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Cookie walls don't comply with GDPR, says Dutch DPA
Mar 08, 10:37AM
Cookie walls that demand a website visitor agrees to their Internet browsing being tracked for ad-targeting as the ‘price’ of entry to the site are not compliant with European data protection law, the Dutch data protection agency clarified yesterday. The DPA said it has received dozens of complaints from Internet users who had had their […]
PolyAI scores $12M Series A to put its 'conversational AI agents' in contact centres
Mar 08, 9:00AM
PolyAI, a London startup founded by experts in the field of “conversational AI” — including CEO Nikola MrkÅ¡ić who was previously the first engineer at Apple-acquired VocalIQ — has raised $12 million in Series A funding to deploy its tech in customer support contact centres. The round was led by Point72 Ventures, with participation from […]
Car alarms with security flaws put 3 million vehicles at risk of hijack
Mar 08, 7:05AM
Two popular car alarm systems have fixed security vulnerabilities that allowed researchers to remotely track, hijack and take control of vehicles with the alarms installed. The systems, built by Russian alarm maker Pandora and California-based Viper — or Clifford in the U.K., were vulnerable to an easily manipulated server-side API, according to researchers at Pen […]
Leica's Q2 is a beautiful camera that I want and will never have
Mar 08, 12:41AM
Leica is a brand I respect and appreciate but don't support. Or rather, can't, because I'm not fabulously rich. But if I did have $5,000 to spend on a fixed-lens camera, I'd probably get the new Q2, a significant improvement over 2015's Q — which tempted me back then.
Netflix star and tidying expert Marie Kondo is looking to raise $40M
Mar 08, 12:27AM
Marie Kondo wants to expand her 'Tidying Up' empire with help from venture capitalists.
Voatz, the blockchain-based voting app, gets another vote of confidence as Denver agrees to try it
Mar 08, 12:27AM
A controversial blockchain-based mobile voting app called Voatz is getting put to the test again. The city of Denver revealed today that it has agreed to implement a mobile voting pilot in its May municipal election using the four-year-old, Boston-based startup’s technology. It will be offered exclusively to active-duty military, their eligible dependants and overseas […]
FCC 'looking into' reported error throwing broadband deployment numbers off by millions
Mar 07, 10:34PM
It's the FCC's official duty to promote connectivity throughout the U.S., and as part of that it issues a yearly report on improvements to broadband deployment. The latest report, however, seems to contain an error large enough to throw its numbers completely off what Chairman Ajit Pai has already claimed. His office says that they are "looking into the matter."
YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K 'flying motorcycle'
Mar 07, 10:29PM
David Mayman has a vision for personal aviation that he's spent the past dozen years and millions of his personal fortune chasing. He hasn't accepted the convention that jetpacks were just a misguided fantasy for the future; his company, Jetpack Aviation, has been building them and he's been zooming around in publicity-grabbing stunts in a […]
Three imperatives for educators to get more women in tech
Mar 07, 10:00PM
Want to see more women in tech? Don't wait up for CEOs to bridge the gender gap.
Elton John's farewell tour marks the beginning for an audio augmenting wearable
Mar 07, 9:31PM
It's not a great time to be a live venue. Once the only game in town, clubs, arenas and other live event spaces now have to compete with the seemingly endless on-demand entertainment options. Competing with the convenience of 4K Netflix on a 50-inch screen is a big ask, even for the biggest stars. It's […]
Colin Angle will be speaking at TC Sessions: Robotics + AI April 18 at UC Berkeley
Mar 07, 9:00PM
Earlier this week, we added Anthony Levandowski to a growing list of headliners that already includes Marc Raibert, Melonee Wise and Ken Goldberg. We're back with one more headliner to add to our already packed schedule for April 18's TC Sessions: Robotics + AI event at UC Berkeley (p.s. Early-Bird ticket sales end next week). […]
Instagram prototypes video co-watching
Mar 07, 8:26PM
The next phase of social media is about hanging out together while apart. Rather than performing on a live stream or engaging with a video chat, Instagram may allow you to chill and watch videos together with a friend. Facebook already has Watch Party for group co-viewing, and in November we broke the news that […]
Facebook will downrank anti-vax content on News Feed and hide it on Instagram
Mar 07, 8:00PM
After indicating that it was exploring its options for fighting the potentially deadly rise of anti-vaccination content on its platform last month, Facebook is making a plan of attack. Facebook’s strategy in the effort is to both minimize the spread of vaccination misinformation and to point users away from inaccurate anti-vaccination propaganda and toward “authoritative […]
WellSaid aims to make natural-sounding synthetic speech a credible alternative to real humans
Mar 07, 7:53PM
Many things are better said than read, but the best voice tech out there seems to be reserved for virtual assistants, not screen readers or automatically generated audiobooks. WellSaid wants to enable any creator to use quality synthetic speech instead of a human voice — perhaps even a synthetic version of themselves.
France's tax on tech giants is happening
Mar 07, 6:56PM
Is it happening? Is it not happening? After years of back and forth, it looks like the new tax on tech giants in France is about to become a law. Big tech companies that generate significant revenue in France will be taxed on their revenue generated in France. Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire has been […]
Camelot lets Twitch and YouTube audiences pay for what they want to see
Mar 07, 6:55PM
As the streaming world continues to grow, startups are looking to take advantage of the opportunity and grab a slice of the pie, and indeed create new revenue models around it entirely. Camelot, a YC-backed startup, is one of them. Camelot allows viewers to place bounties on their favorite streamers, putting a monetary value on […]
VCs have growing appetite for 'AgriFood'
Mar 07, 6:18PM
Venture investors are pouring billions of dollars into feeding their hunger for food and agriculture startups. Whether that trend line is due to enthusiasm for the sector or just broader heavy investing in the VC space is much less clear. According to a recent report published by AgFunder – a VC and investing marketplace focused […]
Daily Crunch: Zuckerberg lays out his privacy vision
Mar 07, 6:01PM
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Mark Zuckerberg discovers privacy In a long post published yesterday, the Facebook CEO laid out his vision for making Facebook’s products […]
Airbnb agrees to acquire last-minute hotel-booking app HotelTonight
Mar 07, 6:00PM
Airbnb to purchase HotelTonight, a hotel-booking app last valued at $463 million.
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Mar 07, 6:00PM
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