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James Vincent
A video circulated over the internet appearing to show a robot getting beaten and shot at. It’s a CGI fake — a parody of the clips put out by engineering company Boston Dynamics. However, it still reveals some uncomfortable truths about our innate empathy for robots.
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Jon Porter
Samsung has reminded owners of its smart TVs that they should regularly scan for viruses using its built in virus scanning software. “Scanning your computer for malware viruses is important,” a tweet from the company read.
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Sean O'Kane
The electric motor scooters came in the middle of the night. One by one, at first, but then truckful after truckful. They were parked on the streets of densely populated (and mostly affluent) neighborhoods across Brooklyn and Queens like Williamsburg, Park Slope, Long Island City, and Astoria. New Yorkers are used to rapid change, but the black-and-bright-blue Vespa-style scooters from a startup called Revel kept coming.
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Andrew Liptak
Adam Savage became a household name as the cohost of Mythbusters, and now, he’s returned to the Discovery Channel with a new show: Savage Builds. The series just began airing on Discovery, and the first episode, in which he builds a flying Iron Man costume, is available for free.
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Adi Robertson
The Singularity — a moment where technological progress speeds up exponentially and humanity as we know it becomes obsolete — has jokingly been referred to as the “rapture of the nerds.” Neal Stephenson’s novel Fall, or, Dodge in Hell takes things a step further: what if the nerds weren’t simply the prophets of a new order, but literally became our gods?
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Megan Farokhmanesh
Harvest Moon: Mad Dash is not your typical Harvest Moon. Instead of settling in to farm and find a family, Mad Dash instead introduces co-op gameplay in which you race to harvest crops, fish, or milk cows. It’s a frenzied version of a franchise that has long played with long-term player investments.
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Chris Welch
Comcast is introducing eye control to its X1 cable platform, a new effort that the company says will improve the experience of watching TV for millions of people with physical disabilities.
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James Vincent
In 2016 Google built an AI doodle detector called Quick, Draw! It was basically AI Pictionary, but there was one doodle it couldn’t detect: a penis. It’s a big omission and to rectify Google’s mistake, Mozilla foundation and Dutch design studio Moniker have designed an AI penis doodle detector. It’s a silly joke, but also a protest against US tech giants imposing their morals on the internet.
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Darrell Etherington
Researchers at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have developed a new system that could equip robots with something we take for granted: the ability to link multiple senses together. The new system created by CSAIL involves a predictive AI that’s able to lea…
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Manish Singh
Bounce, a Bangalore-based startup that offers more than 5,000 electric scooters for rent in India, has raised $72 million to accelerate its bid to impact how people navigate India’s traffic-clogged urban areas. The Series C funding round for the five-year-old startup was led by B Capital R…
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Ron Miller
Startup founders don’t typically launch a company as a get-rich-quick scheme. Most know that it will be a long, hard slog if they are to succeed. There will be lean years where the money is tight, and where they may personally struggle to pay their bills. They do it because they believe in th…
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Devin Coldewey
The latest feature for Comcast's remote software makes the clicker more accessible to people who can't click it the same as everyone else. People with physical disabilities will now be able to change the channel and do all the usual TV stuff using only their eyes.
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Ron Miller
Almost every organization, regardless of size, is inundated with meetings, so much so it’s often hard to find dedicated time do actual work. Clockwise wants to change that by bringing machine learning to the calendar to help employees free up time. Today, it announced an $11 million Series A invest…
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Steve O'Hear
Ollie Purdue, the founder of Loot, the current account aimed at millenials that went into administration last month after running out of cash, is joining Bó, the digital bank being developed by RBS-owned Natwest, TechCrunch as learned. He’ll take up the position of Chief Product Officer and w…
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Jon Russell
Alibaba is being heavily linked with a public listing in Hong Kong, which could reportedly happen in Q3 and raise up to $20 billion. The firm is keeping quiet on those rumors, but it did let slip a major hint after it announced plans for a stock split. Filings uploaded today (but originally release…
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Sarah Buhr
Menlo Park-based Hatch Baby has prided itself on introducing “smart” nursery devices — including Grow, a changing pad with a built-in scale and Rest, a device doubling as a sound machine and night light. Now, the company is introducing an updated version of Rest with Rest+ as part…
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