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- Amazon’s Spyro leak is the highlight of my week
Earlier today, an Amazon leak hinted at the HD remake of the original Spyro trilogy, a remaster long whispered of the in the rumor mill. A page for Spyro Reignited Trilogy first surfaced on Amazon this morning, with little fanfare. I wanted to believe it, but held myself back. I’ve been burnt cri... - Apple says the modular Mac Pro won’t arrive until 2019, but it’s still listening
A little under a year ago, Apple tried to assuage everyone’s fears that it had given up on the Mac Pro for good. At the time, it said the device wouldn’t arrive until 2018 at the earliest, and gave us the beastly iMac Pro to whet our appetites in the meantime. Now the company has made it clear we... - Why I stopped feeling bad about using email templates
- Researchers are using VR to help teachers understand autism
- Cryptokitties had a glitch that allowed for unlimited automatic likes
- Cryptokitties had a glitch that allowed for unlimited automatic likes
- Doogee built a truly bezel-and-notch-free phone with a clever sliding design
- Here is why nobody has succeeded at running IoT on the blockchain
- How esports redefined athleticism
- Your playbook for marketing online is here… learn it all for less than $5 a course
- Facebook reported in 7 countries for breaking European privacy law
According to Norwegian tech site NRKbeta, Facebook has been reported to data protection authorities for breaking European privacy law in Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece. After the revelation of the Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal, the social media giant h... - Coinbase announces Venture Fund for early stage blockchain startups
Coinbase is launching a venture fund to help early stage blockchain startups flourish. The company’s President and COO Asiff Hirji announced this on CNBC on Thursday. We’re going to invest off our balance sheet into crypto companies,” Hirji said. “We will invest in companies that are in the space... - LinkedIn is forcing some users to use #hashtags to post updates
- Facebook admits it deleted messages Mark Zuckerberg sent, for ‘corporate security’
- India slams the brakes on cryptocurrency trading
- Falling behind the trends? 12 ways to successfully adapt and catch up
- Snapdragon-powered Windows PCs are getting 64-bit app support
- Facebook hits the brakes on creepy project to access your patient data from hospitals
- Celebrity-endorsed ICOs are a dumpster fire of epic proportions
- Amazon now lets you use your Echo like a one-way intercom
- These tech ads from back in the day show how far we have (and haven’t) come
A digital artist is compiling old computer ads into a compendium that singlehandedly reminds us how far technology has come in just a few short decades. The ads come from Byte Magazine, which ran from 1975 to 1998. It might be but a distant memory of a bygone age, but back in its day, Byte was a ... - Why a curved-screen iPhone is a great idea
Earlier this week a Bloomberg report suggested Apple was working on – or at least considering – a curved screen iPhone. Unlike Samsung’s phones, which curve down on the sides, this theoretical iPhone would curve inwards, like a banana. This is a great idea. Apple would be far from the first to us... - Scam Alert: ElectrumPro is not an upgrade to Electrum
- This company aims to solve coder gender gap by getting girls hooked early
- Master three of the most powerful digital creative tools on Earth for under $40
- Here’s how Deliveroo plans to just eat its competitors
- From Indiegogo star to the coolest retro wireless keyboard you’ll see: Lofree’s Four Seasons is available for less than $100
- No, India hasn’t banned cryptocurrencies
- Sorry Sony, I’m stealing those sweet noise-cancelling headphones you lent me
- Google Glass makes you a worse driver (and look absolutely ridiculous)
- 7 realistic use cases for VR we haven’t explored deeply yet
The Ancient Greeks were one of the first peoples to examine the nature of reality. Parmenides, a pre-Socratic Greek philosopher, talks about reality as a phenomenon in which change is impossible and existence is timeless, necessary and uniform. Our conception of reality has most definitely come a... - Alexa’s creepy laugh is just the beginning of bigger problems in our IoT future
Did you hear Alexa’s creepy, disembodied, and irrelevant laughter the other day? If not, you can count yourself lucky. As we adopt more devices for our homes and bodies, we open the door to more vulnerabilities and errors. Nobody expects new technology to work perfectly, but the recent system fai... - Amazon Web Services rules the cloud, and here’s how to use all their coolest tools for less than $9 per course
- YouTube’s new ad rules will drive creators to Twitch
- Avoid this privacy fuck-up when sharing Google Docs
- NFC is the underdog tech set to explode in the next five years
- Sex machines should have rights too
- Full-sized Elon Musk masks aren’t a flame thrower, but they’ll do in a pinch
- Facebook Messenger will soon let you ‘unsend’ messages just like Mark Zuckerberg
- Seedy marketplace Backpage.com seized by US authorities
- This clever new font combines braille with Latin and Japanese alphabets
In an effort to make braille more accessible for the visually impaired in signage and printed media, Tokyo-based designer Kosuke Takahashi has hit upon a novel solution that merges those characters with English and Japanese alphabets, so they appear in the same place. Essentially, the fonts in Ta... - YouTube Kids may soon feature handpicked videos that are safe to watch
In the past three years since its launch, YouTube’s Kids app, which is designed to surface child-friendly content, has come under fire numerous times for featuring videos that are inappropriate – and in some cases, downright disturbing – for young viewers. Over the weekend, BuzzFeed News reported... - Twitter thinks it can stop abuse by teaching trolls the rules
- The AURA Band is a fitness tracker that rewards users for staying active
- Facebook will alert you if Cambridge Analytica grabbed your data
- Micro experiences are just as important as the design of your logo
- It’s the 24/7/365 business school for becoming the mega-entrepreneur you’ve always wanted to be
- You can’t force workplace culture
- An academic ethical review could have prevented the Cambridge Analytica breach
- Fledgling space startups are finding a niche in very low Earth orbits
Tech Crunch
- Myanmar group blasts Zuckerberg’s claim on Facebook hate speech prevention
It’s becoming common to say that Mark Zuckerberg is coming under fire, but the Facebook CEO is again being questioned, this time over a recent claim that Facebook’s internal monitoring system is able to thwart attempts to use its services to incite hatred. Speaking to Vox, Zuckerberg used the exa... - Zuckerberg will also testify before the Senate
Earlier this week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced that Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is slated to testify on the use and protection of user data in Washington D.C. on April 11. Turns out, Zuckerberg will have a busier week in D.C. than expected, with the Senate Judiciary and Sen... - Spotify steadies, DocuSign’s big year, and scooters are the new blockchain
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Katie Roof and I were joined by David Welsh, part of KKR’s growth equity shop. (His formal title: Member and Head of TMT Growth Equity, where “member” actuall... - Hootsworth helps you address sexual harassment and other workplace issues
- LG forecasts record Q1 profit despite its struggling smartphone division
- First sponsor challenges announced for the TC Hackathon at VivaTech
- Facebook, AggregateIQ now being jointly probed by Canada, B.C. data watchdogs
- Grab delays shuttering Uber app as Singapore probes merger deal
- PlayingViral helps marketers grabs millennials’ attention with quick, interactive surveys
- Samsung, now the world’s largest chipmaker, forecasts record Q1 profit
- Facebook demands ID verification for big Pages, ‘issue’ ad buyers
Facebook is looking to self-police by implementing parts of the proposed Honest Ads Act before the government tries to regulate it. To fight fake news and election interference, Facebook will require the admins of popular Facebook Pages and advertisers buying political or “issue” ads on “debated ... - Skype targets podcasters and live streamers with a new feature for recording video calls
Microsoft is hoping to capitalize on the popularity of podcasts and videos to make Skype more appealing to content creators. The company is now testing a new “Skype for Content Creators” mode for its desktop app that will allow creators to place and record calls using Skype software, which can ei... - Making policing more responsive, SPIDR Tech raises $2.5 million
Across the country, police brutality and the series of fatal shootings of mostly black men have soured many on the role that police officers play in the community. To combat those negative assessments, police forces are turning to an array of new technologies, such as body cameras, new communicat... - The high-stakes battle for the Pentagon’s winner-take-all cloud contract
- Albertsons will offer Plated’s meal kits across hundreds of stores this year
- Facebook plans to let everyone unsend messages, will stop Zuckerberg until then
- Selina raises $95M to create a boutique travel lodging experience built around communities
- Amazon rolls out remote access to its FreeTime parental controls
- Facebook data scandal also affects 2.7M EU citizens
- Walmart to roll out over 500 more Pickup Towers to U.S. stores this year
- Facebook reportedly suspends AggregateIQ over connection to improper data-sharing
AggregateIQ, a Canadian advertising tech and audience intelligence company, has been suspended by Facebook for allegedly being closely connected with SCL, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica. News broke late last month that AIQ, which was deeply involved with (and handsomely paid by) pro-Le... - The government seizes Backpage.com
Visitors to Backpage.com today were greeted by a simple message from the U.S. Department of Justice, noting that it had seized the classifieds site. According to the static image, the move was a joint effort that included the FBI, IRS and the U.S Postal Inspection Service. The action, while brash... - Massterly aims to be the first full-service autonomous marine shipping company
Logistics may not be the most exciting application of autonomous vehicles, but it's definitely one of the most important. And the marine shipping industry — one of the oldest industries in the world, you can imagine — is ready for it. Or at least two major Norwegian shipping companies are: they'r... - Twitter delays API change that could break Tweetbot, Twitterific, etc.
- Apple voices opposition to Clean Power Plan repeal
- Under a millimeter wide and powered by light, these tiny cameras could hide almost anywhere
- Confirmed: Six months after leaving DFJ, Steve Jurvetson is starting new venture firm
- Postmates launching pickup feature
- Twitter will publicize rules around abuse to test if behavior changes
- MIT’s new headset reads the ‘words in your head’
- Robo Wunderkind wants to build the Lego Mindstorms for everyone
Lego Mindstorms have paved the way for many programmable toys. And Austrian startup Robo Wunderkind is building a new kind of Lego-like programmable kit. The startup first launched on the TechCrunch Disrupt stage and just raised $1.2 million (€1 million) from SOSV, Austrian Federal Promotional Ba... - Original Content podcast: Netflix’s ‘Queer Eye’ revival feels surprisingly heartfelt
Netflix’s revival of Queer Eye transports five gay men around Georgia, where they remake the lives of individuals in sore need of their assistance. Each member of the “Fab Five” has their own specialty — food, fashion, grooming, design and culture. This might sound like just another reality show,... - SurvAIllance
You may not be aware that the rough consensus in the tech community is that Cambridge Analytica were almost certainly bullshit artists. Oh, don’t get me wrong, what they tried to do, and/or claimed to do, was super shady and amoral and would have been ruinous to reasonable informed democracy if s... - RSS is undead
- Snapchat brings back chronological Stories feed for some
- Can SaaS principles transform political campaigns as we know them?
- Shine Together aims to shine a light on women, and the women behind them
- Twitter delays API overhaul that could change how third-party apps operate
- Senator warns Facebook better shape up or get ‘broken up’
- Best Buy customer info may have been exposed in data breach
- A well-fed workforce is a happy workforce — City Pantry raises £4M for its catering marketplace
City Pantry, the office catering marketplace to make it easy to order in food for staff, company events and meetings, has restocked its funding. The London-based startup has raised a new £4 million round led by Octopus Investments with participation from existing investors and Newable Private Inv... - Bitmovin scores $30M Series B for ‘next-gen’ online video software
Bitmovin, the online video software and infrastructure company founded by two of the creators of the MPEG-DASH video streaming standard, has raised $30 million in Series B funding. The round is led by Highland Europe, with participation from existing investors Atomico, Constantia New Business, Da... - China’s SenseTime, the world’s highest valued AI startup, raises $600M
The future of artificial intelligence (AI), the technology that is seen as potentially impacting almost every industry on the planet, is widely acknowledged to be a war between tech firms in America and China. In a notable side-note to that battle, China now has the world’s highest-valued AI star... - Here’s the new trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story
- Tencent and education startup Age of Learning bring popular English-learning app ABCmouse to China
- Amazon isn’t to blame for the Postal Service’s woes, but it will need to innovate to survive
- Salesforce is working on a blockchain product
- Edovo raises $9 million to provide incarcerated people with tablet-based education
- Dictionary app Reverso learns new tricks
- In a Slack world, Microsoft bets on Teams and Yammer
The Verge
- Spotify will make a ‘news announcement’ on April 24th in New York
Spotify this morning invited press to an April 24th event in New York City, where the streaming music company says it will make “a news announcement.” Unfortunately, the invitation offers zero clues as to what the pending announcement could be. Spotify has been testing voice controls for its app... - What’s the secret title of Avengers: Infinity War 2?
- Walmart adds 500 Pickup Towers to its stores across the US
- What will happen to Marina Abramović when she electrifies herself with 1 million volts?
- Burn it down: all the updates, trailers, and commentary for HBO’s Fahrenheit 451
- How to tip The Verge: secure email, Signal, SecureDrop, and more
- The 300th episode of The Vergecast
- The FCC won’t release emails behind the planning of Ajit Pai’s Harlem Shake video
- This over-the-top gaming PC is an engineering marvel
- Doogee’s new Mix 4 features a nifty slider that hides the front camera
- A guide to Westworld’s viral marketing, for fans who don’t want to translate binary code
The second season of Westworld premieres on April 22nd, and to promote the show, HBO has been leaning into its puzzle-box sensibilities by burying clues, Easter eggs, and sneak peeks in an avalanche of viral marketing. Over the last couple of months, the network has released trailers that point t... - Spotify’s first hardware device might be this music player for your car
- Facebook says it’ll now require political-leaning advertisers to verify their identity
- Far Cry 5 wasn’t a game for the Trump era, but it tried to be one anyway
- Google Chrome adds a new emoji right-click shortcut
- Inside the high-tech plot to save the northern white rhino from extinction
- Facebook Messenger will add an ‘unsend’ feature after secretly deleting Zuckerberg’s messages
- The creepy indie horror film The Endless ups the stakes for its creators
- This wearable device can respond to your thoughts
- Inside the surreal, probably inevitable world of plastic surgery apps
- I’ve been ruined by Long Long Man, the greatest love story ever told by Japanese gum commercials
As we all know, candy is an extremely important part of life. Chi-chan, the star of a series of commercials by Japanese gum company Sakeru that has utterly ravaged everything I thought I knew about life, believes this deeply. She and her boyfriend Tooru-san are huge fans of Sakeru Gummy, a line o... - LG’s G7 ThinQ could launch in May with an AI button
- My Hero Academia: what you need to know about the biggest superhero anime
- Fortnite on iOS made $15 million in its first three weeks in the App Store
- NASA wants to extend Boeing’s first crewed flight to the International Space Station
- Twitter postpones platform change that would cut off third-party apps
- The feds have seized classifieds website Backpage
- Apple tells the EPA why cutting the Clean Power Plan is a bad move
- Twitter will start showing users its rules to encourage better behavior
- This organization wants to help influencers cope with the psychological effects of streaming
- This Game Boy-style iPhone case has one redeeming feature
Last month, we came across a new phone case, which combines the style of a classic Nintendo Game Boy with actual playability. It comes with a handful of classic games like Tetris, Tank, Frogger, and others, and it’s certainly aimed at a nostalgic audience. It looks like a classic Game Boy: a D-pa... - Minit is a beautifully crafted love letter to classic games and the art of death
- I’m not sure connected planters will ever succeed
- Facebook has suspended Canadian data firm AggregateIQ
- 9 new trailers you should watch this week
- Half off iPhone X and Galaxy S9, an Amazon devices deal, and more discounts on smart home tech
- Margaret Killjoy’s Danielle Cain books are razor-sharp anarchist urban fantasies
- I miss Windows Phone
- YouTube will reportedly release a kids’ app curated by humans
- Microsoft will streamline Skype call recording with new Content Creator mode
- Watch the latest trailer for Solo: A Star Wars Story
Disney has released a new trailer for its upcoming Solo: A Star Wars Story, giving us our best look yet at the next standalone installment of the Star Wars franchise. The trailer gives us our best look at what the film is about. The trailer opens with Qi’Ra (played by Game of Thrones’ Emilia Cla... - Apple will reportedly announce a red iPhone 8 Monday
- Chinese ride share company Didi Chuxing is preparing to launch in Mexico
- A broken submarine cable knocked a country off the internet for two days
- Watch NASA dummies crash test flying and falling vehicles
- Ruark Audio’s MRx is a multiroom speaker for design lovers
- Slow Burn is an engrossing podcast that brings the Watergate scandal to life
- The director of Netflix’s zombie film Les Affames says people are scarier than zombies
- Mac DeMarco made a music video for the cat who lives behind his garage
- Disney’s Avatar park will soon feature a giant walking mech suit
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