Archivo del Autor: Belen De Leon

Daimler and Bosch create a driverless parking garage

 Daimler and Bosch teamed up to bring autonomous driving tech to one of the more annoying parts of driving – finding and parking a vehicle. Their automated valet system is debuting today at the parking garage for the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany, making it easy for vehicles to simple drive up, leave their vehicle, and trust the system to negotiate the multi-story parking… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Windows 10’s Fall Creators Update could be last that supports Microsoft Paint

Windows’ long-running artistic application, Microsoft Paint, is set to be deprecated in the upcoming Fall Creators Update for Windows 10, signalling that it will no longer be updated and may one day soon be killed off entirely.

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Source: Digital trends

BentoBox, the website builder for restauranteurs, cooks up $4.8M Series A

 Restaurant owners have a lot of responsibilities and a wide array of skills to handle those responsibilities. That said, building a website isn’t usually within that skill-set. That’s where BentoBox comes in. The company, which helps restaurant owners quickly build full-featured websites for their restaurants, has just closed a $4.8 million Series A funding round. The round was led… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

What It’s Like Living in the Land of Natural Disasters

Indonesia is a gorgeous archipelago of 13,700 islands. And home to 289 natural disasters a year.
Source: Wired

Australia’s Expert360 raises $10M for its freelance consultant marketplace

 Freelance workers and consultants make up a third of the US workforce, but that figure is expected to approach 40 per cent according to some studies. And we know how big the overall gig economy is going to become. Thus, marketplaces which meet that need are going to continue to grow. Hence, this is probably why Expert360, an online marketplace to access and manage freelance consultant talent… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Fairphone ends support for first repairable-by-design smartphone

 Fairphone, the European mobile phone maker and social enterprise that has made it its mission is to build and sell fairer smartphone hardware, has announced it is ending support for its first handset, the Fairphone 1.  Read More

Source: TechCrunch

KKR confirms it will buy WebMD for $2.8B in cash

 Some consolidation is afoot in the world on health-focused online media properties. Today, WebMD, one of the biggest sites in the world for health-related information — announced that it would be acquired by Internet Brands — the company that is controlled by KKR and owns a large portfolio of B2B and B2C websites in verticals like automotive, health, home, travel and legal —… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

Surfboard Shaper Danny Hess Makes Truly Gorgeous Wooden Boards

Hang for ten inside the woodshop of San Francisco shaper Danny Hess.
Source: Wired

Accountants, get worried — Rimilia raises $25m growth funding

 Currently large enterprises require large accounting teams to do what’s known as cash matching and credit collection. This is very manual stuff. Some of the ERP vendors (most notably SAP) have their own modules to do this, but in this world the big players are firms like Hanse Orga which is focused on Germany and the SAP ecosystem, and US players HighRadius and Billtrust. However, much… Read More

Source: TechCrunch

'Insecure' Returns With a Secret Weapon: Agility

The show’s second season acknowledges issues other shows might obsess over—but never gets bogged down.
Source: Wired