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 Computer vision continues to find its way into all sorts of apps as the underlying tech powering convenience-oriented image searches. Latest — and it must be said late — to the party is fashion ecommerce player Asos, which has just added a visual search feature to its iOS app.  Read More from TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/10/asos-adds-search-by-photo-to-its-fashion-ecommerce-app/?ncid=rss via Camera Installers 2017

 SoftBank missed out on getting a piece of Flipkart when its deal to acquire Snapdeal, the e-commerce firm which SoftBank backed in 2015, fell apart last month, but the Japanese tech giant has finally got there. Flipkart today confirmed that SoftBank has invested in its business, via its $100 billion Vision Fund, as part of an extension to the $1.4 billion financing round which was announced… Read More from TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/10/softbank-flipkart/?ncid=rss via Camera Installers 2017

 Glint, a stealthy London fintech startup that promises a new “global currency,” has raised £3.1 million from a plethora of individual backers in the financial services and asset management space, alongside early-stage investor Bray Capital. Read More from TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/10/glint/?ncid=rss via Camera Installers 2017

 500 Startups continues to feel the impact of a sexual harassment scandal involving its co-founder and former managing partner Dave McClure. Two weeks after the closure of its Canada-based fund, its maiden venture in Australia is getting the chop before it even began. The U.S. firm doesn’t have a dedicated fund in Australia, but it did announce an accelerator program — 500… Read More from TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/10/australia-launchvic-500-startups-axed/?ncid=rss via Camera Installers 2017

 GM’s Maven car sharing company is expanding its Gig service across the U.S., with six new major urban markets to be added to the locations where the short-term rental service aimed at gig economy workers is available. Those include L.A., where it’s going live today, as well as Boston, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C. this fall, with Baltimore and Detroit to be added some time after… Read More from TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/10/maven-to-expand-on-demand-short-term-gig-rentals-to-6-more-u-s-cities/?ncid=rss via Camera Installers 2017

 Apple Music aficionados are already acquainted with an aggravating attribute of the app: when you plug your iPhone into your car, it automatically plays the first song in alphabetical order from your library. This gets old pretty quickly, but instead of deleting that song from your music (and then gradually going down the list like Arya Stark), you can now download a new track called “A a… Read More from TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/09/a-ha-a-track-that-ameliorates-an-apple-music-annoyance/?ncid=rss via Camera Installers 2017

 In a mind-boggling world first, a team of biologists and security researchers have successfully infected a computer with a into a strand of DNA. It sounds like science fiction, but it’s very real — although you probably don’t have to worry about this particular threat vector any time soon. That said, the possibilities suggested by this project are equally fascinating and… Read More from TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2017/08/09/malicous-code-written-into-dna-infects-the-computer-that-reads-it/?ncid=rss via Camera Installers 2017