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- This autonomous 3D scanner figures out where it needs to look
If you need to make a 3D model of an object, there are plenty of ways to do so, but most are only automated to the extent that they know how to spin in circles around that object and put together a mesh. This new system from Fraunhofer does it more intelligently, getting a basic idea of the obje... - Google to acquire Xively IoT platform from LogMeIn for $50M
Google announced today that it intends to buy Xively from LogMeIn, giving Google Cloud an established IoT platform to add to their product portfolio. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Google indicated it wants to use this purchase as a springboard into the growing IoT market, which it believ... - Under Russian pressure to remove content, Instagram complies but YouTube holds off
Instagram has taken down content posted by Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny under pressure from a government agency, while YouTube has yet to do so. Navalny and others have criticized Instagram for complying to what they call a politically motivated move to silence him. Read More - Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ is a new high point for superhero cinema
- Founders’ Co-op, a fixture on Seattle’s venture scene, is raising its fourth fund
- As tech automates, Blinkist keeps its book summary service very human
- Twitch launches always-on chat rooms for channels
- The plague of rationalization
- Swiss pharma company Roche is buying Flatiron Health for $1.9 billion
- You can buy a $20 leather coaster for your HomePod
- Ontario’s Provincial Police reveal a Tesla Model X pursuit vehicle prototype
Tesla’s Model X is arguably the best performing SUV you can buy, so it’s fitting that Canada’s Ontario Provincial Police would select it for a cruiser demonstration vehicle, revealed at this week’s Toronto international car show. The Tesla Model X, a P90D model, features full OPP badging and bla... - Streaming service Fandor has a new COO and a new Chief Product Engineering Officer
Fandor has expanded its executive team, promoting General Counsel and Chief Distribution Officer Felice Oper to the role of COO, and appointing TS Ramakrishnan as its Chief Product Engineering Officer. Oper joined the company in 2015, around the same time that Larry Aidem took over as CEO. Aidem... - H-E-B acquires Texas-based on-demand company Favor
H-E-B has acquired Favor, the on-demand delivery service out of Texas. Favor will continue to operate as an independent wholly owned subsidiary of the grocery chain. The company first launched in 2013, bringing a Texas-tailored approach to on-demand delivery. While many on-demand services, such ... - ICO startups band together to create $100M+ grant fund for Ethereum projects
- Equity podcast: Uber’s losing billions, Amazon lays off hundreds and somehow Instacart gets more money
- Yandex shows off the first tests of self-driving cars on Moscow roads
- Bynder acquires digital asset management service Webdam from Shutterstock for $49.1M
- India’s Zoomcar raises $40M led by automotive giant Mahindra & Mahindra
- The Rise of the Rest seed fund announces its first group of investments
- Coinbase blames Visa for glitch that overcharged users
- Special counsel Robert Mueller indicts Russian bot farm for election meddling
Special Counsel Robert Mueller has just handed down a set of indictments, charging 13 Russian citizens and three Russian organizations with interference in the U.S. presidential election in efforts dating back to 2014. The indictment names the Internet Research Agency as one of the sources of th... - Zelle users are finding out the hard way there’s no fraud protection
Scammers have taken to Zelle, the Venmo alternative backed by U.S. banks, to defraud consumers who believe the service includes the same protections they’ve come to expect from PayPal. A number of customers report having lost hundreds, or even thousands of dollars, over Zelle, when they used it ... - Uber is reportedly preparing to sell its Southeast Asian business to Grab
Uber is preparing to sell its Southeast Asian business to Grab in exchange for a stake in the Singaporean ridesharing company that has a big presence in that region, according to a new report from CNBC. Read More - Clever Ethereum honeypot lets coins come in but won’t let them back out
- Online estate agency Home Made raises £850K seed at £4.3M post-money valuation
- Assur.com is an insurance aggregator without all the clutter
- Sorry, Apple’s ‘Carpool Karaoke’ gets a second season
- Essential Phone’s new ‘Halo Gray’ color goes on sale exclusively at Amazon
- Apple employees are reportedly walking into walls at the company’s fancy new glass office
- Barnes & Noble is killing itself
- Visa confirms Coinbase wasn’t at fault for overcharging users
Yesterday, we wrote that Coinbase customers were being charged multiple times for past transactions. While some speculated that the erroneous withdraws were down to a Coinbase engineering issue, Coinbase issued a statement saying it wasn’t liable for the duplicate charges. The blame, instead, re... - Montana-based mapping startup onXmaps raises a round of funding fit for Big Sky Country
A mapping startup based in Missoula, Mont., which allows users to download sophisticated offline topographic maps outlining public and private lands and a number of other features geared towards hunting, fishing and camping, has pulled in its first major outside funding. onXmaps has closed a $20... - Twilio will soon launch Flex, a dedicated contact center solution
Twilio’s Engagement Cloud, its suite of products for building new customer experiences, is about to get a new feature, TechCrunch has learned. The company plans on launching the beta of a full contact center solution for businesses at the Enterprise Connect conference in March, according to a ti... - Twitter is killing its Twitter for Mac desktop client
- People are trolling iPhone users with the ‘killer symbol’ that crashes their apps
- National Labor Relations Board rejected Damore’s claim that Google fired him unjustly
- Federal judge rules that embedded tweets can represent copyright infringement
- Original Content podcast: We welcome the reign of Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’
- Cloudflare is protecting the internet using groovy lava lamps
- Oracle grabs Zenedge as it continues to beef up its cloud security play
- Engineering against all odds, or how NYC’s subway will get wireless in the tunnels
Never ask a wireless engineer working on the NYC subway system “What can go wrong?” Flooding, ice, brake dust, and power outages relentlessly attack the network components. Rats — many, many rats — can eat power and fiber optic cables and bring down the whole system. Humans are no different, as ... - Digital nomads are hiring and firing their governments
The nation state has survived wars, plagues, and upheaval, but it won’t survive digital nomads, not if people like Karoli Hindriks have something to say about it. Hindriks is the founder of Jobbatical, a platform that allows digital nomads to find work in other countries and helps with the logis... - Sqreen wants to become the IFTTT of web app security
French startup Sqreen recently launched a Security Hub with dozens of plugins to put you in control of the security of your web app. In many ways, it feels like enabling tasks on popular automation service IFTTT. Sqreen participated in TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield and Y Combinator’s current ... - A peek inside Alphabet’s investing universe
- RightEye’s portable eye-tracking test catches concussions and reading problems in five minutes
- Gillmor Gang: Where’s The Beef
- Uber, Google and other tech employees form Coalition of Black Excellence
- How ad-free subscriptions could solve Facebook
- Facebook didn’t mean to send spam texts to two-factor authentication users
- Telegram has raised an initial $850M for its billion-dollar ICO
The Verge
- Acer Chromebook 15 (2017) review: bigger doesn’t mean better
“What if Chromebooks were bigger?” That’s the question that the Acer Chromebook 15 line has tried to answer, as the only 15-inch sized Chromebook on the market. That laptop was ultimately outclassed by more powerful or versatile Chromebooks, but Acer has revised the Chromebook 15 with a more prem... - Blippar’s newest AR feature recognizes famous landmarks
- This neckband records 360-degree video from your point of view
- Does raising your arm to the sky improve your cell reception?
- Intel’s new graphics drivers automatically optimize game settings
- Chinese farmers are using AI to help rear the world’s biggest pig population
- Bang & Olufsen will help you turn classic speakers into smart ones
- Twitch launches public and private chat rooms for streamers
- Lyft is teaming up with Baltimore’s bike-share system
- A fix is rolling out for Chrysler’s rebooting screen problem, but some car batteries have already died
- Ikea shares early look at its portable party collection with Teenage Engineering
Last year, Ikea announced it was collaborating with Teenage Engineering to create a line of products called FREKVENS (which translates to “frequency”) “in order to throw a really good music party wherever you are.” Now, Ikea has just shared the first look on Instagram of some final prototypes for... - How cryptocurrency mining is hurting astronomers
- Vergecast: Waymo v. Uber, all software is broken, and the web still lives
- Apple employees can’t stop walking into the beautiful glass doors at new Apple Park campus
- Phantom Thread’s Oscar-nominated costume designer on how to tell stories with couture
- Watch this self-driving car navigate the snowy streets of Moscow
- Verizon introduces 500MB prepaid plan for $30
- Intel facing 32 lawsuits over Meltdown and Spectre CPU security flaws
- Kendrick Lamar’s latest Black Panther music video is full of old gadgets and magic
- I honestly look good in this Iron Man mask
- Kentucky governor says video games are to blame for school shootings
On Wednesday, 17 people were killed in a mass shooting at a high school in Florida, a scenario that has become all too familiar to anyone who reads the American news. Now that the obligatory genuflection at the altar of thoughts and prayers has been completed, pundits and politicians around the c... - Apple resumes sales of Belkin’s $40 iPhone X screen protector after recall
- We drove a Tesla Model 3 around New York with MKBHD
- Uber changed the way it reports violent incidents in London in effort to appease city officials
- Essential made an Amazon-exclusive version of its phone with Alexa preinstalled
- This Stranger Things-style adventure game is an overwhelming blast of nostalgia
- Embedding a tweet could be copyright infringement, says new court ruling
- Robert Mueller charges Russian ‘troll farm’ with election interference
- Black Panther is the grown-up Marvel movie we’ve been waiting for
- How the private space industry could take over lower Earth orbit — and make money off it
- Twitter discontinues its Mac desktop app after years of spotty support
Twitter’s erratic support for its dedicated desktop Mac application is coming to an end, with the company announcing today that it’s pulled the application from the web and from Apple’s App Store. Support for Twitter for Mac will end in 30 days, the company adds. The app, before Twitter pulled i... - James Damore’s labor complaint against Google was completely shut down
- Google conducts test to help 911 accurately locate callers
- Riding in the Mercedes-AMG Cigarette Racing 515 Project One boat at 119 mph
- Zelle users are getting scammed just like on Venmo
- Russia’s troll identities were more sophisticated than anyone thought
- A phishing attack scored credentials for more than 50,000 Snapchat users
- Microsoft expands Cortana for the smart home with IFTTT integrations
- California man charged by Robert Mueller ran a scheme to defraud e-commerce companies
- SonarPen is a $30 iPad stylus that connects to the headphone jack
- Facebook will mail out postcards to verify US election advertisers
Facebook plans to mail out verification postcards through the US postal service to anyone purchasing ads related to US elections, according to Reuters. The postcards will contain a special code that advertisers must provide back to Facebook to prove they’re in the United States. This new verific... - Amazon owns my Echo, I’m just feeding it
- Truly wireless earbuds haven’t caught up to AirPods after more than a year
- The Smart car goes electric before it plans its autonomous future
- The Nano S is a 360 camera built for social media
- 11 new trailers you should watch this week
- $200 off the Microsoft Surface Pro, and more great Presidents’ Day sales
- Rosalie Yu turns her sweet tooth into a virtual reality art form
- Track Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster in space with this aptly named website
- Facebook admits SMS notifications sent using two-factor number was caused by bug
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