Top Stories of the Day // February 29, 2016

Raspberry Pi 3 Launches — 50% Faster, With Wi-Fi, Bluetooth And An Eye On IoT | Researchers Create Matrix-Like Instant Learning Through Brain Stimulation | Mobile Companies Are Just Getting Started | Snapchat Employee Data Leaks Out Following Phishing Attack | Google Maps Brings Its “Add A Pit Stop” Feature To iOS | Microsoft Launches Pre-Orders For $3,000 HoloLens Development Kit, Will Start Shipping March 30 | Souq, Amazon Of The Middle East, Raises $275M From Tiger And More At A $1B Valuation |

DAILY MONDAY, FEBRUARY 29 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Natasha Lomas Raspberry Pi 3 Launches — 50% Faster, With Wi-Fi, Bluetooth And An Eye On IoT A major new Raspberry Pi microprocessor has been announced today: the Pi 3 Model B board becomes the new top-of-the-line Pi, with a 64bit 1.2GHz quad-core... Read More… John Biggs Researchers Create Matrix-Like Instant Learning Through Brain Stimulation You know Kung-Fu. Researchers at HRL Laboratories have discovered that when you use transcranial direct current stimulation to send the brain activity of... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-Off Coming To New York TOMORROW Join us for beer, good conversation, and a battle to the death on March 1, 2016 to see which entrepreneurs can dazzle and excite the judges in under sixty seconds. Be sure to get your tickets now! Learn More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Michael Jones Mobile Companies Are Just Getting Started It takes a much heartier stomach to jump into the startup game now than it did a year ago. Zenefits recently became the latest unicorn to face devaluation after... Read More… Jon Russell Snapchat Employee Data Leaks Out Following Phishing Attack Snapchat is famous for its disappearing messages, but not everything is ephemeral. Today the company disclosed that a number of its current and former employees... Read More… Sarah Perez Google Maps Brings Its “Add A Pit Stop” Feature To iOS Last fall, Google announced the addition of a long-requested feature to Google Maps, which allowed users to – finally! – add a stop along their... Read More… Frederic Lardinois Microsoft Launches Pre-Orders For $3,000 HoloLens Development Kit, Will Start Shipping March 30 When Microsoft first announced HoloLens, its mixed-reality hardware platform, many of us assumed it was little more than a cool demo that was meant to stir up... Read More… Ingrid Lunden Souq, Amazon Of The Middle East, Raises $275M From Tiger And More At A $1B Valuation E-commerce giants with ambitions to build regional Amazon rivals in emerging markets continue to rake in huge amounts of funding. Today, comes the latest... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Frontend Engineer, Blueshift Posted: February 26 Systems/Network Analyst 2 , University of New Mexico Posted: February 26 Technical Support Representative, Sterling Payment Technologies Posted: February 25 SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service