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This morning, fintech startup Affirm announced a new $100 million credit line from Morgan Stanley. The money will go directly to supporting the company’s current financial products that help customers purchase goods and spread their expenses over a period of time. Morgan Stanley is not the first in... - A test flight with Zipline, makers of humanitarian delivery drones
A maker of delivery drones called Zipline began nationwide delivery of blood and other critical medical supplies in Rwanda today, through a partnership with the Rwandan government. The program strikes a hopeful note about drones, following news earlier this week that ISIS fighters had packed a hobb... - Google starts highlighting fact-checks in News
- HP plans 3,000 to 4,000 job cuts over the next three years
- Brain-computer interface lets a man with a spinal injury feel robotic fingers
- Crunch Report | Soylent Bars Are Getting Recalled
Hyperloop One raises $50 million from DP World Group of Dubai, Soylent Bars are being recalled, Silicon Valley elites donate to controversial Prop Q, Periscope Producer brings us professional live video and a new Rogue One trailer has been released. All this on Crunch Report. Read More - The AI disruption wave
Information technology evolves through disruption waves. First the computer, then the web and eventually social networks and smartphones all had the power to revolutionize how people live and how businesses operate. They destroyed companies that weren’t able to adapt, while creating new winners in ... - Returnly raises $3.2M to immediately refund your money after an online return
- Uber hits another roadblock
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- From the distributed workforce to the partnered economy
- PlayStation VR is easily the winner in virtual reality right now
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- VR battle royale: PS VR vs. HTC Vive vs. Oculus Rift
- The Mr Jones Colour Venn tells the time in CMY but not K
As a dedicated lover of cyan, magenta, and yellow I welcome Mr. Jones’ addition to the color – or colour – canon. The Colour Venn uses overlapping translucent circles of yellow, red, and blue to display the time. It has an automatic movement, steel case, and leather strap. Mr Jones makes mostly fas... - A baseball wearable designed to prevent pitching injuries
Tommy John surgeries have seen a marked rise across just about every level of baseball over the past several years. The procedure, which rebuilds a pitcher’s torn ulnar collateral ligament, has been performed on around a quarter of active major league pitchers according to numbers released last sea... - Six new Sun and Moon Pokémon evolutions revealed
- That Nike-branded Apple Watch arrives October 28
- Iron Man offers to voice Mark Zuckerberg’s real-life Jarvis AI
- Instagram now has an app for Windows 10 tablets
- Spotify co-founder Martin Lorentzon steps down as chairman, CEO Daniel Ek steps up
- Softbank and Saudi Arabia’s PIF planning $100BN tech fund
- GM’s car sharing company Maven hits the streets of San Francisco
- AWS gets richer with VMware partnership
VMware signed deals with Microsoft, Google and IBM earlier this year as it has shifted firmly to a hybrid cloud strategy, but it was the deal it signed with AWS this week that has had everybody talking. The cloud infrastructure market breaks down to AWS with around a third of the market — and every... - A new content distribution paradigm for VR and 360 video
Virtual reality and the 360 video industry are faced with the chicken and egg problem of content and distribution. The problem is that we haven’t cracked the egg, nor has the chicken hatched. To get to that point, we must look through the consumer’s lens. Read More - A win for InnoGames as MTG acquires Eight Roads Ventures stake for $100M
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- The 2016 TechCrunch Include Progress Report
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- White House visits, SXSL, virtual solitary, and inclusion in tech: Listen to TCBC 6 with Megan Rose Dickey
- Yahoo turns automatic email forwarding back on, claiming “upgrades” required it to be disabled
- Google adds ballot information to search results
- U.S. Department of Transportation bans Galaxy Note 7 from all flights
In the latest instalment of Samsung’s ongoing Note 7 saga, the U.S. Department of Transportation has issued an official, blanket ban against bringing the Galaxy Note 7 on airplanes. The ban applies to all Note 7 devices, and covers both carry-on and checked baggage, as well as prohibiting anyone fr... - Flexible e-paper display is full color but less than a micrometer thick
Reflective displays like those found on e-readers are great for black-and-white text, but color has yet to make a compelling play on them. That may change with the serendipitous discovery of a full-color e-paper material that’s also flexible and power-efficient. Read More - Instacart reverses course, re-introducing tips for shoppers
- Weekly Roundup: Galaxy Note 7 recalled, Amazon’s music service and Verizon/Yahoo sale troubles
- Salesforce officially walks away from Twitter acquisition for real this time
- Trust Disrupted: Bitcoin and the Blockchain episode 6 analyzes the future
- Naspers sells Polish eBay rival Allegro to Permira consortium for $3.3B
- PayPal mulled buying GoFundMe
- Google added fact checking: Facebook, it’s your move now
- Crunch Report | Galaxy Note 7 banned from all flights
Salesforce walks away from a Twitter acquisition, SoftBank and Saudi Arabia public investment fund have formed a $100 billion fund, Zuckerberg is in search of someone to voice his AI, changes at Spotify are hinting of an upcoming IPO and Glaxy Note 7s are now banned from all flights by the Departmen... - WristWhirl lets you control your smartwatch with hand gestures (and look mad while you do it)
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- Palantir says it didn’t racially discriminate against Asian people
- Applications are open for Hardware Battlefield at CES
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