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Technology in healthcare is moving from mainframes to iPhones
Jul 10, 10:30PM
New technologies are often first manifested in behemoth machines that may take up entire rooms, only to be miniaturized as the technology matures. We have witnessed this shift over the last 70 years in computers, and an analogous trend is now underway in healthcare.
Nerf updates laser tag with smartphone AR
Jul 10, 10:24PM
There's nothing like a great new toy to make you mourn the ghost of bygone youth. I don't have the opportunity to try many out at this job, but when I do, there's an invariable pang of jealousy for kids today who have much broader access to sophisticated playthings than we did in our day. […]
Ex-Apple employee charged with stealing self-driving car secrets
Jul 10, 10:12PM
A former Apple employee that downloaded a plan for a self-driving car circuit board and booked a flight to China was arrested at the San Jose airport on July 7th. The man, Xiaolang Zhang, had made known that he was going to go work for a Chinese self-driving car startup and was bouncing with the […]
California malls are sharing license plate tracking data with ICE
Jul 10, 10:02PM
A chain of California shopping centers is sharing its license plate reader data with a well-known U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contractor, giving that agency the ability to track license plate numbers it captures in near real-time. A report from the Electronic Frontier Foundation revealed that real estate group Irvine Company shares that data […]
Univision confirms it's exploring sale of Gizmodo Media Group and The Onion
Jul 10, 8:56PM
Over the weekend, word broke that Univision was planning to sell off Fusion Media, the brand portfolio containing a chunk of The Onion and various media properties purchased in a Gawker fire sale less than two years back. Today, the company confirmed with TechCrunch that it has "initiated a formal process to explore the sale" […]
Is insurance a rich enough game to disrupt?
Jul 10, 8:00PM
For the last decade, the largest technology companies have increasingly looked outside of tech to grow their operations. Now, companies like Apple and Google and Amazon are eyeing innovation across the insurance landscape.
Samsung's 'Galaxy Watch' trademark fuels speculation about a Wear OS device
Jul 10, 7:43PM
Samsung's got a new smartwatch on the way. That much seems certain. It's been about a year since the last big announcement, and the company is about to have two large platforms in the form of August's Note 9 Unpacked event and Berlin’s IFA trade show the following month. A couple of new tidbits, however, […]
In the public sector, algorithms need a conscience
Jul 10, 7:30PM
In a recent MIT Technology Review article, author Virginia Eubanks discusses her book Automating Inequality. In it, she argues that the poor are the testing ground for new technology that increases inequality— highlighting that when algorithms are used in the process of determining eligibility for/allocation of social services, it creates difficulty for people to get services, while forcing them to deal with an invasive process of personal data collection.
WhatsApp now marks forwarded messages to curb the spread of deadly misinformation
Jul 10, 6:42PM
WhatsApp just introduced a new feature designed to help its users identify the origin of information that they receive in the messaging app. For the first time, a forwarded WhatsApp message will include an indicator that marks it as forwarded. It’s a small shift for the messaging platform, but potentially one that could make a […]
SolarWinds acquires real-time threat-monitoring service Trusted Metrics
Jul 10, 6:36PM
SolarWinds, the company behind tools like Pingdom, Papertrail, Loggly and a number of other IT management tools, today announced it has acquired Trusted Metrics, a company that helps businesses monitor incoming threats to their networks and servers. This move follows SolarWinds’ acquisition of Loggly earlier this year. Among other things, Loggly also provides a number […]
Apple combines machine learning and Siri teams under Giannandrea
Jul 10, 6:30PM
Apple is creating a new AI/ML team that brings together its Core ML and Siri teams under one leader in John Giannandrea. Apple confirmed this morning that the combined Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning team, which houses Siri, will be led by the recent hire, who came to Apple this year after an eight-year stint […]
My favorite summer toy is the GDP XD emulator
Jul 10, 6:28PM
People ask me all the time about my favorite gadgets and I rarely have any answers. I’ve been playing with stuff since 2004 and I’m pretty gadget-ed out. But this year I’ve finally found something that I really enjoy: the GPD XD, an Android-based gaming handheld that lets you play multiple emulators including an endless […]
Tesla reaches deal to build electric vehicle factory in China
Jul 10, 6:26PM
Tesla has reached a deal with the Shanghai government to build a factory capable of producing 500,000 electric vehicles a year. The factory would be the automaker’s second assembly plant and aimed at serving the alluring Chinese market. Tesla and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government announced Tuesday they had signed the cooperative agreement. Tesla announced […]
Ledger finally has a good app for its crypto wallet
Jul 10, 4:35PM
French startup Ledger has been working for a while on a brand new app to manage your crypto assets on your computer. The company is designing and manufacturing one of the most secure hardware wallets out there. While it's clear that security has always been the first focus of the company, the user experience has […]
ANGLR raises $3.3 million to create a Fitbit for fishing
Jul 10, 4:32PM
ANGLR, a tracking system for fisherpersons, has raised a $3.3 million Series A to add AR and wearables to their already impressive package of fishing trip management and devices to help record fishing data. That’s right… they caught a big one! Nic Wilson and Landon Bloomer started this Pittsburgh-based company to build an app that […]
Box acquires Butter.ai to make search smarter
Jul 10, 4:01PM
Box announced today that it has acquired Butter.ai, a startup that helps customers search for content intelligently in the cloud. The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the Butter.AI team will be joining Box. Butter.AI was started by two ex-Evernote employees, Jack Hirsch and Adam Walz. The company was partly funded by Evernote […]
Postmates adds another 100+ cities in the US, bringing total to 385
Jul 10, 4:00PM
As rumors circle that delivery startups might consider merging to bulk up against larger competitors like Amazon or Uber, the smaller companies also pressing on with expanding on their own. In the latest development, today Postmates said that it would add another 100 cities to its coverage of the US, bringing the total number of […]
CodeFights becomes CodeSignal and launches a new ratings system for developers
Jul 10, 4:00PM
CodeFights started out as a competitive coding platform, but has since morphed to focus more on interview prep and helping businesses recruit developers. To better reflect this focus, the service today announced that it is changing its name to CodeSignal. In addition to this, the company also today officially launched its Coding Score, a credit […]
Tilting Point expands its user acquisition fund to $132M in annual spending
Jul 10, 4:00PM
Mobile games publisher and marketer Tilting Point is dramatically increasing its commitment to its user acquisition fund. The company announced a $12 million fund at the end of 2016, which it said would help developers grow their games while remaining independent. Today it revealed that it’s committing $132 million in annual spending to the fund. CEO […]
Instagram continues to promote Stories interactivity with new Q&A widget
Jul 10, 4:00PM
Instagram is still exploring what types of more traditional (feed-based) social interactions in can inject into the Stories format. The company has integrated some of these experimentations into Stories pretty seamlessly so far, mainly because they haven’t been all that jarringly text-heavy. They’ve introduced a slider and polling widget that accompany questions users can slap […]
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