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By TechCrunch - May 23, 2018
PLATFORM.SH RAISES $34 MILLION TO SIMPLIFY CLOUD DEPLOYMENT

French startup Platform.sh has raised a $34 million funding round. The company wants to help you manage your cloud infrastructure by...
Cloud, Developer, Europe, Startups, France Newsletter
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By TechCrunch - May 23, 2018
YOUTEAM IS A MARKETPLACE FOR OFFSHORE DEVELOPER TALENT

While software is said to be eating the world, software developers and other technical talent remains in short supply. Not only is...
Tech, Europe, Startups, TC
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By TechCrunch - May 23, 2018
STARTUPS CAN NOW APPLY TO TAKE PART IN GOOGLE'S FIRST DEMO DAY EVENT IN ASIA

Google is bringing its Demo Day event to Asia for the first time this September and now the search giant has opened applications for...
Google, Accelerator, Asia, China, shanghai
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By TechCrunch - May 23, 2018
IBM'S VERIFIER INSPECTS DIAMONDS, PILLS AND MATERIALS AT THE MICRON LEVEL

It's not enough in this day and age that we have to deal with fake news, we also have to deal with fake prescription drugs, fake luxury...
Phone, IBM, Artificial Intelligence, Gadgets, Hardware, Mobile, Science, TC, spectroscopy
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By TechCrunch - May 23, 2018
MEET THE SPEAKERS AT THE EUROPAS, AND GET YOUR TICKET FREE

Excited to announce that this year's The Europas Unconference & Awards is shaping up! Our half day Unconference kicks off on 3 July,...
Tech, Accelerator, Advertising Tech, Apps, Artificial Intelligence, Asia, Augmented Reality, Automotive, Banking, Biotech, Blockchain, Book Review, Brazil, Built In, Cannabis, Cloud, Collaborative Consumption, Community, Crowdfunding, Cryptocurrency, Developer, Distributed Ledger, Diversity, Earnings, eCommerce, Education, Enterprise, Entertainment, Europe, Events, Finance, Food, Funding, Fundings & Exits, Gadgets, Gaming, Government, GreenTech, Hack, Hardware, Health, Hiring, Mobile, Social, Startups, TC
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By TechCrunch - May 23, 2018
MEET THE JUDGES AND HACKMASTERS FOR THE TC HACKATHON AT VIVATECH

On May 25-26, hundreds of Europe's best and brightest coders, hackers, tech makers and programmers will descend upon Paris to take...
Tech, Science, Hardware, TC
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By TechCrunch - May 23, 2018
EDGE SENSE IS STARTING TO COME INTO ITS OWN WITH HTC'S U12+

Edge Sense has always been a gimmick - but who can blame HTC for embracing a gimmick. The company's mobile division has been struggling...
Phone, Tech, Mobile, Google, Hardware, edge sense, HTC, smartphones
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By TechCrunch - May 23, 2018
LUMINARIES FROM ACROSS ISRAEL'S TECH ECOSYSTEM ARE JOINING US ONSTAGE IN TEL AVIV

Tickets are going fast for our inaugural Tel Aviv event and no one should miss out on the opportunity to see some the nation's rising...
Tech, Mobile, TC, Chief Operating Officer, Forward, Israel, technology, Tel Aviv
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By TechCrunch - May 23, 2018
ZUCKERBERG DIDN'T MAKE ANY FRIENDS IN EUROPE TODAY

Speaking in front of EU lawmakers today Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg namechecked the GDPR's core principles of “control, transparency...
Facebook, Artificial Intelligence, Europe, Government, Policy, Privacy, Security, Social, artificial intelligence, Brussels, Cambridge Analytica, Claude Moraes, Damian Collins, data protection law, DCMS committee, european parliament, european union, GDPR, General Data Protection Regulation, Mark Zuckerberg, Political Advertising, privacy, social media, WhatsApp
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By TechCrunch - May 23, 2018
FBI REPORTEDLY OVERESTIMATED INACCESSIBLE ENCRYPTED PHONES BY THOUSANDS

The FBI seems to have been caught fibbing again on the topic of encrypted phones. FBI director Christopher Wray estimated in December...
Phone, Mobile, Gadgets, Government, Privacy, Security, encryption, FBI
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By TechCrunch - May 22, 2018
AMAZON FACIAL RECOGNITION SOFTWARE RAISES PRIVACY CONCERNS WITH THE ACLU

Amazon hasn't exactly kept Rekognition under wraps. In late 2016, the software giant talked up its facial detection software in a relatively...
Tech, Mobile, Privacy, aclu, Amazon, facial recognition software, rekognition
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By TechCrunch - May 22, 2018
WATCHDOGS ASK GOOGLERS TO STOP IT FAVORING ITS OWN SEARCH RESULTS

A new coalition of activist groups led by Yelp and TripAdvisor are renewing the fight to get Google to give a fair opportunity to all...
Twitter, Instagram, Google, Facebook, Apps, eCommerce, Government, Personnel, Policy, Talent, TC, anti-trust, google search, tripadvisor, Yelp
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By TechCrunch - May 22, 2018
THE BIRTH OF THE UNIVERSAL DIGITAL PROFILE

It is a well-known fact that Europeans are generally more concerned about privacy than some other countries. Indeed, we've had a history...
Facebook, Column, Privacy, GDPR, Universal Digital Profile
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By TechCrunch - May 22, 2018
ALEXA GETS SMARTER ABOUT CALENDAR APPOINTMENTS

As digital assistants improve, we're learning new things to expect from them, but the tasks that a real life assistant may have handled...
TC, Alexa, Amazon
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By TechCrunch - May 22, 2018
ZUCKERBERG AVOIDED TOUGH QUESTIONS THANKS TO SHORT EU TESTIMONY FORMAT

Mark Zuckerberg got to cherry-pick the questions he wanted to answer from EU Parliament after it spent an hour taking turns rattling...
Instagram, Facebook, TC
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By TechCrunch - May 22, 2018
BAIDU SPINS OUT ITS GLOBAL AD BUSINESS TO SHARPEN ITS FOCUS ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Baidu, the Chinese search giant, is spinning out its business unit responsible for utility apps and its mobile ad business to sharpen...
Tech, Mobile, Asia, Fundings & Exits, andrew ng, artificial intelligence, Baidu, financial services, qi lu, Southeast Asia
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By TechCrunch - May 22, 2018
THE KATA CONTAINERS PROJECT LAUNCHES VERSION 1.0 OF ITS LIGHTWEIGHT VMS FOR CONTAINERS

The Kata Containers project, the first non-OpenStack project hosted by the OpenStack Foundation , today launched version 1.0 of its...
Hardware, Cloud, Developer, TC, Kata Containers
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By TechCrunch - May 22, 2018
WATCH SPACEX LAUNCH THE GRACE-FO AND IRIDIUM NEXT SATELLITES HERE

Today's the day for SpaceX's launch of Iridium's NEXT communications satellites and a pair of twin birds from NASA that will monitor...
Science, Space, TC, climate change, Iridium, NASA, SpaceX
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By TechCrunch - May 22, 2018
DRINK-A-DAY STARTUP HOOCH RAISES $5M AS IT PLANS BLOCKCHAIN INITIATIVE

Right on the heels of launching its concierge service Hooch Black , Hooch announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding. The...
Apps, Cryptocurrency, Funding, Mobile, Startups, Hooch, Lin Dai
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By TechCrunch - May 22, 2018
REAL VISION, A MEDIA PLATFORM FOR FINANCE AND BUSINESS, RAISES $10 MILLION

Real Vision is entering the crowded business and financial new space with a bang. The company, which recently raised a $10 million...
Apple, Fundings & Exits, Startups, TC, clickbait, Co-founder, deception, finance, Goldman Sachs, media, neologisms, News, news media, Reuters, sensationalism, spain, thomson reuters
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PLATFORM.SH RAISES $34 MILLION TO SIMPLIFY CLOUD DEPLOYMENT

French startup Platform.sh has raised a $34 million funding round. The company wants to help you manage your cloud infrastructure by...

YOUTEAM IS A MARKETPLACE FOR OFFSHORE DEVELOPER TALENT

While software is said to be eating the world, software developers and other technical talent remains in short supply. Not only is...

STARTUPS CAN NOW APPLY TO TAKE PART IN GOOGLE'S FIRST DEMO DAY EVENT IN ASIA

Google is bringing its Demo Day event to Asia for the first time this September and now the search giant has opened applications for...

IBM'S VERIFIER INSPECTS DIAMONDS, PILLS AND MATERIALS AT THE MICRON LEVEL

It's not enough in this day and age that we have to deal with fake news, we also have to deal with fake prescription drugs, fake luxury...

MEET THE SPEAKERS AT THE EUROPAS, AND GET YOUR TICKET FREE

Excited to announce that this year's The Europas Unconference & Awards is shaping up! Our half day Unconference kicks off on 3 July,...

MEET THE JUDGES AND HACKMASTERS FOR THE TC HACKATHON AT VIVATECH

On May 25-26, hundreds of Europe's best and brightest coders, hackers, tech makers and programmers will descend upon Paris to take...

EDGE SENSE IS STARTING TO COME INTO ITS OWN WITH HTC'S U12+

Edge Sense has always been a gimmick - but who can blame HTC for embracing a gimmick. The company's mobile division has been struggling...

LUMINARIES FROM ACROSS ISRAEL'S TECH ECOSYSTEM ARE JOINING US ONSTAGE IN TEL AVIV

Tickets are going fast for our inaugural Tel Aviv event and no one should miss out on the opportunity to see some the nation's rising...

ZUCKERBERG DIDN'T MAKE ANY FRIENDS IN EUROPE TODAY

Speaking in front of EU lawmakers today Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg namechecked the GDPR's core principles of “control, transparency...

FBI REPORTEDLY OVERESTIMATED INACCESSIBLE ENCRYPTED PHONES BY THOUSANDS

The FBI seems to have been caught fibbing again on the topic of encrypted phones. FBI director Christopher Wray estimated in December...

AMAZON FACIAL RECOGNITION SOFTWARE RAISES PRIVACY CONCERNS WITH THE ACLU

Amazon hasn't exactly kept Rekognition under wraps. In late 2016, the software giant talked up its facial detection software in a relatively...

WATCHDOGS ASK GOOGLERS TO STOP IT FAVORING ITS OWN SEARCH RESULTS

A new coalition of activist groups led by Yelp and TripAdvisor are renewing the fight to get Google to give a fair opportunity to all...

THE BIRTH OF THE UNIVERSAL DIGITAL PROFILE

It is a well-known fact that Europeans are generally more concerned about privacy than some other countries. Indeed, we've had a history...

ALEXA GETS SMARTER ABOUT CALENDAR APPOINTMENTS

As digital assistants improve, we're learning new things to expect from them, but the tasks that a real life assistant may have handled...

ZUCKERBERG AVOIDED TOUGH QUESTIONS THANKS TO SHORT EU TESTIMONY FORMAT

Mark Zuckerberg got to cherry-pick the questions he wanted to answer from EU Parliament after it spent an hour taking turns rattling...

BAIDU SPINS OUT ITS GLOBAL AD BUSINESS TO SHARPEN ITS FOCUS ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Baidu, the Chinese search giant, is spinning out its business unit responsible for utility apps and its mobile ad business to sharpen...

THE KATA CONTAINERS PROJECT LAUNCHES VERSION 1.0 OF ITS LIGHTWEIGHT VMS FOR CONTAINERS

The Kata Containers project, the first non-OpenStack project hosted by the OpenStack Foundation , today launched version 1.0 of its...

WATCH SPACEX LAUNCH THE GRACE-FO AND IRIDIUM NEXT SATELLITES HERE

Today's the day for SpaceX's launch of Iridium's NEXT communications satellites and a pair of twin birds from NASA that will monitor...

DRINK-A-DAY STARTUP HOOCH RAISES $5M AS IT PLANS BLOCKCHAIN INITIATIVE

Right on the heels of launching its concierge service Hooch Black , Hooch announced today that it has raised $5 million in seed funding. The...

REAL VISION, A MEDIA PLATFORM FOR FINANCE AND BUSINESS, RAISES $10 MILLION

Real Vision is entering the crowded business and financial new space with a bang. The company, which recently raised a $10 million...

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Adjustable Computer Desk

Why buy network rack? They are designed in a magnificent way and can handle several network devices at a particular time. By offering extra storage one can easily secure their...

HTC U12+: all new features

The new HTC U12+ is now finally official and it's HTC's best phone of the year, its flagship for 2018. HTC even clarified that it used the U12+ to mark that there is not going...

HTC U12 Plus release date, price, news and features

The HTC U12 Plus is now upon us. The 6-inch flagship arrives in a crowded market of competitors, but it has plenty going for it. This year's phone comes with a refined glass...

HTC U12+ hands-on preview: Big, beautiful, unattainable

Sleek, modern, and still not coming to U.S. carriers. HTC has been experiencing quite the rough patch throughout the last couple of years. Once a fan favorite with phones like...

Next-gen iPhone A12 chips enter mass production

Apple has signed up with TSMC to produce the next generation of chipsets that will go on to power the iPhone 9, Xs and Xs Plus this year. The silicon doesn't have an official...

A cheaper Nintendo Switch without bundled TV dock may be coming soon

Want to buy a Nintendo Switch but don't like the price tag? You may be in luck as Nintendo has just started selling cheaper Switch bundles in Japan. However, there are a few...

MIUI 10 now has a confirmed release date

After confirming the Mi 8 moniker for the upcoming flagship smartphone model on Tuesday, Xiaomi has announced that they will introduce the next iteration of their proprietary...

HTC U12+ brings a dual camera, HDR10 display and Snapdragon 845

HTC is in a tough spot but it just puts its best fighter in the field to defend its position. The HTC U12+ is an upgrade on the U11+ with the company's first flagship dual...

HTC's notch-less U12+ gets 4 cameras and a squeezable body

After leaks galore over the past several weeks, HTC has finally unveiled its flagship for 2018, the squeezable U12+. Armed with dual cameras in the front and back, the U12+...

Xiaomi Mi 8 leaks in live video with an awesome back and notch up front

After rumors began flowing about Xiaomi's 8th anniversary flagship phone, the company itself took to Twitter to confirm that the Xiaomi Mi 8 is coming Thursday, May 31st. And...

PlayStation 4 is coming to the end of its life, says Sony

Five years after it launched, the PlayStation 4 is now entering the end of its lifecycle. That's according to PlayStation head honcho John Kodera, speaking during Sony's...