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Prosecutors find that 'Fappening' celebrity nudes leak was not Apple's fault
Mar 16, 2:38AM
Hacker Ryan Collins pleaded guilty to stealing a number of nude photos — including images of Jennifer Lawrence — from Apple’s servers, after getting snared by the FBI. In the process of the trial, it became clear that the hack didn’t involve Apple’s services being compromised through brute-forcing or password cracking, but rather that they were the result of… Read MoreApple: "Government misunderstands the technology" involved in demanding they decrypt an iPhone
Mar 16, 12:04AM
On March 22nd, Apple and the FBI will head to federal court to determine whether or not the government can force Apple to open up an otherwise deeply-encrypted iPhone used by terrorist Syed Rizwan Farook leading up to the San Bernardino shootings. The lead up to the hearing has been an unending game of back-and-forth between Apple and the government, and Apple has just lobbed the ball back to… Read MoreYour mobile phone bill is sparking an edtech renaissance
Mar 16, 12:00AM
Have you ever noticed that 90 cent charge at the bottom of your phone bill? Little did you know, that is the key to fueling a renaissance in education technology. Read MoreInstaRem raises $5M to make overseas money transfers cheaper and faster in Asia
Mar 16, 12:00AM
InstaRem, an international remittance payments startup headquartered in Singapore, has raised $5 million in a round led by Vertex Ventures. Read MoreMobile portfolio app takes Moo beyond business cards
Mar 15, 11:03PM
As a creative, you’re most likely to get hired for a job off the back of your portfolio of past clients and work. Aimed squarely at this market, Moo — the company better known for their business cards — launched Monogram, a free app helping make portfolios more portable. Using the app, you can create a series of themed portfolios showing off what you do. Read MoreFaraday Future gets its first patent
Mar 15, 10:08PM
Faraday Future has its first U.S. patent in hand for a smaller, more powerful inverter. So it’s definitely not as sexy as the Batmobile-like concept car the company brought to its splashy debut at CES 2016, but it is arguably more useful. Read MoreInstagram is switching its feed from chronological to best posts first
Mar 15, 9:38PM
The average Instagram user misses 70 percent of what’s in their feed, including great photos with tons of Likes and posts by their best friends. So today Instagram announced it will start rearranging the order of posts in its feed. Rather than strictly reverse chronological, Instagram will order posts “based on the likelihood you’ll be interested in the content, your… Read MoreStar Wars Battlefront is coming exclusively to PlayStation VR
Mar 15, 9:27PM
More Star Wars force is coming to virtual reality. At today’s PlayStation VR press event, Sony CEO Andrew House teased onstage that PlayStation will be partnering with EA to bring about my (and everyone else’s) fantasy of Star Wars Battlefront in virtual reality. Read MorePlayStation VR Will Arrive in October for $399
Mar 15, 9:08PM
Sony took to the stage today during GDC 2016 in SF to show off the consumer-ready version of its PlayStation VR headset. A good deal was already known about the company’s first foray into console virtual reality, except for a couple key ones: price and availability. Read MoreFormer Squarespace employee alleges "overt" racism
Mar 15, 8:57PM
Accounts of racism, sexism and discrimination are unfortunately way too common in the tech industry. The latest comes from Amélie Lamont, a black woman and former employee at website creation company Squarespace, who was fired after slapping a co-worker at a bar. Lamont was a customer care supervisor at Squarespace from September 2011 through February 2014. Squarespace, founded in 2004,… Read More10 ideas that won't be on the next president's tech agenda but should be
Mar 15, 8:30PM
Campaign season should be more than just stump speeches; it’s a chance for us to evaluate how our future leader will handle the many tech opportunities and challenges ahead. In the absence of a clear vision from any of the candidates, we’ve laid out a tech agenda that could help us prepare for the dramatic technological advancements we’ll see during this next… Read MoreIn pursuit of empathetic machines
Mar 15, 8:00PM
The universal reaction to Atlas, the newly upgraded next-generation humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics (a company owned by Alphabet), was lots of empathy. Unmindful of being punched, pushed and teased, it focused on finishing tasks in a demo video. People who watched the video responded with comments like “stop bullying” and “say no to bullying.” Read MoreThis new Star Wars virtual reality experiment looks beautiful and insane
Mar 15, 6:53PM
Around June of last year, Lucasfilm and its usual cohorts — Industrial Light and Magic, Skywalker Sound — announced they were banding together to form the ILM Experience Lab, or ILMxLab. The new team would focus largely on figuring out how to translate the Star Wars universe into something magical in virtual reality. The team’s latest project, Trials on Tatooine, a VR… Read MoreDraft U.K. surveillance powers bill takes more flak at second reading
Mar 15, 6:52PM
Proposed new UK surveillance powers are getting a second reading in parliament today, as the government seeks to update and extend the law in this area before the end of the year. Read MoreSmart savings app Clinc is a new fintech startup from ex-CEO and founder of Numbrs
Mar 15, 6:43PM
Last April, Julien Arnold quietly left his role as CEO of Numbrs, the mobile-first banking app he co-founded with Swiss company builder Centralway. Now, almost a year on, he’s on the verge of launching his next project: Clinc, a mobile app to make it easier to save money for a future purchase or financial rainy day. Read MoreGoogle launches HTTPS Transparency Report, says over 75% of requests to its servers are now encrypted
Mar 15, 6:18PM
Google today added a new section to its Transparency Report that focuses on the use of encryption on Google’s own sites and across the web. The company says over 75 percent of requests to its own servers are now using encrypted connections (though traffic to YouTube is not included in this report). Read MoreDashlane hires former Fab.com and Makespace CFO David Lapter
Mar 15, 5:26PM
David Lapter, formerly of Fab.com and MakeSpace, is moving on to Dashlane to serve as chief financial officer. Dashlane is a password management service that helps users keep track of their passwords, as well as helping with safe online transactions through a Dashlane digital wallet. Read MoreCheck out the new AI-powered TechCrunch news bot on Telegram messenger
Mar 15, 5:25PM
We’re excited to announce the launch of our first artificial intelligence-powered news bot on the encrypted messaging platform Telegram. We teamed up with Chatfuel to build the bot, and after a month of development we’re thrilled to show it off to the world. If you are already on Telegram, you can check out the bot by following this link (or search for “techcrunchbot”… Read MorePriority Cycles' latest Kickstarter is the Coast, a rust-proof surf bike
Mar 15, 5:16PM
This past week I made it my mission to see what was going on in downtown Manhattan. A well-timed email here, a hastily caught train there, and I found myself at the headquarters of Priority Cycles — a NYC-based bicycle startup that got its wheels on Kickstarter back in 2014. Read MoreGoogle puts presidential campaign finance information and more directly in search
Mar 15, 5:03PM
Just in time for “Mega Tuesday,” Google has rolled out new features to Google Search that will allow you to better track the primaries and learn more about the candidates. One new addition provides easy-to-understand campaign finance information, so you can see things like which percentage of funds come from SuperPACs versus individuals, or which industries are more heavily backing… Read MoreIf at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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