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Waymo’s John Krafcik will give a glimpse into our autonomous future at Disrupt SF 2017
Waymo CEO John Krafcik has been a very busy guy, between graduating the former Google self-driving project into its own company late last year, and signing up a healthy slate of automotive and transportation industry partners. Waymo is working with everyone from Lyft, to Chrysler, to Avis on bringing self-driving tech to market for consumers, and Krafcik will join us at Disrupt SF 2017 to tell… Read More
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Toyota’s new solid-state battery could make its way to cars by 2020
Toyota is touting its progress on a new kind of battery technology, which uses a solid electrolyte instead of the conventional semi-liquid version used in today’s lithium-ion batteries. The car maker said that it’s near a breakthrough in production engineering that could help it put the new tech in production electric vehicles as early as 2020, according to the Wall Street… Read More
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The Envirobot robo-eel slithers along the shore for science
The next time you’re swimming in Lake Geneva, don’t be surprised when you feel something eel-like and yet artificial touch your leg. That would be Envirobot, the latest biomimetic creation from Swiss researchers that autonomously swims around bodies of water and tests them for toxins and other factors. Read More
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Netflix to debut ‘Disenchantment,’ a new animated series from ‘The Simpsons’ creator Matt Groening, in 2018
The creator of the longest-running scripted primetime series ever, “The Simpsons,” is preparing to launch a new show for Netflix. The streaming service today announced it has ordered 20 episodes of an animated comedy series called “Disenchantment,” from “The Simpsons” creator Matt Groening. The first episodes are set to debut in 2018, the company says… Read More
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Wallflower wants to prevent cooking fires by making your stove smarter
The fire department responds to a home fire every 86 seconds, and many of those start in the kitchen. Wallflower is a device that easily hooks into most electric stoves, between the outlet and the stove itself, to notify users if there is risk of a fire. If the stove is on when you leave the home, the Wallflower will send a notification to the your phone to remind you to turn it off. In fact… Read More
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Twitter confirms it is winding down SnappyTV, shifting features to Media Studio
Twitter has been making an effort for some time to streamline and simplify its interface to make its social media platform more accessible to new and more casual users, and it is doing the same in the backend of its service. In the latest development, we have confirmed that Twitter is preparing to wind down SnappyTV, a service it acquired in 2014 for quickly clipping, editing and sharing… Read More
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Online consignment shop thredUp takes on The RealReal with launch of Luxe
Online consignment shop thredUp is taking on The RealReal. The e-commerce site for secondhand items today announced the launch of a new luxury goods storefront, simply called Luxe, which is now available as a public beta. Via Luxe, consignment customers can request a “clean out kit” from thredUp, as per usual, and fill it with both their high-end and low-end items, which the… Read More
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Node raises $10.8 million to find you better sales leads
The first step of any salesperson is to figure out who to pitch, but some of them are wasting time targeting the wrong prospective clients. That’s the premise behind Node, a startup that says its platform uses artificial intelligence to find sales leads. In “stealth mode” for the past 2.5 years, the company is now announcing a $10.8 million venture financing round. Read More
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Bigscreen VR app gets its biggest screen yet with latest update
Bigscreen is living up to its name. The Andreessen Horowitz-backed virtual reality app will be receiving one of its biggest updates since launch with the Cinema Update, which brings a hulking dynamically lit IMAX-like theater environment into the app, which will allow users to watch movies, play games and do work on their PC in a pretty epic manner. Read More
Latest TC Videos
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Get ready to finally say goodbye to Flash — in 2020
Adobe today announced that Flash, the once-ubiquitous plugin that allowed you to play your first Justin Bieber video on YouTube and Dolphin Olympics 2 on Kongregate, will be phased out by the end of 2020. Until then, Adobe will still partner with the likes of Apple, Mozilla, Microsoft and Google to offer security updates for Flash in their browsers and support new versions of them. Read More
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Uber driver-side updates include 24/7 phone support and paid lost item returns
Uber has added a range of updates on the driver side of its service, in keeping with its ‘180 days of change’ promise to the supply side of its ride hailing equation. The new updates include 24-hour, 7 day a week live phone support, quick fixes to fare mistakes, protection against bad ratings resulting from factors beyond a driver’s control and payments for trips to return… Read More
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This new modular construction company just raised $4.2 million in Series A funding
Building blocks are a fascination that most people eventually outgrow. Not Noel Maxam, an Emmy-award-winning producer, director and writer who more recently leapt into the world of modular construction with Emagispace, a company that’s looking to give stick-frame construction the brush. Read More
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Adobe accidentally leaks photo-editing app Project Nimbus
Project Nimbus is not a secret. Adobe already previewed the app at its MAX conference. But MacGeneration was able to download and play around with the upcoming app. Adobe told MacGeneration that it was available to some Creative Cloud subscribers for a short time by mistake. It has been removed since then. In many ways, Project Nimbus feels like the Photos app and iCloud’s photo library… Read More
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Tesla Model S regains top Consumer Reports safety rating after software update
Tesla’s Model S once again occupies the top safety rating spot in the Consumer Reports ultra-luxury sedan category, after the automaker put out a software update that brought automatic emergency braking (AEB) to highway speeds for Model S vehicles with the second-generation hardware package. Tesla had rolled back some of its automated safety and driver assistance features for… Read More
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Social media analytics company Synthesio acquires Social Karma
Synthesio is announcing its second acquisition of the year — it’s buying Social Karma, a company that uses social data to help marketers understand consumers. Back in January, Synthesio announced that it had acquired presentation software-maker Bunkr. Co-founder and CEO Loic Moisand told me that this is all part of a two-year strategy to buy up companies and technologies that can… Read More
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Motorola’s Moto Z gets a 360-degree camera mod
The Moto Z was a surprise hit for Motorola — they even made the swappable, modular-backed phone its flagship product. But the novel feature has always been hampered by the fact that there just aren’t that many useful Mods. Today changes the math a bit, with the arrival of the Moto Z2 Force Edition, featuring a shatterproof screen and bigger battery, along with the 360 Camera Moto Mod. Read More
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Uber is going to provide accident insurance in France for free
Uber drivers and delivery persons in France are automatically going to get covered by accident insurance over the coming months. Uber has partnered with French insurance company Axa on this insurance product. It’ll go live this fall and it’s going to be free for independent workers. Hold your horses for a minute though. Before you think Uber is a nice company and wants to help… Read More
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‘Game of Thrones’ premiere sent HBO NOW half a million downloads, 3x increase in revenue
HBO’s “Game of Thrones” isn’t just a cultural phenomenon – it’s also a driving force for the company’s over-the-top service aimed at cord cutters, HBO NOW. According to new data from app store analytics firm App Annie, the HBO NOW streaming app was downloaded over 500,000 times in the first week following the Season 7 premiere. This translated into… 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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Cosme Hunt
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- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Shopping, Cosmetics, Shopping Mall, Beauty
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Elimu Digital Media
- $100K Grant
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The iStartup
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Rodeo Therapeutics
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hearX Group
- $2.8M Seed
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Noticeboard - Team Communication Platform
- $1.2M Seed
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swarmOS
- 400K EUR Seed
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SimilarWeb
- $47M Series F
- HQ: Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv
- Categories: Advertising, Internet, Market Research, Digital Marketing, Analytics, ... See More
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Duolingo
- $25M Series E
- HQ: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Categories: Language Learning, Education, Internet, E-Learning
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Cypress Creek Renewables
- $450M Debt Financing
- HQ: Santa Monica, California
- Categories: Solar, Renewable Energy
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Dreamleague Gaming
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Sebacia
- $20M Series D
- HQ: Duluth, Georgia
- Categories: Medical Device, Developer Tools, Manufacturing
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Sebacia
- $16M Debt Financing
- HQ: Duluth, Georgia
- Categories: Developer Tools, Medical Device, Manufacturing
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Convoy
- $62M Series B
- HQ: Seattle, Washington
- Categories: Virtual Goods, Transportation, Logistics, Marketplace, Service Industry ... See More
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Urbanbase Inc.
- $1.8M Series A
- HQ: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi
- Categories: Consumer Electronics, Interior Design, Construction, Real Estate
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Circulation
- $10M Series A
- HQ: Boston, Massachusetts
- Categories: Transportation
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Cyclacel Pharmaceuticals
- $15M Post IPO Equity
- HQ: Berkeley Heights, New Jersey
- Categories: Pharmaceutical, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
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Momenta.ai
- $46M Series B
- HQ: Beijing, Beijing
- Categories: Computer Vision, Mapping Services, Autonomous Vehicles, Automotive, ... See More
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iguazio
- $33M Series B
- HQ: Herzliya, Tel Aviv
- Categories: Internet of Things, Software, Analytics, Big Data, PaaS, Cloud Data ... See More
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B-Secur
- 3.5M GBP Venture
- HQ: Belfast, Belfast
- Categories: Health Care, Security, Biometrics
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Zeetta Networks
- 1.6M GBP Seed
- HQ: Bristol, Bristol, City of
- Categories: Internet of Things, Information Technology, Telecommunications
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Tine Health
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- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: Health Care, Enterprise Software, SaaS, Augmented Reality
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James
- $2.7M Venture
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: Software, Machine Learning
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Physiq
- $8.0M Series B
- HQ: Naperville, Illinois
- Categories: Predictive Analytics, Health Care, Commercial
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