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IoT company Smartfrog takes controlling interest in Canary
Oct 16, 1:16AM
Things have been pretty quiet on the Canary front. In January at CES, the New York-based smart security startup released a stripped-down version of it its flagship camera. Beyond the odd software updates here and there, however, we haven't heard much. This morning, however, the company announced some pretty big changes coming from the top, […]
Jeff Bezos is just fine taking the Pentagon's $10B JEDI cloud contract
Oct 16, 12:59AM
Some tech companies might have a problem taking money from the Department of Defense, but Amazon isn’t one of them, as CEO Jeff Bezos made clear today at the Wired25 conference. Just last week, Google pulled out of the running for the Pentagon’s $10 billion, 10-year JEDI cloud contract, but Bezos suggested that he was happy […]
Disney's John Snoddy will talk imagineering augmented worlds at TC Sessions: AR/VR in LA this week
Oct 16, 12:07AM
At our one-day TC Sessions: AR/VR event in LA on October 18, we’ll be joined by Walt Disney Imagineering’s R&D Studio Executive Jon Snoddy. We’re going to talk about how Disney is using augmented and virtual reality in their parks and other projects and how they’re coupling those technologies with physical spaces and robotics in ways that no other […]
TravelPerk grabs $44M to take its pain-free SaaS for business travel global
Oct 15, 11:01PM
Only six months ago Barcelona-based TravelPerk bagged a $21 million Series B, off the back of strong momentum for a software as a service platform designed to take a Slack-like chunk out of the administrative tedium of arranging and expensing work trips. Today the founders’ smiles are firmly back in place: TravelPerk has announced a $44 […]
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen has died at age 65
Oct 15, 10:33PM
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen passed away this afternoon in Seattle at age 65, owing to complications relating to non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Vulcan, the privately held company that Allen founded in 1986, released a statement that says it is “with deep sadness that we announce the death of our founder Paul G. Allen, co-founder of Microsoft and […]
Twilio acquires email API platform SendGrid for $2 billion in stock
Oct 15, 10:26PM
Twilio, the ubiquitous communications platform, today announced its plan to acquire the API-centric email platform SendGrid for about $2 billion in an all-stock transaction. That’s Twilio’s largest acquisition to date, but also one that makes a lot of sense given that both companies aim to make building communications platforms easier for developers. “The two companies […]
Disney-backed Jaunt lays off 'significant' number of employees as it moves away from VR
Oct 15, 10:18PM
One of the top-funded VR content startups, with backers including Disney and GV (Google Ventures), is laying off a “significant portion” of its employees as it pivots away from virtual reality. In a blog post titled “The Future of Jaunt is AR,” the formerly VR-focused company announced it was leaving much of its VR business behind […]
Donald Daters, a dating app for Trump supporters, leaked its users' data
Oct 15, 9:43PM
A new dating app for Trump supporters that wants to "make America date again" has leaked its entire database of users — on the day of its launch. The app, called "Donald Daters," is aimed at "American-based singles community connecting lovers, friends, and Trump supporters alike" and has already received rave reviews and coverage in […]
This robot uses lasers to 'listen' to its environment
Oct 15, 9:30PM
A new technology from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University will add sound and vibration awareness to create truly context-aware computing. The system, called Ubicoustics, adds additional bits of context to smart device interaction, allowing a smart speaker to know it’s in a kitchen or a smart sensor to know you’re in a tunnel versus on […]
Ahead of midterm elections, Facebook expands ban on posts aimed at voter suppression
Oct 15, 9:24PM
Facebook is expanding its ban on false and misleading posts that aim to deter citizens from voting in the upcoming midterm elections. The social media giant is adding two more categories of false information to its existing policy, which it introduced in 2016, in an effort to counter new types of abuse. Facebook already removes verifiably […]
Major browsers simultaneously drop support for old security standards
Oct 15, 8:42PM
Firefox, Chrome, Edge, Internet Explorer, and Safari are all dropping support for older versions of the the online security protocol TLS, used in practically any encrypted exchange online. While few people or machines are using the long-unsafe TLS 1.0 and 1.1, they're still permitted in many connections — but not for long.
Docker has raised $92 million in new funding
Oct 15, 8:25PM
Docker, the company that did more to create today’s modern containerized computing environment than any other independent company, has raised $92 million of a targeted $192 million funding round, according to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The new funding is a signal that while Docker may have lost its race with Google’s […]
Sneaky subscriptions are plaguing the App Store
Oct 15, 8:21PM
Subscriptions have turned into a booming business for app developers, accounting for $10.6 billion in consumer spend on the App Store in 2017, and poised to grow to $75.7 billion by 2022. But alongside this healthy growth, a number of scammers are now taking advantage of subscriptions in order to trick users into signing up […]
Y Combinator survey confirms what we already know — female founders are too often victims of sexual harassment
Oct 15, 7:36PM
Y Combinator partnered with Callisto, a sexual misconduct reporting software built for victims, to survey its roster of female founders.
A former Google+ UI designer suggests inept management played a role in the network's demise (beyond Facebook's impact)
Oct 15, 7:19PM
A lot of people leave their jobs because of bosses they can’t stand. Yet it’s seldom the case that a former employee publicly badmouths management after the fact. The obvious risk in doing so: future employers might not want to gamble on this person badmouthing them at a later date. That isn’t stopping Morgan Knutson, […]
Chinese electric automakers Nio exceeds Q3 delivery target for its ES8 SUV
Oct 15, 7:05PM
Nio, the Chinese electric automaker aiming to compete with Tesla, reported that it delivered 3,268 of its new ES8 vehicles in the third quarter, beating its own target by 9 percent. The company planned to deliver between 2,900 and 3,000 ES8s in the third quarter, according to Nio CFO Louis T. Hsieh. Nio began deliveries of […]
Pokémon GO maker Niantic is coming to TechCrunch Sessions AR/VR
Oct 15, 6:41PM
Niantic is one of the few companies in the augmented reality world making some actual goddamn revenue. As such, it didn't feel right not to have the company that built Pokémon GO represented at our one-day Sessions AR/VR event this Thursday in LA. I'll be sitting down with the company's AR research lead Ross Finman […]
Winamp returns in 2019 to whip the llama's ass harder than ever
Oct 15, 6:14PM
The charmingly outdated media player Winamp is being reinvented as a platform-agnostic audio mobile app that brings together all your music, podcasts, and streaming services to a single location. It's an ambitious relaunch, but the company behind it says it's still all about the millions-strong global Winamp community — and as proof, the original desktop app is getting an official update as well.
Worries linger as Facebook withholds stolen searches & checkins
Oct 15, 6:08PM
Hacked Facebook users still don't know which 15 recent searches and 10 latest checkins were exposed in the company’s massive breach it detailed last week. The company merely noted that those were amongst the data sets stolen by the attackers. That creates uncertainty about how sensitive or embarrassing the scraped data is, and whether it […]
No, Apple didn't acquire music analytics startup Asaii, it hired the founders to work on Apple Music
Oct 15, 5:32PM
On the heels of news of not one but two acquisitions from Apple last week, a report surfaced yesterday that Apple had picked up yet another company, the music analytics startup Asaii, for under $100 million; the report led to a “confirmation” from a shareholder in a separate report. But as it turns out, neither […]
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