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Valve's answer to Discord is now live for everyone
Jul 24, 10:39PM
Just a month ago, Valve announced Steam Chat — an overhaul to its aging chat system, and the company’s answer to rapidly growing competition from apps like Discord. At the time, it was a beta limited only to those who were granted access. Today it’s opening up to all. As Devin put it when the […]
BlockFi just gathered up $50 million to lend to bitcoin and ethereum holders who don't want to cash out (yet)
Jul 24, 10:23PM
Because cryptocurrency prices are almost comically volatile owing to challenges involved in valuing them, it’s hard to know when or why to sell. Enter crypto-asset backed loans, around which a small but growing number of startups is beginning to spring up. The idea is to lend money to cryptocurrency holders who don’t want to offload […]
BinaryVR raises $4.5M to bring you face-to-face with your digitized self
Jul 24, 10:22PM
The promises of VR are heavily focused on the idea that users can grow more enveloped in the digital environments they explore, but also central to the experience is that they become more connected with their virtual representations. BinaryVR’s central focus has been on a system of computer vision face-tracking particularly focused on the mouth […]
Space is open for business
Jul 24, 10:00PM
Space is no longer the exclusive domain of engineering behemoths with a "monumental mission" mindset – a new ecosystem of technology innovators are democratizing extra-terrestrial commerce.
Epic hid an Easter egg in Fortnite to acknowledge the game's greatest failed rescue
Jul 24, 9:52PM
For being in charge of what is probably the biggest game in the world right now and all the responsibilities that come with that, Epic is proving itself quite capable of changing things up on the fly. Case in point: Last week, a video went viral showing one player making a valiant effort to save […]
Google wants Go to become the go-to language for writing cloud apps
Jul 24, 9:37PM
The Google -incubated Go language is one of the fastest growing programming languages today, with about one million active developers using it worldwide. But the company believes it can still accelerate its growth, especially when it comes to its role in writing cloud applications. And to do this, the company today announced Go Cloud, a […]
Former Viki CEO Tammy Nam joins PicsArt as its first COO
Jul 24, 9:32PM
PicsArt, the company behind the photo-editing app of the same name, has hired Tammy Nam as its first chief operating officer. Nam was most recently the CEO of Viki, the Rakuten-acquired video streaming service, and before that served as a marketing executive at Viki, Scribd and Slide. PicsArt said Nam will report to founder and […]
Google Assistant's news feeds are getting smarter
Jul 24, 9:08PM
News is far and away the feature I use the most with Google Assistant. Every morning, I ask the Assistant "what's in the news," and it dutifully cycles through some pre-recorded news briefs from NPR, CNN and the like. It does the job, but it's not much for specificity. Google, however, is introducing tools to […]
Chrome rolls out for all users 'not secure' markers on unencrypted pages
Jul 24, 8:57PM
Google officially announced version 68 of the Chrome browser today, formalizing its plans to fulfill its past pledge to mark all unencrypted (non-HTTPS) pages as “not secure.” This move comes nearly two years after Chrome announced its slow-burning plan to promote the use of secured (HTTPS) pages across the browser. In previous updates, the browser […]
'Waze of Parking' app SpotAngels raises $2.3 million
Jul 24, 8:53PM
SpotAngels, an app that uses crowdsourced data to help drivers find parking and avoid tickets, has raised $2.3 million from a group of investors that includes Google Maps co-founder Lars Rasmussen. Luc Vincent, the former head of Google Street View and vice president of engineering at Lyft, as well as Y Combinator, Streamlined Ventures and Via ID […]
Mental health startup Lantern winds down its customer operations
Jul 24, 8:42PM
Mental health startup Lantern, which raised more than $20 million in funding, is winding down its commercial operations after a couple of acquisition deals fell through, TechCrunch has learned. As part of the wind-down, Lantern is laying off about 25 people, which is the majority of the staff, with a handful of former team members […]
Chat gaming startup Knock Knock raises $2M
Jul 24, 8:33PM
Knock Knock, a startup building games for platforms like Facebook Messenger and WeChat, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding. The goal isn’t to build interactive chat fiction, but rather fully fledged mobile games that are accessed from messaging apps, while also taking advantages of the opportunities offered by incorporating messaging […]
Figure Eight partners with Google to give AutoML developers better training data
Jul 24, 7:21PM
Figure Eight, a platform that helps developers train, test and fine-tune their machine learning models, today announced a major new collaboration with Google that essentially turns Figure Eight into the de facto standard for creating and annotating machine learning data for Google Cloud’s AutoML service. As Figure Eight’s CEO Robin Bordoli told me, Google had […]
Blockchain startup Tron closes BitTorrent acquisition
Jul 24, 6:45PM
BitTorrent is now officially a part of Tron, the file sharing service confirmed in a blog post today. The news confirms rumors that have been floating around since the middle of last month. BitTorrent didn't confirm any specifics, but Tron, a relatively new entrant in the wild world of blockchain startups, was said to have […]
Both Amazon and Walmart announce expanded grocery delivery operations
Jul 24, 6:19PM
Amazon and Walmart’s rivalry continues today with two dueling announcements related to their respective grocery delivery expansions. This morning, Amazon said it’s bringing grocery delivery via Whole Foods to several new markets in New York and Florida, including New York City and Miami, among others. Meanwhile, Walmart today is expanding grocery delivery in partnership with […]
Ford plans to spend $4 billion on autonomous vehicles by 2023
Jul 24, 6:06PM
Ford Motor plans to spend $4 billion through 2023 in a newly created LLC dedicated to building out an autonomous vehicles business. The automaker announced Tuesday it has created Ford Autonomous Vehicles LLC, which will house the company’s self-driving systems integration, autonomous-vehicle research and advanced engineering, AV transportation-as-a-service network development, user experience, business strategy and […]
Two private equity firms just created the largest private provider of public safety services in the US
Jul 24, 6:00PM
Bain Capital and Vista Equity Partners, two multi-billion-dollar private equity firms, have just created a company providing software and services for public safety and government management whose technology touches roughly three-fourths of the U.S. population. By merging TriTech Software Services, a technology provider to first responders across the country; Superion, which sells emergency management and back office […]
Hulu is closing its Marin office, half the staff moving to Seattle
Jul 24, 6:00PM
Following Hulu massive re-organization of its business announced last month, which saw the departures of three major execs alongside the hires of two new ones, the company is consolidating its operations by shuttering its Marin, Calif. office, the home to Hulu’s client device platform team. Around nine people from the under 20-person team in Marin will […]
Google is bringing voice commands to Hangouts Meet hardware
Jul 24, 5:40PM
Today at the Google Next conference in San Francisco, the company announced it would soon be enhancing Google meeting hardware to allow voice commands. For many people setting up meetings remains a major problem and pain point. The company wants to bring the same voice-enabled artificial intelligence it uses for tools like Google Assistant to […]
Uber hits 10 billion trips
Jul 24, 5:05PM
Last month, Uber hit 10 billion completed trips across rides and deliveries, the company announced today. This comes about one year after Uber hit five billion trips. Lyft, Uber’s main competitor in the U.S., hit half a billion rides last October. Uber officially hit the milestone on June 10, 2018 when 173 trips and deliveries simultaneously […]
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