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Traversal Networks Wants To Be Your Company's Cyber Security Department
Aug 18, 5:42PM
Imagine a company that installs an appliance to monitor your network for malicious activity, then broadcasts that security data to a cloud service and has experts watching and responding to any real threats. That’s what Traversal Networks, a member of the Summer Y Combinator 2015 class, is trying to do. In fact, the company was making its pitch at YC Demo Day shortly after I spoke… Read More
Silent Circle's Blackphone 2 Landing In September
Aug 18, 5:28PM
Silent Circle showed off the second generation of its pro-privacy Android-hardened smartphone, the Blackphone, back in March at the Mobile World Congress tradeshow — touting a summer launch for the device. In the event, it’s still not launched, and the company has now quietly put up a pre-order page on its website, for a September release. Read More 
Yell Endlessly Into Your Phone, And Now Nuance Will Transcribe It
Aug 18, 4:58PM
Sick of typing up meeting notes or interviews? Speech recognition master Nuance’s new Dragon Anywhere transcription app can turn what you say into text with no limit on recording time. This is no toy. It will cost $15 per month when it comes out this fall. But it could reduce headaches and wristpain inherent in manual transcription. The new Nuance Dragon iOS and Android apps also let… Read More 
Cardwheel Is A Memories App That Recalls Photos Based On Context, Not Time
Aug 18, 4:57PM
Launching today, Cardwheel is an app that recalls a fresh set of memories each day. However, unlike year-ago-remembering apps, Cardwheel uses machine learning to recall relevant, contextual memories based on a number of different factors. Here’s how the service works: Every morning users are presented with a daily wheel of up to 12 photos. These photos come from places like your… Read More 
Google Launches OnHub Router, Promises Faster Wi-Fi And Simpler Setup
Aug 18, 4:46PM
Google today surprised us by launching a router with the help of its partner TP-LINK. The $199.99 OnHub router promises to do away with many of the issues you’ve likely experienced with your existing router: Wi-Fi slowing to a crawl, videos buffering and connections randomly dropping out. That always meant unplugging the device, waiting a minute or so, plugging it back in, and then… Read More 
ProtonMail Open Sources Its Encrypted Webmail Interface
Aug 18, 4:38PM
Secure encrypted email provider ProtonMail, which runs a “zero access” PGP mail service based in Switzerland has now open sourced its webmail interface — meaning all the code that runs locally on the user’s computer is available for inspection. Read More 
Opera Max Can Now Compress YouTube And Netflix Videos
Aug 18, 4:35PM
Opera Max, Opera’s data-saving proxy for Android, has long allowed you to save some of your previous mobile data by compressing text, video and images when you surf the web or use apps like Instagram on your phone. What Opera Max couldn’t do, however, was compress HTTPS videos and that meant no support for the likes of YouTube and Netflix. Read More 
WellPath Integrates With 23andMe, FitBit To Customize Your Daily Supplements
Aug 18, 4:30PM
These days, you can get a subscription box for just about anything. And today, that includes customized nutritional supplements. WellPath, a company that puts together customized packages of monthly nutritional supplements tailored to your specific body, has today announced integrations with 23andMe and FitBit to get even more granular with the way that suggest products. Originally, WellPath… Read More 
Reminder: Early-Bird Tickets To Disrupt SF 2015 End August 21
Aug 18, 4:00PM
You love technology and you love money. Why not combine both of those loves by purchasing an early-bird ticket to Disrupt SF 2015 before Friday and save yourself $1,000 in the process? But you have to act fast, because you only have four days left to decide. Early-bird tickets are on sale for $1,995 now through 11:59 p.m. PT on August 21, so you have just a few days left to buy your tickets… Read More 
How The Blockchain Can Aid The Effectiveness And Use Of Complementary Currencies
Aug 18, 4:00PM
The blockchain provides the foundation to design complementary currencies that embellish community relationships, drive regional economic growth and encourage self-sustainability. The local multiplier effect is the underlying benefit of using complementary currencies. The local multiplier effect occurs when one form of economic activity affects another. Read More 
Reddit Names Marty Weiner, Founding Engineer At Pinterest, Its First CTO
Aug 18, 4:00PM
There are plenty of things on Steve Huffman’s to-do list since returning to Reddit as its CEO. Having a gifted technical mind himself, currently doing double duty as Hipmunk’s CTO, the need for a technical lead at Reddit was glaring. Today, the company has announced that it has hired founding engineer at Pinterest, Marty Weiner, as its first CTO in company history. Weiner spent… Read More 
How Relay FM Proves That Podcasts Aren't An Overnight Success
Aug 18, 3:06PM
When Myke Hurley and Stephen Hackett launched Relay FM, they expected to build a small independent network of weekly tech podcasts. Just a year later, Relay FM features 16 different shows and delivers 1.5 million downloads every month. Building this loyal audience was an overnight success six years in the making. Read More 
With A New SMS Service, Gone Turns Your Unwanted Stuff Into Cash
Aug 18, 3:03PM
Gone, an app that helps you sell off unwanted stuff, has just launched an SMS service to make unloading your crap even easier. Gone launched its concierge service in San Francisco and Austin last July, which lets you sell nearly anything with a minimum value of $100. After you enter the necessary information into the app, Gone gives you a quote and sends a team member to your house to haul… Read More 
EShares, Now Valued At $77 Million, Looks Far Beyond Silicon Valley
Aug 18, 2:27PM
EShares, which digitizes paper stock options, warrants and derivatives to create a real-time picture of who owns what at a startup, just raised $17 million in Series B funding at a post-money valuation of $77 million from insiders including Spark Capital and Union Square Ventures. The three-year-old company also makes it far simpler to transfer ownership of all of the above — which goes… Read More 
BuzzFeed Confirms $200M Investment From NBCUniversal
Aug 18, 2:07PM
BuzzFeed just announced that it has raised $200 million from NBCUniversal. If the news sounds a little familiar, that’s because Vox Media announced a similar deal with NBCUniversal last week. At the time, Re/code (now owned by Vox) reported that BuzzFeed had received an investment of the same size, at a valuation of $1.5 billion. Read More 
Fotokite Phi Is A $349 Drone On A Leash That Needs No Pilot, Just A GoPro
Aug 18, 2:02PM
Drones are the future of photo journalism, but the problem is you usually need a dedicated pilot. Unless you have a Fotokite. It’s a quadcopter on a retractible dog leash. Strap a GoPro to it, and it automatically records whatever you’re doing at the end of its tether while automatically hovering between 1 ft and 26 ft away. Today, the first consumer Fotokite model called Phi… Read More 
Fig Lets You Crowdfund Computer Games For Profit, Not Just Fun
Aug 18, 2:02PM
A conspiracy has been hatched by the world’s top Triple-A and indie developers to change the way computer games are financed. It’s called Fig. It’s a highly curated reward and equity crowdfunding funding platform just for games. Each month, Fig will debut one major studio title and one independent release, and already has campaigns lined up from lauded studios… Read More 
Confide, The Self-Destructing Messenger, Goes Live On Desktop
Aug 18, 2:01PM
Confide, the app that lets you send self-destructing messages, is now transitioning to the desktop. Confide launched 18 months ago as a mobile app on iOS and Android, offering users the chance to send messages to each other that are only readable a few words at a time. When the user tapped on certain words in the message, they would appear and disappear again as the user’s finger… Read More 
Product Hunt Takes AMAs A Step Further With The Launch Of LIVE
Aug 18, 2:00PM
Product Hunt, the online community where members upvote products, games and books they like, is helping that community get more of a heads up on “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) events today with the introduction of LIVE – a scheduled AMA with different product makers, founders, celebrities, authors and others. The platform often invites makers of products to come to the site and… Read More 
Whim Is A Dating App Focused On Actual Dates
Aug 18, 1:16PM
There’s a new service called Whim for people who are tired of all the chatting in the current batch of dating apps. To be sure, there are other online dating services that purport to focus on making real-world connections (rather than hosting awkward, back-and-forth messaging sessions that may or may not lead to actual dates or hookups) — that’s basically the… Read More 
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