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Committed to privacy, Snips founder wants to take on Alexa and Google, with blockchain – TechCrunch Earlier this year we saw the headlines of how the users of popular voice assistants like Alexa and Siri and continue to face issues when their private data is compromised, or even sent to …

Framer X design tool steps in the ring with InVision, Adobe, and Sketch – TechCrunch Design tools are becoming increasingly important to just about every brand out there. Today, a new entrant joins the race. Framer X, a revamped version of three-year-old Framer, was founded by Koen Bok and Jorn …

Mabl announces $20 million Series B to bring automated QA to enterprise customers – TechCrunch Mabl, a Boston-based startup from the folks who brought you Stackdriver, wants to change software testing using machine learning, and today it announced a $20 million Series B investment led by GV (formerly Google Ventures). …

Microsoft acquires Lobe, a drag-and-drop AI tool – TechCrunch Microsoft today announced that is has acquired Lobe, a startup that lets you build machine learning models with the help of a simple drag and drop interface. Microsoft plans to use Lobe, which only launched into beta earlier this year, to …

Facebook unveils “SapFix” AI auto-debugger and AI chip partners like Intel – TechCrunch Facebook has quietly built and deployed an artificial intelligence programming tool called SapFix that scans code, automatically identifies bugs, tests different patches, and suggests the best ones that engineers can choose to implement. Revealed today at Facebook’s …

Nvidia launches the Tesla T4, its fastest data center inferencing platform yet – TechCrunch Nvidia today announced its new GPU for machine learning and inferencing in the data center. The new Tesla T4 GPUs (where the ‘T’ stands for Nvidia’s new Turing architecture) are the successors to the current batch …

Twilio’s contact center products just got more analytical with Ytica acquisition – TechCrunch Twilio, a company best known for supplying a communications APIs for developers has a product called Twilio Flex for building sophisticated customer service applications on top of Twilio’s APIs. Today, it announced it was acquiring Ytica (pronounced …

Anaxi brings more visibility to the development process – TechCrunch Anaxi‘s mission is to bring more transparency to the software development process. The tool, which is now live for iOS, with web and Android versions planned for the near future, connects to GitHub to give you actionable insights about the …

What makes Apple’s design culture so special – TechCrunch A few days ago, I interviewed Ken Kocienda at TechCrunch Disrupt SF — he just released a book called Creative Selection. After working at Apple during some of the company’s best years, Kocienda looks back at what makes Apple such a …

New Relic shifts with changing monitoring landscape – TechCrunch New Relic CEO Lew Cirne was feeling a bit nostalgic last week when he called to discuss the announcements for the company’s FutureStack conference taking place tomorrow in San Francisco. It had been 10 years since he first spoke to TechCrunch about …