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- Review: Xiaomi’s Mi Robot Builder is 978 pieces of educational fun
Chinese gadget titan Xiaomi recently released its Mi Robot Builder toy set to the US market on Amazon. If you or your kids are the kind of techie that can’t help but take things apart to see how they work: I’ve found the toy for you. Mi Robot Builder is a brick-building toy like Legos or K’NEX, b... - Got questions for a blockchain wizard? Alex Mashinsky is joining us on TNW Answers
What do you see as the most exciting future implementations of blockchain? What can we expect for developments in cryptocurrency in 2018? Ask all this and more to Alex Mashinsky, CEO and Founder of Celsius Network. Mashinsky is a. serial entrepreneur and founder of seven successful startups. He h... - Let’s talk about Luigi’s bulge
- The Amsterdam Pirate Party is using its leader’s penis to promote privacy
- The first Vatican hackathon made a lot of sense, actually
- Accelerate your career with coveted Six Sigma project management certifications
- The McFly project wants to launch flying taxis on the blockchain in Nairobi
- The Dutch Data Protection Authority accidentally leaked its employees’ data
- HTC’s U12 Plus flagship leaks ahead of May launch
- What’s the next big thing in IoT? 14 experts share their predictions.
- How to perfect your pitch deck — according to a guy that gets a lot of pitches
One of the most critical tasks startups face, is creating a killer elevator pitch — a short, verbal description of who they are, what they do, and how they are going to succeed as a business. There are countless blog posts and listicles that have been created to guide founders through this proces... - Use Facebook, Instagram and social channels to market the right way — learn how for only $29
There’s marketing. Then there’s social media marketing. And after you drill into the philosophies of both, the two appear as different as a horse and buggy parked next to a Tesla. Opinions change fast, algorithms change fast — and if you’re trying to sell a product or an idea in the online landsc... - We can’t allow big tech companies thwart the ‘right to remember’
- Secure voting, digital ID’s, and more: How blockchain could reform digital democracy
- Facebook will carry a health warning within five years
- Let the robots have the damn jobs — all of them!
- China to ban citizens with bad ‘social credit’ from some forms of travel
- Bitmain’s new $12K cryptocurrency miner might be useless by the time it ships
- This app makes your headphones sound like a pro recording studio
- This startup is building an eBay for digital assets like CryptoKitties
- HTC’s $799 Vive Pro is now available for preorder
HTC today announced its $799 Vive Pro headset is available for preorder with shipping set to begin April 5th. If the most expensive consumer VR headset to date doesn’t tempt you, the company is also dropping the current Vive headset by $100 to $499. With games like Skyrim and Ark Park set to rele... - Kids are struggling to hold pens, but is handwriting still fit for a digital age?
Back in 2011, a video of a one-year-old baby girl attempting to swipe on a glossy magazine like it was an iPad went viral. Depending on your viewpoint, the spectacle was either adorable or completely frightening. For many, it highlighted how digital natives were beginning to consume media in an e... - Internet Archive emulator brings dozens of handheld games back from obscurity
- Mastercard will support cryptocurrencies – as long as they’re backed by governments
- A self-driving car killed a pedestrian for the first time last night
- TNW’s Big Spam: Too much peen for a Monday?
- Google Play now lets you try some games without downloading or installing
- Got questions for the builder of the largest farmer-to-farmer network? Kenny Ewan is joining us on TNW Answers
- Cryptocurrency News March 19 – it’s the freakin news
- Photoshop seem too scary? We’ll show you how to tame it… for under $30
- HTC’s $799 Vive Pro is now available for preorder
HTC today announced its $799 Vive Pro headset is available for preorder with shipping set to begin April 5th. If the most expensive consumer VR headset to date doesn’t tempt you, the company is also dropping the current Vive headset by $100 to $499. With games like Skyrim and Ark Park set to rele... - Kids are struggling to hold pens, but is handwriting still fit for a digital age?
Back in 2011, a video of a one-year-old baby girl attempting to swipe on a glossy magazine like it was an iPad went viral. Depending on your viewpoint, the spectacle was either adorable or completely frightening. For many, it highlighted how digital natives were beginning to consume media in an e... - Internet Archive emulator brings dozens of handheld games back from obscurity
- Mastercard will support cryptocurrencies – as long as they’re backed by governments
- A self-driving car killed a pedestrian for the first time last night
- TNW’s Big Spam: Too much peen for a Monday?
- Google Play now lets you try some games without downloading or installing
- Got questions for the builder of the largest farmer-to-farmer network? Kenny Ewan is joining us on TNW Answers
- Cryptocurrency News March 19 – it’s the freakin news
- Photoshop seem too scary? We’ll show you how to tame it… for under $30
- Hey #deletefacebook, here’s how to stop being tracked as an ex-user
After a stormy couple of months, lots of people seem to be fed up with Facebook. The self-explanatory hashtag #deletefacebook is all over Twitter, another company that makes it money primarily by selling your data. Not here to judge though, just to inform. There could be one thing users who opt t... - How data scientists are leading the fight against illegal fishing
The Galapagos Marine Reserve is unbelievably vast, and is home to a unique biodiversity. Beneath its warm azure waters, you can find countless rare and exotic species of whale, shark, sea turtles, tropical fishes, and more. To protect this natural heritage, the government of Ecuador has imposed r... - Find out which cryptocurrency you are in this 78,3% accurate list
- Reddit’s biggest cryptocurrency forum is banning memes and shilling
- How immersive technology will change the way we learn
- PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is rolling out on mobile worldwide
- Uber’s self-driving car may not have been at fault for killing a pedestrian, but you should still be worried
- This 100TB drive is the largest capacity SSD ever made
- IBM rolls out deep learning as a service for AI developers
- Atari’s retro console gets a new name, but no games
Tech Crunch
- Uber’s fatal self-driving car crash prompts NTSB investigation
The National Transportation Safety Board is opening an investigation into the fatal accident involving one of Uber’s self-driving cars in Tempe, Arizona. NTSB sending team to investigate Uber crash in Tempe, Arizona. More to come. — NTSB_Newsroom (@NTSB_Newsroom) March 19, 2018 Uber’s self-drivin... - Trump bans Venezuelan cryptocurrency in the US
U.S. President Donald Trump has issued an executive order to ban Petro in the U.S. Petro is a cryptocurrency developed by the government of Venezuela. As of today, U.S. citizens, residents and companies can’t buy or sell Petro. The executive order says that Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is ... - Secret microLED labs, Apple R&D, and the future of product margins
Over the weekend, Mark Gurman at Bloomberg reported that Apple has apparently built out a microLED display laboratory in California for testing and manufacturing small batches of the next-generation screen technology, presumably for its iPhone and other devices. Apple had previously acquired micr... - Airship wants to let startups launch features the same way Facebook does
- Desktop Metal gets another $65 million in a round led by Ford
- This 3D-printing startup helps orthodontists straighten your teeth
- Google Play Instant lets you try games without having to install them
- YouTube is testing a picture-in-picture mode on the desktop
- Uber self-driving test car involved in accident resulting in pedestrian death
- Original Content podcast: We take a drink with season two of ‘Jessica Jones’
- Here’s how Uber’s self-driving cars are supposed to detect pedestrians
A self-driving vehicle made by Uber has struck and killed a pedestrian. It's the first such incident and will certainly be scrutinized like no other autonomous vehicle interaction in the past. But on the face of it it's hard to understand how, short of a total system failure, this could happen wh... - IBM working on ‘world’s smallest computer’ to attach to just about everything
IBM is hard at work on the problem of ubiquitous computing, and its approach, understandably enough, is to make a computer small enough that you might mistake it for a grain of sand. Eventually these omnipresent tiny computers could help authenticate products, track medications, and more. - Instagram Stories gets ‘quote tweet’-style feed post resharing
Instagram’s next big Stories feature could let you compliment or trash talk other people’s feed posts, or embed a “see post” button to promote your own. A TechCrunch reader sent us these screenshots of the new feature, which Instagram confirmed to us is appearing to a small subset of users. “We’r... - Microsoft is adding a bunch of accessibility features to Windows 10
- Sierra Leone government denies the role of blockchain in its recent election
- Meltwater has acquired DataSift to double down on social media analytics
- Tech industry comes out swinging against potential Trump tariffs
- Made.com raises another $56 million
- Google alums launch Maslo, a digital companion to mediate technology’s uncanny valley
- HQ Trivia had a weird night
- Selling data on millions ‘is the opposite of our business model,’ says Facebook’s Boz
Facebook's former VP of ads has weighed in on the ongoing disaster involving his company's apparent negligence in allowing data on as many as 50 million users to be used for nefarious purposes by Cambridge Analytica. In a post on (what else) Facebook, Andrew "Boz" Bosworth gave variations on the ... - Billionaire Larry Ellison has a new consumer wellness company called Sensei
It’s not every day that Oracle’s billionaire founder, chairman and CTO Larry Ellison launches a new business, but such is the case today. That new company? Sensei, a new L.A.-based wellness brand that will focus first on developing hydroponic farms and later . . . well, details are scant, but the... - eBay’s new AR tool helps sellers find the right box for their item
It looks like someone found a practical use case for AR that’s not about trying on makeup or catching Pokémon. Ebay today introduced a new AR-powered feature that helps sellers figure out the best box to use for shipping their items to buyers. The technology works with a range of products, the co... - Color rolls out a test to try to search for hereditary risk for heart conditions like arrhythmia
- The Podcast App aims to be the simplest way to listen to podcasts
- Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos may leave Facebook over disinformation drama
- Internet Archive adds trove of cheap LCD handhelds to its emulation collection
- Marijuana soda startup California Dreamin’ wants to replace booze
- Government agencies react to Uber’s fatal self-driving car accident
- Facebook hired a forensics firm to investigate Cambridge Analytica as stock falls 7%
- Only 48 hours left to apply for Startup Battlefield Europe
Sacrê merde sur un bardeau! You have only 48 hours left to apply for TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Europe. The Battlefield takes place at VivaTech at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles on May 24-25. The deadline — March 22, at 9 a.m. PST — is fast upon us, but you still have time. So, hop […] - DocuSign has filed confidentially for IPO
DocuSign is gearing up to go public in the next six months, sources tell TechCrunch. The company, which pioneered the e-signature, has now filed confidentially, we are hearing. Utilizing a commonly used provision of the JOBS Act, DocuSign submitted its IPO filing behind closed doors and will reve... - N26 raises $160 million from Tencent and Allianz
German startup N26 just raised a $160 million Series C round led by Tencent and Allianz — some of N26’s existing investors are also participating. The company has attracted 850,000 customers and raised $215 million in total. N26 is building a retail bank from scratch. The company plans to double ... - Eight Roads Ventures launches new $375M scale-up fund for European and Israeli startups
- After launching in the U.S., Instagram expands its shoppable posts features to business users in eight other countries
- IBM launches deep learning as a service inside its Watson Studio
- Apple, IBM add machine learning to partnership with Watson-Core ML coupling
- Tempe police chief says Uber “preliminarily…would likely not be at fault” for fatal crash
- Here are 64 startups that launched today at Y Combinator’s W18 Demo Day
- Jeff Bezos, friend to robots
- CoEdition raises $4 million from NEA and others for its plus-sized shopping site for women
The average American woman is plus-sized, but only 18 percent of clothing sold in 2016 was size 14 or higher. This disconnect in the world of fashion looked like an opportunity to a team of four former Gilt execs, who are today launching a new e-commerce site, CoEdition. The site will cater to wo... - Rachio announces a new smart sprinkler controller, raises $10M
Rachio, the company that builds WiFi controllers for your garden sprinklers (think Nest Thermostat, but for watering your plants instead of heating your house), is back with a new one. They’ve also raised $10M in a Series B round. So what’s new in this Gen 3 version? A new hardware design, which ... - Japan’s government is providing nearly $1B to boost homegrown space startups
Japan wants to formally encourage domestic startups to pursue the growing opportunities in commercial space. The Japanese government has earmarked around $1 billion in public funds to startups working on space solutions. At the same time, the government revealed that it’s working on a legal path ... - Ford’s new SmartLink connected upgrade for older vehicles will be available mid-2018
- Waze Carpool expands to the entire state of Washington
- Mythic nets $40M to create a new breed of efficient AI-focused hardware
- IBM brings its Power9 servers with Nvidia GPUs to its cloud
- Lydia launches Lydia Premium
- Bumble responds to Match’s patent lawsuit
- YC alum Dahmakan, a Kuala Lumpur-based food delivery startup, acquires Polpa to expand into Thailand
The Verge
- Facebook says it’s hired a forensics team to investigate Cambridge Analytica
After acknowledging that Trump campaign-linked data firm Cambridge Analytica mishandled the data of 50 million users, Facebook says it has hired a digital forensics team to investigate the company. Facebook has hired a firm to investigate On Friday, ahead of investigative reports detailing the s... - YouTube is testing picture-in-picture for desktop
- Facebook stock tanks after data breach report, shaving billions off company’s market value
- Facebook now lets you stream PC games directly through its Live platform
- Android Oreo is rolling out to Galaxy S8 devices on T-Mobile, Sprint, Verizon
- The Cmicro is a temperature sensor that makes microwaving more complicated
- Instant Apps are Google’s latest play to woo game developers to its services
- Raleigh police are asking Google to turn over details of devices close to crime scenes
- Uber halts self-driving tests after pedestrian killed in Arizona
- The nerve agent poisoning in England was a message to the rest of the world
- The Walking Dead teased a bold new direction for the show once the war with Negan ends
The Walking Dead has returned from its traditional midseason break, careening toward the conclusion of the “All Out War” saga and the end of the feud between Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his arch-nemesis Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). But thus far, the show’s big bet on Negan has been a bit of ... - Magic Leap opens ‘creator portal’ for augmented reality app developers
- Google Maps shortcuts are live for some users
- Become a parking savant with Sidewalk Labs’ new curb visualization tool
- Facebook is rolling out Patreon-style subscriptions for a small group of creators
- Japan is commissioning the world’s most powerful nuclear fusion research supercomputer
- Macy’s is using VR instead of AR to sell furniture
- The Internet Archive put your favorite LCD handheld games online
- God of War’s first two hours show a more mature game
- Google Pay now handles transit tickets
- Uber’s self-driving car showed no signs of slowing before fatal crash, police say
Uber’s self-driving car was traveling at a speed of 40 mph when it struck a 49-year-old woman in Arizona Sunday night, and did not show significant signs of slowing down, police said today. The pedestrian, Elaine Herzberg, was transported to the hospital, where she later died. Herzberg, who was ... - Facebook’s security chief is leaving after clash over Russian misinformation
- The OnePlus 6 will probably look a lot like this
- Ideas for new NASA mission can now include spacecraft powered by plutonium
- eBay’s Android app has a new AR feature to help you pick the correct box size for shipping
- PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds is now on mobile in the US
- The world’s largest SSD clocks in at 100TB
- IBM just unveiled the ‘world’s smallest computer’
- The Ataribox gets an official name, with preorder date to be announced in April
- Trump bans purchases of Venezuela’s new national cryptocurrency
- ( Protecting failing U.S. control of international finance ? )
- Jabra’s new neckbuds have noise cancellation and eight hours of battery life
Jabra just announced the Jabra Elite 65e, a pair of neckbuds with active noise cancellation, a trio of microphones for improved voice quality, and eight hours of battery life — 13 hours with ANC turned off. Unlike more minimal neckbud designs, such as Apple’s Beats X, the 65e’s “collar” is rather... - Toxic management cost an award-winning game studio its best developers
- Cambridge Analytica’s Facebook data abuse shouldn’t get credit for Trump
- T-Mobile’s parent company lets customers opt-out of bloatware
- IBM’s Watson Assistant lets any company build Alexa-like voice interfaces
- Facebook will hold an emergency meeting to let employees ask questions about Cambridge Analytica
- Here's a rugged coffee maker that runs off power tool batteries
- How a small team at Unity made the stunning graphical showcase Book of the Dead
- Cambridge Analytica: all the news about Facebook’s data privacy scandal
- UK seeks warrant to examine Cambridge Analytica servers after Facebook data misuse
- The International 8 to take place August 20-25 in Vancouver
The International 8 to take place August 20-25 in Vancouver The Flying CourierDota 2's The International 2018 Will Take Place in Canada Game RevolutionDota 2: The International 2018 will take place in Canada for the first time ever, and tickets go on sale this month Daily MailFull coverage - Ford is turning itself into a truck-and-SUV company
Ford is turning itself into a truck-and-SUV company DrivingFord Teases New Green SUV Lineup, Aiming To Surpass Toyota As No. 1 In US Hybrids ForbesNew small off-roader will lead an 'onslaught' of Ford SUVs Digital TrendsFull coverage - Facebook Lite is rolling out in the US this week
- Android Wear becomes Wear OS by Google—let's hope bigger changes follow
- iPhone X users don't even notice the notch that Android fans seem to hate so much
- Review: Attack on Titan 2
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