New federal rules for autonomous vehicles arriving Tuesday, call for 15-point “safety assessment”, aiming to avoid inconsistent patchwork of state laws
The White House vs. robot cars — So far, manufacturers of self-driving cars have operated in uncharted waters …
Intermittent and random glitch with iPhone 7's new Lightning EarPods stops volume controls from working; Apple says fix coming soon
Some iPhone 7 users have found an annoying glitch with the wired Lightning EarPods that come with the iPhone 7. — The issue, which I've also experienced …
Comcast CEO says the company plans to debut a wireless service by mid-2017, using leased Verizon airwaves and Comcast's 14M+ Wi-Fi hot spots
It'll run on top of the Verizon network and lean heavily on Wi-Fi — Comcast just solidified long-rumored plans to launch its own MVNO cellular service.
Google sends out invites for October 4 “made by Google” hardware event in San Francisco, will livestream it on YouTube
Google today tweeted out an indication that it will unveil new devices on October 4. People have been expected Google to show new mobile devices …
Tinder integrates with Spotify and lets potential matches view users' favorite songs and artists
Tinder has revealed the next step in its mission to help users meet their perfect match, as Spotify opens up its catalog of songs to the perennially popular dating app.
Grab, Uber's southeast Asia rival, raises $750M Series F led by SoftBank; source says post-money valuation is $3B
Grab, the largest company rivaling Uber in Southeast Asia, has confirmed that it has raised $750 million in fresh capital. — This is the company's Series F round …
RIAA report: US music streaming revenue grew 57% to $1.6B in the first half of 2016 and accounted for almost half of industry sales
Popularity of online listening offsets plunging album revenue — U.S. industry poised for second straight year of sales growth
ICANN to change DNSSEC master key for the first time; new 2048 key will appear in DNS July 11, 2017
Soon, one of the most important cryptographic key pairs on the internet will be changed for the first time. — The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) …
Google buys API.ai, a startup with dev tools for speech recognition and a conversational assistant app with 20M+ users
Google today said that it's acquired API.ai, a startup with tools for speech recognition and natural language understanding. Terms of the deal weren't disclosed.
GoPro to launch foldable Karma quadcopter for $799 on October 23, new Hero5 action cameras and GoPro Plus $5/month sharing service on October 2
a drone and new cameras Eric Frederiksen / The Tech Report : GoPro's foldable Karma Drone is ready for take off Shawn Knight / TechSpot : GoPro unveils Karma drone and Hero5 family of action cameras E...
Etsy buys Blackbird Technologies to bring AI to its search
It's not just gigantic search engines that are looking to acquire tech and talent around emerging areas like speech recognition. Even design and craft marketplaces can use a little machine learning a...
Interview with Intel's second-in-command Venkata Renduchintala on drones, cars, and the death of mobile Atom chips
Intel's second-in-command Venkata Renduchintala is feeling at home with his new company after he switched over from Qualcomm — Intel is now more than just a PC company.
iPhone 7 has the highest color accuracy and peak brightness of any mobile display, making it the “best performing mobile LCD display that we have ever tested”
are the rumors of an OLED iPhone incorrect? The Macalope / Macworld : It's always something: Finding things to complain about with the iPhone 7 Brooke Crothers / Forbes : Apple Nails iPhone 7 Display:...
Twitter no longer counts photos, videos, GIFs, polls, and Quote Tweets against the 140-character tweet limit
Casey Newton / The Verge :
Indonesia asks Google to pay for 5 years of back taxes; bill for 2015 alone could be about $400M
Google Books launches “Discover”, a personalized suggestions feature, to better challenge Amazon's Kindle app
Google today is launching a new feature for Google Books which aims to offer a better challenge to Amazon's Kindle app when it comes to helping you find new things to read.
New York federal judge rules Bitcoin is money in case involving defunct bitcoin exchange Coin.mx connected to a broader investigation into JPMorgan hack
Stan Higgins / CoinDesk :
ARM announces Cortex-R52, a safety-critical processor design for devices such as automated cars and healthcare devices
Jeremy Kahn / Bloomberg :
Google launches Trips, a free Android and iOS app that serves as trip planner and travel guide, with custom itineraries as well as flight, hotel info, more
Apps can often prove unnecessary … Jimmy Westenberg / Android Authority : Google Trips is a new smart travel app that will help plan your next vacation App Store : Google Trips — iTunes — Open iTu...
Facebook buys Nascent Objects, a startup with tools for rapidly prototyping hardware ideas
Nascent Objects was founded … Steven Loeb / VatorNews : Facebook buys Nascent Objects to develop hardware faster PYMNTS.com : Facebook Buys Nascent Objects For Undisclosed Sum Larry Dignan / ZDNet : F...
Google Photos gets in-app sharing and expands on auto-generated montage videos with “concept movies” that have a theme based on content
the next step in our mission to get every memory to the right people, privately. http://twitter.com/...
Walmart completes deal to buy Jet.com for $3B in cash plus $300M in stock
Anne D'Innocenzio / Associated Press :
In China, women launch 55% of Internet companies, and make up 17% of investing partners in VC firms
Tuesday, September 20 Tweets: Bloomberg Markets / @markets : An ex-librarian in China raised the world's largest VC fund. http://www.bloomberg.com/... http://twitter.com/...
Police records show Denver police spent $30K on social media surveillance tools for at least a dozen networks in May
Dell Cameron / The Daily Dot :
Stripe offers Instant Payouts to all contractors after early rollouts at Lyft, Care.com, goPanache, to help marketplaces pay contractors more quickly
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Interview with Dropbox's first employee, Aston Motes, on life at MIT, OkCupid before joining the company and on being a startup advisor, investor after leaving
Craig Cannon / The Macro :
Sources: GV-backed gym membership startup ClassPass hits $150M run rate, up from $100M in summer of 2015, and now-positive gross profit margin of 17%
Avery Hartmans / Business Insider : Thanks: @mattrosoff
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