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Facial recognition startup Kairos founder continues to fight attempted takeover
Oct 27, 8:33PM
There’s some turmoil brewing over at Miami-based facial recognition startup Kairos . Late last month, New World Angels President and Kairos board chairperson Steve O’Hara sent a letter to Kairos founder Brian Brackeen notifying him of his termination from the role of chief executive officer. The termination letter cited willful misconduct as the cause for […]
The SaaS VC gap: China & other markets trail the US
Oct 27, 5:09PM
Jason Rowley Contributor Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor Early-stage SaaS VC slip snaps recovery as public software stocks soar International growth, primarily in China, fuels the VC market today Chinese startups rule the roost when it comes to total reported venture dollars raised […]
Big tech must not reframe digital ethics in its image
Oct 27, 4:00PM
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s visage loomed large over the European parliament this week, both literally and figuratively, as global privacy regulators gathered in Brussels to interrogate the human impacts of technologies that derive their power and persuasiveness from our data. The eponymous social network has been at the center of a privacy storm this year. And […]
The Venture Twins
Oct 27, 4:00PM
Justine and Olivia Moore like to introduce themselves together, otherwise, it can be a little confusing. They live together in an apartment in Menlo Park. They share clothes. They both wear Rothy’s sustainable ballet flats and are big fans of Glossier. Their desks are only inches apart, because yes, they work together too — and […]
Should cash-strapped Snapchat sell out? To Netflix?
Oct 27, 3:05PM
Snapchat needs a sugar daddy. Its cash reserves are dwindling from giant quarterly losses. Morale is poor from a battered share price and cost-cutting measures sap momentum. And intense competition from Facebook is preventing rapid growth. With just $1.4 billion in assets remaining at the end of a brutal Q3 2018 and analyst MoffetNathanson estimating it […]
Here are 25 of the most innovative new projects using tech to help refugees and NGOs
Oct 27, 2:07PM
What's fascinating about the project as it's developed is that, at the time, it was considered quite radical, perhaps even odd, to bring tech people into the equation. But simply watching the footage of refugees clutching smartphones as they fled war-torn regions and natural disasters made the tech world realize it can be part of […]
Tesla is rolling out its Navigate on Autopilot feature
Oct 27, 5:18AM
Some Tesla owners in North America will wake up to a new driver assistance feature that had been delayed for testing, according to a tweet sent Friday evening by CEO Elon Musk. “Tesla Autopilot Drive on Navigation going to wide release in North America tonight,” Musk tweeted. Tesla Autopilot Drive on Navigation is described by […]
Texas has a long history of problems with Hart eSlate voting machines
Oct 27, 4:02AM
During early voting in some Texas counties, a handful of voters reported seeing their straight-ticket votes changed to endorse the opposing party. Others reported that an issue with the voting machines appeared to remove any selection for U.S. Senate altogether. The Texas Secretary of State’s office told TechCrunch that it has received “15-20 calls” from […]
Waymo is testing what it should charge for its robotaxi service
Oct 27, 12:26AM
Self-driving startup Waymo, a Google spin -off owned by parent company Alphabet, has started to test pricing models for rides in its autonomous vehicles in Phoenix, the latest indication that the company is preparing to launch a commercial robotaxi service. Waymo has not launched a wide-scale commercial robotaxi service in Phoenix — or anywhere — just yet. But it is […]
Twitter suspends accounts linked to mail bomb suspect
Oct 26, 10:22PM
At least two Twitter accounts linked to the man suspected of sending explosive devices to more than a dozen prominent Democrats were suspended on Friday afternoon. Cesar Sayoc Jr., 56, was apprehended by federal law enforcement officers in Florida on Friday morning. “Though we're still analyzing the devices in our laboratory, these are not hoax […]
Expedia acquires Pillow and ApartmentJet to conquer the short-term rental market
Oct 26, 9:59PM
Travel booking site Expedia wants to better compete with Airbnb.
Eerie AI-generated portrait fetches $432,500 at auction
Oct 26, 9:16PM
The question of whether a machine can create art, or anything at all, is at the heart of many a philosophical debate and has been for decades. But whether it's worth something on the market? That point has been settled definitively today as a portrait-like image issuing from an AI sold for nearly half a million dollars at auction.
Meet Shuttle, the company that's building a booking agent for spaceflight
Oct 26, 8:35PM
Avery Haskell says he first knew he wanted to be an astronaut ever since he was a boy growing up in Houston near NASA’s Johnson Space Center. The 24-year-old Stanford graduate who counts Stephen Hawking and Carl Sagan as his heroes grew up in an entrepreneurial family. In the early days of the internet his […]
Study: Latinx women-led startups have raised 0.4% of VC since 2009
Oct 26, 8:32PM
Digitalundivided's latest report highlights the disparity in funding for Latinx female-founders.
Microsoft has no problem taking the $10B JEDI cloud contract if it wins
Oct 26, 8:15PM
The Pentagon’s $10 billion JEDI cloud contract bidding process has drawn a lot of attention. Earlier this month, Google withdrew, claiming ethical considerations. Amazon’s Jeff Bezos responded in an interview at Wired25 that he thinks that it’s a mistake for big tech companies to turn their back on the U.S. military. Microsoft president Brad Smith agrees. […]
Google rolls out '.new' links for instantly creating new Docs, Slides, Sheets and Forms
Oct 26, 8:07PM
Google Docs just rolled out a time-saving trick that’s sure to be welcomed by heavy users of Docs, or any of Google’s other productivity tools like Sheets, Slides, Sites or Forms. The company this week introduced its “.new” domain, which can be used to instantly create a new file across any of these services, it […]
Electric scooter startup Grin merges with Brazil-based Ride
Oct 26, 7:12PM
Grin, the Mexico City-based electric scooter company backed by Y Combinator, is merging with São Paulo-based Ride to further the company’s expansion across Latin America. This comes shortly after Grin raised a ~$45 million Series A round. Currently, Grin only operates in Mexico City, but it has plans to expand to other cities throughout Latin […]
California delays its net neutrality law while FCC's new rules are challenged
Oct 26, 7:03PM
California's much-anticipated net neutrality rules, which were signed into law last month, are being put on ice until a challenge to the FCC's own rules at the federal level is resolved. It's unfortunate, but logical — if the FCC rules are undone or modified, the necessity and legality of California's will also be affected.
Snapchat's new Camera desktop camera app brings AR masks to Twitch, Skype…
Oct 26, 6:30PM
Snapchat is launching its first Mac and Windows software that takes over your webcam and brings its augmented reality effects to other video streaming and calling services. Snap Camera can be selected as a camera output in OBS Skype, YouTube, Google Hangouts, Skype, Zoom and more, plus browser-based apps like Facebook Live so you can […]
Twitch announces group streaming and a karaoke game for its 1M concurrent viewers
Oct 26, 6:30PM
The teens were out in force today in San Jose for the annual TwitchCon game-streaming conference. There, Twitch announced that at any given time, 1 million people are watching it (up from 746,000 last year), and it seemed like many game lovers were at TwitchCon in person to meet some of the nearly half-million web […]
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