UK antivirus maker BullGuard is acquiring Israeli startup Dojo-Labs to expand its portfolio of security products to the Internet of Things. Read More
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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
European online glasses retailer MyOptique, which operates websites such as Glasses Direct and SunGlasses Shop in the UK and Lensbest in Germany, has been acquired by French lens maker Essilor International. Robot octopus is first step towards building the Cthulhu of our dreams
Good news for people who love terrifying news: scientists have developed a soft-bodied robot octopus capable of propelling itself around underwater, wedging itself into tiny crevices between rocks, and (maybe one day) dragging swimmers to their doom so it can feast on their gooey insides. The prototype octo-bot is the work of the BioRobotics Institute at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna in Pisa, Italy, and represents a victory for soft robotics — a fairly new field focused on the creation of squishy machines. For the rest of us, it's a baby Cthulhu.
The robot is a major step in a program that began in 2009 to build a replica of an octopus, and was tested in the Mediterranean sea earlier this year. In addition to being weird unknowable...
Oculus Rift arrives in European and Canadian stores on September 20th
The international rollout of the Oculus Rift has been happening in fits and starts, but today the VR headset takes a big plunge into markets outside the US. Oculus has announced that the Rift will be available to buy in a number of European and Canadian stores from September 20th, with online pre-orders from the same retailers starting today for a suggested price of £549 or €699.
In the UK, the Rift will be available from Amazon.co.uk, John Lewis, PC World, Game, and London's Harrods department store. In France, the headset will be sold at Amazon.fr and FNAC; in Germany at Amazon.de, MediaMarkt, and Saturn; and in Canada from Best Buy and the Microsoft Store. Oculus also says a number of these partners will also be offering in-store...
Monday, August 15, 2016
Microsoft Office for iPhone gets drawing support for your fingers
Microsoft was quick to optimize its Office suite of apps for the iPad Pro and Apple's Pencil stylus, but the company held off on any inking support in Office for iPhone. Starting today, Microsoft is updating Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for iPhone to include a new drawing tab option. Just like the Windows and iPad variants, Office on iPhone will now let you use your finger to write, draw, and highlight documents.
In Word on iPhone the draw tab is buried away, but once you find it you'll be able to choose from select objects, a pen, highlighter, or eraser. You can also adjust the thickness and color of the pen, and use it freely to annotate on documents. In Excel, you'll also be able to annotate freely over cells, and PowerPoint inking...
HeavenHR, a cloud-based HR management platform for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), has closed €6 million in Series A funding. Leading the round in the Berlin-based startup are Target Global, and Open Ocean Capital. Mapping Israel’s marketing technology industry
Marketing technology is in the midst of a worldwide boom. Given the expansion of the internet, social media and various other forms of digital technology, there are a growing number of ways to market products and services to consumers. Like all technological trends, the rapid expansion of marketing technology companies has made its way to Israel. Read More
Apple planning to release new 10.5-inch iPad Pro in 2017: report
Apple is reportedly planning to release a trio of new iPads in 2017, including a new size 10.5-inch iPad Pro and a "low-cost" 9.7-inch iPad. This is according to respected Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, whose latest predictions for the iPhone-maker were reported by MacRumors. Kuo also claims that "revolutionary" changes could be made to the iPad's design in 2018, with Apple perhaps integrating a flexible AMOLED display to offer "new selling points through radical form factor design and user behavior changes."
Here's Kuo on Apple's 2017 iPad line-up:
We expect three new iPads (12.9" iPad Pro 2, new size 10.5" iPad Pro & low-cost 9.7" iPad) to be launched in 2017, though this may not drive shipment growth amid structural headwinds; 2017F...
Sunday, August 14, 2016
A confluence of factors puts China at the financial technology (“fintech”) forefront: economic advancement, investor behavior, mobile technology, big data, financial industry liberalization, and regulatory acquiescence. Tim Cook gives lengthy interview to mark five years in charge of Apple
In an extensive interview with The Washington Post, Tim Cook has reflected on what will soon be five years since he took over from Steve Jobs as Apple CEO on August 24th, 2011. Although the interview doesn't stray too far from Apple's well-rehearsed talking points — don't expect the CEO to spill the beans on Apple's car or get into gritty details on the dilapidated Mac line, though he does say Apple is "doing a lot on" AR and views it as a "core technology" — it's a substantial read that gives a lot of insight into how Cook runs the company.
"The obvious things are we have more employees in the company," Cook says when asked what's changed since he took over. "The company is four times larger [by revenue since 2010]. We’ve broadened the...
After the correction comes The Conclusion
Winter came, and now it’s time for a season of shut downs, sell outs, and saving face. The circle of life includes the stage of death. That doesn’t mean these founders did anything wrong, just not quite enough right. Their experiments are coming to an end. Two years ago a bunch of startups raised two years of runway. An abundance of early capital had emerged. Angels and VCs… Read More
Killing technology innovation in the public markets
In 2004, Google finally went public in a long-awaited offering that lit the public markets on fire. But Google’s S-1 filing was probably as unusual as anything the technology markets had ever seen: The company promised to not deliver quarterly guidance to investors, and instead promised to invest over the long term to preserve the culture of innovation that the company so fiercely protected. Read More
Saturday, August 13, 2016
SpaceX succesfully launches another satellite, brings home another rocket
At 1:26am ET, SpaceX launched their Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral and, once again, recovered the first stage of that rocket on a drone ship floating in the ocean. More importantly, SpaceX successfully completed the primary mission of today’s launch by inserting their payload, the JCSAT-16 satellite, into Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO). First stage landing confirmed on… Read More
Friday, August 12, 2016
Scientists are closing in on turning hydrogen into a metal
Metallic hydrogen could be the room temperature superconductor we've been waiting for.
Saleswhale is a software platform to help sales teams run more efficiently
Hiring and training sales staff gets repetitive and, given the often high churn, it can be a real time suck. That’s why Saleswhale, a Singapore-based company that is part of Y Combinator’s current batch, has a platform to help automate a lot of the pain and make things more efficient. Read More
Microsoft starts testing Windows 10’s next major update
Microsoft released Windows 10's Anniversary Update last week, but it's already getting ready to unveil new features for its next major update. The software giant has started testing its "Redstone 2" update to Windows 10, with an initial build available for Windows Insiders testing public beta copies. The new update doesn't have any big new features for public testers yet, as Microsoft is in the early stages of making structural improvements to its OneCore shared code of Windows across PCs, tablets, phones, HoloLens, Xbox, and IoT.
The first few builds available for testing "may include more bugs and other issues that could be slightly more painful for some people to live" according to Windows software engineer Dona Sarkar. Microsoft has...
Thursday, August 11, 2016
TCP Flaw Opens Linux Systems to Hijackers
A flaw in the RCP 2159 specification the Internet Engineering Task Force developed to protect TCP against blind in-window attacks could threaten Android smartphones, as well as every Linux computer on the planet. The flaw is described in a paper a team of researchers presented at the 25th Usenix Security Symposium, ongoing in Austin, Texas, through Friday. The researchers are affiliated with the University of California at Riverside and the United States Army Research Laboratory.Russia Plays the Cybervictim Card
Russia's Federal Security Service, or FSB, recently reported that it found a cyberspying virus in the computer networks of more than 20 state authorities and defense contractors. The claim that malware has infected various government and defense companies, published last month by Russia's official TASS news agency, came in the midst of a flurry of accusations that Russia has engaged in cyberattacks against U.S. targets in an effort to impact the presidential election.DARPA Rewards Best Bug-Bombing Bots
The code warriors of the future literally might be computer code acting as warriors to defend against attackers on computer networks. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA, gave us a glimpse into that future last Sunday, when it announced the winners of its Cyber Grand Challenge at DEF CON. Seven teams participated in the challenge to create systems that used bots to find and fix software problems without human intervention. "Our mission is to change what's possible," said DARPA Director Arati Prabhakar.Wednesday, August 10, 2016
Reports: MacBook Pro Is Getting a Makeover
The long wait for a MacBook Pro refresh appears to be nearing an end, if the latest rumors are correct. The new MacBook Pros expected to launch this fall will feature a Touch ID power button and a touch-sensitive OLED strip that will replace the physical function keys on the keyboard, according to reports. The strip will bring up functions appropriate to the application that's in use. For example, it may display media playback controls when a user opens iTunes. It also might display editing commands when a word processing program is running.
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