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Watch SpaceX’s last Falcon 9 rocket launch for 2017
SpaceX is launching its last mission of 2017 later today, with a planned launch window of 5:27 PM PST (8:27 PM EST). The mission is for client Iridium, and will send a fourth set of 10 satellites into low Earth orbit for Iridium’s NEXT constellation, which will eventually consist of 75 satellites launched by SpaceX in total. SpaceX is launching the Falcon 9 for Iridium-4 from… Read More
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Girls Who Code gets a Disney Imagineering boost
The room is a raw warehouse space that is partitioned off with curtains, hiding the bulk of it from view. I’m at the back of a group of girls who is nervously dropping its phones into a plastic box for safekeeping, to be returned on exit. The reason for the curtains, and the no phone policy, is that we are about to be some of the first people outside of the Disney Imagineering group to… Read More
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Elon Musk really will launch a Tesla Roadster on the first Falcon Heavy rocket
Elon Musk shared images on his Instagram account today of the payload being loaded up on the first Falcon Heavy rocket that will ever launch – and it’s a red Tesla Roadster. The SpaceX CEO previously said that he’d be launching exactly that on the spaceship, but then suggested he was joking – before the whole thing was confirmed again by SpaceX, and now made really… Read More
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Meet Molekule, the sleekest air purifier on the market
Molekule, a San Francisco-based startup with a sleekly designed molecular air purifier started as an immigrant dream twenty years ago and ended up being named one of Time’s top 25 inventions of 2017. The inventor Yogi Goswami came up with the idea when his baby son Dilip started having a hard time breathing the air around him. Dilip suffered from severe asthma but no air purifier at… Read More
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Check now to see if you liked any Russian troll accounts on Facebook
This fall saw ever-rising estimates of the number of people reached by Russian-backed troll accounts — just shy of 150 million at last count . Now the social network has at last released the tool it promised last month allowing users to see if they liked or followed one of the many pages or pieces of content put online during the sketchy attempt at mass manipulation. Read More
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Makeup company Deck of Scarlet moves in at Urban Outfitters
The subscription makeup service Deck of Scarlet, a business unit of the subscription-based perfumerie ScentBird, is making the jump to the material retail world with a presence in Urban Outfitters. It’s the latest step in the company’s campaign to take the world of beauty and perfume by storm. The company, which has started with a makeup palette for sale in two Urban Outfitters… Read More
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TechCrunch’s Favorite Things of 2017
Good news, everyone! We survived 2017! Each December, the TechCrunch staff members (our writers, editors, video, and social teams) get together and make a big ol’ list of our favorite things from that year. The apps, or gadgets, or movies, or music (or really anything) we loved. We tend to be a pretty picky bunch, and these are the things that made, and continue to make, the cut. These… Read More
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Unbound raises $2.7 million for women’s sexual wellness
Unbound, a sexual wellness startup for women, recently raised $2.7 million from Founders Fund, Slow Ventures, Arena Ventures, SoGal Ventures and others. Founded by Polly Rodriguez of Women of SexTech, Unbound aims to empower women to own their sexuality. “Raising money is always hard but it took an exceptional amount of resilience,” Rodriguez said. Unbound’s bread and butter… Read More
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Ubisoft combines AI research and game development at ‘La Forge’
For years we’ve been raging at cheating AI players, bemoaning their bad pathfinding, and laughing at their buggy antics. But AI can be and is being applied creatively, and those creative applications can lead to genuine scientific advances. Ubisoft, one of the world’s largest game publishers, aims to promote these mutually reinforcing goals with a new internal AI research unit it… Read More
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SingularityNET’s Ben Goertzel has a grand vision for the future of AI
SingularityNET, is an ambitions project to create a decentralized marketplace for AI, has raised a lot of money in its token sale. In around 20 seconds after opening the sale to the public, it sold out of the whole amount of available tokens (the AGI token), bringing the total to $36 million. However, a startup raising a lot of money in a token sale is not really of interest to me. This is… Read More
Latest TC Videos
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Pixel art coloring book apps are the newest App Store craze
Has your kid bugged you to let them download Sandbox Coloring? You’re probably not alone. The latest trend blowing up on the App Store is a new twist on the coloring book apps that have been popular for a couple of years. Now, instead of having users pick and choose their colors as before, this new group of coloring book apps – four of which recently snagged spots in the App… Read More
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Safe’s app answers the question ‘Have you been tested for STDs?’
The idea for Safe Group, a new Los Angeles company that’s developed a mobile app to track and verify a user’s sexual health, started on the Playa at Burning Man. The company’s chief executive and co-founder Ken Mayer was dating someone at the time who demanded to see the results of a recent STD test before agreeing to have sex. “I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be… Read More
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Crunch Network
The tech industry needs to move towards responsible innovation in 2018
It is incumbent for us, the technology community, to reach out to the regulators and legislators to help them better understand the wider impact of the things we’re working on. And it’s our responsibility to be transparent and honest with consumers about how we’re using their data and what they can expect from us. Read More
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That time I got locked out of my Google account for a month
How much of your digital life would you lose if you lost a single password? Without it, you are locked out and the cold reality of using free cloud services like Google is that you don’t have a human arbiter to help you. If you think back to earlier times where, say you lost your bank book, your local banker probably knew who you were and could help you navigate the process of getting… Read More
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Update: Coinbase up with intermittent suspensions after stopping transactions for crypto
Coinbase, the most popular site for cryptocurrency transactions in the U.S., is back up after a temporary suspension of trading activity today amid a crash in cryptocurrency prices. The company now is informing customers that buys and sells will be “intermittently” offline during the day. A statement on the company’s website this morning read, “Due to today’s… Read More
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Inside Fin, the elite human/AI assistant
“I have FOMO for the future”, says Sam Lessin. That’s why his startup Fin is working backwards from a far-off tech utopia. One day, computers with some human help will answer our every beck and call. Today, Lessin is teaming them up. Every day, Fin gets smarter. For $1 a minute, 24/7, Fin gets your digital chores done. Message, email, or speak a request and a real person… Read More
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Original Content podcast: Confronting the light and dark side of ‘The Last Jedi’
This week, TechCrunch’s Original Content podcast takes a break from reviewing the latest streaming titles to tackle the big movie of the week (and arguably the year) — Star Wars: The Last Jedi. One of your hosts (that’s Anthony) laid out his initial reaction in a post, while the other (that’s Darrell) has already seen The Last Jedi twice, and formed very different… Read More
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CNN is killing its Snapchat news show only four months after its debut
CNN is giving up on its Snapchat news show, which launch only four months ago. “The Update,” as the program was called, had been designed for Snapchat’s vertical video format, but didn’t feature video produced only for Snapchat, nor did it have dedicated anchors. Instead, the news featured on “The Update” was a curated selection of CNN’s reporting from… Read More
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A look at 42 women in tech who crushed it in 2017
What a challenging, exhilarating year it has been for women everywhere, starting from the women’s March on Washington to former Uber engineer Susan Fowler’s eye-opening and now famous blog post to the #metoo movement that has swept the country, washing dozens of sexual predators out of their powerful roles in the process. All the while, women in tech have been driving their… Read More
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Amazon acquires connected camera and doorbell startup Blink
Amazon has acquired Blink (via Slashgear), a startup founded in 2014 that builds connected Wi-Fi home security cameras, as well as a new video doorbell introduced earlier this week. The company got its start via a crowdfunding campaign that raised over $1 million for its totally wireless home monitoring system. Amazon has already made forays into connected home video cameras and even home… Read More
Recent Funding Data by
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Coinify ApS
- 30M DKK
- HQ: Copenhagen, Hovedstaden
- Categories: e-commerce, bitcoin, payments, cryptocurrency, financial services, point of ... See More
- Investors: SEB Venture Capital, Nordic Eye, Seed Capital
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Unbound
- $2.7M
- HQ: New York, New York
- Categories: sex tech, women's, health care, wellness
- Investors: Arena Ventures, SoGal Ventures, Slow Ventures, Founders Fund
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Futurestay
- $2.3M
- HQ: Somerset, New Jersey
- Categories: travel, service industry, tourism
- Investors: Newark Venture Partners, New York Angels
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Prasos
- 2.3M EUR
- HQ: Helsinki, Southern Finland
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Triggi
- 1.1M EUR
- HQ: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
- Categories: apps, internet, internet of things
- Investors: Not available
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Intuition Robotics
- $6.0M
- HQ: Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv
- Categories: human computer interaction, social, robotics, artificial intelligence
- Investors: Mirai Creation Investment
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Upside Energy
- 5.5M GBP
- HQ: Northwich, Cheshire
- Categories: computer, energy efficiency, enterprise software, energy, energy ... See More
- Investors: SYSTEMIQ, Legal & General, Bulldog Innovation Group LLC
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FindBoB
- $1.6M
- HQ: Toronto, Ontario
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: MaRS Investment Accelerator Fund, Ames Seed Capital, Grinnell Mutual ... See More
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BitCAD
- Not available
- HQ: Walnut, California
- Categories: security, fintech, cryptocurrency, biometrics
- Investors: Not available
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velmai
- Not available
- HQ: Braunton, Devon
- Categories: augmented reality, mobile apps, messaging, marketing automation, video ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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Hashplay Inc.
- $1.1M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: virtual reality, mobile, data visualization, internet
- Investors: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, Metatron Global
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Labs64 NetLicensing
- 400K EUR
- HQ: Munich, Bayern
- Categories: information services, software, saas, enterprise software, information ... See More
- Investors: Not available
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MoveInCat
- $21K
- HQ: Opole, Opolskie
- Categories: real estate, hospitality, marketplace, rental property
- Investors: Not available
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Vacayrx
- Not available
- HQ: Jackson, Wyoming
- Categories: travel, vacation rental, travel agency
- Investors: Not available
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Situm Technologies, S.L.
- Not available
- HQ: Santiago De Compostela, Galicia
- Categories: mobile
- Investors: Unirisco, Xesgalicia, Amadeus Capital Partners
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New Incentives
- $6.8M
- HQ: San Francisco, California
- Categories: health care, non profit, payments
- Investors: Not available
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ServusConnect
- $50K
- HQ: Raleigh, North Carolina
- Categories: mobile apps
- Investors: Cofounders Capital
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Cortopia Studios
- 21M SEK
- HQ: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan
- Categories: online games, information technology
- Investors: Init Invest
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CoderSchool
- Not available
- HQ: Ho Chi Minh City, NA - Vietnam
- Categories: software engineering, ios, android, web development, education
- Investors: Tri5 Ventures
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EasyEcom
- $150K
- HQ: Bangalore City, Karnataka
- Categories: information services, information technology
- Investors: BOLD Ventures
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Valeet
- $1.8M
- HQ: Madrid, Madrid
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Plug and Play, Aurorial
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Pixo
- $1.0M
- HQ: Manila, Manila
- Categories: bitcoin, fintech, cryptocurrency, personal finance
- Investors: Not available
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Boataffair
- 100K CHF
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Not available
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Health Value Creation
- 2.0M EUR
- HQ: Maastricht, Limburg
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Chemelot Ventures, Limburg Business Development Fund (LBDF), INKEF Capital ... See More
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Chomp Cloud
- $10M
- HQ: Shanghai, Shanghai
- Categories: food and beverage, retail, developer platform
- Investors: BlueRun Ventures, Qiming Venture Partners, SIG China, Bertelsmann Asia ... See More
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Mustliten Background Music
- Not available
- HQ: Shanghai, Shanghai
- Categories: music
- Investors: Shangshi Fund
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Citystasher
- Not available
- HQ: London, England
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Charlotte Street Capital
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iWelcome Kft
- 290K EUR
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Hiventures
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SixSide Kft
- 130K EUR
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Hiventures
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Shanghai Henlius Biotech
- $190M
- HQ: Not available
- Categories: Not available
- Investors: Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) Co.,Ltd, Joyful Ascent, Green Tomato ... See More
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