The LA Times has reported that Verizon has announced that it will no longer impose data restrictions on first responders on the West Coast and in Hawaii. The news comes in the wake of a massive backlash generated by the announcement that Verizon had been throttling the data of firefighters from the Santa Clara County Fire Department.…
Instagram has never truly failed at anything, but judging by modest initial view counts, IGTV could get stuck with a reputation as an abandoned theater if the company isn’t careful. It’s no flop, but the long-form video hub certainly isn’t an instant hit like Instagram Stories. Two months after that launched in 2016, Instagram was…
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Global unicorn exits hit multi-year high in 2018 Boston-area startups are on pace to overtake NYC venture totals Whatever criteria we look at, whether it’s schools with the highest number of well-capitalized founders, highest funding totals or even where startup investors went to college, the same names top…
If you’re not sure about watching a whole movie where your point-of-view is limited to computer and smartphone screens, you’re not alone — “Searching” filmmakers Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian told me they had very similar reservations. Chaganty said that when the pair was first approached by Timur Bekmambetov’s Bazelevs (the production company behind the…
It’s not been a great week for cell carriers. EE was hit with two security bugs and T-Mobile admitted a data breach. Now, Sprint is the latest phone giant to admit a security lapse, TechCrunch has learned. Using two sets of weak, easy-to-guess usernames and passwords, a security researcher accessed an internal Sprint staff portal. Because…
What’s next for robotics? At at Disrupt SF, we’ll be joined by four experts to discuss how new technologies are changing the field. Those experts include Peter Barrett, founder and CTO and Playground, a venture fund and design studio focused on hardware startups. Barrett is a 30-year veteran of the tech industry, whose accomplishments include…
Apple has launched an update to its Apple Watch operating system, WatchOS 4.0. The update brings an intelligent Siri watch face, along with better activity tracking and updates to the Music app, among other things. The post WatchOS 4.0: Everything you need to know appeared first on Digital Trends. Source link Shiv EswarShiv has over…
UK startup Skyports is investing in London rooftop spaces with a view to building a drone infrastructure network. Company bosses hope their ‘vertiports’ will become as ubiquitous in urban centres as dedicated bicycle storage and car parking spaces. That vision relies on the promise of drone technology becoming a widespread reality in London: for urban…
A month after announcing its $55 million Series C, Japanese fintech startup Paidy has snagged a strategic investment from payment giant Visa. Paidy didn’t disclose how much Visa put into its business, which has raised over $80 million to date, but it did say that it will work with the credit card giant to develop “new…
From refrigerators with tech built into the door to ovens designed with the “sensible rich” in mind, we got a closer look at how LG Appliances designed and built their LG Signature line of fridges, washing machines, dryers, ovens, and air purifiers. The post How LG built its Signature appliances to solve problems you didn’t…
