Tuesday, October 15, 2019

15 October - Technology - Tech Crunch / The Verge

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  • Headless CMS company Strapi raises $4 million 12 hours ago  –  French startup Strapi has raised a $4 million seed round led by Accel and Stride.vc. The company has been working on an open-source Node.js headless content management system. That’s a lot of technical words in a row, but it’s not that hard to understand what Strapi is. Content management systems...
  • Google Pixel 4, Pixel 4 XL not launching in India 12 hours ago  –  The Pixel 4 and Pixel XL smartphones that Google just unveiled at a press conference in New York won’t launch in India, one of the company’s key overseas markets, the Android-maker said on Tuesday. The bottleneck lies in the headline feature Project Soli, a radar-based motion-sensing chip baked i...
  • Google’s new voice recorder app transcribes in real time, even when offline 12 hours ago  –  At Google’s hardware event this morning, the company introduced a new voice recorder app for Android devices, which will tap into advances in real-time speech processing, speech recognition and AI to automatically transcribe recordings in real time as the person is speaking. The improvements will...
  • Google overhauls Nest Aware cloud recording plan
  • Google launches Nest Wifi mesh router and extender with built-in Google Assistant
  • Google’s Pixel 4 ships October 24, starting at $799
  • The Apple TV app arrives on Roku, ahead of Apple TV+ streaming service launch
  • Google Home Mini is now Nest Mini
  • Google launches the $649 Pixelbook Go Chromebook
  • For $164, Jaguar will let you co-pilot its I-Pace race taxi
  • TikTok taps corporate law firm K&L Gates to advise on its US content moderation policies 11 hours ago  –  As TikTok continues its rapid U.S. growth, the company is being challenged to better explain its content moderation choices. Why, for example, is the short-form video app censoring the Hong Kong protests but not U.S. political content? Why is it banning political ads, but supports hashtags like #...
  • Up close with Google’s new Pixel 4 11 hours ago  –  This is the Pixel 4, the handset that literally everyone saw coming. Even by Google’s standards, the handset leaked like crazy. Some was almost certainly by design, as the company looked to hype its new flagship amid slowing smartphone sales. That said, showing up for pre-order on two different s...
  • Watch OpenAI’s ‘human-like’ robot solve a Rubik’s Cube one-handed 11 hours ago  –  There’s always been something so annoying about people who found the need to stack additional challenges onto solving a Rubik’s Cube quickly, whether it was doing it blindfolded or while juggling or one-handed. While it might have just been a challenge for them, it also seemed like a need to show...
  • Uber, Lime and Spin scooters are now legal in SF
  • Spearhead will give $1M to 15 founders to invest freely
  • Entrepreneur First, the ‘talent investor,’ pulls out of Hong Kong
  • Annie Leibovitz used the Pixel 4 to shoot a new collection of photos
  • Google aims to change the definition of good photography with Pixel 4’s software-defined camera
  • Amazon migrates more than 100 consumer services from Oracle to AWS databases
  • Here’s everything Google just announced at the Made 
  • Brazilian unicorn Ebanx will hit $2 billion in payments processed by the end of the year 3 hours ago  –  Ebanx, the newly minted Brazilian financial services unicorn, expects to process $2 billion in payments by the end of the year and is looking to expand its offerings into domestic payments as it grows. Since its launch in 2012, Ebanx has primarily focused on helping international merchants sell l...
  • Google Nest Mini hands-on 3 hours ago  –  Two years after the release of the Home Mini, Google’s back with the sequel. Well, “sequel” might be a bit strong. The Nest Mini is more like one of those 1.5 movies they release on home video with a little extra footage than the theatrical release. That’s not a compliant, exactly. The truth is t...
  • SpaceX files paperwork to launch up to 30,000 more Starlink global internet satellites 4 hours ago  –  SpaceX has filed documents with the International Telecommunication Union, which governs international use of global bandwidth, to launch up to 30,000 more satellites for its Starlink global broadband constellation, SpaceNews reports. That’s on top of the 12,000 it already has permission to launc...
  • LinkedIn gets physical, debuts Events hub for people to plan in-person networking events
  • The Station: A new self-driving car startup, Inside Tesla’s V10 software, Lilium’s big round
  • Flowhub raises $23 million for its retail management software for cannabis dispensaries
  • Twitter says it will restrict users from retweeting world leaders who break its rules
  • David Sacks’s Craft Ventures just closed its second fund with $500 million
  • With Alibaba, Pivotal and Lightbend on board, Reactive flexes its ROI muscle in the microservices world
  • AMC Theatres launches its own on-demand streaming
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  • Google announces Pixelbook Go, a cheaper Pixelbook 13 hours ago  –  Today, at its October hardware event, Google announced the Pixelbook Go, a new Chromebook laptop with a 13.3-inch touchscreen that starts at $649. Google said you can preorder the laptop now in “just black,” and soon in a “not pink” color. Image: Google In a video, Google sho...
  • Google’s Stadia game service is officially coming November 19th: Everything you need to know
  • Google’s new Pixel Buds are coming spring 2020 for $179
  • Google’s Stadia cloud gaming service will launch on November 19th
  • Beats announces Solo Pro on-ear headphones with noise cancellation
    Beats announces Solo Pro on-ear headphones with noise cancellation 13 hours ago  –  Think of them as the Solo 4 Wireless Continue reading…
  • Twitter is thinking about how tweets can become more ephemeral
  • Live from Google’s Pixel 4 event
  • The Apple TV app is coming to Roku devices today
  • Remote-controlled scooters are coming, and Tortoise is (slowly) leading the charge
  • Gita, the cargo robot from the makers of Vespa, is goin
  • How to buy the Google Pixel 4 and the 4 XL 9 hours ago  –  Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge A slew of new Google products is coming, with the new Pixel 4 and Pixel 4 XL phones heading the list. If you’ve already got a Pixel phone and are in the mood to upgrade or if you’ve finally decided that this is the year you’re going to take the plunge, we’ve g...
  • YouTube gets alleged copyright troll to agree to stop trolling YouTubers
  • OpenAI’s AI-powered robot learned how to solve a Rubik’s cube one-handed
  • Elizabeth Warren swears off major donations from Facebook, Google executives
  • Pixel Buds 2 hands-on: Google takes on the AirPods
  • Google Pixel 4 buyers won’t get unlimited photo uploads at original quality
  • Google’s Project Soli: the tech behind Pixel 4’s Motion Sense radar
  • How Google’s Pixel 4 compares to other popular flagship phones
  • Google improves the Pixel 4 camera with Live HDR and more
  • The biggest announcements from Google’s 2019 Pix
  • Politicians aren’t ‘entirely’ above the rules, Twitter says 5 hours ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Democrats have been tearing into Facebook and Twitter’s content and ads policies for days, focusing on rules that leave room for inaccurate or abusive language. But on Tuesday, Twitter put out a blog post in an attempt to clarify that world leaders, like...
  • Instagram’s latest security feature lets you better manage third-party app permissions
  • New computer model predicts where Ebola might strike next
  • Sony is launching its 360-degree audio format this fall
  • Chromebook 101: How to change your Chrome OS channels and get unreleased features
  • Google to revamp Nest Aware with simpler pricing and new features
  • Harry Potter fans can spend $75 a year on a new subscription service
  • Pixel 4 vs. iPhone 11 Pro: a first look at camera photo samples
  • Google is discontinuing the Daydream View VR headset, and the Pixel 4 won’t support Daydream
  • The Pixel 4 doesn’t include any headphones, or even 
  • League of Legends expands with animated series, fighting game, and more 37 minutes ago  –  Arcane. The universe of League of Legends is about to get a whole lot bigger. The wildly popular PC strategy game has been a hit since it debuted back in 2009, but until now it’s also been the only game in the series. Today at its 10th anniversary celebration, developer Riot Games revealed a s...
  • Why it took a decade for Riot to follow League of Legends with a new game
     44 minutes ago  –  Illustrations by Alex Castro / The Verge A decade after League of Legends first debuted, Riot Games is finally ready to announce its next release — or releases, as it turns out. At its 10th anniversary celebration this evening, the company unveiled a huge slate of upcoming games. There are mu...
  • Riot teases Project A, a character-based tactical shooter
  • League of Legends is coming to mobile and console
  • Democrats just had a real debate about automation on stage
  • You can’t use the Pixelbook Pen with the Pixelbook Go
  • Uber, Spin, and Lime scooters are now legal in San Francisco, but Skip is out
  • NASA unveils future Moon spacesuits that should be ready by 2024
  • Google Pixel 4, Pixel 3 or Pixel 3A: Should you upgrade?
  • Meetup wants to charge users $2 just to RSVP for e
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