- Hey, Brooklyn, let’s meet up tomorrow
Hello, Brooklyn! I’m restarting my series of micro-meetups in New York with a special tasting at the Van Brunt Stillhouse. The founder, Daric Schlesselman, is a friend of TC and showed off his wares at the last New York Disrupt and he’s offering us a special tasting on Thursday, November 10, 2016 a... - Here are the tech policies Trump promised to implement as president
Trump’s not a tech guy, that much we know. He reportedly doesn’t have much time for a cell phone or email. During a CNN town hall moderated by Anderson Cooper, he said that he largely composes tweets by, “shout it out to one of the young ladies who are tremendous. I’ll just shout it out, and they’l... - Adam Bain departs Twitter, Anthony Noto will take over as COO
- A serial founder on Trump: “He’s a startup that disrupted the establishment”
- Trump promises to bring back manufacturing jobs, but robots won’t let him
- Teamleader scores €10M Series B to help SMEs go digital
Belgium startup Teamleader, which began life while co-founders Jeroen De Wit, Willem Delbare and Mathias De Loore were studying together at university, has raised €10 million in Series B funding. The round is led by previous backer Fortino Capital. Read More - Tim Cook to Apple staff: We’ll ‘move forward together’ following Trump election win
Tim Cook has rallied staff at Apple following Donald Trump’s historic and controversial U.S. election win by reassuring them that the company will “move forward together” despite political divisions and tension. Read More - Zipline raises $25 million to deliver medical supplies by drone
- Crunch Report | Donald Trump Is 45th President of U.S.
- Peter Thiel’s Big Gamble
- Microsoft says it will push for diversity and security from the Trump administration
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- SentiOne raises $3.5 million to monitor social media
- LeEco’s Super Bike isn’t electric, but it sure has a lot of gadgets attached
- Google’s Daydream View made me a believer again in consumer VR
Humble beginnings When Google debuted Cardboard at its 2014 Developers Conference, then- Google Product Chief Sundar Pichai showed off the headset made of modest materials with an insouciance that indirectly poked fun at the ambitious and expensive Oculus purchase Facebook had announced only shortl... - Siri can now send money via PayPal
PayPal users can now send and request payments using simple voice commands via Siri on iOS 10 on iPhone and iPad. The online payments company is making the new feature available to users in 30 countries, and in a number of languages, and it requires only that the iOS app be installed with a logged ... - AppDynamics update looks to measure impact of performance on business
- Neo Technology, whose database platform powered the Panama Papers, nabs $36M
- Job Today bags $20M to grow its service industry hiring app in Europe and beyond
- Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder of DeepMind, to speak at Disrupt London, Dec 5-6
- Toast lands $1.5M for cross-border payment services for migrant workers in Asia
- Garmin brings Strava’s safety system to its fitness wearables
- Rakuten will reportedly launch a mobile games platform
- Instagram will now let creators add URL links, tag friends, and create Boomerangs in Stories
Instagram is adding three new features to Stories in what they are calling the biggest update to Stories since its launch. Starting today the company will let creators add URL links to their stories that viewers can navigate to without leaving Instagram, add the ability for users to be “@ mentioned... - Thngs wants to be a Wikipedia for physical objects
Moscow-based Thngs is building something akin to a Wikipedia for physical objects. Although, given that the startup is already working on ways to monetize its offering, purists will likely take issue with that comparison. Working with museums initially, Thngs wants to create a digital repository of... - Snapchat’s Spectacles go on sale via Minion-like vending machines
- Just in time for Daydream, YouTube launches its standalone VR app
- Samsung is looking for Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge owners to test Android 7.0 on their phones
- Adobe acquires video ad company TubeMogul for $540M
- Google’s Project Soli mobile radar input tech can now identify objects
- Review: Google’s Daydream View VR headset is comfy and uncomplicated
- Bradley Tusk points out the bright side of Trump presidency in memo to portfolio companies
- Here are some more details of how Snap’s Spectacles work
Snap’s spectacles are starting to hit the streets, and eBay. I’ve been able to glean some details about the way they work from early users. The images above and below come from the auction listing, which has already hit $553 as I write this. Read More - Portal router drastically improved my Wi-Fi connection
Reliable Wi-Fi is what a lot of us have come to expect in today’s world of hyper-connectivity. I don’t know about you, but my roommates and I just went with whatever router Comcast gave us. That was a rookie move because it only reliably works in one room (the room with the router) out of five. Ent... - Once offering to fire Trump into space, Jeff Bezos sends his congratulations to the president-elect
- The Yale Real Living Assure Lock is just the thing to thwart lock-picking zombies
- Facebook admits it must do more to stop the spread of misinformation on its platform
- Watch the first Valerian trailer reveal a promising Fifth Element successor
- Nasty Gal files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
- Kitt.ai’s ChatFlow helps you build better chatbots
- A robot can solve a Rubik’s Cube in 637 milliseconds
- What it’s like to use Snapchat Spectacles
Snap’s Spectacles are having a spectacular debut today, with (at least) hundreds of people lining up at their first Snapbot pop-up vending machine location in Venice Beach. We got the chance to speak to a few of those lucky enough to have grabbed some today, and they told us what it’s like to use t... - Tech leaders respond to upcoming Trump presidency
No matter which side of the aisle you’re on it’s clear that in next four years technology will be taking center stage. Politics are now less about relationships between people and more about relationships between computers and no matter who you voted for we believe tech is truly leading the way. Ma... - This is what it’s like to buy Spectacles from Snapchat’s vending machine
- #Calexit is Silicon Valley’s plan to pack up its toys and leave
- How long until Facebook Frames?
- Google says there are now 2 billion active Chrome installs
- Google responds to EU antitrust charges against Android
- Pinterest finds another way to track purchases via its new “Tried It” button
- Analysis of social media did a better job at predicting Trump’s win than the polls
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