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Equity podcast: Too much damn Uber news and Jeff Bezos buys a grocery chain
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a weekly podcast of high finance gossip and low GAAP intrigue. It’s TechCrunch’s show focused on all things venture capital. This week, Katie Roof, Matthew Lynley and I — Alex Wilhelm — were joined by Cyan Banister, a prolific investor on her own (Uber, Postmates, the list goes on), and partner at Founders Fund, a team with more… Read More
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Watch this guy play Super Mario Bros. IRL in Central Park using HoloLens
Super Mario Bros. is iconic, so it’s a natural target for augmented reality development, where everything nostalgic is new again. This demo, created by Abhishek Singh, really is amazing, however. Singh recreated the first level of Super Mario Bros. as an augmented reality game on Microsoft HoloLens, giving himself a first-person perspective into a unique 3D look inside the classic… Read More
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IBM is working with the Air Force Research Lab on a TrueNorth 64-chip array
IBM is working with the U.S. Air Force to improve its TrueNorth line of chips designed to optimize the performance of machine learning models at the hardware level. The new 64-chip array will consist of four boards, each with 16 chips. IBM’s chips are still too experimental to be used in mass production, but they’ve shown promise in running a special type of neural network… Read More
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Algorithmia raises $10.5M Series A round led by Google’s new AI fund
Word recently spread that Google had quietly launched a new fund for investing into AI companies. Now this fund has made its first (or at least its first public) investment, leading a $10.5 million Series A into Algorithmia, a marketplace and enterprise solution that allows developers to easily tap into its catalog of 3,500 algorithms, functions and machine-learning models. Read More
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Razer makes virtual currency push with $20M investment in Asian payment firm
Razer has invested close to $20 million into Malaysia-based online payment firm MOL Global as part of a push to establish its virtual currency for gamers in Asia. The deal sees Razer subsidiary ZV-Midas buy equity from existing backers MOL Investment and Hotel Resort Enterprise in a deal that values the MOL Global business at around the $100 million mark. Gaming company Razer, which made… Read More
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Facebook expands its hate-fighting counterspeech initiative in Europe
Facebook has launched a third counterspeech initiative in Europe, partnering with the not-for-profit Institute for Strategic Dialogue for the launch of the Online Civil Courage Initiative (OCCI), which is aimed at tackling online extremism and hate speech. Read More
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Crunch Report | Apple Rolls Out Early Version Of Its Safe Driving Feature
Today’s Stories Do Not Disturb While Driving feature rolls out in Apple’s newest iOS 11 beta Sean Parker has left Spotify’s board; Padmasree Warrior, Thomas Staggs join in lead up to IPO Trump might kill next month’s new startup visa before it takes effect Facebook is testing a feature to prevent profile pictures being abused by other users Tantan, China’s… Read More
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The Kaggle data science community is competing to improve airport security with AI
Despite being slow and invasive, the TSA doesn’t have a great record at catching threats. With the help of the Kaggle data science community, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is hosting an online competition to build machine learning-powered tools that can augment agents, ideally making the entire system simultaneously more accurate and efficient. Read More
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Honda Clarity grows from one-shot to series
For years, the Honda Clarity has been one thing: a hydrogen fuel-cell-powered sedan available for lease to a vetted group of early adopters in California. Now in its third generation, the Honda Clarity fuel-cell car is still basically that. But it’s getting a couple of friends. This year, the Honda Clarity adds two new versions: an all-electric car and a plug-in hybrid. Read More
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YouTube has 1.5 billion logged-in monthly users watching a ton of mobile video
This year at VidCon, YouTube shared some new metrics that really drive home how much it’s dominating mobile video usage and how quickly its service is gaining viewers on TVs. Read More
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At the White House’s emerging tech event, drones are one of the day’s big topics
Tech leaders gathered today at the White House for a series of focused sessions on hot topics in tech. Thursday’s event, titled “American Leadership in Emerging Technology,” is the second big piece of the White House’s Technology Week, continuing on from Tuesday’s discussion about modernizing government technology. Read More
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As Uber’s value slips on the secondary market, Lyft’s is rising
It’s been happening for months. The value of Uber’s shares has been falling on the secondary market, hammered by a barrage of press attention paid to its real and perceived misdeeds. Meanwhile, Lyft’s stock is on the rise. It’s hard to know if these trend lines will continue, but sharks are circling, with prospective buyers trying to gauge fear in the market — and… Read More
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Periscope vows fix for broadcasters mad that they forfeit tips by deleting replays
Periscope’s new Super Hearts tipping feature that launched yesterday quickly sparked a backlash from the creators it was designed to help earn money. Read More
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HEBI is trying to make building custom robots as easy as playing with LEGO
The X-Series Actuator doesn’t look like much. Actually, if I’m being honest, it kind of looks like a red metal scotch tape dispenser with ribbed sides and a couple of ethernet ports. The product is scattered all over HEBI’s one-room Pittsburgh office in various states of disarray. The palm-sized metal component is the startup’s primary product — its entire reason… Read More
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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 who 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. Read More
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After three days, Skype’s outage is resolved
After three days of connectivity issues that 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. 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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Zapp Inc.
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Citus Health
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Cylera
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Group K Diagnostics
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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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Dafengshou
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Bcomp
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The Edge Property
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Dauber
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Iconovo
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Natgas
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YUNOÏA
- 950K EUR Seed
- HQ: Prague, Hlavni mesto Praha
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Alert Logic
- $70M Debt Financing
- HQ: Houston, Texas
- Categories: Cloud Security, Security, Network Security
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Underground Elephant
- $7.5M Venture
- HQ: San Diego, California
- Categories: Retail, Non Profit, Insurance, Energy, Education, Advertising, E-Commerce ... See More
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Tradee SAS
- 1.0M EUR Seed
- HQ: Paris, Ile-de-France
- Categories: Mobile Apps, Marketplace, Shopping
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OneAssist
- $18M Series C
- HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
- Categories: Financial Services, SaaS, Security
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Cloudbeds
- $9.0M Series B
- HQ: San Diego, California
- Categories: Hospitality, Enterprise Software, Travel
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MediaAlpha
- $20M Debt Financing
- HQ: Santa Monica, California
- Categories: Insurance, Internet, Advertising, Telecommunications, Lead Generation, ... See More
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inploi
- 500K GBP Seed
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Marketplace, Recruiting, Sharing Economy, Mobile, Employment
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Nuvolo
- $10M Series A
- HQ: Jersey City, New Jersey
- Categories: Information Technology, Enterprise Software
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Kite Power Systems
- 2.0M GBP Venture
- HQ: Essex, Connecticut
- Categories: Energy, Wind Energy, Renewable Energy
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Schweiger Dermatology
- $20M Debt Financing
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Health Care, Medical, Cosmetic Surgery
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Thorn
- Not available Series A
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Charity, Non Profit
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Blockchain
- $40M Series B
- HQ: Luxembourg, Luxembourg
- Categories: Finance, Bitcoin, FinTech, Web Development
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Kissht
- $2.0M Series A
- HQ: Mumbai, Maharashtra
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