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Spotify follows Discover Weekly with personalized new releases playlist
Aug 05, 11:00AM
Spotify is doubling down on its strategy to beat Apple Music with big data-driven personalized playlists like Discover Weekly — a huge hit that saw 40 million users in its first year. Today it launches Release Radar, a 2-hour algorithmically personalized playlist updated each Friday that features newly released songs from artists each user already listens to. Release Radar will appear at… Read More
How VR could have you walking in circles in future without knowing it
Aug 05, 10:13AM
VR’s promise of boundless virtual worlds to explore is, in practice, rather more tethered to reality, given physical limits on play spaces meaning you can only walk so far in the corresponding virtual world before you’re out of sensor range and/or about to bump into a (real) wall. So how to square the circle of infinite virtual worlds vs finite play space? Read More 
Amazon launches Prime Air, its own dedicated cargo planes to speed delivery
Aug 05, 5:06AM
Delivery by drone or self-driving trucks may not be here any time soon for Amazon.com. But the e-commerce juggernaut plans to launch its first ever branded cargo plane, the Amazon One, at Seattle’s SeaFair Air Show on Friday. The plane is a a Boeing 767-300 operated by Atlas Air, an existing provider of air cargo services for Amazon.com. In a press statement ahead of the event, the… Read More 
Crunch Report | Facebook Anti-Clickbait Algorithm Change
Aug 05, 3:25AM
The Olympic Committe prohibits GIFs, Vines and streaming apps, the average internet speed in the U.S. is over 50Mbps, OnePlus sales in Europe halted to meet demand, Grab is raising at a $2.3 billion valuation, and Facebook’s anti-clickbait algorithm buries bogus headlines. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
Google celebrates Olympics with Doodle Fruit Games
Aug 05, 3:00AM
The Olympics kick off this week and to celebrate, Google is featuring a new interactive doodle in the Google App for iOS and Android every day for the next seven days. So if you couldn’t make it to Rio (which may be for the better, given all the issues the city currently faces) you can now guide a bunch of delicious fruits through a mock Olympic decathlon where the greatest threat… Read More 
What healthcare IT can learn from HP
Aug 05, 1:00AM
Long before HP was known for PCs and laser printers, it built test equipment for electrical engineers. One reason its products succeeded was because they were designed by the very people who ultimately used them. In healthcare, physicians are obliged to use electronic health records systems (which they did not design). So how can the lessons from HP be applied to the healthcare IT industry? Read More 
Zynga plummets 9% in after-hours trading
Aug 05, 12:17AM
Social game developer Zynga tumbled 9 percent in after-hours trading following the second quarter 2016 earnings announcement after the bell today. The company reported a net loss of $4.4 million, while still beating analysts’ expectations in terms of revenue. For the second quarter ended June 30, the San Francisco-based maker of FarmVille and Words with Friends posted revenue of… Read More 
App lets visually impaired in India hear books in their native language
Aug 04, 11:51PM
For the millions upon millions of visually impaired people in India, it can be difficult getting hold of the audiobook they want in the language they need it in. A project from Carnegie Mellon University and partners aims to fix that with a free, easily extensible Android app that can be quickly trained to read texts aloud in local languages. Read More 
DJI puts temporary restrictions on its drones in Brazil during the Olympic Games in Rio
Aug 04, 11:34PM
Tomorrow marks the first day of the Olympic Games in Rio. And drone makers DJI have announced the establishment of temporary flight restrictions that will prevent their users from flying into air space around sports arenas in six Brazilian cities hosting international athletic competitions. The restrictions — or “temporary updates to DJI’s no-fly zone system” —… Read More 
Apple announces long-awaited bug bounty program
Aug 04, 11:30PM
Tech companies hold the keys to some of our most personal information — payment details, health records, chat logs with our lovers and archives of family photos — and, as we hand over more and more private data, it becomes increasingly important that companies earn our trust by keeping it secure. Over the past five years, most major tech companies have instituted bug bounty… Read More 
What can happen when mortgage lenders become VCs
Aug 04, 11:21PM
It’s difficult for tech workers and it’s even more difficult for those not touched by the modern gold rush. One mortgage originator, Opes Advisors, is incorporating restricted stock units (RSU) and private shares to make it easier for techies to move from incubator to nest egg. But what appears helpful to a population that sees housing prices moving out of reach could actually… Read More 
Valve opens up the HTC Vive's tracking system to third-party developers
Aug 04, 10:40PM
One of the most technically advanced features of the HTC Vive virtual reality system is the way it tracks a user’s motions inside their play space. Valve, which collaborated with HTC to build the Vive, just opened its ‘Lighthouse tracking system’ up to third-party hardware developers building on the SteamVR platform to license royalty-free. Read More 
The four cybersecurity terms everyone is talking about at Black Hat
Aug 04, 10:30PM
Here are four cybersecurity terms that will root many conversations, both on the expo floor and among experts and analysts in the briefing rooms at Black Hat. Read More 
Nissan's working BladeGlider sport EV prototype calls to car lovers
Aug 04, 10:17PM
Nissan is bringing a working version of the BladeGlider all-electric sport concept it first revealed in 2013 to Rio to ride the hype wave of the Olympics. The car is cool enough to merit hype in its own right, as a performance-engineered zero emission EV from a company that typically stays in the more conservative end of the market with staid offerings like the Nissan Leaf. Read More 
This neural network tries to tell if you're being sarcastic online
Aug 04, 10:16PM
One of the perils of text-based communication is the lack of cues that clearly signal irony being employed — no doubt we’ve all had our own mishaps behind this particular issue. Researchers from Portugal have had enough, though, and built a neural network that tries to determine whether you or your virtual interlocutor is being sarcastic. Read More 
NASA's Curiosity rover gets an adorable mobile game for its fourth anniversary
Aug 04, 9:26PM
What’s a good gift for a Martian rover who’s just turning four? Water, obviously. Barring that, however, a fun little mobile game will do. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory enlisted the skills of GAMEE to develop Mars Rover, an adorable little side scroller created in honor of Curiosity’s fourth year on the red planet. Read More 
Niantic acknowledges that Pokemon are way too hard to catch now, promises a fix
Aug 04, 9:06PM
About two days ago, Pokemon Go players noticed a change — and it wasn’t one they’d been hoping for. All of a sudden Pokemon were much, much harder to catch. They dodged more, hopped over your ball more often, and worse yet, if you did manage to get one inside your Pokéball, odds were seemingly higher than ever that they’d bust out and immediately run away. Even the… Read More 
How computer-assisted art will help humans embrace the rise of the robots
Aug 04, 9:00PM
For many people, the robot-populated future is a zero-sum game; it’s either going to be us or them running things. Headlines are rife with dire predictions: “Robots will take over most jobs in 30 years” and “The future has lots of robots, few jobs for humans.” Even the arts aren’t safe. “Computer art” (where a computer uses algorithms to create… Read More 
Mobile app search company Quixey raises $30M in debt funding
Aug 04, 8:59PM
Mobile search company Quixey has raised an additional $30 million in debt funding. The company touts its ability to help users find content within their apps. More recently, it says it has developed technology that can take you straight from the search results to personalized actions like showing nearby friends in Facebook or bringing up your own playlist in Spotify. Read More 
Facebook built, but won't launch, a "Facebook Stories" Snapchat clone
Aug 04, 8:32PM
Facebook built its own version of Snapchat Stories, called Quick Updates, but will not release it. Though Instagram Stories launched this week, Facebook isn’t going to follow suit. Quick Updates created a special place to share within the Facebook app but outside of the News Feed. Accessible from a button at the top of the feed, Quick Updates would have let people share 24-hour… Read More 
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