Monday, November 26, 2018

26 November - Technology - Tech Crunch / The Verge

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  • BlueCargo optimizes stacks of containers for maximum efficiency 4 days ago  –  Meet BlueCargo, a logistics startup focused on seaport terminals. The company was part of Y Combinator’s latest batch and recently raised a $3 million funding round from 1984 Ventures, Green Bay Ventures, Sound Ventures, Kima Ventures and others. If you picture a terminal, chances are you see hug...
  • Amazon warehouse workers in Europe stage ‘we are not robots’ protests 4 days ago  –  Amazon warehouse workers in several countries in Europe are protesting over what they claim are inhuman working conditions which treat people like robots. It’s the latest in a series of worker actions this year. They’ve timed the latest protest for Black Friday, one of the busiest annual shopping...
  • Equity podcast: A Thanksgiving-ish special episode 4 days ago  –  Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. It’s the day after Thanksgiving, so if you are reading this in America I hope there is a pet leaned up against your legs and that you are sitting next to a fire while ...
  • Black Friday hits $6.2B in US online sales, smartphones accounted for $2.1B
  • Meituan, China’s ‘everything app,’ walks away from bike sharing and ride hailing
  • Silentmode’s PowerMask is a $200 connected relaxation mask
  • Black Friday only: 2-for-1 Innovator passes to Disrupt Berlin 2018
  • Soundbrenner’s wearable metronome gets a modular upgrade
  • Thanksgiving online spend hits a record $3.7B, mobile accounted for one-third of sales
  • Be a Thanksgiving security hero with these family-frien
  • UK parliament seizes cache of internal Facebook documents to further privacy probe 2 days ago  –  Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg may yet regret underestimating a UK parliamentary committee that’s been investigating the democracy-denting impact of online disinformation for the best part of this year — and whose repeat requests for facetime he’s just as repeatedly snubbed. In the latest high ...
  • Glimpses of China’s parallel tech universe 2 days ago  –  What can we learn from DETECTIVE CHINATOWN 2? Quite a lot, actually. The 11th biggest box-office hit of the year, it vastly outgrossed the likes of SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY, A STAR IS BORN, and CRAZY RICH ASIANS. You may never have heard of it, though; like OPERATION RED SEA, the 10th biggest hit ...
  • Bitcoin sinks below $4,000 as the crypto market takes another hefty beating 2 days ago  –  As we hang out with family and friends this holiday season, it’s interesting to look back on the Bitcoin mania that we endured one Thanksgiving ago. Aunts and uncles asking about internet money as you passed the mashed potatoes while trying to explain the concept of decentralization in a way that...
  • LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members to buy targeted ads on Facebook
  • Logitech is reportedly offering $2.2 billion to bring Plantronics headsets into its hardware empire
  • Upflow turbocharges your invoices
  • Cards Against Humanity is selling diamonds and TVs for 99% off and totally winning (?) Black Friday
  • New US report says that climate change could cost nearly $500B per year by 2090
  • Daily Crunch: Black Friday’s online sales are projected to hit $5.9B
  • Facebook policy VP Richard Allan to face the interna
  • Black Friday drove half a million new users to the top shopping apps 13 hours ago  –  More U.S. consumers were shopping on mobile devices on Black Friday this year, with $2.1 billion in sales coming from smartphones. This trend was also reflected across the U.S. App Store. According to new data from Sensor Tower out this morning, the top 10 shopping apps on the App Store added hal...
  • Samsung apologizes, promises compensation for factory conditions 14 hours ago  –  Weeks after reaching a settlement, Samsung issued an apology over factory conditions leading to the illness and death of workers. “We offer our sincere apology to our workers who have suffered with illnesses and their families,” executive Kinam Kim said during a press conference late last week. T...
  • US Postal Service exposed data of 60 million users 15 hours ago  –  A broken U.S. Postal Service API exposed more than 60 million users by allowing a researcher to pull millions of rows of data by sending wildcard requests to the server. The resulting security hole has been patched after repeated requests to the USPS. The USPS service, called InformedDelivery, al...
  • Hospital in China denies links to world’s first gene-edited babies
  • Cyber Monday Special: Buy a pass to Disrupt Berlin 2018 and snag a $200 gift
  • UPDATED: CRISPR scientist in China claims his team’s research has resulted in the world’s first gene-edited babies
  • Google reportedly paid £4,000 to settle a racial discrimination lawsuit in the UK
  • That Logitech and Plantronics deal is now dead
  • Tech giants offer empty apologies because users can’t quit
  • Ohio becomes the first state to accept bitcoin for tax pa
  • Google Maps biz reviews can now include hashtags 11 hours ago  –  Google Maps has quietly rolled out a new feature aimed at helping users discover places others have recommended: it now supports hashtags in reviews. For example, if you’re reviewing a restaurant that would make an excellent #datenight spot, you can simply add the appropriate hashtag. Or if the b...
  • Amazon says it’s making freely available the same machine learning courses that it uses to teach its own engineers 11 hours ago  –  It’s Cyber Monday and Amazon has one deal for its customers that’s a little unexpected. The company just announced that it has made available, for free, the same machine learning courses that it uses to train its own engineers. It’s a lot of information to digest — from a programming standpoint. ...
  • Corvus Insurance lands a fresh $10 million to turn sensor data into actionable info for its food and pharma customers 12 hours ago  –  Corvus Insurance, a two-year-old, Boston-based insurance company that uses data across more than 50 criteria to predict and prevent losses for its corporate customers in the food and pharmaceutical industries, has attracted $10 million in funding from .406 Ventures and Hudson Structured, with par...
  • Watch NASA’s InSight Mars lander touch down live (Update: Landed!)
  • Red Dead Online launches in beta tomorrow
  • Banuba raises $7M to supercharge any app or device with the ability to really see you
  • Amazon closes its restaurant delivery service in London
  • Coinbase and others invest $12.75M in project to create ‘digital security offerings’
  • Cyber Monday projected to hit $7.8B in online sales, $2B spent via smartphones
  • Amazon exec Dave Stephenson tapped to lead Airbn

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  • Google’s Night Sight is subtly awesome in the daytime, too 14 hours ago  –  I’ve grown a little obsessed with Google’s Night Sight mode for Pixel cameras. Other than the original Pixel’s release, Night Sight is the largest single leap forward in mobile imaging performance, and it’s doubly impressive for being purely a software upgrade. Pixel owners, from the first-genera...
  • Walmart’s Cyber Monday deals include Lenovo’s Daydream headset, Samsung smart TVs, and more
  • Cyber Monday 2018: the best tech deals
  • The all-electric Rivian R1T is a dream truck for adventurers
  • Samsung agrees to compensate victims of work-related diseases a decade after first complaints
    Samsung agrees to compensate victims of work-related diseases a decade after first complaints 19 hours ago  –  Samsung has apologized to all sufferers of work-related diseases who were employed on its chip and LCD production lines, and has agreed to a compensation package with a maximum value of 150 million Korean won (around $130,000) per illness, reports Yonhap News Agency. ”Beloved colleagues and fami...
  • Logitech isn’t buying Plantronics after all
  • Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9 is $799 until Cyber Monday ends
  • Tom Baker is turning his long-lost Doctor Who movie script into a novel
  • Bitcoin has lost 40 percent of its value in the last two weeks
  • UK video game and comic publisher Rebellion is setti
  • Amazon’s holiday commercial remixed with Captain America’s score is like a Black Mirror episode 13 hours ago  –  The holidays are here, which means stores are once again setting up their display fronts to attract shoppers and brands to air wholesome commercials during Sunday football games. One of those companies is Amazon: its holiday commercial, starring an array of smiling boxes and rushed customers who...
  • Amazon quietly ends its restaurant delivery service in the UK
  • GM is laying off thousands of workers, closing three plants, and ending production of the Chevy Volt
  • Red Dead Online’s beta starts tomorrow
    Red Dead Online’s beta starts tomorrow 13 hours ago  –  Almost exactly a month after Red Dead Redemption 2 launched, developer Rockstar has announced that the game’s online mode will start rolling out this week. The beta for Red Dead Online will actually be available tomorrow for some users, as Rockstar is staggering the launch, likely to avoid the se...
  • The Verge Store’s second anniversary update
  • Russia accuses Google of failing to remove links to banned sites
  • The best TV deals of Cyber Monday 2018
  • Graphcore’s new AI chips are the best-looking server processors you’ll never see
  • The Verge Guide to Cyber Monday
  • Watch NASA engineers track the harrowing landing of
  • Target’s Cyber Monday deals get even better with a 15 percent off discount 9 hours ago  –  Target is keeping the deals flowing this Cyber Monday by offering deep discounts on something for everyone. On top of some good deals on popular products, you can get 15 percent off of your order today when you buy on Target.com. Unfortunately, several products and brands are excluded from this C...
  • A24’s library is now available to stream for free on Kanopy
  • Google is being vague with disclosure in early real-world Duplex calls
    Google is being vague with disclosure in early real-world Duplex calls 10 hours ago  –  Google has begun rolling out its futuristic Duplex feature, which can automatically make voice calls to restaurants and other businesses on a user’s behalf, to a small group of Pixel owners in “select” cities around the US. VentureBeat managed to test out Duplex in the real world and recorded wha...
  • Microsoft briefly overtakes Apple to become the world’s most valuable company
  • Best Buy’s Black Friday sale promises big discounts on TVs, the latest iMac, and game consoles
  • The Walking Dead’s midseason finale got the show back on track
  • eBay’s Cyber Monday deals include a 2018 iPad and Samsung 4K TVs
  • Online porn filters will never work
  • What happens if Apple loses its Supreme Court App Store antitrust appeal?
  • Fallout 76 journal, day 4: the bombs are falling
  • The best headphone deals for Cyber Monday 7 hours ago  –  Cyber Monday is one of the best times of the year to pick up a new pair of headphones, with everything from in-ear buds to noise-cancelling headphones getting price cuts. And best of all, we’ve already done all the heavy lifting for you, putting together all the best deals from across the interne...
  • The biggest unanswered questions from Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald
  • Best Buy rings in Cyber Monday with discounts on Samsung’s Wireless Charger Duo, TCL’s 6-Series 4K HDR TV, and more
  • Newegg’s Cyber Monday deals include discounts on PC components, TVs, and smart home products
  • YouTuber gets Microsoft’s Adaptive Controller working on the Nintendo Switch
  • More possible Pixel 3 Lite photos leak, showing its scale compared to other phones
  • Venmo lost millions from fake payments this year
  • If someone wants to create gene-edited babies, who would stop them?
  • NASA’s InSight spacecraft successfully lands after ‘seven minutes of terror
  • The best laptop deals for the Cyber Monday shoppi
  • Amazon’s Cyber Monday deals include Apple Watch, Samsung phones and lots of free Echos 9 minutes ago  –  Cyber Monday is here — and while it might not have quite the clout of Black Friday, you’d be hard-pressed to tell at Amazon! Today, you can not only get the ginormous retailer’s house-brand gadgets for the same if-you’re-going-to-buy-now’s-the-time prices as you could on Friday... but better yet...
    Amazon’s Cyber Monday deals include Apple Watch, Samsung phones and lots of free Echos 9 minutes ago  –  Cyber Monday is here — and while it might not have quite the clout of Black Friday, you’d be hard-pressed to tell at Amazon! Today, you can not only get the ginormous retailer’s house-brand gadgets for the same if-you’re-going-to-buy-now’s-the-time prices as you could on Friday... but better yet...
  • The best PC gaming deals on Cyber Monday 2018
  • Romaine lettuce from California linked to E. coli outbreak
  • Facebook confirms years-old messages are randomly coming back to haunt users
  • Trump says consumers ‘could stand’ 10 percent tariff on iPhones
  • Google Play-promoted Android apps are using scammy ad practices, report says
  • The best gaming deals this Cyber Monday include discounts on Hitman 2, Xbox One X, and new games
  • Microsoft is discounting the Surface Pro 6, Surface Laptop 2, and Xbox One for Cyber Monday
  • LG patent hints at a 16-lens smartphone camera
  • The Moto G7 Play will have a notch and a much small
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