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23:30 07.01.2016

Are Republicans The Party Of Silicon Valley?

According to Sean Spicer, the RNC’s chief strategist, innovation is central to the Republican’s chances in 2016. Spicer argues that the Republicans — with their pro business, anti regulation slant — are the natural party of Silicon Valley. Read More... →

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23:13 07.01.2016

Funding Daily: Today’s tech funding news, in one place

Here’s a list of today’s tech funding stories, updated as the day unfolds. Tip us here if you have a deal to share. Toast raises $30 million for Android-powered point-of-sale system to challenge Square Toast announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B funding round to support its Android point-of-sale (POS) system for restaurants. This latest […]... →

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23:00 07.01.2016

Dylan’s Desk: At CES, the ridiculous never goes out of style

A lot of us sort of expected CES 2016 to reveal a new, more practical side to the consumer electronics industry. Guess again. Despite a looming global economic slowdown, the devaluation of tech-company unicorns, and the fact that everybody already has as many smartphones, tablets, and wrist gadgets as they need, CES continued to show […]... →

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23:00 07.01.2016

Too Private To Fail

At a San Francisco Halloween party this year, I ran into a man wearing nothing but bubble wrap, covered in glitter, waving a wand. “I’m a unicorn,” he explained. Anyone from the bankers on Sand Hill to the barista at Philz can tell you: A unicorn is a startup that reaches the rare and vaunted high-water mark of a $1 billion valuation. Except that it’s no longer that rare. Read More... →

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22:57 07.01.2016

Fusar Mohawk Turns Any Helmet Into A Powerful Smart Helmet

Meet Fusar, a helmet kit. Instead of trying to reinvent helmets, the Fusar system works with any helmet. You just have to clip the main component, the Mohawk, to your existing helmet to turn it into a safe, smart helmet. The full kit will be available for $549, and early adopters can buy it for $349. Read More... →

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22:53 07.01.2016

3DR Makes It Easier To Take Exactly The Drone Video You Want

3D Robotics (3DR) is making it a lot easier for the owners of its Solo drones to take exactly the video they want. The company is introducing a couple of new functions for its drone (and especially the smartphone apps that control is) at CES this week. Read More... →

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22:50 07.01.2016

Biz Stone “Unpivots” To Revive Q&A App Jelly

After a year on hiatus, Biz Stone is restarting active development of the social Q&A app Jelly he originally launched in January 2014. Stone, one of Twitter’s founders, paused Jelly in November 2014 to focus on a whimsical opinion sharing app called Super. “For anyone who remembers Jelly, yes, we took a break but we’re back 100%. Silicon Valley types might call this an… Read More... →

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22:44 07.01.2016

Ily Aims To Be The New Home Phone That Keeps Your Family Connected

If you’re a parent who’d like to do a better job keeping in touch with your kids when you’re not a home, then a forthcoming product called Ily might be the answer. Ilan Abehassera, founder and CEO of Ily-maker Insensi, has talked about his vision before, but today he’s demonstrating Ily onstage at TechCrunch’s Hardware Battlefield the Consumer Electronics Show.… Read More... →

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22:40 07.01.2016

Biz Stone’s Q&A app Jelly pulls an ‘un-pivot,’ begins a closed beta

Well, we haven’t heard much about Jelly, Twitter cofounder Biz Stone’s app for asking and answering questions, basically since it launched two years ago to the day. Today, we get an update. In a Medium post today, Stone writes that the Jelly team is “returning to our original vision with renewed enthusiasm and an entirely […]... →

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22:37 07.01.2016

Futuristic ‘Uncanny Valley’ Explores The Potential Unintended Consequences Of VR

As we dip our toes into virtual reality more and more each day, one could imagine a far-off unintended consequence — the blurring of virtual and actual reality. A short film called “Uncanny Valley” explores that notion, with a bit of an “Ender’s Game” plot and feel. Here’s the setup from its creator, Federico Heller. In the slums of the future,… Read More... →

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22:30 07.01.2016

Smart Toy Maker Elemental Path Starts Accepting Pre-Orders For IBM Watson-Powered Dinos

Elemental Path is now accepting pre-orders for its smart toy products. The smart toy maker made its debut on Kickstarter this year with a line of what it calls CogniToys, or toys that learn and grow with the child that plays with them. These toys, including a 3D printed dinosaur, are powered by IBM’s Watson supercomputer to help each toy listen to and engage with its child owner and… Read More... →

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21:36 07.01.2016

Let’s Put Twitter Moments In The Hands Of Twitter Users

Storytelling is fun, but it’s also not easy. You have to have an idea of what story you want to tell and what pieces to include to illustrate it. Sometimes it’s words, sometimes it’s photos, sometimes it’s videos, and sometimes it’s all of them. Moments is a tool for Twitter itself to pull together these things and nag you talk you into viewing them. Read More... →

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21:11 07.01.2016

Screen Recorder For iOS Vidyo Gets Yanked From App Store

If you didn’t grab a copy of the new screen recording app Vidyo that sneaked into the iTunes App Store yesterday, it’s now too late. Apple, not surprisingly, has pulled the app from the store. Vidyo quickly drew a lot of attention, given that screen recording utilities are usually prohibited, and there was some hope that Apple’s policies on the matter had changed. In case… Read More... →

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21:10 07.01.2016

PayPal sets new world record: Most money raised online for charity in 24 hours

PayPal has announced that it has been awarded the Guinness World Record for the most money raised online for charity in 24 hours, following a successful campaign in December for #GivingTuesday. It raised $45.8 million for various charities, beating the previous record of $19 million. This accolade comes alongside news that during the holiday season, […]... →

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20:58 07.01.2016

Apple has reportedly acquired facial expression recognition startup Emotient

Apple has acquired Emotient, a startup with technology for recognizing emotions in people’s faces in video content, according to a report today. This is Apple’s latest in a series of recent acquisitions of companies well versed in artificial intelligence. In reporting the deal, the Wall Street Journal did not say how much Apple paid for […]... →

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20:58 07.01.2016

Apple Dives Deeper Into Artificial Intelligence By Acquiring Emotient

According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Apple has acquired Emotient, an artificial intelligence startup. The company confirmed the move to the WSJ. The San Diego-based company was founded in 2012 and has raised $8M from investors like Intel Capital and Seth Neiman, and had been tinkering around with products like Google Glass and other wearables. Most recently the company was… Read More... →

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20:52 07.01.2016

Samsung Partners With Microsoft For Windows 10 IoT Effort

Samsung has made its name in mobile devices as being the world’s biggest maker of Android devices. But it looks like it has different plans in mind when it comes to connected devices and the Internet of Things. Today, the company announced that it will be working with Microsoft to develop IoT devices based on Windows 10, where the companies will work together to develop products that… Read More... →

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20:30 07.01.2016

Lumo has given my shorts awareness and can now criticize my goofy running style

LAS VEGAS — Happy January 7! It’s the day where everyone suddenly forgets about the promises of self improvement and weight loss they made just a week before. And I’m sure many out there have chosen today to ditch their New Year’s resolution to, literally, run their butts off. Why is running so damned hard? Well, […]... →

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20:05 07.01.2016

Nielsen: Music Streams Doubled In 2015, Digital Sales Continue To Fall

2015 was a good year for streaming services, according to Nielsen’s year-end Music report out now. In 2015, on-demand streaming services grew to 317 billion streams – that’s a doubling from 2014, which saw 164.5 billion songs streamed, Nielsen report states. Also interesting is how the shift to streaming is impacting album sales. Though album sales were still down by 6… Read More... →

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19:29 07.01.2016

German startup Blinkist raises $4 million to help you read nonfiction books in 15 minutes or less

Blinkist, a Germany-based startup that gives you the gist of well-known nonfiction books in 15 minutes or less, has raised €4 million ($4.3 million) to accelerate product development and expand in U.S. and across Europe. Founded out of Berlin in 2012, Blinkist uses human subject-experts to condense popular nonfiction titles into abridged versions, and includes […]... →

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