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00:52 26.03.2016

Billionaire investor Peter Thiel nabs another $1.3 billion for Founders Fund

Peter Thiel’s decades old Founders Fund pulled together another $1.3 billion dollars today for Founders Fund VI. Thiel, a billionaire investor in Facebook and SpaceX and co-founder of Paypal, will remain at the helm, with partners Lauren Gross, Ken Howery, Geoff Lewis, Scott Nolan, Luke Nosek, and Brian Singerman. Founders Fund is known to focus on cutting-edge investments in space,… Read More... →

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00:46 26.03.2016

Microsoft apologizes for hijacked chatbot Tay’s ‘wildly inappropriate’ tweets

The colossal and highly public failure of Microsoft’s Twitter-based chatbot Tay earlier this week raised many questions: How could this happen? Who is responsible for it? And is it true that Hitler did nothing wrong? After a day of silence (and presumably of penance), the company has undertaken to answer at least some of these questions. Read More... →

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00:00 26.03.2016

Beware the pitfalls of Silicon Valley

A recent article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung titled “Will Facebook Enslave Us?” captures a sentiment prevalent among companies around the world: admiration for Silicon Valley — albeit, with a dash of fear. International media outlets eagerly cover disruption developing in labs up and down the San Francisco peninsula. Boards of directors are spending hours debating how… Read More... →

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23:45 25.03.2016

Jay and Silent Bob’s Jason Mewes on crowdfunding and pot leaf throwing stars

First they were just a couple of stoners hanging outside a convenience store. Now they could be video game stars. The characters Jay and Silent Bob have been in numerous movies, comics, and more since their debut in the 1994 Kevin Smith film Clerks. Now, developer Interabang Entertainment is trying to crowdfund a 2D brawler […]... →

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23:30 25.03.2016

Game developers weigh in on the openness of Microsoft’s Windows 10 platform

Tim Sweeney, one of the best-known technical experts in the game industry and the CEO of Gears of War creator Epic Games, kicked off a big debate over the openness of Windows earlier this month when he wrote an opinion piece that warned about Microsoft’s moves with Windows 10 to close off its Windows app store […]... →

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23:07 25.03.2016

Gillmor Gang LIVE 03.25.16

Gillmor Gang – Frank Radice, Robert Scoble Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today, March, 25, 2016, at 1pmPT/4pmET. Gillmor Gang LIVE chat during show recording Gillmor Gang on Facebook HERE G3 on Facebook HERE G3 archives on Ustream Read More... →

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23:06 25.03.2016

Microsoft exec apologizes for Tay chatbot’s racist tweets, says users ‘exploited a vulnerability’

Peter Lee, the corporate vice president of Microsoft Research, Microsoft’s research and development wing, today apologized for the behavior of Tay, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot the company unveiled earlier this week and soon thereafter took offline. “We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who we […]... →

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23:03 25.03.2016

Daily Search Forum Recap: March 25, 2016

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web...... →

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23:00 25.03.2016

500 Startups brings its ‘Distro Dojo’ program to LA for post-seed startups looking for big growth

500 Startups has been aiming to globalize its brand and work towards attracting the attention of young, cool companies outside the Bay Area echo chamber. This has taken 500’s investments into distant corners of the world with dedicated funds and accelerators scoping out what has amounted to a prolific number of investments. Today, TechCrunch has learned that 500 Startups is launching… Read More... →

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22:57 25.03.2016

With Privacy, you can create virtual debit cards to protect your online payments

Meet Privacy, a new startup with a confusing name but an interesting product. Privacy lets you generate virtual burner card every time you need to enter your credit card number on the web. Your actual credit card number stays safe, and you get more control over your online subscriptions. Read More... →

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22:33 25.03.2016

Toyota and Lexus will have standard automatic braking by 2017

Last week, NHTSA and IIHS announced that 20 auto manufacturers and three agencies had agreed to include automatic emergency braking (AEB) as standard equipment by 2022. Toyota was one of those 20 companies, but this week they upped the AEB ante: nearly every Toyota and Lexus model and trim level will have standard AEB by 2017. That’s next year. Many models already offer AEB as part of… Read More... →

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21:59 25.03.2016

Apple seeks delay in New York iPhone case until DOJ’s next move in San Bernardino

Apple has requested a delay in the hearing schedule for the New York court case over a locked iPhone, in light of the fact that the government is currently evaluating a possible way to unlock the iPhone in the separate but related San Bernardino iPhone encryption case. The cases have a connection because the government […]... →

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21:57 25.03.2016

«Яндекс» выкупил 21% компании-создателя ботов для Telegram за $3,5 млн

18 марта компания «Яндекс» объявила об участии в раунде инвестиций в американского разработчика чат-ботов Chatfuel. В отчётности российской компании, которая была выпущена 22 марта, руководство «Яндекса» раскрыло подробности сделки.... →

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21:45 25.03.2016

GameStop expects new PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and other hardware sales to drop 10% in 2016

GameStop doesn’t share Wall Street’s confidence about its outlook for fiscal 2016. The world’s largest gaming-focused retailer announced that it expects to earn somewhere between $3.90 and $4.05 per share this year. Analysts were expecting something closer to $4.09. GameStop’s core business of selling video games and consoles is the big reason the company isn’t […]... →

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21:07 25.03.2016

Google launches the Android Experiments I/O Challenge for open-source app developers

Google is launching the Android Experiments I/O Challenge today in an effort to bring more interesting open-source apps to its Android Experiments showcase. The three winners of the challenge, which will run until April 13, will get a trip to this year’s Google I/O developer conference. The five runner-ups will get Nexus 6Ps (which in turn makes me think Google’s I/O giveaway this… Read More... →

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20:40 25.03.2016

Microsoft releases new Windows 10 preview for PCs and mobile with many bug fixes

Microsoft today announced the release of new Windows 10 preview builds for PCs and mobile devices for people in the fast ring of the Windows Insider Program. Unlike the build released on March 17 that brought extensibility to Microsoft’s Edge browser, this preview build doesn’t have any big new features — instead there are a […]... →

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20:37 25.03.2016

Google запустила бесплатную раздачу плагинов для обработки фотографий Nik Collection стоимостью $150

Компания Google запустила бесплатную раздачу набора плагинов Nik Collection, предназначенных для обработки фото в десктопных приложениях Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Lightroom и Apple Aperture. До 2012 года он стоил $500.... →

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20:25 25.03.2016

OneRent raises $4M as it expands to disrupt online real estate biz

Real estate managing tool OneRent announced yesterday that it sealed a $4 million funding deal with early-stage VC Renren, Inc. The investment will be used to hire new personnel and expand to six new cities, including Los Angeles, San Diego, and Washington, DC. OneRent, which currently operates in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle, […]... →

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20:00 25.03.2016

Google starts the Android Experiments I/O Challenge to attract more open-source projects

Google is announcing today the launch of Android Experiments I/O Challenge, a short program to encourage the submission of cool new open-source Android apps to the Android Experiments program that Google introduced last year. Google has racked up apps in its online gallery since then, but with its I/O developer conference coming up in May, […]... →

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20:00 25.03.2016

Microsoft starts shipping its Surface Hub displays to businesses

Microsoft today announced that it has started to ship out its large Surface Hub touch-friendly displays to business customers. The displays are available in 55- and 84-inch models, for $6,999 and $19,999, respectively. Microsoft first announced the device in January 2015 and since then has talked up its potential here and there, and in August […]... →

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