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Watch all six episodes of our series Trust Disrupted: Bitcoin and the Blockchain

Oct 15, 2:38PM

trust-disrupted Our latest video series explores the world of bitcoin and the blockchain, and you can now watch all six episodes on YouTube and TechCrunch.com. The series features Nathaniel Popper, a New York Times reporter and the author of the book on which the series is based, along with several bitcoin developers, influencers and scholars tracing the history of bitcoin and analyzing its future.… Read More



Let's have a little compassion for (some of) the trolls

Oct 15, 1:00PM

Internet Troll? It’s looking pretty grim out there in social media land. A lot of what once was conversation has devolved into warfare. The issues of our time — Trump, Brexit, identity politics, housing and homelessness, how to pronounce “GIF” — seem to divide us ever more starkly, and so we huddle within our filter bubbles, and/or lash out at those outside. It’s hard to… Read More



Firefox users chalk up HTTPS encryption milestone

Oct 15, 9:53AM

keys A majority of Mozilla users were served encrypted pageloads for the first time yesterday, meaning their web browsing data was secured from snoopers and hackers while in transit. Read More



While the IPO market roars back, venture remains leery

Oct 15, 3:00AM

New York Stock Exchange The IPO market is poised to make an almost complete 180° turnaround after a bleak Q1 and a very quiet summer. In contrast, venture capital investments, which had recalibrated alongside the IPO market in the second half of last year, have remained sedate, with a clear flight to quality; fewer rounds, for higher quality companies, with larger check sizes. Read More



Crunch Report | Galaxy Note 7 banned from all flights

Oct 15, 3:00AM

Salesforce walks away from a Twitter acquisition, SoftBank and Saudi Arabia public investment fund have formed a $100 billion fund, Zuckerberg is in search of someone to voice his AI, changes at Spotify are hinting of an upcoming IPO and Glaxy Note 7s are now banned from all flights by the Department of Transportation. All this on Crunch Report. Read More



WristWhirl lets you control your smartwatch with hand gestures (and look mad while you do it)

Oct 14, 11:16PM

wristwhirl1 It’s a funny thing: Smartwatches are supposed to be the more accessible alternative to your smartphone, but you can operate a phone with one hand, while the watch takes two. Luckily, Dartmouth researchers are on the case, and have engineered a way to use your wrist as a sort of joystick, allowing you to use your smartwatch one-handed. Read More



The future of cleantech in Indonesia

Oct 14, 11:00PM

Indonesia, Jakarta, View of city during sunset Indonesia presents unique challenges in the form of renewable energies, but currently lacks significant infrastructure capable of supporting such expansion, with its mobile-first economy only being able to provide so much support for structured growth. However, if capitalized correctly, Indonesia has the potential to harness clean technology into a vehicle for prosperity. Read More



Palantir says it didn't racially discriminate against Asian people

Oct 14, 10:43PM

Alexander Karp, chief executive officer and co-founder of Palantir Technologies Inc., walks the grounds after the morning sessions during the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, U.S., on Thursday, July 7, 2016. Billionaires, chief executive officers, and leaders from the technology, media, and finance industries gather this week at the Idaho mountain resort conference hosted by investment banking firm Allen & Co. Photographer: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg via Getty Images Palantir Technologies has come out and said that it did not discriminate against Asian people, Fortune reports. This comes after the U.S. Department of Labor sued the company for alleged racial discrimination against Asian people in its hiring and selection process. According to the DOL’s suit, Palantir allegedly used a hiring process that discriminated against Asian applicants for… Read More



Applications are open for Hardware Battlefield at CES

Oct 14, 9:54PM

Nima We’re back. Hardware Battlefield is TechCrunch’s premier hardware startup event and is returning to the world’s largest consumer electronic show. Applications are now open until November 3 at 9pm PT. Submit your application here to compete for free demo space at the Consumer Electronics Show, a $50,000 prize and the Metal Man trophy. Hardware Battlefield is part of… Read More



Salesforce's shift into equality

Oct 14, 9:45PM

Marc Benioff, chairman and chief executive officer of Salesforce.com Inc., left, speaks with Tony Prophet, vice president of Windows marketing at Microsoft Corp., during the DreamForce Conference in San Francisco, California, U.S., on Monday, Oct. 13, 2014. Salesforce.com Inc. is entering a new business, data analytics and business intelligence, seeking to maintain growth and persuade customers to pour more of their information into its data centers. Photographer: Noah Berger/Bloomberg via Getty Images It’s important for tech companies to have at least one voice at the senior leadership table that advocates for issues around equality, diversity and inclusion. Unfortunately, that’s just not the case for many companies in the tech industry. Salesforce, a company that said a year ago that a major focus for it was “the women’s issue,” recently became an… Read More



Five considerations about accelerated learning for the next administration

Oct 14, 9:00PM

Hacker writing code Our next president will take office during a period of seismic change across the education landscape. Policymakers, students and employers increasingly question the cost — and return — on a college degree, as a profusion of new pathways from education-to-employment emerge. Read More



Samsung's Galaxy TabPro S upgrade gets a spec bump under a new gold coat of paint

Oct 14, 8:38PM

wifi_w700_galaxy_tabpro_s_gd_ext_right_click_463255265_463255266_2908092-1024x746 There’s going to come a time when not every mention of Samsung will elicit some snarky comment about exploding smartphones. Now is not that time. And the Galaxy TabPro S Gold Edition is certainly not the product to serve as catalyst. In fact, it will probably be a little while before the company has an offering compelling enough to shift the public consciousness back to the next… Read More



U.S. Department of Transportation bans Galaxy Note 7 from all flights

Oct 14, 8:11PM

Samsung Galaxy Note 7 In the latest instalment of Samsung’s ongoing Note 7 saga, the U.S. Department of Transportation has issued an official, blanket ban against bringing the Galaxy Note 7 on airplanes. The ban applies to all Note 7 devices, and covers both carry-on and checked baggage, as well as prohibiting anyone from carrying the phone onto a plane on their person. The ban will go into effect… Read More



Flexible e-paper display is full color but less than a micrometer thick

Oct 14, 7:12PM

 Reflective displays like those found on e-readers are great for black-and-white text, but color has yet to make a compelling play on them. That may change with the serendipitous discovery of a full-color e-paper material that’s also flexible and power-efficient. Read More



Instacart reverses course, re-introducing tips for shoppers

Oct 14, 7:00PM

instacart-thumb Under pressure from shoppers complaining about losing the ability to receive tips last month as the company looked to smooth out the earnings curve, Instacart said it is re-introducing customer tipping. “After announcing this change, we heard a lot of feedback from our shopper community,” the company said in a blog post. “While our shoppers liked most of the changes, they did… Read More



Weekly Roundup: Galaxy Note 7 recalled, Amazon's music service and Verizon/Yahoo sale troubles

Oct 14, 6:24PM

marissa-mayer-writing Things were pretty bleak for tech companies this week as the Samsung Galaxy Note 7 was officially recalled and Yahoo’s securities woes reportedly drove Verizon to request a $1 billion discount on its pending acquisition. Here are the top stories from around the tech universe to get you up to speed. Read More



Salesforce officially walks away from Twitter acquisition for real this time

Oct 14, 6:14PM

marc-benioff2 Salesforce wants to make things super clear for everyone — no, the company won’t buy Twitter. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff gave an interview to the FT and said that the company ruled out the acquisition. “In this case we’ve walked away. It wasn’t the right fit for us,” Benioff told the FT. If you were looking for an official confirmation, it can’t get… Read More



Trust Disrupted: Bitcoin and the Blockchain episode 6 analyzes the future

Oct 14, 6:01PM

trust-disrupted The final episode of this six-part series explores the future implications of Bitcoin and blockchain technology. The episode describes the divide between Wall Street’s preferred closed use of the blockchain and Silicon Valley’s vision of an open system. Will the technology ever be integrated into our world’s mainstream economy? Whose vision will prevail, Wall Street or… Read More



Naspers sells Polish eBay rival Allegro to Permira consortium for $3.3B

Oct 14, 5:49PM

screen-shot-2016-10-14-at-1-47-05-pm Earlier this year, it was reported that Naspers, the media and internet holding company, was planning to sell off Allegro, its online auction business based in Poland, and today the deal finally came to pass. A consortium of private equity firms that includes Cinven, Permira and Mid Europa have bought the firm for $3.253 billion. The deal was made after earlier reports pegged eBay, Alibaba… Read More



PayPal mulled buying GoFundMe

Oct 14, 5:31PM

gofundme PayPal, the giant digital payments company that was spun off from eBay last year, has had an up-and-down relationship with the business of crowdfunding over the years, but there are some indications that this could change. We’ve been hearing that PayPal was interested in buying GoFundMe — the crowdfunding site that lets people raise money for both serious causes and lighter… Read More




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