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Jido Maps is building a 'save button' for persistent AR worlds
Jul 19, 10:45PM
Augmented reality tech is in this incredibly weird position where it has the world’s biggest tech companies cheerleading consumer-facing products highlighting it but there are some very base issues that haven’t been solved yet. Jido Maps, which just graduated from Y Combinator’s most recent class, is another startup aiming to deliver the backend technologies needed […]
Walmart acquiring Shopify is no longer a laughable idea
Jul 19, 10:30PM
Sujay Seetharaman Contributor Share on Twitter Sujay Seetharaman is a Customer Success Manager and a Market Analyst at eCommerce market intelligence firm PipeCandy As competition between Walmart and Amazon intensifies, the acquisition of Shopify’s merchant marketplace, may be the boost that the Walton family’s juggernaut needs to move ahead. In May this year, Amazon published […]
Autonomous trucking startup Embark lands $30 million in funding
Jul 19, 10:24PM
Embark Trucks has raised $30 million in a Series B funding round led by Sequoia Capital in its bid to be the first to develop and launch a commercially viable driverless truck. Sequoia partner Pat Grady has joined Embark’s board. Existing investors including Data Collective, YCombinator, SV Angel and AME Cloud also participated in the round, […]
UK government panel issues inconclusive Huawei security report
Jul 19, 9:57PM
Huawei's had a rough go of it here in the States, after concerns around ties to the Chinese government have left the company scrambling to gain a commercial toehold. Over the past several years, top U.K. security officials have also put the company under the microscope over potential security concerns. A new report issued by […]
Yelp partners with event management startup Gather to make planning your next party easier
Jul 19, 9:43PM
Event management software company Gather today announced the introduction of its Gather Booking Network, and inaugural partners Yelp and EVENTup. The network is designed to help party goers, venues and event planners connect more easily and start celebrating sooner. Gather was founded in 2013 by CEO and co-founder Nick Miller, Alex Lassiter (SVP of Sales) […]
Disney's streaming service is resurrecting 'The Clone Wars'
Jul 19, 9:28PM
Star Wars: The Clone Wars, an animated series that ran on Cartoon Network for five seasons, is coming back. Created by George Lucas and overseen by Dave Filoni, the show depicted the adventures of Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, as well as new characters like Ahsoka Tano, during the titular Clone Wars. Fans praised its ability […]
Why self-regulation is better than legislative regulation
Jul 19, 9:00PM
Self-imposed third-party algorithm audits should become the norm to prevent overly restrictive government regulations.
Last call for tickets to TechCrunch Summer Party at August Capital
Jul 19, 9:00PM
The TechCrunch Summer Party at August Capital is the stuff of Silicon Valley legend. We're celebrating 13 years of libations and convivial conversation while toasting the entrepreneurial spirit on the deck at August Capital in Menlo Park on July 27. And we want you to join us. If you have not yet secured your ticket to this […]
Euro startup FlixBus expands its $10 bus service in California
Jul 19, 8:46PM
FlixBus, the low-cost bus service out of Europe, is doubling down on its U.S. launch. The parent company, FlixMobility, started cheap bus routes between Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Phoenix and Tucson just two months ago. Now it’s adding another 16 connections throughout central and northern California. as well as Nevada and Arizona. The new connections, […]
Microsoft caps off a fine fiscal year seemingly without any major missteps in its last quarter
Jul 19, 8:22PM
Microsoft is capping off a rather impressive year without any major missteps in its final report for its performance in its 2018 fiscal year, posting a quarter that seems to have been largely non-offensive to Wall Street. In the past year, Microsoft’s stock has gone up more than 40 percent. In the past two years, […]
Instagram adds a status indicator dot so people know when you're ignoring them
Jul 19, 8:10PM
In a blog post today, Instagram announced a new feature: a green status dot that indicates when a user is active on the app. If you’re cruising around Instagram, you can expect to see a green dot next to the profile pics of friends who also are Instagramming right then and there. The dot will […]
FCC issues 'de facto merger death sentence' to Sinclair-Tribune deal
Jul 19, 8:08PM
A broadcast merger that has been the poster boy for the FCC's pro-industry agenda has been ordered to undertake a lengthy and potentially embarrassing process that amounts to, in the words of one commissioner, a "de facto merger death sentence."
That $20 Wyze Cam now works with Alexa
Jul 19, 7:45PM
The Wyze Cam has long been a strong contender for the best deal in connected home security. I haven't actually tried the thing out, but Greg was "surprisingly impressed" with his hands-on time with the 1080p camera. That's probably enough in and of itself to justify the $20 price tag. Now the dirt-cheap camera's getting […]
With new tech coming online, cities need a department of urban testing
Jul 19, 7:45PM
The design and operation of cities is the province of urban planning. But an explosion of startups in cities means a lot of new products and services for urban areas. The problem is, we don't really know how people are going to use these new products and services.
Self-driving car startup Voyage brings on ex-Tesla, Cruise and Uber exec as CTO
Jul 19, 7:09PM
Voyage, the autonomous driving startup that currently operates self-driving cars in retirement communities, has brought on its first CTO, Drew Gray. Gray most recently worked at Uber as its director of engineering, leading the deep learning and perception team in San Francisco, according to his LinkedIn. This comes shortly after the company poached Uber’s head […]
Here's what Facebook employees were saying about Holocaust denial … in 2009
Jul 19, 7:05PM
Mark Zuckerberg has been in hot water this week thanks to comments he made during an interview with Kara Swisher about the kinds of content that should and shouldn’t be removed from the platform. Zuckerberg brought up Holocaust deniers as an example, saying he found them “deeply offensive,” then added, “But at the end of the day, […]
Now you're journaling with power! (with this Mario-branded Moleskine gear)
Jul 19, 6:53PM
Although this isn't a stationery news site (how I should like that!), the latest collection from Moleskine is Mario-related, so technically I can write about it. There's even a phone case and a rolltop backpack!
How Facebook configures its millions of servers every day
Jul 19, 6:42PM
When you’re a company the size of Facebook with more than two billion users on millions of servers, running thousands of configuration changes every day involving trillions of configuration checks, as you can imagine, configuration is kind of a big deal. As with most things with Facebook, they face scale problems few companies have to […]
A vacuum vulnerability could mean your Roomba knockoff is hoovering up surveillance
Jul 19, 6:16PM
Yet again we are reminded that the mild conveniences of the smart home are all well and good, right up until someone decides to turn one of those Wi-Fi-connected things you invited in against you. But you probably didn’t think it was going to be the vacuum, did you? Two researchers with enterprise security company […]
Arrivo partners with a Chinese state-owned infrastructure developer to commercialize hyperloop tech
Jul 19, 6:15PM
Arrivo, the upstart high-speed mass transit technology developer launched by a former co-founder of Hyperloop One, has inked a massive partnership with a Chinese state-owned infrastructure developer to help finance mobility projects around the world. Genertec America, an affiliate of the China National Technical Import and Export Corp., which is a wholly owned subsidiary of […]
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