Sunday, March 24, 2019

24 March - Technology - Tech Crunch / The Verge

Tech Crunch

  • Flying taxi startup Blade is helping Silicon Valley CEOs bypass traffic a day ago  –  Blade, backed by Lerer Hippeau and Airbus, has begun chauffering the Bay Area's elite.
  • A family tracking app was leaking real-time location data a day ago  –  A popular family tracking app was leaking the real-time locations of more than 238,000 users for weeks after the developer left a server exposed without a password. The app, Family Locator, built by Australia-based software house React Apps, allows families to track each other in real-time, such ...
  • A week of game streaming and earthquakes a day ago  –  From Extra Crunch We hope all of you enjoyed the conversation with Eric Peckham and Lucas Matney on GDC and game streaming. For those who couldn’t join, a transcript should be coming shortly. Our enterprise reporter Ron Miller has a dive into how Salesforce became the model for enterprise SaaS co...
  • Planning for the uncertain future of work
  • Corporate biotech venture funding rises again
  • The damage of defaults
  • How Nuro plans to spend Softbank’s $940 million
  • Startups Weekly: A much-needed unicorn IPO update
  • Elon Musk defends tweets in SEC’s contempt proceedings
  • What’s the cost of buying users from Facebook and 13 othe
  • Peek into an empty Steve Jobs Theater before tomorrow’s big Apple event 7 hours ago  –  What are you up to this afternoon? If your answer is anything “watching the livestream of an empty Steve Jobs Theater,” honestly, I’m not sure how you call yourself an Apple fan. A day before the company’s event in Cupertino, Apple’s streaming video of what looks to be an empty theater, bathed in...
  • Meet the Texas startup that wants to decarbonize the chemical industry 8 hours ago  –  Solugen, a startup that has set itself up with no less lofty a goal than the decarbonization of a massive chunk of the petrochemical industry, may be the first legitimate multi-million dollar company to start out in a meth lab. When company co-founders Gaurab Chakrabarti and Sean Hunt began hunti...
  • Apple could charge $9.99 per month each for HBO, Showtime and Starz 9 hours ago  –  The Wall Street Journal has published a report on Apple’s media push. The company is about to unveil a new video streaming service and an Apple News subscription on Monday. According to The WSJ, you’ll be able to subscribe to multiple content packages to increase the video library in a new app ca...
  • Apple could announce its gaming subscription service on Monday
  • Transportation weekly: Nuro dreams of autonomous lattes, what is a metamaterial, Volvo takes the wheel
  • Where did social media go wrong?
  • It’s not so obvious that this VC firm is focused on impact
  • MoviePass parent’s CEO discusses the service’s rocky year
  • The ethics of internet culture: a conversation with Taylor Lorenz
  • Hackers conquer Tesla’s in-car web browser and win a Mod

    •  The Verge
  • Samsung’s quantum dot 4K TV is cheaper than ever, and Sekiro is free with Xbox One consoles at Newegg 3 days ago  –  Samsung’s 65-inch Q9FN 4K HDR television is considerably cheaper than usual at Massdrop. You’ll pay $2,000 for the TV, while the same model goes for $2,797 at Amazon. This is the biggest price drop that we’ve seen so far for this QLED TV. This is still a lot of money, especially for a TV that doe...
    Samsung’s quantum dot 4K TV is cheaper than ever, and Sekiro is free with Xbox One consoles at Newegg 3 days ago  –  Samsung’s 65-inch Q9FN 4K HDR television is considerably cheaper than usual at Massdrop. You’ll pay $2,000 for the TV, while the same model goes for $2,797 at Amazon. This is the biggest price drop that we’ve seen so far for this QLED TV. This is still a lot of money, especially for a TV that doe...
  • Stream the Twilight Zone episode that helped inspire Jordan Peele’s Us
  • Jordan Peele’s Us turns a political statement into unnerving horror
  • Vergecast: iPad mini review and Google’s Stadia
  • Sony will stream new game announcements on March 25th in State of Play broadcast
  • Xbox One consoles include Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice for free at Newegg
  • NickyChulo is the designer behind some of your favorite albums
  • How to enable dark mode on your phone, laptop, and more
  • Apple’s streaming service: the latest developments before the keynote
  • Samsung says upcoming Galaxy A90 will feature a ‘Notchle
  • Apple is reportedly launching truly wireless Powerbeats earbuds in April 2 days ago  –  Apple’s Beats is getting ready to launch truly wireless Powerbeats earbuds in April, CNET reports. CNET’s source, who it says is close to the retail channel, says the new earbuds will reportedly use Apple’s new H1 chip which are used in the new wireless charging AirPods, and have the same always-...
    Apple is reportedly launching truly wireless Powerbeats earbuds in April 2 days ago  –  Apple’s Beats is getting ready to launch truly wireless Powerbeats earbuds in April, CNET reports. CNET’s source, who it says is close to the retail channel, says the new earbuds will reportedly use Apple’s new H1 chip which are used in the new wireless charging AirPods, and have the same always-...
  • Intel abandons development of modular Compute Cards
  • Crunchyroll raises monthly subscription cost for the first time since it launched in 2006
  • Microsoft details how xCloud will let you play Xbox games on an Android phone
  • GoFundMe pledges to remove anti-vax campaigns
  • The best games of 2019
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is masochistic ninja brilliance
  • A physicist explains what the science of phase transitions can teach us about nurturing innovation
  • Samsung’s US marketing chief abruptly leaves company after internal investigation
  • Logan Paul’s satirical flat Earth doc gets to the heart of You
  • Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou had a MacBook, iPhone and iPad when she was arrested 2 days ago  –  This is not a piece of serious news. I don’t think it’s a huge indictment that Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou — who’s currently under house arrest in Canada while she fights extradition to the US — happened to be carrying a 12-inch MacBook, an iPhone 7 Plus, and an iPad Pro when she was taken into custo...
    Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou had a MacBook, iPhone and iPad when she was arrested 2 days ago  –  This is not a piece of serious news. I don’t think it’s a huge indictment that Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou — who’s currently under house arrest in Canada while she fights extradition to the US — happened to be carrying a 12-inch MacBook, an iPhone 7 Plus, and an iPad Pro when she was taken into custo...
  • Elon Musk says the SEC’s attempt to hold him in contempt is ‘virtually wrong at every level’
  • Supernatural will end with its 15th season
  • The Windows 10 calculator will soon be able to graph math equations
  • Apple’s show time special event: what to expect from the TV and news service announcements
  • Pinterest files for IPO, but avoids calling itself a social network
  • Netflix tests a mobile-only plan in select countries that costs $3
  • Netflix is experimenting with different episode orders for its new anthology show
  • Google Stadia wants YouTubers to play with fans, but that could leave creators open to attacks
  • Study confirms AT&T’s fake 5G E network is no faster than 
  • Shazam! finally lets DC superheroes be joyous fun a day ago  –  Shazam! takes place in the same universe as other films adapted from DC Comics, but writer Henry Gayden (Earth to Echo) and director David F. Sandberg (Lights Out) seem determined to turn that universe upside down. Or at least, they want to blow a raspberry at the glum-and-glummer world establish...
  • A New Jersey high school adapted Alien for its spring play
  • Want more Love, Death + Robots? Read these 17 short stories online
  • 12 new trailers you should watch this week
  • Apple’s next iPhone might be able to wirelessly charge other devices
  • The new iMac is $200 off, and PlayStation Plus subscriptions are 25 percent off
  • A first look at Microsoft’s new Chromium-powered Edge browser
  • ‘I finally cracked it’: An abridged history of Apple’s TV efforts over the years
  • Apple might reveal its game subscription service at Monday’s event
  • Sticking a leather cover on my laptop seemed like a good ide
  • Faraday Future strikes deal to make cars in China with mobile gaming company 2 hours ago  –  Troubled electric car startup Faraday Future has received another surprise lifeline in the form of a new 50/50 joint venture partnership with Chinese online video game company The9, the EV company announced Sunday. The9 says it’s willing to contribute up to $600 million to the joint venture, and ...
  • Apple is teasing tomorrow’s show time event with a ‘live stream’ of the Steve Jobs theater
  • Apple’s original TV shows reportedly won’t be free — plus $9.99 for HBO, Starz, Showtime
  • Girl on the Third Floor is a skin-crawling horror movie about home improvement
  • Regulators have ‘tentatively approved’ a software fix for Boeing’s 737 Max airplane
  • Microsoft’s new Chromium Edge browser leaked online
  • Love in the time of video games and Discord
  • Tesla is adding a stop light warning to Autopilot
  • Chinese EV startup XPeng is at the center of major trade secret disputes with Apple and Tesla
  • Test your animal knowledge with these challenges on Twitte
    • Posted by at

    No comments:

    Post a Comment

    Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)