Thursday, May 02, 2019

2 May - Technology - Tech Crunch / The Verge

Tech Crunch
  • Samsung Ventures’ first investment in Southeast Asia is HR startup Swingvy a day ago  –  Samsung Ventures, the VC arm of the Korean electronics giant, has made its first investment in Southeast Asia after it backed HR startup Swingvy. Singapore-based Swingy’s service provides HR services, payroll and insurance for SMEs on a freemium basis. The company announced this week that it rais...
  • A mini-series on the Thai cave rescue is heading to Netflix a day ago  –  The rescue of a boys soccer team from caves in Thailand captivated the world last year, and now a mini-series chronically the incredible scenes is headed to Netflix . The streaming giant announced this week that it has secured the rights from 13 Thumluang Company, which represents the boys and th...
  • India’s Times Internet isn’t ceding ground to US rivals Facebook and Google a day ago  –  The aggressive push by Silicon Valley companies and Chinese firms to win India, one of the last great growth markets, has decimated many local businesses in recent years. With each passing day, Amazon is closing in on Walmart-owned Flipkart’s lead on the e-commerce space. Uber is fighting with Ol...
  • AWS opens up its managed blockchain as a service to everybody
  • SoftBank Vision Fund says its team will balloon to a whopping 800 people in the next 24 months
  • SoftBank makes a huge bet on Latin America
  • YouTube sets a goal of having half of trending videos coming from its own site
  • AR will mean dystopia if we don’t act today
  • USV closes on $450M for new funds, adds two partners
  • Services really are becoming a bigger part of Apple’s busin
  • Google now lets you auto-delete your app activity, location and web history 16 hours ago  –  It’s no secret that unless you are very careful about what you opt-in to, Google keeps a very detailed record of your location history and a log of the web sites you visit in Chrome and apps you use. There have always been ways to fully opt out of this or to painstakingly delete these […]
  • Twitter grilled on policy approach that reinforces misogyny 16 hours ago  –  Twitter has faced a barrage of awkward questions from the U.K. parliament over its ongoing failure to tackle violent abuse targeted at women.  Katy Minshall, the social media platform’s head of U.K. government public policy, admitted it needs to do more to safeguard women users — but claimed the ...
  • Google launches CallJoy, a virtual customer service phone agent for small businesses 16 hours ago  –  Google is combining several technologies, including virtual phone numbers, audio transcriptions, automated reporting and analytics, in a new effort to help small business owners better manage their inbound phone calls. The company’s latest project from its in-house incubator is CallJoy, launching...
  • Showcase your startup — buy a demo table at TC Sessions: Mobility 2019
  • iPhone hard hit as global smartphone shipments continue nosedive
  • UK plans new law aimed at improving Internet of Things security
  • Netflix launches high-quality audio for TV viewers
  • Alexa in-skill purchasing, which lets developers make money from voice apps, launches internationally
  • Google’s Wear OS gets tiles
  • SeatGeek names former Tumblr and NYT exec Brian Murph
  • Final Niantic EC-1 lessons, F8 call, Slack, WeWork and TED 13 hours ago  –  Live Conference Call: Josh Constine and Frederic Lardinois talk all things F8 in just a bit Facebook’s annual F8 conference is in full swing, with major redesigns of the company’s apps and all sorts of news trickling out of San Jose. We have Josh Constine and Frederic Lardinois on the ground talk...
  • Job recruitment site Ladders exposed 13 million user profiles 13 hours ago  –  Ladders, one of the most popular job recruitment sites in the U.S. specializing in high-end jobs, has exposed more than 13.7 million user records following a security lapse. The New York-based company left an Amazon -hosted Elasticsearch database exposed without a password, allowing anyone to acc...
  • Nine lessons on how Niantic reached a $4B valuation 13 hours ago  –  We’ve captured much of Niantic’s ongoing story in the first three parts of our EC-1, from its beginnings as an “entrepreneurial lab” within Google, to its spin-out as an independent company and the launch of Pokémon GO, to its ongoing focus on becoming a platform for others to build augmented rea...
  • Madrona Venture Group launches $100M acceleration fund
  • Tesla sued in wrongful death lawsuit that alleges Autopilot caused crash
  • Blue Origin lofts NASA and student experiments in New Shepard tomorrow morning
  • The Daily Crunch: Apple stock jumps after earnings
  • Walmart’s Vudu shows off original content and shoppable ads, hints at interactive shows
  • Facebook updates PyTorch with a focus on production use
  • Facebook open-sources Ax and BoTorch to simplify AI mod
  • Once a major name in smartphones, LG Mobile is now irrelevant — and still losing money 3 hours ago  –  LG was once a stalwart of the smartphone industry — remember its collaboration with Facebook back in the day? — but today the company is swiftly descending into irrelevance. The latest proof is LG’s Q1 financials, released this week, which show that its mobile division grossed just KRW 1.51 trill...
  • Acast launches Acast Access to make paywalled podcasts available on any player 5 hours ago  –  Podcast monetization company Acast is launching a new way for publishers to put their podcasts behind a paywall. Until now, podcasts have not been well-suited to subscription paywalls, due to the fact that they’re distributed via RSS feeds that can be accessed by any podcast player. So instead we...
  • A 30-mph e-bike to compete with cars in cities? Investors just bet $20 million on it 8 hours ago  –  Bird and Lime are scooting along, backed by hundreds of millions in venture capital. But there are still plenty of companies hoping to dominate the still-nascent micro mobility market, given the financial opportunity it’s promising. Among them: Bond Mobility, a three-year-old Palo Alto, Calif.- a...
  • Facebook pivots to what it wishes it was
  • Google opens Android Automotive OS to Spotify, other media app developers
  • Pluralsight will acquire GitPrime for $170M
  • Epic Games is buying the studio behind Rocket League
  • FanDuel is now charging inactive users $3 per month for not playing
  • Square reports Q1 sales of $489M, up 59%, but net loss widens to $38M
  • Fitbit beats Q1 revenue expectations as smartwatch growt

    •  The Verge
  • The court has approved Elon Musk’s new agreement to let lawyers oversee his Tesla tweets a day ago  –  Elon Musk has agreed to more specific oversight on his tweets about Tesla, and a court has now approved the deal. After weeks of negotiation, Musk and the Securities and Exchange Commission decided last Friday that Musk must have a company lawyer pre-approve tweets about Tesla’s financial health,...
  • Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt will leave Alphabet’s board after 18 years
  • Border officials have ‘near-unfettered’ access to electronic devices, ACLU says
  • Slack vocab game that gave away money for no real reason is getting shut down
  • Apple, Luminary, Spotify, and the podcast wars to come
  • YouTube CEO addresses top creator issues including copyright claims and trending section
  • The 5 biggest announcements from Facebook’s F8 developer conference keynote
  • Apple’s Q2 earnings: iPhone sales continue to drop as services keep growing
  • The National Academy of Sciences moves toward ejecting sexual harassers
  • Game of Thrones’ writers don’t know what to do with their
  • Moment overhauls its camera app with even more manual controls 20 hours ago  –  Moment has updated its iOS and Android camera apps with a swathe of new features to give you both more control and more information about your photos and videos. What started as little more than a software companion to Moment’s range of smartphone lenses has since evolved into a capable camera ap...
  • Huawei is reportedly preparing a 5G 8K TV for later this year
  • DuckDuckGo wrote a bill to stop advertisers from tracking you online
  • MrSpeakers Ether 2 review: true high-resolution headphones
  • Uber expands its driver rewards program to 20 more US cities
  • The Nokia 4.2 gets a US release date and $189 price tag
  • Facebook’s total focus on privacy could crowd out more important issues
  • Huawei’s phone sales are ballooning while Apple and Samsung’s slump
  • Apple Pay is coming to New York City’s MTA transit system this summer
  • Game of Thrones cinematographer: it’s not me, it’s your TV
  • Patreon is raising fees for new creators next week — but not for existing users 17 hours ago  –  If you’re interested in starting a Patreon campaign for your art, videos, or other creative work, you should join this week before the crowdfunding company raises its rates. Patreon announced a new payment plan structure in March, and on May 7th, it will start charging a higher commission for acc...
  • Don’t panic: NASA is just simulating a potentially catastrophic asteroid impact this week
  • Google and Nest products are discounted for Mother’s Day
  • Google is adding useful widgets called Tiles to Wear OS smartwatches
  • 10 new science fiction and fantasy books to check out in May
  • New York state is allowing early vaccination for infants to combat measles outbreaks
  • Snap’s big plan to turn Snapchat into a gaming platform
  • High-wattage USB-C batteries can keep your laptop charged on the go
  • Ghost Rider and Helstrom are Hulu’s next two live-action Marvel shows
  • Caavo drops price of Control Center, adds Sonos support
  • Spotify tests placing podcast episodes alongside music recommendations 14 hours ago  –  Spotify is spending millions to become a major player in podcasting, and today we got a look at how it might begin promoting shows: by placing suggested episodes into algorithmically generated playlists. A test seen by The Verge shows several short podcast episodes placed alongside personalized m...
  • Fortnite’s volcano is starting to erupt
  • Google employees protest retaliation with international sit-in
  • Star Trek: Discovery needs to make its Borg connection canon
  • Google will soon let you auto-delete your location tracking data
  • In The Handmaid’s Tale season 3 trailer, revolution comes to Gilead
  • Game of Thrones has spent three years foreshadowing The Long Night’s ending
  • Netflix’s new high-quality audio adjusts to match your internet speeds
  • Hulu’s Veronica Mars has a new trailer and its first hints of plot
  • Tesla sued by family of man killed in Autopilot-related crash
  • Pixel 3a price leak suggests it’ll be $399 and up 12 minutes ago  –  Google’s all-but-official budget smartphones, the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL, will cost from $399 and $479 respectively, according to the YouTube channel This is Tech Today. Both prices are for the 64GB storage models of the phones, which will reportedly also be available with 128GB of storage. The...
  • Netflix got Quentin Tarantino to turn a movie into a miniseries — should we expect more?
  • Amazon says fully automated shipping warehouses are at least a decade away
  • Valve’s hilarious Index dongle somehow makes VirtualLink complicated
  • Qualcomm will get at least $4.5 billion from Apple as part of its patent settlement
  • An Apple lobbyist just sneakily pushed California to postpone its right-to-repair bill
  • Alaska will connect to the continental US via a 100-terabit fiber optic network
  • Faraday Future is working with ‘a bankruptcy legend’ to stave off collapse
  • Epic buys Rocket League developer Psyonix, strongly hints it will stop selling the game on Steam
  • Lyft loses effort to block NYC’s driver wage rule
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