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Tesla to bring portion of Model 3 production to China next year
Oct 25, 2:50AM
Tesla, which reported its first quarterly profits in two years Wednesday, is looking to extend its earnings streak by bringing its new Model 3 to customers beyond North America. And part of that plan involves accelerating its manufacturing plans in China. Tesla saw its revenue skyrocket to $6.8 billion in the third quarter (and a $312 […]
Facebook says it removed 8.7M child exploitation posts with new machine learning tech
Oct 25, 2:48AM
Facebook announced today that it has removed 8.7 million pieces of content last quarter that violated its rules against child exploitation, thanks to new technology. The new AI and machine learning tech, which was developed and implemented over the past year by the company, removed 99 percent of those posts before anyone reported them, said […]
Facebook is building Lasso, a video music app to steal TikTok's teens
Oct 25, 1:52AM
Facebook is working on a new app that it hopes could win back the attention of teens while capitalizing on its recently-attained major label music licenses. Facebook is building a standalone product where users can record and share videos of themselves lip syncing or dancing to popular songs, according to information from current and former […]
Trump has two 'secure' iPhones, but the Chinese are still listening
Oct 25, 12:56AM
President Trump has three iPhones — two of them are “secure” and his third is a regular personal device. But whenever the commander-in-chief takes a call, his adversaries are said to be listening. That’s according to a new report by The New York Times, which put a spotlight on the president’s array of devices — […]
Original Content podcast: Netflix's 'Hold the Dark' is beautiful, but utterly mystifying
Oct 24, 9:42PM
“Hold the Dark” tells the story of Russell Core (played by Jeffrey Wright), a wolf expert who arrives in the Alaskan village of Keelut to investigate the disappearance of a young boy. At least, that’s how the Netflix Original movie begins. On this week’s episode of the Original Content podcast, your regular hosts are joined […]
Red Dead Redemption 2 will let you use your tablet as a map, no pausing required
Oct 24, 9:20PM
The bigger these massive GTA-style sandbox games get, the harder it becomes to remember where the hell everything is. Even with Spider-Man, a game set in a loose recreation of a city I’ve been to a bunch of times, I found myself pausing to see the map and reorient myself every other mission. Rockstar doesn’t […]
Facebook launches Candidate Info where politicians pitch on camera
Oct 24, 9:19PM
Facebook wants to make YouTube-style monologue videos the new way for politicians to talk straight with their constituency. Today, Facebook launches Candidate Info, featuring thousands of direct-to-camera vertical videos where federal, state and local candidates introduce themselves and explain their top policy priority, qualifications and biggest goal if they win office. Elizabeth Warren (D – […]
Disrupt Berlin 2018 early-bird prices extended
Oct 24, 9:00PM
It's possible that St. Expeditus, the patron saint of procrastinators, has taken a shine to time-stressed startuppers. Call it whatever you like — divine intervention, planetary alignment or darned good luck — we're extending the deadline for early-bird tickets to Disrupt Berlin 2018. That means you have 10 days until the 2 November deadline to […]
Facebook confirms it's building augmented reality glasses
Oct 24, 8:42PM
“Yeah! Well of course we’re working on it,” Facebook’s head of augmented reality Ficus Kirkpatrick told me when I asked him at TechCrunch’s AR/VR event in LA if Facebook was building AR glasses. “We are building hardware products. We’re going forward on this . . . We want to see those glasses come into reality, […]
Tesla earns its first profit in two years
Oct 24, 8:34PM
Tesla reported a profit in the third quarter, reversing seven consecutive quarters of losses. It is only the third time in its history that it has achieved this milestone. The third quarter earnings, which were reported after the market closed Wednesday, rocketed shares up nearly 12 percent to above $320. Tesla reported a profit of […]
Voting is a social experience
Oct 24, 8:13PM
Vote.org and Y Combinator graduate Outvote have co-launched a social app to encourage people to hit the polls this election season.
Alexa for Business opens up to third-party device makers
Oct 24, 8:00PM
Last year, Amazon announced a new initiative, Alexa for Business, designed to introduce its voice assistant technology and Echo devices into a corporate setting. Today, it’s giving the platform a big upgrade by opening it up to device makers who are building their own solutions that have Alexa built in. The change came about based […]
Mobvoi launches new $200 smartwatch and $130 AirPods alternative
Oct 24, 7:58PM
Chinese AI company Mobvoi has consistently been one of the best also-rans in the smartwatch game, which remains dominated by Apple. Today, it launched a sequel to its 2016 TicWatch, which was a viral hit raising over $2 million on Kickstarter, and it unveiled a cheaper take on Apple’s AirPods. The new TicWatch C2 was outed at a […]
Cathay Pacific says 9.4M passenger records affected by data breach
Oct 24, 7:24PM
Cathay Pacific, one of the main airlines in Hong Kong, says records on as many as 9.4 million passengers may have been stolen in a data breach. The airline said in a statement Wednesday that there was “no evidence” that passenger data had been misused, but warned that passenger names, dates of birth, nationalities, phone numbers, email and […]
The team behind XOXO is taking over Kickstarter's Drip crowdfunding community
Oct 24, 7:04PM
Two years ago, Kickstarter acquired Drip, an indie musician crowdfunding platform, on the eve of the service’s untimely demise. After relaunching Drip last year, Kickstarter is again reinventing the Patreon-like artist platform. This time, by placing it under the stewardship of two guys who love indie creators so much they dreamed up a whole festival […]
NBC to launch a new streaming network, NBC News Signal
Oct 24, 6:35PM
NBC is looking to reach a younger audience with today’s announcement of a new streaming news network, NBC News Signal. Instead of airing on traditional pay TV platforms, Signal will be available through NBC’s news mobile and over-the-top apps, as well as on other services including PlutoTV, YouTube, and Twitter. The focus will be on […]
Southeast Asia's Grab partners with MasterCard to offer virtual debit cards
Oct 24, 6:19PM
Ride-hailing firm Grab branched out into payments last year and now the $11 billion-valued company, which acquired Uber’s Southeast Asia business earlier this year, has given its fintech division a major boost after it announced plans to introduce virtual pre-paid debit in partnership with Mastercard. The move is the largest digital payment push in Southeast […]
Italian consumer watchdog hands down €15M in fines to Apple and Samsung for slowing devices
Oct 24, 6:11PM
Italy's Autorità garante della concorrenza e del mercato, roughly equivalent to this America's FTC, has fined Apple and Samsung a total of $15 million for the companies' practice of forcing updates on consumers that may slow or break their devices. The amount may be a drop in the bucket, but it's a signal that governments won't always let this type of behavior fly.
AT&T's streaming video device is now in beta testing
Oct 24, 6:02PM
AT&T has begun beta testing a streaming device that seems to be something of its own Roku competitor, according to a statement made by John Donovan, CEO of AT&T Communications, during the company’s third quarter earnings call. The device, first scooped a year ago by Variety is an Android TV-based set-top box which integrates other streaming apps and […]
Oracle's Larry Ellison keeps poking AWS because he has no choice
Oct 24, 5:45PM
Larry Ellison gave his Oracle Openworld keynote on Monday and of course he took several shots at AWS. In his view, his company’s cloud products were cheaper, better and faster than AWS, but then what would you expect him to say? He rolled out a slide with all the facts and figures in case you […]
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