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Crunch Report | Obama wants to go to Mars by the 2030s
Obama wants Americans to go to Mars by the 2030s, Google acquires FameBit, a new report from The Wall Street Journal hints at Amazon opening grocery stores, Navya gets closer to building an autonomous shuttle and Greylock closes its 15th fund. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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Why the top entrepreneurs are seeking corporate venture money
The role of corporate venture capital in the venture ecosystem has never been more visible or impactful than it is right now. For entrepreneurs, this evolution and increased competition in the venture funding landscape means more potential sources for backing and greater emphasis on what assistance each can bring to the table to help get their company to the next level. Read More
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DroneDeploy launches a directory for professional drone operators
DroneDeploy wants businesses to be able to find a drone services provider as easily as anyone can find a place to eat dinner today, anywhere in the world. So today, the unveiled a new, free Drone Mapping Directory. Take, for example, a real estate developer who needs a finely detailed map of land where it may soon build a giant, corporate campus. Instead of buying drones equipped to scan… Read More
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Is machine learning sexist?
We’ve been hearing a lot about diversity and inclusion recently. One of the areas that people are excited about is applying machine learning to eliminate bias. Done right, this can be a huge boost supporting our efforts to go beyond bias across all areas of the organization. But there are potential pitfalls; if not done right, machine learning can actually make your business more biased. Read More
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Facebook hires The Sims’ Rachel Rubin Franklin to lead Social VR team
What will friending, sharing, and messaging look like in virtual reality? Facebook has tapped video game giant Electronic Arts’ VP Rachel Rubin Franklin as the new head of the Facebook Social VR team. Last week, Mark Zuckerberg presented an exciting demo of how friends can play and explore together in VR thanks to Facebook, and Franklin will now work to bring that experience to the… Read More
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Nuheara’s earbuds/hearing aids are open for general pre-order
Nuheara’s IQbuds are strange little things. It took a rep a few tries to properly explain the things when they first crossed my radar. And honestly, it wasn’t until I took the things for a spin on the crowded Manhattan streets that I really grasped what they were all about. The simplest way to explain them is as a sort of combination wireless earbuds and hearing aids. They do all… Read More
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Waze and Esri make app-to-infrastructure possible
The interactive navigation app Waze, with its 65 million active monthly users, has partnered with Esri, which provides geographic information systems (GIS) software to 25,000 state, local and national governments. While the combination isn’t quite the vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) communication that will enable autonomous vehicles in the future, it is a kind of app-to-infrastructure… Read More
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Five years of observations from tandem satellites produce 3D world map of unprecedented accuracy
A pair of satellites operating in tandem for five years have produced a depth map of the planet so exact you could theoretically zoom down to street level and tell an adult from a kid, or spot a breaking wave at Malibu. The immense database — some 2.6 petabytes — is available for free to researchers. Read More
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Doug discovers cool Comcast X1 features
Like any red-blooded American looking to mentally sedate himself after a long day at the office, Doug like to watch a fair amount of television. Gadget reviewer Doug Aamoth spends enough time watching TV that he decides to actually learn how to use his Comcast X1 system, including a more useful guide, a way to occupy kids for hours, quicker searching and more.
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Sheryl Sandberg shoots down rumors of a role in Clinton administration
Rumors have swirled for months that if Hillary Clinton succeeds in her bid to become the next U.S. president, she would appoint Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg as Treasury Secretary. But Sandberg shot down those rumors today at the Virtuous Circle conference, hosted by the Internet Association. “I’m staying at Facebook,” Sandberg said when asked during a… Read More
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Toyota official highlights issues with NHTSA guidelines and California self-driving rules
At a forum on Capital Hill designed to gather input from industry stakeholders on NHTSA guidelines, Toyota Motor North America director of technology and innovation policy Hilary Cain pointed out that proposed changes to California’s self-driving test guidelines would make a voluntary process requested by the new NHTSA autonomous driving guidelines essentially mandatory. This could… Read More
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The Markforged Mark X lets you teleport precision custom parts from designer to printer
The promise of 3D printing has been kind of a dud. Aside from a few cool Yoda heads and some small plastic pieces, there have been no “indie” players doing much interesting in the space except Markforged. Markforged is a Boston company we featured last year that makes carbon-fiber reinforced plastic parts using traditional 3D-printing techniques. This means the objects they print… Read More
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C1X raises $8.5M for its advertiser and publisher tech
C1X has raised another $6.5 million in what it says is the first part of a Series B round of funding. The company was founded by Mukundu Kumaran (CEO) and Daisuke Nagayama (chief operating officer and chief global strategist) — Kumara, previously worked as an engineering director at Yahoo, and he told me that his goal is “to simplify how the basic advertising transaction… Read More
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Facebook, Twitter cut off data access for Geofeedia, a social media surveillance startup
According to a new study published today from the American Civil Liberties Union, major social networks including Twitter, Facebook and Instagram have recently provided user data access to Geofeedia, the location-based, social media surveillance system used by government offices, private security firms, marketers and others. As TechCrunch previously reported, Geofeedia is one of a bevy of… Read More
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Tech companies like TaskRabbit are engaged in affirmative action, and that’s ok
Aiming to increase diversity and foster inclusion in the tech industry is not the same as affirmative action, TaskRabbit CEO Stacy Brown-Philpot said on stage today at the Internet Association’s Virtuous Circle conference. “I wouldn’t say it’s affirmative action but it’s a recognition,” Brown-Philpot said. “Our company should represent the population… Read More
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Obama wants to go to Mars, but will the next administration?
President Obama released an op-ed on CNN today, praising the accomplishments of NASA to date and encouraging the nation to keep its sights set on Mars. While it was an inspiring endorsement for NASA and space exploration, it comes on the tails of a congressional bill intended to prevent the next presidential administration from changing NASA’s plan to send humans to Mars by the… Read More
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As the Note 7 dies, Oculus loses face(s)
The Note 7 debacle hasn’t been good for anyone — not for Samsung, not for Android, not for consumers, not for airlines, not for fire departments, not for stylus-lovers and certainly not for Oculus. The Facebook-owned virtual reality powerhouse currently has its entire mobile VR future pinned on the successes of Samsung’s handsets and the discontinuation of Note 7 production… Read More
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Google acquires FameBit to connect YouTube creators with marketers
Google just announced that it has acquired FameBit, a marketplace that connects video creators with marketers who want to sponsor their content. This could be an important step for Google’s YouTube, where monetization has been a big concern — not just for YouTube as a whole, but also for individual creators. YouTube has been working to provide more support on this front through… Read More
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How artificial intelligence is changing online retail forever
AI is all around us, from searching on Google to what news you see on social media. With the momentum around AI growing, it’s not surprising that some of the most innovative retail sites have been experimenting with the use of AI, as well. Businesses that ignore this growing trend will find themselves playing catch-up for years. But how, exactly, is this technology going to change retail? Read More
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