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Facebook teases major VR display upgrades with Oculus 'Half Dome' prototype
May 02, 7:06PM
For the last couple years the hardware upgrades that VR headsets have been getting have been pretty stale, there might be a resolution bump or the addition of eye-tracking or new controllers, but most of the advances have seemed to be on the software side. Facebook is focusing on some more fundamental display issues in […]
Google revamps its Google Maps developer platform
May 02, 7:00PM
Google is launching a major update to its Google Maps API platform for developers today — and it’s also giving it a new name: the Google Maps Platform. This is one of the biggest changes to the platform in recent years and it’ll greatly simplify the Google Maps developer offerings and how Google charges for […]
Cambridge Analytica shuts down in light of 'unfairly negative' press coverage
May 02, 6:56PM
Cambridge Analytica is done. In light of the sprawling controversy around its role in improperly obtaining data from Facebook users through a third party, the company will end its US and UK operations. In a press release confirming the decision, the company said that “unfairly negative media coverage” around the Facebook incident has “driven away […]
Stories are about to surpass feed sharing. Now what?
May 02, 6:41PM
We’re at the cusp of the visual communication era. Stories creation and consumption is up 842 percent since early 2016, according to consulting firm Block Party. Nearly a billion accounts across Snapchat, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger now create and watch these vertical, ephemeral slideshows. And yesterday, Facebook chief product officer Chris Cox showed a […]
Soft Robotics raises $20 million to expand operations
May 02, 6:24PM
Massachusetts-based Soft Robotics announced this week that it's raised $20 million in funding, courtesy of Scale Venture Partners, Calibrate Ventures, Honeywell Ventures and Tekfen Ventures, along with existing investors like robotics giant, ABB. The round follows a $5 million Series A the company closed back in late-2015. The investment interest is pretty clear on this […]
Facebook animates photo-realistic avatars to mimic VR users' faces
May 02, 6:02PM
Facebook wants you to look and move like you in VR, even if you’ve got a headset strapped to your face in the real world. That’s why it’s building a new technology that uses a photo to map someone’s face into VR, and then sensors to detect facial expressions and movements to animate that avatar […]
Facebook engineer and 'professional stalker' reportedly fired over creepy Tinder messages
May 02, 5:42PM
There's no shortage of Facebook news this week on account of F8, but this creepy Facebook-adjacent event with a good outcome seems worth noting. An engineer accused of abusing his access to data at the company in Tinder messages has been fired.
Facebook's open-source Go bot can now beat professional players
May 02, 5:38PM
Go is the go-to game for machine learning researchers. It’s what Google’s DeepMind team famously used to show off its algorithms, and Facebook, too, recently announced that it was building a Go bot of its own. As the team announced at the company’s F8 developer conference today, the ELF OpenGo bot has now achieved professional […]
Only 24 hours left on Disrupt SF super early-bird ticket prices
May 02, 5:00PM
The final 24-hour shot clock is ticking, startup fans. That means you have one last day to get the best pricing on passes to Disrupt San Francisco 2018, which takes place September 5-7 at Moscone Center West. Come May 3, prices increase and your chance to save up to $1,800 disappears. Don't miss your shot. […]
Facebook is using your Instagram photos to train its image recognition AI
May 02, 5:00PM
In the race to continue building more sophisticated AI deep learning models, Facebook has a secret weapon: billions of images on Instagram.
Facebook announces PyTorch 1.0, a more unified AI framework
May 02, 5:00PM
Though Facebook’s focus on day 1 of its F8 conference centered on the company’s recent struggles and their relationship with the phrase “taking broader responsibility,” day 2 shifted most of the pizazz to the technical advances its giant team has made over the past year. Today, the company announced PyTorch 1.0, a new iteration of […]
The Handmaid's Tale gets greenlight for season 3
May 02, 4:50PM
The Handmaid’s Tale, America’s favorite dystopian drama, will return for a third season. Hulu announced the news this morning on the heels of revealing it has hit 20 million subscribers for its streaming service. The second season of The Handmaid’s Tale is currently airing on Hulu, with the third episode to available today. The series […]
Philo and Pandora are offering a discounted, but temporary, 3-month bundle of TV and music
May 02, 4:48PM
It seems like Hulu and Spotify had the right idea, when they launched a discounted package last month that combined both of their services. Now, the low-cost streaming service Philo is doing the same – but not with Spotify. Instead, Philo and Pandora are teaming up on a combo deal of their own: $16 per […]
Watch Facebook's F8 2018 Day 2 keynote right here
May 02, 4:45PM
Facebook is hosting its F8 developer conference in San Jose this week. Yesterday, it kicked off with a keynote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who addressed the company’s latest scandals, including Cambridge Analytica, election meddling, and fake news. But he also spoke of his commitment to Facebook’s mission of connecting the world, and his optimism for the future. […]
Austin Russell is speaking at TechCrunch's Tel Aviv event on Mobility
May 02, 4:36PM
TechCrunch is coming to Tel Aviv, Israel to unpack the revolution that is coming in Mobility. So we’re excited to announce that a pioneer of the space, Austin Russell, will be speaking. Austin Russell is an accomplished applied physicist, and founder and CEO of Luminar Technologies, Inc. He founded the company in 2012 with a […]
MoviePass brings back 'unlimited' movie subscription plan
May 02, 4:24PM
It’s hard to keep track with what MoviePass is doing these days, but here’s trying. Today, MoviePass has brought back its nearly all-you-can-watch monthly movie subscription, Variety reports. With its original plan, subscribers can watch up to one movie a day, every day. This comes after MoviePass removed this subscription last month in favor for […]
Massage-on-demand company, Soothe, raises $31 million
May 02, 4:11PM
The massage-on-demand service Soothe seems to be rubbing investors the right way with the close of a new $31 million round of funding. The Series C round from late-stage and growth capital investment firm, The Riverside Company, caps a busy first quarter for the massage service. It also relocated from Los Angeles to Las Vegas; […]
SALT Lending offers liquidity for cryptocurrency holders
May 02, 4:05PM
SALT Lending has issued $40 million in asset-backed loans that are aimed at investors in cryptocurrencies to give them a bit of liquidity without the need to sell off assets. The company rolled out its first loans late in 2017 after two years spent developing the technology to make the loans work. SALT Lending relies on […]
Google will start investing in early-stage startups that use the Assistant
May 02, 4:00PM
Google is betting big on the Assistant ecosystem and it’s now putting its money where its mouth is. As the company announced today, it’s launching a new program that will provide investment capital and other resources to early-stage startups that build applications in the Google Assistant ecosystem. Typically, companies announce these kind of program to […]
Fusion Fund raises a second $85M fund for heavily technical investing
May 02, 4:00PM
While the mid 2010s were filled with massive financing rounds for companies looking to shift business models like Instacart, Uber, and others along those lines, today’s hottest sector is a more technical one: artificial intelligence. That’s required a different approach to building companies. As tools become more and more powerful, and frameworks like TensorFlow become […]
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