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I went into the Nuheara demo not knowing what to expect. Not in the sense of “how good will these be?” so much as, “I’m not exactly sure what these things do.” Like, are they headphones? Are they hearing aids? The answer, interestingly enough, is a little bit of both. The IQbuds are, ostensibly, Bluetooth earbuds. That they’re completely wireless is enough… Read More... →

Less than a month after their last successful mission, SpaceX is back at it again. Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida at 5:40pm EST tomorrow with telecommunications satellite Thaicom 8 on board. What’s truly notable is that tomorrow’s launch will be the fifth one for SpaceX this year, demonstrating an increased launch frequency compared to last year. In… Read More... →

Terrapattern is a visual search engine that, from the moment you first use it, you wonder: why didn’t Google come up with this ten years ago? Click on a feature on the map — a baseball diamond, a marina, a roundabout — and it immediately highlights everything its algorithm thinks looks like it. It’s remarkably fast, simple to use, and potentially very powerful. Read More... →

Elevate, a venture-backed company that uses big data to assess loan applications from people with low credit scores, has been called out as a predatory lender, including in Fortune last year. One reason, among others is that the APR on some of its loans is a stunning 349 percent. Yet the company’s predecessor, Think Finance, which was founded in 2001 and  quietly spun out Elevate into… Read More... →

Facebook plans to shut down FBX, the ad exchange that allows advertisers to buy retargeted desktop ads using third-party tools like Criteo and AppNexus. The news was first reported in the Wall Street Journal and we’ve confirmed it with Facebook. In an emailed statement, Vice President of Monetization Product Marketing Matt Idema suggested that this is part of Facebook’s shift to… Read More... →

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today...... →

There are many abstract notions about what the future of infrastructure will look like, but the truth is that the future is staring companies in the face. The adoption of hybrid cloud models, containers and microservices architectures are only the beginning stages of preparing for infrastructures of the future. Read More... →

Венчурный фонд Inventure Partners совершил экзит из компании Fogg Mobile, которую выкупил международный провайдер коммуникационных  решений для бизнеса Globetouch Inc. Об этом Firrma сообщили в фонде. Ранее Inventure Partners вложил в Fogg Mobile $7 млн, став крупнейшим институциональным инвестором компании на момент ее продажи. Это первый выход фонда с момента основания. Fogg Mobile, Inc. («Fogg Mobile» или «Fogg») –  распределенная мобильная сеть передачи данных на основе технологии soft SIM, позволяющая ... →

As if you didn’t need more proof that your darn kids need to get of the computer and into the back yard, researchers at the University of Helsinki and Department of Psychology have found that excessive Internet use – essentially bordering on addiction – leads to school burnout in teens. There isn’t much detail on the definition of excessive use (you’ll know it… Read More... →

The Nexus Player may have been the best TV media player no one ever bought. Google and Asus introduced the Nexus Player back in November 2014. It was one of the first Android TV devices, and a more-than-capable device. And yet, despite Google’s weight behind this device, it hasn’t been a mainstream success, especially when you compare it with the Chro Read More... →

You have about two weeks to apply for the pitch-offs in Austin and Seattle, going down June 14 and June 16 respectively. Ten companies will have exactly sixty seconds each to pitch their wares to a panel of expert judges, including TC editors and local VCs. After all of the presentations, the judges will determine our winners. First place will receive a table in Startup Alley at TechCrunch… Read More... →

Директор проекта Urban-Room.ru Антон Гангус ещё до запуска совместного проекта с "Лентачом" смог получить отличную прессу: Life.ru назвал его сотрудничающим с госдепом медиа, "Ведомости" написали о размере инвестиций в сеть региональных новостных сайтов, а Roem.ru сейчас расскажет как предыдущий проект Антона Гангуса был связан с администрацией президента..... →

Niantic Labs, the game maker that was spun out of Google last year following Google’s move to Alphabet, announced today that its new title Pokémon GO is now launching into beta in the U.S. Those early adopters who signed up to become “field testers” earlier in May are now receiving their invites to the game, in order to offer the company feedback ahead of its broader… Read More... →

Slack has quite a lot of users that are logged-on to the chat service quite a lot of the time. The enterprise communication app published a little update on its company blog today announcing that the service is still growing pretty rapidly, tripling its daily active users in less than a year and doubling its concurrent users in the past 8 months. Three million users use the app on a… Read More... →

Uber и Foursquare заключили стратегическое соглашение о сотрудничестве, в рамках которого сервис по вызову автомобилей будет пользоваться базами адресов заведений геолокационной компании. Об этом говорится в блоге Foursquare.... →

Today Magic Leap founder/CEO Rony Abovitz made a new announcement—strangely via remote video feed at Twilio’s SIGNAL developer conference. Magic Leap are planning to integrate Twilio’s tools and services into the Magic Leap SDK. Also, Magic Leap are selecting 10 Dev Twilio developers to get early access to their dev tools. Read More... →

Уважаемые пользователи! Спешим сообщить, что в нашей системе возобновлена возможность вывода средств на QiWi-кошелек. Ранее эта функция была приостановлена из-за организационных проблем с безопасностью. Вывод средств на QiWi доступен только для физических лиц. Если Ваш кошелёк остался прежним, то выплаты… Читать далее →... →

According to a Forbes report published last night, billionaire investor Peter Thiel has been quietly funding the case that Hulk Hogan (whose real name is Terry Bollea) has brought against the online news organization Gawker. Bollea has won for now, too. A Florida jury awarded Bollea $140 million in March over a sex tape that Gawker published in 2012. And today,  Judge Pamela Campbell… Read More... →

A hacker who first exposed the existence of Hillary Clinton’s private email server and who found his way into accounts of several American political figures pleaded guilty to identity theft and hacking charges today. Marcel Lehel Lazar, who went by the name Guccifer, pleaded guilty to the two charges as part of an agreement with prosecutors to dismiss the other charges against him.… Read More... →