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- Neurotechnology reveals 5M duplicates in Democratic Republic of Congo’s voter database
Reportedly more than five million duplicate vote records have been discovered and removed from the Democratic Republic of Congo’s upcoming elections database. This comes after a deduplication exercise involving biometric identification technology company, Neurotechnology, working directly with th... - Get a kid (or yourself) started with this cool micro-computer with three-dozen sensor projects
You can tackle the Pi by completing a host of cool Internet of Things projects with this Sensor Starter Kit for Raspberry Pi. The deal (which also includes a fully functional Raspberry Pi 3B with an 8GB TF card) is discounted to $129.99 from TNW Deals. - Repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat
- Ethereum price takes a knock ahead of rumored US regulators meeting
- Under no circumstances should you give this AR-enabled T-shirt to children
- Google I/O 2018: What to expect, how to watch, and (maybe) the story behind ‘P’
- Elon Musk says his next project is a candy company
- Chess can teach us how to implement AI in healthcare
- How automation will make dangerous oil rigs safer for workers
- Aura is the app that helps you find your calm, happy place — and it’s almost 80% off
- Microsoft’s new app beams texts and photos from your phone to your Windows desktop
If you frequently reach for your phone to tackle messages and notifications while at your desk, Microsoft has some good news for you: it’s launching a new app that lets you access your phone’s contents from your Windows 10 desktop. It’s called ‘Your Phone,’ and the app will initially let you view... - Fitbit brings female health tracking and quick replies to the Versa and Ionic
When Fitbit introduced the Versa, it promised two important features for its smartwatch OS: female health tracking and Quick Replies. Those features have finally arrived. As a recap, the Fitbit is giving its two most advanced devices, the Versa and Ionic, the ability to track and record female h... - Instagram may soon let you add music to your Stories
- This device warns you if your smart home has been hacked
- Worlds collide as Thanos arrives in Fortnite
- The first principles of programming
- Microsoft teases Alexa/Cortana team-up again
- Microsoft brings Kinect back from the dead… for Azure
- Android Things 1.0 fixes the biggest pain points in building IoT devices
- Futures contracts could turn Bitcoin into a zero-sum game
- HO£IDA¥ GUID€$: What I plan to buy your mom on Mother’s Day
Moms, right? From carrying you in her bulging belly for nine months, to softly running her hands through your hair at night after a hard day at school, all the way to her teary eyes and look of pride as you graduate, mothers are a wonderful part of our lives. This Sunday (13th May), we have a cha... - 28 helpful Slack communities you should join as a UX designer
Tons of companies are using Slack to organize and facilitate how their employees communicate on a daily basis. Slack has now more than 5 million daily active users and more than 60,000 teams around the world. But whether the company you work for use Slack or not, you can still use the tool to con... - Meet the street artist who made $1,000 by adding a Bitcoin QR code to his murals
- This gadget wants to sniff your meat
- Learn everything from front-end development to CAD — and tuition is only $49
- Some madman built a Mario Kart clone in pure CSS
- The New York Stock Exchange teases plan to launch cryptocurrency trading
- Twitter might soon slide encryption into your DMs
- Nearly 400 Drupal sites infected with malware that secretly mines cryptocurrency
- JBL’s new Android TV-powered soundbar looks like the smart speaker of my dreams
- Google News aims to fix journalism by offering an easy way to pay for it
Google News is one of Alphabet’s oldest and most instantly recognizable products. It was built shortly after the 9/11 attacks in New York by a Google engineer as a 20-percent project, in an attempt to better understand the terrorist atrocity that struck the US. It’s also arguably one of its most ... - Android launches Shush and Wind Down, to keep your phone off when it needs to be off
Google today announced it was adding new features called Shush and Wind Down to the upcoming Android P operating system. Both features are updates to Android’s existing Do Not Disturb mode, intended to make it easier for users to disengage from their phones. Shush is a new gesture to activate Do ... - Google aims to improve ‘Digital Wellbeing’ by reminding users to disconnect on occasion
- You won’t have to say ‘Hey Google’ every time you talk to the Assistant anymore
- Google Assistant now schedules your appointments with a phone call
- Google Assistant puts an end to impolite queries with ‘Pretty Please’ feature
- Google announces six new voices for Assistant at #IO18 — including John Legend
- Google debuts Suggested Actions for fixing and sharing your photos
- The Nintendo Switch is getting cloud saves, but no Virtual Console
- Mining asteroids could make us super duper rich. Let’s get started
- Here’s how Android P’s new gesture controls work
Just as rumored, Android P will officially bring gestures to Team Google, replacing the classic trio of buttons at the bottom of your screen with finger dances reminiscent of the iPhone X (or the Palm Pre, anyone?). The new interface centers around a single pill-shaped home button, which allows y... - Gmail adds a predictive type feature called Smart Compose
Google today introduced a new feature meant to help users compose and send email faster than ever. The feature, called Smart Compose, tries to understand typed text so that artificial intelligence can suggest words and phrases to finish your sentences. If you like the suggestion, just hit tab to ... - Google adds ‘Theming’ to Material Design to unify designs across applications
- A handful of new Android dev tools are the highlight of Google I/O (so far)
- Windows 10 will let you Alt+Tab between browser tabs and apps
- Android P uses AI to learn how bright you like your screen
- Google and Waymo are tackling the biggest obstacles on the way to truly autonomous vehicles
- Everything Google announced at #io18 (day one)
- How to download the Android P Beta, available now on 11 devices
- Google now uses the camera to help figure out which direction you’re facing
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- With App Actions and Slices, Google introduces more ways for users to interact with the apps on their phones
With Instant Apps, Google offers a feature for Android users that allows them to load a small part of an app right from the search results and get a native app experience. With Slices, Google is launching a new feature today that may look somewhat similar at first glance, but which solves a very ... - Slack hits 8 million daily active users with 3 million paid users
As Slack looks to woo larger and larger companies with the prospect of a simpler workplace collaboration tool, the company said it has now hit 8 million daily active users. The company said it also has 3 million paid users. A darling in Silicon Valley, Slack was initially able to capitalize on pe... - Google Assistant is coming to Google Maps
Google wants to bundle its voice assistant into every device and app. And it’s true that it makes sense to integrate Google Assistant in Google Maps. It’ll be available on iOS and Android this summer. At Google I/O, director of Google Assistant Lilian Rincon showed a demo of Google Maps with Goog... - The Google Assistant will soon be able to call restaurants and make a reservation for you
- iOS will soon disable USB connection if left locked for a week
- Google brings its visual assistant to Android devices with Google Assistant
- A Google Assistant update will teach kids to say ‘please’
- Here’s how much Uber’s flying taxi service will cost
- Google’s first Smart Displays will launch in July
- Gemini’s Tyler Winklevoss informs Bill Gates that actually he can short bitcoin
- Uber adds another flying taxi partner
Uber has teamed up with Karem Aircraft to develop electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles for the ride-hailing company’s upcoming flying taxi service, the companies announced today at Uber Elevate. Karem Aircraft, which has patented Optimum Speed Tiltroter technology for military a... - Watch Google I/O developer keynote live right here
Google I/O is nowhere near done. While the mainstream keynote just ended, the company is about to unveil the next big things when it comes to APIs, SDKs, frameworks and more. The developer keynote starts at 12:45 PM Pacific Time (3:45 PM on the East Cost, 8:45 PM in London, 9:45 PM in Paris) and ... - Google Maps will soon give you better recommendations
Google will soon launch a new version of Google Maps that will give you more personalized recommendations than before. Google has long worked to make Maps seem more personalized, but since Maps is now about far more than just directions, the company is introducing new features to give you better ... - Google launches a Partner Program and developer API for Google Photos
- Android blatantly copies the iPhone X navigation gestures
- Android P Beta is available today
- Google News gets an AI-powered redesign
- Google rolls out app time management controls
- Google’s ML Kit makes it easy to add AI smarts to iOS and Android apps
- Android P leverages DeepMind for new Adaptive Battery feature
- Gamalon scores $20 M led by Intel Capital
Gamalon wants to change the game when it comes to understanding text-based customer communications. Instead of using neural networks to learn about a vast corpus of information, the startup takes a different approach, putting the text in a database and building decision trees to very rapidly trai... - Intel Capital pumps $72M into AI, IoT, cloud and silicon startups, $115M invested so far in 2018
Intel Capital, the investment arm of the computer processor giant, is today announcing $72 million in funding for the 12 newest startups to enter its portfolio, bringing the total invested so far this year to $115 million. Announced at the company’s global summit currently underway in southern Ca... - Google opens Instant Apps to all game developers
Instant Apps for Android have been one of Google’s most interesting technologies for mobile developers. In their earliest incarnation, Instant Apps were mostly useful for developers of relatively straightforward apps. Earlier this year, Google launched its beta of Instant Apps for games, too, whi... - Google makes its Material Design system easier to customize
- You can now run Linux apps on Chrome OS
- Google’s new Android App Bundles promise to make apps radically smaller
- Google’s Android development studio gets a new update with visual navigation editing
- Android gets a Jetpack
- Africa Roundup: Safaricom unveils Bonga, Africa’s Talking gets $8.6M, TechCrunch visits Nigeria, Ghana
- Google makes the camera smarter with a Google Lens update, integration with Street View
- How 3D printing is revolutionizing the housing industry
If you build it, they will come. And if you 3D-print it, they will come faster, cheaper and more sustainably. - Maps walking navigation is Google’s most compelling use for AR yet
Google managed to elicit an audible gasp from the crowd at I/O today when it showed off a new augmented feature for Maps. It was a clear standout during a keynote that contained plenty of iterative updates to existing software, and proved a key glimpse into what it will take to move AR from inter... - Google Assistant is getting support for custom and scheduled routines
Routines are probably one of the best features the Google Assistant team has rolled out in recent months. Just say “Hey Google, good night” and the Assistant will shut down your lights and start playing some nature sounds to soothe you into deep sleep (or whatever else you want it to do). One lim... - Messenger chief leaving role to explore blockchain tech for Facebook
- Brazil’s tech startups begin to expand globally
- Google wants to bring multiplayer AR to iOS and Android with its new Cloud Anchors tool
- Google Assistant adds digital subscriptions and more ways to engage with Actions
- MoviePass parent drops 31% on looming cash crunch
- Google announces an update to its website optimization tool Lighthouse
- Facebook undergoes a huge executive reshuffle
- A Google I/O conversation
Hey Google, what happened at Google I/O today? Artificial intelligence. Okay, that’s non-specific. I heard Android P was released today. What’s new? Artificial intelligence. Hmm. Has Google added any features to make battery life longer on Android? Artificial intelligence. Let’s move on. What abo... - 8 big announcements from Google I/O 2018
Google kicked off its annual I/O developer conference at Shoreline Amphitheater in Mountain View, California. Here are some of the biggest announcements from the Day 1 keynote. There will be more to come over the next couple of days, so follow along on everything Google I/O on TechCrunch. Google... - Yahoo is testing Squirrel, an invite-only group messaging app
Messaging apps collectively passed the 5 billion mark for monthly active users last year, with Facebook’s WhatsApp and Messenger on track now to pass 2 billion users apiece. With messaging’s popularity showing no signs of slowing down, a new app is entering the fray in hopes of catching the wave.... - Google Play’s new tools will help users and developers manage subscriptions
- Snapchat hosts first Creators Summit after years of neglect
- Equifax filing reveals hack was somehow even worse than previous estimates
- Google Maps goes beyond directions
- Cryptojacking malware was secretly mining Monero on many government and university websites
- Google’s new Android TV dongle is for developers only
- Facebook united
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- Push notifications could get better at targeting us
I’m deeming this year the year of the push notification solely because of the disaster that was Hawaii’s accidental ballistic missile alert. On this week’s Why’d You Push That Button, Kaitlyn Tiffany and I look into why people turn push notifications on, especially for news. Are they masochists? ... - Ballfinger’s beautiful reel-to-reel tape decks are for nostalgia lovers
- Linksys’ Xbox One router is now shipping
- Microsoft undercuts Apple and Google to offer Windows 10 app developers more money
- Microsoft Build 2018: start time, live stream, and schedule
- Uber reveals its latest ‘flying car’ prototype for aerial taxi service
- Google I/O 2018: all of the news from the keynote
- River Bank is the stackable battery for everything that needs power
- Android P should be about privacy
- Amazon, Facebook, and Google execs are going to the White House to talk about AI
- Gmail’s Smart Compose will write emails for you
At its annual developers conference, Google announced a new feature coming to Gmail called Smart Compose. An extension of Gmail’s Smart Reply feature, Smart Compose will suggest complete sentences within the body of an email as you are writing. It will operate in the background, and if you see a ... - Google Photos will soon be able to colorize old photos
- Uber expands partnership with NASA on flying taxi project
- Microsoft is changing how Alt-Tab works on Windows 10
- Google I/O 2018 live blog
- Windows 10 Sets will use tabs to bridge the gap between apps and websites
- The Major III offer improved sound and design of Marshall’s original headphones
- Gmail’s iOS app now lets you send and request money
- The hidden math behind your DMV’s eye test
- Philips Hue is getting a redesigned, faster app this month
- Android P’s ‘actions’ and ‘slices’ are a whole new way to use mobile apps
With Android P, Google is taking an ambitious approach to its user interface design with two new concepts it’s introducing to developers today: “Actions” and “Slices.” Described in detail onstage at the company’s I/O developer conference keynote this morning, Actions and Slices are ways for third... - Android is now using AI to help manage your battery life
- Google is taking on the iPhone X with new gesture navigation in Android P
- This retro futuristic student game lets you play Pong across 10 old TVs
- Android P: an exclusive first look at Google’s most ambitious update in years
- Google just gave a stunning demo of Assistant making an actual phone call
- What would the MCU look like if Marvel didn’t undo Avengers: Infinity War?
- Here are the six new voices coming to Google Assistant, including John Legend
- Google’s Smart Displays are going on sale in July
- The six biggest announcements from Microsoft Build 2018
- JBL’s Android-powered soundbar does a lot of things right
We just took a quick look at a 3D-printed prototype of the recently announced JBL Link Bar, a soundbar that also happens to be a set-top box running Android TV. It’s not coming out until later this summer, and a lot of stuff isn’t quite working yet. But the core ideas are pretty smart. Basically,... - How to install the Android P beta today
- Google’s bringing augmented reality support to Instant Apps
- The 10 biggest announcements from Google I/O 2018
- If doctors are going to do DNA tests at routine checkups, they need more training
- Google Maps is getting augmented reality directions and recommendation features
- All the new features coming to Google Assistant, including manners
- Google Lens is moving into the camera app and gaining new features
- Google News is getting an overhaul and customized news feeds
- Android P launches today in public beta
- Qualcomm is finally designing new chips for Wear OS smartwatches
As you may know, all Wear OS watches that come out today have little option but to use the same core chip inside: Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Wear 2100, which dates back to February 2016. Some have argued that this is what’s holding the entire Wear OS — née Android Wear — platform back. I personally th... - Google offers developers a free 4K HDR Android TV streaming dongle
- Google Lens actually shows how AI can make life easier
- Google Pay is adding mobile boarding passes and event tickets
- Welcome to the automated warehouse of the future
- Uber’s ‘flying taxis’ will be built by these five aerospace companies
- Today’s SEC filing suggests MoviePass’ time is running out
- Twitter may add encrypted direct messages on Android
- Facebook is creating a mysterious blockchain division
- Chrome OS is getting full-fledged Linux apps
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