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Instagram quietly launches payments for commerce
May 03, 6:11PM
Get ready to shop the ‘Gram. Instagram just stealthily added a native payments feature to its app for some users. It lets you register a debit or credit card as part of a profile, set up a security pin, then start buying things without ever leaving Instagram. Not having to leave for a separate website […]
Scaleway launches updated cloud servers for $2.40 per month
May 03, 5:45PM
French cloud hosting company Scaleway announced new servers for its cloud offering. While the company's offering was already quite cheap, Scaleway is going one step further with prices starting at €1.99 per month (around $2.40 per month). For this price, you get an x86 server with 1 core, 1GB of RAM, 25GB of SSD, 100Mbit/s […]
Facebook hired eHarmony's chief scientist… but not for its new dating feature (Updated)
May 03, 5:42PM
One of the bigger pieces of product news at Facebook’s F8 developer conference this week was the announcement that Facebook will soon turn on a new dating feature. It has also quietly made a hire that points to its growing interest in developing more specific uses of its data, although not for the dating feature […]
Freeda raises $10 million for its new media brand for women
May 03, 5:19PM
Italian startup Freeda Media is raising a $10 million Series A round led by Alven Capital. U-Start and business angels are also participating in the round. Freeda Media runs the popular Freeda Facebook page. With nearly 1.4 million likes, the page has an impressive reach. 24 million unique users see Freeda content every month in […]
NASA's InSight Mars lander will gaze (and drill) into the depths of the Red Planet
May 03, 5:07PM
NASA's latest mission to Mars, InSight, is set to launch early Saturday morning in pursuit of a number of historic firsts in space travel and planetology. The lander's instruments will probe the surface of the planet and monitor its seismic activity with unprecedented precision, while a pair of diminutive CubeSats riding shotgun will test the viability of tiny spacecraft for interplanetary travel.
Chrome on desktop now mutes annoying autoplays by learning from your behavior
May 03, 5:00PM
There’s little that’s more annoying on the web than videos that start playing automatically and with their volume up. Over the course of the last few years, Chrome and other browser vendors have started to combat this, but for the most part, those solutions relied on the user explicitly taking action. Now, following the launch […]
Twitter is moving a portion of its infrastructure to Google Cloud
May 03, 5:00PM
Twitter today announced a new collaboration with Google that will see it moving a portion of infrastructure to Google’s Cloud Platform. The move is another high-profile win for Google in the cloud computing market, following its recent deal with Fitbit. Specifically, Twitter says it’s moving its cold data storage and its flexible compute Hadoop clusters – […]
Applications still open for Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF '18
May 03, 5:00PM
Could your startup use $100,000? Then drop whatever you're doing and apply to compete in Startup Battlefield while you still can. Applications are still open to qualifying companies — meaning you haven't yet launched to the public and have received little to no press coverage. Startup Battlefield takes place at Disrupt San Francisco 2018 on September […]
Amazon halts Seattle expansion over city tax proposal
May 03, 4:49PM
Even as Amazon continues to grow at a staggering rate, it is pumping the brakes on its long-planned hometown expansion. The retail giant threw down the gauntlet this week when it announced that it would stop construction on a new building because of a proposed city tax. The new law is designed to address Seattle's […]
Google's Advanced Protection program now allows access from Apple's mobile apps, too
May 03, 4:00PM
Last October, Google launched its Advanced Protection Program for users who want to ensure the highest degree of protection for the data they store in services like Gmail, Google Calendar and Drive. Users who need that kind of protection can opt into this program, but, in return, they have to use security keys for the […]
Washé raises $3.5 million for its on-demand car washing service and biz platform
May 03, 3:59PM
Another startup wants to make on-demand car washing work, where others have failed. Washé, a Boca Raton-based service for on-demand washes, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding to continue to grow its business, which involves a mobile app consumers use to connect with Washé’s network of around 1,000 licensed and insured car washing professionals. […]
Amazon opens up in-skill purchases to all Alexa developers
May 03, 3:12PM
Amazon today launched in-skill purchasing to all Alexa developers, along with Amazon Pay for skills. That means developers have a way to generate revenue from their voice applications on Alexa-powered devices, like Amazon’s Echo speakers. For example, developers could charge for additional packs to go along with their voice-based games, or offer other premium content […]
Telegram's billion-dollar ICO has become a mess
May 03, 2:34PM
Telegram’s ICO was supposed to be a record-breaker to develop a platform that brings the decentralized internet to life. Instead, it has become a mess with the tightly controlled fundraising process in disarray as early backers sell their tokens for handsome returns. The company recently canceled the public sale piece of its ICO, the Wall Street […]
Watch these robotic soccer players play a nail-biter of a match
May 03, 2:16PM
As a hater of all sports, I am particularly excited about the imminent replacement of humans with robots in soccer. If this exciting match, the Standard Platform League (SPL) final of the German Open featuring the Nao-Team HTWK vs. Nao Devils, is any indication, the future is going to be great. The robots are all […]
Reports of institutional crypto desks have been greatly exaggerated
May 03, 2:15PM
Todays news that Goldman Sachs is opening a Bitcoin trading desk is good news for the crypto economy as a whole. But is it a real shift in perception for crypto at big institutions? Not likely, said David Gerard, author of Attack of the 50 Foot Blockchain. “If you look closely at the reports, they […]
Datadog provides visibility into Kubernetes apps with new container map
May 03, 2:00PM
As companies turn increasingly to containerization, it creates challenges in terms of monitoring each individual container and the impact on the underlying application. This is particularly difficult because of the ephemeral nature of containers, which can exist for a very short time. Datadog introduced a container map product today that could help by bringing visualization […]
Google Assistant now works with 5,000 smart home devices
May 03, 1:00PM
With I/O just a matter of days away, Google's gone on the offensive with Assistant. In a blog post this morning, the company is talking up its smart home play in a major way, noting an admitted pretty impressive bump in hardware compatibility. By its count, the number of compatible devices recently hit the 5,000 […]
Power Ledger deploys first blockchain-based P2P energy trading system in Chicago
May 03, 12:34PM
When blockchain first appeared, especially Ethereum's innovation of 'smart contracts', a number of people posited that it could be used to trade energy between one source and another, such as power supplies or batteries. The idea would be to enable consumers to buy and sell renewable energy directly between one another, in a peer-to-peer (P2P) […]
Verisart brings blockchain certification to the global art auction market
May 03, 12:00PM
Almost three years ago Verisart appeared on the scene with an unusual idea. It was going to use the immutability of blockchain to create certification to the fine art market. To literally verify and artwork was what it claimed to be. While the idea seemed a good one, the execution was probably going to be […]
Wedding startup Zola just received a lavish gift: $100 million in fresh funding
May 03, 11:30AM
Zola, a fast-growing company that invites newly engaged couples to register their guests, shop from 600 different brands, and create customizable checklists, has itself received something a bit extravagant: $100 million in Series D funding. Earlier investor Comcast Ventures led the round, which also included new investors NBCUniversal and Goldman Sachs Investment Partners. The five-year-old, […]
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