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Summit Wireless has been a quest to turn high-resolution, like the kind you find in a fancy home theater, to wireless speakers. And now that quest is turning into a reality as high-end audio companies like Harman Kardan are beginning to announce products. San Jose, California-based Summit Wireless is a publicly traded company that makes […]
It’s Lyft’s turn to help you get to an event on time, and with a minimum of legwork at that. The ridesharing firm has forged a deal with SeatGeek to help you book rides to (and from) live events in both companies’ apps. You can not only book a Lyft ride through SeatGeek’s app, but […]
Enlarge (credit: Pete) When the Spectre and Meltdown attacks were disclosed earlier this year, the initial exploits required an attacker to be able to run code of their choosing on a victim system. This made browsers vulnerable, as suitably crafted JavaScript could be used to perform Spectre attacks. Cloud hosts were susceptible, too. But outside […]
Enlarge MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF.—Google is launching a new version of its augmented reality platform for Android, ARCore 1.2. Version 1.2 adds support for wall detection, launching an AR experience via image recognition, a new “Sceneform” framework, and a “Cloud Anchors” feature that enables shared experiences not just across Android devices—it works on top of iOS’ ARKit, […]
The Assistant SDK is the key to enabling Google’s AI helper in third-party devices. It’s a big deal, then, that it’s now available in more corners of the world. Google has expanded the developer toolkit’s support to several new countries, including Australia, Canada (both English and French), Germany, Japan and the UK. While Assistant-enabled devices […]
Anthony Harvey/Getty Images for TechCrunch Coinbase said Tuesday evening users wouldn’t be able to buy and sell bitcoin cash four hours after it said trading of the cryptocurrency would be enabled on its platforms. CEO Brian Armstrong said the company is looking into whether employees tried to profit from advanced knowledge of the news. Bitcoin […]
Enlarge Google has posted the second developer preview of Android 8.1. This release brings a “near final” build of Android 8.1 to the Pixel 2 and 2 XL, the Pixel 1 and 1 XL, the Pixel C tablet, and the Nexus 6P and 5X. The first Android 8.1 Preview, which launched last month, was a bit of […]
GUEST: The creation and rise of cryptocurrencies can be tied directly to the 2008 financial crisis. Released in 2009, Bitcoin and its underlying blockchain technology was viewed, and marketed, as a way to stabilize the rampant culture of speculation that plagued Wall Street, particularly with derivative and bundled offerings. But what has taken hold in […]
This article is part of a series of responses to Alex Tizon’s Atlantic article “My Family’s Slave.” The full series can be found here. In “My Family’s Slave,” the devastating cover story in The Atlantic’s June issue, the late, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Alex Tizon recounts the life of Eudocia “Lola” Pulido, a Filipino immigrant who […]
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