Category: Tech news

 After a short limited preview, Google today announced the public beta of its Cloud Vision API — a service that allows developers to easily build image recognition and classification features into their applications. Google’s technology do basic things like extracting text from images, but its real power is in actually recognizing the objects in an image. This is the same… Read More

 If you’ve ever found peering over a friend’s shoulder as they browse their Instagram more interesting than swiping through your own, or you simply want to know what today’s greatest minds waste their time viewing on the Facebook-owned photo sharing service (e.g. hmm, Musk likes NASA and nudes?), then a new app called “Being” should be your next download. The idea… Read More

 As the fortunes of billion-dollar companies like Evernote have fizzled, however, so has their shareholders’ enthusiasm. Says the cofounder of one secondary shop who asked not to be named, “We aren’t seeing huge discounts yet in the top 10 names, but people are trying to dump them. It’s not just one person calling you about a particular company. It’s four.”… Read More

 The data science team over at home-sharing platform Airbnb was able to increase the overall ratio of female employees on its team from 15 percent to 30 percent in 2015, with 47 percent of its new hires being women. That didn’t happen by accident. After scaling its team in terms of hyper-growth over five years, Airbnb’s data science team found that only 10 percent of the new hires… Read More

 The lead poisoning of the entire city of Flint, Michigan was preventable and should never have happened. Numerous pundits and industry experts have said this. Most of them, however, explain that if government had functioned properly, the environmental agencies would have properly communicated to their higher-ups and the problem would have been spotted much sooner. Those with a more cynical… Read More

At $179, the Klipsch Reference X6i is the least expensive of the company’s newest line of in-ear headphones.

The post Review: Klipsch Reference X6i appeared first on WIRED.

Truly wireless headphones are here. Can you hear me now?

The post Review: Bragi Dash appeared first on WIRED.

 Kimono Labs, a Y Combinator-backed web-scraping tool that helps developers grab information from sites without having to write their own scrapers, has been acquired by Palantir. The company made the announcement on its website today and Kimono co-founder Pratap Ranade confirmed the acquisition to TechCrunch. Neither Palantir nor Kimono disclosed any financial details of the transaction,… Read More

 Last year was another groundbreaking period of the mobile revolution. Overall app usage grew by 58 percent, driven largely by personalization, media and productivity apps. What’s interesting is the majority of this growth came from existing users, providing that mobile addicts –users that launch apps more than 60 times a day– are here to stay. Read More

 Tesla and Radio Flyer — yep, the company best known for the little red wagon that parents all over the U.S. use to drag their kids around their neighborhoods — are about to launch a little electric Model S for kids.

The $499 Model S for Kids is now available for pre-order and is scheduled to ship in May.
Like any good Tesla, the Model S for Kids is obviously powered by batteries. Read More

 We’re about a week out from Mobile World Congress, the big trade show where just about everyone-but-Apple traditionally shows off their new flagship phones for the next year. More often than not, the biggest MWC announcements leak out a bit earlier than intended… and sure enough, it looks like Samsung’s stuff has leaked pretty exhaustively. Read More

 Are those the hoverboards we are looking for? Read More

 Following TC’s article last November reporting on Arielle Zuckerberg’s entrance into the world of venture with Kleiner Perkins, we thought it would be fascinating to check in with her to see how her first 6 months in venture has been. Read More

 “The next big thing will start out looking like a toy.” At least according to A16Z partner Chris Dixon. He used the phrase to explain why incumbents often confuse new, disruptive threats to their businesses with trivial gimmicks. But what if the next big thing doesn’t just look like a toy, but actually is one? Read More

 Digital music service TIDAL climbed to the top of the App Store, thanks to scoring the exclusive rights to Kanye West’s new album, “The Life of Pablo” – but that release hasn’t exactly been going as planned. Twitter today is filled with complaints from consumers who claimed they paid for the album, but never received the download. TechCrunch staff has experienced… Read More