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Shared housing startups are taking off
May 19, 5:10PM
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor These schools graduate the most funded startup CEOs The formula behind San Francisco's startup success When young adults leave the parental nest, they often follow a predictable pattern. First, move in with roommates. Then graduate to a single or couple's pad. After that comes the big purchase […]
'My Data Request' lists guides to get data about you
May 19, 3:12PM
GDPR is right around the corner, so it's time to prepare your personal data requests. If you live in the European Union, tech companies have to comply with personal data requests after May 25th. And there's a handy website that helps you do just that. My Data Request lists dozens of tech companies and tells […]
Siempo's new app will break your smartphone addiction
May 19, 3:00PM
A new app called Siempo wants to un-addict you from your smartphone and its numerous attention-stealing apps. To do so, Siempo replaces an Android device’s homescreen, while also taking advantage of a number of design principles to push distractions further away, and give you more control over your notifications. The startup, which launched a few […]
La Belle Vie wants to compete with Amazon Prime Now in Paris
May 19, 2:34PM
French startup La Belle Vie announced a new funding round of $6.5 million earlier this week (€5.5 million). Julien Mangeard, Thibaut Faurès Fustel de Coulanges, Louis Duclert, Kima Ventures and Shake-Up Factory participated in the founding round. Online grocery shopping is becoming quite competitive in Paris. You can order groceries from Amazon using Amazon Prime Now. […]
Apple started paying $15 billion European tax fine
May 19, 2:03PM
It took a couple of years, but Apple has started to pay back illegal tax benefits to the Irish government. The company has paid $1.77 billion (€1.5 billion) into an escrow account designed to hold the fine. Apple has to pay $15 billion in total (€13 billion). In August 2016, the European Commission said that […]
Original Content podcast: 'Dear White People' returns to ask more uncomfortable questions
May 19, 2:00PM
Dear White People has a pretty provocative title — and the show, for the most part, lives up to that promise, with a sharply drawn portrait of racial tension at Winchester University, a fictional Ivy League school. It was originally a film written and directed by Justin Simien, who then reinvented the story as a […]
Meet the judges for the TC Startup Battlefield Europe at VivaTech
May 19, 9:17AM
VivaTech is right around the corner, and I'm excited to introduce you to the third batch of judges that will come to Paris for TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield Europe. If you haven't been to TechCrunch Disrupt, the Startup Battlefield is arguably the most interesting part of the show. Before everybody started doing a startup competition, there […]
NASA's newest planet-hunting satellite takes a stellar first test image
May 18, 10:51PM
TESS, the satellite launched by NASA last month that will search thousands of stars for Earth-like exoplanets, has just sent back its first test image. It's just a quick one, not "science-quality," but it does give you an idea of the scale of the mission: the area TESS will eventually document is 400 times the area covered by this shot.
Does Google's Duplex violate two-party consent laws?
May 18, 10:21PM
Google's Duplex, which calls businesses on your behalf and imitates a real human, ums and ahs included, has sparked a bit of controversy among privacy advocates. Doesn't Google recording a person's voice and sending it to a datacenter for analysis violate two-party consent law, which requires everyone in a conversation to agree to being recorded? The answer isn't immediately clear, and Google's silence isn't helping.
AI will save us from yanny/laurel, right? Wrong
May 18, 9:01PM
If you haven't taken part in the yanny/laurel controversy over the last couple days, allow me to sincerely congratulate you. But your time is up. The viral speech synth clip has met the AI hype train and the result is, like everything in this mortal world, disappointing.
zGlue launches a configurable system-on-a-chip to help developers implement customized chipsets
May 18, 8:00PM
The complexity and cost of packing an array of sensors and power inside a small amount of space has opened the door to a wider and wider variety of use cases for internet-connected devices beyond just smart thermostats or cameras — and also exposed a hole for getting those ideas into an actual piece of […]
Trump reportedly pushed USPS to double Amazon's shipping rates
May 18, 7:34PM
According to new reporting from The Washington Post, President Trump personally pushed United States Postal Service head Megan Brennan to jack up shipping prices on Amazon and other firms. The story comes from unnamed sources, who suggest that, thus far, the postmaster general has held out against pressure from the president. If enacted, the new […]
EU parliament pushes for Zuckerberg hearing to be live-streamed
May 18, 7:30PM
There’s confusion about whether a meeting between Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and the European Union’s parliament — which is due to take place next Tuesday — will go ahead as planned or not. The meeting was confirmed by the EU parliament’s president this week, and is the latest stop on Zuckerberg’s contrition tour, following the Cambridge Analytics […]
AWS adds more EC2 instance types with local NVMe storage
May 18, 7:20PM
AWS is adding a new kind of virtual machine to its growing list of EC2 options. These new machines feature local NVMe storage, which offers significantly faster throughput than standard SSDs. These new so-called C5d instances join the existing lineup of compute-optimized C5 instances the service already offered. AWS cites high-performance computing workloads, real-time analytics, […]
Tiny house trend advances into the nano scale
May 18, 6:41PM
All around the world, hip young people are competing to see who can live in the tinest, quirkiest, twee-est house. But this one has them all beat. Assembled by a combination of origami and nanometer-precise robot wielding an ion beam, this tiniest of houses measures about 20 micrometers across. For comparison, that's almost as small as a studio in the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
MoviePass competitor Sinemia can't keep up with demand
May 18, 6:33PM
A number of people are complaining about Sinemia not delivering them their movie membership cards within the seven-day timeframe the company said it would. Although Sinemia has charged people for their memberships, the company has not been able to deliver the membership cards in a timely manner. “We have seen strong demand for our new […]
Baidu's top AI exec is stepping down
May 18, 6:07PM
Baidu's stocks took a hit earlier today after the company announced that its Qi Lu is stepping down from his job as president/COO after just a year and a half. In a press release tied to the news, the executive cited personal reasons for his decision to "transition" to a lesser role. "Baidu is a […]
What we know about Google's Duplex demo so far
May 18, 5:45PM
The highlight of Google’s I/O keynote earlier this month was the reveal of Duplex, a system that can make calls to set up a salon appointment or a restaurant reservation for you by calling those places, chatting with a human and getting the job done. That demo drew lots of laughs at the keynote, but […]
Apply today for a Startup Alley Exhibitor Package at Disrupt SF '18
May 18, 5:01PM
Every tech founder worth their title knows that investors, customers and media exposure form the life blood of every early-stage startup. And there's no better way to place your startup in front of these three essential groups than to exhibit in Startup Alley at Disrupt San Francisco 2018. The conference takes place on September 5-7, but if you […]
Lyft hires former Tesla Autopilot manager for self-driving car efforts
May 18, 4:47PM
Sameer Qureshi has left his role as a senior manager of Tesla Autopilot Programs and has joined Lyft, according to his LinkedIn. We first saw the news over on Electrek. Tesla declined to comment, but Lyft confirmed Qureshi joined the team this week. At Lyft, Qureshi is now director of product for autonomous driving, specifically focused […]
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