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NBCUniversal will break the theatrical window to release ‘The Invisible Man’ and other movies on-demand – TechCrunch
NBCUniversal announced today that its movie studio Universal Pictures and specialty label Focus Features will be releasing their films in theaters and on-demand, simultaneously. In other words, it’s eliminating the theatrical window — the period between the time you can watch a movie in theaters and when you can watch in the comfort of your …
FDA allows new diagnostic technologies to test for coronavirus before receiving emergency approvals – TechCrunch
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said today that it would allow new diagnostics technologies to be used to test for the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, at elite academic hospitals and healthcare facilities around the country. The agency’s new initiative comes as critics have assailed various U.S. government agencies for being woefully underprepared to effectively address …
SparkLabs Group launches Connex, an accelerator program for smart city technology – TechCrunch
SparkLabs Group announced today that it has launched SparkLabs Connex, the latest program in its network of startup accelerators and venture funds. Focused on real estate technology (proptech) and the Internet of Things, SparkLabs Connex will tap into startup ecosystems in Silicon Valley, Seoul, Shenzhen, Taipei and Singapore. The program will support startups working with …
How do we connect a child to technology? – TechCrunch
The informal TechCrunch book club continues with Ted Chiang’s Dacey’s Patent Automatic Nanny We are now onto the fifth short story of nine in Ted Chiang’s collection Exhalations. This one is a very short one at only a couple of pages, but despite its brief length, it explores some of the most fundamental issues facing …
Dell sells RSA to consortium led by Symphony Technology Group for over $2B – TechCrunch
Dell Technologies announced today that it was selling legacy security firm RSA for $2.075 billion to a consortium of investors led by Symphony Technology Group. Other investors include Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board and AlpInvest Partners. RSA came to Dell when it bought EMC for $67 billion in 2015. EMC bought the company in 2006 …
Scape Technologies, the London-based computer vision startup, has been acquired by Facebook – TechCrunch
Scape Technologies, the London-based computer vision startup working on location accuracy beyond the capabilities of GPS, has been acquired by Facebook, according to a regulatory filing. Full terms of the deal remain as yet unknown, although a Companies House update reveals that Facebook Inc. now has majority control of the company (more than 75%). However …
Microsoft takes wraps off $40M ‘AI for Health’ initiative – TechCrunch
When the topics of Microsoft and global health overlap, one tends to think about the Gates Foundation, but the company itself is doing good work along these lines as well. The latest such effort is AI for Health, an $40M, five year outgrowth of Microsoft’s AI for Good program that aims to help apply the …
Technology is anthropology – TechCrunch
The interesting thing about the technology business is that, most of the time, it’s not the technology that matters. What matters is how people react to it, and what new social norms they form. This is especially true in today’s era, well past the midpoint of the deployment age of smartphones and the Internet. People …
In Los Angeles, the Women’s March embraces technology to organize and inspire – TechCrunch
The roughly 300,000 marchers that filled the streets of downtown Los Angeles for the third annual Women’s March received more than just an opportunity to hear from some of the state’s high powered politicians, they were also part of a new experiment from local March organizers in bringing technology into the movement. Using an organizational …
This startup is raising $7 million for a technology that can authenticate people based on their typing style – TechCrunch
TypingDNA, a four-year-old startup that was founded in Bucharest, Romania and more recently moved its headquarters to Brooklyn, New York, looks to be raising $7 million in funding for something interesting: AI-driven technology that it says can recognize people based on the way they type, both on their laptops and mobile devices. A new SEC …
