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Investors are waking up to the emotional struggle of startup founders
Sep 11, 1:35AM
Mahendra Ramsinghani Contributor Mahendra Ramsinghani is the founder of Secure Octane, a Silicon Valley-based cybersecurity seed fund. More posts by this contributor Lessons from cybersecurity exits Is Symantec getting ready to buy Splunk? As the Gartner Hype Curve goes, from the peak of inflated expectations to the trough of disillusionment, so goes the founder's emotional […]
Apple and Google Pay are finally coming to 7-Eleven this month
Sep 11, 12:06AM
Sure, 7-Eleven's never been particularly well-known for being on the bleeding edge — expect, perhaps, in its quest to push the boundaries of human beverage consumption. Still, the Japanese-owned convenience mega-chain has been notably slow on the uptake of mobile payment technology. The company announced today that it will finally be bringing Apple Pay and […]
Instacart's chief growth officer Elliot Shmukler is leaving
Sep 11, 12:00AM
Elliot Shmukler, who joined Instacart in 2016 to lead product, is leaving the company to pursue a role at an early-stage company, TechCrunch has learned — and confirmed with the grocery delivery service. Shmukler was brought on as the company’s VP of product, but he’d recently transitioned into a new role, chief growth officer, before […]
Samsung launches an LTE-enabled Tile competitor
Sep 10, 11:24PM
Samsung, naturally, would never be content to launch a regular old Tile competitor. The company just doesn’t roll like that. While the basic foundation of the SmartThings Tracker is similar to what Tile and a number of other startups offer, Samsung's packed all it can into the product. The device tracker utilizes a combination of […]
Adobe supercharges Photoshop's content-aware fill so you have more options, fewer AI fails
Sep 10, 11:24PM
Everyone went nuts for Adobe's "content-aware fill" in Photoshop when it came out. The boring-sounding feature is in fact an incredibly useful tool, essentially an AI-powered clone stamp that intelligently brought in other pieces of the image to replace your selection. But it still failed in hilarious ways that only an AI is capable of. That should happen a lot less with the hot new tools Adobe is shipping soon.
SETI neural networks spot dozens of new mysterious signals emanating from distant galaxy
Sep 10, 10:54PM
The perennial optimists at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, or SETI, have joined the rest of the world in deploying AI to help manage huge datasets — and their efforts almost instantly bore fruit. 72 new "fast radio bursts" from a mysteriously noisy galaxy 3 billion miles away were discovered in previously-analyzed data by using a custom machine learning model.
Impossible Aerospace raises $9.4M to sell drones stuffed with battery cells
Sep 10, 10:40PM
Much like smartphone manufacturers, drone companies have been adding to devices plenty of features over the past several years while making only modest improvements to battery life. But while your phone may boast “all-day” usage, a lot of the top drones only register flight times between 20-35 minutes. Impossible Aerospace is looking to change up […]
At Sounding Board, an executive coaching startup, the coaches get coaching, too
Sep 10, 10:13PM
Everyone could use an executive coach — even executive coaches. Such is the thinking of Christine Tao and Lori Mazan, co-founders of Sounding Board, a two-year-old, San Francisco-based marketplace focused on leadership coaching that has so far raised $1 million in seed funding led by Bloomberg Beta, with participation from Precursor Ventures and numerous angel […]
Joe Biden is headed to IGTV
Sep 10, 9:55PM
What better way to reach millennial voters ahead of a 2020 presidential run than through Instagram? Joe Biden, in partnership with ATTN:, will host a 10-episode series streaming on IGTV beginning September 12. In reality, he has yet to confirm a presidential run; the partnership, rather, is meant to help combat digital misinformation in an era of “fake […]
Zendesk expands into CRM with Base acquisition
Sep 10, 9:50PM
Zendesk has mostly confined itself to customer service scenarios, but it seems that’s not enough anymore. If you want to truly know the customer behind the interaction, you need a customer system of record to go with the customer service component. To fill that need, Zendesk announced it was acquiring Base, a startup that has […]
Mercedes-Benz's vision for autonomy is flexible and fugly
Sep 10, 8:26PM
Mercedes-Benz shared on Monday its vision for how people and packages will someday move in dense urban environments. It’s called Vision Urbanetic — an all-electric autonomous concept vehicle that can change from a toaster-looking cargo van to a dung beetle-esque (or it is bike helmet) people mover. The Vision Urbanetic joins a growing list of […]
Can Qualcomm's new Snapdragon Wear chip breathe life into Wear OS?
Sep 10, 7:54PM
Snapdragon's been talking up its new wearable chip architecture since Google I/O back in May. The component giant finally took the wraps off the product at an event earlier today in San Francisco. As one imagines from the I/O partnership, Wear 3100 has Google's smartwatch operating system firmly in its sites. And not a moment […]
Not hog dog? PixFood lets you shoot and identify food
Sep 10, 7:41PM
What happens when you add AI to food? Surprisingly, you don’t get a hungry robot. Instead you get something like PixFood. PixFood lets you take pictures of food, identify available ingredients, and, at this stage, find out recipes you can make from your larder. It is privately funded. “There are tons of recipe apps out […]
Hoodline raises $10M for its hyper-local, automated data newswire
Sep 10, 7:40PM
While many lament the death of local news, a small army of tech startups has been developing a new set of tools to figure out how to save it. In one of the latest developments, Hoodline — which has built a platform to ingest and analyse hundreds of terabytes of data to find and then […]
Fortnite Monopoly and Nerf Blasters are coming soon
Sep 10, 7:05PM
You can't really blame Epic for captilizing on Fortnite's massive and largely unexpected success. And really, you've got to strike while the iron's still hot on this one. The gaming company announced a partnership with toy giant Hasbro this week that while give the world a Fortnite-branded Monopoly game and Nerf Blasters. Monopoly: Fortnite Edition […]
Meet SelfieCircus and 8 more in Snapchat's new startup accelerator
Sep 10, 6:42PM
Snapchat is hedging its bets as its social network shrinks. Today Snap Inc. revealed the first class of its startup accelerator called Yellow that offers $150,000 in funding and creativity-centric business education in exchange for what a source says is a seven to 10 percent equity stake — in line with other accelerators like Y […]
LinkedIn sucks
Sep 10, 6:37PM
I hate LinkedIn . I open it out of habit and accept everyone who adds me because I don't know why I wouldn't. There is no clear benefit to the social network. I’ve never met a recruiter on there. I’ve never gotten a job. The only messages I get are spam from offshore dev teams […]
Vietnam's new automaker shows off first vehicles 'designed' by its citizens
Sep 10, 6:27PM
VinFast, Vietnam’s new (and only) automaker, turned to its citizens to decide what its inaugural vehicles should look like. Now, VinFast is sharing the first images of the final product — a sedan and SUV that will debut October 2 at the Paris Motor Show. The vehicles were officially designed by Italian company Pininfarina, which collaborated […]
Pinterest reports 25% increase in monthly active users
Sep 10, 6:18PM
Two hundred and fifty million people are using Pinterest every month, up from 200 million last September, according to new numbers the company shared this morning. The visual search giant is also reporting that more than half of its users and 80 percent of new sign-ups come from outside the U.S. “Pins,” or items saved to […]
Instagram is testing video tagging
Sep 10, 5:45PM
Instagram is testing a way to allow users to tag their friends in their video posts, not just in photos, TechCrunch has learned and the company confirmed. The option works similarly to tagging photos, but instead of pressing the small icon at the bottom left to see the list of tagged names appear over top […]
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