head News of 08/21/19

Ikea Doubles Down On Smart Home Tech With New Business Unit

Ikea’s smart home investments to date have been smart but scattered – now the Swedish home goods brand says it’s going to amp up its smart home bets with a brand new dedicated business unit. The company’s smart home endeavors ...

Adobe’S Amit Ahuja Will Be Talking Customer Experience At TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise

As companies collect increasingly large amounts of data about customers, the end game is about improving the customer experience. It’s a term we’re hearing a lot of these days, and we are going to be discussing that very topic with ...

The Headphone Jack Dies Not With A Bang, But A Note

Next month marks three years since Apple unceremoniously murdered the headphone jack. Courage. The company was roundly mocked for its own hype, and the intervening product cycles have been marked by several companies proudly showcasing their staunch ...

Capital One’S Breach Was Inevitable, Because We Did Nothing After Equifax

Another day, another massive data breach. This time it’s the financial giant and credit card issuer Capital One , which revealed on Monday a credit file breach affecting 100 million Americans and 6 million Canadians. Consumers and small ...

Google Cloud’S Run Rate Is Now Over $8b

It’s been a while since Google last shared any fundamental financial data about its cloud business. In today’s earnings call, though, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who recently installed former Oracle exec Thomas Kurian as the new head of ...

New THC And CBD Infused Beverage Company, Cann, Joins The Race To Replace Booze

New THC and CBD infused beverage company, Cann, joins the race to replace booze image Cann , a Los Angeles-based purveyor of CBD and THC-infused intoxicants, is rolling out its first major distribution through the venture-backed delivery service Eaze as it begins to hit the streets in California. The company founded by two former ...

Sony WF-1000XM3 Wireless Earbuds Review

Sony WF-1000XM3 wireless earbuds review image I would have had a review of the WF-1000XM3s up sooner, but they arrived while I was traveling. That was a bummer for two reasons. First and most obviously is the fact that I hate being late with a review. Second and more selfishly, I really wanted ...

Heat Waves Bring Record-Breaking Temperatures On A Geological Scale

Heat waves bring record-breaking temperatures on a geological scale image From Alaska to Europe, the world has spent the past few weeks roasting under temperatures never before seen in recorded history. In Alaska, all-time-high record temperatures were set across the state on July 4th, according to the National Weather ...

AR Headsets Promise New Enterprise Productivity, But Can The Startups Building Them Survive?

AR headsets promise new enterprise productivity, but can the startups building them survive? image Just as the Bluetooth headset ushered in an era of hands-free calling, AR startups are trying to convince manufacturing startups that AR headsets will bring new efficiencies with hands-free computing. As Magic Leap and Microsoft have dropped ...

A Boston Startup Developing A Nuclear Fusion Reactor Just Got A Roughly $50 Million Boost

After twenty five years of research, scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology think that they have finally cracked the code for the commercialization for nuclear fusion reactions. Commonwealth Fusion Systems is the fruit of that ...

Here Is BMW’S New Electric Motorcycle Concept

Here is BMW’s new electric motorcycle concept image BMW has a long history of building motorcycles, but it hasn’t done all that well in the electric motorcycle department . Clearly, though, this is something the company is thinking hard about and today, at its inaugural NextGen event, the ...

Norrsken Opens East Africa Startup Fund And Hub In Kigali

Startups in East Africa have a new source for investment and mentorship. Sweden’s Norrsken Foundation —a coworking space and investment fund based in Stockholm — opened its tech fund and entrepreneurship hub in Rwanda today to support ...

Some Sage Security Advice After Radiohead’S Unreleased Music Hack

Bad news: Radiohead was hacked. Last week, a hacker stole the band’s lead singer Thom Yorke’s private minidisk archive from the band’s third album and subsequent major worldwide hit, OK Computer . The hacker demanded for ...

Colombian Point-Of-Sale Lender ADDI Nabs $12.5 Million From Andreessen Horowitz

Andreessen Horowitz <3 Latin American startups. Latin America is the only region outside of the U.S. where the venture firm is routinely investing capital and it has just made another commitment, doubling down on its early stage support for the ...

Sennheiser Debuts Its First Wireless Gaming Headset, The GSP 670

Sennheiser debuts its first wireless gaming headset, the GSP 670 image During Computex last week, Sennheiser gave media a sneak peek at its first wireless gaming headset, the GSP 670 , slated to ship starting at the beginning of next month. The GSP 670 retails for €349 (about $393), significantly pricier then ...

Zynga Launches Battle Royale Game As A Snap Games Exclusive

Zynga launches battle royale game as a Snap Games exclusive image Zynga the casual games developer which once rode Facebook’s platform to popularity and riches is now turning its attention to Snap for growth. Today, the gaming company is launching its new battle royale game, Tiny Royale, exclusively on ...

Oppo And Xiaomi Tease Under-Screen Selfie Cameras For Smartphones

Oppo and Xiaomi tease under-screen selfie cameras for smartphones image The next innovation in mobile is peeking its head for all to see today after Chinese companies Oppo and Xiaomi both showed off under-screen cameras. Apple’s notch set the ball rolling as a new way to pack a front-facing camera without ...

Medivis Gets FDA Approval For Its Augmented Reality Surgical Planning Toolkit

Augmented reality is coming to the operating room theater sooner than anyone may have predicted. Medivis , which launched its product suite earlier this year , has now received approvals from the Food and Drug Administration and will begin ...

Bose Previews Voice Controlled On-Ear Headphones And A Pair Of Wireless Earbuds

Bose just announced a trio of new headphones today. The company used the opportunity to primarily focus on the dryly named Noise Cancelling Headphones 700, which purport to sport “the biggest leap forward in headphones since the iconic ...

These Johns Hopkins Students Are Slashing Breast Cancer Biopsy Costs

These Johns Hopkins students are slashing breast cancer biopsy costs image Over 2 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018 . And while the diagnosis doesn’t have to be a death sentence for women in countries like the United States, in developing countries three times as many women die from the disease. ...