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NASA’s best-yet photo of asteroid Bennu nails the dramatic lighting 17 hours ago – NASA has taken a breathtaking new image of near-Earth asteroid Bennu, captured by its OSIRIS-REx spacecraft from its new, second orbit of the extraterrestrial object. The new picture, snapped on June 13, provides a pretty much full-length view of Bennu, with half of its surface lit by the sun and...
GoTenna is ramping up public sector mesh networking with a $24M C round 17 hours ago – GoTenna is best known for its outdoors-oriented consumer products that let you text and share locations between smartphones off the grid. But the company has found that government work — military, fire, rescue — is the real market, and is pursuing it with a vengeance on the strength of a $24 mill...
Youper, a chatbot that helps users navigate their emotions, raises $3 million in seed funding 17 hours ago – Youper, a mental health app with a chatbot it calls an “emotional health assistant,” has raised $3 million in seed funding from Goodwater Capital. The funds will be used to accelerate development of Youper’s artificial intelligence-based capabilities and grow its user base. Based in San Francisco...
Amazon’s Twitch acquired social networking platform Bebo for up to $25M to bolster its esports efforts
New iOS feature prompts you to cancel subscriptions when uninstalling apps
Anti-spam service Truecaller adds free voice calling feature
MongoDB gets a data lake, new security features and more
Dishcraft launches with a massive robotics-powered dishwashing system
Carmen Sandiego returns to Google Earth with a new caper
Salesforce Customer Data Platform begins to take shape

Simone Giertz’s converted Tesla Model 3 pickup truck is wonderful 15 hours ago – YouTuber Simone Giertz, celebrated DIY inventor, roboticist and general maker of cool stuff, decided not to wait for Tesla’s forthcoming pickup truck. Instead, she bought a Tesla Model 3 direct from the company new and then used elbow grease, ingenuity, some help from friends and power tools to t...
Verified Expert Growth Marketing Agency: NoGood 15 hours ago – NoGood CEO Mostafa Elbermawy describes how they evaluate a client’s growth challenges by quoting Zen teacher Hunryu Suzuki: “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are only a few.” Rather than deferring to in-house playbooks, NoGood adopts an open mind com...
Microsoft PowerPoint gets an AI presentation coach 15 hours ago – Love it or hate it, Microsoft’s PowerPoint is a ubiquitous tool in the corporate world. Over the course of the last few years, Microsoft started to bring some of its AI smarts to PowerPoint to help you design good-looking slides. Today, it’s launching a number of updates and new features that mak...
How Facebook’s Libra is similar in concept and motivation to Kik’s Kin cryptocurrency
Focals by North Review: The future is (almost) here
4 days left to score the best price on Disrupt SF 2019
Google Calendar is down, it’s not just you — Update: It’s back
Orbit Fab becomes first startup to supply water to ISS, paving the way for satellite refueling
Amazon expands air cargo fleet with 15 more planes, will have 70 planes by 2021
Dr. Mario is in (on iOS and Android) July 10

SafeAI raises $5M to develop and deploy autonomy for mining and construction vehicles 13 hours ago – Startup SafeAI, powered by a founding talent team with experience across Apple, Ford and Caterpillar, is emerging from stealth today with a $5 million funding announcement. The company’s focus is on autonomous vehicle technology, designed and built specifically for heavy equipment used in the min...

House lawmakers demand end to warrantless collection of Americans’ data 13 hours ago – Two House lawmakers are pushing an amendment that would effectively defund a massive data collection program run by the National Security Agency unless the government promises to not intentionally collect data of Americans. The bipartisan amendment — just 15 lines in length — would compel the gov...

Google now lets you flag deceptive sites with a new Chrome extension 13 hours ago – Google today launched a new Chrome extension that allows you to flag suspicious sites for inclusion in the company’s Safe Browsing index, which is used by Chrome and a number of third-party browsers. In addition, Google is also launching a new warning in Chrome that puts up a roadblock before you...

Google announces $1B, 10-year plan to add thousands of homes to Bay Area

Roli’s newest instrument, the Lumi, helps you learn to play piano with lights

Leaving for a competitor? Onboarding new employees? Avoid accusations of trade secret theft

Daily Crunch: Facebook unveils Libra cryptocurrency

Apple launches a Beddit beta program focused on improving its app

The Geesaa automates (but overcomplicates) pourover coffee

Advertisers and digital media companies form a new G

An open letter to Google and Apple: Stop hindering Iranian entrepreneurs 10 hours ago – Take away my toolbox and ask me to be a carpenter. This is what Google and Apple are asking of Iran’s budding entrepreneurship sector by barring access to essential platforms and software.

Atlassian’s co-CEO Scott Farquhar will join us at TC Sessions: Enterprise 11 hours ago – Few companies have changed the way developers work as profoundly as Atlassian. Its tools like Jira and Confluence are ubiquitous, and over the course of the last few years, the company has started to adapt many of them for wider enterprise usage outside of developer teams. To talk about Atlassian...

Careteam aims to unite patients and healthcare providers with a platform approach 11 hours ago – How best to untangle the Gordian knot that is navigating your own healthcare? It’s a tricky question, and one that seems to have become only more complicated as technology improves, in many regards — systems don’t necessarily speak to one another, and it’s still hard for an ordinary patient witho...

For pen testing firm IOActive, security is cultural not transactional

Probably Genetic helps families identify genetic conditions early with AI and DNA tests

Tesla is turning its showrooms into arcades

VidAngel ordered to pay $62.4M for copyright infringement

YouTube’s new AR Beauty Try-On lets viewers virtually try on makeup while watching video reviews

Fresh off a $2.65B valuation, Plaid co-founder William Hockey is leaving

Cruise is sharing its data visualization tool with robotics

Microsoft’s first data center regions in the Middle East are now generally available 14 minutes ago – Microsoft today announced that is first data center regions in the Middle East are now online. The data centers are located in Abu Dhabi and Dubai and will offer local access to the usual suite of services, including Azure’s cloud computing services and Office 365. Support for Dynamics 365 and Mi...
Meero raises $230 million for its on-demand photo platform 42 minutes ago – Chances are you always look at photos before you order food in your favorite food delivery app, or before you book a hotel room. French startup Meero wants to make the web and mobile apps look beautiful by helping businesses get good photos. And the company just raised a $230 million funding roun...
Twitter will remove precise location tagging in tweets, citing lack of use an hour ago – Update: An earlier version of this post said Twitter is removing location tagging in tweets. In fact, it is only removing the ability to share precise location details like latitude and longitude. In an announcement today from its support account, Twitter said it is removing the option to tag pre...
San Francisco is getting closer to an e-cigarette ban to protect kids, but it may hurt adult smokers who use vaping to quit
Google will start attributing lyrics in its search results to their third-party providers
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will launch on June 21st
The real risk of Facebook’s Libra coin is crooked developers
Apple Watch’s own built-in apps can be deleted in watchOS 6
People familiar with Slack’s upcoming public offering share what to expect
This $99 AirPower knockoff is available for order now

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Microsoft To-Do takes another step towards replacing Wunderlist with Mac release a day ago – Microsoft To-Do is now available for Mac. The to-do list app is free on the Mac App Store, and its release means that Mac users will no longer have to rely on the service’s web app to keep track of their daily tasks. It includes all the major features you’d expect, including the ability to sync t...

Wacom releases rechargeable Bamboo Ink Plus for Windows 10 tablets

Nintendo’s mobile Dr. Mario is coming out in a few weeks

The 5G iPhone is coming in 2020, says analyst Ming-Chi Kuo

J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot may sign an exclusive deal with AT&T for $500 million

Apple is adding picture-in-picture mode to the Apple TV

NASA spacecraft snaps detailed asteroid picture from closest orbit yet

No, Elon Musk did not delete his Twitter account

Twitch sues to unmask trolls that posted violent and pornographic streams

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Panasonic Lumix S1 review: the mirrorless heavyweight 17 hours ago – Big on both price and performance Continue reading…

John Wick Hex turns you into a cold, calculated killer

TikTok users are turning a top creator’s apology video into new TikTok creations

No Man’s Sky fans crowdfund a billboard message to thank developer for work

A light-up keyboard from Roli teaches you to play piano like it’s Guitar Hero

The tiny Palm phone can now be bought unlocked and used on AT&T and T-Mobile

Latest iOS beta prompts you to unsubscribe when uninstalling apps with paid subs

Facebook confirms it will launch a cryptocurrency called Libra in 2020

Facebook’s Calibra is a secret weapon for monetizing its new cryptocurrency

Microsoft considering a dedicated Office key for keyboar

Would Facebook be better if we paid for it? 14 hours ago – Is the advertising model that allows our use of Facebook to be free actually the thing that’s wrong with Facebook? If we all just paid a subscription fee each month, would that solve some of the issues and concerns with privacy, data, and so on? Here is a lightly edited excerpt of Verge senior e...

Bernie Sanders applauds the gaming industry’s push for unionization

Openly Operated wants to make privacy policies actually mean something

European regulators are already pressing Facebook about its cryptocurrency

The Fujifilm X-T2 mirrorless camera body is cheaper than ever

PowerPoint will listen to rehearsals to help you stop swearing and stuttering

The science behind those viral videos of freezing soap bubbles

YouTuber Simone Giertz transformed a Tesla Model 3 into a pickup truck

Google Calendar was down for hours after major outage

LG’s 5G-equipped V50 ThinQ is coming to Verizon on J

T-Mobile and Sprint are reportedly nearing a deal with Dish to save their merger 11 hours ago – Dish is negotiating a deal to buy wireless spectrum and Boost Mobile from T-Mobile and Sprint, as the latter two companies look to finally receive approval for their huge, industry-reshaping merger. According to Bloomberg, Dish has emerged as the company most likely to purchase the assets that T-...

Sex toy company sues MTA over rejected ads

Super Mario makes for a shockingly good battle royale game

Top Democrat calls for strict oversight on Facebook’s new cryptocurrency

Since season 1, Jessica Jones has struggled to mix horror with superheroes

Google pledges $1 billion to ease the Silicon Valley housing crisis it helped create

Facebook’s cryptocurrency has a trust problem

EA thinks gaming subscriptions will lead to weirder, more creative games

Commercial space companies have received $7.2 billion in government investment since 2000

Pandora is being sued for showing Tom Petty song lyrics

Internet giants must stay unbiased to keep their biggest legal shield, senator proposes 3 hours ago – On Wednesday, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is expected to introduce legislation that would heavily modify section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, adding new restrictions to the broad immunity currently enjoyed by platform companies. Under Hawley’s “Ending Support for Internet Censorship Act,” c...

Tesla Arcade hands-on: using a Model 3 steering wheel as a game controller

Harry Potter: Wizards Unite will launch on Friday

Xiaomi caught ripping off an artist’s work — including art commissioned by LG

Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 reportedly launching on August 7th

Update your Firefox browser now, there’s an emergency patch you’ll want

How to convert your Xbox Live subscription into Xbox Game Pass Ultimate

Magic Leap sues Nreal for allegedly stealing AR glasses design

Top Democrat calls for Facebook to halt cryptocurrency plans until Congress investigates

Google will cite where its song lyrics come from followi