Top Stories of the Day // April 30, 2017

Tempow turns your dumb Bluetooth speakers into a connected sound system | Your next computer could be in a data center | Snapchat is stifled by its un-algorithmic feed | Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey | Giant companies that won’t buy your startup | Middle East startups are growing fast, and that’s even before the flying taxis arrive | Tech and politics clash in Cameroon as government restores internet |

THE DAILY CRUNCH SUNDAY, APRIL 30 2017 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Romain Dillet Tempow turns your dumb Bluetooth speakers into a connected sound system Meet Tempow, a French startup that can make your Bluetooth speakers more versatile. The company has been working on a new implementation of the Bluetooth... Read More… Romain Dillet Your next computer could be in a data center Most of the apps on your phone already rely on a server component to store and process your data. When you post a video on Facebook, it gets re-encoded into... Read More… Josh Constine Snapchat is stifled by its un-algorithmic feed Snapchat invented its best products by being the anti-Facebook. Its disappearing chats made visual communication quick and casual compared to Facebook's... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT TechCrunch Introducing TC Sessions: Justice TechCrunch is gearing up to host a one-day event focused on diversity and inclusion in tech, the criminal justice system, and activism. TechCrunch Sessions: Justice will bring together tech leaders, engineers, investors, educators, and activists engaged in a conversation with the startup community around the responsibilities to promote justice and equality in today's business world and society at large. Learn More Jonathan Shieber Wikipedia has been blocked in Turkey Wikipedia, the online user-generated encyclopedia, has been blocked by the Turkish government. News of the blockage was first reported by the website Turkey... Read More… Joanna Glasner Giant companies that won’t buy your startup Huge companies in fast-changing, technology-intensive businesses buy startups. After all, they have the money and need fresh entrepreneurial talent to tap new... Read More… Mike Butcher Middle East startups are growing fast, and that’s even before the flying taxis arrive The flight from Tehran to Dubai is about two hours, similar to the flight from New York to Chicago. The flight from Cairo to Beirut is one hour and 15 minutes.... Read More… Jake Bright Tech and politics clash in Cameroon as government restores internet The government of Cameroon ended its internet blackout of parts of the country last week, according to news reports and confirmation from the country's... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Software Developer (Back End) at F. Schumacher & Co. (New York, NY, United States) Senior Software Engineer @ Scoop at Scoop Technologies, Inc (San Francisco, CA, United States) Senior Full-Stack Developer at Radix Health (Atlanta, GA, United States) Senior Full Stack Software Engineer @ Way2B1 at Way2B1 (San Francisco, CA, United States) Test Engineer @ Way2B1 at Way2B1 (San Francisco, CA, United States) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month View this email online in your browser If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2017 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service

                                                           

Top Stories of the Day // April 29, 2017

Amazon is shutting down its ‘Underground Actually Free’ program that gives away free Android apps | Watch how Elon Musk’s Boring Company tunnels will move cars faster | Yik Yak shuts down after Square paid $1 million for its engineers | How GE avoided Kodak’s fate | Elon Musk teases Tesla electric semi truck, up to 4 new Gigafactory locations | Someone scraped 40,000 Tinder selfies to make a facial dataset for AI experiments | Tumblr just added a switch in the iOS Settings that lets you turn the porn back on |

THE DAILY CRUNCH SATURDAY, APRIL 29 2017 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Sarah Perez Amazon is shutting down its ‘Underground Actually Free’ program that gives away free Android apps Amazon announced it will be shutting down its "Underground Actually Free" program, which offers customers free versions of Android apps that would typically... Read More… Darrell Etherington Watch how Elon Musk’s Boring Company tunnels will move cars faster Just what does Elon Musk’s Boring Company want to accomplish? This might be our clearest picture yet – a video shown during Musk’s TEDTalk... Read More… Lora Kolodny Yik Yak shuts down after Square paid $1 million for its engineers Yik Yak co-founders Tyler Droll and Brooks Buffington published a farewell note to users on Friday, announcing they would shut down their once-popular anonymous... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT TechCrunch Techcrunch Talks Robotics In Beantown This July TechCrunch is holding TC Sessions: Robotics, a single-day event designed to facilitate in-depth conversation and networking with the technologists, researchers and students of the robotics community as well as the founders and investors bringing innovation to the masses. Sign up today. Learn More Ron Miller How GE avoided Kodak’s fate George Eastman founded Kodak in 1888 in Rochester, New York. Four years later and 200 miles down the road, Thomas Edison and some pals founded General Electric.... Read More… Darrell Etherington Elon Musk teases Tesla electric semi truck, up to 4 new Gigafactory locations Elon Musk was on stage at the 2017 TED Conference in Vancouver on Friday, and he revealed some of his tunnel work and aspirations, but he also talked about a... Read More… Natasha Lomas Someone scraped 40,000 Tinder selfies to make a facial dataset for AI experiments Tinder users have many motives for uploading their likeness to the dating app. But contributing a facial biometric to a downloadable data set for training... Read More… Sarah Perez Tumblr just added a switch in the iOS Settings that lets you turn the porn back on Here’s an interesting change: Tumblr’s iOS application just received an update which now lets you turn on or off adult-oriented, NSFW search... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Software Developer (Back End) at F. Schumacher & Co. (New York, NY, United States) Senior Software Engineer @ Scoop at Scoop Technologies, Inc (San Francisco, CA, United States) Senior Full-Stack Developer at Radix Health (Atlanta, GA, United States) Senior Full Stack Software Engineer @ Way2B1 at Way2B1 (San Francisco, CA, United States) Test Engineer @ Way2B1 at Way2B1 (San Francisco, CA, United States) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month View this email online in your browser If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2017 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service