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Last year at Google I/O, the tech giant’s annual developer conference in Mountain View, Calif., the company showed off a splashy demo of an artificial intelligence assistant, Duplex, that could…
Last year at Google I/O, the company wowed the audience by showcasing Duplex as a way to make restaurant reservations. It seems that the company is psyched to solve dining’s…
Media & Entertainment
Pandora slashes prices on its premium music streaming service for students and the military
10:31 am PDT • May 7, 2019
To better compete with rivals like Spotify and Apple Music, the music streaming service Pandora is cutting the prices on its Premium subscriptions for qualifying students and members of the…
Google Search will offer better news coverage, and soon, support for podcast search
10:21 am PDT • May 7, 2019
Google Search is getting an upgrade with better news coverage and now, podcast indexing. At the company’s developer conference, Google I/O, this morning, CEO Sundar Pichai kicked things off with…
At its I/O developer conference, Google today announced that it is bringing the camera — and augmented reality — to Google Search. As the company demonstrated, you could search for…
Square has acquired conversational artificial intelligence startup Eloquent Labs to help its merchants improve customer service. Eloquent Labs, which raised a $1.5 million seed round back in early 2017, offers…
Startups
As concerns over medical device security rise, MedCrypt raises $5.3 million
9:23 am PDT • May 7, 2019
As medical devices move to networked technologies, securing those devices becomes increasingly important. Regulators, seemingly late to the threat that unsecured medical devices posed, only began requiring protections for medical…
Watch the Google I/O 2019 keynote right here
9:15 am PDT • May 7, 2019
Google’s annual developer conference starts today, beginning as usual with a consumer-focused keynote where the company unveils new technology — devices, software, services and more — for the first time.…
Startups
Shape Security’s latest product protects smaller businesses from credential stuffing
9:13 am PDT • May 7, 2019
Shape Security has been helping big companies stay safe from fraudulent activities like password reuse and bot traffic on their publicly facing websites and apps. The company now wants to…
After spending a decade working at international design and branding agencies, Kristine Arth launched her own independent branding agency called Lobster Phone last April. Since then, she’s launched 22 brands…
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In November, Amazon launched an Alexa app for Windows 10 PCs that allowed PC owners to speak to Alexa in order to set reminders, timers and alarms, create to-dos, track…
Media & Entertainment
OnePlus CEO Pete Lau will discuss the future of mobile at Disrupt SF
9:03 am PDT • May 7, 2019
Founded in late 2013, OnePlus did the impossible, coming seemingly out of nowhere to take on some of the biggest players in mobile. The company has made a name by…
Media & Entertainment
US digital advertising exceeded $100B in 2018 (IAB report)
8:06 am PDT • May 7, 2019
Digital ad spending in the United States exceeded $100 billion for the first time last year, according to the latest internet advertising report from the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers.…
A look inside Lockheed Martin’s Advanced Technology Center
8:00 AM PDT • May 7, 2019
Recorded on May 2, 2019. Lockheed Martin has been in the heart of Silicon Valley since the beginning. From shrinking the telescope to the development…
Media & Entertainment
Facebook is being sued by a Polish drug prevention group over free speech violation
7:50 am PDT • May 7, 2019
Facebook’s efforts to shut down harmful and malicious content on its platform have landed it in a European courtroom, after an anti-drug abuse organization in Poland claimed that a freeze…
The FBI have arrested several people suspected of involvement in running Deep Dot Web, a website for facilitating access to dark web sites and marketplaces. Two suspects were arrested in…
Startups
Fli Charge Technology acquired by Birch Lake to accelerate a wireless future
7:00 am PDT • May 7, 2019
Fli Charge Technology is today announcing it was acquired by an affiliate of Birch Lake Associates. As part of the purchase, industry veteran Khalid Zitouni is taking the chief executive…
Marshall, the headphone company and not the loudspeaker company of the same vintage, today announced two new portable speakers. Like the company’s previous offerings, these speakers ooze a retro vibe.…
Sitting silently with your eyes closed isn’t fun, but it’s good for you… so you probably don’t meditate as often as you’d like. In that sense, it’s quite similar to…
Startups
Serverless monitoring startup Epsagon expands to cover broader microservices
6:13 am PDT • May 7, 2019
When Epsagon launched last fall, the Israeli startup had an idea to monitor serverless architectures, specifically AWS Lambda. But the company didn’t want to confine itself to monitoring a narrow…
