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Science fiction writer Harlan Ellison is dead
Jun 28, 9:50PM
Harlan Ellison, the 84-year-old author of some of the best-known science fiction stories of all time, has died. His death was announced on Twitter by Christine Valada. In addition to short fiction, Ellison also wrote for the movies and TV, most notably penning “The City on the Edge of Forever” — he was vocally unhappy […]
Landmark California privacy bill heads to governor's desk
Jun 28, 9:08PM
A data privacy bill in California is just a signature away from becoming law over the strenuous objections of many tech companies that rely on surreptitious data collection for their livelihood. The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 has passed through the state legislative organs and will now head to the desk of Governor Jerry Brown to be enacted.
Television content creation in China
Jun 28, 9:00PM
The biggest industry you've never heard of -- until now.
Honda reportedly retires the iconic Asimo
Jun 28, 7:53PM
Honda is ceasing development of Asimo, the humanoid robot that has delighted audiences at trade shows for years but never really matured into anything more than that, the Nikkei reports. But while the venerable bot itself is bowing out, the technology that made it so impressive will live on in other products, robotic and otherwise.
Instagram Stories now lets its 400M users add soundtracks
Jun 28, 7:00PM
The right music can make a boring photo or video epic, so Instagram is equipping users with a way to add popular songs to their Stories. TechCrunch had the scoop on the music feature's prototype in early May, and now it's launching to iOS and Android users in 6 countries including, the U.S. Thanks to Facebook’s […]
Facebook is using machine learning to self-tune its myriad services
Jun 28, 6:36PM
Regardless of what you may think of Facebook as a platform, they run a massive operation, and when you reach their level of scale you have to get more creative in how you handle every aspect of your computing environment. Engineers quickly reach the limits of human ability to track information, to the point that […]
Facebook will allow you to see all the active ads from any Page
Jun 28, 6:10PM
Facebook made two announcements about ad transparency today — one around the ads purchased by any Page and another around expanding its recently announced archive of political ads. It seems like ad transparency is a big focus today, as Twitter just launched its own Ads Transparency Center, allowing anyone to see ads bought by any […]
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope launch set back to 2021
Jun 28, 5:30PM
NASA announced yesterday that its highly anticipated James Webb Space Telescope is delaying its launch — again. It was announced in March that the mission would be delayed until 2020, which is already two years past its original launch date of October 2018. But after accepting the recommendations of an independent review board, NASA has […]
Moov gets into mindfulness with launch of 'Sanity & Self' app for women
Jun 28, 5:27PM
Moov, the wearable maker best known for its line of fitness trackers with their accompanying digital coaches, is today branching off into mindfulness. The company is the latest to join the self-care craze, with the launch of a new app focused on mindfulness and meditation, Sanity & Self. However, unlike most of today’s meditation apps, […]
Niantic's latest acquisition lets AR Pokémon hide behind the real world
Jun 28, 5:01PM
It seems like a simple concept: when rendering something in augmented reality (like, say, a Pikachu in Pokémon GO) and something in actual reality (like, say, a human, or a car, or a planter) passes in front of it, make the rendered object appear to be “behind” the real one. In practice, it’s pretty damn […]
Grace Hopper computing conference looks to bring more attention to women of color
Jun 28, 5:00PM
AnitaB.org, the organization behind the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, has released its second-ever diversity report. As of today, AnitaB.org employs 59 people — 27 white people, seven black people, seven Latinx people, 13 Asian people, 1 Native American person, three people of two or more races and one person with an […]
Twitter launches its Ads Transparency Center, where you can see ads bought by any account
Jun 28, 5:00PM
Twitter is unveiling the Ads Transparency Center that it announced back in October. This comes as Twitter and other online platforms have faced growing political scrutiny around the role they may have played in spreading misinformation, particularly in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. For example, House Democrats recently released thousands of Russian-funded political Facebook ads, […]
Facebook's virtual reality sculpting platform gets a 2.0 upgrade
Jun 28, 5:00PM
Eighteen months since its initial release, Oculus is delivering some major updates to its Medium "immersive sculpting tool" in a free 2.0 update that's being released today. The artistic tool is one of the company's few first-party apps on the PC Rift platform. Today's updates focus primarily on performance bumps, a UI revamp and some […]
Bird has officially raised a whopping $300M as the scooter wars heat up
Jun 28, 5:00PM
And there we have it: Bird, one of the emerging massively hyped Scooter startups, has roped in its next pile of funding by picking up another $300 million in a round led by Sequoia Capital. The company announced the long-anticipated round this morning, with Sequoia’s Roelof Botha joining the company’s board of directors. This is […]
Criteo creates an AI lab in Paris
Jun 28, 4:55PM
Adtech company Criteo is investing $23 million (€20 million) in a new artificial intelligence lab in Paris. Over the next three years, the company plans to hire researchers to work on AI-related projects. Many of their projects will lead to public presentations, open-source releases and research papers. VP of Research Suju Rajan is going to […]
Cerebri AI raises $5M Series A round led by M12, Microsoft's venture fund
Jun 28, 4:30PM
M12, Microsoft’s venture fund which was previously known as Microsoft Ventures, has been making a series of investments in the last few weeks. Today, it’s leading a $5 million Series A round into Cerebri AI, a startup that uses machine learning to help companies track, analyze and predict their customers’ behavior. The University of Texas […]
Doug Leone, the global managing partner of powerhouse Sequoia Capital, is coming to Disrupt
Jun 28, 4:17PM
Sequoia Capital has been at the top of its game in the U.S. for decades, thanks to early investments in Google, Yahoo, LinkedIn and PayPal, as well as, more recently, its stakes in the messaging startup WhatsApp, the payments company Stripe and the video conferencing unicorn company Zoom. Yet unlike a lot of top-tier firms […]
PayPal Checkout can now be personalized to each shopper
Jun 28, 4:00PM
PayPal today is introducing new checkout technology for e-commerce sites that will dynamically present the most relevant payment method for each customer. That is, instead of retailers having to litter their checkout page with a variety of payment options, PayPal Checkout’s new “smart payment buttons” will update to display the right set of options for […]
LinkedIn adds Microsoft-powered translations and QR codes to connect more of its users faster
Jun 28, 3:46PM
LinkedIn — the social network with more than 560 million members who connect around work-related topics and job-seeking — continues to add more features, integrating technology from its new owner Microsoft, both to improve engagement on LinkedIn as well as to create deeper data ties between the two businesses. Today, the company announced two more: […]
Apple could bundle TV, music and news in a single subscription
Jun 28, 3:22PM
According to a report from The Information, Apple could choose to bundle all its media offerings into a single subscription. While Apple's main media subscription product is currently Apple Music, it's no secret that the company is investing in other areas. In particular, Apple has bought the distribution rights of many TV shows. But nobody […]
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