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Many Silicon Valley companies and fintech startups in India today share a common mission: They all want to bring their financial services to the next billion users. Dozens of fintech startups that we have spoken to in recent months have told us that they all want to address much of India, one of the last […]... →

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Bedding startup Boll & Branch raises $100M The company sells sustainably sourced sheets, pillows, mattresses and towels. Until now, it had […]... →

«Ростелеком» рассчитывает использовать планшеты с «Авророй» для переписи населения в 2020 году.... →

Сбербанк объявил о закрытии сделки, в рамках которой он инвестировал в медиагруппу Rambler Group и получил долю в размере 46,5%. Об этом говорится в совместном сообщении банка и Rambler Group.... →

Bell Helicopter’s catchily-named Autonomous Pod Transport 70 (aka APT 70) has managed a major milestone, performing its first autonomous flight during a test at its Forth Worth providing ground. The aircraft is a small vertical take-off and landing craft that users four rotors to provide lift and propulsion once it’s in the air, and it’s […]... →

Apple has fixed a security flaw for a second time after it accidentally reintroduced an old bug in a recent software update. iOS 12.4.1, released Monday, contains a security fix that was first patched months earlier in iOS 12.3. Apple rolled out a fix in May, but accidentally undid the security patch in its latest […]... →

Usually when someone in tech says the word "quantum," I put my hands on my ears and sing until they go away. But while IBM's "quantum computing safe tape drive" nearly drove me to song, when I thought about it, it actually made a lot of sense.... →

С помощью мессенджера «Яндекс.Дзен» рассчитывает увеличить аудиторию площадки, рассказали в компании.... →

IMDb TV, the free ad-supported streaming service launched by Amazon-owned IMDb at the beginning of the year (originally called Freedive), is today arriving on mobile devices. With the updated version of iOS and Android IMDb app rolling out now, users can stream from the app’s growing library of free movies and TV series. Prior to […]... →

Y Combinator-backed startup Astranis is now set to launch its first commercial telecommunication satellite aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, with a launch timeframe currently set for sometime starting in the fourth quarter of next year. Astranis aims to address the market of people who don’t currently have broadband internet access, which is still a huge […]... →

What can you do with virtual reality when you have complete control of the physical space around the player? How “real” can virtual reality become? That’s the core concept behind The Void. They take over retail spaces in places like Downtown Disney and shopping malls around the country and turn them into virtual reality playgrounds, […]... →

Но говорить о тенденции пока рано — частных инвесторов отпугивает нестабильность условий для таких проектов, считают эксперты.... →

Online education startup Udacity has hired former LendingTree executive Gabriel Dalporto as its new CEO, an appointment that follows months of layoffs and a restructuring directed by the company’s co-founder and executive chairman Sebastian Thrun. Dalporto comes to Udacity after seven years at LendingTree, where he served in numerous positions, including chief marketing officer and […]... →

During a new briefing at the Group of 7 summit, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that U.S. President Donald Trump and Macron have agreed on a compromise regarding the controversial tax on tech giants. France is still going to tax big tech companies. But the French government promises that it’ll scrap the French tax as […]... →

In four months time, Windows 7 will reach end-of-life and will no longer receive security updates. That’s going to be a problem for some enterprises which still run the decade-old operating system. Starting January 14, 2020, Windows 7 computers will stop receiving security patches, leaving enterprises vulnerable to malware. According to latest data, some 37% […]... →

For the longest time, even while scientists were working to make it a reality, quantum computing seemed like science fiction. It’s hard enough to make any sense out of quantum physics to begin with, let alone the practical applications of this less than intuitive theory. But we’ve now arrived at a point where companies like […]... →

The global smart speaker market grew 55.4% in the second quarter to reach 26.1 million shipments, according to a new report from Canalys. Amazon continued to lead the race, accounting for 6.6 million units shipped in the quarter. Google, however, fell to the third spot as China’s Baidu surged ahead. Baidu in Q2 grew a […]... →

TMT Investments инвестировала $1 млн в Accern Corporation. Accern – американская компания, которая помогает автоматизировать процессы исследований и анализа большого объема данных и помогает в принятии решений, применяя передовые технологии искусственного интеллекта. Получая запрос от организации, Accern сканирует миллионы веб-сайтов, включая публичные сайты, социальные сети, новостные источники, а также внутренние письменные документы, изображения, финансовые отчеты, письма и данные о клиентах, собирает и ... →

Facebook has succeeded in blocking a pioneering order by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office earlier this year that would have banned it from combining data on users across its own suite of social platforms — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — without their consent. Pioneering because the antitrust regulator had liaised with EU privacy authorities during a […]... →

Социальная сеть Facebook опубликовала хронологию обсуждения практик Cambridge Analytica. Из приведенной переписки между сотрудниками соцсети становится ясно, что о незаконной деятельности компании было известно еще в сентябре 2015 года, а не начиная с декабря, как утверждается в официальных документах. Так один из сотрудников сети сообщил в электронном письме от 22 сентября, что Cambridge Analytica является […] Сообщение Facebook было известно о практиках Cambridge Analytica с сентября 2015 года появились с... →