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Disney wants Netflix’s throne, and the Wall Street crowd is into it 13 hours ago – Markets reacted positively to Disney’s newly-found laser focus on streaming, pushing the company’s stock price up nearly 5%. Disney announced a restructure of its media and entertainment arms in a Monday press release. The move centralizes those businesses into one entity that will oversee all di...
Can deepfake detectors keep up with advances in AI-generated video? 15 hours ago – An investigative journalist receives a video from an anonymous whistleblower. It shows a candidate for president admitting to illegal activity. But is this video real? If so, it would be huge news – the scoop of a lifetime – and could completely turn around the upcoming elections. But the journal...
IBM announces Call for Code 2020 grand prize winner 22 minutes ago – IBM today awarded the 2020 Call for Code grand prize to the creators of Agrolly, an app that helps small farmers threatened by climate change decide what to plant and when. The distributed team of developers from Brazil, India, Mongolia, and Taiwan, who met at Pace University, will receive $200,0...
How to change your microphone or camera in Chrome 3 hours ago – Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. Google Chrome allows you to use your microphone and camera for things like meetings, online socializing, and remote work. But if you want to switch between dif...
8 hours ago – It’s been a busy few months for Apple. Fresh after releasing new iPads and Watches, the company today unveiled its iPhone 12 lineup, about a month later than usual (thanks, corona). There’s a lot to run through, so here’s everything Apple announced today in one handy list. HomePod Mini Apple reve...
Tech Crunch
Kayhan Space wants to be the air traffic control service for satellites in space 14 hours ago – Kayhan Space, the Boulder, Colo. and Atlanta-based company launched from Techstars virtual space-focused accelerator, wants nothing more than to be the air traffic control service for satellites in space. Founded by two childhood friends, Araz Feyzi and Siamak Hesar, who grew up in Iran and immig...
Kegg, a connected fertility tracker and kegel trainer for women, launches out of beta 16 hours ago – Fertility tracking has seen an explosion of startup activity in recent years. Femtech startup Lady Technologies is adding to this rich mix with the full U.S. launch of a dual-purpose device, called kegg, that’s designed to measure hormonal changes in a woman’s cervical fluid to help her determine...
Kegg, a connected fertility tracker and kegel trainer for women, launches out of beta 16 hours ago – Fertility tracking has seen an explosion of startup activity in recent years. Femtech startup Lady Technologies is adding to this rich mix with the full U.S. launch of a dual-purpose device, called kegg, that’s designed to measure hormonal changes in a woman’s cervical fluid to help her determine...
Commercializing the open source FingerprintJS browser fingerprinting tech nabs Chicago entrepreneur $4M 16 hours ago – Chicago-based serial entrepreneur Dan Pinto has raised new cash and launched a new company looking to commercialize a years-old open source project that purports to solve one of the web’s hardest problems — fraud prevention. The company he launched in January, FingerprintJS, touts itself as a new...
Join Yext’s Howard Lerman for a live Q&A right now 13 hours ago – Today’s the day! This afternoon at 2 p.m. EDT/11 a.m. PDT, Yext CEO Howard Lerman will join TechCrunch for a live chat. The conversation is part of our continuing Extra Crunch Live series, now in its second season. What are we up to in the second installment of the conversations? The same as befo...
The iPhone 12 and HomePod mini leak ahead of today’s big Apple event 13 hours ago – I guess maybe don’t read this if you like being surprised. Though you already read the headline and saw the first image, so you might as well keep keep going, right? And this is an Apple event we’re talking about, so surely there will be a surprise or two left. What we have here are […]
Nuvemshop, a Latin American answer to Shopify, raises $30 million 13 hours ago – After several failed startup attempts and nine years spent building Nuvemshop into Latin America’s answer to Shopify, the four co-founders of the company have managed to raise $30 million in venture capital funding as they look to expand their business. The new funding came from previous investor...
DroneDeploy teams with Boston Dynamics to deliver inside-outside view of job site 10 hours ago – DroneDeploy, a cloud software company that uses drone footage to help industries like agriculture, oil and gas and construction get a bird’s-eye view of a site to build a 3D picture, announced a new initiative today that combines drone photos with cameras on the ground or even ground robots from ...
Spendesk raises another $18 million for its corporate card and expense service 11 hours ago – French startup Spendesk has added $18 million to its Series B round. The company already raised $38.4 million as part of its Series B last year, which means that it raised $56.4 million as part of this round. Eight Roads Ventures is investing in today’s extension round. Spendesk, as the name sugg...
Edge computing startup Edgify secures $6.5M Seed from Octopus, Mangrove and semiconductor 11 hours ago – Edgify, which builds AI for edge computing, has secured a $6.5m seed funding round backed by Octopus Ventures, Mangrove Capital Partners and an unnamed semiconductor giant. The name was not released but TechCrunch understands it nay be Intel Corp. or Qualcomm Inc. Edgify’s technology allows ‘edge...
Gillmor Gang: Home Stretch an hour ago – On this edition of the Gillmor Gang, the live recording session was briefly interrupted by a rolling upgrade from Zoom. We’ve been using Zoom to virtualize what we’ve been doing for years with a combination of video switching hardware (Newtek’s TriCaster), a bunch of Mac Minis hosting Skype, an a...
Daily Crunch: Apple introduces the iPhone 12 5 hours ago – Apple embraces 5G, Facebook Messenger gets better integrated with Instagram and Kahoot raises $215 million. This is your Daily Crunch for October 13, 2020. The big story: Apple introduces the iPhone 12 Apple’s big event today kicked off with the announcement of the HomePod Mini, but the real focu...
PopSockets is working on MagSafe-compatible iPhone accessories 6 hours ago – PopSockets will support Apple’s MagSafe technology, TechCrunch has confirmed — meaning you’ll soon be able to pop on and off these ubiquitous iPhone accessories without worrying about the sticker on the back losing its adhesiveness over time and needing a rinse. MagSafe, Apple’s charging brand, i...
The Verge
Johnson & Johnson pauses COVID-19 vaccine trial due to unexplained illness 13 hours ago – Illustration by Ana Kova Johnson & Johnson’s clinical trial of its COVID-19 vaccine was paused after a volunteer came down with an unexplained illness. The company did not disclose what the illness was, citing the participant’s privacy. The illness is still under investigation. The pause ...
14 hours ago – Image: @evleaks Photos of Apple’s next smart speaker, the HomePod mini, have leaked hours ahead of the company’s big product event happening today. The images, published by Evan Blass, reveal a smaller device than the original HomePod — though it’s still covered in the familiar mesh fabric and...
Apple announces smaller HomePod mini for $99 10 hours ago – — a smaller version of the speaker that shrinks down the original model into a more compact size. Like the full-size HomePod, the HomePod mini still features a mesh fabric exterior in both black and white colors,...
iPhone 12 Pro and iPhone 12 Pro Max announced with larger displays, updated design, and 5G 9 hours ago – Apple has officially announced its 2020 flagship iPhones: the $999 iPhone 12 Pro and $1,099 12 Pro Max, featuring support for 5G and a new squared-off design that’s reminiscent of the iPhone 4. It’s also the first major redesign for Apple’s full-screen smartphones since it introduced the bezel-le...
( Nobody should criticize the wisdom of implementation of unprecedented modification of childrens' immune systems by direct injection ! Contaminants ? What contaminants ? Funny, the US Supreme Court said such were 'inherently unsafe' - but what do they know ? )
Job training at Google sounds very normal 8 hours ago – Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge It is unclear to me why The New York Times is making such a big deal of Google’s incredibly normal job-training practices! Google employees can speak up about anything as long as they don’t talk about antitrust, the Times reports. Google employees should...