- Weekly Roundup: SpaceX explosion destroys Facebook satellite, Google takes on Uber
This week, what would have been Facebook’s first satellite was destroyed in a Falcon 9 explosion, Facebook changed its Trending Topics layout and new information about the Dropbox password breach was unveiled. Read More - Bitmovin grabs $10.3m as it looks to crack VR video adaptive streaming
It’s pretty odd that even while people are chatting about producing the VR video’s crazy theoretical future with 8K resolution per eye, stereoscopic rendering and light field ready footage, I’m still here struggling to keep Louis C.K. clips from buffering on my mobile phone. In order for VR to be s... - Sanbot is a humanoid robot with penguin flipper arms and a touchscreen heart
- The LMS market glacier is melting
- Fleex now lets you learn English by streaming Netflix shows
- Samsung spills the details of its Note 7 exchange program in US
If you’ve got a Galaxy Note 7, you’ve probably already heard about the recall. But the specifics differ for each region, and Samsung just now released the details for what your options are here in the land of the free. Read More - What if cybersecurity followed physics?
The first cybersecurity unicorn kernel popped in late 2013 with the announcement of CloudFlare’s $50 million Series C investment. Today, 10 privately held companies hold membership in the ultra-exclusive cybersecurity unicorn club. With the addition of each new member, eyebrows are raised and quest... - Multi-process Firefox brings 400-700% improvement in responsiveness
- Airbnb releases first transparency report on government requests for user data
- Chris Moore of Redpoint Ventures: the market “feels like it’s in flux”
- The billionaire’s plaything
- Investors, here are the Startup Alley companies at Disrupt SF
- ILMxLAB’s Diana Williams and Michael Koperwas will join us at TechCrunch Disrupt SF
- Microsoft is putting Cortana machine learning in a fridge
- As eSports popularity explodes, betting needs to be regulated
Esports betting has boomed in the last five years, attracting investments from celebrities, investors and entrepreneurs like Mark Cuban and Ashton Kutcher — even the former NBA Commissioner, David Stern, has talked about it on many forums. Gambling in eSports has charmed stakeholders but it may hav... - Cinemapocalypse Now?
Let’s talk box office! Because it’s one of my pet obsessions; I’ve long been curious how the rise of new entertainment tech (Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, Pokémon Go) will impact movies, our oldest and most storied cultural commons. And because I was trawling through Box Office Mojo’s numbers, as you d... - Fossil sure has a lot of different smartwatches
- A circular satnav designed to blend in with a scooter
- At long last, the player piano does multi-room audio
- Drop partners with Bosch to let users monitor their oven remotely
- Crunch Report | SpaceX Hyperloop Test Track
- The invisible @apple tweet
- Jeremy Bloom on sports technology and his new startup show
- The death of localhost and the rise of cloud development
The cloud has become the default for practically every industry, from storage to transportation to communication to retail. But there’s one fundamental space out of which it has yet to take a bite. Ironically, software development — the process of editing, building, debugging and analyzing code tha... - Gillmor Gang: Monetize This
The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, September 2, 2016. Waiting for latency can be a lonely thing, but the media march toward live streaming reaches new urgency. Plus G3 with Mary Hodder, Elisa Camahort Page, Francine Hard... - IoT’s killer app is not home security
- Growing up in Generation AI
- Mark Zuckerberg’s Africa tour tracks tech’s growing interests on the continent
- Tales from the alternate era of the Ara
- A different glimpse at VR’s future through Qualcomm’s eye-tracking headset
- We’re at peak complexity — and it sucks
- As Turkey’s coup creates a new political reality, startups turn east for growth
- What cities need to know about drones
As drones increasingly fly through our cities in the coming years — delivering our latest order from Amazon or other on-demand retailers — the regulation of our airspace and the environment in which we co-exist with flying robots becomes more and more present and real. Read More - Your washing machine should be smarter about washing clothes than you are
Washing machines have always felt like a sort of necessary evil. I’m wouldn’t go so far as suggesting that no one enjoys washing clothes – heck, I find doing the dishes kind of cathartic. People are weird. But most washers feel like big, dumb machines. Machines that break down, lose our unmentionab... - If nothing else, StikBox is a good way to hide the fact that you own a selfie stick
- As long as robots look adorable and make us coffee, we’ll be eating out of their robotic hands
- And this is why VR headsets are headsets and not sunglasses
- We become the people in ‘WALL-E’ one VR massage chair at a time
- William Hurley on Honest Dollar’s sale to Goldman Sachs
- The biotech empires of Silicon Valley and Europe
- The EU’s new regulatory environment might help fintech flourish
- The emerging Darwinian approach to analytics and augmented intelligence
Much has been made about the business implications of recent, rapid advancements in cognitive computing — that is, the possibility of advanced analytics tools to help human knowledge workers glean actionable insight from vast and deep lakes of historical, transactional and machine-generated informa... - General Catalyst’s Niko Bonatsos on why timing and empathy are key to founder success
Q: If you were to pick one and only one single biggest factor that determines a startup’s success, what would it be? Why? Some say it is product-market fit (Marc Andreesen), others hold that it’s timing (Bill Gross) and yet more believe it is the team. Asked another way, what do you think is essent... - WTF is … crowdfunding?
- A former Rothenberg employee is now suing over breach of contract and more than $100K in Amex charges
- Technology is finally changing the apartment rental experience
- Understanding the economy of the crowd
- The thing that makes IFA a hard show to cover is also its best feature
- Samsung’s smart belt is now on Kickstarter, and it’s still called WELT
- A wristband and your finger can replace your phone, but you still need a phone to use it
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