The use of connected TV devices continues on a sharp upward path, with another year of double-digit growth in the US. In total, 168.1 million people in the US will watch connected TV this year, up 10.1% from last year. | Continue reading
Automation technology helps reduce repetitive tasks related to complex B2B sales cycles, but B2C companies are also using automation. | Continue reading
Bitcoin price was unable to show bullish momentum past its recent highs, paving the way for a test of the nearby support levels.The post Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 07/26/2017 – Downside Breakout! appeared first on NEWSBTC. | Continue reading
Creditbit price managed to avoid further declines against the US Dollar and Bitcoin, and now CRB/BTC is consolidating above the 0.00016BTC level. | Continue reading
Tired of being asked to join terrible Wi-Fi networks? You’re in luck. Users have noticed the latest iOS 11 beta release includes an automated "Auto Join Disabled" feature, which stops your phone from connecting to spotty public Wi-Fi sources while you're out and about.SEE ALSO: … | Continue reading
Facebook is apparently working on its own smart speaker and has acquired digital rights management company Source3, SoftBank could bet billions on Uber, Duolingo raises $25 million and more. All this on Crunch Report. Read More | Continue reading
Beijing-based Momenta announced this morning that it raised a $46 million Series B round led by NIO Capital, Sequoia Capital China and Hillhouse Capital. Momenta produces self-driving car software that applies deep learning to mapping, path planning and object recognition proble … | Continue reading
The hot days that arise in California often have people searching to fill their ice cream containers. When you’re looking to open up a new shop, let some tips guide you to success.Find the Right LocationEven if you have the best pan liner lids in the industry, customers might kno … | Continue reading
This infographic illustrates the key reasons why you should make the switch and start using the right Google solutions for your business today. | Continue reading
At least 12 people were killed in Mumbai after a five-story building collapsed on Tuesday morning in the working-class suburb of Ghatkopar. Local officials said the forty-year-old building, known as the Saidarshan, was home to 12 families, with around three to four families occup … | Continue reading
As moviemaking becomes as much a science as an art, the moviemakers need to ever-better ways to gauge audience reactions. Did they enjoy it? How much… exactly? At minute 42? A system from Caltech and Disney Research uses a facial expression tracking neural network to learn and p … | Continue reading
Spin, the bike-sharing service that lets you pick up and drop off a bike anywhere in a city, is coming to South San Francisco. The company’s dockless bike-sharing service made its debut in Seattle last week, and is now spinning its way down south to the Bay Area. Read More | Continue reading
If you’re an Amazon merchant, you have a few options when it comes to fulfilling orders. But which one is right for your business? | Continue reading
GUEST: There are singular moments where you know for a fact that the world will no longer be the same afterwards. While not on par with some far more consequential events in history, today’s SEC ruling, concluding that blockchain tokens sold through token sales are securities, is … | Continue reading
Coming this Thursday, Lyft will roll-out an “after hours” feature called Taco Mode, which will allow users to catch a Lyft to the nearest Taco Bell on their way to their destination between 9 p.m. and 2 a.m. The Taco Bell-Lyft partnership is a power move by both companies because … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence-focused investment funds are a dime a dozen these days. Everyone knows there’s money to be made from AI, but to capture value, good VCs know they need to back products and not technologies. This has left a bit of a void in the space where research occurs … | Continue reading
Niantic CEO John Hanke, the man in charge of the mobile app maker behind Pokémon Go, reflected on the company’s rather disastrous real-world meet-up this past weekend, writing in a blog post published today that he and his team are sorry for the issues and taking the time to deta … | Continue reading
GUEST: Bitcoin mixing service BitMixer announced Saturday that it was shutting down its operations effective immediately. In a statement on the Bitcointalk forum, the service’s administrator cited altruism as the reason for the action. He wrote: “I hope our decision will help to … | Continue reading
Like what’s your secret for taking historical evidence and understanding how calculating std or mse or kde means something????? — Zoe LeBlanc (@Zoe_LeBlanc) July 25, 2017 //platform.twitter.c… | Continue reading
Today, the Girl Scouts of the USA introduced 23 new badges in the areas of science, technology, engineering, math, and the outdoors. This is the largest rollout of new badges for the organization in over a decade, aiming to focus on encouraging interest in STEM and environmental … | Continue reading
Like what’s your secret for taking historical evidence and understanding how calculating std or mse or kde means something????? — Zoe LeBlanc (@Zoe_LeBlanc) July 25, 2017 Zoe LeBlanc asked how basic statistics lead to a meaningful historical argument. A good discussion followed, … | Continue reading
A prominent figure in the movement to encourage blockchain tokens as a funding method has lauded new SEC guidance for the industry.Source | Continue reading
Libya’s two leading political rivals, Prime Minister Fayez al-Sarraj and General Khalifa Haftar, agreed to a ceasefire and fresh set of elections on Tuesday following talks hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron in a suburb west of Paris. While Sarraj is the leader of Libya’s … | Continue reading
Automattic, the company behind WordPress, Akismet, and Gravatar, today unveiled the National Security Letters (NSLs) from the FBI, in an attempt to show cast light on what these secretive letters are and what kind of information they request. Paul Sieminski, general counsel for A … | Continue reading
GUEST: Each week, I check in with Travis McCleery, who leads product design for Root, an insurance company that uses data collected from drivers’ smartphones to more fairly price and sell auto insurance. Today, our conversation was about engaging specific designers that work for … | Continue reading
The SEC's new blockchain token guidelines aren't a surprise to industry commentators. Source | Continue reading
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Ever since the first Legendary Pokémon (read: ultra strong, ultra rare Pokémon that require groups of 10-20 players to capture) appeared in Pokémon Go shortly after the upset that was Go Fest, one thing has remained unclear: were the Legendaries here to stay? Niantic had multipl … | Continue reading
What We’re FollowingHealth Care: The Senate voted narrowly to start debate on a repeal of the Affordable Care Act, the first step toward passing legislation that many had considered certain to fail. Senator John McCain, who returned from his home state of Arizona for the vote aft … | Continue reading
When you sign up to play football, you know there's a chance you might get hurt. A new study, however, appears to confirm that for players who reach the highest levels of the sport, "chance" might be substantially higher than previously estimated, and the concept of "hurt" might … | Continue reading
It's official, nearly every major tech company wants to put a listening device in your home—or as they call it, a smart speaker. The latest? Facebook. SEE ALSO: Amazon's Echo Show has video streaming feature that plays Jimmy Fallon, CNN, CNBC, and moreThat's the chatter coming f … | Continue reading
Jeremy Stewart of Launchpad Creative joins Nic and Sarah to talk about websites. How often should you update your website? What difference can a refresh make to the effectiveness of your site? And what sorts of things should we be updating all the time? Here are some key take-out … | Continue reading
Google has launched Chrome 60 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. Among the additions is Touch Bar support, the Paint Timing API, CSS font-display, and improvements to the Credential Management API. You can update to the latest version now using the browser’s built-in silent updater or … | Continue reading
Nintendo released its Switch Online app on iOS and Android last week, and it is awful. On this week’s episode of the GamesBeat Decides podcast, we ask if Nintendo will ever really fix it because it seems like it just doesn’t care. In addition to Nintendo’s dumpster fire, hosts Je … | Continue reading
There’s a new smart outlet on Kickstarter, and it’s modular. Smart outlets are a nice way to make your home automated without adding too much clutter, but they're usually tied to a specific function or product. That means as soon as they’re outmoded, or if you want the smart outl … | Continue reading
It’s a years-long trend with no end in sight: venture firms are raising record amounts, owing to growing and sustained fascination from endowments, pension funds, family offices and others who see the sweeping, tech-driven changes all around — from self-driving cars, to new plan … | Continue reading
Human: Oh sweet bot, tell us a story! A nice story! About a very wise human who worked his whole life to save everybody in the world from having to spend time manually tagging their friends in digital photos — and made a magic machine that did it for them instead! Read More | Continue reading
In the eyes of the world, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has grown from the leader of a startup begun in a Harvard dorm room to a father, husband, and quasi-world leader. He’s also one of the richest and arguably most recognizable people alive. He regularly sits with heads of state … | Continue reading
The financier Bill Browder has emerged as an unlikely central player in the ongoing investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 elections. Sergei Magnitsky, an attorney Browder hired to investigate official corruption, died in Russian custody in 2009. Congress subsequently … | Continue reading
A Cornell professor who was at the center of last year's DAO hack has issued new comments on an SEC ruling on the project.Source | Continue reading
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It looks like ICOs, shorthand for initial coin offerings, are about to undergo a lot more scrutiny. The SEC has concluded that the digital currencies will be regulated as securities, meaning unregistered offerings could be subject to criminal punishment. The decision was announc … | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence — software with the ability to observe, analyze, and act on its own — will play a big part in shaping our future. But will it destroy it?It's a serious question, at least as far as Elon Musk is concerned. Over the past few years, he's taken a grim view of … | Continue reading
Lisa Su, CEO of chip maker Advanced Micro Devices, said in an analyst conference call that enthusiasm for cryptocurrency and gaming will drive demand for the company’s Vega graphics chips in the third quarter. Overall, Su said AMD expects to post 23 percent better revenues in Q3 … | Continue reading
Entrepreneurs and investors often lament the lack of diversity in tech in Texas. But a few organizations, and people, are going beyond just talk and are actively working to better even the playing field for underrepresented entrepreneurs. For this piece, Crunchbase News spoke wit … | Continue reading
Today in 5 LinesVice President Mike Pence provided the tie-breaking vote in the Senate’s motion to begin debate on repealing the Affordable Care Act. Arizona Senator John McCain voted to proceed, but in a speech on the Senate floor, he added that he “will not vote for this bill a … | Continue reading
I was there at the beginning of Flash and yet, when Flash dies in 2020, I won't miss it.When I stumbled on the technology at the 1995 Internet World Conference in San Jose, it was called "Future Splash" and made by a tiny company called Futurewave Software, Inc.Future Splash was … | Continue reading
While there has been a lot of talk about super-smart artificial intelligence lately, one of the leaders in the field thinks there are more pressing problems for humanity to solve. Andrew Ng, the cofounder of Coursera and former chief scientist at Chinese technology powerhouse Bai … | Continue reading