Archivo del Autor: Belen De Leon

One Night, the boutique last-minute hotel app, is expanding internationally to London

 One Night, the last-minute booking app for boutique hotels, is expanding internationally — starting today with London. One Night was created by Standard International, which is the parent company of Standard Hotels. Originally the company launched an app called One Night Standard, which was a way to get great deals on same-day bookings (starting at 3pm) at Standard properties. But… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Here's how your Uber is learning to drive – CNET

Behind the wheel of the ride-hailing company’s self-driving cars are “safety drivers,” they’re responsible for taking control in case anything happens.
Source: CNET

Get to know the CNET family: Q&A with Mitchell Chang – CNET

You can’t miss this CNET video producer in his multiple hats. Oh, and most importantly, he likes mustaches!
Source: CNET

Here are the free games you get with Daydream View – CNET

Google’s updated VR headset comes with $40 worth of games.
Source: CNET

Elon pushes back Tesla Semi unveiling to focus on Model 3 and Puerto Rico

 Back at the beginning of September, Elon Musk tweeted that the company would unveil its long rumored all-electric semi truck on October 26th. He noted that it was “tentatively” scheduled, leaving the door open for a date change if need be. Turns out that was a good call. Read More

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Benchmarks contradict ‘Apple slowed down my iPhone’ claims

 It’s a refrain we all hear every year around September: “I swear, whenever they release a new iPhone, Apple makes all the old ones run worse to make you upgrade.” But thousands of performance tests conducted over the years by Futuremark users show that the conspiracy is mostly in your mind. Read More

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Jony Ive on Jobs, creativity and why old cellphones sucked – CNET

What’s Apple’s design chief’s idea of a good time? Hanging out with chip designers. He also shares in a rare interview that he never met anyone who could focus like Steve Jobs.
Source: CNET

Pixel 2 supports 27W chargers, won't actually charge faster (update) – CNET

Ah well.
Source: CNET

Switch finishes up 22% in data center IPO

 Las Vegas-based data center operator, Switch, went public on the New York Stock Exchange today, under the ticker “SWCH.”
After pricing its IPO above the proposed range at $17, the company closed at $20.73, up almost 22%.  The company raised $531 million in its offering.
Here’s how Switch describes itself in its filing: “We believe we are a pioneer in the design… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Spiro raises $3M to build CRM tools for businesses that don’t like CRM

 Spiro aims to sell CRM software to businesses that have been avoiding traditional CRM products. CEO Adam Honig told me that he and his co-founders Andy Levi (CTO) and Justin Kao (vice president of growth) originally set out to build artificial intelligence products that could assist with CRM (i.e., the software that salespeople use to track their customers and deals). But then they started… Read More

Source: TechCrunch