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Google TV Development Support Ends As Google Moves Onto Android TV
Jan 07, 6:07AM
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Google TV’s long, drawn-out good-bye has finally reached an end, with Google confirming today that it will no longer support the platform now that its successor, Android TV, has launched. Read More
Chinese Mobile Development Giant NetDragon Raises $52.5M For Its Online Education Business
Jan 07, 5:10AM
NetDragon, one of China’s leading mobile and games development companies, has raised $52.5 million in Series A funding for its online education business from investors including IDG Capital, Vertex Venture, and Alpha Animation, an animation studio based in Shenzhen. The round values NetDragon’s online education subsidiary at $477.5 million. Targeted at students in kindergarten… Read More 
FTC Closes Its Yelp Investigation Without Taking Action
Jan 07, 4:21AM
One of the biggest and most influential review platforms in the world, Yelp has constantly been hit with claims that it manipulates reviews so its advertisers get higher rankings. This led to an investigation by the Federal Trade Commission in early 2014 after 2,045 complaints were filed against the company. Now Yelp says the FTC has closed its investigation into Yelp’s business… Read More 
The Next MacBook Air Will Be A 12-Inch Beauty With An Edge-To-Edge Keyboard
Jan 07, 4:01AM
Apple’s 12-inch MacBook Air has been rumored for a while now, but the computer is very real, according to a new report from 9to5Mac’s Mark Gurman. The resourceful and consistently accurate site has revealed specs and renders of a 12-inch MacBook (which is pegged for release anytime between the near future and mid-2015) that pushes the limits in terms of thickness, input and… Read More 
BMW Shows Off Gesture Controls And Automated Parking
Jan 07, 3:27AM
BMW is showing off a bunch of new or new-ish technologies this week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. On the just-announced side, there are in-development gesture-based controls — so, thanks to an in-car camera, you may soon be able to draw circles in the air to adjust the volume of your music, or point in a certain way to answer a phone call. Read More 
Tales Of CES: How Many Selfie Sticks Are Too Many?
Jan 07, 3:23AM
CES is in full swing — the doors of the show officially opened this morning, tens of thousands of people took over the show floor, going from one stand to another. The Las Vegas Convention Center was as overwhelming as I expected, but one thing in particular struck me. CES is a trade show, it wasn’t designed to entertain the press. And in some way, selfie sticks are the star of… Read More 
LyteShot Wants To Build A Platform For Live-Action Games
Jan 07, 3:00AM
CES Hardware Battlefield participant LyteShot is working on an alternate-reality gaming alternative to playing with traditional NERF guns. Its solution relies on wireless “guns” and sensors — known as the Lyter and LytePuck, respectively — that essentially act as more affordable laser-tag rigs. Read More 
Intel Promises $300M To Boost The Representation Of Women And Minorities In Tech
Jan 07, 2:35AM
In an afternoon keynote at CES 2015, Intel‘s CEO Brian Krzanich bounced on stage to pass out some slightly platitudinous statements about the future of technology, and to bring the audience dancers, a cello, and what appeared to be a boy band, all fused to trippy lights. It was fun. The most important part of the keynote came at the end, however, when Intel pledged to spend… Read More 
Shaquille O'Neal Helped Build A Water-Proof Floating Speaker Called The SuperStar BackFloat
Jan 07, 1:15AM
Even though he no longer pounds basketballs through hoops, Shaquille O’Neal has been keeping himself busy. In collaboration with Monster, he’s helped design a new Bluetooth speaker that can float. That’s right. “You can take it in the shower with you,” said Shaq. “Not in the bathroom, but actually in the shower.” Read More 
Petnet Ensures Your Beasts Are Well-Fed
Jan 07, 1:14AM
Robotic pet-food dispensers are nothing new, but what happens when your robotic pet food dispenser is smarter than your pet. Petnet can help you find out. The system dispenses food automatically based on your preset schedule. You can even tell it which foods you’re serving Fido or Fidette, and it will dispense according to the animal’s diet. Read More 
Intel Dives Deeper Into Wearables With Its Quark SE Chip And Curie Development Module
Jan 07, 1:00AM
Intel, as always, is hoping to attract more consumer electronic manufacturers to use its chips in their devices. This time around, the company is targeting makers building wearable devices with a new chip and development platform. Intel largely missed the boat on wireless and tablet chips, but is trying to get ahead of the curve in new computing platforms that are emerging. Last year at CES,… Read More 
Bill Gates Will Drink Water Made From Poo To Prove New Sanitation Tech Works
Jan 07, 12:31AM
After watching this video, no one should doubt Bill Gates’ commitment to raising awareness of the issues around sanitation and its importance to economic and social development in emerging markets. In the video, Gates drinks water made from human waste to prove that the technology developed by Janicki Bioenergy, a small engineering firm based outside of Seattle, works. Read More 
Meet Sereneti Kitchen, A Company That Wants To Help Your Sorry Ass Cook
Jan 07, 12:01AM
Here at TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield at CES 2015, Sereneti Kitchen showed off its wares, an automatic tool that helps people cook. The company has created a device that, via a simple stirring motion, can cook you dinner. Something akin to a cross between a quick crockpot and C-3PO, the Sereneti device takes in ingredients, stirs, and prepares them for you — insert food,… Read More 
LookSee, An E-Ink Smart Bracelet, Will Always Fit Your Mood
Jan 07, 12:01AM
Fashion and tech, though perhaps an unlikely union, seem to have been getting along quite well over the past year. LookSee, an e-ink smart bracelet that allows users to customize the design through imagery, is the newest love-child of that union. The LookSee pairs with a LookSee app via Bluetooth to let users choose from either hundreds of pre-loaded photos and patterns or from their own… Read More 
FishBit Monitors Your Aquarium Health To Cut Down On Floaters
Jan 07, 12:00AM
If you’re any kind of aquarist or aquarium lover, amateur or otherwise, you’ve encountered that heart-sinking feeling that comes along with running into dead fish upon returning to your tank. It’s far too frequent an occurrence, and one that the founding team at Current Labs believes is entirely preventable in most cases, thanks to tech advances that make remotely monitoring… Read More 
Vouch Helps Lower Interest Rates On Loans By Leveraging Your Social Network
Jan 06, 11:04PM
Vouch Financial, a social lending startup founded by ex-PayPal and ex-Prosper alumni offering customers loans with lower interest rates, has raised $3 million in new funding, according to an SEC filing. The company also confirmed the investment details to us, noting that the round, led by Alex Rosen of IDG Ventures, actually closed last year but had yet to be disclosed. Other investors… Read More 
Google's Android TV Will Power Sets From Sony, Sharp, and Philips Beginning This Spring
Jan 06, 10:33PM
Google’s latest attempt to get its operating system for TVs embedded on consumer electronics devices has attracted a handful of partners, which were announced at the Consumer Electronics Show. In a blog post today, the search giant said TVs from Sony, Sharp, and Philips would begin shipping soon. Read More 
FAA Allows First Real Estate Company To Use Drones For Aerial Photography
Jan 06, 9:15PM
Douglas Trudeau of Tierra Antigua Realty in Tucson, Ariz., today became the first real estate agent who can legally use a drone for real estate photography. If you have recently looked at the listings in your local MLS (or on Zillow and Redfin), you have likely seen plenty of images that could have only come from a drone. Under the FAA’s strict definition, however, those weren’t… Read More 
Sentri Is The Smart Home Monitoring System Of The Future
Jan 06, 8:00PM
An increasing number of devices in the home are getting connected to the Internet, giving consumers new ways to control their household appliances. But as more and more consumer electronic manufacturers are adding connectivity to their devices, it’s becoming ever more difficult to manage all of them. A new home monitoring device called Sentri was designed to help consumers make their… Read More 
With SkySpecs' Guardians, The Drones Have Become Self-Aware
Jan 06, 7:38PM
SkySpecs has solved the biggest problem with drones: avoiding obstacles. With the company’s first product, launching today at TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield 2015, drones become aware of their surroundings and will automatically avoid objects. If a person walks towards the spinning blades of death, the drone will casually back out of the way. If there is a tree in the way, the… Read More 
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