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 A new tracking system rolled out to Pokemon Go players tonight, but most people outside of San Francisco don’t have it yet. Here’s what it looks like in action. Read More

 There was once a time when Uber’s big advantage over the competition was being integrated into Google Maps. That’s long passed now, however. Earlier this year, Google added a slew of non-Uber options to Maps — and that now includes Grab and Go-Jek in Southeast Asia. Read More

Walmart buys Jet.com for $3 billion, the Wilson X Connected Football is a $200 Internet of things football, new rules for vaping are in effect today, Pokemon Go crosses $200 million revenue in one month, Bitfinex is going to distribute its losses from getting hacked among all users. All this on Crunch Report Read More

 It’s an open secret that the Internet of Things (if we must call it so) is pretty terrible, whether in standards, interoperability or security. Good security, though, you don’t really expect in a smart light bulb or coffee maker. A smart front door lock, however, really shouldn’t be quite this easy to hack. Read More

 Sorry purists: New players of classic NES games on the upcoming micro NES Classic Edition system from Nintendo won’t have to rely on barbaric codes that recall progress, or single session playthroughs to beat games. Speaking with French language radio show La Terrasse ÉNERGIE (via IGN), Nintendo of Canada comms person Julie Gagnon told listeners that the console will provide players… Read More

 To say there are a lot of molecules out there is kind of an understatement. So searching for one or two in particular is like looking for a needle in a galaxy-spanning haystack. Fortunately, the science of machine learning and the irrepressible need for humans to swipe left and right on things make the search a lot easier, as Harvard and MIT researchers have found. Read More

 Rumors have been flying for over a week that Rackspace was for sale, but today instead of the whole kit and kaboodle, the company announced it was selling its Cloud Sites web hosting unit to Liquid Web. The fact that Liquid Web is itself a cloud web hosting company would seem to make the two a perfect match, allowing the company to expand its business through acquisition. The two… Read More

 A year ago, startup valuations hit a 12-year peak as the numbers of companies joining the billion-dollar-plus club soared. Today, those numbers are looking far more run of the mill. So suggests a new survey published by law firm Fenwick & West, which analyzed the venture financings of 195 Silicon Valley-based companies over the second quarter to draw its conclusions. Among the… Read More

 Rumors have been flying for over a week that Rackspace was for sale, but today instead of the whole kit and kaboodle, the company announced it was selling its Cloud Sites web hosting unit to Liquid Web. The fact that Liquid Web is itself a cloud web hosting company would seem to make the two a perfect match, allowing the company to expand its business through acquisition. The two… Read More

 Ever since the acquisition of the first “Ag Unicorn,” a flood of new digital agriculture startups has been trying to turn investor interest into market traction. Bayer’s recent $62 billion bid to buy Monsanto to create a global agrochemical giant and China National Chemical’s proposed $43 billion acquisition of Syngenta show that the big ag players are hungry for growth… Read More

 The White House (led by United States Chief Information Officer Tony Scott) has been pretty vocal about using technology to improve how government operates. They want to make sure code helps, not hurts, government agencies, and that the U.S. government can use technology just as effectively as a private company can. In March the White House issued a blog post detailing their intentions to… Read More

 Nonprofit groups and NGOs are now invited to apply for exhibit space in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt SF on Monday, September 12 or Tuesday, September 13. TechCrunch’s diversity program Include serves as a platform to provide startup and tech access for underrepresented groups. This year, we are formalizing the inclusion of Nonprofits and NGOs in line with the Include mission… Read More

 GM is putting its Cruise acquisition to good use in Arizona: The self-driving car startup acquired by the automaker in March is trialling its tech on public roads in Scottsdale. Cruise tweeted about the autonomous testing expansion, which uses Chevrolet Bolt all-electric vehicles, and which adds to the core fleet of testing vehicles already operating in San Francisco. We’re testing… Read More

 Twilio, exceeded revenue expectations in Q2 earnings released today after the bell. Immediately share prices increased in after-hours trading before falling back to the market closing price. The cloud-communications company reported revenue of $64.5 million and a loss per share of $0.08. Twilio beat revenue by over 10 percent. Analysts had expected a loss of $0.14 per share on revenue… Read More

 Seriously, go. Enjoy yourself. It’s Monday. We’ll still be here when you get back. It’s bound to be a long week. The world is coming apart at the seams. Your boss won’t notice if you play a round or two of Bubble Bobble from the comfort of your own browser (Firefox seems to work best on my end). We can’t vouch for the quality of all of the Amiga titles that… Read More

 We’re about to enter an era of true drone magic. With smarter systems, better materials and powerful cameras we’re gaining access to a world once only available to Estes rocketeers and jet pilots. Nowhere is that more clear than with the Yuneec Typhoon H, a camera platform that is also a drone that is also incredibly fun to fly. Read More

 Come to TechCrunch’s Disrupt SF conference to hear how your company can win at and adapt to the Facebook News Feed. We’ll have Facebook’s VP of Product Management for News Feed Adam Mosseri about what gets seen and what doesn’t, and how to take capitalize on its frequent algorithm changes. Mosseri has been working on News Feed since 2008 and now he runs it. When… Read More

 Or at least, in terms of my appreciation of the memories they represent, that’s what it feels like. That’s why I was excited enough about the Fujifilm Share Instax SP-2 to go out and grab one as soon as it showed up in stock at my local camera shop. The SP-2 is a Wi-Fi picture printer, a device that harkens back to the glory days of Polaroid by giving you a pocket-sized,… Read More

 French startup Whyd started off as a social network for music lovers. Going forward, the company is going to focus on releasing a connected speaker. For existing users, the social network isn’t going away. Whyd is open-sourcing it and still hosting it at Openwhyd.org. Launched in 2012, Whyd has been looking at ways to improve music discoverability. The social network let you bookmark… Read More

 VR in the 90s? Computers with gears? TechCrunch brings you five of the coolest retro gadgets and gizmos from this weekend’s Vintage Computer Festival West XI at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California. Read More