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Alexa gets smarter about calendar appointments
May 22, 7:15PM
As digital assistants improve, we’re learning new things to expect from them, but the tasks that a real-life assistant may have handled before can still be a bit of a challenge to home assistants. Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant is gaining functionality to help it get smarter about working with your calendar. The new abilities will […]
Zuckerberg avoided tough questions thanks to short EU testimony format
May 22, 6:25PM
Mark Zuckerberg got to cherry-pick the questions he wanted to answer from EU Parliament after it spent an hour taking turns rattling off queries in bulk before leaving just a half-hour for his batched responses. Zuckerberg immediately trotted out his dorm room story of not expecting Facebook’s current duty to safety and democracy, and repeated his […]
Baidu spins out its global ad business to sharpen its focus on artificial intelligence
May 22, 5:32PM
Baidu, the Chinese search giant, is spinning out its business unit responsible for utility apps and its mobile ad business to sharpen its focus on artificial intelligence. As part of the spin-out, Baidu is selling a large chunk of its equity in the ‘Global DU’ business to as-yet-undisclosed investors. The plan is to sell “a […]
Watch SpaceX launch the GRACE-FO and Iridium NEXT satellites here
May 22, 5:01PM
Today's the day for SpaceX's launch of Iridium's NEXT communications satellites and a pair of twin birds from NASA that will monitor the fresh water on the surface of the Earth. You can watch the launch right here.
The Kata Containers project launches version 1.0 of its lightweight VMs for containers
May 22, 5:00PM
The Kata Containers project, the first non-OpenStack project hosted by the OpenStack Foundation, today launched version 1.0 of its system for running isolated container workloads. The idea behind Kata Containers, which is the result of the merger of two similar projects previously run by Intel and Hyper, is to offer developers a container-like experience with […]
Drink-a-day startup Hooch raises $5M as it plans blockchain initiative
May 22, 4:53PM
Right on the heels of launching its concierge service Hooch Black, Hooch announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding. The company’s basic subscription of $9.99 gets you one free drink per day from a variety of partner bars and restaurants. Hooch Black (which you have to apply for, and which costs […]
Twitter is killing several of its TV apps, too
May 22, 4:38PM
Twitter is shutting down its TV apps on Roku, Android TV and Xbox starting on May 24, the company announced this morning. The news of the apps’ closure comes at a time when Twitter is now trying to steer its users to its first-party mobile apps and its desktop website by killing off apps used […]
Stickman is Disney's new headless acrobatic robot
May 22, 4:36PM
The team at Disney Research never fails to deliver fascinating (if not always particularly useful) experiments. Take Stickman. The robot is essentially one long limb, capable of some cool acrobatic maneuvers. The system, detailed in a new paper from DR titled "Towards a Human Scale Acrobatic Robotic," has two degrees of freedom and a pendulum […]
Slack introduces Actions to make it easier to create and finish tasks without leaving
May 22, 4:30PM
As Slack tries to graduate beyond a Silicon Valley darling to the go-to communications platform within a company, it’s had to find ways to increasingly pitch itself as an intelligent Swiss Army knife for companies — and not just a simple chat app — and it is trying to continue that today once again with a […]
Real Vision, a media platform for finance and business, raises $10 million
May 22, 4:23PM
Real Vision is entering the crowded business and financial new space with a bang. The company, which recently raised a $10 million Series B after a $5 million A round, is working on a number of new initiatives including distribution on Apple TV, a content distribution partnership with Thomson Reuters and an upcoming documentary on […]
Po.et launches lab for developers to build apps on publishing blockchain
May 22, 4:15PM
Po.et is an open source, not-for-profit publishing network built on the blockchain with the broad ambition of changing how we distribute, license and monetize content on the internet. Today, it announced it was opening the Po.et Development Labs, a place for developers to experiment with new ideas on the po.et platform. It also announced the […]
'Solo' is a serviceable Star Wars story
May 22, 4:10PM
In the trailer for Solo, Chewbacca dangles for dear life from a high speed train barreling through a snowy landscape. "Chewie!" the young Han shouts, as the Wookiee's head comes within spitting distance of a rocky mountainside, moments before everything goes black. For those with even a passing familiarity with the Star Wars universe, it's […]
Dropbox beefs up mobile collaboration in latest release
May 22, 4:00PM
Dropbox announced several enhancements today designed to beef up its mobile offering and help employees on the go keep up with changes to files stored in Dropbox . In a typical team scenario, a Dropbox user shared a file with a team member for review or approval. If they wanted to check the progress of […]
Circle Invest lets you buy the cryptocurrency market
May 22, 4:00PM
Circle Invest is one of the easiest products when you want to get started with cryptocurrencies. When Circle first launched the app, I compared it to Coinbase. And Circle is making it even easier to get started as you can just "buy the market" now. Circle Invest started with just a handful of cryptocurrencies — […]
Starbucks's mobile payment service is slightly outpacing Apple's
May 22, 3:37PM
People really love getting their coffee more quickly. Starbucks, which has operated its own mobile payments service since 2011, is the market leader in terms of mobile payments users, beating out Apple Pay, Google Pay, and Samsung Pay, according to a new reporter from eMarketer out this morning. However, Starbucks’ lead over Apple Pay is […]
Instagram now lets you mute accounts
May 22, 2:35PM
Instagram today introduced a way to mute accounts, giving users a way to continue following accounts without seeing their posts all the time. Muted accounts will not be made aware that they’ve been muted, and users can unmute accounts at any time. Users can still see posts on the muted account’s profile page and get […]
Researchers recreate a brain, piece by piece
May 22, 2:31PM
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have created a method for growing and connecting single neurons using geometric patterns to route the neurons more precisely, cell by cell. The article, “Assembly and Connection of Micropatterned Single Neurons for Neuronal Network Formation,” appeared in Micromachines, a journal of molecular machinery. Thus far researchers have created simple […]
Reese Witherspoon's Hello Sunshine teams with Amazon's Audible on audiobooks and originals
May 22, 2:14PM
Reese Witherspoon’s media empire, Hello Sunshine, has teamed up with Audible to work on an audiobook project. The collaboration will initially see the launch of a showcase of Audible audiobooks as selected by Reese’s Book Club, which focus on strong but complex female characters. However, the two companies said that further down the line Hello […]
Parabola raises $2.2 million to simplify programming for employees stuck in Excel all day
May 22, 2:00PM
While knowledge workers are handling increasingly difficult tasks — ones that may be much easier to handle with just a Python script — Alex Yaseen thinks that in the future not everyone will actually need to learn how to code. Instead, he hopes that tools like the one he’s building, called Parabola, will bridge that gap […]
Everence transforms hair, ash and DNA into material for tattoos
May 22, 2:00PM
Everence co-founder Patrick Duffy knows you might be skeptical about the company’s technology, which takes a DNA sample and using it to synthesize a substance that can be added into tattoo ink. In other words, you can have the DNA (and soon hair or cremated ash) from a loved one included in a tattoo on […]
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