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- Obama's Visit to Hiroshima Will Be First for Sitting U.S. President
Obama will not apologize for the decision to use atomic bombs on Japan during World War II, but will reaffirm a commitment to a world without nukes. - Abandoned Ship Washes Ashore in Liberia
- North Korea's Big Parade: A Sideline View
- Kim Jong-un Emerges From North Korea's Congress With New Title
- Paris Mayor: Donald Trump is 'So Stupid'
- London Mayor Slams Trump's 'Ignorant' View of Islam
- Sec. Kerry: Businesses Using U.S. Sanctions as Excuse to Avoid Iran
- 3 Killed, Dozens Wounded in Turkey Car Bomb
- Bangladesh Executes Leader of Islamist Party
- Knife Attacker Kills 1, Stabs Others at German Train Sta
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The United States' northern neighbor was ranked the best country in a new survey of millennials by U.S. News & World Report. - 'Pure Luck': U.S. Forces Free Kidnapped Son of Ex-PM
- 11 Tons of Bomb-Making Chemical Found Under Fruit Crates
- Obama to Make Historic Visit to Hiroshima
- Watch Spectacular Time-Lapse Video of N. Korean Torch Parade
- Bus Driver Pulls Off What Might Be Videobomb of Year
- 'Trump' Elected in Philippines, Axes Visits to Cold Places
- A Look Inside Wildfire-Ravaged Canadian City
- U.K. Court Says Police Can't Make Hacker Hand Over Passwords
- Holy Cow! Runaway Bovine Drops From Sky, Damage
- North Koreans Hold Spectacular Parade for Dictator
Tens of thousands marched through Pyongyang as leader Kim Jong Un consolidated his power after a party congress. - Panama Papers: Database Released, Many Americans Listed
- Firefighters Make Gains on Blaze That Forced 100K to Flee
- Four Stabbed in Deadly Knife Attack at German Train Station
- Stunned Leaders Get First Look at Wildfire Devastation
- Pentagon: ISIS Fighter Known as 'Desert Lion' Dead
- Why Rio Residents Are Worried City Isn't Ready for Olympics
- Watch Tiny Ponies Race in Honor of Queen's 90th Birthday
- Pentagon Announces Death of ISIS Fighter 'Desert Lion'
- Brash 'Trump' of Philippines Leads Unofficial Vote Co
- Malaria Vaccine Protects Half Who Try It
An experimental malaria vaccine appears to protect half of the people who tried it for as long as a year, researchers said. - Saving Cobra: The Rescue of an Orphaned Chimpanzee
- Rwandan Blood Deliveries Show Drones' Promise, Hurdles
- Vagina Figurines Are 'Pop Art,' Not Obscene: Japan Court
- Russia's War Machine Goes On Parade in Red Square
- N. Korea Expels Reporter Over 'Disrespectful' Coverage
- Prince Harry Talks Invictus Games, Princess Diana, Dating
- Tough-Talking Presidential Candidate Strikes Conciliatory Tone
- London's New Mayor: If Trump Wins, I Can't Go to U.S.
- Virgin 'Slaves' Given Away to End Family Disputes
- 'So-Called Surgical Strikes' Keep Hitting Surgical Wards
A survivor of U.S. attack which hit an MSF hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, tells his harrowing story. - Bin Laden's Successor Calls ISIS 'Extremists, Renegades'
- Inside the Global Restaurants Run by North Korea
- This Tour Exposes Where Billionaires Stash 'Dirty Money'
- Kneeling Hitler Sculpture Fetches $17M at Auction
- Inside 'Hackerville': Romania's Cybercriminal Hub
- 'No Car Day' Along Paris' Champs-Elysees
- Images Suggest N. Korea Preparing for Nuke Test: Report
- Officials Warn Images From Charred City Will Be 'Dramatic'
- Anarchists Hurl Bombs at Riot Police During Demonst
- Software piracy claims can ruin your business and reward those responsible
There is a highly divisive and costly practice that software companies have inflicted on their customers for nearly a decade. This practice brings with it significant emotional duress, time investment and financial penalties — all of which divert meaningful resources from revenue-driving activities... - WhatsApp launches desktop apps for Mac and Windows
WhatsApp, the Facebook-owned messaging service that claims a billion users, has launched desktop clients for Mac and Windows. The release comes about 15 months after WhatsApp released its first web app. Read More - Hyperloop Technologies becomes Hyperloop One, pulls in $80 million and announces global partners
- The TC Disrupt NY Battlefield Finalists are Bark, Beam, BitPagos, Ritual, SeaDrone, and WaterO
- Please don’t learn to code
- Shaving for the Red Hook Initiative
- 3Dprintler lets you order a 3D print via chatbot
- Uber says that 20% of its rides globally are now on UberPool
- Birch gets your credit card rewards in order
- PlaceAVote wants to give voters a say in Congress
PlaceAVote wants you. The soon-to-launch startup brings together politically minded users to debate the bills currently before Congress. PlaceAVote, which is competing in Battlefield at Disrupt NY 2016, allows its users to discuss issues, write explanations of bills and even vote on them — and it a... - Bark helps parents keep kids safe online without invading their privacy
Launching today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2016 is a new service called Bark, aimed at parents who want to keep their kids safe online. Unlike traditional “parental control” software or net nanny-type watchdog applications, Bark’s goal is to strike the correct balance between respecting a child’s rig... - Ritual wants to reinvent the vitamin
- Cujo is a firewall for the connected smart home network
- Mozilla relaunches Firefox Test Pilot to experiment with new features like side tabs
- Semi-driving the semi-autonomous 2016 Volvo XC90
- SeaDrone simplifies underwater exploration and inspection
- Peter Thiel to back Trump as GOP presidential candidate
- BitPagos uses the blockchain to enable credit for onlin
- Vrse CEO Chris Milk talks VR storytelling and the road to virtual reality’s Citizen Kane
“Citizen Kane does not come in year two of VR.” Esteemed VR filmmaker/documentarian/founder/CEO Chris Milk took to the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in NY to discuss the limitations and massive items of potential for the proliferation of VR content, still in its early early early stages. Read More - HomeMe looks to help pre-approve apartment hunters for rentals
Mark Douglas’s daughter was shopping around for an apartment. But the person showing apartments just assumed that because she was young she didn’t have the buying power to afford an expensive apartment — and they didn’t have any data to back that up. That’s where HomeMe, an application that helps p... - UpScored launches job-matching platform for applicants and employers
- Fred Wilson and Tim Armstrong say policy matters for New York’s tech growth
- TimeLooper wants to put VR experiences in every tourist hangout around the globe
- Amazon Prime Air opens Austrian outpost with focus on sense-and-avoid tech
- Tumblr launches Labs so users can test experimental features
- Amazon expands VoiceView accessibility tool for visually impaired users to the Kindle Paperwhite
- YouNow’s Adi Sideman on how to make money in live
- Pebble revamps its health software and text responses
The weather’s finally starting to look like spring here in New York City, and it’s time to really put those fitness trackers to good use. For those who rely on a Pebble watch to keep track of their paces, health monitoring gets a bit better today, with version 3.12 of the smartwatch maker’s firmwar... - Senate committee asks Facebook to answer questions about its Trending Topics
The Senate Commerce Committee sent a letter to Mark Zuckerberg asking him to answer questions about Facebook’s Trending Topics feature. Trending Topics displays trending news headlines and story summaries in a sidebar next to the main news feed, and a former contractor who worked on Trending Topics... - Google’s head of advertising talks ad blocking, mobile and micropayments
- Customer support via SMS is about to get a lot easier, courtesy of Zendesk
- Betterment and Robinhood clash on how to disrupt investing
- Slack debuts ‘Sign in with Slack,’ the work chat platform’s answer to Facebook Connect
- TweetXStitch turns the dumbest things you’ve said on Twitter into memorabilia
- Kit, a social network for products from startup studio Expa, names its first CEO
- Facebook says 10K+ developers are building chatbots, analytics are coming
- How to grab attention in short bursts with Beme’s Casey Neistat
YouTube star and Beme co-founder Casey Neistat jaunted on stage slightly late and sporting neon yellow shoes at TechCrunch Disrupt NYC this morning to talk about his app and what it’s like sharing everything about himself to his millions of online fans every day. He’s got a knack for grabbing atten... - Mountain Dew brings DR1 drone racing to Twitch and cable this August
Television and Twitch are the next steps for the sport of professional drone racing, with Mountain Dew coming on board as the title sponsor. It’s the first time that drone racing will broadcast on national television, via Discovery Channel and National Geographic, but also will cater to Twitch view... - Majority of apps lost over 10% of downloads due to last week’s App Store glitches
- Blue Apron, Sweetgreen and Maple founders on how to grow your food startup
- Facebook expands dynamic ad retargeting to Instagram and travel sector, ramps up ‘lookalikes’
- Facebook Moments launches in the EU & Canada without facial recognition
- Reserve unveils a full suite of tools to help restaurants manage their tables
- Amazon Echo VP Mike George talks Alexa security and simplifying search
- Ily’s modern family phone is launching on Kickstarter
- What bubble? USV’s Fred Wilson says the future of tech investing remains strong
While many people in the venture community bemoan the near-term fate of the industry, Fred Wilson, the co-founder of Union Square Ventures and one of the architects of the resurgence of New York’s technology sector, expressed nothing but confidence in the state of the industry and its prospects for... - Congress warned about cybersecurity after attempted ransomware attack on House
Congressional gridlock can usually be blamed on stubborn Representatives and Senators. But a new string of ransomware attacks on the House of Representatives could stall legislation more effectively than party infighting or a filibuster. Read More - Juno thinks it can beat Uber by playing nice
- Amazon takes on YouTube with launch of Amazon Video Direct
- Indiegogo acquires Celery to keep selling crowdfunded
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