It’s the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt SF. We highlight one of the compnaies from Startup Battlefield, Tesla upgrades its autopilot to Version 8, Microsoft has a major CRM win, HP is buying Samsung’s printer business and eBay launches a cell phone trade-in site quick sale. All … | Continue reading
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More than 70 Galaxy Note 7 smartphones have overheated due to defective batteries in the United States alone, the Canadian government has indicated, double the number of worldwide incidents the company had previously reported. The last time Samsung offered figures on its ongoing … | Continue reading
Email? IM? IM? Email? The rise of mobile messaging apps has challenged email as the primary communications channel for all things, including work — what happens when you blend them together?That’s the approach taken by Rush, an app that combines email and messaging, but also incl … | Continue reading
In this world, there are dogs. And also there are PCs. But dog PCs? “Ridiculous,” you say. But ladies and gentleman, I have seen the future of dog computing, and it is Dog PC. The PC for dogs. What kind of company would produce such a PC for dogs? Tesla, naturally. Not, mind you, … | Continue reading
Australia is slowly going cashless, but is it also ready to go "cardless"?An app to be released later this year by the National Australia Bank (NAB) will allow newly approved Visa credit cards to be used through the app before a plastic card even arrives. For payments under A$100 … | Continue reading
Last week's unveiling of the Apple Watch Series 2 kicked off the next phase of Apple's wearables era, but another kind of "apple" wearable debuted on the same day, with much less fanfare, but offering unique features no smartwatch can. The Jim Beam Apple Watch is a watched-shaped … | Continue reading
Monkeys can now type at a rate of 12 words per minute on a computer using only their minds, according to new research from Stanford University. The scientists hope that this technology might one day help severely paralyzed patients communicate — and they’re currently recruiting p … | Continue reading
On the eve of its release of iOS 10, Apple has launched its iMessage App Store, filled with quite a few apps supporting the new offering of the latest mobile operating system. The marketplace is only currently available to those with iOS 10 installed as part of the beta program, … | Continue reading
Life is strange sometimes. Like, sometimes you buy a $160 pair of wireless headphones, and all you want to is find a way to add another wire to the thing. $10 might be a small price to pay, if it stands between you and losing one of those precious new fully wireless AirPods that … | Continue reading
If you are in Canada and own a Galaxy Note7, you should return your device for a safe unit as soon as possible, Government of Canada urges. | Continue reading
Lucy, a Bay Area startup, which was founded this January and launched its beta today, reckons it’s found an underserved not-so-niche market to target: expectant parents. The team presented on stage today here at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016, after being lifted from startup alley as … | Continue reading
There's never a good time for a $900 smartphone to explode in your face. But that doesn't mean there isn't a worst time — and Samsung's probably found it.The company is set to recall its Galaxy Note7 phones following reports that the devices can overheat and explode. A child was … | Continue reading
If there’s one industry that’s consistently blowing past expectations, it’s competitive gaming. The e-sports market is expected to reach nearly a half-billion dollars this year, and gamers who take part in it are constantly trying to heighten their skills.Mobalytics is aiming to … | Continue reading
“Today it takes two to five years to get a factory to produce a car,” begins John Dogru. “A product’s timing to market is everything, and there’s a lot of latency. How do we, for the first time in history, go from the design to product instantly?”Rapid prototyping technologies li … | Continue reading
At TNW, we’re nuts about Giphy in our Slack channels. The randomness of it all adds to the humor of using it, but it’s often horrifically wrong, which then leads you to explain yourself out of awkward situations. Guggy is like Giphy, but with additional context so you won’t want … | Continue reading
I have a genius idea that I’m sure Apple considered and then rejected: build a headphone jack into the carrying case. When it’s plugged in, the case becomes a Bluetooth audio transmitter for anything, including (especially) airplane infotainment terminals. Heck, set it up with a … | Continue reading
A startup called Rex Animal Health wants to protect livestock from illnesses that can quickly turn into epidemics, and help farmers breed animals with the healthiest and most attractive traits. Today at Disrupt SF, Rex unveiled technology to help veterinarians provide clinical su … | Continue reading
Remember Tecmo Super Bowl? The classic Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) game is up there with RBI Baseball and Blades Of Steel for sheer nostalgia value, but its 1991 rosters aren’t exactly current. Happily, modders are on it. The good folks at TechmoBowl.org released an updat … | Continue reading
A well-kept lawn is one of the most common mixed blessings with which homeowners can treat/afflict themselves. Robin is a startup looking to take as much pain out of the process as possible, both by improving the way you hire and pay for your yard’s care, and soon, by putting a r … | Continue reading
After scouring through almost 1,000 applications, two dozen startups were selected to launch on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. They are presenting before an audience and a panel of judges, competing to be this year’s Battlefield winner. One of the companies present … | Continue reading
Gathering petabytes of data about your customers is cool, but how can you take advantage of this data? BlazingDB lets you run high-performance SQL on a database using a ton of GPUs. The company is introducing a free community edition of its solution on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt … | Continue reading
We heard that Nexus is no more, so it's not surprising that the brand's characteristic launcher is getting a new name as well. | Continue reading
Lyft has creative control over that iconic van that sits on top of a pole next to the U.S. 101 freeway in San Francisco.“Notice a little more pink during your drive on the 101? The newly-painted Lyft van is just one of the ways we made ourselves at home,” Lyft wrote on a blog pos … | Continue reading
ProductBoard today is launching a service for digital product managers that helps them better organize user research and determine which features deserve priority. Making its public debut at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, this product management platform is already being used … | Continue reading
A couple of days ago we introduced the seemingly outlandish concept of an AirPod Safety harness, but now the idea is getting the mainstream treatment thanks to a well-known accessories maker. SEE ALSO: Apple's AirPods are either genius or a complete disasterOn Monday, California- … | Continue reading
TVTY, a startup that enables online ad campaigns to sync with offline events to make online marketing more timely and relevant, has raised $6.7 million in further funding. Read More | Continue reading
Think of the last time you shopped online. You probably navigated to a home page that featured a dozen or so items, only one or two of which you may have actually been interested in. And while retailers try to use things like purchase history to predict what you want to buy, we a … | Continue reading
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Tired of manually interacting with your loved ones? Slicon Valley has the answer: LoveBot. This little bot, built at Techcrunch Disrupt SF, disrupts affection by automating it, and there’s nothing at all depressing about that. It’s something we can all relate to: loved ones deman … | Continue reading
Activists continued to protest the Dakota Access Pipeline over the weekend, even after the federal government ordered a temporary halt to construction. Photo: Andrew Cullen/Reuters | Continue reading
Wednesday, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and others will launch a campaign asking President Obama to pardon internet privacy advocate and notorious whistleblower, Edward Snowden. Snowden, the notorious NSA-contractor-turned-p … | Continue reading
When they wanted to stash the Ark of the Covenant away at the end of the first Indiana Jones film, the government did what any self-respecting bureaucratic institution would, filing it away in a giant warehouse. Navigating even the most well-appointed warehouse spaces can get tri … | Continue reading
Netflix wants you to be able to stream plenty of TV shows whether you’re at home or on a mobile connection, so it’s pushing for the US government to make some data caps illegal.In a letter sent to the Federal Communications Commission last week, Netflix said that the commission s … | Continue reading
I’ve been in the tech publishing industry for 25 years, but that no more makes me a programmer than someone watching football on TV for a quarter of a century makes them a quarterback. Code is my Achilles’ heel. Its proximity to formulas makes me queasy. It’s not that I can’t und … | Continue reading
Custom computer vision is the promise of bootstrapping Barcelona-based b2b startup Restb.ai. The team is pitching its machine learning algorithms at businesses wanting to fix a pain-point or aiming to enhance what they can offer their customers by being able to automatically dete … | Continue reading
ESPN's Fantasy Football platform is being criticized by users across social media platforms for an outage that prevented fans from accessing their profiles during Sunday's opening day NFL games. The WSJ's Lee Hawkins reports. | Continue reading
Mixed Martial Arts fighter Jeff Monson was born and raised in the U.S., but he feels he has a Russian "soul," so much so that he's pursued citizenship and agreed to promote the Communist Party. Photo: Getty. | Continue reading
Can you sing anything from a Marvel movie?That’s the question that Tony Zhou of Every Frame a Painting poses at the beginning of his latest video essay, The Marvel Symphonic Universe. Zhou gets several people on the street to hum songs from Star Wars, James Bond, and Harry Potter … | Continue reading
Xamarin is an app development platform that lets you design for both Android and iOS. The best news is that it's never been cheaper to learn it. | Continue reading
The House of Representatives has passed a resolution calling for a national technology policy which includes language for digital currencies. | Continue reading
The old-fashioned password gets little respect from hackers these days. In fact, it’s barely a speed bump for them to get past. The hacker can find your password or even the answers to your “security” questions for sale on the internet black market. UnifyID, a participant in this … | Continue reading
Just 2 percent of applicants got accepted to appear in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt SF; Pundit was one of the teams to make the cut. The company debuted their audio social media platform on stage, presenting it to a panel of judges. Co-founders Billy Shaw Susanto … | Continue reading
Hi Tim and Marni. As the bosses of my boss’ boss, I just want to say that y’all did a really really great job on stage today. Glad to know that things are going well with our new family members at Yahoo. It sounds like you’ve bitten off a pretty big bite of company with the deal … | Continue reading
Tweets will have more space to work with, come September 19. Media attachments will no longer count against the 140 character limit, and neither will usernames at the beginning of a tweet. Twitter announced this change back in May, but now The Verge is reporting the change will t … | Continue reading
Is anyone actually watching videos in Verizon’s go90 mobile streaming application? That question was posed to the audience this morning at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, and less than ten people raised their hands. Yikes. It’s fair to say that Verizon’s* entry into the mobile streaming m … | Continue reading
Identifier: H2020-WIprizeEU-2017Pillar: Science with and for SocietyPlanned Opening Date: Deadline: Thu, 3 Nov 2016 17:00:00 (Brussels local time) | Continue reading