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Crunch Network
Google, Baidu and the race for an edge in the global speech recognition market
Speech recognition technology has been around for more than half a decade, though the early uses of speech recognition — like voice dialing or desktop dictation — certainly don’t seem as sexy as today’s burgeoning virtual agents or smart home devices. Read More
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Congrats to former TechCrunch co-editor Alexia Tsotsis on graduating from Stanford
Today, the former co-editor of TechCrunch, Alexia Tsotsis, is graduating from Stanford’s MSx program at the Graduate School of Business. She’s coming away with a masters of science in business degree — and she did it in a year. I’ll always remember her as a fantastic work partner who was the yin to my yang. A person who would not hold back from telling you… Read More
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Apps as anime characters
What would software programs look like if they were people? Artist Reef1600 dreamed up these awesome personifications and let us share them with you. Check out his art, buy his work on Gumroad, and click/scroll through to see the rest: Read More
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Crunch Network
FFS, Facebook
For your convenience. For your security. To better serve you. To offer you the best experience. To better fit our future plans. To comply with regulations. To optimize our resources. These are the blandly vicious lies that companies proffer when they want to take something away from you. I thought I was used to this game, but this week I was actually upset by it again. Et tu, Facebook? Read More
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Tesla’s weird week
It’s been a weird few days for Tesla. In a span of just 72 hours the Model S was accused of having major suspension issues, the NHTSA supposedly got involved, Tesla explained that there is nothing wrong and the NHTSA isn’t actually investigating the issue, and Elon Musk tweeted that the whole thing was a giant conspiracy. Woah. Ok, let’s take a step back and dissect… Read More
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Students demonstrate their Hololens apps after a quarter of VR and AR design
It’s just about impossible to get your hands on Microsoft’s impressive mixed-reality Hololens platform these days — unless you’re a computer science student at the University of Washington. Then you get to play with them whenever you want. Read More
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Crunch Network
Whatever happened to MCNs?
Remember MCNs? Those quaint multi-channel networks — aggregators of YouTube channels — that generally focused on a specific vertical audience? In the past year or so, something curious happened — companies shied away from the “MCN” moniker. Some did so violently, contending they were never MCNs in the first place. Here the five reasons this happened. Read More
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What Pinterest learned in two years working on its search engine
About two years ago, Pinterest launched a different flavor of search engine called Guided Search. Instead of relying on deep data on the user, it would create a network of related topics that users can dive deep into. The idea being that a search like “iPhone” would net additional categories, like “design,” “hardware” and such. Now Guided Search is about… Read More
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Crunch Report | Gawker Files For Bankruptcy
Gawker files for bankruptcy, Line will IPO on July 14 on the New York Stock Exchange, Greg Kumparak goes in-depth with the mobile game Pokemon Go from Niantic, Andreessen Horowitz closes a $1.5 billion dollar fund, and Meem is both storage and a charging cable. All this on today’s Crunch Report. Read More
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Dango mind-melds with emoji using deep learning and suggests them while you type
Dango is an emoji suggestion chatbot — wait, where are you going? Stay with me, this is actually pretty cool. Okay, so Dango is one of those virtual assistants that lives in your chat apps, and this one is based on a neural network that has been trained with millions of examples to understand what emoji mean. So not only can it suggest an appropriate one, but it can translate entire… Read More
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Crunch Network
Scholarships are the new sweepstakes
One million dollars. A student will earn that much more in life with a four-year college degree as opposed to just a high school diploma. That’s according to a recent study from Georgetown University, which offers just such a degree. But most students need financial aid. And when it comes to financial aid, there are basically two kinds: the kind you pay back and the kind you want. You want… Read More
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How activist DeRay Mckesson’s Twitter account was hacked
Even though several huge data breaches have recently exposed hundreds of millions of social media login credentials online, users aren’t re-setting their passwords — which means you’ll probably continue to see celebrities’ social media accounts getting hijacked.
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13 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week
Gawker files for bankruptcy, Verizon inches closer to buying Yahoo, what to expect at Apple’s WWDC conference next week and more headlines to stay on top of this week’s tech news. Read More
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Crunch Network
The future of the IoT job market
Since the dawn of technology, we’ve been afraid of technology eliminating our jobs. Look at the birth of the steam engine. When it was invented in the late 1700s, people believed its arrival signaled the end of manual labor and thousands of hardworking individuals would be out of jobs. Instead, it created completely new jobs in new industries. Nearly 250 years later, in a world defined… Read More
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Andreessen Horowitz officially closes its newest fund with $1.5 billion
In March, we told you that Andreessen Horowitz was targeting $1.5 billion for its fifth and newest fund. This morning, the seven-year-old Sand Hill Road firm is confirming that it has closed on that amount, having secured the capital commitments from its previous investors. The announcement comes a little more than two years after the firm closed its fourth, multi-stage venture capital fund… Read More
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Mozilla’s multi-process architecture project cleared for takeoff
Attention. Project code-name Electrolysis is a go. Mozilla’s long-running project to bring multi-process architecture to hundreds of millions of Firefox users has finally met release criteria for a full-scale rollout. Nearly every other browser on the market has adopted multi-process architecture, splitting tabs and extensions into separate processes. For the average non-technical… Read More
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What to expect at Apple’s WWDC keynote
Apple is about to kick off its annual developer conference in San Francisco on Monday. As usual, the company will get things going with a good old keynote filled with secret and not-so-secret announcements. Here's what I expect to see. A good chunk of the conference should be about iOS and OS X updates. Usually, Apple showcases some of th Read More
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Slack is down, so enjoy your three-day weekend
Chat and collaboration app Slack is experiencing serious outages today, but we’re not sure of the nature or extent of the disaster, because status.slack.com is also inaccessible! What? This is like a fire station burning down! (Update: It’s back up, hurray!) Read More
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Gawker files for bankruptcy
Gawker Media filed for bankruptcy today, according to documents filed in a Southern District of New York court. The filing comes as Gawker’s legal battle with the wrestler Hulk Hogan (real name Terry Bollea) drags on. Hogan sued Gawker after the site published a clip of his sex tape and a blog post analyzing it; his lawsuit, as well as others against Gawker, have been funded by… Read More
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Famly
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Clubio
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Notarize
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Patina Solutions
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The Virtual Reality Company
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Sher.ly
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BioTime
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360 Haoyao
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Ascend Consumer Finance
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MyCash
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Valley Healthcare Staffing
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PayTunes
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