Otto, founded by ex-Google engineers, exits stealth to sell self-driving kits for retrofitting semi-trailers
A group of ex-Google engineers have just launched Otto, an autonomous trucking startup — Otto's first vehicle is twice as long and six times as heavy as Google's cute prototype car …
Source: Twitter will stop counting photos and links in the 140-character limit as soon as within next two weeks
Company said to make the change in next couple of weeks — CEO Jack Dorsey aims to make it easier to compose tweets — Twitter Inc. will soon stop counting photos and links …
China is quietly requiring foreign tech companies to submit their products to security reviews
HONG KONG — Chinese authorities are quietly scrutinizing technology products sold in China by Apple and other big foreign companies, focusing on whether they pose potential security threats …
MCX postpones rollout of Apple Pay rival CurrentC, lays off 30, will focus on bank deals
As merchants like Walmart move aheadon their own mobile payment strategies, a consortium that once counted Walmart — along with a number of other big retailers and brands — behind it, has taken a step...
Microsoft and SAP expand partnership: Office 365 integrations, HANA on Azure
Microsoft is announcing today that it has deepened its partnership with fellow enterprise software vendor SAP. The HANA in-memory database from SAP will become available on top of Microsoft's Azure p...
Disney releases free VR app on Steam, puts its VR movie offerings in a single location; app works with Oculus Rift and HTC Vive
Disney seems to be on a mission to take over the world. — The gargantuan media juggernaut currently owns such high profile properties as ABC, ESPN, Marvel, and Lucasfilm.
In regulatory filing, LendingClub discloses grand jury subpoena from US Department of Justice following CEO resignation May 9
here's what you need to know Jacob Pramuk / CNBC : DOJ sends grand jury subpoena to LendingClub following CEO ouster SEC : Form 10-Q — Except as the context requires otherwise … Reuters : Lending Cl...
Google brings shopping ads to image searches to fend off Amazon
The search giant is adding new offline perks for retailers, too. — As people use mobile phones more to shop, Google is doing more and more to make sure it's not cut out of the process. Its latest m...
Blockchain announces Thunder, an alternative network for enabling fast off-blockchain transactions that settle against the bitcoin blockchain at a later date
Blockchain, the company behind the world's most popular bitcoin wallet, has been quietly working on an interesting project called Thunder.
HP is now taking orders for its first 3D printer, the Jet Fusion 3D, which starts at $130K and HP says is 10X faster than rivals; orders will ship in late 2016
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Inside the Final Days of LendingClub CEO Renaud Laplanche
The allegations around Mr. Laplanche also raise tough questions for the fast-growing fintech industry — On April 22, LendingClub Corp. founder and Chief Executive Renaud Laplanche took the stage at ...
BitTorrent debuts Live multichannel video streaming app for Apple TV, comes to mobile and OS X in June
BitTorrent today launched BitTorrent Live, a multichannel video streaming app for Apple TV. Think of it as the company's take on live TV, with initial coverage spanning five areas: news, sports, musi...
Ukrainian hacker admits stealing 150K press releases from newswire services to help criminal network make $30M from insider trading
Hacker, 28, broke into network after stealing user credentials — First hacker convicted in conspiracy to steal 150,000 releases
Fire TV gets new Alexa voice features, including app launching and restaurant searches
Amazon is giving TV viewers a few more, not-crazy reasons to talk back to their TVs. After bringing the functionality to various properties, opening it to third-party hardware and letting developers ...
SoundHound adds Houndify virtual voice assistant to its app for music search and controls
The SoundHound mobile app, which can listen for and identify music it hears through your smartphone speakers, is getting a huge artificial intelligence upgrade. Starting today, the app …
Garmin launches Vivosmart HR+, a fitness wearable with GPS for $219, $70 more than original Vivosmart HR model that lacked GPS
Today Garmin announced … Brian Heater / TechCrunch : Garmin's Vivosmart HR activity tracker gets a GPS upgrade Rob Thubron / TechSpot : Garmin adds GPS technology to an activity tracker with the Vivos...
Russian FindFace app compares photos to profile pictures on social network Vkontakte and works out identities with 70% reliability
FindFace compares photos to profile pictures on social network Vkontakte and works out identities with 70% reliability — If the founders of a new face recognition app …
BBC confirms work on a streaming service, plans to close or downscale a number of online properties like Food, News Mag, Travel, local news index
While the BBC is planning to take on Netflix by building its own “Britflix” on-demand video streaming service, on the news front …
YouTube for iOS Now Supports Google Cardboard
Get the official YouTube app for iPhone and iPad. Joseph Keller / iMore : YouTube adds full support for Google Cardboard VR videos
Debra Lee, chairman and CEO of Viacom's Black Entertainment Television, joins Twitter's board
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch :
French antidiscrimination organizations sue Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, accusing them of failing to remove racist and homophobic content
Barbara Tasch / Business Insider :
Apple releases iTunes 12.4, brings back left sidebar, but doesn't address core issues with navigation and possibly makes it worse
Jacob Kastrenakes / The Verge :
The Intercept begins releasing installments of NSA's internal newsletters starting from 2003
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Google announces Spaces, a new app for small group sharing around any topic, for Android, iOS, and web
Luke Wroblewski / Official Google Blog :
Computer science professor successfully used IBM's Watson to make an AI teaching assistant for answering questions online
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Twitter tests adding button to its Android app for launching Periscope broadcasts
Casey Newton / The Verge :
Click-fraud botnet with 900K+ infected devices manipulates search results for Google, Bing, and other search engines according to Bitdefender study
Catalin Cimpanu / Softpedia News :
NXP unveils BlueBox, a computing platform for helping automakers test and develop self-driving features, currently being tested by four major automakers
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Sources: Apple likely to announce accelerator program for Indian startups during Tim Cook's visit to the country this week
The Economic Times :
Twitter begins off-platform monetization by testing MoPub ads in Twitter Kit timelines
Ken Yeung / VentureBeat :
Oculus puts $1M toward VR for Good, a pilot program that gives students at 9 San Francisco schools tuition and equipment to make 360 degree films, more
Edward C. Baig / USA Today :
Amazon open sources DSSTNE, its library for building deep learning models, says it's 2.1X faster than Google's TensorFlow when run on specific AWS configuration
Jordan Novet / VentureBeat :
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