Meet Melody. Despite looking like a giant egg with a TV for a heart, she actually may be the first thing to put a smile on your face this morning. She can recognize you, listen to you, and even sing for you — all the while being a hub for home IoT. The whole package may seem a bit corny, albeit...
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Tuesday, 1 November 2016
Rokid, the assistant that can see, hear and sing raises $50M at $450M valuation
Meet Melody. Despite looking like a giant egg with a TV for a heart, she actually may be the first thing to put a smile on your face this morning. She can recognize you, listen to you, and even sing for you — all the while being a hub for home IoT. The whole package may seem a bit corny, albeit...
Sheriff’s department denies surveilling Standing Rock protesers via Facebook check-ins
Like wildfire, the latest viral protest spreading across the internet involves Facebook users checking in at Standing Rock, ND en masse to “confuse” and “overwhelm” law enforcement authorities seeking to disrupt ongoing protests against the proposed path of an oil pipeline. A viral Facebook post...
Saturday, 29 October 2016
Our favorite startups from 500 Startups’ 18th class
500 Startups’ 18th demo day wrapped up this afternoon in San Francisco. The companies that presented ranged from financial technology all the way to yet another attempt to try and fix conference calls. 500 Startups has to compete with a lot of other accelerators like Techstars and Y Combinator,...
Friday, 28 October 2016
Last-minute Halloween costume ideas for techies
Too busy working to forge a startup from the ground up to think about a costume for Halloween? No worries, TechCrunch has your back. Here are six timely last-minute ideas for the tech obsessed. Read More
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Mozilla strives for performance boost with new Project Quantum
Mozilla has been hard at work rolling out Electrolysis to bring the benefits of a multiprocess architecture to Firefox users for quite some time. Though Mozilla has put a large amount of its resources into the development of Electrolysis, the company has remained consistent about insisting there...
Wednesday, 26 October 2016
Etsy picks Adyen as its new payment processor in wake of Worldpay outage
And they say wild west justice is no more. Etsy, the online marketplace for handmade goods, has just reached a deal with Adyen, a global payments processor, to run its payments backend for the over 1.7 million sellers on the site. You may remember a few months ago that Worldpay, Etsy’s...