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- Airspace Systems raises $20 million Series A to take down dangerous drones with other drones
There’s more than one way to get a drone out of the sky. While many companies are looking to tech that digitally jam signals to land rogue drones, one startup is taking a more theatrical approach with a speedy drone that races at 2-3 times the speed of the fastest consumer options and takes down... - Platform power is crushing the web, warns Berners-Lee
On the 29th birthday of the world wide web, its inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has sounded a fresh warning about threats to the web as a force for good, adding his voice to growing concerns about big tech’s impact on competition and society. Read More - Elon Musk is the ultimate doomsday prepper
As our fractured planet stumbles toward the end of the second decade of its new millennium it’s become de rigueur among a certain class of the super rich to create contingency plans for possible doomsday scenarios that will bring about the end of the world. In a long, fascinating, meandering int... - The PGA Tour is bringing live golf courses to your coffee table via Apple’s AR platform
- Startup Battlefield Europe Applications Close This Week
- Spotahome acquires online community for international students Erasmusu
- Warner Bros. is pre-registering people for its Westworld game
- India’s Ola takes its Uber rivalry to Australia with launch in Sydney
- Africa Roundup: Uber says it’s staying, Konga could be epic startup fail
- The case for boosting enterprise software startups with services
- Watch this Falcon Heavy reel by Westworld co-creator, including core landing miss
If you couldn’t be at the SpaceX Falcon Heavy launch that happened earlier this year, the next best thing might be watching this highlight reel of the launch, the voyage of Elon’s Tesla-driving Starman and the landing/landing attempt of the three Falcon Heavy booster cores. Set to David Bowie’s ... - Twitter snags the Major League Soccer live streaming deal from Facebook
Facebook is streaming Major League Baseball, and now Twitter will stream Major League Soccer. The company announced on Friday a new three-year streaming deal that will bring at least 25 soccer matches that broadcast on Univision networks in Spanish to Twitter’s network, where they’ll be availabl... - John Oliver helps you explain cryptocurrencies to your neighbor
John Oliver’s main skill is that he’s usually pretty good at explaining complex and boring topics in short TV segments. And this week’s episode of Last Week Tonight is particularly relevant to the tech industry as Oliver tackled cryptocurrencies. In just 25 minutes, the Last Week Tonight team pu... - Uber Eats will expand to 100 new cities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa in 2018
- Microsoft Teams will integrate with Cortana, add transcription and translation features
- Ford envisions a future where a drone can sub in for your car’s sensors
- BioCatch closes $30M round for its ‘behavioral biometrics’ tech for banks and other transaction businesses
- Philips releases outdoor connected Hue lighting
- Former Docker CEO Ben Golub joins Storj as Executive Chairman and interim CEO
- Dropbox sets IPO range $16-18, valuing it below $10B, as Salesforce ponies up $100M
- Twilio launches Flex, a fully programmable contact center
Earlier this year we reported that Twilio was going to launch a full contact center solution called Flex on March 12 — lo and behold, today is March 12 and Twilio today announced the launch of Flex at the Enterprise Connect conference in Orlando. Flex brings together virtually every part of the ... - Eddy Cue explains Apple’s original video content strategy
Apple SVP of Internet Software and Services Eddie Cue appeared onstage at SXSW on Monday, and discussed a range of topics, including their just-announced acquisition of magazine app Texture. Cue also made some comments regarding Apple’s recent moves in original video content, where it’s been acq... - All your questions answered at Disrupt SF’s Q&A Sessions
TechCrunch Disrupt’s Main Stage always features interviews with the best and brightest tech founders, innovators and investors from around the world. As good as those interviews are, past attendees tell us that they’d love even more opportunities to address their burning questions around emergin... - Philz Coffee’s order-ahead app rolls out to all stores
- Arlington, Texas replaces local bus service with Via on-demand ride-sharing
- Apple Maps shows you the nearest bike-sharing stations
- Clarifai rolls out an on-premise visual search tool for businesses
- YouTube TV pricing goes up by $5/month starting tomorrow
- Apple acquires digital newsstand Texture as it doubles down on content ‘from trusted sources’
- Alexa calling and messaging comes to tablet devices
- Crypto author Paul Vigna talks about the future of token sales
Paul Vigna, along with his writing partner Michael Casey, are crypto gurus. A crypto critic and Wall Street Journal reporter, Vigna sees through the hype and looks for the value inherent in the crypto system. Vigna and I spoke during this, the 100th episode of Technotopia. Vigna has a lot to say... - Stitch Fix falls 6% after posting earnings
Stitch Fix, the on-demand fashion styling business, saw its shares quickly fall 6 percent following the bell on Monday, after posting its second-quarter release. The company posted a diluted earnings per share of two cents. It also posted an adjusted earnings per share of seven cents. Analysts ... - ACLU sues TSA over electronic device searches
The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California has filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Transportation Security Administration over its alleged practices of searching the electronic devices of passengers traveling on domestic flights. “The federal government’s polici... - Spotify wants you to fix its bad music data
- Lyft says its revenue is growing nearly 3x faster than Uber’s
- Third-party AR lenses will appear in Snapchat’s main carousel soon
- Making mastodon gummies, Geltor is recreating a truly paleo diet
- Report calls for algorithmic transparency and education to fight fake news
- TV Time, the TV tracking app with over a million daily users, can now find your next binge
- Apple orders first animated show from ‘Bob’s Burgers’ creator
- Chinese bike-sharing startup Ofo raises $866M in new financing led by Alibaba Group
Beijing-based bike-sharing startup Ofo has raised $866 million in new financing led by Alibaba Group to fuel its expensive competition with Mobike, which is backed by Tencent, one of Alibaba’s biggest rivals. Ofo and Mobike are the two largest bike-sharing companies in China. Read More - Salesforce will acquire enterprise e-commerce software startup CloudCraze
Salesforce is set to buy CloudCraze, an enterprise e-commerce solution built on its cloud-based customer relationship management platform. Based in Chicago, CloudCraze announced on its site that it’s signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Salesforce. The deal’s financial details were no... - Qualcomm’s pivotal shareholder meeting is bumped up following Broadcom hostile takeover block
After getting delayed by at least a month or so following a regulatory investigation just days before the meeting was scheduled to take place, Qualcomm’s timetable to hold the meeting is now bumped up to ten days from now — and possibly before Broadcom may complete its move to the U.S. The new c... - Toshiba shows off an AR headset running on Windows 10
- A brief history of the epic battle over the fate of Qualcomm
- Trump administration’s block in Qualcomm vs. Broadcom merger should shake tech to its core
- XPRIZE announces a $10M contest for remotely controlled robotic avatars
- MoviePass CEO backpedals on location tracking and talks strategy to break even by 2019
- Trump blocks Broadcom’s takeover of Qualcomm
- The Wave is a ring that controls sound as if by magic
- This quadruped robot doesn’t dance any worse than your dad
Elon Musk is still warning us that super-intelligent AI is going to doom the planet, but robots are out here just trying to get their groove on. See the recent video above of quadruped research bot ANYmal, which was recently taught to dance (sort of) by researchers at Swiss university ETH Zurich.... - Google app reveals improved controls for Pixel Buds
- WhatsApp messages can now be deleted an hour after you sent them by mistake
- Twitter has suspended a number of accounts responsible for ‘tweetdecking’
- The SimuLife Diaries, part 1: I’m a transdimensional doppelgänger
- I built a fish out of Lego, and now it lives in a virtual fish tank
- Elon Musk still thinks a Mars colony will save us from a future dark age
- Buick Regal TourX shows the secret cool of station wagons
- Does this mouse trap with Wi-Fi need to exist?
- Black Panther has crossed the $1 billion mark worldwide
- Bose’s augmented reality glasses use sound instead of sight
Augmented reality is almost exclusively associated with vision, but it doesn’t have to be. Audio company Bose announced a project it’s calling “Bose AR” at this year’s SXSW festival, and it showed off a pair of prototype glasses that demonstrate what sound-based AR might look and feel like. The c... - LG is rolling out Android Oreo to V30 phones on Verizon
- Microsoft’s Slack competitor is getting Cortana integration and message translation
- Today is the last day to get YouTube TV for $35 a month
- Here come the $4,000 homes that can be printed in less than 24 hours
- Microsoft’s future of Windows is clever modes for clever hardware
- Philips Hue now lights the great outdoors
- Toshiba has made an unsexy pair of AR glasses
- Watch John Oliver explain Bitcoin using $15,000 Beanie Babies and rap videos
- UK government delays rollout of controversial age-verification porn laws
- Stranger Things’ Duffer brothers have responded to claims of verbal abuse on set
Stranger Things creators Matt and Ross Duffer have responded to accusations of verbal abuse from a former crew member. In a statement to The Hollywood Reporter, the Duffer brothers said they were “deeply upset to learn someone felt uncomfortable on our set.” Last week, Stranger Things crew membe... - The Honor View 10 is available to preorder for $499, ships March 23rd
- Carrie-Anne Moss on Jessica Jones and opening up to #MeToo: ‘I didn’t want to be a victim’
- Amazon now lets you place calls through Alexa-enabled tablets
- University of Arizona tracks student ID cards to detect who might drop out
- AppleWatch wristband sensor claims to detect potassium in your blood — without needles
- Apple Watch wristband sensor claims to detect potassium in your blood — without needles
- The SimuLife Diaries: I found a stranger from another dimension in my hotel room shower
- Philips’ curved 49-inch monitor is getting a UHD upgrade for its US debut
- The Galaxy Note 9 might not have an in-display fingerprint sensor after all
- Tesla raises prices at its Supercharger stations
Tesla drivers may enjoy a vast network of Supercharger stations across the US, but it’s coming at a cost: the price of charging. The automaker has quietly raised prices per kilowatt hour for using the fast-charging stations. The average increase for pay-per-use customers ranges from roughly 20 t... - Chinese police are expanding facial recognition sunglasses program
- Apple Maps gets upgraded bike-sharing information
- Rumors point to cheaper iPads and MacBooks this year
- Golf fans can now use Apple’s ARKit to visualize featured parts of the PGA Tour
- Steven Spielberg’s Ready Player One improves immensely on the book
- X Prize announces $10 million competition to spur development of robot avatars
- Uber Eats expands to 100 new cities in Europe, Middle East, and Africa
- Apple is buying the ‘Netflix of magazines’ for an undisclosed amount
- Texas town ditches its bus service for ride-sharing app Via
- The physicist who melded the science and fiction of A Wrinkle in Time
The new Disney film adaptation of Madeleine L’Engle’s 1962 book A Wrinkle in Time follows awkward teen Meg Murry (Storm Reid) as she hopscotches through the universe in search of her father, NASA scientist Dr. Alex Murry. Dr. Murry (Chris Pine) had disappeared years earlier, and Meg tracks him do... - Huawei’s P20 Pro could have one of the best phone colors in years
- Jake Paul has decided that it is ‘time to end school shootings’
- Trump issues order blocking Broadcom takeover of Qualcomm, citing national security
- Apple is letting companies make 3.5mm to Lightning cables now
- Microsoft reveals Sony is blocking Fortnite PS4 vs. Xbox One cross-play
- iFixit has some close-up photos of the Galaxy S9’s aperture blades
- How the director of Social Animals made a documentary about teens and Instagram that doesn’t suck
- Calendar app in Mac App Store mines cryptocurrency in the background
- The SimuLife Diaries: I was kidnapped by anti-technology anarchists in Austin
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