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A photo of an egg has toppled reality star Kylie Jenner as Instagram's most-liked post
Jan 14, 7:33AM
Instagram has found something it likes more than a Kardashian-Jenner family baby, and it’s an egg. This weekend, a photo of a plain egg became the most-liked photo on Instagram, the social app owned by Facebook with over one billion users that’s reflective of internet culture. The photo, which you can see below in its […]
Samsung's new Galaxy M smartphones will launch in India first
Jan 14, 5:16AM
Samsung will launch its new lower-priced Galaxy M series in India before the smartphones roll out globally. Asim Warsi, senior vice president of Samsung India's smartphone business, told Reuters that three devices will be available through its website and Amazon India at the end of January and are intended to help the company double online […]
Apple HomePod comes to China at $400 amid iPhone sales woes
Jan 14, 4:49AM
Apple is finally launching HomePod in China, but the timing is tricky as the premium device will have to wrestle with local competitors and a slowing economy. The firm said over the weekend that its smart speaker will be available in Mainland China and Hong Kong starting January 18, adding to a list of countries where […]
New trailer reveals when Game of Thrones will return
Jan 14, 4:39AM
Winter is coming this spring. HBO is finally revealing when season 8 of Game of Thrones will begin. On Sunday, HBO released a new teaser for Games of Thrones that announced the first episode will air April 14. The season 8 teaser, called Crypts of Winterfell, was released on YouTube and played before the third […]
Cadillac's first electric vehicle will be a crossover
Jan 14, 3:52AM
Cadillac revealed Sunday what will likely be the first electric vehicle in the luxury brand’s portfolio. And surprise, it’s a crossover. The images of the full-size crossover SUV, which was unveiled during a debut party for the 2020 Cadillac XT6 in Detroit, kicks off a transformation of GM’s luxury brand. On Friday, GM announced plans […]
A first look at Twitter's new beta app and its bid to remain 'valuable and relevant'
Jan 14, 12:01AM
Twitter has made a name for itself, at its most basic level, as a platform that gives everyone who uses it a voice. But as it has grown, that unique selling point has set Twitter up for as many challenges — harassment, confusing way to manage conversations — as it has opportunities — the best […]
Testing times for second wave scooter startups
Jan 13, 6:00PM
Investors are still pouring millions into scooter startups, albeit sometimes at flat valuations. At the same time a little cash is flowing the other way, in cases where cities have realized the importance of prioritizing the needs of the local environment and its citizens, over and above the ambitions of VCs for a swift and lucrative […]
Why Silicon Valley needs more visas
Jan 13, 5:30PM
Henrique Dubugras Contributor Share on Twitter Henrique Dubugras is the founder Brex, the billion-dollar corporate credit provider for startups. More posts by this contributor Lessons from building Brex into a billion-dollar startup When I hear protesters shout, "Immigrants are welcome here!" at the San Francisco immigration office near my startup's headquarters, I think about how […]
Gillmor Gang: Service Station
Jan 13, 4:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Keith Teare, Esteban Kolsky, Doc Searls, Michael Markman and Steve Gillmor . Recorded live Saturday January 12, 2019. OK, it’s 2019 and we’re talking yet again about RSS, the social decline, and whatever micronetworks is supposed to mean. Produced and directed by Tina Chase Gillmor @tinagillmor @kteare, @ekolsky, @fradice, @mickeleh, @stevegillmor […]
Our dystopian cyberpunk here and now
Jan 13, 2:00PM
We in the West love our apocalyptic science fiction, in which cartoonishly evil authorities ruthlessly oppress all who so much as wonder about their absolute power, enforced via ubiquitous surveillance technology. Think The Hunger Games, Blade Runner 2049, V for Vendetta, just to pick a few. Well — to trot out that infamous William Gibson […]
President Bolsonaro should boost Brazil's entrepreneurial ecosystem
Jan 12, 11:30PM
Romero Rodrigues Contributor Romero Rodrigues is a managing partner at Redpoint eVentures, the Brazilian-focused arm of the Silicon Valley venture firm Redpoint. More posts by this contributor Brazil’s fintech boom offers new vertical opportunities for investors Brazil's tech-sector bright spots beckon as it begins to emerge from long economic crisis In late October following a significant […]
Global VC market sees highest-ever concentration of supergiant dollar volume in Q4 2018
Jan 12, 5:09PM
Is the market mostly buoyed by the billions raised by the biggest private tech companies, or is a rising tide in this extended aquatic metaphor raising all ships?
How open source software took over the world
Jan 12, 5:00PM
Mike Volpi Contributor Share on Twitter Mike Volpi is a general partner at Index Ventures. Before co-founding the firm's San Francisco office with Danny Rimer, Volpi served as the chief strategy officer at Cisco Systems. It was just 5 years ago that there was an ample dose of skepticism from investors about the viability of open source […]
Lime halts scooter service in Switzerland after possible software glitch throws users off mid-ride
Jan 12, 2:51PM
Just as on-demand electric scooters are trying to pick up speed in Europe, one of the scooter market’s most ambitious startups has halted operations in one country after its e-scooters started halting mid-ride, throwing off and injuring passengers. Lime, the Uber-backed bike and scooter rental company that is reportedly raising money at between a $2 […]
Startups Weekly: Will Trump ruin the unicorn IPOs of our dreams?
Jan 12, 1:00PM
We explore the government shutdown's connection to tech IPOs, recount the demise of a well-funded AR project and introduce readers to an AI-enabled self-checkout shopping cart in this week's startups weekly.
Mental well-being took center stage at CES 2019
Jan 12, 2:17AM
This week, the Las Vegas Convention Center was packed with many of the year's biggest new devices. But over the last several years, The Sands has become the place where the real magic happens. The segment of the show known as Eureka Park is where the startups and accelerators congregate, often times showing off products […]
Anker's PowerPort Atom is my permanent new travel companion
Jan 12, 12:55AM
I had to fight a couple of coworkers for this thing. It's a strange thing to fight over, I realize, but we are strange people with a strange job. And more importantly, I won. I'm plugged into the PowerPort Atom as I write this. It's keeping my 13-inch MacBook Pro alive via the plane power […]
SpaceX will lay off hundreds to 'become a leaner company'
Jan 12, 12:45AM
SpaceX plans to lay off approximately 10 percent of its workforce in order to manage its costs, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today. The news comes as the company embarks on an ambitious plan to develop and test an interplanetary spacecraft while simultaneously performing frequent orbital launches.
Scooter startup Bird tried to silence a journalist. It did not go well.
Jan 11, 11:59PM
Cory Doctorow doesn’t like censorship. He especially doesn’t like his own work being censored. Anyone who knows Doctorow knows his popular tech and culture blog, Boing Boing, and anyone who reads Boing Boing knows Doctorow and his cohort of bloggers. The part-blogger, part special advisor at the online rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation has written […]
Sensel's pressure-sensitive display tech works underwater
Jan 11, 11:48PM
The Morph is a fun little computer peripheral. The small trackpad uses a series of silicone covers to recreate different interfaces, from a QWERTY keyboard to a drum pad. Ultimately, however, it's the tech that drives the product — rather than the product itself — that may prove the most useful. Sensel was on-hand at […]
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