Thursday, July 07, 2016

7 July - Pale Moon Start Page - Tech News

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  • Didi Chuxing adds new safety features, including a passenger SOS button  Didi Chuxing, the taxi booking app that is beating Uber in China, has added a number of safety features to its service including an SOS button for its 300 million registered users. Read More
  • Silent Circle’s Blackphone revealed as a sales flop  Encrypted comms company Silent Circle is being sued by its former joint venture hardware partner, Geeksphone, for not paying part of a previous agreed sale price for buying out the latter’s share in the joint venture — and lurking at the heart of the dispute are flopped sales of the Blackphone smar...
  • HTC selects Lifeliqe as educational VR content partner
  • Hillary Clinton and the Blockchain
  • Bain Capital Ventures & friends pour $11M into BevSpo





  • Florida investigators found a laptop in deadly Tesla Autopilot crash  There was a laptop found in the Tesla Model S involved in the deadly May 7 crash using Autopilot, Florida investigators confirmed with CNBC on Thursday. Florida Highway Patrol Sgt. Kim Montes told the news outlet that a laptop and DVD player were recovered amongst the crash wreckage, but that they ...
  • Art Mécanique kickstarts a mechanical watch with a few high-tech trimmings  There is, to be sure, nothing new under the horological sun. However, by putting all of the old pieces together in new ways you end up with a watch that is both interesting and unique. Art Mécanique is a Swiss company that is crowdfunding a watch with a face made of concentric circles. The bottom h...
  • Qualcomm says it issued patch for Android encryption flaw over a year ago
  • Vyclone hits the deadpool
  • DeNA brings EasyMile’s self-driving bus to Japan
  • Microsoft now helps businesses use the data that powers Bing Predicts
  • Drupe reimagines the address book with $3 million in funding
  • Apple just released the first iOS 10 beta to everyone
  • Zolt launches Shush to further deepen your echo cham
  • If you’re waiting for a self-driving car revolution, keep waiting  Not a week goes by without some sort of development in the world regarding self-driving cars — the subject consistently finds a place in any given news cycle. But if you’re waiting for a self-driving car revolution, you better keep waiting. Sure, the technology is there, but there are plenty of leg...
  • Lyft could be working on a music jukebox feature  You may have noticed whenever you hop into a Lyft, more times than not, the driver asks what you want to listen to. You, like us, might tend to say you don’t have a preference, even though you most definitely do because you don’t feel like racking your brain or going through your SoundCloud to comm...
  • The NBA debuts its new and improved shot clock
  • Penn students’ start-up XEED puts wearables to work against Parkinson’s disease
  • Poshmark CEO Manish Chandra on moving from enterprise businesses to social shopping
  • Google acquires Anvato, a media streaming and monetization platform for broadcasters
  • Samsung’s new UFS memory cards store up to 256GB at crazy fast transfer speeds
  • Android co-founder Rich Miner is leaving GV to helm a Google education project
  • “Clean Diesel” agency spams Venmo customers for cha
  • Zuckerberg says Facebook Live can “shine a light on fear” Facebook still hasn’t explained the details of its policy on censorship of Live video. But today in response to the police shooting of Philando Castile, CEO Mark Zuckerberg posted that “The images we’ve seen this week are graphic and heartbreaking, and they shine a light on the fear that millions of...
  • Tackling systemic racism  Discussions around diversity and inclusion in the tech industry are not going away. Not on my watch. Earlier today, I sat down with Erica Baker, an engineer at Slack, and Ellen Pao, formerly of Reddit, to talk about their nonprofit organization for diversity, Project Include, as well as the systemi...
  • ZUtA demos its mobile robotic printer
  • Running through walls: 6Sense’s Amanda Kahlow on values that stick
  • Make way for more bots: Ex-Evernote CEO Phil Libin leads seed rounds for Butter.ai and Growbot
  • Up close with Fujifilm’s new X-T2 mirrorless camera
  • This artificial stingray has a gold skeleton and light-activated rat muscles
  • Rthm wants to be your comprehensive health AI
  • Carmaker + ridesharing roundup
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