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Saturday, March 3, 2018

Startups Weekly: Raising huge sums quickly

Hey, did you know that TechCrunch sends out a weekly newsletter rounding up the latest startup news? Well, we do! But for as-yet-unidentified technical reasons, it doesn’t seem to have gone out today, so I’m publishing it here. And if you haven’t subscribed yet, what are you waiting for? 1. What does it take to be a startup that raises huge sums quickly? “Trait No. 1:… Read More http://ift.tt/2FsBJNo Startups Weekly: Raising huge sums quickly http://ift.tt/2tdLv...

If there is one policy dilemma facing nearly every tech company today, it is what to do about “content moderation,” the almost-Orwellian term for censorship. Charlie Warzel of Buzzfeed pointedly asked the question a little more than a week ago: “How is it that the average untrained human can do something that multibillion-dollar technology companies that pride themselves… Read More from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2F9o3Kk No one wants to build a “feel good” internet Danny Crichton http://ift.tt/2oMNOFj via IFT...

Air’s app lets you record high-quality home movies without running out of space

These days, home movies aren’t recorded with handheld video cameras, but rather with our smartphones. Unfortunately, there’s a downside. Our iPhones default to lower quality video so recordings won’t eat up storage space; and while you can adjust that all the way to 4K on newer devices, that would drastically increase your storage consumption. You’d soon receive… Read More https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2018/03/air-phones.png?w=680 Air’s app lets you record high-quality home movies without running out of space http://ift.t...

More intimate than text but easier to record than video, Facebook hopes voice could get people sharing more on its aging social network. And internationally where users may have to deal with non-native language keyboards, voice lets them speak their mind without a typing barrier. Facebook is now testing Voice Clips as a status update option in India with a small percentage of users. First… Read More from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2F9JN4T Micropodcasting? Facebook tries Voice Clip status updates Josh Constine http://ift.tt/2oJm7NC via...

{rss:content:encoded} Micropodcasting? Facebook tries Voice Clip status updates http://ift.tt/2oJm7NC http://ift.tt/2F9JN4T March 02, 2018 at 07:53PM More intimate than text but easier to record than video, Facebook hopes voice could get people sharing more on its aging social network. And internationally where users may have to deal with non-native language keyboards, voice lets them speak their mind without a typing barrier. Facebook is now testing Voice Clips as a status update option in India with a small percentage of users. First… Read...

Twitter met or surpassed many of the diversity and inclusion goals it set for itself for 2017, the company announced today. Twitter is now 38.4 percent female, compared to 37 percent in 2016. Regarding underrepresented minorities at Twitter, representation increased from 11 percent in 2016 to 12.5 percent in 2017. Read More from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2oCowKI Twitter is now specifically focusing on increasing black, Latinx and female representation Megan Rose Dickey http://ift.tt/2CTIncH via IFT...

{rss:content:encoded} Galaxy S9’s display takes honors alongside its camera http://ift.tt/2oL7OYK http://ift.tt/2oJi1Vy March 02, 2018 at 07:02PM Earlier this morning Samsung’s Galaxy S9’s camera was awarded the highest-yet score from DxOMark, and now its screen gets the best-of-all-time nod from DisplayMate and display wonk Ray Soneira. The margins between the victor and the vanquished, however, are growing thinner every generation. Read More ...

Financial services giant Citi reckons fintech startups are missing out on a major opportunity to disrupt institutional banking. Indeed, it’s inviting entrepreneurs to do so. Read More http://ift.tt/2GXWlwJ Citi wants fintech startups to disrupt institutional banking http://ift.tt/2F6R4...

Facebook has claimed to have found no further evidence of co-ordinated Russian-backed ad purchases on its platform targeting the 2016 Brexit vote in addition to the ad buys it previously reported. Read More from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2zZ07m2 Facebook’s wider Kremlin Brexit ad sweep draws a blank Natasha Lomas http://ift.tt/2CVlOnL via IFT...

Rylo is a powerful little 360 camera that tries to keep its 360-degree features in the background most of the time; the real goal of the company is to rethink the camera so that you end up deciding how to frame the perfect photo or video after you’ve already grabbed the footage. The startup’s camera has been iOS-only since it launched last year, but today the company’s app… Read More http://ift.tt/2HZGzCu Rylo brings its cool little 360 camera to the world of Android http://ift.tt/2HXww...

The European Commission is still considering whether to regulate social media platforms to ensure they promptly remove illegal content — be it terrorist propaganda, child sexual exploitation or hate speech but also commercial scams and even copyright breaches. Read More from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2w8ugNY Social media handed “one-hour rule” for terrorist takedowns in Europe Natasha Lomas http://ift.tt/2CQkDGd via IFT...

{rss:content:encoded} The Samsung Galaxy S9+ camera bumps the Pixel 2 for DxOMark’s top spot http://ift.tt/2F2U3Qa http://ift.tt/2opwMxC March 02, 2018 at 11:48AM You know the drill, right? A new flagship comes out and bumps the last big name out of the top spot. We’re still a couple of weeks out from the Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ release date, but the premium handset just got the DxOMark treatment, and it seems the company’s got another feather to put in its flagship’s cap. The site posted a 99 for the S9+, edging out the Pixel 2’s… Read More ...

Instagram code reveals unreleased voice and video calling

Instagram wants to be your phone, not just your camera. And it wants to be better at it than Snapchat. Files buried in Instagram and the Instagram Direct standalone app’s Android Application Packages (APKs) are files and icons for “Call” and “Video Call”. APKs often show files for unreleased features that are lying dormant in an app waiting to be surfaced when… Read More from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2FdUNBf Instagram code reveals unreleased voice and video calling Josh Constine http://ift.tt/2GVuEEK via IFT...

{rss:content:encoded} Instagram code reveals unreleased voice and video calling http://ift.tt/2GVuEEK http://ift.tt/2pvVECa March 02, 2018 at 02:04AM Instagram wants to be your phone, not just your camera. And it wants to be better at it than Snapchat. Files buried in Instagram and the Instagram Direct standalone app’s Android Application Packages (APKs) are files and icons for “Call” and “Video Call”. APKs often show files for unreleased features that are lying dormant in an app waiting to be surfaced when… Read More ...

Facebook is ending its short-lived (and misguided) experiment with the alternative news feed feature called “Explore.” In a blog post today, Facebook head of news feed Adam Mosseri wrote: We constantly try out new features, design changes and ranking updates to understand how we can make Facebook better for everyone. Some of these changes—like Reactions, Live Video, and… Read More from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/2G1kjGJ Facebook ends its experiment with the alternative ‘explore’ news feed Jonathan Shieber http://ift.tt/2FgWLkv via...

Users might hate it, but Facebook is now testing a self-serve sponsored messaging tool for small businesses that aren’t sophisticated enough to build bots. TechCrunch first reported Facebook internally building a prototype of the Messenger Broadcast tool back in November that let companies blast a message to anyone who’s already started a conversation with them. Now Facebook is… Read More from Social – TechCrunch http://ift.tt/1S4xg1D Facebook’s next money-maker: Messenger Broadcasts Josh Constine http://ift.tt/2F6pZiw via IFT...

{rss:content:encoded} Facebook’s next money-maker: Messenger Broadcasts http://ift.tt/2F6pZiw http://ift.tt/1S4xg1D March 01, 2018 at 09:03PM Users might hate it, but Facebook is now testing a self-serve sponsored messaging tool for small businesses that aren’t sophisticated enough to build bots. TechCrunch first reported Facebook internally building a prototype of the Messenger Broadcast tool back in November that let companies blast a message to anyone who’s already started a conversation with them. Now Facebook is… Read More ...

This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s new book Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue, available now. Peter Thiel’s vague idea to do something about Gawker, the site that had outed him as gay in 2007, was concretized into conspiracy on April 6, 2011. It began unremarkably, when Thiel traveled to Germany to speak at a conference and had dinner with… Read More http://ift.tt/2t4aSVr The dinner that destroyed Gawker http://ift.tt/2FH7d...

If you’re running a company with a lot of customers, it can take time to sort through all that feedback. A startup called ScopeAI is working to make that process a lot easier. The startup is announcing that it’s raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from Y Combinator (where it was part of the winter batch last year), Menlo Ventures, Social Capital and Salesforce Ventures,… Read More http://ift.tt/2xfgbj4 ScopeAI helps companies analyze their customer feedback http://ift.tt/2GVm9...

Researchers at the have successfully etched edible circuits onto the surface of food, paving the way for RFID tagged edibles that can help us track food from farm to tummy. The project, which uses something called laser-induced graphene (LIG), is a process that creates a “foam made out of tiny cross-linked graphene flakes” that can carry electricity through carbon-rich products… Read More http://ift.tt/2FHgpUD Graphene-based edible electronics will let you make cereal circuits http://ift.tt/2FGKd...

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