Top Stories of the Day // August 23, 2015

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Skin Cancer Checker App, SkinVision, Snags $3.4M To Move Beyond Moles | Meet Joelle Emerson, The Startup CEO Helping Slack, Pinterest And Airbnb Tackle Diversity | How The Digital Economy Can Help End Extreme Poverty | Money And Politics: Bitcoin’s Governance Crisis | The Future For Artists And Celebrities (And YouTubers) Is Direct Intimacy | Hands-On With Ford’s Sync 3 | Tapping Into The Emotional Internet |

DAILY SUNDAY, AUGUST 23 2015 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE Skin Cancer Checker App, SkinVision, Snags $3.4M To Move Beyond Moles Can an app warn you that you might have skin cancer? Digital health startup SkinVision is using smartphone tech and vision algorithms to allow consumers to... Read More… Meet Joelle Emerson, The Startup CEO Helping Slack, Pinterest And Airbnb Tackle Diversity Diversity in the tech industry is dismal, with white men making up the vast majority of its workforce. That being said, tech companies are aware of the lack... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT KPCB's John Doerr Is Coming To Disrupt SF John Doerr joined the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers 25 years ago, but it didn't take him nearly so long to cement his status as a legend in the industry. It's a special and rare appearance and we hope you will be there with us! Learn More… CRUNCH NETWORK How The Digital Economy Can Help End Extreme Poverty When I was in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia recently as part of the U.S. government's delegation to the Third International Conference on Financing for Development, I... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK Money And Politics: Bitcoin’s Governance Crisis A lot of intriguing and conflicting things have been said about Bitcoin in the past few years. Some see it as the salvation of the financial system, others as a... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK The Future For Artists And Celebrities (And YouTubers) Is Direct Intimacy The most-watched Game of Thrones episode ever, this past season's finale, had 8.11 million viewers. Meanwhile, Pentatonix, a musical a capella group on... Read More… Hands-On With Ford’s Sync 3 Ford was one of the first major car manufacturers to bring connected car technology to its lineup with Sync in 2007, but while the first iterations of its Sync... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK Tapping Into The Emotional Internet Wearables currently decipher physiological biometrics -- heart rate, pulse, caloric intake. But in the coming years, we'll see emotion-sensing wearable... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  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 © 2015 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service