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MyFitnessPal Makes It Easier To Order Healthily At Restaurants
I’m in Las Vegas for this whole week, which means two things. One, I hate myself. Two, I’m constantly out at restaurants, which makes it even harder than usual to eat healthily. MyFitnessPal, the popular nutrition and fitness app that was acquired by Under Armour last year, is unveiling a new feature today that should help. The app already allows you to log your meals at… Read More
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Snap, The 4K Flying Camera With Auto-Tracking, Is Ready For The Spotlight
Snap, a flying camera we first wrote about in September, is ready for the spotlight as it takes the stage today to compete in the TechCrunch Hardware Battlefield at CES. The device, made by Vantage Robotics, provides an alternative for those who want professional aerial shots but don’t want the hassle of controlling a cumbersome (and expensive) drone like the DJI Inspire. Read More
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Gilt’s Unicorn Tale Comes To An End After Being Acquired For $250M
Hudson’s Bay Company, the owner of department chain stores like Saks Fifth Avenue, said today it was acquiring Gilt Groupe for $250 million. The sale still represents a tough end to the story of Gilt. The startup was one of the original darling flash-sale sites coming out of New York. But that whole market has found itself challenged by slim operating margins, its initial popularity… Read More
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The EHang 184 Is A Human-Sized Drone Taking Off At CES
We’ve seen some pretty cool stuff at day 1 of CES 2016, but probably nothing more eye-catching than the EHang 184, a human-sized drone built by the Chinese UAV company EHang. Yes you heard right, a giant autonomous drone that fits a human. It’s basically what you would expect to see if someone shrunk you down the lego-size and stuck you next to a DJI Inspire. Except no one was… Read More
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10 Under 10-Years-Old
Watch a sad old man (age 25) interview the top pre-tween entrepreneurs in this hilarious video. Even though it’s a parody of the Forbes 30 Under 30, this is too real. “Even an 8-year-old could have regrets because there’s always going to be that 6-year-old inventor who speaks 7 languages” filmmaker Ankush Jindal from MasterClass tells me. Thanks for capturing everyone… Read More
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Uber Settles Privacy Probe With NY Attorney General’s Office, Pays $20K Fine
Uber has agreed to pay a $20,000 fine to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s office for failing to report unauthorized third-party access to its drivers’ personal information in timely manner, BuzzFeed reports. Schneiderman is expected to announce the settlement tomorrow morning, according to BuzzFeed.
This settlement comes after a 14-month investigation by… Read More
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FITGuard Is A Mouthguard That Detects The Severity Of A Blow To The Head
There are 3.8 million sports-related head injuries each year, and 47 percent of athletes do not report symptoms of their head injuries, whether out of lack of understanding or a need to feel tough. Indiegogo Now Wants Fortune 500 Companies To Create Pre-Order Campaigns
Indiegogo has historically been about helping the young and scrappy entrepreneur to put their idea out there and get some much-needed capital for a first production batch. The company is launching a brand new set of tools today dubbed ‘Enterprise Crowdfunding.’ This time, it’s all about the large well-established companies, and helping them make risky bets. Read More
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Foursquare Promises, Via A Poem, That It Does NOT Drain Your Battery
The location aware app Foursquare, and its check-in sidekick Swarm, seemingly kills my phone’s battery. I mean, whenever I get within a block of the TechCrunch office, it lets me know all of the wonderful places around me that I can grab a coffee or whatnot.
I even tweeted about how annoying the drain is:
Foursquare should pay for my iPhone battery pack.
— drew olanoff (@drew)… Read More
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Assist Has No App. It’s A Free Travel/Shopping Chat Bot For SMS And Facebook Messenger
You don’t care who delivers dinner or drives you home as long as it gets done fast. That’s the idea behind Assist, a chat bot that aggregates APIs to let you text to interact with GrubHub, Eat24, Postmates, Uber, Lyft, OpenTable, StubHub, and more. Just message Assist on Facebook Messenger, Slack, Telegram or even SMS and you get texted back a menu of options like “Get a… Read More
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