Following the controversial firing of the editorial team who managed the Trending Topics that appear next to Facebook’s News Feed, the company is now actively working on technology that will help prevent fake news stories from showing up in the Trending section. Similar systems h … | Continue reading
Instacart is one of the most well-known companies in what can be an extremely difficult on-demand delivery economy. It’s known for being one of the pioneers of a new age of online grocery delivery, especially in light of the previous failure of companies like Webvan, but it’s goi … | Continue reading
The National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) is exploring the creation of a national internet filter, according to Ciaran Martin, the head of Britain’s newly-formed cybersecurity agency. While the plan is to use the filter to weed out malicious websites and software, for some citize … | Continue reading
Getting into the right college isn’t easy. Edmission wants to help. The San Ramon, California-based startup is launching a web app today that lets students and parents create a personalized college admission plan — without the fees of private college counseling. Edmission allows … | Continue reading
Starting today, you won’t be able to browse the web on the tablets in New York’s LinkNYC hubs. In an announcement today, the LinkNYC team said that "unexpected challenges" had made it necessary to temporarily shut down the web function in the hubs' onboard tablets."Some users hav … | Continue reading
Reviews can make or break your book sales. This episode of Zero to Book reveals how to get reviews lined up before you launch your book. | Continue reading
Amazon hat heute bei einer Pressekonferenz in London den schon lange erwarteten Marktstart der smarten Lautsprecher Echo und Echo Dot für Großbritannien und Deutschland angekündigt. In Sachen Echo Dot hatte man sich ja kürzlich... | Continue reading
At its GitHub Universe conference in San Francisco today, source code repository software startup GitHub is launching new features for developers, managers, and admins. Probably the most significant addition is a proprietary project-management tool for tracking pull requests, iss … | Continue reading
Gmail experienced an outage for several hours during the U.S. workday Wednesday, and social media predictably freaked out.Users in the UK and U.S. appeared most affected during the period, with work-based Gmail proving an issue for some office-based workers.SEE ALSO: Widespread G … | Continue reading
Over the last few weeks, market analysts have repeatedly cited a single trader when explaining sizeable fluctuations in bitcoin prices. | Continue reading
Google today announced software updates to Fiber TV, its over-the-top streaming television offering for Google Fiber customers. They’ll be available right away for new Fiber TV customers once the necessary hardware has been set up, and current customers will see the updates in th … | Continue reading
EurekAlert — a scientific news source that hosts embargoed journal articles — has suffered a serious security breach and is now temporarily offline. EurekAlert is the news service operated by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. It holds science-related releas … | Continue reading
My Little Pony’s motto is “friendship is magic.” In the real world, however, that corporation that owns that property’s motto is probably something closer to “private user data is money.” Viacom, Mattel, Hasbro, and JumpStart — all companies that specialize in children’s toys and … | Continue reading
GitHub is hosting its Universe developer conference in San Francisco today. Unsurprisingly, the company used this event to announce a number of new features for its Git-based code hosting service. The company calls it its “biggest update to the platform yet,” though how important … | Continue reading
General Motors snapped up Silicon Valley-based Cruise Automation for more than $1 billion earlier this year with plans to plant its self-driving tech inside its own car brands. It was a fine move for GM, which has been aligning itself with several automotive ventures over the pas … | Continue reading
Twitch’s co-founder wants the site to reach beyond gaming as it seeks to capture the market on all live-streamed online media. Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Twitch co-founder Emmett Shear discussed the future of non-gaming content on the world’s most populous online e-sports … | Continue reading
The News Feed is the heart and soul of Facebook, yet remains a pretty big mystery both in terms of how it works and how people use it. So at TechCrunch Disrupt SF writer Josh Constine sat down with Adam Mosseri, a VP at Facebook and head of News Feed, to hear more about how exact … | Continue reading
Facebook says on a given day, the average user on the social network will read about 10 percent of all the stories that are surfaced. Adam Mosseri, the company’s vice president of product management for News Feed, revealed while it curates 2,000 stories daily for users, unless yo … | Continue reading
Cruise’s Kyle Vogt was on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016, and the CEO of the self-driving car startup that GM acquired earlier this year shared some updates about the company’s progress under its new owner. Vogt said that access to GM’s considerable resources has helped it a … | Continue reading
If you've been waiting to get your hands on the new Nixon Mission Android Wear watch, you're in luck! You can now place your pre-order for $400. | Continue reading
The day is just about to draw to a close out of Europe, and once again we’ve had a pretty busy one in our bitcoin price trading operations. Volume remains up and we are getting plenty of opportunities to get in and out of the markets on the action we are seeing. Yesterday we look … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced the first Win32 apps and games are now available in the Windows Store. You’ll need Windows 10 with the Anniversary Update released last month to get them. At its Build 2016 developer conference, Microsoft unveiled the Desktop App Converter, which lets de … | Continue reading
Content Intelligence leverages the systems and software that transform content and business data into actionable insights for content strategy with impact. | Continue reading
Advocacy groups have petitioned the US Food and Drug Administration to restrict the use of certain antibiotics given to livestock. They claim that using these antibiotics contributes to the development of antibiotic-resistant bugs that are dangerous to humans, and that the FDA’s … | Continue reading
The true story of an accident at an Arkansas missile complex that nearly triggered an explosion 600 times more powerful than Hiroshima is the focus of the upcoming movie "Command and Control." Director Robert Kenner and producer Eric Schlosser discuss the movie and the lessons le … | Continue reading
If you were waiting for Lenovo’s Phab 2 Pro, the first phone to include Google’s revolutionary augmented reality platform ‘Tango,’ you’ll just have to keep waiting. The official launch page, which once said “coming this summer” has since changed to “fall,” leaving augmented reali … | Continue reading
Despite reaching its funding goal, Amadas will cancel its Kickstarter campaign on Monday, as it wasn’t as successful as the company hoped, the company’s CEO tells me. The challenge is that the backers and the company had some misunderstandings about the features of the product. T … | Continue reading
Savvy Shields, Miss America for 2017, joins Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero to discuss winning the pageant, her "Eat Better, Live Better" platform and her plans for the year ahead. | Continue reading
The census bureau reports mean U.S. household incomes jumped 5.2% in 2015, the first gain since 2007. WSJ national economics reporter Nick Timiraos explains the data on Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero. Photo: iStock | Continue reading
The timeless lessons in Ryan Holiday's last two books are some of the most valuable any unemployable type must learn. | Continue reading
Former Secretary of State Colin Powell has been hacked, according to a report by The New York Times. An archive of his personal emails were published late last night by the website DC Leaks, although the archive was protected by a password. Reached by the Times, an aide to Secret … | Continue reading
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The company that both Ford and Baidu are betting $150 million on in autonomous driving hardware has a new version of its LiDAR sensor. The new Puck Hi-Res has a name that reflects both is shape and what distinguishes it form the original puck – higher resolution LiDAR imaging tha … | Continue reading
At least one analyst suggest Samsung will move up the timeframe for the Galaxy S8 in order to put the Note 7 drama behind it. Meanwhile, the S8 model numbers have now surfaced. | Continue reading
One of the most talked about topics regarding Apple's new AirPods is the concern of some that the slippery devices will, like EarPods, slip out of your ears and get lost.Tim Cook finally answered those concerns in an interview on Good Morning America on Wednesday. SEE ALSO: Spige … | Continue reading
Stock images haunt your nightmares, whether you realize it or not. Bland photos of white people in intimate settings, and diverse people in workplace settings, are the visual counterpart to vague, non-offensive corporate-speak the world over. Because if you’re going to leverage t … | Continue reading
You can do anything in a video game: fly, teleport, battle dragons, but it's all in a two-dimensional space. Increasingly, though, game and toy developers are trying to bridge the gap between real-world activity and what's capable in these action packed digital games.Galaxy Zega, … | Continue reading
Hundreds of millions of dollars of investment have been put into commerce startups in the fast-growing market of India, from marketplaces like Flipkart and Snapdeal through to payment startups like PayTM. Now one of the more interesting of these has been acquired. PayU, an online … | Continue reading
There’s no denying that QR codes are incredibly useful, but they’ve always been a bit too dull for my liking. The monochrome color palette feels too formal, and the lack of visible variation between different codes makes them appear extremely regimented. A couple of hours ago, I … | Continue reading
After its assets were saved by Razer, OUYA is still hanging on in the Android gaming space. Instead of making games and gaming hardware, it's publishing Android TV titles now. | Continue reading
Cloud-based collaboration tool Frame.io has raised $10M in Series A funding led by Accel, with participation from SignalFire, FirstMark Capital, and Shasta Ventures. Actor Jared Leto, who was a seed investor in the company, has also invested in the Series A as well as actor Kevin … | Continue reading
If you’re like anyone at TNW, you’re probably using Slack every day, all day long. I don’t mind; it’s a well designed app. But their newly released beta is bringing it to another level. Their current OSX app is built using MacGap, which is a wrapper for web apps — so technically, … | Continue reading
In its press material, LeEco refers to as a “global internet company,” a phrase that doesn’t really mean that much on the face of it – but when you’re LeEco, it’s probably best to be purposely vague. The Chinese technology firm’s ultimate goal appears to be an everything company. … | Continue reading
Have you ever spent a night in a damp, dirty, splooge-encrusted hotel room? Has a restaurant ever served you a meal that was gross and obviously (and badly) microwaved? Me too. For a lot of people, the first port of call in these scenarios is Yelp, or TripAdvisor. The problem is … | Continue reading
Silicon Valley venture capital firm Sapphire Ventures has closed a new $1 billion fund. Founded initially as the VC arm of SAP back in 1996, SAP Ventures split from its software giant parent in 2011 and rebranded more than three years later as Sapphire Ventures. The firm focuses … | Continue reading
Unfortunately, Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 LTE owners will have to wait a bit longer to get their Android 7.0 Nougat updates. | Continue reading
The final day of Disrupt is upon us. Which means that I don’t have the energy for enthusiasm. That said, today’s lineup is absolutely killer. Alongside some amazing speakers, including Twitch’s Emmett Shear, Facebook’s Adam Mosseri, and Instacart’s Apoorva Mehta, we’re also headi … | Continue reading
Luma, an Atlanta-based company that makes a sleek router with a wide variety of bells and whistles, has added $9.5 million to a previously closed Series A round. The capital comes from Andreessen Horowitz and GV and adds to an initial, $12.5 million in funding that was co-led in … | Continue reading