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- Xiaomi teases a double-folding smartphone… ohhai digital triptych! 12 hours ago – China’s Xiaomi has become the latest smartphone maker to tease a folding smartphone, dropping the below video clip of its president and co-founder, Bin Lin, fondling the device on social media today. The twist is the tablet does not have a single center parting but rather two folds that divide it...
- Groww, an investment app for millennials in India, raises $6.2M 12 hours ago – Groww, a startup hoping to make saving and investment opportunities more widely available to young people in India, has closed a $6.2 million Series A to grow its business. Founded in 2017, the Bengaluru-based company was part of Y Combinator in the U.S. last year and it went on to raise a $1.6 m...
- VCs give us their predictions for startups and tech in Southeast Asia in 2019 16 hours ago – The new year is well underway and, before January is out, we polled VCs in Southeast Asia to get their thoughts on what to expect in 2019. The number of VCs in the region has increased massively in recent years, in no small part due to forecasts of growth in the tech space as internet […]
- Adobe acquires Allegorithmic, makers of the Substance texture tools 7 hours ago – Adobe today announced that it has acquired Allegorithmic, the French company behind the Substance tools for creating textures that are widely used by AAA game creators, as well as visual effects artists, animators and designers. Over time, Adobe will bring many of Allegorithmic’s technologies to ...
- Anchorage emerges with $17M from a16z for ‘omnimetric’ crypto security 7 hours ago – I’m not allowed to tell you exactly how Anchorage keeps rich institutions from being robbed of their cryptocurrency, but the off-the-record demo was damn impressive. Judging by the $17 million Series A this security startup raised last year led by Andreessen Horowitz and joined by Khosla Ventures...Anchorage emerges with $17M from a16z for ‘omnimetric’ crypto security 7 hours ago – I’m not allowed to tell you exactly how Anchorage keeps rich institutions from being robbed of their cryptocurrency, but the off-the-record demo was damn impressive. Judging by the $17 million Series A this security startup raised last year led by Andreessen Horowitz and joined by Khosla Ventures...
- YouTube TV is officially becoming available nationwide 7 hours ago – Just ahead of this year’s Super Bowl, Google’s live TV streaming service YouTube TV is rolling out nationwide, the company announced this morning. The service has been steadily expanding since its April 2017 debut, and became broadly available a little less than a year ago when it then reached th...
- Behold, a smartphone devoid of buttons and ports 5 hours ago – Some call it madness. Others call it the next logical step in smartphone evolution. Meizu calls it, fittingly, the “Zero.” It’s equal parts fascinating and maddening. And while being “totally seamless” with “a truly uninterrupted design” is probably not going to be enough in and of itself to get ...Behold, a smartphone devoid of buttons and ports 5 hours ago – Some call it madness. Others call it the next logical step in smartphone evolution. Meizu calls it, fittingly, the “Zero.” It’s equal parts fascinating and maddening. And while being “totally seamless” with “a truly uninterrupted design” is probably not going to be enough in and of itself to get ...
- Connecting African software developers with top tech companies nets Andela $100 million 5 hours ago – Andela, the company that connects Africa’s top software developers with technology companies from the U.S. and around the world, has raised $100 million in a new round of funding. The new financing from Generation Investment Management (the investment fund co-founded by former Vice President Al G...
- Wag founders ditch dogs for bikes with $37 million in funding 6 hours ago – Wag founders Jonathan and Joshua Viner are leaving dogs behind for bikes. Wheels, the Viner brothers’ new electric bike-share startup, is announcing $37 million in funding from Tenaya Capital, Bullpen Capital, Naval Ravikant and others. The Viner brothers departed dog-walking startup Wag last yea...
- Daily Crunch: Uber rolls out Rewards 3 hours ago – The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. Uber Rewards is rolling out; here’s how the perks work Uber Rewards calculates how much you’ve spent on...Daily Crunch: Uber rolls out Rewards 3 hours ago – The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. Uber Rewards is rolling out; here’s how the perks work Uber Rewards calculates how much you’ve spent on...
- Melonee Wise and Anca Dragan will be speaking at TC Sessions: Robotics + AI April 18 at UC Berkeley 4 hours ago – Hard to believe, but we’re only a few months out from the next TC Sessions: Robotics. As we get ready for our third year, take a trip down robotic memory lane with these highlights from last year’s big event. We’ll be returning to UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall in April, this time with an added fo...
- How we’re finding the best lawyers for early-stage startups 4 hours ago – We’re nearing 1,000 submissions from startup founders and leaders in Silicon Valley and across the world about the best early-stage tech lawyers to work with. As we’ve sorted through survey responses and begun scheduling interviews with the first qualified nominees, we’ve gotten a bunch of questi...
- Aibo learns to be a better watchdog 14 minutes ago – I wanted to love the new Aibo. Really, I did. But once I aactually spent some time with it, it turned out that it was a $3,000 dog with only a handful of tricks. It seems the days of buying true robot dog companionship are still a long ways away. A few months after bringing […]
- Facebook may proactively close Pages and Groups before they’re in violation of policy an hour ago – Facebook today announced changes to the way it handles the removal of content from Facebook Pages that’s in violation of the social network’s Community Standards, as well as when the Page has posted items that are rated false by a third-party fact checking service. It says it will also make it ha...
- YC-backed Our World in Data wants you to know that the planet is doing okay an hour ago – News is exhausting. Mexican murders are sky-high. Ebola is ravaging the eastern Congo. China is erasing an entire culture of Islam from its Western hinterlands. That news — negative and intense though it is — can easily occlude the many positive, longer term stories that are fundamental drivers o...
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- Acer announces two new educational 12-inch Chromebooks a day ago – Acer announced two 12-inch Chromebook devices today at the annual Bett conference for educators: the Chromebook 512 and the Chromebook Spin 512. Both feature 1366 x 912 resolution on 3:2 aspect ratio screens — a ratio which, according to Acer, falls between that of books and mobile media. Compar...
- 15 hours ago – Just a little over a month after shipping its first Echo Wall Clocks, Amazon is pulling the product over connectivity issues. The Wall Street Journal’s Joanna Stern first tweeted about the delisting and The Verge has since independently confirmed it. In a statement, an Amazon spokesperson said, “...
- Fujifilm GFX 50R review: bigger isn’t always best 7 hours ago – Fujifilm’s latest medium format camera looks new, but it has a lot of familiar baggage Continue reading…
- Amid shutdown, agencies scramble to secure federal websites 5 hours ago – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued an urgent call for government agencies to secure their web infrastructure in the midst of a partial government shutdown, as first reported by Cyberscoop. The department sent out an emergency directive on Tuesday afternoon, alerting government a...
- Facebook cracks down on fake news publishers with harsher punishments for bad pages an hour ago – Facebook has announced changes to how it handles and communicates violations of its policies around the publishing of fake news and misinformation, with the goal of preventing publishers that operate large networks of pages and groups from skirting bans. Starting today, Facebook says it will rese...