Wednesday, June 20, 2018

20 June - Pale Moon START Page - NextWeb / Tech Crunch / The Verge

The NextWeb
  • Loupedeck’s new photography console fixes all the problems with the originalWhen I reviewed the Loupedeck earlier this year, I was surprised to find it cut down my photo editing time nearly in half – I actually timed it. A chunky slab full of knobs and buttons, it adds an intuitive tactile element to the normally grueling process of editing hundreds of photos. Problem wa...
  • How technology has made the World Cup seem unnaturalYou may have noticed something different in the 2018 World Cup. For the first time ever, the Virtual Assistant Referee (VAR) system is being used to help make decisions during games. And already we are seeing it cause controversy. It’s no surprise that VAR has caused debate, considering the furor...
  • Facebook climbs a mountain of suck with new autoplaying Messenger ads
  • Tether taps ex-FBI director’s law firm for yet another phony ‘audit’
  • Unlock the secrets to Facebook ads that actually work, for less than $10
  • What’s UI? What’s UX? This bootcamp shows how they can make you some good money
  • Amsterdam Airport now has a Bitcoin ATM
  • The evolution of ‘woke’ emoji
  • These AI-powered insoles turn your shoes into a gross, sweaty running coach
  • EU votes for memes ban and censorship machines 
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    •  Tech Crunch
  • Oracle could be feeling cloud transition growing painsOracle is learning that it’s hard for enterprise companies born in the data center to make the transition to the cloud, an entirely new way of doing business. Yesterday it reported its earnings and it was a mixed bag, made harder by changing the way the company counts cloud revenue. In its earnin...
  • Tiller raises $13.9 million for its modern cash registerFrench startup Tiller has raised a $13.9 million Series B round (€12 million) from Ring Capital. Omnes Capital and existing investors 360 Capital Partners also participated in today’s funding round. The company has been working on a cash register that works better than your clunky touchscreen fro...
  • In a push into Europe, WeWork competitor Knotel acquires Ahoy!BerlinCoworking and flexible office space has become a hot business in the last few years, as attested by the rise and rise of WeWork. Startups and entrepreneurs needed flexible working space that could flex up and down as their companies changed. The days of signing a 5-year lease were very, very over...
  • Google Play now makes it easier to manage your subscriptions
  • Instagram hits 1 billion monthly users, up from 800M in September
  • Sesame Workshop will produce children’s shows for Apple
  • Instagram launches IGTV app for creators, 1-hour video uploads
  • Tesla sues former employee for $1 million over trade secret theft
  • AMC’s MoviePass competitor arrives June 26
  • Stensul raises $7M to make email creation easier for
  • Mobile website creator Universe nabs $4 million Series AThe small team behind Universe, an iOS app which allows users to build modular, simple websites in a minute or two, has scored some new funding as it looks to grow its operations and its ambitions. The startup has closed a $4 million Series A investment from Javelin Venture Partners, General Cata...
  • Beamery closes $28M Series B to stoke support for its ‘talent CRM’Beamery, a London-based startup that offers self-styled “talent CRM”– aka ‘candidate relationship management’ — and recruitment marketing software targeted at fast-growing companies, has closed a $28M Series B funding round, led by EQT Ventures. Also participating in the round are M12, Microsoft’...
  • Bose gets into the business of sleepYou know you’ve got a problem sleeping when someone tells you that 35-percent of US adults aren’t get seven hours of sleep a night, and the number sounds remarkably low. I’m not a good sleeper. I never have been, and I’m a sucker for any gadget that comes along promising to make things better. Sl...
  • New system connects your mind to a machine to help stop mistakes
  • Facebook tests ‘subscription Groups’ that charge for exclusive content
  • YouTube woos brands with its new Creative Suite of ad tools
  • Chan Zuckerberg Initiative hires to donate tech, not just money
  • Grove just raised $8 million to make traditional financial planning affordable to pretty much everyone
  • Apple picks up the immigrant anthology series ‘Little America’ for its streaming service
  • GoFundMe now allows team fundraising, where multip
  • The best home Wi-Fi and networking gearMakula Dunbar Contributor Makula Dunbar is a writer with Wirecutter. More posts by this contributor Worthwhile gadget upgrades for the tech-obsessed Durable speakers you can buy without overspending Editor’s note: This post was done in partnership with Wirecutter. When readers choose to buy Wirec...
  • Atul Gawande, the doctor and writer, named CEO of Amazon’s employee healthcare JVAmazon, BerkshireHathaway and JPMorgan Chase have not been especially public about their plans for how they plan to take on employee healthcare in the US with their new joint venture, but now they have announced a big move that could see all of that change. The trio have announced that Dr Atul Ga...
  • Amazon Prime Wardrobe officially launches to all U.S. Prime membersPrime Wardrobe, Amazon’s “try before you buy” shopping service first announced last summer, is officially out of beta and open to all Prime members in the U.S. as of today. The service has been gradually opening up to more customers over the course of the year, so many Prime members may have alre...
  • Blinkist raises $18.8M for its condensed reading platform for non-fiction books
  • You aren’t alone; US adults broadly think around 40 percent of the news is misinformation
  • Hired raises $30M to build an easy subscription pipeline for company hiring
  • Nginx lands $43 million Series C to fuel expansion
  • Bag Week 2018: Chrome’s MXD Pace Tote is the perfect little hybrid backpack
  • Facebook launches Workplace for Good, a free version of its enterprise product for non-profits
  • Taiwan-based media startup The News Lens raises Ser
  • Aaptiv raises $22M from Amazon, Disney and more for its “Netflix for fitness”, now valued over $200MHealth and wellness has been one of the biggest categories for development in the tech industry, with huge range of wearable devices and connected equipment being built to track how we are moving and helping us stay fit. Now, a startup whose app offers users a selection of audio-based, personal-t...
  • India’s budget hotel network unicorn OYO expands into ChinaThe tech world sees plenty of Chinese companies move into India — including the likes of Alibaba and Xiaomi — but few expand the other way. OYO Rooms, the billion-dollar Indian startup that pioneered budget hotel networks, is looking to buck the trend, however, after it launched operations in Chi...
  • Canaan Partners gives $20 million to its two youngest employees to invest in consumer startupsCanaan Partners, the venture capital firm that has backed companies like Skybox Imaging, Match.com and Lending Club, has a new investment strategy. Called Canaan Beta, it entails setting aside $20 million of its $800 million fund to its two youngest employees, and then empowering them to make the...
  • Meditation app Calm hits a $250M valuation amid an explosion of interest in mindfulness apps
  • Europe takes another step towards copyright pre-filters for user generated content
  • BBVA and Repsol to build blockchain finance apps, BBVA issues record €325M credit line on its blockchain network
  • Google teams with the CIJ in the UK for free workshops for journalists on investigative journalism
  • Blockchain browser Brave starts opt-in testing of on-device ad targeting
  • Italian grocery delivery service Supermercato24 picks up €13M Series B
  • Feed raises $17.4 million for its Soylent-like food prod
  • Porsche just took a 10% stake in electric car maker Rimac AutomobiliPorsche AG is taking a 10% stake in Rimac Automobili, the Croatian hypercar and electric vehicle components company behind the world’s fastest electric car.  This isn’t just a big-storied-automaker-takes-an-interest-in-a-startup kind of story. Rimac has street cred and not just because of its lat...
  • Korean crypto exchange Bithumb says it lost over $30M following a hackJust weeks after Korean crypto exchange Coinrail lost $40 million through an alleged hack, another in the crypto-mad country — Bithumb — has claimed hackers made off with over $30 million in cryptocurrency. Coinrail may be one of Korea’s smaller exchanges, but Bithumb is far larger. The exchange ...
  • Instagram’s “IGTV” video hub for creators launches tomorrowTechCrunch has learned that the Instagram longer-form video hub that’s launching tomorrow is called IGTV and it will be part of the Explore tab, according to multiple sources. Instagram has spent the week meeting with online content creators to encourage them to prepare videos closer to 10-minute...
  • Bag Week 2018: Chrome’s BLCKCHRM Bravo 2.0 backpack is a burly, stylish beast
  • Startup Grind founders raise $6.4M for community event platform Bevy
  • PayPal is shelling out $400 million in cash for this 18-year-old company that helps gig workers get paid
  • VW Group and Ford Motor in early talks to develop commercial vehicles together
  • Football matches land on your table thanks to augmented reality
  • Tech leaders condemn policy leading to family separations at the border
  • (  Near Holocaust Techniques R US  : Torture R US too :  same old, same old )

  • Mexico Criticizes U.S. Immigration Policy

  • Keepsafe launches a privacy-focused mobile browser

    • The Verge


  • It’s not just Microsoft: lots of tech companies are quietly helping ICEWith child separations emerging as a growing crisis at the US border, government contracting has become more controversial than ever. All week, Microsoft has struggled with questions about its contracts with ICE, particularly a January agreement that CEO Satya Nadella defended as a standard IT su...
  • Facebook Groups may soon charge monthly subscription fees for access
  • China’s plastic waste ban will leave 111 million tons of trash with nowhere to go
  • Instagram now has 1 billion users worldwide
  • Instagram announces IGTV, a standalone app for longer videos
  • Inside Detroit’s crumbling train station that Ford plans to transform into a mobility lab
  • Welcome to Blaine, the town Amazon Prime built
  • Akon wants to found a ‘real-life Wakanda’ based around his cryptocurrency AKoin
  • Tesla sues ex-employee for hacking, theft, and leaking to the press
  • What happens if Apple loses its Supreme Court App Sto
  • Samsung’s gold Galaxy S9 is coming to the US on June 24thSamsung is bringing its gold Galaxy S9 to the United States on June 24th, which marks the first time a new color will be available Stateside for the flagship phone since it was released. The golden-hued variant — officially dubbed “sunrise gold” — was available earlier in June in Australia, Chil...
  • All the updates and implications of 20th Century Fox’s acquisition
  • Bloodborne’s most hardcore players find new secrets three years after release
  • Amazon’s clothing try-on service opens up to all Prime subscribers today
  • In praise of customizing your computer
  • The family separation crisis is a health crisis
  • AMC is launching a MoviePass-like subscription service
  • PUBG is copying Fortnite’s smartest feature with its new seasonal Event Pass
  • Detained immigrant comes down with chickenpox days after prison staff said there weren’t enough doctors
  • Gadget makers are bracing for Trump’s trade war
  • Microsoft News launches on Android and iOS as rebranded MSN appMicrosoft is launching rebranded Microsoft News apps for both iOS and Android today, alongside using its news engine to power news across a variety of Microsoft products. While the MSN name is going away on Android and iOS, the site itself will remain branded as MSN.com, a portal for news that th...
  • Disney ups its Fox bid to $71.3 billion in response to Comcast offer
  • A more unified Nintendo is the secret to the Switch’s massive success
  • Porsche accelerates EV supercar ambitions with investment in Rimac
  • EU takes first step in passing controversial copyright law that could ‘censor the internet’
  • Trump’s Space Force may actually be more of a bureaucratic nightmare
  • How science fiction is training us to ignore the real threats posed by AI
  • Instagram reportedly launching ‘IGTV’ video hub for online creators later today
  • Microsoft CEO plays down ICE contract in internal memo to employees
  • GitHub and Medium take down database of ICE emplo
  • New EU copyright filtering law threatens the internet as we knew it On June 20th, a committee of the European Parliament will vote on whether to proceed on a copyright proposal that some say will destroy the internet as we know it. That may sound fairly hyperbolic, but over 70 experts — including World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and Wikipedia founder Jimmy...
  • Oppo made a Lamborghini edition of its new flagship Find X smartphone
  • Oppo’s new Find X flagship smartphone will cost €999 and ships in August
  • TP-Link’s new mesh router can control smart home gadgets
  • Were real dinosaurs as bulletproof as the one in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom?
  • Uber will start paying some drivers to switch to electric cars
  • Starz joins YouTube TV as a $9 per month premium add-on
  • Prominent tech CEOs are denouncing Trump’s border separation policy
  • How to text from your computer with Android Messages
  • The Google Home and Home Mini are now available in
  • Here’s why experts are skeptical of the ‘gaming disorder’ diagnosisThe World Health Organization has added “gaming disorder” to its diagnostic handbook, but experts argue that we still don’t know enough to claim that gaming disorder exists. The evidence is inconsistent, they say, and the criteria are too broad. According to the WHO, the following criteria indic...( Meanwhile I wonder exactly who qualifies as an 'expert' at either WHO or elsewhere )
  • Star Trek: Discovery showrunner’s new five-year deal could bring Patrick Stewart back to the franchise
  • Facebook entices content creators with new community-centered video platform
  • T-Mobile and Sprint say they need to merge so America can beat other countries to 5G
  • AT&T to follow Verizon in ending its sale of user location data to third-party brokers
  • Uber tests cheaper fares for riders who are willing to wait a few minutes
  • ‘Autopilot Buddy’ that tricks Tesla vehicles declared ‘unsafe’ by US
  • The US Patent Office has issued 10 million patents
  • California couple raises over $4 million in Facebook fundraiser for immigrant families
  • Apple CEO Tim Cook says family separations at US bo
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