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The evolution of the iPod
Earlier today, Apple announced that it’s finally discontinuing the iPod nano and shuffle once and for all, making the touch the last iPod standing. Instead of simply mourning the loss of the devices, let’s celebrate the rich and full existences they led before shuffling off this mortal coil into the cold, unforgiving world of eBay auctions. Read More
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When your fear is my opportunity
I’m not saying the people around me here at Black Hat are malicious, or that the threats aren’t real. I’m saying that the industry, and everyone it, is strongly incentivized to make its customers and the wider world as frightened as possible, and people tend to follow the path of most incentivization, consciously or not, reluctantly or not. The security industry is the… Read More
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It looks like Amazon would be losing a lot of money if not for AWS
Amazon reported its second-quarter earnings today, and it was a bit of a whiff — and a bummer for Jeff Bezos, who is now no longer the solar system’s richest human and has been relegated to the unfortunate position of second-richest human. Read More
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High Times weed magazine goes public but ditches IPO
IPO? How about HighPO? The 43-year-old marijuana media brand High Times has found a shortcut to going public: It sold itself to an already public shell company, of which High Times share holders then got an 83 percent stake. Read More
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Jeff Bezos’ brief stint as world’s richest human ends with Amazon’s second-quarter whiff
Amazon reported its earnings today, wherein a whiff in earnings sent the stock down around 3 percent and brought CEO Jeff Bezos back to reality as the, once again, second-richest human in the known solar system. In all seriousness though, the company appears to once again be squeezing out a very small profit on top of its mammoth retail operations. Read More
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Intel beats earnings expectations as it manages to maintain growth in its Data Center Group
Intel declared $14.8 billion in revenue this afternoon and earnings per share of 72 cents. This represents a solid beat as analysts had expected revenues of $14.41 billion and EPS of 68 cents. The company’s stock finished up 22 cents and 0.63 percent to $34.97 per share in regular trading. In the moments after the company released its earnings, Intel’s stock shot up 3.43 percent. Read More
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Someone made the ‘Take On Me’ music video come to life with AR and it’s glorious
Pack it on up, everyone — someone just won ARKit. We’ve seen lots of fun stuff made with ARKit already, but this one… this one is something special. Read More
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The AR thirst is real, please @ me
Game developer Chip Sineni of TRIXI studios created a clever AR experiment based on A-Ha’s seminal video for Take On Me. It is pretty fun. It’s also garnering a lot of attention from some very specific folks. I have been talking to a lot of people about AR over the past few months and there is a definable excitement around it. I’m bullish as hell about AR, which… Read More
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Timekettle’s WT2 real-time translation earpieces enable ordinary conversation across language barriers
At TechCrunch’s event in Shenzhen last month, we had a chance to test out the WT2, a clever and ambitious device from startup TimeKettle. It’s a pair of wireless earpieces; each person in a multilingual conversation wears one, and they translate what’s said into the language spoken by each participant. Essentially it’s a Babel fish, though admittedly a rough draft of one. Read More
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30 years of the GIF
Few technologies survive more than five years — let alone 30 — without significant change. Technologies that do not change are resigned to obsolescence. But the GIF, which celebrates its 30th birthday this summer, has endured. While its technical aspects haven’t changed, GIFs have taken on three different lives — and usage of GIFs has never been higher than it is today. Read More
Latest TC Videos
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Microsoft’s Imagine Cup crowns its 15th winner, the X.GLU smart glucose meter for kids
Microsoft’s annual Imagine Cup, a global competition of high-tech student projects, reached its culmination this week accompanied by the usual pomp at the company’s headquarters in Redmond. The winner of the $100,000 grand prize and 365 days of bragging rights is X.GLU, a Czech team that created a custom smart glucose meter for children with diabetes. Read More
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Patook wants to be Tinder for platonic friendships
Technology isn’t necessarily the best solution for forging new real life connections, whatever the collective marketing spiel of the web’s social giants likes to claim. But Patook is having a crack at the tricky feat of remotely sparking friendships, without inviting in the creeps… Read More
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Embody an 80s family robot in Funny or Die’s feature-length VR flick ‘Miyubi’
In VR, we’re all robots, but some experiences make that a bit more apparent than others. Today, Oculus is releasing a VR comedy called “Miyubi.” The experience, produced by Funny or Die and Felix & Paul Studios, is the longest VR narrative to be funded by Oculus to date, clocking in at around 40 minutes. Read More
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Net30 wants to fix the construction industry’s payments problem
The invoicing and payments process in the commercial construction industry is broken. It takes a median of about 70 days to get paid, which means contractors are often stuck without enough working capital. Net30, a startup in Y Combinator’s current batch, wants to solve that problem. Read More
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Cycflix lets you watch Netflix, but only if you keep up the pace
Netflix (and social media, and Seamless, and the convenience economy, and so on) has totally wrecked my fitness routine. But a new program from Dublin Institute of Technology student Ronan Byrne may save the day. Cycflix is a project that lets you hook a stationary bike up with your Netflix account so that your favorite shows only play if you stick to your fitness routine. It works by hooking… Read More
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Apple discontinues iPod nano and shuffle and doubles iPod touch capacities to 32GB and 128GB
Get out the Kleenex and hit play on the Boyz II Men musical montages — it’s officially the end of an era. Three years after discontinuing the iPod classic, Apple is finally doing the same to its lower-end brethren, the shuffle and nano. The company pulled both iconic MP3 players from its site earlier today and has since confirmed with TechCrunch that this is, indeed, the end. Read More
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UpCodes makes researching building regulations less exhausting for architects
For architects, complying with building codes means navigating labyrinthine layers of regulations that vary between municipalities. Sorting through different codes and keeping track of updates is a daunting task and, in a worst-case scenario, a mistake can cost thousands or even millions of dollars to tear out and fix. Firms that can afford it hire building code consultants, but a startup… Read More
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Citus Health
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Group K Diagnostics
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Marmo Health
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Premy
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Limitless
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SourceSage
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doogy AS
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NANO Security Ltd
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Cosme Hunt
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WeWork China
- $500M Series A
- HQ: Beijing, Beijing
- Categories: Coworking, Collaboration, Real Estate
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bridgerins.com
- $750K Seed
- HQ: Short Hills, New Jersey
- Categories: Insurance
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Slack
- $250M Venture
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Enterprise Software, Real Time, Collaboration, Messaging
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Big Switch Networks
- $31M Round
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- Categories: Data Center, Software, Network Security
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JazzHR
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- HQ: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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FineDine Menu
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Dreamleague Gaming
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Cool Cousin
- $2.0M Seed
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- Categories: Tourism, Leisure, Travel Agency
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4Suites
- $435K Angel
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Tethr
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- HQ: Austin, Texas
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Tine Health
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9 Spokes
- 12M AUD Post IPO Equity
- HQ: Auckland, Auckland
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Cyrus Biotechnology
- $8.0M Series A
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Software, Biotechnology, Nutrition
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Megacool
- $1.5M Seed
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Mobile, Software
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BigStylist- Salon at Home
- 80M INR Venture
- HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Categories: Beauty
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PreciThera
- 36M CAD Series A
- HQ: Montréal, Quebec
- Categories: Biotechnology
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Somatik inc.
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Minka
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Jhakaas
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Brolly
- 1.1M EUR Seed
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Insurance, InsurTech, FinTech
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