Thursday, December 12, 2019

12 December - Technology - Tech Crunch / The Next Web / The Verge

Tech Crunch
  • Here are the five Startup Battlefield finalists at Disrupt Berlin a day ago  –  Fourteen startups presented onstage today at Disrupt Berlin, giving live demos and rapid-fire presentations on their origin stories and business models, then answering questions from our expert judges. Now, with the help of those judges, we’ve narrowed the group down to five startups working on e...
  • Gtmhub raises $9M from CRV after posting 400% ARR growth in the last year a day ago  –  This week Gtmhub announced a $9 million Series A led by CRV. The investment was not a large round, even for an A. But the capital found its way into one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies that we’ve spoken with recently, which made it interesting all the same. And, the firm was willing to talk...
  • Many smart home device makers still won’t say if they give your data to the government a day ago  –  A year ago, we asked some of the most prominent smart home device makers if they have given customer data to governments. The results were mixed. The big three smart home device makers — Amazon, Facebook and Google (which includes Nest) — all disclosed in their transparency reports if and when go...
  • Spotify’s founding story is going to be a Netflix series
  • Join TechCrunch for our 3rd Annual Winter Party
  • Daily Crunch: Apple adds new iPhone parental controls
  • Peleton’s stock sinks 7% as the ad saga continues to weigh on the company
  • YouTube’s tougher harassment policy aims to address hate speech, veiled threats and repeat offenders
  • Apply to the pitch-off at TC Sessions: Robotics+AI 2020

  • Google Cloud gets a new family of cheaper general-p
  • Be in the TechCrunch End of Year Review for Europe 16 hours ago  –  TechCrunch is running an end-of-year review for the European tech startup industry. We’d love your input on the feature! We’d like to know which particular topics really resonated with you in 2019 and what your predictions are for 2020. Fill in the survey here. Please give us your thoughts in the...
  • MUBI’s production effort nets it a Sundance selection as the company goes cashflow positive 17 hours ago  –  Streaming services are popping up like weeds these days, but MUBI has been at it basically since streaming video first emerged as a business. Founded in 2007, MUBI focuses on curated, independent film from international artists and creators, and the company has recently further differentiated its...
  • Aeva snags VW investment with smaller, longer-range lidar 17 hours ago  –  Lidar startup Aeva has deepened its relationship with VW Group with a new investment from Porsche Automobili Holding SE, thanks to a next-generation sensor that is headed for the ID Buzz AV, an electric reboot of the automaker’s iconic bus that will be used as autonomous taxis. Aeva’s newest lida...
  • Glovo’s Sacha Michaud: ‘I think there will be consolidation’
  • Portify raises £7M Series A for its fintech app for ‘modern’ or gig economy workers
  • Watch Disrupt Berlin Day 2 live right here
  • Yubo raises $12.3 million for its social app for teens
  • Blue Origin moves closer to human spaceflight with 12th New Shepard launch
  • Atomico VCs say that ‘everybody cares’ in Europe about where the startup dollars are coming from

  • ‘Disney Plus’ was Google’s top US trending search ter
  • Waymo buys Latent Logic, drives deeper into simulation and Europe 12 hours ago  –  Waymo has acquired Latent Logic, a U.K. company that spun out of Oxford University’s computer science department, as the autonomous vehicle company seeks to beef up its simulation technology. The acquisition also marks the launch of Waymo’s first European engineering hub, which will be in Oxford,...
  • Interpreter, Google’s real-time translator, comes to mobile 12 hours ago  –  After rolling out on smart speakers and displays earlier this year, Google’s interpreter real-time translation mode is finally landing on mobile. A far more handy application for such functionality, the feature arrives on both Android and iOS handsets globally, starting today. The feature works i...
  • Robinhood lets you invest as little as 1 cent in any stock 12 hours ago  –  One share of Amazon stock costs more than $1,700, locking out less-wealthy investors. So to continue its quest to democratize stock trading, Robinhood is launching fractional share trading this week. This lets you buy 0.000001 shares, rounded to the nearest penny, or just $1 of any stock, with ze...
  • Facebook’s Messenger adds Star Wars-themed features and AR effects
  • Conductor execs buy their company back from WeWork
  • Klarna CEO says ‘maybe’ of taking public Europe’s most valuable fintech next year (but he’s not ruling out another round, either)
  • Bill.com’s IPO pricing is good news for unprofitable startups
  • Atom Finance’s free Bloomberg Terminal rival raises $12M
  • Northrop Grumman lands customer for first OmegA rocket launch in 2021

  • GetYourGuide widens its horizons, will expand its Ori


    • The Next Web
    This $722M Bitcoin mining scam referred to its marks as ‘dumb’ investors and ‘sheep’ 2 days ago  –  Authorities in the US have arrested three men in connection with BitClub Network, a Bitcoin mining scheme that allegedly defrauded investors out of a staggering $722 million. According to a release issued by the US Department of Justice, Matthew Brent Goettsche and Jobadiah Sinclair Weeks — both ...

  • Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin price is slowly but consistently declining again’ 2 days ago  –  Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Isaac Newton used to say: Peel off the skin of this mystery and eat the tasty fr...
  • How we can stop our smart toasters from spying on us
  • India’s proposed data protection might force companies to introduce user verification
  • Man tries to steal domain name at gunpoint, gets 14 years in prison instead
  • I want to meet the person who buys the $53k Mac Pro
  • Humans best AI in first-ever Drone Racing League showdown
  • Buchardt S400 Review: Remarkable speakers near endgame material
  • Double eureka: Breakthroughs could lead to quantum ‘FM radio’ and the end of noise
  • Resident Evil 3 Remake is real — and it’s coming out

    • $1.6B in Bitcoin bought during 2017’s bull run hasn’t moved 2 days ago  –  Bitcoin‘s long-term holders continue to keep their cryptocurrency close, despite its declining value — 59 percent of BTC’s circulating supply still hasn’t moved in at least one year. Generally, these trends are in-line with shrinking Bitcoin trading volumes, reports research firm Delphi Digital. ...

  • Dutch crypto payment fraudsters could face 6 years in prison under new bill 2 days ago  –  Law makers in the Netherlands could be increasing the maximum prison sentence for those committing payment fraud with cryptocurrency and money transfer apps. Presently, fraudsters that commit payment fraud with banking and money transfer apps — such as Tikkie — face between one and four years in ...
  • Zuitte bundles 50 online business tools together to help scale your startup or side hustle
  • Bose’s Star Wars headphones are exactly what we deserve
  • CHEAP: Reach for the stars. Here’s $250 off the Samsung Galaxy S10
  • Chrome now alerts you when someone steals your password
  • iPhone 11 is the only gadget to make Google’s 2019 top searches
  • Toshl is how 2 million people track their money. Right now, it’s 66% off.
  • Telegram exec should testify in UK over alleged illegal token sales, says US judge
  • Thanks to AI, medical treatments are becoming more 

    • Netflix’s newest original is a scripted series about Spotify a day ago  –  Netflix today announced its plan for a scripted series about “Swedish music sensation Spotify.” The series, based on the book Spotify Untold, will focus on the company’s origin story as it rose from European unknown to household name during the heyday of music piracy. “The story of how a small ba...

  • Forza Horizon 4 becomes the latest game to get a Battle Royale mode a day ago  –  Starting tomorrow, 12 December, Battle Royale fever hits… Forza Horizon 4? Developer Playground Games today announced the game’s upcoming free update will include a 72-car elimination race mode. And it looks awesome: Ah Battle Royale, the game mode that pits dozens of bloodthirsty maniacs against...
  • Putting wheels on your new Mac Pro will cost you $400
  • This gold-and-diamond-encrusted Jesus phone is the absolute most
  • Report: Palantir took over Project Maven, the military AI program too unethical for Google
  • Huawei’s P40 could pack a 120Hz screen and a massive 5,500 mAh battery
  • WhatsApp will sue businesses for abusing bulk messaging
  • YouTube now bans ‘veiled threats’ against content creators
  • Report: A single province in China controls 54 percent of Bitcoin’s hash rate
  • My god, budget phones are fucking good these days

    • Video: What’s new with the iPhone 11 Pro and the iPhone 11 Pro Max? 13 hours ago  –  Ahh, we’re still in that glorious, sweet honeymoon period with the new iPhones. It’s not been too long since they were released and, with Christmas just around the corner, you might be considering picking one up for yourself. Thing is, unless you spend a lot of time reading about Apple‘s devices ...

  • SEC: Crypto ‘entrepreneur’ illegally raised $42M, spent funds on dating and rent 14 hours ago  –  Cryptocurrency ‘entrepreneurs’ beware: US regulators haven’t forgotten about your dodgy initial coin offering (ICO). The SEC has just charged the head of a crypto startup for allegedly cheating investors out millions of dollars by lying about non-existent partnerships. The SEC’s complaint claims ...
  • Neurons — a fuckton of them — are what make us smarter than other animals
  • NY wants to make it easier for cryptocurrency exchanges to list new tokens — but why?
  • CHEAP: Go wireless for just $24.95 with JBL’s T450BT headphones (58% off!!)
  • Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘66% of Bitcoin mining happens in China’
  • Amazon Ring owners foil $400K Bitcoin extortion plot by removing batteries
  • Tencent-backed TikTok rival launches a children’s short video app
  • The makers of TikTok are testing a new swipe-to-skip streaming music app
  • Former employee says Apple spied on his private me
  • FTC might put the brakes on Facebook’s plans to merge messaging apps 3 hours ago  –  A new report suggests the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) might file an injunction against Facebook, to keep it from integrating its messaging apps together. Doing so might make it harder to break up the company — which the FTC is reportedly considering. The report comes from the Wall Street Journ...
  • Google brings Verified SMS to curb spam in Android Messages 3 hours ago  –  If you so much as own a cellphone, you’ve probably come across some kind of spam asking for personal details or linking you to some shady website. Google is now ramping up its efforts to curb such texts by introducing a Verified SMS feature in Android Messages. Now when you receive a text from a ...
  • Modern Warfare was doing everything right, then it pay-walled death counts
  • Microsoft redesigns over 100 icons, including the Windows logo
  • Facebook wants to use your Oculus data for ads because of course it does
  • EyeQue VisionCheck® helps you keep tabs on your eye health at home.
  • The iPhone is now the internet’s preferred porn streaming device
  • ING bank wants to give clients a compliant way to store cryptocurrency, report
  • Why designers need to look beyond 2 genders
  • A PMP certification can add 20% to your paycheck. For

    •  The Verge

  • AI R&D is booming, but general intelligence is still out of reach a day ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / Th Trying to get a handle on the progress of artificial intelligence is a daunting task, even for those enmeshed in the AI community. But the latest edition of the AI Index report — an annual rundown of machine learning data points now in its third year — does a g...
  • Apple is now selling Brydge’s laptop-style iPad keyboards
  • Watch this machine made out of Lego sort other Lego using AI
  • Cousin Greg to play equally tall, inept WeWork co-founder Adam Neumann in new series
  • Twitter will now let you post iOS Live Photos as GIFs
  • Valve says Half-Life: Alyx will be a ‘one-way journey’ with no multiplayer
  • EPA says the Porsche Taycan Turbo will get just 201 miles on a full battery
  • Cruise, GM-backed self-driving company, teases life ‘beyond the car’
  • Crisis On Infinite Earths is the most comic book thing ever made for TV
  • YouTube calls for ‘more clarity’ on the FTC’s child priv
  • This Samsung ad is a deranged burst of meme energy 11 hours ago  –  Awesome screen. Awesome camera. Long-lasting battery life. These are three things that Samsung’s influencer-filled ad would like you (or more likely, a social-savvy teen) to know about its Galaxy A series of phones — specifically, the newly announced Galaxy A51 and Galaxy A71. Awesome screen. Awe...
  • Google Assistant’s interpreter mode is coming to phones today
    12 hours ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Interpreter mode, the feature that allows Google Assistant to translate your conversations in real time, is coming to phones. Google says it will work with 44 languages and can be invoked by saying commands like “Hey Google, help me speak Thai” or “Hey G...
  • What we can learn from a decade of dead Google projects
  • Like it or not, the Marvel empire redefined cinema this decade
  • The mind-bending confusion of ‘hammer on a bed’ shows computer vision is far from solved
  • The real problem with robocalls
  • Fortnite adds local split-screen on the Xbox One and PlayStation 4
  • This decade in Elon
  • The Verge Creators Gift Guide 2019
  • A decentralized Twitter would bring the company back t
  • Robinhood launches cash management feature a year after bungling its checking account launch 8 hours ago  –  Robinhood has launched Cash Management, a new feature for its investing app that lets users park uninvested cash in a brokerage account where it can earn interest or be spent like cash using a special Robinhood-branded debit card. Robinhood first announced the feature in October. This week’s laun...
  • An all-electric seaplane took flight in Canada for the first time
  • Multiple brands likely responsible for vaping injuries, CDC says
    Multiple brands likely responsible for vaping injuries, CDC says 9 hours ago  –  Photo by Mike Wren / NYS Department of Health THC-containing vaping products sold under the name Dank Vapes are the most common brand associated with vaping-related injuries, according to a new update from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). However, there are regional differences in the br...
  • 32 moments that made the decade
  • Twitter is bringing back labels for US election candidates
  • Control, one of the best games of 2019, is back down to $25 at GameStop today
  • Rocket Lab’s second launch site is now complete, with its first mission set for next year
  • Amazon has gaming laptops with Nvidia RTX graphics on sale today
  • Google is bringing spam detection and verified business messaging to Messages
  • How to turn your iPhone’s location tracking on or off
  • NASA picks the asteroid crater its spacecraft will steal rocks from next summer 6 hours ago  –  Next year, NASA plans to scoop up a small batch of dirt from an asteroid named Bennu, located millions of miles from Earth — and now the agency knows which part of the space rock it’s going to steal from. Today, the space agency announced that one of its spacecraft will attempt to grab some parti...
  • Yap is the best new chatroom
  • New Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker scene hints at an unexpected return
  • Vudu now lets you undo a movie rental within the first 30 minutes
  • The Witcher’s last trailer shows off a fantasy epic that could replace Game of Thrones
  • FTC may block Facebook from integrating messaging apps, per WSJ report
  • Lyft launches a car rental service with no mileage limit
  • You can now hear Samuel L. Jackson’s voice on your Amazon Echo
  • FCC proposes $10 million fine on robocaller that spread misinformation on California politician
  • Microsoft reveals new Windows logo design and 100 
  • Microsoft’s next Xbox is Xbox Series X, coming holiday 2020 10 minutes ago  –  Microsoft’s next-generation Xbox is officially called Xbox Series X. Microsoft revealed the name and console design on stage at the Game Awards today. Developing... Continue reading…
  • The Expanse season 4 just arrived on Amazon Prime hours ahead of schedule
  • Europe’s Green Deal on climate change failed its first test 
  • Mashup star DJ Earworm ends his decade with two new compilations and a promise
  • Fortnite adds Rey and Finn skins in time for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
  • Apple averts $150 bump in iPhone prices following Trump trade deal with China
  • Apple’s latest startup purchase hints at the next big leap in iPhone photography
  • Apple’s new parental controls on iOS can be bypassed
  • Samsung claims it has sold 1 million Galaxy Folds
  • Twitter wants to decentralize, but decentralized social
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