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Grab moves to offer digital insurance services in Southeast Asia
Jan 16, 5:09AM
Grab is Southeast Asia’s top ride-hailing firm, thanks in no small part to its acquisition of Uber’s local business last year, but the company also houses an ambitious fintech arm, too. That just added another vertical to its business after Grab announced it is teaming up with China’s ZhongAn to introduce insurance. Grab and ZhongAn International, […]
YouTube will "ramp up" enforcement of its policies against dangerous challenges and pranks
Jan 16, 4:48AM
YouTube announced several policy updates today, including more stringent enforcement of its ban on videos of dangerous challenges and pranks. In a FAQ posted to its support site, YouTube wrote "we've updated our external guidelines to make it clear that challenges like the Tide Pod challenge or the Fire challenge, that can cause death and/or […]
Roku now deleting Infowars from its platform after customer outcry
Jan 16, 2:20AM
Roku is deleting the Infowars channel from its platform, a couple days after adding it as a supported channel. In a tweet, Roku said after the channel became available, "we heard from concerned parties and have determined that the channel should be removed from our platform. Deletion from the channel store and platform has begun and […]
CERN's plan for 100-km collider makes the LHC look like a hula hoop
Jan 16, 12:53AM
The Large Hadron Collider has produced a great deal of incredible science, most famously the Higgs Boson — but physicists at CERN, the international organization behind the LHC, are already looking forward to the next model. And the proposed Future Circular Collider, at 100 kilometers or 62 miles around, would be quite an upgrade.
Transparency-seeking OPEN Government Data Act signed into law
Jan 15, 11:28PM
The federal government produces one hell of a lot of data, but despite desultory lurches towards usability there's little guarantee that it's available in a way that makes it useful to anyone. That may change for the better with the OPEN Government Data Act, which the President signed into law last night.
The Square Off chess board melds the classical with the robotic
Jan 15, 11:28PM
CES crowds can be tough — especially toward the end of the week. You're physically and emotionally drained, and you're pretty sure you've seen everything the consumer electronics world has to offer. And then something comes along to knock your socks off. Square Off was one such product, impressing the crowd at our meetup and […]
Sofia Coppola and Bill Murray will reunite for Apple and A24
Jan 15, 11:02PM
The director and star of “Lost in Translation” are working together again, with Bill Murray starring alongside Rashida Jones in “On the Rocks,” a new film directed by Sofia Coppola. The movie will tell the story of a young mother who reconnects with her playboy father in New York City. Production is supposed to begin […]
How the new VR screen could end the smartphone
Jan 15, 11:00PM
The only way to get more information from a smartphone screen is to bring the pixels closer to our eyes, with the device somehow mounted on our heads rather than holding it in our hands.
Snap CFO Tim Stone is resigning
Jan 15, 10:50PM
Snap CFO Tim Stone is leaving the company, according to documents Snap filed with the SEC today. “Tim has made a big impact in his short time on our team and we are very grateful for all of his hard work,” Snap CEO Evan Spiegel wrote in a memo, obtained by TechCrunch, to employees. “I […]
The Sims gets its own in-game Alexa-style assistant, Lin-Z
Jan 15, 10:30PM
There's nothing like The Sims to log off from reality for a bit. Getting away from the increasingly ubiquitous world of smart assistants, on the other hand, is a different matter entirely. EA announced this week that the perennial favorite life simulation series is getting its very own smart assistant. Lin-Z is a lot like […]
Box hires former SAP exec as chief information security officer
Jan 15, 10:16PM
Box announced today that it has hired Lakshmi Hanspal to be the company’s new chief information security officer (CISO). She boasts 20 years of security experience, including holding executive security roles at SAP Ariba and Bank of America. She also spent time in a senior role at PayPal. In a blog post announcing the hire, […]
Apple's battery cases return for the iPhone XS and XR
Jan 15, 9:58PM
There's no shortage of iPhone cases out there, of course. But for those who absolutely must have Apple's stamp on their accessories, the company just dropped a couple of official charging cases for its latest round of handsets — the XS, XS Max and XR. The cases, first spotted by MacRumors, maintain a similar design […]
Twitter's de-algorithmizing 'sparkle button' rolls out on Android
Jan 15, 9:47PM
After launching on iOS, Twitter is giving Android users the ability to easily switch between seeing the reverse-chronological “latest tweets” and the algorithmic “top tweets” feeds on their home page. The company announced the rollout at a media event in New York. The “sparkle button” is a way for Twitter to appease long-time power tweeters while […]
Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Sites on the web are going Material Design
Jan 15, 9:27PM
Google today announced that it has started the long-expected rollout of its Material Design update for Google Docs, Sheets, Slides and Sites, after first testing this update to the G Suite apps with its new design for Google Drive last year. It’s worth noting that there are no new features or other changes here. Everything […]
Riding the RV revolution, Outdoorsy fuels up with $50 million in fresh funding
Jan 15, 9:24PM
Outdoorsy is building for the road ahead. The three-year-old company, which connects customers with underused RVs and other trucks big enough to camp in overnight, just raised $50 million in Series C funding led by Greenspring Associates, with participation from earlier backers Aviva Ventures, Altos Ventures, AutoTech Ventures and Tandem Capital. That puts its total funding, […]
Mozilla shutters Firefox's Test Pilot program
Jan 15, 9:00PM
Mozilla today announced that it is closing the Firefox Test Pilot program. For the last three years, Test Pilot was Mozilla’s project to trial some of its more experimental Firefox features with a group of users that opted into this program. It was Test Pilot that first trialed features like Containers, which became the Firefox […]
GBatteries let you charge your car as quickly as visiting the pump
Jan 15, 8:41PM
A YC startup called GBatteries has come out of stealth with a bold claim: they can recharge an electric car as quickly as it takes to fill up a tank of gas. Created by aerospace engineer Kostya Khomutov, electrical engineers Alex Tkachenko and Nick Sherstyuk, and CCO Tim Sherstyuk, the company is funded by the […]
Microsoft continues to build government security credentials ahead of JEDI decision
Jan 15, 8:05PM
While the DoD is in the process of reviewing the $10 billion JEDI cloud contract RFPs (assuming the work continues during the government shutdown), Microsoft continues to build up its federal government security bona fides, regardless. Today the company announced it has achieved the highest level of federal government clearance for the Outlook mobile app, […]
Opendoor competitor Knock raises $400M
Jan 15, 7:57PM
The investment in Knock comes amid consistent year-over-year growth in venture capital deals for real estate tech companies.
Roku explains why it allowed Infowars on its platform
Jan 15, 6:51PM
Roku has just made a bad decision with regard to its growing advertising business by associating its brand with the toxic conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones. As Digiday first reported this morning, Roku has chosen to add to the Roku platform as a supported channel the Infowars live show hosted by Jones, much to the disgust […]
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