Wednesday, November 07, 2018

7 November - Technology - Tech Crunch / The Verge

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  • Brooklinen launches a pop-up shop in NYC 14 hours ago  –  Brooklinen, the direct-to-consumer bed linens brand, has today announced the opening of a four-month pop-up shop in NYC. The company has been around for four years thus far, and recently hit $100 million in revenue after raising just $10 million in funding. Part of the company’s success comes dow...
  • Anti-fraud startup Fraugster scores $14M Series B 14 hours ago  –  Fraugster, the Berlin-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to prevent fraud for online retailers, has raised $14 million in a Series B funding. The round is led by CommerzVentures, the venture capital subsidiary of Commerzbank, alongside early Fraugster investors Earlybird, Speedinvest...
    Anti-fraud startup Fraugster scores $14M Series B 14 hours ago  –  Fraugster, the Berlin-based startup that uses artificial intelligence to prevent fraud for online retailers, has raised $14 million in a Series B funding. The round is led by CommerzVentures, the venture capital subsidiary of Commerzbank, alongside early Fraugster investors Earlybird, Speedinvest...
  • Storyblocks makes it easier for developers to integrate its stock media services 14 hours ago  –  Storyblocks, formerly known as Videoblocks, is a stock media service that offers videos, images and audio for creatives. One feature that always made it stand out from the competition is its flat-rate model that gives you unlimited access to all of the media files in its library (though there’s a...
  • WeChat reaches 1M mini programs, half the size of Apple’s App Store
  • Monashees raises $150 million for its eighth Latin American fund
  • Social media content and analytics startup PressLogic raises $10M from popular Chinese selfie app Meitu
  • China can apparently now identify citizens based on the way they walk
  • Meet TechCrunch’s Mike Butcher at #WebSummit at 4PM today
  • Where’s the accountability Facebook?
  • Volunteer at Disrupt Berlin 2018 and score a free Inno
  • Harley-Davidson bets its future on the LiveWire electric motorcycle 9 hours ago  –  It’s been a four-year wait since Harley-Davidson first showed off a concept electric motorcycle. Now, the production-ready bike — called the Harley-Davidson LiveWire — is finally here. Well, almost. The Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based company unveiled the production-ready electric motorcycle Tuesday a...
  • ( I had an e-bike that looked like a scooter - and was criticized by the public for laziness ! and for using it where it did not belong ( bike paths ). But range anxiety, cost and vulnerability to vandalism would make me look hard at any e-motorcycle. Likely not a go ; definitely a candidate for parking inside)
  • With a new deal for customers and a fresh $23 million, Mayvenn extends its hair care business 10 hours ago  –  Pitching customers a new, all-inclusive service for buying and installing hair, Mayvenn is looking to significantly expand its haircare business and just raised $23 million in a new round of funding to do it. The new financing was led by Essence Ventures — and it represents the first outside inve...
    With a new deal for customers and a fresh $23 million, Mayvenn extends its hair care business 10 hours ago  –  Pitching customers a new, all-inclusive service for buying and installing hair, Mayvenn is looking to significantly expand its haircare business and just raised $23 million in a new round of funding to do it. The new financing was led by Essence Ventures — and it represents the first outside inve...
  • Google is adding Android support for foldable screens 10 hours ago  –  Big day for developer events. As Samsung was onstage getting ready to talk about its upcoming foldable phone, Google spilled the beans a bit at its own Android Developer Summit. The company briefly detailed plans to bake support for folding phones into the mobile operating system. Support for the...
  • Samsung opens its Bixby assistant to developers
  • Android developers can now force users to update their apps
  • Flickr says it won’t delete Creative Commons photos
  • CircleCI launches Orbs, a package manager for software delivery automation
  • TwelveSouth put a wireless charger in a picture frame
  • Join us tomorrow for Startup Battlefield Latin America 2018
  • Tinder doubles down on its casual nature, as Match inv
  • Despite a strong Q3 earnings report, Square’s Q4 forecast disappoints investors an hour ago  –  Despite a strong third-quarter earnings report, Square’s forecast for the final quarter of this year gave investors pause, sending its share price down 6 percent in after hours trading before it gradually climbed up again. Square’s adjusted revenue grew 68 percent year-over-year to $431 million, ...
  • 20 startups take center stage at Berkeley SkyDeck’s demo day 2 hours ago  –  A robot that can clean your house, a blockchain-powered social network and 18 other startups presented to investors at SkyDeck's 8th demo day.
    20 startups take center stage at Berkeley SkyDeck’s demo day 2 hours ago  –  A robot that can clean your house, a blockchain-powered social network and 18 other startups presented to investors at SkyDeck's 8th demo day.
  • The Muse, a popular recruitment site for millennials, has made its second acquisition 3 hours ago  –  The Muse, a New York-based, content-rich recruitment site that matches job seekers and all kinds of information about different career paths, as well as with companies that are hiring, has made it second acquisition, picking up TalentShare, a year-old, HR software-as-a service company. TalentShar...
  • Zopa, the UK P2P lending company, closes £60M round on path to launching a bank
  • Georgia’s secretary of state Brian Kemp doxes thousands of absentee voters
  • Samsung’s dual-screen folding phone is very strange and probably doomed
  • Here’s what Samsung’s wacky folding phone looks like in action
  • Ford buys electric scooter startup Spin
  • Samsung shares a glimpse of its folding ‘Infinity Flex Display’ smartphone
  • Netflix’s hackathon produces a way to navigate its iOS 

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  • Why robocalls have taken over your phone 14 hours ago  –  By 2009, Chris Hughson was fed up. The Portland area realtor was getting bombarded with spam texts and calls, as many as 10 a day, despite having his number on the Do Not Call Registry. He assumed his phone number had made it to some list, but he wasn’t sure what else he could do. “There’s got to...
  • Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (2018) review: the new best-seller
  • Spotify Connect speakers set free, no longer require premium subscriptions
  • Facebook’s unsend feature will give you 10 minutes to delete a message
  • Four ways the internet changed the midterm elections
  • PUBG now free on Xbox with PS4 version rumored for next month
  • Xiaomi announces $30 AirPods clones called AirDots
  • How to follow the US midterm elections online
  • Players of Samantha Bee’s mobile game have reported over 800 instances of voter suppression
  • Ariana Grande’s ‘thank u, next’ has come full circle a
  • Flickr promises it won’t delete Creative Commons photos when it limits free storage 12 hours ago  –  Last week, Flickr announced some major changes to the way its free service will work under new owner SmugMug. It set a 1,000-picture limit for free accounts, replacing the previously offered 1TB of storage. Any accounts that are still over that limit on February 5th, 2019, will have their content...
  • This Nintendo Switch adapter turns your GameCube controllers wireless
  • New congressional members with science backgrounds may help shape national policy
  • Three states vote in favor of marijuana
    Three states vote in favor of marijuana 12 hours ago  –  Three states voted in favor of marijuana legalization in yesterday’s midterm elections. Voters in Utah and Missouri approved the drug for medical use, while Michigan voters passed an amendment that legalized cannabis for recreational purposes. Though North Dakota voters rejected a push for recrea...
  • Vizio is making a red TV to raise money for AIDS awareness
  • Toys R Us is dead, so Amazon will mail you toy catalogs instead
  • Surface Pro 6 deals lead Costco’s month of Black Friday sales
  • Apple’s new iPad Pro is now available
  • Zuckerberg rejects invite from international committee to give evidence on fake news
  • The way we text says a lot about our personality
  • Sony’s new PS4 Pro quietly fixes its noise problems 10 hours ago  –  The PS4 Pro can be loud, especially when running intense games. But these noise issues appear to have finally been fixed with Sony’s latest revision of the console, according to an analysis by Digital Foundry. From the outside, the new CUH-7200 looks almost identical to the previous models of th...
  • California moves toward permanent daylight saving time
  • Half of YouTube viewers use it to learn how to do things they’ve never done
  • Instacart launches grocery pickup service in cities across the US
  • Microsoft Word is getting a to-do feature to help people manage documents
  • Vince Gilligan is reportedly writing a Breaking Bad spinoff film
  • Facebook blocks more fake accounts from Russian troll group
  • The man behind a spree of gaming network cyberattacks has pleaded guilty
  • How to buy Apple’s MacBook Air (2018) with Retina Display
  • What the new Congress means for space, self-drivin
  • Samsung’s new One UI software will make giant phones much easier to use 8 hours ago  –  Today at its developer conference, Samsung showcased what it calls One UI and kicked off a new approach to the user experience on Samsung smartphones. One UI contains some new visual flair including more rounded corners, splashes of color across apps, and redesigned icons. But its main purpose is...
  • Defy Media, home of YouTube superstars Smosh, is shutting down
  • This is Samsung’s foldable smartphone
    This is Samsung’s foldable smartphone 9 hours ago  –  Samsung has been teasing its foldable smartphone for weeks, and now the company has unveiled it for the first time today. Samsung calls its foldable phone technology the Infinity Flex Display, and the phone itself has a tablet-sized screen that can be folded up to fit into a pocket. Samsung demo...
  • You can soon continue using an Android app while it’s being updated
  • Samsung opens Bixby to third-party apps and devices
  • Industrial Light & Magic opens TV division just in time for Disney’s new Star Wars show
  • What a new governor means for Wisconsin’s controversial Foxconn factory
  • Google says Android will natively support ‘foldables’ to limit fragmentation
  • Netgear’s first Wi-Fi 6 routers look like sci-fi spaceships
  • This Taiwanese grandpa shows the best way to play P
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