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Trash uses AI to edit your footage into a fun, short videos
Jun 24, 4:01PM
Trash is a new startup promising to make it easier for anyone to create well-edited videos. Social video is an area that CEO Hannah Donovan knows well, having previously served as general manager at Vine (the video app that Twitter acquired and eventually shut down). She said that in user research, even though people had […]
Scientists discover a new way to provide plants the nutrients they need to thrive
Jun 24, 4:00PM
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have discovered a new method for delivering key nutrients to plant roots – without having to ensure they’re present in the soil where the plants are growing. The landmark study greatly increases the efficiency of surface delivery of nutrients and pesticides to plants. Currently, when crops are sprayed with stuff […]
Watch SpaceX's spectacular first Falcon Heavy night launch live
Jun 24, 3:16PM
SpaceX is going to launch a Falcon Heavy rocket for only the third time ever tonight, should all go according to the current mission plan. The launch, set to take place during a four-hour launch window that opens at 11:30 PM EDT (8:30 PM PDT) tonight, will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at Florida’s […]
Comscore raises $20M with an option to bump it to $50M, in a bid to rebuild its digital measurement business
Jun 24, 3:16PM
Comscore’s name is usually in the news because of its widely-cited research and stats around media traffic and other analysis charting digital consumer behavior. More recently, it’s been coming up for another reason: ongoing corporate upheaval and its tumbling stock price. Today comes the latest development in that story: the company announced that it has […]
DJI looks to assemble drones in California as government concerns mount
Jun 24, 3:14PM
With increased pressure on Chinese manufacturers like Huawei and ZTE, Shenzhen-based drone giant DJI has no doubt had cause for concern of late. In late-2017, the U.S. government's Immigration and Customs Enforcement office raised concern that the company's camera-equipped flying machines could be sending data back to China. A few weeks back, the Department of […]
SpaceRyde wants to make access to space more available and more affordable
Jun 24, 2:56PM
Life can be tough for a small satellite operator – it may be relatively cheap and easy to build small sats (or CubeSats, as they’re sometimes called), but arranging transportation for those satellites to get to orbit is still a big challenge. That’s why SpaceRyde is pursuing a novel way of launching light payloads, that […]
Sam's Club launches alcohol delivery through Instacart
Jun 24, 2:56PM
Walmart -owned Sam’s Club is expanding into same-day alcohol delivery, the retailer announced this morning. The delivery service is being powered by Sam’s Club partner Instacart and is currently live in 215 stores across 12 U.S. states, with plans to reach other cities and markets in the months ahead. At launch, the list of states […]
Climate change, AI and ethical leadership in 'big tech', with Amazon principal UX design lead Maren Costa
Jun 24, 2:35PM
"I just want to be proud of the company that I work for," Maren Costa told me recently. Costa is a Principal UX Design Lead at Amazon, for which she has worked since 2002. I was referred to her because of her leadership in the Amazon Employees for Climate Justice group I covered earlier this […]
Google's new media literacy program teaches kids how to spot disinformation and fake news
Jun 24, 2:13PM
Google announced this morning it’s expanding its two-year-old digital safety and citizenship curriculum for children, “Be Internet Awesome,” to now include media literacy — specifically, the ability to identify so-called “fake news” and other false content. The company is launching six new media literacy activities for the curriculum that will help teach kids things like […]
EU-US Privacy Shield legal showdown now set for July 9
Jun 24, 1:59PM
A legal challenge to a data transfer mechanism that’s used by thousands of companies to authorize taking European citizens’ personal data to the US for processing has been delayed. As we reported last month, the General Court of the EU had set a date of July 1 and 2 to hear the complaint brought by […]
Gartner finds RPA is fastest growing market in enterprise software
Jun 24, 1:59PM
If you asked the average person on the street what Robotic Process Automation is, most probably wouldn’t have a clue. Yet new data from Gartner finds the RPA market grew over 63% last year, making it the fastest growing enterprise software category. It is worth noting, however, that the overall market value of $846.2 million […]
Samsung releases a trio of smart home products
Jun 24, 1:46PM
Samsung's approach to the smart home has been — “uneven” seems like a nice way of putting it. None of this has really been helped along by the fact that Bixby and the company's long-promised smart speaker, the Galaxy Home, are still lost in the woods. SmartThings, the home automation startup the company acquired in […]
Byju's-owned Osmo education startup enters pre-schoolers market
Jun 24, 1:00PM
Osmo, a Palo Alto-based education startup acquired by Indian unicorn Byju's for $120 million this year, is expanding its product lineup to serve a new and largely untapped market: pre-schoolers. Osmo today announced Osmo Little Genius Starter Kit, a set of tools that aims to help children that have yet to enter schools to understand […]
Echo Show 5 review
Jun 24, 1:00PM
The Echo team must have started sweating when the Lenovo Smart Clock was announced during CES. Deep inside Seattle's Day One building, Amazon was reading the release of the Echo Show 5, a pint-sized version of the company's smart screen that bore more than a passing resemblance to Lenovo's Google Assistant device. Amazon, of course, […]
FedEx lures online sellers with two-day air shipping at ground rates after Amazon contract ends
Jun 24, 12:55PM
International shipping giant FedEx is showing it’s serious about attracting the ecommerce crowd after a high-profile termination of one of its contracts with Amazon to provide delivery using its express air service in the US. FedEx is now offering the same two-day express air shipping direct to some customers for the same price it usually […]
Cloudflare outage affecting numerous sites on Monday AM [Update: fixed]
Jun 24, 12:53PM
Cloudflare, a company providing performance and security to websites, is having network problems of its own this morning — and taking down a lot of its customers’ sites and apps in the process. Affected companies include podcast app Overcast, chat service Discord, managed hosting provider WP Engine, eCommerce hosting provider Sonassi, public web front-end CDN […]
Cricket World Cup highlights just how big video streaming is in India
Jun 24, 12:52PM
As hundreds of millions of people turn their attention to the ongoing ICC Cricket World Cup tournament, many of them are using an Indian streaming service to follow the ins and outs of the game. More than 100 million users tuned in to Hotstar, an on-demand streaming service owned by Disney, on June 16, the […]
Creandum closes $300M fund for early-stage investments out of Europe
Jun 24, 11:00AM
As one European VC raises a fund to double down on bigger growth rounds in Europe, another has closed a fund to continue focusing on early-stage investments. Stocklhom-founded Creandum, an early backer of companies like Spotify and iZettle, has closed a fifth fund €265 million ($300 million). The plan is to use the money to […]
Carrefour sale shifts the balance of power in China's new retail battle
Jun 24, 10:53AM
Hot on the heels of Amazon’s decision to shutter its local marketplace, Carrefour — another global commerce giant — is switching up its approach to China, and shifting the balance of power between the country’s tech giants. Carrefour, which is Europe’s largest retailer, sold a majority 80% stake in its China-based business to Chinese retailer […]
Facebook makes another push to shape and define its own oversight
Jun 24, 10:36AM
Facebook’s head of global spin and policy, former UK deputy prime minister Nick Clegg, will give a speech later today providing more detail of the company’s plan to set up an ‘independent’ external oversight board to which people can appeal content decisions so that Facebook itself is not the sole entity making such decisions. In […]
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