Tuesday, October 13, 2020

13 October - Technology - The Next Web / Tech Crunch / The Verge

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  • Disney wants Netflix’s throne, and the Wall Street crowd is into it 13 hours ago  –  Markets reacted positively to Disney’s newly-found laser focus on streaming, pushing the company’s stock price up nearly 5%. Disney announced a restructure of its media and entertainment arms in a Monday press release. The move centralizes those businesses into one entity that will oversee all di...
  • Can deepfake detectors keep up with advances in AI-generated video? 15 hours ago  –  An investigative journalist receives a video from an anonymous whistleblower. It shows a candidate for president admitting to illegal activity. But is this video real? If so, it would be huge news – the scoop of a lifetime – and could completely turn around the upcoming elections. But the journal...
  • Surface Laptop Go Review: An almost perfect sub-$1000 laptop
  • India joins the idiotic global alliance calling for encyption backdoors
  • Here are the EVs nominated for ‘North American car of the year’
  • Throw out your shitty to-do list — here’s what to do instead
  • The future of AI depends on 9 companies — if they fail, we’re doomed
  • San Diego cuts off all streetlight sensors over privacy concerns
  • How to watch Apple’s iPhone 12 launch event live
  • A quick introduction to ‘scrum’ — so you’re not lost when s
  • IBM announces Call for Code 2020 grand prize winner 22 minutes ago  –  IBM today awarded the 2020 Call for Code grand prize to the creators of Agrolly, an app that helps small farmers threatened by climate change decide what to plant and when. The distributed team of developers from Brazil, India, Mongolia, and Taiwan, who met at Pace University, will receive $200,0...
  • How to change your microphone or camera in Chrome 3 hours ago  –  Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Google Chrome allows you to use your microphone and camera for things like meetings, online socializing, and remote work. But if you want to switch between dif...
  • Netflix no longer offers a free trial — pay up or fuck off
  • Everything Apple announced at its iPhone 12 event in one handy list
     8 hours ago  –  It’s been a busy few months for Apple. Fresh after releasing new iPads and Watches, the company today unveiled its iPhone 12 lineup, about a month later than usual (thanks, corona). There’s a lot to run through, so here’s everything Apple announced today in one handy list. HomePod Mini Apple reve...
  • Here are the specs of Apple’s whole iPhone 12 range
  • Everything you need to know about the iPhone 12 mini
  • We were right: The iPhone 12 doesn’t come with an AC adaptor or earbuds
  • This app guesses your Myer-Briggs personality based on your Reddit history
  • Here are 10 popular limited time digital deals with Prime Day pricing
  • Microsoft unveils efforts to make AI more accessible to peo

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  • Kayhan Space wants to be the air traffic control service for satellites in space 14 hours ago  –  Kayhan Space, the Boulder, Colo. and Atlanta-based company launched from Techstars virtual space-focused accelerator, wants nothing more than to be the air traffic control service for satellites in space. Founded by two childhood friends, Araz Feyzi and Siamak Hesar, who grew up in Iran and immig...
  • Kegg, a connected fertility tracker and kegel trainer for women, launches out of beta 16 hours ago  –  Fertility tracking has seen an explosion of startup activity in recent years. Femtech startup Lady Technologies is adding to this rich mix with the full U.S. launch of a dual-purpose device, called kegg, that’s designed to measure hormonal changes in a woman’s cervical fluid to help her determine...
    Kegg, a connected fertility tracker and kegel trainer for women, launches out of beta 16 hours ago  –  Fertility tracking has seen an explosion of startup activity in recent years. Femtech startup Lady Technologies is adding to this rich mix with the full U.S. launch of a dual-purpose device, called kegg, that’s designed to measure hormonal changes in a woman’s cervical fluid to help her determine...
  • Commercializing the open source FingerprintJS browser fingerprinting tech nabs Chicago entrepreneur $4M 16 hours ago  –  Chicago-based serial entrepreneur Dan Pinto has raised new cash and launched a new company looking to commercialize a years-old open source project that purports to solve one of the web’s hardest problems — fraud prevention. The company he launched in January, FingerprintJS, touts itself as a new...
  • Watch Blue Origin launch its reusable New Shepard rocket live, with a key NASA system test on board
  • Cyberpion raises $8.25M in seed funding to help businesses secure assets beyond their firewall
  • South Korea pushes for AI semiconductors as global demand grows
  • Qatalog, the ‘virtual workspace’ rebundling SaaS tools to help teams function better, raises $15M
  • Kahoot picks up $215M from SoftBank for its user-generated, gamified e-learning platform
  • Landscape site launches with the aim of becoming the ‘Glassdoor for VC’
  • Hong Kong and New York-based Easyship joins Shopify Plu
  • Join Yext’s Howard Lerman for a live Q&A right now 13 hours ago  –  Today’s the day! This afternoon at 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT, Yext CEO Howard Lerman will join TechCrunch for a live chat. The conversation is part of our continuing Extra Crunch Live series, now in its second season. What are we up to in the second installment of the conversations? The same as befo...
  • The iPhone 12 and HomePod mini leak ahead of today’s big Apple event 13 hours ago  –  I guess maybe don’t read this if you like being surprised. Though you already read the headline and saw the first image, so you might as well keep keep going, right? And this is an Apple event we’re talking about, so surely there will be a surprise or two left. What we have here are […]
  • Nuvemshop, a Latin American answer to Shopify, raises $30 million 13 hours ago  –  After several failed startup attempts and nine years spent building Nuvemshop into Latin America’s answer to Shopify, the four co-founders of the company have managed to raise $30 million in venture capital funding as they look to expand their business. The new funding came from previous investor...
  • Ureeka taps Kevin O’Leary (AKA Mr. Wonderful) to launch SMB curriculum
  • Is the Twilio-Segment deal expensive?
  • Caliber, with $2.2 million in seed funding, launches a fitness coaching platform
  • Armory nabs $40M Series C as commercial biz on top of open source Spinnaker project takes off
  • Messenger’s latest update brings new features, cross-app communication with Instagram
  • Blue Origin successfully launches and lands New Shepard, with a first-ever external booster payload
  • Astroscale raises $51 million in Series E funding to fuel its o
  • DroneDeploy teams with Boston Dynamics to deliver inside-outside view of job site 10 hours ago  –  DroneDeploy, a cloud software company that uses drone footage to help industries like agriculture, oil and gas and construction get a bird’s-eye view of a site to build a 3D picture, announced a new initiative today that combines drone photos with cameras on the ground or even ground robots from ...
  • Spendesk raises another $18 million for its corporate card and expense service 11 hours ago  –  French startup Spendesk has added $18 million to its Series B round. The company already raised $38.4 million as part of its Series B last year, which means that it raised $56.4 million as part of this round. Eight Roads Ventures is investing in today’s extension round. Spendesk, as the name sugg...
  • Edge computing startup Edgify secures $6.5M Seed from Octopus, Mangrove and semiconductor 11 hours ago  –  Edgify, which builds AI for edge computing, has secured a $6.5m seed funding round backed by Octopus Ventures, Mangrove Capital Partners and an unnamed semiconductor giant. The name was not released but TechCrunch understands it nay be Intel Corp. or Qualcomm Inc. Edgify’s technology allows ‘edge...
  • Men’s health subscription startup Numan closes £10M Series A funding round
  • Nym Health raises $16.5 million for its auditable machine learning tools for automating hospital billing
  • WordPress can now turn blog posts into tweetstorms automatically
  • BLCK VC launches educational initiative to bring more Black entrepreneurs into investing ecosystem
  • HBO is making a limited series about Elon Musk and the founding of SpaceX
  • Genemod raises cash for its lab inventory management service used by research institutions around the US
  • London Business School and LocalGlobe launch new VC 
  • Gillmor Gang: Home Stretch an hour ago  –  On this edition of the Gillmor Gang, the live recording session was briefly interrupted by a rolling upgrade from Zoom. We’ve been using Zoom to virtualize what we’ve been doing for years with a combination of video switching hardware (Newtek’s TriCaster), a bunch of Mac Minis hosting Skype, an a...
  • Daily Crunch: Apple introduces the iPhone 12 5 hours ago  –  Apple embraces 5G, Facebook Messenger gets better integrated with Instagram and Kahoot raises $215 million. This is your Daily Crunch for October 13, 2020. The big story: Apple introduces the iPhone 12 Apple’s big event today kicked off with the announcement of the HomePod Mini, but the real focu...
  • PopSockets is working on MagSafe-compatible iPhone accessories 6 hours ago  –  PopSockets will support Apple’s MagSafe technology, TechCrunch has confirmed — meaning you’ll soon be able to pop on and off these ubiquitous iPhone accessories without worrying about the sticker on the back losing its adhesiveness over time and needing a rinse. MagSafe, Apple’s charging brand, i...
  • Discuss the unbundling of early-stage VC with Unusual Ventures’ Sarah Leary & John Vrionis
  • Two Screens for Teachers will outfit all educators in Seattle Public Schools with a second monitor
  • Apple’s iPhone 12 Pro camera upgrades sharpen focus on serious photographers
  • Snapchat among first to leverage iPhone 12 Pro’s LiDAR Scanner for AR
  • Apple’s stock dips and Verizon’s recovers during iPhone event
  • Apple’s iPhone 12, 12 mini, 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max: what’s the difference?
  • Apple unveils its flagship 5G phones, the iPhone 12 Pro a

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  • Johnson & Johnson pauses COVID-19 vaccine trial due to unexplained illness 13 hours ago  –  Illustration by Ana Kova Johnson & Johnson’s clinical trial of its COVID-19 vaccine was paused after a volunteer came down with an unexplained illness. The company did not disclose what the illness was, citing the participant’s privacy. The illness is still under investigation. The pause ...
  • League of Legends’ latest champion is a colorful pop star
  • The best Kindle and Echo deals you can get during Prime Day 2020
  • Apple’s new HomePod mini speaker revealed in leaked images
    14 hours ago  –  Image: @evleaks Photos of Apple’s next smart speaker, the HomePod mini, have leaked hours ahead of the company’s big product event happening today. The images, published by Evan Blass, reveal a smaller device than the original HomePod — though it’s still covered in the familiar mesh fabric and...
  • Surface Laptop Go review: a case study in cost cutting
  • Apple’s iPhone 12 lineup leaks in full ahead of event
  • The best headphone deals you can get during Prime Day 2020
  • The best Prime Day 2020 deals on TVs
  • How to watch today’s Apple iPhone event
  • The Verge’s guide to Prime Day 2020
  • Apple announces smaller HomePod mini for $99 10 hours ago  –   — a smaller version of the speaker that shrinks down the original model into a more compact size. Like the full-size HomePod, the HomePod mini still features a mesh fabric exterior in both black and white colors,...
  • US and seven other countries sign NASA’s Artemis Accords to set rules for exploring the Moon
  • Apple’s iPhone 12 event live blog
  • Messenger overhauls its logo, adds new chat features
  • A short conversation with Jordan Fisher about streaming, anime, and more
  • Best Prime Day 2020 deals on Chromebooks and Windows laptops
  • Let’s review Samsung’s big 2020 lineup
  • iPhone 12 and more: all the announcements from Apple’s October 13th event
  • Panasonic announces tiny box-shaped Micro Four Thirds video camera
  • Blue Origin launches and lands a New Shepard rocket on it
  • iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max announced with larger displays, updated design, and 5G 9 hours ago  –  Apple has officially announced its 2020 flagship iPhones: the $999 iPhone 12 Pro and $1,099 12 Pro Max, featuring support for 5G and a new squared-off design that’s reminiscent of the iPhone 4. It’s also the first major redesign for Apple’s full-screen smartphones since it introduced the bezel-le...
  • Netflix no longer offers free trials in the US
  • Apple announces iPhone 12 mini, the ‘smallest and lightest 5G phone in the world’
  • Apple brings back MagSafe charging, but only for the new iPhones
  • iPhone 12 only uses 5G when necessary to save battery life
  • Apple’s new iPhone 12 line-up comes with a ceramic-hardened display
  • Apple announces iPhone 12 with OLED screen and 5G speeds
  • Verizon announces its nationwide 5G network
  • Facebook announces ban on anti-vaccination ads
  • ( Nobody should criticize the wisdom of implementation of unprecedented modification of childrens'  immune systems by direct injection ! Contaminants ? What contaminants ? Funny, the US Supreme Court said such were 'inherently unsafe' - but what do they know ? )
  • Beats announces $50 Beats Flex earbuds with USB-C and 
  • Job training at Google sounds very normal 8 hours ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It is unclear to me why The New York Times is making such a big deal of Google’s incredibly normal job-training practices! Google employees can speak up about anything as long as they don’t talk about antitrust, the Times reports. Google employees should...
  • Google starts rolling out Duplex feature that can call salons to book a haircut for you
  • Go read about how Facebook bends its rules for world leaders
  • Apple’s iPhone 12 and iPhone 12 mini cost $30 extra for anyone who’s not an AT&T or Verizon customer
  • Disney’s major reorganization is good news for anyone who loves Disney Plus
  • Best Prime Day 2020 deals on gaming
  • Apple’s iPhone 12 event: the 7 biggest announcements
  • Beats announces $50 Beats Flex earbuds with USB-C and 12-hour battery life
  • Best Prime Day deals for upgrading your PC setup
  • Apple’s new iPhones won’t ship with earbuds or wall charger
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