Saturday, September 07, 2019

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  • Battlefield winner Forethought adds tool to automate support ticket routing 2 days ago  –  Last year at this time, Forethought won the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield competition. A $9 million Series A investment followed last December. Today at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise in San Francisco, the company introduced the latest addition to its platform, called Agatha Predictions. Foreth...
  • Google’s new feature will help you find something to watch 2 days ago  –  Google Search can now help you find your next binge. The company this morning announced a new feature that will make personalized recommendations of what to watch, including both TV shows and movies, and point you to services where the content is available. The feature is an expansion of Google’s...
  • Daily Crunch: Facebook Dating comes to the US 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. Facebook Dating launches in the US, adds Instagram integration The integration means users will be able...
  • Adam Draper gives his oddball accelerator a makeover
  • Lenovo slims down its Google smart display
  • Shared inbox startup Front adds WhatsApp support
  • Porsche Taycan configurator: The 11 details that stood out
  • Upflow grabs $2.7 million to streamline payment processes
  • Facebook’s lead EU regulator is asking questions about its latest security fail
  • Facebook is making its own deepfakes and offering p
  • Original Content podcast: Amazon’s ‘Carnival Row’ mixes fairies, politics and murder 30 minutes ago  –  “Carnival Row” offers an unlikely mix of genres, laying out a murder mystery in a world of fairies and other mythical creatures, while also delivering a healthy dose of allegorical politics. And as we explain in the latest episode of the Original Content podcast, the show (recently released on Am...
  • Wikipedia blames malicious DDOS attack after site goes down across Europe, Middle East 3 hours ago  –  Wikipedia was forced offline in several countries Friday after a cyber attack hit the global encyclopedia. Users across Europe and parts of the Middle East experienced outages shortly before 7pm, BST, according to downdetector.com. Wikimedia’s German Twitter account posted: “The Wikimedia server…...
  • What top enterprise VCs are thinking, using data effectively, ethics, Light, and Flipkart 3 hours ago  –  Top VCs on the changing landscape for enterprise startups TechCrunch had our debut confab for enterprise types this week at Yerba Buena Center in SF, where we heard from Aaron Levie, CEO of Box, Apple VP Susan Prescott of Apple, and Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich. We were sold out, which pe...
  • Uber has surveyed some drivers on small loans, suggesting financial products are coming
  • Startups Weekly: Stripe’s grand plan
  • PrimaryBid closes $8.6M round for its platform aimed to help retail investors
  • Roku expands its TV licensing program to Europe
  • India loses contact with spacecraft during historic moon landing attempt
  • CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads
  • Paid streaming music subscriptions in US top 60M, sa

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  • Everything to expect from Apple’s iPhone event a day ago  –  It’s almost iPhone time (or, as other people call it, “the beginning of September”), and Apple is set to take the stage on September 10th to announce the new iPhone 11 lineup. Of course, Apple doesn’t just make iPhones, so we also expect news on the Apple Watch, Apple TV, all the new software Ap...
    Everything to expect from Apple’s iPhone event a day ago  –  It’s almost iPhone time (or, as other people call it, “the beginning of September”), and Apple is set to take the stage on September 10th to announce the new iPhone 11 lineup. Of course, Apple doesn’t just make iPhones, so we also expect news on the Apple Watch, Apple TV, all the new software Ap...
  • Facebook is under investigation by state attorneys general for antitrust violations
  • Seaman creator Yoot Saito on the fishy Dreamcast AI that was way ahead of its time
  • Netgear’s fast new Orbi Wi-Fi 6 Mesh system costs $699.99
  • Huawei gets around Android ban with ‘new’ P30 Pro design
  • Facebook Dating could have an unfair advantage over its competitors
  • Microsoft’s first PowerToys for Windows 10 now available to download
  • Huawei’s latest AirPods imitators add noise cancellation
  • Huawei builds 5G modem into flagship Kirin 990 processor
  • OnePlus TV remote revealed by CEO
  • Braun speakers make a return with Airplay 2 and Google Assistant a day ago  –  Legendary design brand Braun is back in the speaker business with its first new products since the original Dieter Rams-designed LE line 28 years ago, launching a trio of modern takes on the classic speakers at IFA 2019: the LE01, LE02, and LE03, via 9to5Mac. Or, sort of: the speakers aren’t tec...
    Braun speakers make a return with Airplay 2 and Google Assistant a day ago  –  Legendary design brand Braun is back in the speaker business with its first new products since the original Dieter Rams-designed LE line 28 years ago, launching a trio of modern takes on the classic speakers at IFA 2019: the LE01, LE02, and LE03, via 9to5Mac. Or, sort of: the speakers aren’t tec...
  • Millions of Facebook users’ phone numbers may still be exposed online
  • NYC is suing T-Mobile for allegedly selling used phones as new and using other shady tactics
  • Google’s Discover feed faces climate change controversy
  • Apple accuses Google of ‘stoking fear’ over iPhone security issues
  • Justice Department launches antitrust probe into four automakers around emissions deal with California
  • Leaked internal Siri guidelines show the rules behind Apple’s digital assistant
  • Watch India try to land a spacecraft intact on the Moon for the first time
  • The Verge guide to privacy and security
  • The Verge guide to gaming gear
  • Tile improves its Google Assistant integration just as Apple is rumored to announce a competing tracker a day ago  –  Tile doesn’t want people to forget about it, especially if Apple debuts its own item tracker. Today, Tile announced a minor update to its Google Assistant integration that’ll allow Assistant to directly ring a Tile. The functionality isn’t launching until later this year, but clearly, Tile wants ...
  • Latest Pixel 4 rumors claim 8x zoom, improved Night Sight, and new ‘Motion Mode’
  • Complaint filed against a popular toy channel on YouTube could lead to big ad changes
  • Procreate is getting a new graphics engine and the ability to import Photoshop brushes
  • Apple’s 2020 iPhones are reportedly getting an all-new design
  • Respawn actually asked us to keep noobs at home for its Apex Legends season 3 preview
  • Google will stop running ads for ‘unproven or experimental medical techniques’ after rise in bad actors
  • Russia’s humanoid robot Skybot is on its way home after a two-week stay in space
  • Three people have died of a mysterious lung illness linked to vaping as cases skyrocket
  • Blair Witch is a horror game that really feels like getting
  • 9 new trailers you should watch this week 4 hours ago  –  Kyle Kaplan I just finished watching the new season of Netflix’s Mindhunter. The second season felt a lot stronger than the first; it had a mostly season-long arc that felt mostly conclusive. This season was also really smart about showing the ambiguity in their work, leaving the ending just a...
  • Apple will live stream its iPhone 11 event on YouTube for the first time
  • Microsoft’s quirky musical video mocks Vista, Windows Phone, and more
  • Roku TV is coming to the UK with Hisense’s upcoming sets
    Roku TV is coming to the UK with Hisense’s upcoming sets 10 hours ago  –  Image: Hisense Roku is bringing its TV operating system outside of North America for the first time, the company announced at IFA today. Hisense UK will release its first TVs powered by Roku in the fourth quarter of this year. Previously, Roku’s television operating system has only been availa...
  • Best Buy is leaving smart home users in the cold, but its Wi-Fi freezer will still mostly work
  • The stakes are too high for Apple to spin the iPhone exploits
  • Facebook, Twitter, and Google must remove disinformation, Beto O’Rourke demands
  • India loses communication with lunar lander shortly before scheduled landing on the Moon
  • News anchor sues Facebook and Reddit after a convenience store creepshot showed up in dating ads
  • The Apple Card can double as an extremely sneaky k
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