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Saturday, April 27, 2019
Geek Trivia: If Alexander Graham Bell Had His Way, We’d Start Telephone Conversations With What?
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Profile of Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective, an LLC that is part charity and part VC firm with investments in 30+ startups, including Pinterest (Bloomberg)
Bloomberg:
Profile of Laurene Powell Jobs' Emerson Collective, an LLC that is part charity and part VC firm with investments in 30+ startups, including Pinterest — In the seven years since the death of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, his 55-year-old widow, Laurene Powell Jobs, has become one of the most high-profile philanthropists in the world.
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Dyndrite, which is building a new geometric modeling kernel that is used in CAD or design applications, raises $10M Series A led by Gradient Ventures (Connie Loizos/TechCrunch)
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Dyndrite, which is building a new geometric modeling kernel that is used in CAD or design applications, raises $10M Series A led by Gradient Ventures — Most of us don't know what a geometric modeling kernel or solid modeling kernel is, but every CAD or design application uses one to create shapes.
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Affirm, an online lending company led by former PayPal CTO Max Levchin, spins out Resolve, an automated payments platform focused on B2B e-commerce (Natalie Gagliordi/ZDNet)
Natalie Gagliordi / ZDNet:
Affirm, an online lending company led by former PayPal CTO Max Levchin, spins out Resolve, an automated payments platform focused on B2B e-commerce — Resolve takes Affirm's buy now, pay later approach and applies it to business purchasing. — Affirm, a financial services company led …
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PayPal to buy $500M worth of Uber shares at $47/share, says the companies will work on future payment collaborations, including developing Uber's digital wallet (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch:
PayPal to buy $500M worth of Uber shares at $47/share, says the companies will work on future payment collaborations, including developing Uber's digital wallet — Uber's announcement of its IPO pricing earlier today came with a $500 million belated Easter egg.
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Profile of Up & Go, a worker owned on-demand house cleaning service in New York, which takes only a 5% cut and lets its cleaners decide the design of the app (Clive Thompson/Wired)
Clive Thompson / Wired:
Profile of Up & Go, a worker owned on-demand house cleaning service in New York, which takes only a 5% cut and lets its cleaners decide the design of the app — Rating drivers on Lyft. Three stars? Five stars? I know Lyft wants to feed the ravenous maw of its machine intelligence …
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San Francisco-based Brightback, a subscription retention and churn management software startup, raises $11M Series A led by Index Ventures (Khari Johnson/VentureBeat)
Khari Johnson / VentureBeat:
San Francisco-based Brightback, a subscription retention and churn management software startup, raises $11M Series A led by Index Ventures — Subscription retention and churn management software company Brightback today announced the close of an $11 million funding round.
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Tangdou, an app with 200M users in China that offers dance video tutorials for the elderly, has closed a round led by Tencent, bringing total raised to ~$100M (Rita Liao/TechCrunch)
Rita Liao / TechCrunch:
Tangdou, an app with 200M users in China that offers dance video tutorials for the elderly, has closed a round led by Tencent, bringing total raised to ~$100M — Besides churning out video games for China's young generations, Tencent has also been attuned to the need of silver-haired users …
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Docker discovers unauthorized access to a Hub database that exposed info of ~190K users; the info included access tokens for GitHub and Bitbucket repositories (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer:
Docker discovers unauthorized access to a Hub database that exposed info of ~190K users; the info included access tokens for GitHub and Bitbucket repositories — An unauthorized person gained access to a Docker Hub database that exposed the the user names and hashed passwords for approximately 190,000 users.
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Credly, which helps education institutions, industry associations, and companies issue digital credentials to certify people's skills, raises $11.1M Series A (Kyle Wiggers/VentureBeat)
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat:
Credly, which helps education institutions, industry associations, and companies issue digital credentials to certify people's skills, raises $11.1M Series A — New York-based digital credentialing company Credly today announced that it's raised $11.1 million in series A financing led …
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Bad PR ideas, esports, and the Valley’s talent poaching war
Sending severed heads, and even more PR DON’Ts
I wrote a “master list” of PR DON’Ts earlier this week, and now that list has nearly doubled as my fellow TechCrunch writers continued to experience even more bad behavior around pitches. So, here are another 12 things of what not to do when pitching a startup:
DON’T send severed heads of the writer you want to cover your story
Heads up! It’s weird to send someone’s cranium to them.
This is an odd one, but believe it or not, severed heads seem to roll into our office every couple of months thanks to the advent of 3D printing. Several of us in the New York TechCrunch office received these “gifts” in the past few days (see gifts next), and apparently, I now have a severed head resting on my desk that I get to dispose of on Monday.
Let’s think linearly on this one. Most journalists are writers and presumably understand metaphors. Heads were placed on pikes in the Middle Ages (and sadly, sometimes recently) as a warning to other group members about the risk of challenging whoever did the decapitation. Yes, it might get the attention of the person you are sending their head to, in the same way that burning them in effigy right in front of them can attract eyeballs.
Now, I get it — it’s a demo of something, and maybe it might even be funny for some. But, why take the risk that the recipient is going to see the reasonably obvious metaphorical connection? Use your noggin — no severed heads.
Why your CSO — not your CMO — should pitch your security startup
from TechCrunch https://tcrn.ch/2XLoEXi
Sending severed heads, and even more PR DON’Ts
This week, I published a piece called the “The master list of PR DON’Ts (or how not to piss off the writer covering your startup).” The problem, of course, with writing a “master list” is that as soon as you publish it, everyone takes the opportunity to point out all the (hopefully) long-tail stories that you didn’t include the first time.
And wow, startup founders and PR folks find some funky ways to pitch journalists.
That original master list had 16 entries, ranging from not using pressure tactics to force a story to not changing your company’s name capitalization multiple times.
Now, here is a list of 12 more PR DON’Ts from the TechCrunch staff, who have turned our Slack thread on this subject into a form of work therapy.
DON’T send severed heads of the writer you want to cover your story
TechCrunch writer Anthony Ha holds his future (and his head) in his own hands.
Heads up! It’s weird to send someone’s cranium to them.
This is an odd one, but believe it or not, severed heads seem to roll into our office every couple of months thanks to the advent of 3D printing. Several of us in the New York TechCrunch office received these “gifts” in the past few days (see gifts next), and apparently, I now have a severed head resting on my desk that I get to dispose of on Monday.
Let’s think linearly on this one. Most journalists are writers and presumably understand metaphors. Heads were placed on pikes in the Middle Ages (and sadly, sometimes recently) as a warning to other group members about the risk of challenging whoever did the decapitation. Yes, it might get the attention of the person you are sending their head to, in the same way that burning them in effigy right in front of them can attract eyeballs.
Now, I get it — it’s a demo of something, and maybe it might even be funny for some. But, why take the risk that the recipient is going to see the reasonably obvious metaphorical connection? Use your noggin — no severed heads.
DON’T send gifts
Journalists have a job to do: we cover the most interesting stories and write them up for our readers. That’s what we are paid to do after all.
from TechCrunch https://tcrn.ch/2W58uYx
The National Library of China to archive over 200B public posts on Weibo and 210M news stories published on Sina.com (Iris Deng/South China Morning Post)
Iris Deng / South China Morning Post:
The National Library of China to archive over 200B public posts on Weibo and 210M news stories published on Sina.com — Sina, which had 462 million active users on Weibo at the end of 2018, was chosen as first partner for the initiative because of its enormous trove of data …
from Techmeme http://bit.ly/2ZOFRBg
How Cambridge Systematics, a transportation consultancy, used location data from 5M cell phones in Los Angeles to help the city revamp its bus transit system (Adam Rogers/Wired)
Adam Rogers / Wired:
How Cambridge Systematics, a transportation consultancy, used location data from 5M cell phones in Los Angeles to help the city revamp its bus transit system — THE GRAY BUSES that roll along Los Angeles' Orange Line don't look like other buses: They're 60 feet long, and their streamlined design means they don't just stop.
from Techmeme http://bit.ly/2GIfBjd
A deep look at how Airbnb has influenced the housing market and transformed neighborhoods in Barcelona, where 1.5M visitors stay in Airbnbs annually (Rebecca Mead/New Yorker)
Rebecca Mead / New Yorker:
A deep look at how Airbnb has influenced the housing market and transformed neighborhoods in Barcelona, where 1.5M visitors stay in Airbnbs annually — In the tourist-clogged city, some locals see the service as a pestilence. — In 1904, the city of Barcelona received a petition …
from Techmeme http://bit.ly/2Vy2gmV
Google Assistant Can Now Read You a Bedtime Story
Google wants to read you a bedtime story, and thanks to the latest Google Assistant feature, it can do just that. The feature, called Tell Me a Story, prompts Google Assistant to tell you a story through your phone. Which could be a Godsend for parents.
Hey Google, Tell Me a Story
In 2017, Google enabled a new feature enabling you to ask Google Assistant to tell you (or your kids) a story. Unfortunately, it only worked on Google Home devices. Making the same request on Android or iOS would get you a quote or a joke, but not an actual story.
Now, however, Google is making it so that the “Hey Google, tell me a story” command will elicit the same response across Google Home devices, Android, and iOS. The response being that Assistant will read you one of the stories Google has curated.
How to Get Google to Tell You a Story
On The Keyword, Google explains that Tell Me a Story allows you to hear stories like “Let’s Be Firefighters!” (Blaze and the Monster Machines) and “Robot Rampage” (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles). You can also ask Google to read you a bedtime story instead.
"Hey Google, tell me a story." ?
Now available on mobile, take a page from your Google Assistant this weekend for #TellAStoryDay ? https://t.co/r9evs95Hae pic.twitter.com/oqdLKO1H1b
— Google (@Google) April 25, 2019
Google has launched Tell Me a Story to coincide with National Tell a Story Day, which is today (April 27). However, reading should be a year-round activity, and the “Hey Google, tell me a story” command will work 365 days a year.
Tell Me a Story is available in the US, the UK, Canada, Australia, and India. All you’ll need to make use of it is an Android or iOS device with Google Assistant installed on it, as well as the latest version of the Google Play Books app.
Download: Google Assistant on Android | iOS
Download: Google Play Books on Android | iOS
Parents Are Better Than Google Assistant
This is a neat little feature, and another tool in a parent’s arsenal when their little ones won’t go to sleep. However, having Google Assistant reading a bedtime story to your child is no substitution for you doing it yourself. Especially if you do all of the voices too.
Image Credit: Marco Verch/Flickr
Read the full article: Google Assistant Can Now Read You a Bedtime Story
from MakeUseOf http://bit.ly/2vm2OOb
Overcast introduces a new clip-sharing feature, allowing users to share audio or video clips, up to a minute each, from any public podcast (Marco Arment/Marco.org)
Marco Arment / Marco.org:
Overcast introduces a new clip-sharing feature, allowing users to share audio or video clips, up to a minute each, from any public podcast — Sharing podcasts has never been easy, but I've always tried to lead the way with Overcast, with publicly shareable episode links and optional recommendations …
from Techmeme http://bit.ly/2XT1rT5
Officials say FBI, DHS, NSA, and the US Cyber Command task forces, formed before midterms to combat foreign interference in elections, have been made permanent (New York Times)
New York Times:
Officials say FBI, DHS, NSA, and the US Cyber Command task forces, formed before midterms to combat foreign interference in elections, have been made permanent — WASHINGTON — The F.B.I. director warned anew on Friday about Russia's continued meddling in American elections, calling it a “significant counterintelligence threat.”
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Original Content podcast: ‘Game of Thrones’ delivers one of its best episodes yet
We’re barely more than 24 hours away from what’s widely expected to be the most spectacular and devastating battle that we’ve seen on “Game of Thrones,” but before then, <a href=”http://”https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/original-content/id1271763098″>the Original Content podcast revisits last weekend’s episode, “A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms.”
In the past, we’ve tended to discuss TV shows in a more general way, covering entire seasons in a single segment of the podcast. But given the general obsession over “Game of Thrones” (and we’re certainly among the obsessed), it seemed worthwhile to give ourselves the time to get as detailed as we wanted.
“A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms” is certainly worthy of that discussion — we both felt it was one of the show’s best episodes thus far. While it may even cover less ground plot-wise than the season premiere, the episode gives us haunting moments with virtually all of the surviving cast members as they wrestle with their likely death in the battle to come.
Speaking of that battle, we also join in the speculation over who will live and who will die.
And before the spoiler-heavy “Game of Thrones” discussion, we also talk about what’s new in the streaming world, namely Beyoncé’s new concert film “Homecoming.” Both of us talk about how the critically-acclaimed film changed our perception of Beyoncé, who we’d admired without being full-blown fans of beforehand.
You can listen in the player below, subscribe using Apple Podcasts or find us in your podcast player of choice. If you like the show, please let us know by leaving a review on Apple. You can also send us feedback directly. (Or suggest shows and movies for us to review!)
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