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- Wednesday's Mini-Report, 10.18.17
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- Matthews: Trump lacks a moral compass
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- Sessions changes story on Russian contacts
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- Fmr. CIA boss Brennan: World may wonder if...
For the first time, fmr. CIA Director John Brennan takes on Trump's foreign policy - issuing dire warnings on the threat of war with North Korea and Russia's involvement in the 2016 election. - What Sessions Senate testimony means for...
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- Brennan: Implausible Russians had no US help
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- Maddow: What is Trump hiding about Niger?
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- A discussion about Russia, Sessions and...
Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Amb. Michael McFaul discuss John Brennan's recent remarks about Russia, Mueller's investigation into 2016, AG Sessions' hearing and his remarks about reporters. - The check Trump promised to send to a...
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Gold Star widow Whitney Hunter, whose husband, Sgt. Jonathon Hunter, was killed in Afghanistan in August, tells MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle that she was told she would receive a call from the President, and never did. - Another Capitol Hill Republican is...
- Thursday's Campaign Round-Up, 10.18.17
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Tech News
- Adobe says it wants AI to amplify human creativity and intelligence
About a year ago, Adobe announced its Sensei AI platform. Unlike other companies, Adobe says that it has no interest in building a general artificial intelligence platform — instead, it wants to build a platform squarely focused on helping its customers be more creative. This week, at its Max co... - Snap is selling a dancing hot dog costume on Amazon
This might perhaps be the most random thing I ever write, but here goes nothing. Snap, the maker of Snapchat and Spectacles, is selling the dancing hot dog costume on Amazon for $79.99. If you’re a Snapchat or Bitmoji user, you probably know exactly what I’m talking about. Read More - Bixby 2.0 takes center stage at Samsung’s Developer Conference
- Facebook and Google competed for anti-immigration ad dollars during the 2016 election
- Facebook’s response to Russian election interference:
- Tony Fadell’s newest product? An investing and advisory firm called Future Shape
Tony Fadell is starting yet a new chapter. Fifteen months after leaving Nest Labs, a maker of digital thermostats and smoke detectors that Fadell cofounded and sold to Google for $3.2 billion in 2014, Fadell is taking the wraps off a new investment and advisory firm that’s working with engineers... - Crunch Report | Snapchat Halloween Costume
Duo Security raises $70 million, a close look at Apple’s self-driving car, Snapchat’s Halloween costume and Abu Dhabi’s state fund is doing business in San Francisco. All this on Crunch Report! Read More - This ultra-cute tiny PS4 controller is a great option for children and the small-handed
- MongoDB prices its IPO at $24 per share
- Atlas Informatics calls it quits after less than a year
- Truffle now lets you share your food tips via iMessage
- Coursera’s chief product officer just left to become a VC
- Blue Apron is laying off hundreds of employees
- eBay is having a pretty bad day
- Cisco to buy Perspica and fold engineering team into AppDynamics
Cisco announced today that it intends to acquire Perspica, a machine learning-driven operations analytics firm that has raised $8.5 million. Cisco intends to fold Perspica’s team into AppDynamics, the company it purchased earlier this year for $3.7 billion. Cisco did not share the Perspica purch... - The canaries in a coal mine
I’ve seen startups come and go over the years and I was particularly interested to see what happened to August Smart locks today. The company originally tapped Yves Behar to make a better smart lock, one that would meld with the sensitivities of a certain kind of smart home stylist with the high... - Elon Musk’s Boring company readies its second, poetic tunnel digger
- Feather raises $3.5M to rent furniture to millennials
- Swedish lock giant Assa Abloy acquires smart lock maker August Home
- London-based on-demand delivery startup Jinn shutters
- Hiya, a Whitepages spinout, nabs $18M to for its smart caller ID technology
- European house removals platform Movinga raises up to another €22M
- Safaricom launches innovation center to move beyond M-Pesa
- Feeling blue might lead to faster broadband
In what could amount to a sea change in the way we transmit data over fiber optics, researchers at University College London have found a new way speed things up by changing the color of the transmitted light. “To maximise the capacity of optical fibre links, data is transmitted using different ... - Boeing invests in company building autonomous aircraft
Boeing’s HorizonX venture arm has invested in Near Earth Autonomy, a Carnegie Mellon spin-out company that focuses on building autonomous aircraft systems for things including site inspection, defence and potentially automated cargo delivery and personal transportation systems – i.e., flying tax... - Snaps raises $6M to expand its marketing platform for messaging apps
- Owl Ventures, which funds edtech exclusively, just raised $185 million for its second fund
- Pokémon Go’s Halloween event will bring new Pokémon, double candy, and more
- Gett inks cross-network partnership with Carey to share tech, expand to 1000 cities
- Verizon delays its live TV service until spring 2018, report says
- Led by Stellar cofounder Joyce Kim, SparkChain Capital is a new $100M fund for blockchain and cryptocurrency startups
- Relativity Space wants to launch rockets for 90% less w
- Slack co-founder Cal Henderson to talk on Slack’s progress at Disrupt Berlin
While Yammer (launched at TechCrunch Disrupt, BTW) might have pioneered what was, at the time, dubbed “Twitter for work”, it wasn’t until Slack came along that people started to realise just how powerful this method of communication could be. From open source integration to new kinds of collabor... - PayKey raises $10M for its millennial-targeted “social banking” smartphone keyboard
Banks face an increasingly crowded battlefield in the fight for millennial customers. Not only do they have to compete with services like Venmo, but many messaging apps are adding their own peer-to-peer payment services. Tel Aviv-based startup PayKey thinks it has the solution with a smartphone ... - Consumer report warns over safety of kids’ smartwatches
- Women of color at tech companies are few and far between
- MongoDB shares pop 25% in its public market debut
- Streaming service VidAngel declares bankruptcy after losing legal battles with studios
- Watch the new trailer for ‘The Punisher,’ coming to Netflix Nov. 17
- Lyft raises $1 billion at $11 billion valuation led by Alphabet’s CapitalG
- Flickr exits the photo book business, shuts down wall art orders
- SendGrid files for marketing email IPO
Denver-based SendGrid has filed for an IPO. The company, which helps marketers send emails to customers, says in its S-1 that it’s processed more than “one trillion emails.” Revenue for last year was $79.9 million, compared with $58.5 million in 2015 and $42.3 million the year before. The busine... - Two Google alums just raised $60M to rethink documents
When you open a Google doc or a spreadsheet, you get a blank spreadsheet and some documentation as to what you can do with it — and that’s pretty much where we’ve been for quite some time. But two MIT graduates, coming in from Microsoft and Google, have built up a team that for the past three ye... - Chinese local services giant Meituan-Dianping raises $4B led by Tencent and Priceline
- Facebook Messenger lets games monetize with purchases and ads
- Facebook is now testing paywalls and subscriptions for Instant Articles
- Google Play adds Android Instant Apps via a ‘Try it Now’ button, among other changes
- Google will pay you $1,000 to hack some of Android’s most popular apps
- Romeo Power unveils its first consumer power packs
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