Daily Archives: December 8, 2020

A third-party contacts app you’re not using may be handing out your home address to its users. In November, former Yahoo CEO and Google veteran Marissa Mayer and co-founder Enrique Muñoz Torres introduced their newly rebranded startup Sunshine, and its first product, Sunshine Contacts. The new iOS app offers to organize your address book by […]

Sunshine Contacts may have given out your home address, even ...

This entry was posted in Apps Mobile privacy on December 8, 2020 by Sarah Perez

Apple’s ‘One More Thing’ for 2020: A Pair of $549 ...

This entry was posted in audio Gear on December 8, 2020 by Lauren Goode

Richard Socher, former chief scientist at Salesforce, who helped build the Einstein artificial intelligence platform, is taking on a new challenge — and it’s a doozy. Socher wants to fix consumer search and today he announced you.com, a new search engine to take on the mighty Google. “We are building you.com. You can already go […]

Former Salesforce chief scientist announces new search engine to take ...

This entry was posted in artificial intelligence Marc Benioff privacy Social Startups TC and tagged google on December 8, 2020 by Ron Miller

Snap today announced a new 2021 fund of $3.5 million that will be directed toward supporting Snapchat Lens creators and developers who are using the company’s Lens Studio tool to explore the use of AR technologies. The news kicked off Snap’s multi-day virtual event, Lens Fest, where it also announced an upgraded version of its […]

Snap announces $3.5M fund directed toward AR Lens creation

This entry was posted in Apps AR augmented reality machine learning Social and tagged snapchat on December 8, 2020 by Sarah Perez

Snap announces $3.5M fund directed toward AR Lens creation

This entry was posted in Apps AR augmented reality machine learning Social and tagged snapchat on December 8, 2020 by Sarah Perez

Buzzy face-swap video app Reface, which lends users celebrity ‘superpowers’ by turning their selfies into “eerily realistic” famous video clips at the tap of a button, has caught the attention of Andreessen Horowitz. The Silicon Valley venture firm leads a $5.5 million seed round in the deep tech entertainment startup, announced today. Reface tells us […]

Reface grabs $5.5M seed led by A16z to stoke its ...

This entry was posted in Andreessen Horowitz Apps artificial intelligence Fundings & Exits machine learning Social social apps TC on December 8, 2020 by Natasha Lomas

Here are the WIRED science team's top new picks for this winter.

The 8 Best Science Books to Read or Gift This ...

This entry was posted on December 8, 2020 by Wired Staff

A new VR app called Arthur allows you and your distant colleagues to collaborate within a 3D meeting space—as long as you all have headsets handy.

VR Meetings Are Weird, but They Beat Our Current Reality

This entry was posted in Gear Virtual reality on December 8, 2020 by Lauren Goode

Round of applause for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism — which fought for two years to obtain details of a closed door meeting between Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and the UK secretary of state in charge of digital issues at the time, Matt Hancock (now health secretary). Freedom of information requests for minutes of the 2018 […]