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Virtual reality shows new promise for some kinds of surgical training
Aug 05, 5:51PM
A recent validation study conducted by the David Geffen School of Medicine indicates that virtual reality could provide significant benefits to surgical training. The study, which was financed by the virtual reality surgical training startup Osso VR, indicates that participants who used the company’s training methods improved their overall surgical performance by 230 percent. That’s […]
This startup wants to democratize custom sneaker ownership
Aug 05, 5:17PM
There’s nothing like having a pair of fresh, unique sneakers. Limited release culture facilitates some of that, but The Custom Movement hopes to make originality and self-expression via sneakers more accessible to the masses. The Custom Movement, a custom sneaker startup backed by Y Combinator, enables independent artists to sell their one-of-a-kind sneaker designs to […]
Four days left for early-bird tickets to TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019
Aug 05, 5:00PM
We're just one month away from TC Sessions: Enterprise, which takes place on September 5 at the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco. But you have only four days left to score an early-bird ticket and save yourself $100. Right now, you pay $249, but once the clock strikes 11:59 p.m. (PT) on August 9, […]
Doubling down on business travelers, Airbnb acquires Urbandoor
Aug 05, 5:00PM
Airbnb has today announced the acquisition of Urbandoor, a platform that offers extended stays to corporate clients. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Urbandoor was founded in 2015, according to Crunchbase. One of the big differentiators between Urbandoor and Airbnb was not only its focus on business travelers, relocation, etc., but also that […]
Patrick Brown, the chief executive of Impossible Foods, is coming to Disrupt
Aug 05, 4:51PM
Impossible Foods is having quite the year. In the past seven months, the company has signed a nationwide deal with Burger King, weathered a demand surge that saw supplies dwindle and stocks of its signature Impossible burger sell out across the country, and raised fears among players in the $98 billion meat market that they […]
SoftBank-backed Fair taps three executives to lead vehicle subscription app expansion
Aug 05, 4:00PM
Fair, the vehicle subscription startup backed by SoftBank, is loading its executive team with veterans in the tech, venture and automotive industries as it seeks to build out its Uber leasing program and expand beyond North America. Fair.com today announced three key hires to lead the development of its car subscription app, financing department and […]
AT&T is offering free Spotify to select Unlimited subscribers
Aug 05, 3:40PM
AT&T is sweetening the deal on its Unlimited & More Premium plan this week, with the addition of free Spotify Premium. That amounts to a $10-a-month savings for those paying the $80 a month for the wireless service. The plan offers one of seven free partner services, including HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, Starz, VRV, Pandora and […]
UK watchdog eyeing PM Boris Johnson's Facebook ads data grab
Aug 05, 3:27PM
The online campaigning activities of the UK’s new prime minister, Boris Johnson, have already caught the eye of the country’s data protection watchdog. Responding to concerns about the scope of data processing set out in the Conservative Party’s Privacy Policy being flagged to it by a Twitter user, the Information Commissioner’s Office replied that: “This […]
Huawei's in-house OS could show up on phones this year
Aug 05, 2:33PM
Huawei has almost certainly been working on a software contingency plan for some time now, prepping for a worst-case scenario. When the U.S. announced that it was blacklisting the Chinese hardware giant earlier this year, those plans were likely accelerated. One of the things that's still unclear, however, is what role the company's Hongmeng OS […]
Fossil releases its latest Wear OS watch
Aug 05, 2:00PM
Wear OS's struggles have not been the result of a lack of trying from all parties. Google's been trying in earnest to break into the wearables game for several years, and in spite of some high-profile hardware partners, the company has failed to make a dent. At this point it's honestly tough to get too […]
Samsung's new Galaxy Watch still lacks the line's best feature
Aug 05, 2:00PM
I didn't hide my disappointment very well when I saw that Samsung had killed the mechanical spinning bezel for the original Watch Active. Samsung's watches have been pretty solid in recent years, providing one of the stronger Apple Watch alternatives, especially in the days before Fitbit launched the Versa. And while I've preferred their more […]
Monzo says it wasn't storing 'some' customer PINs correctly, but has now fixed the bug
Aug 05, 12:45PM
Monzo, the fast-growing U.K. challenger bank that recently soft-launched in the U.S., is disclosing a potential, albeit relatively limited, security oversight that saw customer PINs stored incorrectly within the company’s internal systems. Discovered on Friday, the “bug” has now been squashed after being spotted by one of Monzo’s security engineers, co-founder and CEO Tom Blomfield […]
Mesosphere changes name to D2IQ, shifts focus to Kubernetes, cloud native
Aug 05, 11:53AM
Mesosphere was born as the commercial face of the open-source Mesos project. It was surely a clever solution to make virtual machines run much more efficiently, but times change and companies change. Today the company announced it was changing its name to Day2IQ, or D2IQ for short, and fixing its sights on Kubernetes and cloud […]
Just Eat and Takeaway.com reach agreement to gobble each other
Aug 05, 9:57AM
The boards of Just Eat and Takeaway.com have reached agreement to combine their two European food delivery businesses. The pair of publicly listed companies announced they were in talks to combine their businesses a week ago, saying then that talks were at an advanced stage. Today they said their boards have reached agreement on the […]
Secure your seat to Disrupt Berlin now and pay later
Aug 05, 8:00AM
Sonderangebot! That sounds like a super-cool robotics startup you'd find at Disrupt Berlin 2019, right? But it's German for special offer — and that's super cool, too. Our premier tech conference takes place on 11-12 December, and we want to make attending Disrupt Berlin as easy on the budget as possible. Hence, our buy-now-pay-later Sonderangebot! […]
Data-driven events discovery and planning startup Fever raises $35 million led by Rakuten
Aug 05, 6:42AM
Fever, a startup that uses proprietary algorithms to help companies plan events, announced today that it has raised $35 million led by Rakuten Capital, the investment arm of Japanese internet giant Rakuten . Other investors in the round, which brings Fever's total raised to $70 million, included Atresmedia, Accel and Michael Zeisser, the former chairman […]
MIT researchers are working on AI-based knitting design software that will let anyone, even novices, make their own clothes
Aug 05, 6:10AM
The growing popularity of 3D printing machines and companies like Thingiverse and Shapeways have given previously unimaginable powers to makers, enabling them to create everything from cosplay accessories to replacement parts. But even though 3D printing has launched a new world of customized objects, most of us are still buying clothes off the rack. Now […]
Didi Chuxing's autonomous driving unit is now an independent company
Aug 05, 4:57AM
Didi Chuxing's autonomous driving unit is now an independent company, the Chinese ridesharing and transportation giant said today. Didi's autonomous driving team was created in 2016 and now has more than 200 employees in China and the United States. Didi's announcement comes about a month after The Information reported that Didi was in talks with […]
Cloudflare will stop service to 8chan, which CEO Matthew Prince describes as a 'cesspool of hate'
Aug 05, 2:57AM
Website infrastructure and security services provider Cloudflare will stop providing service to 8chan, wrote Matthew Prince in a blog post, describing the site as a "cesspool of hate." Service will be terminated as of midnight Pacific Time. "The rationale is simple: they have proven themselves to be lawless and that lawlessness has caused multiple tragic […]
News discovery app SmartNews valued at $1.1B
Aug 04, 5:50PM
SmartNews, an AI-powered news aggregation app, is the latest company to enter the unicorn club.
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