A big step for self-driving cars. It's The Daily Crunch.

THE DAILY CRUNCH TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27 2018 By Anthony Ha California takes another step towards our self-driving future, Rakuten embraces crypto and we round up the big announcements from Mobile World Congress. All that and more in The Daily Crunch for February 27, 2018. 1. California to allow testing of self-driving cars without a driver present Until now, California's DMV only allowed companies to test autonomous vehicles if there was a trained safety driver behind the wheel. Now they've also added rules for fully driverless tests — another step towards commercial deployment. The new rules go into effect on April 2. [caption id="attachment_1553784" align="aligncenter" width="680"] Image: Just_Super/Getty Images[/caption] 2. Rakuten will roll its $9B loyalty program into a new blockchain-based cryptocurrency, Rakuten Coin The Japanese e-commerce company is planning a new cryptocurrency called Rakuten Coin — built on blockchain technology and the company's existing loyalty program, Rakuten Super Points. The goal is to encourage loyalty services globally and to help customers to buy goods across different Rakuten services and markets. Sponsored By: Pipedrive Need a flexible CRM tool? We have something for everyone Kickass teams come in all shapes and sizes. That's why our CRM is designed to adapt to you and not the other way around. Find out which one of our plans will make you unstoppable by trying any of them out for 14 days free. Start your free trial now! Learn More… 3. Rating the big smartphone makers at MWC 2018 Mobile World Congress is still underway in Barcelona, but all of the big names have already wrapped up their press conferences. Brian Heater breaks down the winners and losers. 4. Google's Flutter app SDK for iOS and Android is now in beta Flutter is Google's open source toolkit for helping developers build iOS and Android apps. It's not necessarily a household name yet, but it's also less than a year old. (Also, do open source toolkits generally become household names? I'm just asking.) 5. Industrious picks up $80M to outclass WeWork for the enterprise Industrious pitches itself as a more premium version of WeWork, offering coworking space and workplace services to some 35 locations across 25 cities nationwide. 6. Cellebrite may have found a way to unlock iPhones running iOS 11 This is a cat-and-mouse game, and Apple engineers are presumably working hard to fix all the vulnerabilities they can find. As always, if you don't want to let authorities read your personal data, you should keep your devices up-to-date. 7. 'Wolverine: The Long Night' director talks podcasts and superheroes "What does an audio fight scene look like?" Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Program Specialist, California Office at CTA (Palo Alto, CA, USA) Marketing Manager, Subscription Products at TechCrunch (San Francisco) Software Engineer - Professional Services at DialogTech (300 West Adams Street, Chicago IL ) Data Analyst at American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (Washington, DC, USA) Software Engineer (Automotive Simulation) at Mechanical Simulation (Ann Arbor, MI, 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 © 2018 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service

                                                           

Samsung's Galaxy S9 revealed. It's The Daily Crunch.

THE DAILY CRUNCH MONDAY, FEBRUARY 26 2018 By Darrell Etherington Samsung's Animoji competitor is hella weird, CBS goes for broke in sports streaming and Apple mulls over-the-ear AirPods. It's the Daily Crunch for February 26, 2018. 1. Samsung's new flagship is pretty similar to its last one Samsung's Galaxy S9 flagship smartphone looks a lot like its predecessors. Its bezels are a very tiny amount smaller, and there's a more powerful camera on board (with a second lens for the S9+) but otherwise this is clearly a building year between major redesigns. So what do you get with the newest device? Again, it's mostly camera improvements – I got a chance to take a look at all those up close and personal early, and there's some great stuff, along with some very weird. 2. CBS launches 24 hour streaming sports network The switch from broadcast TV to streaming isn't going to happen with a bang, but with a slow gradual migration. This new channel barely registers, but it's a key step along the route. Sponsored By: TechCrunch Discover TechCrunch Sessions Robotics May 11 Join TechCrunch at UC Berkeley on May 11 for TC Sessions: Robotics for a full day of all things robots, AI, and more! Learn from top thought leaders, join dive-deep workshops, and network with today's makers and shakers. Seating is limited. Buy your tickets today! Learn More… 3. Apple's next audio product might be over-ear headphones Apple already makes AirPods-style over-ear headphones, you may be saying. But these would be different – like premium, high-quality audio different. Or something. 4. BMW wants your smartphone to be your key Tesla already does this with the Model 3, but like you can count on two hands how many people actually own the Model 3 (who aren't employees or investors). BMW wants to make its electric cars similarly smartphone operated. 5. Sony's new Xperia flagship can capture 4K videos in HDR Yes, the new Sony phone can record HDR video, which is great for playing it back on Sony's lineup of impressive HDR-enabled TVs. Now that's product line synergy. 6. Black Panther had a moment in Oakland and TC was there This is the greatest movie. Ever. 7. Nokia's Matrix phone is back Let's rise up and destroy our smartphones and return to a simpler time... when some of us seriously suspected we were living as meat batteries in a computer simulation run by ruling robots. Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Sales & Proposal Specialist at PSF Mechanical, Inc. (Seattle, WA) Field Services Engineer at Haivision Network Video (New York, NY, USA) Equipment Service Analyst (Contract) at DWFritz (Wilsonville, OR, United States) Senior Server Engineer at ProsperWorks (San Francisco, CA, USA) Principal Software Engineer (Backend) at CBRE (Seattle, WA, USA) 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 © 2018 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service