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Uber and Lyft encourage NYC customers to oppose proposed ride-hail cap legislation
Jul 31, 11:19PM
Uber is making calls to some of its customers in New York City, offering to connect them to local council members to express their opposition to the proposed legislation that would cap the number of ride-hailing drivers in the city, Buzzfeed first reported. Meanwhile, Lyft is also reaching out to its NYC-based riders, asking them to […]
Four million people are using Apple's OS betas
Jul 31, 10:09PM
For the past few years, Apple has made early versions of its operating systems available to those willing to brave the bugs. Through its beta software program, anyone willing to deal with spotty battery life or a crash or three could load up pre-release builds of iOS, macOS, watchOS or tvOS. Ever wonder how many […]
Apple Pay is finally coming to CVS and 7-Eleven, and will soon expand to Germany
Jul 31, 9:48PM
Longtime Apple Pay holdout CVS will finally be adding support for Apple’s mobile payments platform this fall, along with 7-Eleven, Apple CEO Tim Cook said this afternoon on the company’s earnings call. The news is particularly notable because CVS was one of the first major retailers to snub Apple Pay, choosing instead to launch its […]
Spotify now offers motion comics starring Archie
Jul 31, 9:45PM
Spotify has been experimenting with incorporating non-musical formats over the last couple of years, including videos and multimedia podcasts. Next up: Motion comics based on new Archie stories. For those of you who haven’t been keeping track of the comics incarnations of Archie and his friends, the title was recently rebooted by writer Mark Waid (Kingdom […]
DHS launches a new cyber hub to coordinate against threats to US infrastructure
Jul 31, 9:10PM
Among the many things the current administration has been criticized for is its lack of a unified strategy to combat cyber threats, especially in light of ongoing election interference and psy ops perpetrated by Russia. The Department of Homeland Security is advancing the ball with the creation of the National Risk Management Center, intended on protecting critical infrastructure from attacks and subversion by online adversaries.
Apple nears a $1 trillion market cap as it clears another quarter ahead of expectations
Jul 31, 8:45PM
Apple is inching closer and closer to becoming a $1 trillion company today after posting third quarter results that beat out what analysts were expecting and bumping the stock another few percentage points — which, by Apple standards, is tens of billions of dollars. The company’s stock is up around 2.5% this afternoon after the […]
Midterm attackers cited Black Lives Matter in false flag Facebook rally
Jul 31, 7:21PM
Unknown midterm election attackers that Facebook has removed were hosting a political rally next month that they pinned on Black Lives Matter, Antifa and other organizations, according to third-party event websites that scraped the now-removed Facebook events. Facebook provided an image of the deleted “No Unite The Right 2 – DC” event as part of […]
TV Time debuts an analytics platform for the streaming era
Jul 31, 7:21PM
TV Time, the consumer app that helps bingers keep track of where they are with favorite shows and socialize with fellow viewers, is today expanding its business with the launch of an analytics platform called TVLytics. The new service will allow creators and distributors to tap into real-time data from across more than 60,000 TV shows. It […]
Digital therapeutics are just what the doctor ordered for patients — and for global healthcare systems
Jul 31, 7:00PM
It would be hard to argue that digital products have a net-positive impact on our health. Most are designed to provide the same dopamine hit as a slot machine. But this habit-forming power of digital products can be used for therapeutic benefit too, often by changing the behavior that causes disease or ill health.
Can Electronauts help make VR more social?
Jul 31, 7:00PM
Virtual reality is an isolating experience. You power it up, strap the headset on and just sort of drift off into your own world. But maybe that doesn't have to be the case. Maybe there's a way to slip into a virtual world and still interact with your surroundings. Electronauts presents an interesting example. Survios […]
Test.ai nabs $11M Series A led by Google to put bots to work testing apps
Jul 31, 6:45PM
For developers, the process of determining whether every new update is going to botch some core functionality can take up a lot of time and resources, and things get far more complicated when you’re managing a multitude of apps. Test.ai is building a comprehensive system for app testing that relies on bots, not human labor, […]
Gusto raises $140 million to go after small business payroll and benefits with more gusto
Jul 31, 6:38PM
Gusto, which sells payroll, benefits and human resources management and monitoring services to small businesses, has raised $140 million in its latest round of funding. The company said it will use the money to add new services to increase payment flexibility for employees. The company launched a new service called Flexible Pay, which gives employees […]
Facebook really doesn't want users to go to a fake Unite the Right counter-protest next week
Jul 31, 6:18PM
According to COO Sheryl Sandberg, getting ahead of an event called “No Unite the Right 2, DC” is the reason behind Facebook’s decision to disclose new platform behavior that closely resembles previous Russian state-sponsored activity meant to sow political discord in the U.S. “We’re sharing this today because the connection between these actors and the […]
Google partners with news orgs to show more data in its search results
Jul 31, 5:59PM
Google today announced that it is working with a number of news organizations to surface more data from their data journalism projects in its search results. The idea here is to make it easier to discover the data that a lot of these organizations produce and then surface it in an easy to read format […]
Waymo partners with Phoenix to connect people to public transit
Jul 31, 5:56PM
Waymo, the former Google self-driving project that spun out to become a business under Alphabet, is launching a program in Phoenix next month that will focus on delivering people to bus stops and train and light-rail stations. The pilot program announced Tuesday is in partnership with Valley Metro, the Phoenix area's regional public transportation authority. […]
Just 24 hours until prices go up for Disrupt SF 2018 passes
Jul 31, 5:00PM
A lot can happen in 24 hours. Just ask Jack Bauer, the hard-charging protagonist from the TV drama series 24. Seriously, he had to save the world every dang episode. All you have to do is buy your pass to Disrupt San Francisco 2018 before the prices go up in — you guessed it — […]
Facebook finds evidence of Russia-linked influence campaigns targeting US midterms
Jul 31, 4:52PM
In a newsroom post Tuesday, Facebook revealed that it has detected evidence of “coordinated inauthentic behavior” designed to influence U.S. politics on its platform. According to Facebook’s head of Cybersecurity, Policy Nathaniel Gleicher, the company first identified the activity two weeks ago. So far, the activity encompasses eight Facebook Pages, 17 profiles and seven accounts […]
The Istio service mesh hits version 1.0
Jul 31, 4:39PM
Istio, the service mesh for microservices from Google, IBM, Lyft, Red Hat and many other players in the open-source community, launched version 1.0 of its tools today. If you’re not into service meshes, that’s understandable. Few people are. But Istio is probably one of the most important new open-source projects out there right now. It […]
What every startup founder should know about exits
Jul 31, 4:35PM
The dream of a startup founder can often be summarized by the following well-intentioned, and mostly delusional, quote: "We'll raise a few rounds and in a few years we'll IPO on Nasdaq."
Autonomous-aviation startup Xwing takes flight with $4 million in funding
Jul 31, 4:28PM
Marc Piette had a revelation as he buzzed in and out of the Palo Alto Airport in pursuit of his pilot’s license. Instead of freedom, he saw restraint. He also saw potential. “It became pretty apparent that there were major issues with the general aviation industry with smaller aircraft,” Piette said in a recent interview […]
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