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Сооснователь «ВКонтакте» Илья Перекопский вложил около $200 тысяч в платформу премиальной нативной рекламы Adnetic. Об этом он рассказал Firrma. По словам Перекопского, он не участвовал в последнем раунде инвестиций стартапа, когда тот привлек $170 тысяч от Александра Бойкова, Евгения Ежова и Андрея Пехтусова, а также от фонд the Untitled Ventures. В стартапе Firrma заявли, что предыдущий раунд инвестиций состоялся в 2016 году. Его общая сумма составила $300 тысяч. В том раунде также принял участие фонд the... →

На счета создателей вируса-вымогателя WannaCry поступило более $42 тысяч, сообщает The Guardian. По данным Европола, от кибератаки пострадали более 200 тысяч пользователей в 150 странах.... →

Lyft and Waymo are working together on self-driving car technology, with a new deal first reported by the New York Times on Sunday. The deal has been confirmed by both parties, and will see Google’s former self-driving car unit work together with the ride hailing company on efforts to introduce self-driving to the general population via fleet services. Waymo just launched a… Read More... →

Rocket Labs is targeting a big first in commercial spaceflight – the first launch of an orbital rocket from a privately-owned launch facility. Its Launch Complex 1 is located on New Zealand’s North Island, and it’s now finally ready to start test firing actual launches from the finished facility, in preparation for beginning commercial operations once it’s satisfied… Read More... →

Posted by BenjaminEstesGoogle’s PageSpeed Insights is an easy-to-use tool that tests whether a web page might be slower than it needs to be. It gives a score to quantify page performance. Because this score is concrete, the PageSpeed Insights score is often used as a measure of site performance. Similarly to PageRank years back, folks want to optimize this number just because it exists. In fact, Moz has a popular article on this subject: How to Achieve 100/100 with the Google Page Speed Test Tool. For small... →

European and U.S.-based tech ‘scale-ups’ with Asia ambitions, rejoice. Outing today is a new $500 million VC fund from Silk Ventures, and backed in part by the Chinese government. Read More... →

Lucid Motors is a startup focused electric cars, and the company revealed the design of its first car, the Lucid Air, at the very end of last year. The luxury sedan looks like a natural competitor to Tesla’s Model S, but the company has a view of the direction of the industry that makes its car unique from the rest of the field in more ways than one. Crucially, Lucid is betting that… Read More... →

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As the world readies to open for business on Monday, companies and governments are bracing for a second round of cyberattacks in the aftermath of Friday’s WannaCry hack. Indeed, security experts are already warning that a new version of WannaCry has emerged over the weekend that doesn’t have the kill switch protocol that stopped the initial version of the cyberattack late on… Read More... →

Нападение WannaCry, «фальстарт» Android Pay и более $100 млн инвестиций в украинский стартап.... →

The UK National Cyber Security Center is warning the nation to be on guard for another wave of cyber attacks after Friday’s massive WannaCry ransomware attack. The nation’s National Health Service was severely impacted in Friday’s attack, forcing the country to shut down everything but emergency services in hospitals around the UK. The National Cyber Security Center was opened… Read More... →

Around 750 engineers and designers got together to come up with something cool, something neat, something awesome. The only condition was that they only had 24 hours to work on their projects. Some of them were participating in our event for the first time, while others were regulars. We could all feel the excitement in the air when the 89 teams took the stage to present a short one-minute demo… Read More... →

Создатели вируса-вымогателя WannaCry, от которого пострадали компьютеры в более чем 70 странах, выпустили его новую версию. В ней отсутствует код для обращения к бессмысленному домену, с помощью которого удалось предотвратить распространение оригинального вируса, пишет Motherboard.... →

At the TechCrunch Disrupt Hackathon in New York today, a team of sophomores from Rutgers University introduced a social robot, named Robota, to help teachers in special ed classrooms. Robota uses computer vision and sentiment analysis to identify students in a classroom who appear to be distressed. Then, Robota approaches and asks the student if anything is wrong. When a student confides,… Read More... →

Is your money burning a hole in your pocket, and you’d like to use some of it for good causes, but you don’t know where to begin? A new app called Cradle wants to help. Presented for the first time ever at the Disrupt Hackathon today in New York, and created by New Yorkers Gesina Gudehus-Wittern, Erik Wittern and Philippe Suter — respectively a brand manager and two… Read More... →

Technology such as Facebook’s Safety Check has massively helped with the challenge of identifying and finding people when they go missing, but it is anything but perfect as missteps have shown. Confidant, a project developed at the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon in New York this weekend, is aiming to complement existing systems with a notification service that gives early alerts when… Read More... →

Classroom collaboration software exists, but Epigrammar thinks its approach better tackles the issue of student grammar, test creation and comprehension. Teachers can help facilitate student conversations on an assigned text by uploading it to Epigrammar, then helping their students review an annotate the work, in real-time, Epigrammar’s goal of improve reading comprehension… Read More... →

We’ve all seen the maps that show Florida being consumed by rising sea levels. But many of us still underestimate the impact of climate change because we can’t actually visualize its effects on the places we care about. In just a few hours at the TechCrunch NY2017 Hackathon, James Butler, Caitlin Squyres and Florian Carls put together CityConnect,  a tool that lets people… Read More... →

Hardware is hard at the best of times. But software developer Patrick Morris-Suzuki set himself the ambitious challenge of creating a blink-detecting system for hands-free typing during an overnight hackathon here at TechCrunch Disrupt New York 2017. Read More... →

With only 24 hours to build an app, it’s never easy to come up with a viable idea, nevermind build one that involves training a machine learning algorithm. Yet that’s exactly what a team of four friends accomplished this weekend at the annual TechCrunch Disrupt New York Hackathon. The team — made up of twin brothers Daniel and David Robinson, Nathan Gould and Chris… Read More... →