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Google's new 'AI principles' forbid its use in weapons and human rights violations
Jun 07, 8:29PM
Google has published a set of fuzzy but otherwise admirable "AI principles" explaining the ways it will and won't deploy its considerable clout in the domain. "These are not theoretical concepts; they are concrete standards that will actively govern our research and product development and will impact our business decisions," wrote CEO Sundar Pichai.
Stitch fix blows out Wall Street's expectations and announces the launch of Stitch Fix Kids
Jun 07, 8:22PM
Stitch Fix, one of last year’s high-profile IPOs, has had a bumpy ride for the past few quarters — but it blew out expectations this afternoon for its most recent quarter, and the stock went absolutely nuts. There’s also a ton of news coming out from the company today, including the hire of a new […]
Facebook launches Fb.gg gaming video hub to compete with Twitch
Jun 07, 8:05PM
Facebook wants a cut of the 3+ hours per week that young adult video gamers spend watching other people play. So today it’s launch Fb.gg – as in the post-competition courtesy of saying “good game” — a destination where viewers can find a collection of all the video game streaming on Facebook. Fb.gg will show […]
Lime brings electric scooters to LA
Jun 07, 7:35PM
While electric scooter startups are at a standstill in San Francisco, Lime is taking its scooter service to Santa Monica, Calif. — competitor Bird’s home turf. Although Lime was planning to launch its new model of scooter that it built in partnership with Segway in San Francisco last month, it’s now debuting them in the […]
Facebook alerts 14M to privacy bug that changed status composer to public
Jun 07, 7:28PM
Facebook has another privacy screwup on its hands. A bug in May accidentally changed the suggested privacy setting for status updates to public from whatever users had set it to last, potentially causing them to post sensitive friends-only content to the whole world. Facebook is now notifying 14 million people around the world who were […]
Bad things happen when you train AI using 'the darkest corners of Reddit'
Jun 07, 7:19PM
MIT researchers trained an artificial intelligence using Reddit and you won't believe what happened next. Just kidding. Of course you will. The worst things happened. Norman, who naturally gets his name from the guest-murdering proprietor of the Bates Motel, is the "world’s first psychopath AI," according to its creators at MIT. First, possibly, but certainly […]
M17 delays IPO debut after pricing this morning on NYSE
Jun 07, 6:52PM
M17 Entertainment, a Taipei-based live streaming and dating app group, priced its IPO this morning on the NYSE and was expected to open trading today according to their final press release. But with just a little more than two hours to go before market closing, it's still not trading, and no one seems to know […]
Speech recognition triggers fun AR stickers in Panda's video app
Jun 07, 6:41PM
Panda has built the next silly social feature Snapchat and Instagram will want to steal. Today the startup launches its video messaging app that fills the screen with augmented reality effects based on the words you speak. Say “Want to get pizza?” and a 3D pizza slice hovers by your mouth. Say “I wear my […]
Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is coming to Disrupt SF to talk about how AI will eat everything, especially jobs
Jun 07, 5:54PM
At our upcoming TechCrunch Disrupt SF (September 5-7), TechCrunch committed to go deep on artificial intelligence, and we’re pleased to announce a speaker who has few peers in that realm as a technologist or investor. Dr. Kai-Fu Lee is the CEO and chairman of Sinovation, a venture firm based in the U.S. and China, and […]
Google Cloud announces the Beta of single tenant instances
Jun 07, 4:59PM
One of the characteristics of cloud computing is that when you launch a virtual machine, it gets distributed wherever it makes the most sense for the cloud provider. That usually means sharing servers with other customers in what is known as a multi-tenant environment. But what about times when you want a physical server dedicated […]
Tesla Model X sped up in Autopilot mode seconds before fatal crash, according to NTSB
Jun 07, 4:58PM
The National Transportation Safety Board has released a preliminary report detailing the fatal crash involving a Tesla Model X in March. The crash also resulted in a fire and shut down two lanes of Highway 101 near Mountain View, Calif. At this point, the NTSB has yet to determine a probable cause of the crash […]
Women's Safety XPRIZE $1M winner is a smart, simple panic button
Jun 07, 4:56PM
Devices like smartphones ought to help people feel safer, but if you're in real danger the last thing you want to do is pull out your phone, go to your recent contacts, and type out a message asking a friend for help. The Women's Safety XPRIZE just awarded its $1 million prize to one of dozens of companies attempting to make a safety wearable that's simple and affordable.
With index changes, Americans are sending billions to China (whether they know it or not)
Jun 07, 4:09PM
There have been two major developments in Chinese equities this month that have the potential to rewire the world financial system. The first, which I have covered extensively on TechCrunch, is the launch of Chinese Depository Receipts, which will provide domestic Chinese investors access to foreign stocks for the first time. Major Chinese tech companies […]
SeatGeek brings ticket buying into Snapchat
Jun 07, 4:04PM
You can now buy game and concert tickets from teams and musicians within Snapchat, thanks to an integration with SeatGeek . While Snapchat has started testing e-commerce features in the past few months, SeatGeek says this is the first ticket-buying experience built into the Snapchat app. The Los Angeles Football Club was the first team […]
Target expands its Shipt and Drive Up services across the Midwest and Southeast
Jun 07, 3:13PM
Target this morning announced it’s expanding its same-day shipping and pickup services, Drive Up and Shipt, across the Midwestern U.S. and the Southeast. The expansion will bring Shipt, its Instacart competitor for same-day grocery delivery and pickup, to more than 135 markets in the U.S. by the end of this month. Meanwhile, Target’s Drive Up […]
Why exhibit in Startup Alley at Disrupt SF?
Jun 07, 3:00PM
Hey startups! Disrupt SF is in three months exactly. Registration is open for startups looking to showcase their product or company to thousands of people on the Disrupt floor. Last year, according to Crunchbase, startups that exhibited in Startup Alley at Disrupt SF 2017 raised more than $37 million in seed and Series A funding six […]
The Hybrid and Gaza Sky Geeks are helping Arab-Israeli and Palestinian entrepreneurs overcome adversity
Jun 07, 2:25PM
Imagine trying to build a business in a country where 90 percent of the water is undrinkable, electricity only works four hours a day and your travel is restricted to an area four times the size of Manhattan, and where in-person meetings are impossible because your partners can’t enter your country to meet you. And […]
Here's the sequel to the surprisingly nice BlackBerry KeyOne
Jun 07, 2:15PM
TCL just dropped the sequel to the KeyOne, the company's surprisingly good keyboard-sporting BlackBerry handset. We reviewed it roughly this time last year, and it was almost enough to restore our faith in the possibilities of BlackBerry as a brand. Almost. Of course, that had much more to do with TCL's ability to create solid […]
Lyft redesigns rider app to encourage shared rides
Jun 07, 2:00PM
Lyft has revamped its rider app in an attempt to help people get where they’re going faster. Instead of first asking for pickup information, the app will now ask where you’re going, which Uber first started asking in 2016. The app is also designed to encourage more shared rides. Oh, and Lyft is now no […]
Devo scores $25 million and cool new name
Jun 07, 1:20PM
Logtrust is now known as Devo in one of the cooler name changes I’ve seen in a long time. Whether they intended to pay homage to the late 70s band is not clear, but investors probably didn’t care, as they gave the data operations startup a bushel of money today. The company now known as […]
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