Friday, April 02, 2021

2 April - Technology - The Next Web / Tech Crunch / The Verge

The Next Web

  • Niantic’s AR glasses teaser has my inner Pokémon trainer excited 3 days ago  –  Pokémon GO is an addictive game and you can find yourself stuck to the screen in a hunt of mythical creatures for many hours a week. But wouldn’t it be fantastic if we could do all of that without a phone? I hope that’s possible through Niantic’s AR glasses — a teaser of which Niantic CEO John Ha...
  • Apple is making it easier to get your iPhone fixed at a repair shop near you 3 days ago  –  Apple is finally relaxing its stance on third-party repairs, as the company is set to expand its independent repair provider program globally. The tech giant announced last night that this program is expanding to 200 more countries. In regions such as Australia, Brazil, India, Russia, Taiwan, and...
  • Xiaomi’s Mi Band 6 gives you connected GPS and blood-oxygen sensors for only $35 (Updated)
  • Xiaomi’s new Mi 11 Ultra features the biggest camera sensor in a smartphone
  • Add these 10 in-demand digital marketing skills to your resume, now 50% off
  • Seoul’s smart poles will soon be able to charge drones and EVs
  • Here’s how to calculate the cost of driving an EV per km (or mile)
  • Clubhouse shows us how businesses can save millions on marketing
  • 5 tips for an ethical investment in tech stocks
  • Run out of ethernet ports on your router? Here’s the soluti
  • Scientists used AI to link cryptomarkets with substance abusers on Reddit and Twitter 3 days ago  –  An international team of researchers recently developed an AI system that pieces together bits of information from dark web cryptomarkets, Twitter, and Reddit in order to better understand substance abusers. Don’t worry, it doesn’t track sales or expose users. It helps scientists better understan...
  • These 10 MacBook, iPhone, and iPad accessories will each become your daily essentials 3 days ago  –  TLDR: These 10 devices will keep your Apple MacBook, iPhone, or iPad running in tip-top shape, all at up to 40 percent off. No device is an island. At its most independent, most devices are more like a peninsula, appearing to be surrounded by water and out on their own, but actually, it stretches...
  • Why robots make great surgeons and crappy nurses
  • Save an extra 30% off these 10 apps that can get your mind and body right
  • Xiaomi’s new Mi Mix foldable packs an 8-inch screen and FOUR (?!) speakers
  • Xiaomi confirms it’s making an EV — will setup a $10B entity to build it
  • 3 ways to make social impact run through your business, not around it
  • Rivian’s amazing new warranty should be the standard for all EV brands
  • The Apple TV remote is getting a redesign… maybe there is a god?
  • [Updated] VW stole my totally brilliant and not terrible idea t
  • Here’s how a charitable deed can win you $5K in cash towards a new gaming PC, NFTs, and more 2 days ago  –  TLDR: Donate to the Playing for Change Foundation and one lucky donor will then be rewarded with $5,000 for their good work. There’s nothing better than being rewarded for doing the right thing for the right reasons. You don’t need the grateful little old lady to give you $20 for finding and retu...
  • Google Maps will soon suggest ‘eco-friendly routes’ by default 2 days ago  –  Google Maps is getting a new feature that encourages drivers to make more eco-friendly journeys. The app will soon default to showing the route with the lowest carbon footprint, as long it’s got roughly the same ETA as the fastest path. The new routing model analyzes data such as road incline and...
  • What your selfie camera angle says about you
  • Music recommendation algorithms are unfair to women artists — but we can fix that
  • How to control who can comment on your Facebook posts
  • Tesla reportedly double charged its customers, and there’s no refund in sight
  • What’s the difference between open-back and closed-back headphones?
  • Successful subscription models are like a well-choreographed dance
  • Google’s new app automagically organizes your scanned documents
  • GoCycle’s 4th gen folding ebikes bring improved motor, an
  • Everything we know about Apple’s upcoming mixed reality headset a day ago  –  It’s no secret that Apple’s investing in mixed reality. After introducing LiDAR sensors in iPhones and iPad, it seems the company’s readying to release a standalone device in the coming months, Bloomberg reports. The publication’s Mark Gurman noted that the Cupertino-based tech giant is planning ...
  • Instagram now lets you create reaction Reels, just like TikTok Duets a day ago  –  Instagram has done it again. It has copied another popular TikTok feature called Duets and renamed it ‘Remix.’ If you don’t know what Duets (or Remix) is, it lets you make your own Reel right next to someone else’s Reel. With this, you can react to a new viral dance trend or plan a collab with a ...
  • Games to play on date night: Fallout 76’s wasteland West Virginia is for lovers
  • Spotify has launched a trio of new personalized playlists
  • Scientists measured brain waves using cochlear implants for the first time
  • Facebook’s feckless ‘Fairness Flow’ won’t fix its broken AI
  • How we taught Google Translate to stop being sexist
  • MSTRMND Academy helps entrepreneurs learn the stuff that can make or break their business
  • Onboard new employees and transfer knowledge easier with this learning management system
  • UK is spending £3B to completely overhaul its bus system

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  • For VC Hans Tung, the personal becomes public in a growing campaign to ‘stop Asian hate’ a day ago  –  Longtime venture capitalist Hans Tung is a big guy. His size might just be lifesaving. A first-generation Taiwanese-American who came to the U.S. and to LA specifically in 1984, it was a fraught time for the then 14-year-old. Two years earlier, a 27-year-old, Chinese-American draftsman named Vinc...
  • Daily Crunch: Facebook makes it easier to view a non-algorithmic News Feed a day ago  –  Facebook has some thoughts and updates about its News Feed, Siri gets some new voices and Tonal becomes a unicorn. This is your Daily Crunch for March 31, 2021. The big story: Facebook makes it easier to view a non-algorithmic News Feed Facebook highlighted features today that should make it easi...
  • Sarah Kunst will outline how to get ready to fundraise at Early Stage 2 days ago  –  Sarah Kunst, founding partner at Cleo Capital, has worn many hats. She’s been an entrepreneur, served on plenty of boards, is a contributing author at Marie Clare, has been a senior advisor to Bumble and worked as a consultant in marketing, business development and more. With all that experience,...
  • Lowkey raises $7 million from a16z to help game streamers capitalize on short-form video
  • As Compass downsizes its IPO, signs of weakness appear for high-growth companies
  • Microsoft gets contract worth up to $22 billion to outfit US Army with 120,000 AR headsets
  • Facebook says Trump can’t skirt its ban through daughter-in-law’s account
  • Report finds going remote made workplaces more hostile for already marginalized groups
  • Datapeople announces $8M in raised capital as it works to make recruiting more equitable
  • Embedded procurement will make every company its own
  • Collaborative iOS app Craft Docs secures $8M, led by Creandum and a ‘Skyscanner Mafia’ a day ago  –  Launched in only November last year, the Craft Docs app — which was built from the ground up as an iOS app for collaborative documents — has secured an $8 million Series A round led by Creandum. Also participating was InReach Ventures, Gareth Williams (former CEO and co-founder of Skyscanner) and...

  • Mastercard to invest $100 million in Airtel Africa’s mobile money business a day ago  –  Mastercard will invest $100 million in Airtel Africa’s mobile money business, two firms said today, just two weeks after TPG’s Rise Fund also backed the telecommunications firm’s unit. The London-headquartered firm said it was taking a minority stake in Airtel Africa’s mobile money business. The ...
  • Airtel Africa receives $100M for its mobile money business from Mastercard a day ago  –  Two weeks ago, TPG’s Rise Fund invested $200 million in Airtel Mobile Commerce BV (AMC BV) — the mobile money business of telecom Airtel Africa. After closing the deal, the Bharti Airtel subsidiary noted that it was still in discussions to sell additional minority stake (25% of the issued share c...
  • Bilibili ups the ante in games with $123 million investment in TapTap
  • LINE Ventures merges with YJ Capital, launches $271M fund
  • How SOSV-backed Achiko pivoted from financial services to health tech during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Cendana has raised a $30 million ‘fund of funds’ for VCs managing $15 million or less
  • Spain’s Glovo picks up $528M as Europe’s food delivery market continues to heat up
  • Celonis announces significant partnership with IBM to sell its process mining software
  • PingPong is a video chat app for product teams working a
  • UK’s antitrust watchdog takes a closer look at Facebook-Giphy 19 hours ago  –  Potential threats to the free flow of GIFs continue to trouble the U.K.’s competition watchdog. Facebook’s $400 million purchase of Giphy, announced last year, is now facing an in-depth probe by the CMA after the regulator found the acquisition raises competition concerns related to digital adver...
  • What’s on deck today at TC Early Stage 2021 19 hours ago  –  Who’s ready for bootcamp? Today’s the day new founders get down to the business of, well, building a better business. TechCrunch Early Stage 2021: Operations & Fundraising provides early-stage founders with access to top founders, investors and subject-matter experts across the startup realm....
  • Facebook launches profile frames that help you encourage friends to get the COVID-19 vaccine 19 hours ago  –  As COVID-19 vaccines are becoming more readily available to larger groups of the U.S. population, Facebook has teamed up with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to launch new Facebook profile frames that allow users to share...
  • Kintent nabs $4M seed to automate compliance questionnaire process
  • mmhmm introduces usage-based enterprise accounts and a beta for Windows
  • Big box robots
  • Thrasio raises $100M for its Amazon roll-up play, appoints retail CFO for its next steps
  • Next Insurance raises $250M, doubling its valuation to $4B in under a year
  • Collabio lets you co-edit documents without the cloud
  • Pair Eyewear raises $12M to bring more personality to you
  • Bring CISOs into the C-suite to bake cybersecurity into company culture 15 hours ago  –  Cyber strategy and company strategy are inextricably linked. Consequently, chief information security officers (CISOs) in the C-Suite will be just as common and influential as CFOs in maximizing shareholder value.
  • QuikNode is building a blockchain developer cloud platform to compete with AWS 15 hours ago  –  As hot as the blockchain space appears to be these days, it’s still far from simple to get a decentralized application reliably up and running. The NFT boom and rising cryptocurrency prices have brought more attention to applications running on the blockchain, but the dominant cloud service platf...
  • US iPhone users spent an average of $138 on apps in 2020, will grow to $180 in 2021 16 hours ago  –  U.S. consumers spent an average of $138 on iPhone apps last year, an increase of 38% year over year, largely driven by the pandemic impacts, according to new data from app store intelligence firm Sensor Tower. Throughout 2020, consumers turned to iPhone apps for work, school, entertainment, shopp...
  • Knowing when your startup should go all-in on business development
  • Put your city on the TC map — TechCrunch’s European Cities Survey 2021
  • Soda monitors data and helps you fix issues before it’s too late
  • Buy a pass to Disrupt 2021 and get a free Extra Crunch membership
  • Starship Technologies CEO/CTO Ahti Heinla joins TC Sessions: Mobility 2021
  • Kaltura puts debut on hold. Is the tech IPO window closing?
  • Holler raises $36M to power ‘conversational media’ in your 
  • Tech in Mexico: A confluence of Latin America, the US and Asia 9 hours ago  –  LatAm entrepreneurs look to Asian tech giants for inspiration because of similar market conditions. But don't treat LatAm countries as a monolith. 
    Tech in Mexico: A confluence of Latin America, the US and Asia 9 hours ago  –  LatAm entrepreneurs look to Asian tech giants for inspiration because of similar market conditions. But don't treat LatAm countries as a monolith. 
  • How is edtech spending its extra capital? 10 hours ago  –  Edtech unicorns have boatloads of cash to spend following the capital boost to the sector in 2020. As a result, edtech M&A activity has continued to swell.
  • Daily Crunch: Tiger Global raises one of the biggest venture funds ever 10 hours ago  –  Tiger Global closes a $6.65 billion fund, Facebook gives users more tools to encourage COVID vaccination *and iPhone app spending continues to grow. This is your Daily Crunch for April 1, 2021. The big story: Tiger Global raises one of the biggest venture funds ever Investment giant Tiger Global h...
  • * More discouraging independent personal thought
  • Microsoft outage knocks sites and services offline
  • Coinbase to direct list on April 14th, provide financial update on April 6th
  • Compass CEO hails IPO as a fundraising event amid ‘challenging’ market
  • Startups must curb bureaucracy to ensure agile data governance
  • Gillmor Gang: ZoomHouse
  • Tiger Global just closed one of the biggest venture funds ever, with $6.7 billion
  • ILM shows off the new Stagecraft LED wall used for season

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  • Former NASA chief Jim Bridenstine joins satellite internet firm Viasat’s board 21 hours ago  –  Photo by Graeme Jennings-Pool / Getty Images Former NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine is joining space-based broadband firm Viasat’s board of directors as his latest post-NASA gig, after joining a space-focused private equity firm in January. Wading into the world of satellite internet, ...

  • Caterpillar is bringing its newest rugged phone to the US for $699
  • Apple forced to offer Russian iPhone users local apps at setup thanks to new law
  • Google’s AI reservation service Duplex is now available in 49 states
  • YouTube is relaxing some rules about ads on drug-related videos
  • Microsoft shuts down Cortana on iOS and Android
  • Apple will use Tesla’s ‘megapack’ batteries at its California solar farm
  • Amazon’s Alexa lets you control a Lamborghini’s air conditioning with just your voice
  • Twitter now lets you add stickers to Fleets
  • Ubiquiti is accused of covering up a ‘catastrophic’ data bre
  • The best video game subscription deals right now 15 hours ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Online game subscriptions are quite common in the gaming industry. Whether it's a subscription for an online service for multiplayer gaming or Netflix-like services that provide access to a massive library of games to play, gaming subscriptions prov...
  • The huge new Among Us map gives you more ways to be sneaky
  • Supreme Court says Facebook text alerts aren’t illegal robocalls
     16 hours ago  –  Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales The Supreme Court has unanimously decided that Facebook text message alerts don’t violate laws against unwanted auto-dialed calls. The court ruled that a lower court defined illegal “robocalls” too broadly and that the term should only apply to systems that...
  • Samsung created a whole Hulu series that’s sponcon for the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G
  • Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan would take on the wreckage of drilling and mining
  • MSI announces two new convertible business laptops
  • Aptera and its solar car are back from the dead
  • Casio announces first Wear OS smartwatch in iconic G-Shock lineup
  • MSCHF will not ship its 666th pair of Satan Shoes after Nike lawsuit
  • Let this be the year April Fools’ Day for brands dies

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    Final Fantasy creator’s latest game, Fantasian, launches on Apple Arcade 4 hours ago  –  Fantasian, a new role-playing game from Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi, is available now for Apple Arcade. The game is playable on iOS, Mac, and Apple TV. Fantasian is the latest from Sakaguchi’s studio Mistwalker, which he founded in 2004; the developer has since released games such as...

  • Microsoft Teams and Xbox Live were down for over two hours but have recovered
  • Warner Bros. cancels ‘New Gods’ from Ava DuVernay and an Aquaman spinoff from James Wan
  • Watch the first trailer for Netflix’s Yasuke anime
  • Twitter unsurprisingly confirms Spaces are coming to desktop web browsers
  • Sony will announce its next Xperia phone on April 14th
  • Apple knew it was selling defective MacBook displays, judge concludes
  • Trump’s H-1B visa freeze is over
  • Atari’s restless ghost has released NFTs
  • French police are investigating an international Lego crime
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