it will begin rolling out chat translation within Messenger through its M Suggestions assistant. Facebook’s […]
Facebook announces dating feature for meeting non-friends
May 01, 5:29PM
Facebook is invading Tinder’s space with a new set of dating features. It will let people opt in to creating a dating profile on Facebook. It will only be visible to non-friends who also opted into dating. Facebook will match you by a slew of preferences. And since it has more data on you than […]
Facebook reopens app reviews on its platform
May 01, 5:13PM
Onstage at Facebook’s developer conference, Mark Zuckerberg announced that the company will be re-opening its app review process following the pause it took in the aftermath of the Cambridge Analytica crisis. “Now, I know that it hasn’t been easy being a developer these past couple months, that’s probably an understatement. What I can assure you […]
Check out these awesome workshops at TC Sessions: Robotics May 11 at UC Berkeley
May 01, 5:08PM
Hard to believe, but TC Sessions: Robotics is just over a week away. We've got some of the top minds in the industry on the schedule for the event, including Andy Rubin, Laura Tyson, Marc Raibert, Robert Full, Melonee Wise, Ayanna Howard, Pieter Abbeel and Chris Urmson. As we told you last week, we'll have […]
Lyft partners with Udacity to hire self-driving car engineers
May 01, 5:00PM
Lyft is teaming up with Udacity to find talent for its Level 5 autonomous-driving engineering team. The partnership entails a challenge designed to identify the best candidates in Udacity’s self-driving car engineer nanodegree program. Called the Lyft Perception Challenge, the idea is to test problem-solving skills around perception for autonomous vehicles. The competition, which runs […]
Google accused of using GDPR to impose unfair terms on publishers
May 01, 4:33PM
A group of European and international publishers have accused Google of using an incoming update to the European Union’s data protection framework to try to push “draconian” new terms on them in exchange for continued access to its ad network — which many publishers rely on to monetize their content online. Google trailed the terms […]
Toast launches a new handheld device and kitchen display system for restaurants
May 01, 4:30PM
Toast, the Boston-based technology developer for the restaurant industry, has launched a new handheld point-of-sale device and a kitchen display system to integrate the front and back of any restaurant. Using the devices, any waiter can become an expert on menu offerings at the touch of a button. The new device lets waitstaff know when […]
Entrepreneurs and VCs are a big part of Gold House's inaugural list of 100 influential Asian America
May 01, 4:26PM
Gold House is a new nonprofit seeking to support Asian Americans in business and culture, and today it’s launching a tried-and-true initiative to bring big names together — a list. The A100 list names 100 of the most influential Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Not surprisingly, it’s got Hollywood celebrities like Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and […]
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