Saturday, July 04, 2020

4 July - Technology - NextWeb / Tech Crunch / The Verge

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  • Intel invests $253 million in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms a day ago  –  Intel Capital, the investment arm of chipmaker Intel, has invested $253 million in India’s Reliance Jio in exchange for a 0.39% stake. This is the 12th investment in Reliance Jio in the last 11 weeks, taking the tally to $15.5 billion. Jio Platforms has raised more money in 2020 than all of India...
  • Facebook’s first TikTok clone failed, so it tries for another 2 days ago  –  Facebook this week revealed it’s shutting down two of its experimental apps, one of which is its first ever TikTok clone. But don’t worry, Facebook‘s not giving up its usual tricks — it has another TikTok clone waiting in the wings. Specifically, the two apps Facebook’s closing down are Lasso, th...
  • Study: No, bikes aren’t really slowing cars down
  • Facebook and Instagram will remind you to wear a mask atop your feed
  • You can now use (some) Olympus cameras as webcams
  • Amazon is making a Fallout TV show with Westworld’s creators
  • The Whoop fitness band transformed me from sleepy boy to fit boy in two months
  • How does your driving speed affect your car’s emissions?
  • Facebook again admits to wrongly sharing user data with third-party apps
  • India’s Reliance Jio launches Zoom rival with 100 partici
  • Why girls are less likely to pursue a career in STEM — even though they score just as high as boys at school a day ago  –  Last month, the Australian Academy of Science published a report showing the COVID-19 pandemic would disproportionately affect women in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) disciplines. The report noted before COVID-19, around 7,500 women were employed in STEM research fields in ...
  • Remembering the Boeing 747, the jumbo jet that started it all a day ago  –  According to people in the know, Boeing looks like it’s discontinuing its iconic 747 jumbo jet. In just two years time, the last of the twin-aisle jumbos will leave its Seattle-based factory. The news comes from a Bloomberg report that cites “people familiar with the matter,” who say the news has...
  • Tesla short sellers lost $1.33B on Thursday’s stock pump — Musk only got richer
  • Trump contracts Peter Thiel-backed startup to build his (virtual) border wall
  • How to set a sleep timer for Spotify on your phone
  • BMW’s feature subscription service is anti-consumer rubbish
  • 4 most common startup recruitment mistakes I’ve seen as a VC
  • How email apps launched some of the most innovative ideas in software
  • A look inside Europe’s $7 trillion technology market
  • Want a great developer? Stop obsessing over resumes
  • Celebrate the Fourth with seven fantastic electronics offers to outfit your home 36 minutes ago  –  TLDR: These seven electronics offers in celebration of the Fourth shave up to $130 off your purchase price. It’s July 4th — and if ever there was a year to celebrate a calendar reaching the halfway mark, it’s 2020.  But despite all of our problems, the world spins madly on and everyday life still...
  • Days after banning 59 Chinese apps, India announces a project for local developers an hour ago  –  Days after India banned 59 Chinese apps including TikTok and UC Browser, the government announced a new project today for local developers to create ‘made in India’ apps. The app innovation challenge under Atma Nirbhar Bharat (Self-dependant India) campaign is a challenge for developers to create...
  • This motorcycle reimagines a radical 100-year-old art-deco design
  • 4 ways to improve your latest product’s landing page to guarantee conversion
  • How to watch Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming services offline
  • Horizon Zero Dawn comes to PC in August
  • Study: Only 18% of data science students are learning about AI ethics
  • Behavioral science is key to making the UK’s track and trace app a success
  • The UK just paid $500M to battle Musk in the internet-from-space race — cos Brexit
  • Google will host a Reddit AMA to answer developers’ que

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  • Get your pitchdeck critiqued by Accel’s Amy Saper and Bessemer’s Talia Goldberg at Early Stage 2 days ago  –  The art of the pitchdeck. Few things are more critical to the success of startups seeding capital. And make no mistake, it is an art. At TechCrunch Early Stage, our two-day virtual event focused on giving entrepreneurs all the resources they need to build incredible, high-growth early stage compa...
  • Why I flip-flopped on opposing remote work 2 days ago  –  While it’s tempting to call this a pivot, those who have worked with me would probably describe it more accurately as a flip-flop.
  • Facebook discovers it shared user data with at least 5,000 app developers after a cutoff date 2 days ago  –  Facebook says it accidentally allowed around 5,000 developers to access data from their app’s inactive users, even though that access should have been cut off. The company explained on Wednesday it recently discovered an issue that had allowed app developers to continue receiving this information...
  • Walmart partners with Tribeca to turn 160 store parking lots into drive-in theaters
  • QuestDB nabs $2.3M seed to build open source time series database
  • Growth capital investor Kennet raises $250M fund, backed by Edmond de Rothschild
  • High-flying IPOs for Lemonade and Accolade may encourage other unicorns to go public
  • Top LA investors discuss the city’s post-COVID-19 prospects
  • DoubleVerify names adtech exec Mark Zagorski as new CEO
  • Tesla delivered 90,650 vehicles in second quarter, a sm
  • Let’s stop COVID-19 from undoing diversity gains 2 days ago  –  As COVID-19 turned up the pressure for businesses around the world, that progress came under threat, with D&I initiatives taking a back seat
  • India’s richest man takes on Zoom 2 days ago  –  India’s Reliance Jio Platforms, which recently concluded a $15.2 billion fundraise run, is ready to enter a new business: Video conferencing. On Thursday evening, the firm — backed by Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man — formally launched JioMeet, its video-conference service that looks uncannily...
  • Ford taps Disney Media Works to mark the return of the Bronco SUV 2 days ago  –  Ford is teaming up with Disney Media Networks to mark the return of its iconic Bronco SUV through a series of short films that will be broadcast across a number of cable and digital properties including ABC, ESPN, National Geographic and Hulu. The strategy — prompted by COVID-19 shutdowns — is a ...
  • Apple launches an online portal for Apple Card account holders
  • Lemonade and Accolade open sharply higher as public markets rally
  • The great stink in software pipelines
  • Berkeley’s Innovative Genomics Institute is rolling out a spit test for COVID-19 testing
  • Pioneering CRISPR researcher Jennifer Doudna is coming to Disrupt
  • Are virtual concerts here to stay?
  • Daily Crunch: Apple and Google block banned apps in 
  • Lime puts Jump bikes back on London streets a day ago  –  Jump bikes are returning to London — this time through its new owner Lime . London is the first city in Europe to see Jump bikes return since Uber offloaded the company to Lime in a complex deal that unfolded in May. Lime raised $170 million in a funding round led by Uber, along with […]
  • Intel to invest $253.5 million in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms a day ago  –  Intel said on Friday it will invest $253.5 million in Jio Platforms, joining a roster of high-profile investors including Facebook, General Atlantic, and Silver Lake that have backed India’s top telecom operator in recent months. The American chipmaker’s investment arm said it is acquiring a 0.39...
  • Festo’s latest biomimetic robots are a flying feathered bird and ball-bottomed helper arm 2 days ago  –  You could be excused for thinking that German robotics company Festo does nothing but put together fabulous prototype robots built to resemble kangaroos, jellyfish, and other living things. They do in fact actually make real industrial robots, but it’s hard not to marvel at their biomimetic exper...
  • Sprint 5G is no more, as T-Mobile focuses on its own network
  • Uber adds another director to its board: Flex CEO Revathi Advaithi
  • ‘Westworld’ creators are developing a ‘Fallout’ TV series for Amazon
  • Police roll up crime networks in Europe after infiltrating popular encrypted chat app
  • Velodyne becomes latest tech company to go public using a SPAC, eschewing the traditional IPO path
  • Project M acquires punk rock satire site The Hard Times
  • Extra Crunch Live: Join Jason Green of Emergence Cap
  • Tesla is taking reservations for its Cybertruck in China 15 hours ago  –  Tesla has opened up reservations for its all-electric Cybertruck to customers in China, a move that will test the market’s appetite for a massive, futuristic truck. The reservations page on Tesla’s China website was first posted in Reddit channel r/teslamotors by user u/aaronhry. Electrek also re...
  • R&D Roundup: Tech giants unveil breakthroughs at computer vision summit 20 hours ago  –  Computer vision summit CVPR has just (virtually) taken place, and like other CV-focused conferences, there are quite a few interesting papers. More than I could possibly write up individually, in fact, so I’ve collected the most promising ones from major companies here. Facebook, Google, Amazon a...
  • We need a new field of AI to combat racial bias 21 hours ago  –  Responsibly managing machine learning processes is no longer just a desirable component of progress but a necessary one.
  • GGV’s Jeff Richards: ‘There is a level of resiliency in Silicon Valley that we did not have 10 years ago’
  • As Q3 kicks off, four more companies join the $100M ARR club
  • How Have I Been Pwned became the keeper of the internet’s biggest data breaches
  • Dating app S’More adds blurred video calling and launches in LA
  • When life gives you lemons, print money with Lemonade
  • The UK government to acquire satellite company OneWeb in deal funded in part by India’s Bharti Global
  • US plans to rollback special status may erode Hong Kon

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  • Palmer Luckey’s surveillance startup Anduril signs contract for ‘virtual border wall’ 2 days ago  –  Anduril Industries US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has signed a deal with Anduril, the “virtual border wall” startup launched by Oculus founder Palmer Luckey. The Washington Post reports that the agency awarded Anduril a five-year contract to deploy portable surveillance towers meant to...
  • Westworld showrunners are creating a Fallout show for Amazon
  • Facebook and Instagram will remind people to wear face masks
  • BMW is going all-in on in-car microtransactions
  • A weakened version of the EARN IT Act advances out of committee
  • Ubisoft’s new Hyper Scape battle royale soars to the top of the Twitch charts
  • Walmart is converting its parking lots into pop-up drive-in theaters for the summer
  • This isn’t a COVID-19 wave — it’s a tsunami
  • Kongregate.com stops accepting new games as Flash slowly disappears
  • NBA 2K21’s PS5 and Series X versions will cost $69.99,
  • Super Nintendo World Japan looks like a Mario level dropped into reality 2 days ago  –  We may have just gotten our best look yet at Super Nintendo World, Nintendo and Universal’s upcoming Mario-themed area for Universal Studios Japan — and it looks like a level plucked straight out of a Mario game and dropped into the real world (via Input). Seriously, take a little over a minute o...
  • The Apple Card now has a website where you can pay your bills
  • Google’s Pixel 3A is discontinued, but these retailers are still selling it
  • With Edge, Microsoft’s forced Windows updates just sank to a new low
  • T-Mobile shuts down Sprint’s 5G network as the two carriers continue to integrate
  • Verizon Fios adds free Hulu offer for new customers on its more expensive plans
  • How to file and pay your 2019 taxes online
  • Ubisoft’s Hyper Scape is a fast, chaotic battle royale from the team behind Rainbow Six Siege
  • Law enforcement arrests hundreds after compromising encrypted chat system
  • Twitter engineers pushed to replace ‘master’ and ‘slave’ 
  • Evo Online canceled after co-founder accused of sexual misconduct a day ago  –  Image: Evo Fighting game tournament organizer Evo has canceled Evo Online and removed its co-founder and president from the company after serious allegations surfaced about his past behavior. The long-running esports event had previously been scheduled to take place in a new online-only format...
  • Lime is relaunching Jump’s electric bikes in London
  • Captain America is now in Fortnite
  • Tech billionaire Peter Thiel may ditch Trump because he thinks Trump will lose
  • Ubisoft promises sweeping changes after several execs were accused of sexual misconduct
  • Twitch appears to ban SayNoToRage after harassment allegations
  • Away says co-CEO Steph Korey will step down this year after her attacks on the media
  • Here are the best AirPods deals
  • Olympus now lets you use some of its mirrorless cameras as webcams
  • Amazon Prime Video launches Windows 10 desktop app 
  • LinkedIn says it will stop repeatedly copying iOS clipboard 16 hours ago  –  Photo by Thomas Trutschel/Photothek via Getty Images LinkedIn plans to stop its app from repeatedly copying the contents of an iOS device’s clipboard, after a user highlighted the seemingly privacy-invasive practice earlier this week. ZDNet reports that LinkedIn called the behavior a bug. The ...
  • MrBeast ends Finger on the App competition by telling players to stop after 70 hours
  • Sony’s PS4 hit Horizon Zero Dawn is coming to PC on August 7th
  • Fortnite to host We The People program focused on conversations about race in America
  • UK government takes $500 million stake in space exploration firm OneWeb
  • A portable display can make working from your dining room table easier
  • The best tech deals for the July Fourth weekend
  • LG Gram 17 review: lighter than it looks
  • The Verge’s favorite gadgets and gear for summer
  • Google’s $2.1 billion Fitbit acquisition is getting closer sc
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