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20:00 09.05.2017

Y Combinator-backed mindfulness app Simple Habit raises $2.5 million

Mindfulness app Simple Habit was built to help users relieve stress and build healthier lives with more than 1,000 guided meditation sessions available to users. To continue growing, the company has raised $2.5 million from investors that include New Enterprise Associates, Fabrice Grinda’s FJ Labs, Foundation Capital, Dropbox CEO Drew Houston and Gusto CEO Josh Reeves. Read More... →

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20:00 09.05.2017

Pinterest adds visual search guides to its Lens and a new CTO

Pinterest today is adding a new feature to its Lens — its live camera search — that will help pick apart what’s in the image and make it easier to search specific parts of that image. As you can see in the run-through above, what Pinterest calls Visual Guides based on object detection is another way that the company is trying to figure out what it is you are actually… Read More... →

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19:59 09.05.2017

Hey Walmart, here’s the startup that inspired the thing Amazon just launched

Amazon’s Echo Show killer feature is video calls. If you buy a couple of devices, you can call each other using the device. And it should be so easy that young kids and grandparents will be able to use it in no time. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Amazon invested in a startup called Nucleus then built a copycat. And today is a rough day for the young startup. Nucleus spent… Read More... →

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19:38 09.05.2017

Benchmark just hired Sarah Tavel, the first female general partner in the firm’s history

Benchmark’s small partnership has added a new general partner, Sarah Tavel, the firm announced this morning, saying that her “career-long desire and commitment to be one of the world’s great venture capitalists” make her an “ideal addition” to the Benchmark team. Tavel joins the firm from Greylock Partners, where she was hired roughly one-and-half-years ago as… Read More... →

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19:35 09.05.2017

Facebook posts its fast and accurate ConvNet models for machine translation on GitHub

In its latest paper, the Facebook AI Research (FAIR) team dropped some impressive results for its implementation of a modified convolutional neural network for machine translation. Facebook says it has achieved a small bump in accuracy at nine times the speed of traditional recurrent network models. And to complement its research, the company is releasing its pre-trained models on… Read More... →

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19:33 09.05.2017

This dating app thinks your tweets are the key to finding love

Can your tweets help you find love? That’s the view taken by U.K.-based online dating startup Loveflutter as it pivots once again. The company has rolled out a revamped version of its app that lets you add your Twitter feed to your dating profile, in a similar vein to the way Tinder can import your Instagram feed. Read More... →

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19:05 09.05.2017

Snapchat’s new eraser lets you photoshop stuff out of photos

Snapchat today launched a slew of new creative tools in its effort to stay one step ahead of Instagram. Most prominently, it’s letting users erase things from their photo and remove the 10-second time limit on viewing them, though they’ll still disappear once closed. As Snap adds more creative tools, it’s now organizing them all down the right side of the screen for easy… Read More... →

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19:00 09.05.2017

FileMaker 16 launches with improved tools for more advanced developers

FileMaker, a wholly owned subsidiary of Apple, is all about allowing non-developers to create line-of-business apps for Mac, Windows, iOS and the web. Increasingly, though, over the course of its last few releases, it also started to add more features for professional developers. With the launch of FileMaker 16 today, the company is adding new features for both of these constituencies,… Read More... →

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19:00 09.05.2017

Credit Karma now helps users find unclaimed cash

Since being founded a decade ago, Credit Karma has worked to help users better understand their credit scores and improve their financial health. Today the company is launching a new product that helps find unclaimed money they might not even have known was owed to them. Read More... →

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18:55 09.05.2017

Cover raises $1.6 million to make in-law units easy to add to any back yard

Whether you call them granny units, in-laws or backyard studios, accessory dwelling units are rising in popularity in the US, in part due to new regulations that make it easier to obtain permits to build them in California. Now, a startup called Cover Technologies Inc. has raised $1.6 million in seed funding to give accessory dwelling units a high-tech makeover. General Catalyst and Khosla… Read More... →

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18:48 09.05.2017

Snapchat users stay loyal, but Instagram could block its growth

Yet the fact that 80% of Instagram’s users are outside the US has helped propel Instagram Stories’ rapid ascent to 200 million daily active users last month, surpassing Snapchat’s 158 million users from Q4 2016. That could make it tough for Snapchat to signficantly reverse its declining user growth rate since teens around the world who aren’t already on it may get… Read More... →

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18:42 09.05.2017

I want to see you at Hardware Alley in New York

We want to see you in New York for Disrupt NY 2015, our annual celebration of all things startup. It’s a great time. You get to meet great founders and VCs and I’d love to meet you personally when I run through the alley with our video team. Hardware is my favorite thing in the world and you’re some of my favorite people. Disrupt runs from May 15-17 and will be held on Pier 36… Read More... →

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18:30 09.05.2017

Stratasys thinks this wall of modular cells is the future of 3D printing in manufacturing

Industrial 3D printing bigwig (and MakerBot owner) Stratasys took to the stage at the Rapid additive manufacturing event in Pittsburgh this morning showcase the Continuous Build 3D Demonstrator. As the name implies, the system is still in showcase mode, but the company believes its wall of cells represents a key shift toward the dream of 3D printing for manufacturing. The move from purely… Read More... →

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18:28 09.05.2017

Amazon представила голосового помощника Echo Show с сенсорным экраном и видеозвонками за $230

Компания Amazon представила нового голосового помощника для дома Echo Show с сенсорным экраном и поддержкой звонков. Устройство уже доступно для предзаказа, его стоимость — $229,99, передаёт TechCrunch.... →

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18:22 09.05.2017

Amazon drops its free shipping minimum to $25, undercutting Walmart

Amazon is fighting back against Walmart by dropping its free shipping minimum requirement down to $25. The move comes after a number of challenges by Walmart, including the added support for free two-day shipping on orders under $35 with no membership required, announced in January, and the more recent rollout of a new program called “Pickup Discount” that offers lowers prices if… Read More... →

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18:15 09.05.2017

The #NuggsForCarter kid has set the record for most retweets ever

A teenager with a love of Wendy’s chicken nuggets has displaced Ellen Degeneres as the author of the most-retweeted post on Twitter. Just over a month ago, Carter Wilkerson asked Wendy’s via Twitter how many retweets he’d need to get a year’s supply of free chicken nuggets. The company’s response? “18 million.” Sure, that was almost 15 million more… Read More... →

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18:09 09.05.2017

Egnyte reaches GAAP profitability ahead of potential fundraise, IPO ramp

If you rewind to late 2013 or early 2014, the market for enterprise startups, and perhaps especially for storage-centered startups, was quite different. Box raised $100 million in December of 2013 and $150 million the following July. Dropbox was on a similar tear, raising a $350 million Series C round in January of 2014 and snagging a $500 million debt facility that April. There was… Read More... →

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17:59 09.05.2017

Here is the “Orange Is The New Black” Season 5 trailer

Anticipation is at full force for this summer’s slate of TV. New “House of Cards” is due soon, and “Game of Thrones” returns toward the end of the summer. But none is quite as exciting as the return of “Orange Is The New Black,” with season five, which is to be released on June 9. This morning, Netflix put up a full two-minute trailer for the… Read More... →

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17:57 09.05.2017

Amazon enables free calls and messages on all Echo devices with Alexa Calling

Amazon may have flopped with the Fire Phone, but don’t count it out of the telephony game just yet. Alongside Amazon unveiling its newest Echo device earlier today — the Echo Show with a seven-inch video screen — the company also announced Alexa Calling, free voice calls and messaging services that you use through all Echo devices (not just the Show), as well as users of… Read More... →

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17:48 09.05.2017

The Blackbelt lets you 3D print really long items

The conveyor belt has long been the center of wacky adventures. From Charlie Chaplin to Lucy, things whizzing by on a flat belt has made for comedy gold. Now you can watch your 3D printed objects whiz past on the Blackbelt, a conveyor system for FDM printing that lets you build huge objects. The Blackbelt Kickstarter will launch in 3 days and you can expect the system to cost about 9,500 for… Read More... →

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