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22:00 09.05.2016

Behold.ai launches artificially intelligent medical software to find abnormalities faster

Jeet Raut’s mom was told she no longer had breast cancer. But it turned out to be a false diagnosis and she had to undergo further treatment. She’s okay now, but that medical mistake could have cost her life and it gave Raut the idea to build a better way to catch medical abnormalities in the body. He and his co-founder Peter Wakahiu Njenga created Behold.ai to speed up the process… Read More... →

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21:55 09.05.2016

BJ Novak’s “The List App” rebrands to li.st, arrives on Android

When B.J. Novak, best known for exec producing, writing and starring as Ryan on “The Office,” teamed up with Dev Flaherty to create a mobile application that allowed people to create lists and share them with others, they gave it a playfully anti-tech name: “The List App.” But following its late 2015 debut, over 150,000 users have signed up to create some 250,000… Read More... →

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21:50 09.05.2016

Beam wants to turn gaming streams wildly dynamic

The gaming community is one of the most vibrant and powerful groups on the internet. The power of platforms like Twitch to unite gamers interested in watching streams of other people playing video games seems intensely foreign to those outside the community but has quickly become a pretty dynamic arena for gamers to chitchat online. Beam Interactive, launching a public beta today out of… Read More... →

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21:39 09.05.2016

How Foursquare hopes to hit profitability

Foursquare’s business look a whole lot different than it used to. New CEO Jeff Gleuck and co-founder Dennis Crowley know it — and they still have a plan to hit $100 million in revenue, and profitability, in the next few years. The talked about some of their efforts, like focusing on building new tools for businesses that can help them grow, on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt… Read More... →

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21:35 09.05.2016

Periscope makes drone integration and live streams a reality

The latest update for Periscope adds drone integration, a search function and an ability to save live streams. It’s a significant update for a social network that revolves entirely around sharing moments and interactions through comments on a live stream. The saving feature is straightforward: soon, users can type “#save” when starting a stream, ensuring that their… Read More... →

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20:15 09.05.2016

Tech has more of an exclusion problem than a culture problem

The tech industry’s diversity problems are exasperated by its obsession with genius coders and brilliant founders, Carissa Romero, a partner at the diversity consulting startup Paradigm, said today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY. Romero, who took part in a panel of diversity advocates, said that the mentality that geniuses are born rather than created through experience and practice can… Read More... →

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20:05 09.05.2016

Parrot’s CEO is building a new kind of t-shirt

You never know what you’re going to get when you sit down with Parrot CEO Henri Seydoux. The executive is every bit as unpredictable as the company he runs – and just like Parrot’s products, he always puts on a good show. Seydoux’s panel at Disrupt today was largely focused on the company’s drone business, but took some interesting zigs and zags along the way… Read More... →

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20:00 09.05.2016

Nearpod raises $9.2 million to help teachers use tech for live instruction

If Nearpod CEO Guido Kovalskys has his way, overhead projectors and PowerPoint presentations will never bore students again. Instead, he wants to see cutting-edge technologies and interactive content become standard tools of the teaching trade. To that end, Nearpod has raised $9.2 million in Series A funding led by Reach Capital to help teachers use mobile tech for live instruction, rather… Read More... →

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19:33 09.05.2016

Siri-creator shows off first public demo of Viv, ‘the intelligent interface for everything’

Today, onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, Siri creator Dag Kittlaus showed off the first public demo of Viv, an AI virtual system that aims to be “the intelligent interface for everything.” In a live presentation that mentioned the word “paradigm” at least a dozen times, Kittlaus talked a bit about the next wave of computer interaction methods and how Viv would… Read More... →

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19:14 09.05.2016

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19:10 09.05.2016

Privacy International files judicial review to UK’s ability to hack devices en masse

Digital rights group Privacy International has filed a judicial review in the UK High Court of an earlier decision by the oversight body of the UK’s security agencies to sanction the use of so-called “thematic warrants” — aka a highly intrusive investigatory capability that can cover an entire class of unidentified persons or property. Read More... →

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19:07 09.05.2016

‘IMDB for music’ Musikki raises another $1M to extend its image platform

Image management and distribution platform Musikki raised a first round of funding in 2014 to become “the IMDB of music”. It’s now inked a deal on another $1M in funding from Portugal Ventures, the biggest VC in Portugal. It’s also launching Exclusiph, an image management and distribution tool for the music industry, already in use by independent labels 4AD and… Read More... →

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18:44 09.05.2016

Here’s what Viv looks like, the next generation AI assistant built by Siri creator

Siri co-founder and CEO Dag Kittlaus has been quietly working on a much-anticipated voice assistant powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning and integrations with third-party services. This product is called Viv and, in a world first, Kittlaus just gave us a demo at TechCrunch Disrupt NY that shows off the power of what they’ve built with Viv. Read More... →

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18:43 09.05.2016

Interactive Adverting Bureau CEO: AdBlock Plus is an extortion-based business

Today at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, we had both the founder of AdBlock Plus Till Faida and Interactive Advertising Bureau CEO Randall Rothenberg on our stage — but not at the same time, mostly because Rothenberg refused to even shake hands with Faida in public. Read More... →

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18:34 09.05.2016

Pivotal confirms Series C round is actually over $650 million

Pivotal filed a Form D last week with the SEC indicating that last week’s $253 million round was actually closer to $653 million. Where did the extra money come from? Well, existing investors EMC converted $400 million in debt to equity to account for the additional money recorded in the SEC form, according to an SEC spokesperson. It’s actually interesting that EMC, which is in… Read More... →

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18:21 09.05.2016

AdBlock Plus closes in on a billion downloads

Ad blocking software’s usage on the web, and now mobile, has forced the media and publishing industry to look to new revenue models. And one of the most notable players in ad blocking is German firm Eyeo, the makers of AdBlock Plus, whose software is dominating the space and still growing. In fact, Eyeo’s co-founder and CEO Till Faida told the audience at TechCrunch Disrupt NY… Read More... →

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18:20 09.05.2016

John McAfee’s first move as a new CEO is to rename the company after himself

Some exciting news from the John McAfee camp today: America’s favorite (and most entertaining) cybersecurity expert has a new gig! MGT Capital Investments, a publicly traded company that owns and operates social gaming apps, has announced the appointment of John McAfee as Executive Chairman and CEO. MGT Capital Investments trades on NYSE’s MKT small-cap exchange, with a market cap… Read More... →

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18:10 09.05.2016

LPs are feeling the pressure of startups not finding exits

All the energy for venture funds flows from LPs — the money goes from LPs to partners at funds, which in turn invest in startups. But since the number of IPOs and exits has started to dry up, the pressure is starting to rise on LPs, and Venture Investment Associates’ Chris Douvos knows it. And he made it abundantly clear to investors on a panel at TechCrunch Disrupt NY… Read More... →

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18:10 09.05.2016

Picturesqe uses AI to help professional photographers cut through the dross

The word AI is increasingly banded about with notable abandon. And, as I like to say, AI is the promise that keeps on promising. So I’m always encouraged when I see a humble but viable use of artificial intelligence, even if just a few years ago we may have simply called the nascent technology machine learning. The latest example is Picturesqe, a tool for professional photographers. Read More... →

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17:51 09.05.2016

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