Jumat, 30 Juni 2017

Musk's underground car mover makes an appearance. It's The Daily Crunch.

THE DAILY CRUNCH
FRIDAY, JUNE 30 2017 By Darrell Etherington

Tesla's CEO goes on another Twitter tear, macOS High Sierra enters public beta and Zillow steps back from a dangerous ledge. All that and more in The Daily Crunch for June 30, 2017. Get your weekend shoes on.

1. Musk's carlevator is coming along

Elon Musk is building an elevator over the July 4 holiday – one that will be used to move cars and other transportation means below ground for his ambitious tunnel transport network project.

The CEO said that his 'vator should be ready to operate next week, at least in demo form, so that's pretty cool. This weird tunnel side project is getting more serious all the time.

2. Meanwhile Tesla Model 3 news incoming...

In case you're bored with Boring, Musk also promised some Model 3 news from Tesla coming this Sunday. We should hopefully find out when the first deliveries are arriving, which will also get us our first official look at the final design, and hopefully, configuration options.

3. High Sierra's highlights

MacOS's High Sierra update is available in public beta, and it looks like a good update for the Mac operating system. It's mostly about improving on existing features, rather than doling out new ones, but it seems like a solid improvement.

4. Zillow quashes conflict with McMansion Hell

Zillow won no fans by sending a threatening legal letter to McMansion Hell, and it stepped back once the EFF jumped to the blogger's defense. She's agreed not to use their images in future, but that's more because she's nice than because of any actual legal obligation not to.

5. Netflix to provide on-demand closure for Sense8 fans

Sense8, one of Netflix's biggest budget originals, got canceled after Season 2. But it's coming back for one final two-hour episode to wrap things up neatly, after fans clamored for closure. That's a lot more than TV fans usually get.

6. The iPhone's evolution

The iPhone just turned 10, and its popularity is a testament to its ongoing improvements. Devin has a look at its defining upgrades across generations, painting a picture of what Apple saw as most important to its biggest customers.

7. Facebook's internet drone takes to the skies once again

Facebook's huge, internet-beaming Aquila drone took flight for its second test run, and this time, it landed without any major incidents (although it still has to work out some bugs with those propellers). Looks good for FB's plan to blanket the world in accessible internet.

Drones and more are on tap for discussion at TechCrunch's upcoming TC Sessions on robotics, which is taking place July 17 in Boston. Get tickets here:
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E-Commerce Minute

E-Commerce Minute: Friday -- June 30, 2017

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VA Gives Thumbs Up to Commercial IT Software
4 Marketing Strategies That Can Boost B2B Sales: Study
Will Record Fine Cramp Google's Style in Europe?
Petya Ransomware Sinks Global Businesses Into Chaos
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VA Gives Thumbs Up to Commercial IT Software
A Veterans Affairs decision to pursue a new direction in processing
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vastly improve federal IT management. The sheer size of the VA makes the
decision to use an outside contractor noteworthy.
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4 Marketing Strategies That Can Boost B2B Sales: Study
Four business marketing strategies can boost business-to-business sales
conversion rates by up to 25 percentage points, based on results of a
survey Altman Vilandrie released this week. However, only 15 percent of
businesses fully take advantage of them. Even those that do use the
strategies sometimes fail to maximize sales conversions because of a
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Will Record Fine Cramp Google's Style in Europe?
The European Commission has walloped Google unit with a record $2.7
billion for giving its own shopping comparison site preference above
smaller competitors, and thus abusing its dominant position as a search
engine. Google must end the conduct within 90 days or face penalties of
5 percent of its average daily global revenue, the EC said. Google
expressed disagreement with the EC's findings.
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Petya Ransomware Sinks Global Businesses Into Chaos
A new ransomware exploit dubbed "Petya" struck major companies and
infrastructure sites this week, following last month's WannaCry
ransomware attack, which struck more than 300,000 computers worldwide.
Petya is believed to be linked to the same set of hacking tools as
WannaCry. Petya already has impacted a Ukrainian international airport
and shut down radiation monitoring systems at Chernobyl.
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SugarCRM Launches Hint, 1st in Relationship Intelligence Line
SugarCRM has launched Hint, the first in its new line of relationship
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a person with whom they want to connect, and Hint automatically will
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Kamis, 29 Juni 2017

Tech News Flash

Tech News Flash: Thursday -- June 29, 2017

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At 10, the World-Changing iPhone Is Kind of the Same
Google Makes It Easier to Create Virtual Reality Videos
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The United States of Amazon
Rivals Rev Up as Uber Hits the Skids

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mobile phone category after its unveiling.
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Google Makes It Easier to Create Virtual Reality Videos
Google has introduced a new video format, VR180, developed with input
from its Daydream team. The VR180 format, which displays what's in front
of the user only, delivers good video quality both on desktop PCs and
mobile devices. While VR180 videos appear in 2D on desktops and mobile
devices, they appear in 3D VR when viewed with Cardboard, Google's
Daydream headset or a PlayStation VR headset.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84635.html

Cyberattackers Kick Down a Few Parliament Email Doors
The United Kingdom's Parliament on Monday reported a cyberattack on its
email system over the weekend, when hackers attempted to access user
accounts without authorization. Due to the "robust measures" in place to
protect the legislative body's accounts and networks, fewer than 1
percent of the 9,000 accounts on the network were compromised, officials
said. Accounts that were compromised reportedly had weak passwords.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84640.html

Xinix Offers Linux Lovers a Path to Zen
Xinix is an innovative newcomer to the world of Linux distros. Now in
beta, this distro has been spearheaded by a single developer who slowly
is bringing other programmers on board to move things along. Despite its
early development status, Xinix has potential for Linux fans who like to
experiment with new platform concepts and do not mind trying out an OS
that is not yet fully functional.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/84641.html

The United States of Amazon
Amazon's significant expansion into yet another market -- this time,
grocery stores -- dominated many of my conversations last week. Clearly,
Amazon warned us. I've been here before -- back in the 1990s, when
Amazon was just books, I was running the company's e-commerce unit. I
got into an argument with one of the analysts focused on Amazon, who
believed the company wouldn't go beyond books.
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Rivals Rev Up as Uber Hits the Skids
As Uber reels from the fallout of a sexual harassment scandal that led
to this week's ouster of Travis Kalanick and several of his top
executives, the company faces twin dilemmas: how to clean up its
corporate work environment and restock its executive ranks; and how to
maintain credibility with its customer base and core team of street
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Uber's driverless trucks show signs of life. It's The Daily Crunch.

THE DAILY CRUNCH
THURSDAY, JUNE 29 2017 By Darrell Etherington

Uber's self-driving truck tech gets an update amid its various crises, Google tries some experimental VR advertising and Echo Dot suggests cheap and easy is the key to the smart speaker market.

1. Uber's autonomous trucking program rolls on

Uber may be in the middle of a lawsuit regarding its acquisition of Otto, the autonomous trucking startup founded by a former Google self-driving car engineer, but it's still pushing forward on self-driving truck tech. The company just started deploying its second-generation autonomous truck tech stack on test vehicles.

The new tech includes an advanced spinning LiDAR unit – but not one developed in-house, which is the subject being debated by the courts right now. This is an off-the-shelf unit, likely Velodyne's top-of-the-line spinning array. Uber ATG also took all the Otto branding off the trucks, which makes sense since Uber retired the name last month.

2. Meanwhile, Uber says no knowledge of Waymo data theft

That court case isn't going away, however; Uber and Waymo are still trading filings in the matter, and the most recent is a filing from Uber that claims it wasn't aware of any data theft by Levandowski or others prior to the lawsuit being filed.

3. Google's VR advertising project is probably premature

I remain very skeptical about the potential of VR in the near-term, but it's probably still smart for companies like Google to put down a big bet on advertising in the new medium. Even just as a hedge, something like its Advr project makes a lot of sense.

4. Amazon's Echo Dot leads the way on smart speakers

This is potentially bad news for Apple's forthcoming HomePod: Adobe data shows the Amazon Echo Dot leading the way for smart speaker sales. Overall the market isn't huge, but it seems like consumers are favoring affordability over sound quality, which is the exact opposite bet Apple is making with its product, set to launch this coming December.

5. Microsoft buys Cloudyn

Microsoft has officially announced its acquisition of Israel's Cloudyn, a company that unifies management of cloud billing across multiple accounts. TechCrunch first reported the deal was going down in April.

6. Instagram is fighting trolls with AI

Comment sections are generally swamps (that's why I like doing a newsletter). Instagram wants to help preserve its reputation as one of the nicer corners of the Internet by fighting hurtful, mean or harassing comments with an AI system that will automatically remove them (without telling the original poster).

7. Binary Capital sued by ex-employee

Binary Capital, which is now all but defunct after a series of steppings down and resignations following revelations around partner Justin Caldbeck's bad behavior, is now also being sued. The suit, from a former employee, alleges that the firm harbored a "sexist and sexual" working environment.
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