Saturday, August 17, 2019

17 August - Technology - Tech Crunch / The Verge

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  • Traces AI is building a less invasive alternative to facial recognition tracking 2 days ago  –  With all of the progress we’ve seen in deep learning tech in the past few years, it seems pretty inevitable that security cameras become smarter and more capable in regards to tracking, but there are more options than we think in how we choose to pull this off. Traces AI is a new computer vision ...
  • Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich will join us for TC Sessions: Enterprise on September 5 2 days ago  –  Being the CTO for one of the three major hypercloud providers may seem like enough of a job for most people, but Mark Russinovich, the CTO of Microsoft Azure, has a few other talents in his back pocket. Russinovich, who will join us for a fireside chat at our TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise event...
    Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich will join us for TC Sessions: Enterprise on September 5 2 days ago  –  Being the CTO for one of the three major hypercloud providers may seem like enough of a job for most people, but Mark Russinovich, the CTO of Microsoft Azure, has a few other talents in his back pocket. Russinovich, who will join us for a fireside chat at our TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise event...
  • Daily Crunch: Microsoft admits humans can listen to Skype, Cortana audio 2 days ago  –  The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Microsoft tweaks privacy policy to admit humans can listen to Skype Translator and Cortana audio The ch...
  • Corey Weiner is taking over as CEO of mobile ad company Jun Group
  • GradJoy is a Y Combinator-backed fintech to help you knock out your student loans
  • Local governments are forcing the scooter industry to grow up fast
  • US Cyber Command has publicly posted malware linked to a North Korea hacking group
  • Media software Plex launches a new desktop app for Mac and Windows
  • Apple, Samsung continue growth as North American wearables market hits $2B
  • Look inside Virgin Galactic’s shiny new Spaceport Amer
  • SmileDirectClub files to go public amid concerns from dental associations a day ago  –  SmileDirectClub, the at-home teeth-straightening service, is on its way to becoming a public company. SmileDirectClub is seeking to raise up to $100 million in its IPO, according to its S-1 filed today. The number of shares and price range for the offering have yet to be determined. Prior to this...
  • YC-backed Lokal wants to bring local news, classifieds to 900 million Indians in their regional languages a day ago  –  Each month millions of Indians are coming online for the first time, making India the last great growth market for internet companies worldwide. But winning them presents its own challenges. These users, most of whom live in small cities and villages in India, can’t speak English. Their interests...
    YC-backed Lokal wants to bring local news, classifieds to 900 million Indians in their regional languages a day ago  –  Each month millions of Indians are coming online for the first time, making India the last great growth market for internet companies worldwide. But winning them presents its own challenges. These users, most of whom live in small cities and villages in India, can’t speak English. Their interests...
  • Postmates lands permit to test its Serve autonomous delivery robots in SF a day ago  –  Postmates has officially received the green light from the city of San Francisco to begin testing its Serve wheeled delivery robot on city streets, as first reported by the SF Chronicle and confirmed with Postmates by TechCrunch. The on-demand delivery company told us last week that it expected t...
  • Y Combinator-backed Holy Grail is using machine learning to build better batteries
  • Twitter to test a new filter for spam and abuse in the Direct Message inbox
  • Y Combinator-backed Narrator wants to become the operating system for data science
  • 8 million Android users tricked into downloading 85 adware apps from Google Play
  • Motorola has GoPro aspirations for its latest budget handset
  • How should B2B startups think about growth? Not like B2C
  • YouTube shuts down music companies’ use of manual 
  • NASA and SpaceX practice Crew Dragon evacuation procedure with astronaut recovery vessel 5 hours ago  –  NASA and SpaceX continue their joint preparations for the eventually astronaut crew missions that SpaceX will fly for the agency, with a test of the emergency evacuation procedure for SpaceX’s GO Searcher seaborne ship. The ship is intended to be used to recover spacecraft and astronauts in an ac...
  • Voyage’s driverless future, ghost work, B2B growth strategies, and Black Hat takeaways 6 hours ago  –  Inside Voyage’s plan to deliver a driverless future In the autonomous vehicle space, startups have taken radically different strategies to building our AV future. Some companies like Waymo have driven all across different types of environments in order to rack up the datasets that they believe wi...
  • Ikea doubles down on smart home tech with new business unit 7 hours ago  –  Ikea’s smart home investments to date have been smart but scattered – now the Swedish home goods brand says it’s going to amp up its smart home bets with a brand new dedicated business unit. The company’s smart home endeavors began in 2012, and focused on wireless charging and smart lighting. It’...
  • SoftBank reportedly plans to lend employees as much as $20 billion to invest in its VC fund
  • Next Apple Watch could include new ceramic and titanium models
  • Privacy researchers devise a noise-exploitation attack that defeats dynamic anonymity
  • Startups Weekly: The mad dash to the public markets
  • Samsung Galaxy Note 10+ review
  • Flexible stick-on sensors could wirelessly monitor your sweat and pulse
  • ClearBrain launches analytics tools focused on connect

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  • Jimmy Kimmel, Walking Dead part of $600,000 penalties for false emergency alerts 2 days ago  –  On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission reached a handful of settlements with media outlets following investigations into whether they misused the emergency alert system tone. The agency found that ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, AMC’s The Walking Dead, Animal Planet’s Lone Star Law, and Mer...
  • Amazon is selling gas for 30 cents to promote Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, and police had to intervene
  • Cloudflare warns investors that sites like 8chan are a risk to its business
  • Microsoft’s latest Surface updates are causing CPU and Wi-Fi issues
  • YouTube is changing how some copyright claims work, and it could result in ‘more blocked content’
  • June Oven competitors want you to know their smart ovens can’t remotely turn on in the night
  • NIO co-founder leaves the EV startup in the middle of a tumultuous year
  • After their ad was denied, gay creators are fighting for systemic change at YouTube
  • Amazon’s terrific fantasy Carnival Row works best when it isn’t copying Game of Thrones
  • Apple’s editorial App Store ‘Today’ stories now work i
  • Amazon’s Twitter ambassadors are blurring the line between fact and fiction 2 days ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One of the big lessons of Amazon’s HQ2 debacle, at least from my perspective, was that the company can be weirdly tone-deaf. A purported nationwide search to find a home for a “second headquarters” looked, as soon as the company announced it had settled ...
  • Microsoft’s Xbox chief says no plans for streaming-only console
  • Google Books adds new experimental features that you can test right now
  • The Apple HomePod goes on sale in Japan and Taiwan next week
  • Dropbox had to evacuate its headquarters when an electric scooter caught fire
  • A researcher made a Lightning cable that can hack your computer
  • June will immediately change its app interface to prevent smart ovens from turning on accidentally
  • Renewable energy can generate billions of dollars in health benefits, study finds
  • Asus ZenFone 6 review: a neat flipping camera, but the battery life is better
  • iOS 13 beta hints at an Apple iPhone 11 event on Sept
  • Fortnite’s next tournament will also be its most controversial, thanks to mech suits a day ago  –  The future of competitive Fortnite kicks off tomorrow with the Champion Series, and it’s proving to be the most controversial e-sports contest developer Epic Games has ever embarked on. The issue is not prize money or who’s allowed to participate. Instead, the furor is over an in-game mech suit, ...
  • Bluetooth vulnerability could expose device data to hackers
  • Twitter tests hiding direct messages it thinks are abusive
    Twitter tests hiding direct messages it thinks are abusive a day ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is testing a new feature that will automatically hide direct messages that its automated systems think could be offensive. In a short GIF posted by the company, the new section can be seen in the app’s existing “Message requests” folder, which is...
  • Vergecast: Huawei announces HarmonyOS, Apple’s bad battery week, and smart ovens turn on overnight
  • This weekend, stream two David Fincher crime thrillers: Mindhunter season 2 and Zodiac
  • How fighting game tournaments are dealing with toxic and unruly players
  • Apple’s iPad with 128GB of storage is $299 for the first time at Best Buy
  • Why stowaway creatures on the Moon confound international space law
  • Motorola’s One Action tries to stuff a GoPro into a smartphone
  • Motorola’s 5G Moto Mod now works with its two-year
  • If you’ve bought a Nintendo Switch since July 17th, you might be able to upgrade for free a day ago  –  Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Nintendo made a lightly updated version of the original Switch console that offers improvements like better battery life. But if you bought the old model recently, you might not be out of luck. The company is offering upgrades to the newer model for customers...
  • Huawei may challenge Google Maps’ dominance with its own mapping tech
  • Segway-Ninebot introduces an e-scooter that can drive itself to a charging station
  • Fundo is a new digital meet-and-greet service for creators from Google’s Area 120 incubator
  • Democrats plead with Pai to delay T-Mobile-Sprint vote
  • The best anime of 2019: an ongoing list
  • Runkeeper will stop supporting Wear OS ‘in a few weeks’
  • Beto O’Rourke seeks new limits on Section 230 as part of gun violence proposal
  • YouTube is hiring managers to work with political creators
  • Canoo’s CEO steps away as the startup shows off EV d
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