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Hands-on, camera-off with the Oculus ‘Santa Cruz’ standalone VR prototype
Upon being guided into the inner-sanctum at the Oculus Connect developers conference, I was told to leave my phone and backpack behind. The powers that be told me I would not be allowed to take any photos or video of my demo with Oculus’s new inside-out-positional-tracking-standalone-virtual-reality-headset-prototype (more simply code-named ‘Santa Cruz’) once I was… Read More
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Crunch Report | Snap Possibly to IPO in March
Snap is reportedly preparing for an IPO that could value it at $25B or higher. Samsung acquires Viv, a next-gen AI assistant built by the creators of Apple’s Siri. Zuckerberg teases a prototype standalone Oculus VR headset. Netflix signs deal with theater chain to put original films on the big screen. Prisma adds art filtered video, GIFs coming next. Read More
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Report: Verizon wants $1 billion discount after Yahoo privacy concerns
It’s bad news for Yahoo. The company is in the midst of finalizing its sale to Verizon, but recent revelations about hacking and spying may be costing them a pretty penny. A story from the New York Post alleges that Verizon is now asking Yahoo for a hefty $1 billion discount to finalize what was supposed to be a $4.8 billion deal. (Full disclosure: TechCrunch is owned by Verizon… Read More
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Watch an Uber self-driving car give two Pittsburgh Steelers a ride
Uber’s self-driving cars are operating on Pittsburgh streets, so it’s only natural they’d pick up some professional athletes along the way. Defensive ends Cam Heyward and Stephon Tuitt likely max out the passenger capacity of the back of that Uber-tech equipped Ford Fusion that picks them up, but they do manage to get in and take the trip. My favorite moment here might be… Read More
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Oculus teases VR with positional tracking
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg took to the stage today at the Oculus Connect developers conference and showed a new prototype standalone headset with positional tracking. In a brief demo video, the headset appeared to be a modified Rift with a compute module embedded into the back of the headset. This positional tracking technology allows the headset to understand where it is in physical space and adjust the onscreen content accordingly. Zuckerberg said development is still incredibly early, but that it’s on the product roadmap.
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Spotify and Apple Music get unofficial mixes, the best part of SoundCloud
SoundCloud’s big differentiator is its offering of unofficial, user-uploaded content that the major labels don’t release and that isn’t on Spotify or Apple Music. Or at least they weren’t. The first unofficial single-track remixes just went live on Spotify and Apple Music thanks to their partnerships with music rights management service Dubset. Apple struck a deal… Read More
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Buying Washio’s assets, Rinse cleans up part of the on-demand laundry market
Nearly a month after the on-demand laundry service Washio shut its doors, its assets have been starched, pressed and folded into the operations of one of its main competitors — Rinse. For a while, competition for on-demand laundering seemed to be a regional game, with both Rinse and Washio vying for territory along the West Coast and, eventually, nationally. On the East Coast, startups… Read More
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In buyers’ market, acquirers look to lock in management teams longer
Acquisitions are often celebrated in the press. But academic research suggests that 70 percent to 90 percent of mergers don’t succeed, owing to a wide variety of factors. Buyers overvalue the synergies they’ll derive, or they underestimate the impact of the associated costs, or they rely too heavily on assumptions about where a market is heading. Of course, another reason… Read More
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Toppling democracy one byte at a time
As the saying goes, “all politics is local.” And now, so is hacking. Cyber attacks popularized on the silver screen are now occurring in every aspect of our life. Our election system is not immune from this new reality. Read More
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Co-founder Antti Pasila becomes CEO at programmatic ad company Kiosked
Kiosked, a company that dynamically inserts ads into a publisher’s content, has a new CEO — co-founder Antti Pasila. Pasila, who previously served as the company’s chief strategy officer, said his appointment is part of a broader shift: “The key thing is, we’re focusing our resources on the supply side.” In other words, while there are no plans to get rid… Read More
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Facebook invents “virtual reality emoji” gestures
These are what Facebook calls “VR emoji,” and they’re the company’s vision for how we’ll convey emotion in virtual reality. We’re not talking about yellow illustrated emoticons popping up over your head. Instead, your avatar’s eyes, eye brows, mouth and other facial features will change to mimic how we exhibit body language in the real… Read More
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ASUS’s Zenvolution event features four upcoming devices and one awkward portmanteau
Zenvolution doesn’t really roll off the tongue. But hey, you come for the gadgets – the clever word play is really just a bonus, at best. And the company certainly has a lot to showcase on that front, covering all of the requisite bases with a new laptop, phone, tablet and watch. Let’s start with the notebook and go from there, shall we? The company’s got a new version… Read More
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Yep, there’s now a subscription handbag service: Ivory Clasp
There are subscription services for clothes, shoes, accessories, makeup, and even tampons, so why not one for handbags? That’s the premise, at least, behind a new startup called Ivory Clasp, which is promising to offer quality, stylish handbags that retail for over $100 for just $45 per month. The service sends name-brand bags, not knock-offs, and allows you to keep the purses you… Read More
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News in VR with RYOT
RYOT, the Culver City California-based virtual reality outfit snapped up by the Huffington Post last year, works on the cutting edge of the news business, bringing audiences straight to the scene. That’s an unusual use of the new medium – most VR startups focus on sports and gaming empires. But RYOT took its VR team to the Rio 2016 Olympics, was there for the Democrat and… Read More
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Coupa up 87% in software IPO
Coupa was off to the races when it went public on Thursday. The “spend management” software company priced its IPO at $18 and saw its shares almost double during its first day of trading. With clients like Nike and Toyota, Coupa helps companies keep tabs on everyday expenditures and competes with divisions of Oracle and SAP. Founded a decade ago, they claim they’ve saved… Read More
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Sony packs more power into its compact cameras with the RX100 V and a6500
Sony has a pair of new cameras for sale — though perhaps “new” isn’t the word, since they’re more like upgrades to existing devices. The price is upgraded, too. You’re not getting away for under a grand, though you’ll be getting a lot of camera for your money. The RX100 V is, as you might guess, the fifth iteration of this pocket-size powerhouse. Read More
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Palmer Luckey absent from Oculus conference keynote after troll scandal
Oculus co-founder and Trump troll financier Palmer Luckey was conspicuously missing from the keynote stage at today’s Oculus Connect 3 conference in San Jose, CA. That likely related to the backlash against news that Luckey donated $10,000 to Nimble America, a pro-Trump non-profit dedicated to bashing Hillary Clinton with offensive memes. Luckey typically dispenses high-level thoughts… Read More
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Trying on Nike’s limited edition, self-lacing ‘Back to the Future’ shoes
Nike announced earlier this week that it will be releasing a new edition of the Nike Mags, its self-lacing shoes inspired by Back to the Future — but only 89 pairs, which will be raffled off (tickets cost $10), with proceeds benefiting the Michael J. Fox Foundation‘s research on Parkinson’s disease. I got a chance to (briefly) try on a pair of Mags and discuss the… Read More
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Moodnode
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Cybric
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Amyris Biotechnologies
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Eneza Education
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sPower
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Welltok
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Ubimax GmbH
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Big Data for Humans
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The Flex Company
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Soundtrap AB
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Botler
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Amyris Biotechnologies
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Mist Systems
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BotFactory
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Snowfall
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Story Terrace
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