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Traces AI is building a less invasive alternative to facial recognition tracking 2 days ago – With all of the progress we’ve seen in deep learning tech in the past few years, it seems pretty inevitable that security cameras become smarter and more capable in regards to tracking, but there are more options than we think in how we choose to pull this off. Traces AI is a new computer vision ...
Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich will join us for TC Sessions: Enterprise on September 5 2 days ago – Being the CTO for one of the three major hypercloud providers may seem like enough of a job for most people, but Mark Russinovich, the CTO of Microsoft Azure, has a few other talents in his back pocket. Russinovich, who will join us for a fireside chat at our TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise event...
Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich will join us for TC Sessions: Enterprise on September 5 2 days ago – Being the CTO for one of the three major hypercloud providers may seem like enough of a job for most people, but Mark Russinovich, the CTO of Microsoft Azure, has a few other talents in his back pocket. Russinovich, who will join us for a fireside chat at our TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise event...
Daily Crunch: Microsoft admits humans can listen to Skype, Cortana audio 2 days 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. Microsoft tweaks privacy policy to admit humans can listen to Skype Translator and Cortana audio The ch...
SmileDirectClub files to go public amid concerns from dental associations a day ago – SmileDirectClub, the at-home teeth-straightening service, is on its way to becoming a public company. SmileDirectClub is seeking to raise up to $100 million in its IPO, according to its S-1 filed today. The number of shares and price range for the offering have yet to be determined. Prior to this...
YC-backed Lokal wants to bring local news, classifieds to 900 million Indians in their regional languages a day ago – Each month millions of Indians are coming online for the first time, making India the last great growth market for internet companies worldwide. But winning them presents its own challenges. These users, most of whom live in small cities and villages in India, can’t speak English. Their interests...
YC-backed Lokal wants to bring local news, classifieds to 900 million Indians in their regional languages a day ago – Each month millions of Indians are coming online for the first time, making India the last great growth market for internet companies worldwide. But winning them presents its own challenges. These users, most of whom live in small cities and villages in India, can’t speak English. Their interests...
Postmates lands permit to test its Serve autonomous delivery robots in SF a day ago – Postmates has officially received the green light from the city of San Francisco to begin testing its Serve wheeled delivery robot on city streets, as first reported by the SF Chronicle and confirmed with Postmates by TechCrunch. The on-demand delivery company told us last week that it expected t...
NASA and SpaceX practice Crew Dragon evacuation procedure with astronaut recovery vessel 5 hours ago – NASA and SpaceX continue their joint preparations for the eventually astronaut crew missions that SpaceX will fly for the agency, with a test of the emergency evacuation procedure for SpaceX’s GO Searcher seaborne ship. The ship is intended to be used to recover spacecraft and astronauts in an ac...
Voyage’s driverless future, ghost work, B2B growth strategies, and Black Hat takeaways 6 hours ago – Inside Voyage’s plan to deliver a driverless future In the autonomous vehicle space, startups have taken radically different strategies to building our AV future. Some companies like Waymo have driven all across different types of environments in order to rack up the datasets that they believe wi...
Ikea doubles down on smart home tech with new business unit 7 hours ago – Ikea’s smart home investments to date have been smart but scattered – now the Swedish home goods brand says it’s going to amp up its smart home bets with a brand new dedicated business unit. The company’s smart home endeavors began in 2012, and focused on wireless charging and smart lighting. It’...
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Jimmy Kimmel, Walking Dead part of $600,000 penalties for false emergency alerts 2 days ago – On Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission reached a handful of settlements with media outlets following investigations into whether they misused the emergency alert system tone. The agency found that ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, AMC’s The Walking Dead, Animal Planet’s Lone Star Law, and Mer...
Amazon’s Twitter ambassadors are blurring the line between fact and fiction 2 days ago – Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge One of the big lessons of Amazon’s HQ2 debacle, at least from my perspective, was that the company can be weirdly tone-deaf. A purported nationwide search to find a home for a “second headquarters” looked, as soon as the company announced it had settled ...
Fortnite’s next tournament will also be its most controversial, thanks to mech suits a day ago – The future of competitive Fortnite kicks off tomorrow with the Champion Series, and it’s proving to be the most controversial e-sports contest developer Epic Games has ever embarked on. The issue is not prize money or who’s allowed to participate. Instead, the furor is over an in-game mech suit, ...
Twitter tests hiding direct messages it thinks are abusive a day ago – Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Twitter is testing a new feature that will automatically hide direct messages that its automated systems think could be offensive. In a short GIF posted by the company, the new section can be seen in the app’s existing “Message requests” folder, which is...
If you’ve bought a Nintendo Switch since July 17th, you might be able to upgrade for free a day ago – Photo by James Bareham / The Verge Nintendo made a lightly updated version of the original Switch console that offers improvements like better battery life. But if you bought the old model recently, you might not be out of luck. The company is offering upgrades to the newer model for customers...