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Lyft commits to closing wage gaps across race and gender
12:00 pm PDT • March 27, 2018
Ahead of Equal Pay Day on April 10, Lyft is committing to conducting yearly equal pay audits to ensure there are no pay discrepancies across race and gender. Last year,…
Startups
Ethereum falls after rumors of a powerful mining chip surface
11:48 am PDT • March 27, 2018
Rumors of a new ASIC mining rig from Bitmain have driven Ethereum prices well below their one-week high of $585. An ASIC – or Application-specific integrated circuit – in the…
Hardware
Nvidia stuns by driving a car in real life through virtual reality
11:45 am PDT • March 27, 2018
Today at Nvidia’s GTC conference the company unveiled a wild technology demo and it’s straight out of Black Panther. Simply put, a driver using virtual reality was remotely controlling a…
Transportation
Nvidia previews next-generation Drive Orin self-driving computer
11:42 am PDT • March 27, 2018
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang revealed a forthcoming generation of the company’s self-driving Drive PX supercomputers for use in vehicles – the successor to the current Drive Pegasus, which will be…
Media & Entertainment
MoviePass strikes a deal with Landmark for e-ticketing and other perks
11:23 am PDT • March 27, 2018
MoviePass is going to start playing favorites. The company just announced a partnership to offer a set of exclusive perks through Landmark Theatres, the indie theater chain co-owned by Mark…
Media & Entertainment
Turner’s new sports streaming service, Bleacher Report Live, will let you pay per game
11:23 am PDT • March 27, 2018
Well, at least it’s not another subscription service. Turner today announced the forthcoming launch of its new live sports streaming service, Bleacher Report Live, which is expected to roll out…
This has been a long time coming, but during his GTC keynote, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang today announced support for the Google-incubated Kubernetes container orchestration system on Nvidia GPUs. The…
Google will be acquiring Tenor, which powers a variety of GIF keyboards on phones and messengers like Facebook Messenger, the companies announced today. Tenor will continue to operate as a…
Nvidia and Arm today announced a partnership that’s aimed at making it easier for chip makers to incorporate deep learning capabilities into next-generation consumer gadgets, mobile devices and Internet of…
AI
Nvidia debuts new Drive Constellation simulated self-driving test system
11:05 am PDT • March 27, 2018
Nvidia has taken the AutoSIM virtual environment for testing autonomous cars it originally showed off at CES, combined it with its Drive Pegasus AI in-car computer and created a virtual…
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Space
Launch of NASA’s ambitious Webb space telescope delayed until 2020
10:51 am PDT • March 27, 2018
The James Webb space telescope is certainly one of the most anticipated projects coming out of NASA, both because of its grand scale and its interminable gestation time. Well, the…
AI
Aira’s new smart glasses give blind users a guide through the visual world
10:30 am PDT • March 27, 2018
When it comes to augmented reality technologies, visuals always seems to be a pretty essential part of most people’s definitions, but one startup is offering an interesting take on audio-based…
After rocketing to a $250 million valuation in 2015 amid a massive hype cycle for on-demand companies, on-demand startup Shyp is shutting down today. CEO Kevin Gibbon announced that the…
Privacy
Facebook data misuse scandal affects “substantially” more than 50M, claims Wylie
10:18 am PDT • March 27, 2018
Chris Wylie, the former Cambridge Analytica employee turned whistleblower whose revelations about Facebook data being misused for political campaigning has wiped billions off the share value of the company in…
Google today announced that Google Maps is getting support for 39 additional languages. The newly supported languages are Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Bosnian, Burmese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Filipino,…
Apple’s ebook creation tools – first launched in 2012 – have long played an interesting if minor role in the ecosystem. While Amazon has the indie book world sewn up…
Media & Entertainment
Google Play Movies & TV becomes a one-stop shop for nearly everything that streams
10:00 am PDT • March 27, 2018
With the explosion of streaming services now available, it’s becoming more difficult to figure out not just what movie or TV show to watch next, but where you can actually…
Lytro, the light-field imaging startup focused on virtual reality, is shutting down. In a blog post, Lytro said it’s going to begin winding down and will not be taking on…
Nvidia is temporarily stopping testing of its autonomous vehicle platform in response to last week’s fatal collision of a self-driving Uber car with a pedestrian. TechCrunch confirmed this with the…
Startups
Bedrock Capital raises $122M to fund startups that reject conventional wisdom
9:47 am PDT • March 27, 2018
Most investors don’t like to admit that they’re chasing the latest buzzwords or fads or hot companies, but a new firm called Bedrock Capital says it’s on a mission to…
