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YouTube is launching its own take Stories with a new video format called ‘Reels’
Even YouTube is adding Stories. The popular format introduced by Snapchat, then adopted by Instagram, Skype, Facebook, Messenger and even some dating apps, is now…
Amazon FreeRTOS is a new operating system for microcontroller-based IoT devices
Amazon FreeRTOS is, as the name implies, essentially an extension of the FreeRTOS operating system that adds libraries for local and cloud connectivity. Over time,…
AWS launches translation services
Taking the battle with Google, Apple and Microsoft for dominance in speech recognition and natural language processing to yet another front, Amazon announced a new translation service…
AWS releases SageMaker to make it easier to build and deploy machine learning models
Cloud services are designed to take away a lot of the complexity associated with managing a particular process, whether that’s software or infrastructure. Today, machine…
Amazon Transcribe is a sophisticated transcribing service for AWS
Amazon is hosting AWS Re:INVENT today, its developer conference for all things AWS. And the company just announced a promising new service called Amazon Transcribe.…
Facebook drops fee on donations, will match $50M/year, adds Mentor feature
Facebook has always been about friends, but now it’s seeking a broader purpose. So today, Facebook is lending a hand with what it does best:…
Amazon Rekognition Video gives developers access to real-time video analysis
Amazon’s AWS division today expanded its line-up of pre-trained machine learning tools with the launch of Amazon Rekognition Video. This new service works for both…
Simon wants to help startups establish a retail presence in malls
It’s a strange time for e-commerce startups. While most of the retail world is trying to figure out how to make the shift from brick…
European investor NordicEye wins big with Proofpoint’s $60 million offer for Weblife
Cybersecurity company Proofpoint is buying the Los Angeles-based security company Weblife.io in a $60 million all-cash deal. Backed by a slew of investors led by the…
YouTube is not for kids
I’ve been thinking a lot about this important if long Medium post by James Bridle regarding the nonsensical and potentially damaging kids content on YouTube.…
Amazon’s AWS DeepLens is an AI camera for developers
Here’s a little surprise from today’s AWS re:Invent keynote. In an event peppered with talk of containers and bizarre musical interludes, Amazon introduced its AWS…
AWS adds Global Tables feature to share data across multiple geographies
Customers using AWS’ Amazon DynamoDB to store data have two new services to help make their applications work better and more quickly in more regions around the…
AWS makes it easier and faster to query data stored in its S3 and Glacier storage services
At its re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, AWS today announced a small but significant update to its S3 cloud storage and Glacier cold storage service…
Former Warriors basketball player David Lee is reportedly in talks to join VC firm Social Capital
David Lee, who retired from the world of basketball just last week, is in talks to join venture firm Social Capital, Axios reports. Social Capital, founded…
Amazon introduces an AWS graph database service called Amazon Neptune
Amazon is in the middle of its AWS Re:invent keynote right now, and the company just announced a brand new database service. Amazon Neptune has…
AWS Fargate lets you run containers without managing infrastructure
At the AWS re:Invent conference today in Las Vegas, the company introduced AWS Fargate, a new service that lets you run containers without having to…
AWS announces a serverless database service
Amazon’s AWS cloud computing division today announced a new database service that will make it easier and cheaper to quickly launch relational databases that don’t…
Prime’s newest perk is early movie tickets for ‘Jumanji’
Amazon is adding to its slew of perks for Prime members by offering subscribers the chance to purchase early tickets to an upcoming movie for…
AWS’s container service gets support for Kubernetes
AWS today announced its long-awaited support for the Kubernetes container orchestration system on top of its Elastic Container Service (ECS). Kubernetes has, of course, become…
AWS announces two new EC2 instance types
At the re:Invent customer conference in Las Vegas today, AWS announced two new instance types designed for specific kinds of applications. The first is a…
Apple releases a macOS security update to fix huge login security flaw
Apple has just released a security update for macOS High Sierra and you should update right now (Apple will automatically push the security patch later…
Stationhead allows anyone to become a streaming radio DJ, with live listener calls
Streaming services like Spotify have turned playlists into one of the main ways to discover new music, but I’d argue that they’re missing some of…
Uber says 2.7M UK users affected by 2016 data breach
Uber’s October 2016 data breach affected some 2.7 million UK users, it has now been revealed. Read More
Amazon adds its Silk web browser to Fire TV
With little fanfare, Amazon launched its Silk web browser for Fire TV, allowing users with Fire TV, Fire TV Stick, and Fire TV Edition televisions…
Netflix is slowly teasing Black Mirror Season 4 with another trailer
Netflix has been tight-lipped about the release date for Season 4 of Black Mirror. However, the streaming giant continues to tease with trailers for each…
Samsung hired ‘The Piano’ composer to write a score for a movie about a washing machine
Maybe it’s crass consumerism — or a comment on how far we’ve sunk as society. Or maybe it’s some kind of 21st century homage to…
Cyber Monday topped Prime Day to become Amazon’s biggest shopping day ever
On the heels of record holiday sales over the Black Friday through Cyber Monday timeframe, Amazon announced this morning that Cyber Monday was the biggest shopping…
All of Marvel’s heroes come together in the first trailer for ‘Avengers: Infinity War’
If you were wondering whether Marvel could make a super team-up bigger than The Avengers, the new trailer for Avengers: Infinity War suggests that the…
NFL teams with AWS on statistics package driven by machine learning
The NFL is joining Major League Baseball as an AWS customer, announcing a deal today to provide real-time statistics running on AWS. The tool is…
Shopify’s new Arrive app is your package tracking pal
I’m not sure the team at Shopify’s experimental Garage product development group knows this, but their latest app is basically made for me: It’s a…
Snapchat starts algorithm-personalized redesign splitting social and media
By putting best friends first and dividing them from professional publishers, Snapchat hopes to conquer Instagram and revive its own growth with a big redesign…
Cruise’s self-driving launch plan doesn’t include small-scale pilots like Waymo’s
Cruise spent some time this week detailing its plans for self-driving deployment, and one of the key features of its approach is how it differs…
Waze gains support for HOV lanes, motorcycles and voice activation
Waze is getting a few new features today that are either firsts for any navigation app, or just functionally super convenient, including an option to…
Expect GM Cruise self-driving vehicles to arrive in ‘quarters, not years’
GM and Cruise are still reluctant to put any specific timeframes on their plans for self-driving vehicle deployment, but the company is getting a bit…
Taking a ride through SF in Cruise’s self-driving Bolt EV
GM’s Cruise has a fleet of self-driving cars pretty much continually roving the streets of San Francisco, gathering data and improving their autonomous driving performance…
Why the YouTube of AR won’t be YouTube
A couple of years ago when I was working at Samsung, around the time the GearVR was being launched, there were lots of ideas flying…
GE Ventures unveils new blood collection startup Drawbridge Health
Drawbridge Health wants to make it easier for doctor’s offices and clinics to collect small samples of your blood for testing on site with a…
Chinese electric vehicle maker NIO more concerned with user experience than rival Tesla
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on TechNode, an editorial partner of TechCrunch based in China. Visitors to the TechCrunch Shanghai even this week were greeted with…
Pixelmator Pro wants to be the Photoshop killer on macOS
The team behind Pixelmator is releasing a brand new app today called Pixelmator Pro. As the name suggests, it is a more powerful, refreshed version…
InsurTech Gateway is a new insurance tech accelerator backed by Hambro Perks
In what appears to be a first, at least in the U.K., InsurTech Gateway is an FCA-authorised insurance broker in its own right. This, it…
Uber’s losses grew to $1.5 billion last quarter
Uber has given its shareholders an update on the company’s performance and it’s definitely in the red. The global ridesharing company lost $1.46 billion in…
Will Interswitch still be the company that brings Sub-Saharan Africa its big tech windfall?
Nearly two years later, neither Interswitch nor any other VC backed African tech company that began in startup phase gone public. What happened? Read More
Microsoft announces huge expansion to ‘modernize’ its Redmond HQ
Microsoft has announced a massive expansion plan aimed at modernizing its headquarters in Redmond, Washington. Unlike fellow Washington-based tech giant Amazon, which is seeking a…
AWS launches GuardDuty, its new intelligent threat detection service
Amazon’s AWS cloud computing division today announced a new threat detection service that aims to help the company’s users safe from potential security threats. The…
AWS launches bare metal instances
AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing division, today announced its long-awaited bare metal instances for its EC2 service. With bare metal, you get direct access to the…
Uber inks its first mobile wallet deal in Southeast Asia
Seeking to rise to increased competition, Uber has inked its first payments deal in Southeast Asia after it announced a partnership with Vietnam-based mobile wallet service…
Crunch Report | Cyber Monday Results
WeWork buys Meetup, Airbnb now lets you split the bill and the financial results from Cyber Monday. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
SoftBank confirms that Benchmark and Menlo intend to sell Uber shares
SoftBank Group has confirmed that it has found likely sellers for the tender offer for Uber’s shares, which launched tonight. These are the shares from…
One bitcoin is now worth $10,000
It happened. One bitcoin is now worth $10,000. The milestone was hit on international exchanges earlier in the day (where prices are normally a few…
Samsung buys another AI company as it continues to build out Bixby
It’s true that Bixby didn’t have the most auspicious of debuts when it rolled out on the Galaxy S8 earlier this year, but Samsung’s clearly…
MIT’s new desktop 3D printer technology increases speeds up to 10x
There are plenty of reasons desktop 3D printing never really took off with consumers. Speed isn’t the main one, but it’s certainly up there. Mind…
Shonda Rhimes talks move from network TV to Netflix
When Shonda Rhimes, the creator of network hits like Scandal, Grey’s Anatomy and How to Get Away with Murder, announced her new contract with Netflix,…
Sequoia, Tencent, TPG look to invest in Uber alongside SoftBank
It’s not just SoftBank and Dragoneer that are looking to buy Uber shares from the employees and other shareholders, when the tender offer launches, likely later…
AWS rolls out AppSync to enable offline app usage
As part of its victory lap extravaganza in Las Vegas as the dominant web hosting platform, Amazon Web Services today launched a new service, AppSync, which allows…
FCC’s Ajit Pai: ‘When it comes to an open Internet, Twitter is part of the problem’
FCC Chairman and net neutrality eliminator-in-chief Ajit Pai has thrown Twitter and other online services under the bus in order to show that it’s not…
Ebay says Cyber Monday was its biggest sales day ever
Looks like this past Cyber Monday was a hit across the board. Earlier today, Amazon noted that the Black Friday weekend was its strongest yet,…
Security researcher finds classified U.S. Army data sitting online with no password
In the latest edition of “uh oh, we left that just sitting out in the open,” a batch of NSA and Army files were discovered…
Uber faces another lawsuit over data breach
In light of Uber failing to report the massive data breach that affected potentially 57 million passengers and drivers worldwide, Washington State Attorney General Bob…
Enjoius raises $1.4 million to bring its party planning services to you
Just in time for the holiday season, a group of prominent Los Angeles entertainment and technology executives have come together to back the new startup, Enjoius,…
Lynk & Co. starts selling an SUV with a dedicated car share button in China
Lynk & Co. aims to be a different kind of car brand, with a focus on a simplified buying experience and a focus on connected…
Monkeys controlling robot arms with their minds show how brains can be reprogrammed
New research out of the University of Chicago shows a trio of rhesus monkeys controlling robotic arms with their mind. Each of the three primates…
Ello’s spam problem
Remember Ello? I recently wrote about this social networking site’s comeback. Since then, a handful of you have pinged me about its spam bot problem.…
Virtual reality headset unit sales are slowly improving
The number of VR headsets out there may not be reaching the stratospheric estimates that were first predicted, but they’re still growing at least. According…
Instagram now allows optional photo and video message replays
Instagram has tweaked a couple of its direct messaging features to make them a bit more flexible and interactive. You can now automatically capture and…
Astonishing OS X bug lets anyone log into a High Sierra machine
Wow, this is a bad one. On Macs running the latest version of High Sierra (10.13.1 (17B48)), it appears that anyone can log in just…
Fox announces an ‘X-Files’ mobile game coming in 2018
Not content to just revive The X-Files on television, Fox is also bringing the franchise to phones and tablets. The new title from FoxNext Games…
The White House wants to ban cell phones, citing security risk
The Donald can’t seem to keep his hands off the phone while in the White House, but the same rules may not apply to his…
NFX Guild gets more serious about investing with a $150 million fund
Roughly two years after emerging on the scene as a new Bay Area accelerator, NFX Guild, an outfit run by several seasoned founders, has raised $150…
InstaCarro raises $22 million to tackle Brazil’s $50 billion used-car market
InstaCarro, a Brazilian-based marketplace for buying and selling used cars, has raised a whopping $22 million in its first institutional round of venture financing. One…
WHEW, Google fixed the burger emoji in Android 8.1
Apparently, Google made good on its promise to fix its awful hamburger emoji, in the wake of an online debacle last month. In case you…
After shoving its way onto iTunes, U2 is headed for the Amazon Echo
The last time U2 offered up an album exclusive, things didn’t go great. Apple reportedly paid $100 million for exclusive rights to Songs of Innocence,…
Analyst says Apple could have sold 6 million iPhone X units during Black Friday weekend
Apple hasn’t shared any exact number, but Rosenblatt Securities analyst Jun Zhang calculated that Apple may have sold as many as 6 million iPhone X…
Alexa developers can now use notifications, soon personalize apps based on users’ voices
Amazon says it will allow Alexa skill developers to alert customers using notifications starting today, and soon, it will allow them to recognize users’ individual…
AWS launches new partner programs for networking and machine learning specialists
Amazon’s AWS cloud computing division is launching a number of new programs for its partner ecosystem today. These include a new networking competency program for…
Japanese bitcoin exchange bitFlyer is coming to the U.S
Japansese cryptocurrency exchange bitFlyer announced today it’s expanding to the U.S, with approval to operate in 41 states starting today. This includes regulatory approval in…
Facebook prototypes Messenger Broadcast for businesses
Facebook may soon be ready to squeeze more money out of its 1.3 billion user chat app. The company has internally developed “Messenger Broadcast”, a…
Microsoft shows off Windows ‘Sets,’ a tabbed app interface that puts a web browser everywhere
Just a few weeks after the major launch of Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, Microsoft is already looking towards what’s next as the company looks…
Apple launches a new YouTube channel offering device tutorials
Apple is expanding its social media outreach. The company has just launched a new YouTube channel to teach people how to use their Apple devices,…
Instacart signs deal with Albertsons
Instacart has inked a deal with Albertsons to offer same-day delivery from the grocery store chain. The deal will include 1,800 of Albertsons stores across…
Optimus Ride will provide self-driving vehicles to Boston community residents
A new partnership between autonomous driving startup Optimus Ride and release estate developer LStar Ventures will see self-driving vehicle access offered up to residents of…
Adobe previews new Photoshop feature that uses AI to select subjects
While Photoshop users have gotten pretty damn good at masking humans and other subjects over the years, it still remains one of the most tedious…
Amazon sold ‘millions’ of Alexa devices over the holiday shopping weekend
On the heels of news that Amazon may have accounted for half of Black Friday online sales, the retailer today announced that the Black Friday…
Airbnb launches payment splitting for group trips
In February of this year, Airbnb acquired social payments startup Tilt. Today, the fruits of that acquisition are being passed along to Airbnb users. Starting…
Veem opens up global payments platform to developers with new API
If you’ve ever tried to do business across borders, you know how painful it can be to send a wire transfer, wait for the payment…
Time-Warner’s Turner opts for AWS as its preferred cloud provider
All of the hyper-scale cloud providers love to tout their new customer acquisitions: Google talking about Spotify; Microsoft signing up various Adobe services for Azure;…
VMware expands AWS partnership with new migration and disaster recovery tools
Remember how VMware was supposed to be disrupted by AWS? Somewhere along the way it made a smart move. Instead of fighting the popular cloud platform,…
The Gates Foundation is matching $2M in donations on Facebook for #GivingTuesday
Today is #GivingTuesday, an global day of giving that always falls on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving. This year Facebook is again partnering with the…
Mapping company Here buys ATS to boost its over-the-air tech
Here, the mapping company that powers location services in 100 million cars, is today announcing an acquisition to vastly improve how it distributes and updates…
Senators introduce revenge porn bill
Senators Kamala D. Harris (D-CA), Richard Burr (R-NC) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), as well as Rep. Jackie Speier introduced a bill today to address revenge…
StrideUp wants to help you buy a portion of your home
StrideUp, a U.K. startup founded last year by Sakeeb Zaman and Rohan Trivedi, both formerly of Deutsche Bank, wants to make shared home ownership more…
Baidu and Xiaomi are working together on internet of things and artificial intelligence
Baidu, China’s answer to Google, and Xiaomi, which has modeled itself on the success of the America’s most successful technology manufacturer in Apple, have announced…
WeWork reportedly plans to buy Meetup
Co-working space giant WeWork will acquire Meetup, according to Crunchbase News. The report says Meetup chief executive officer and co-founder Scott Heiferman shared the news…
SpaceX adds $100 million to previous $350 million funding round
SpaceX filed a new amended update to its $351 million funding round from this summer, adding around $100 million to the round in newly disclosed…
MIT and Harvard create cheap artificial muscles with super strength
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has teamed up with Harvard’s Wyss Institute to create a super strong, affordable artificial muscle that could be…
Doctolib raises another $42 million for its medical care scheduling service
French startup Doctolib is raising money for the second time in the past twelve months. The company is building a sort of Salesforce for the…
Microsoft Office arrives on Chromebooks via Google Play Store
Microsoft Office is now available for Google Chromebook users through the Google Play Store – a notable addition, given the two companies offer competing products…
Netflix keeps the mystery alive with Black Mirror
Fans are stoked for a fourth season of Black Mirror, as they should be. The Emmy-award winning series, which shows the dark side of our…
Crunch Report | Founder David Karp Is Leaving Tumblr
Founder of Tumblr David Karp is leaving the company, Barracuda Networks gets acquired for $1.6 billion by Thoma Bravo and MIT and Harvard create artificial…
YouTube’s battery drain problem on iOS devices is now fixed
Google confirms it has now addressed an issue that caused the YouTube app to drain the battery excessively when running on iOS devices, even when…
David Karp is leaving Tumblr by the end of the year
As Verizon’s digital media business Oath rolls on with its merging of Yahoo and Aol (which includes TechCrunch), today comes news of a significant departure.…
SoftBank makes offer for Uber shares at 30% discount
A SoftBank Group-led team of investors has made an offer to buy Uber’s shares in a tender offer that would value the company at about…
Security business Barracuda Networks acquired for $1.6 billion
Private equity giant Thoma Bravo has agreed to buy Barracuda Networks in a take-private deal valued at $1.6 billion. The company was offered $27.55 per…
Google Trends now surfaces data from News, Images, YouTube and Shopping verticals
Google announced today it’s expanding the focus of its Google Trends service – the site that lets anyone track what the world’s web searchers are…
Reliam raises $17 million for its managed services play
Reliam, a company that provides managed services for businesses that want somebody else to manage their public cloud deployments on platforms like AWS and Microsoft…
Pokémon GO gets a surprise new legendary: Ho-Oh
A bit of a surprise just dropped for everyone poking around Pokémon GO this holiday season: a new legendary Pokémon, Ho-Oh. Niantic usually debuts legendary…
Navdy contacts would-be creditors, prepares to liquidate
No one ever says hardware is easy, and today it looks like another promising startup has hit a wall. Navdy, which made an in-car heads-up…
Mobile application testing service HeadSpin launches from stealth
HeadSpin, a mobile application testing service, launched today to give developers a one-stop shop for quality assurance and control for mobile application development. The company’s co-founder…
Uber is partially banned in Tel Aviv
A Tel Aviv district court has banned two of Uber’s services in the city following a court ruling in a case between the transportation company,…
Former Hulu exec Noah Heller launches new venture fund to focus on LA tech
Noah Heller, one of the chief architects of Hulu’s virtual reality strategy, has left the video streaming service to set up his own venture firm,…
Twitter blames human error after blocking a New York Times account over the weekend
Over the holiday weekend, The New York Times found that one of its Twitter accounts had been locked. @nytimesworld was frozen for a full 24…
Jellies is a kid-friendly, parent-approved alternative to YouTube Kids
As YouTube reels from a series of scandals related to its lack of policing around inappropriate content aimed at children, obscene comments on videos of…
Cyber Monday rings up $840M so far in US sales online
Cyber Monday is off to a flying start for online shopping in the US. As of 7am Pacific, $840 million has been spent, up 16.9…
Weather tracking tech developer ClimaCell raises $15 million
ClimaCell, a weather forecasting technology that uses wireless networks to create incredibly granular predictions, has raised $15 million to develop new products and expand beyond…
Researchers create a light-based key distribution system for quantum encryption
Researchers at Duke University, OSU and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have solved one of the biggest problems with new forms of quantum encryption: quantum key…
Waymo racks up 4 million self-driven miles
Waymo continues to press its lead in terms of actual miles driven on roads, which is potentially the most important metric out there when it…
Facebook rolls out AI to detect suicidal posts before they’re reported
This is software to save lives. Facebook’s new “proactive detection” artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts for patterns of suicidal thoughts, and when necessary send…
Cyber Monday’s best tech bets
So you’ve had a nice, calming two-day respite from all of the bargain hunting. But don’t worry, it’s almost over. It’s Cyber Monday, a holiday…
Stitch Fix defies odds, soars over 50% since lackluster debut
It’s been just ten days since Stitch Fix debuted on the stock market and after soaring 24% on shopping holiday “Cyber Monday,” Stitch Fix has…
iOS jailbreak repositories close as user interest wanes
A few years ago jailbreaking your iPhone was all the rage. The cat-and-mouse game of hackers versus Apple was great fun and some of the…
Cambrian is the new kid on the block-chain investment scene
Blockchain investment firms are the ‘new new thing’ in the investment world, not least European companies like kryptonite1 and neufund which are both appearing at…
YouTube faces brand freeze over ads and obscene comments on videos of kids
YouTube is firefighting another child safety content moderation scandal which has led several major brands to suspend advertising on its platform. Read More
McAfee acquires cloud security startup Skyhigh Networks, last valued at $400M
After spinning out as a standalone security business from Intel earlier this year, McAfee has made its first acquisition. The company has acquired Skyhigh Networks,…
Plex’s DVR now lets you skip the commercials… by removing them for you
Plex confirmed it’s rolling out a new feature that will allow cord cutters to skip the commercials in the TV programs recorded using its software,…
Lucid moves its electric car ambitions into a spacious new HQ
Lucid, one of the companies that looks like it could have the best chance to potentially field a true all-electric competitor to Tesla’s Model S,…
Snapchat’s newest filters can recognize what’s in your photos
Snapchat is rolling out new filters that can recognize what’s in your photos in order to suggest graphics, like borders or stickers, to accompany your…
Human pilot beats AI in drone race
Anything you can do, AI can do better. Eventually. On October 12, NASA put on its own demonstration, pitting an AI-piloted racing drone against world-renowned…