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YouTube chops 360 video in half with new VR180 format
YouTube is showing off a brand new file format for creators that want to check out VR but are intimidated by taking the full plunge with all the crazy hardware and production issues. It’s called VR180 and it’s half of a spherical video. It’s a simple evolution but it makes some notable compromises that give traditional and VR viewers some new gains. In a recent blog post… Read More
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After three days, Skype’s outage is resolved
After three days of connectivity issues which prevented some Skype users from being able to log in, make calls, or send and receive messages, the company says it has now fully resolved the problem. What it isn’t saying – at least not yet – is what exactly happened. Microsoft’s decision to stay silent on an incident of this length and scale – the outage impacted… Read More
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Africa’s “Shark Tank” for startups is Rwanda’s new show “Face The Gorillas”
African startups can now score capital commitments real time―so long as they convince a venture capitalist to give it to them in front of a live audience. That’s the format for Face The Gorillas, a Rwandan IT pitch series that runs several times a year on local TV, YouTube, and at select events. The competition was originally conceived in 2013 by Yariv Cohen and wife Angela… Read More
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Tesla said to be in talks to create its own streaming music service
Tesla might be a music service operator soon, in addition to a maker of electric cars and solar energy products. That’s according to a new report from Recode, which says that Tesla has been talking to music labels to make this happen. The planned offering could start with a free, Pandora-like streaming radio option, which theoretically would be tied to Tesla vehicle ownership, one imagines. Read More
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Facebook announces dates for its Oculus Connect 4 conference
Facebook’s Oculus is returning to San Jose on October 11-12 this year to share some news about the future of VR at the company’s Oculus Connect 4 developers conference. Facebook has slowly been bringing the Oculus name and leadership under its own core brand. With the amount of VR news popping up at F8, some wondered whether Oculus Connect’s days were numbered. Apparently not. Read More
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The company called Blockchain raises $40 million
Blockchain (the company) just raised a $40 million Series B funding round led by Lakestar. Blockchain has been working on the most popular bitcoin wallet in the world. You can open a wallet on the company’s website or through its mobile apps. GV, Nokota Management, Digital Currency Group and existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners, Mosaic Venture Partners, Prudence Holdings… Read More
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Looking for a few smart investors who want a free Disrupt ticket; must like meeting equally smart founders
TechCrunch Disrupt has always been a fruitful meeting ground for founders and investors, and every year TechCrunch makes it easier for the right folks to connect. A year ago we launched our CrunchMatch program and this year it helped facilitate 450 curated meetings in May at Disrupt NY. And then there’s ‘featured pavilions’ in Startup Alley, where selected startups in the… Read More
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Some Uber employees are reportedly petitioning for Travis Kalanick to stay
There’s a petition circulating among Uber employees asking the board of directors to let Travis Kalanick return to the company, Recode reports. The email going around talks about how Kalanick is “critical” to the company’s future success. It ultimately asks employees to show their support for Kalanick and push for him to get reinstated in an operational role. Read More
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Scaleway doubles down on ARM-based cloud servers
Iliad’s cloud hosting division Scaleway has been betting on ARM chipsets for years because they believe the future of hosting is going to be based on ARM’s processor architecture. The company just launched more powerful ARMv8 options and added more cores to its cheapest options. Read More
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Future Family wants to give women a more affordable option in fertility treatments
More women are having kids in their 30s than in their 20s. However, those closer to 40 than 30 face higher risks than their younger counterparts. Add to that 1 in every 8 couples in the U.S. have some type of fertility issue. More couples are looking at IVF and other fertility treatments. But those treatments can be costly. A new Bay Area startup, Future Family, hopes to change that. Read More
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CodeFights launches a new practice mode to help developers prepare for job interviews
Most job interviews for developers are somewhat predictable in that they will likely involve some kind of coding — generally on a whiteboard. That’s not really how developers normally work. Because they are so different from most developers’ real-world experience, even the best coders need to practice for these “exams.” CodeFights wants to help developers practice… Read More
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Facebook equips admins to protect and analyze their Groups
Facebook sees Groups as the core of its push to “build community,” as Mark Zuckerberg detailed in his 6,000-word humanitarian manifesto. So today at its Communities Summit in Chicago, where it assembled 300 admins of top Groups, Facebook is making good on Zuckerberg’s promise to give admins more tools to manage their flocks. Read More
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Do Not Disturb While Driving feature rolls out in Apple’s newest iOS 11 beta
Distracted driving has become a national safety crisis because of the rise of smartphones. With the release of iOS 11’s latest beta on Wednesday, testers can now get their hands on one of the new mobile operating system’s most important — if not most glamorous — new features: a long-needed “Do Not Disturb While Driving” mode. Read More
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DeepMind Health inks another 5-year NHS app deal in face of ongoing controversy
DeepMind Health, the division of the Google-owned AI company that’s applying machine learning to medical data in the hopes of profiting from diagnostic gain, has inked another services agreement with the U.K.’s National Health Service — expanding the deployment of its alerts, messaging and task management app, Streams. Read More
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Hot sneaker marketplace GOAT adds former Twitter COO Adam Bain to board
Sneaker resale marketplace GOAT has been on a bit of a tear since I covered them nearly two years ago. The streamlined app and the incredibly buzzy sneakerhead market have combined for some pretty impressive growth and stickyness. Now GOAT’s Eddy Lu and Daishin Sugano have recruited former Twitter COO Adam Bain, who was a natural fit because he was a user before they ever met. Read More
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Facebook changes mission statement to ‘bring the world closer together’
“Making the world more open and connected” had one fundamental flaw: it didn’t push for any specific positive outcome from more connection. Technically, it could encompass digital voyeurism via the News Feed, trading in-person friendship for online acquaintanceship or the filter bubbles and echospheres that have further polarized the United States. Read More
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The Wet Hot American Summer sequel series lands on Netflix on August 4
Netflix is bringing back Wet Hot American Summer with the sequel mini-series Ten Years Later, all episodes of which are streaming on August 4. We knew this follow-up to the prequel series and original movie was coming, we just didn’t know exactly when. Luckily, it’s coming in time for there to actually still be some summer to burn. The series looks like it’ll feature all the… Read More
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Zapp Inc.
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Group K Diagnostics
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Citus Health
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Cylera
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Marmo Health
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LGD
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Liveplay
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AmoebaX Ltd.
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AIMO
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The Edge Property
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Verso Learning
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YUNOÏA
- 950K EUR Seed
- HQ: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha
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Datometry
- $10M Series A
- HQ: San Francisco, California
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Tradee SAS
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Cloudbeds
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- HQ: San Diego, California
- Categories: Hospitality, Enterprise Software, Travel
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Schweiger Dermatology
- $20M Debt Financing
- HQ: New York, New York
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Thorn
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Blockchain
- $40M Series B
- HQ: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Categories: FinTech, Web Development, Bitcoin, Finance
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Kissht
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Tine Health
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Ayenda
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Minka
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Repare Therapeutics
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EnteroBiotix
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Scale
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- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Task Management, Developer APIs
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Solutionz Technologies, LLC
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- Categories: Travel, Hospitality
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Someonew
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Dochase Ads
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Kalray
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