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Google expands snippets to answer more questions right in the search results
Mar 02, 3:56PM
For years, Google’s “featured snippets” have offered quick answers to users’ search queries by pulling information from web pages and placing it in a box above the search results. This week, Google began rolling out a new snippet experience for web searchers with multiple answers to the question posed in the search box – something that addresses the problem of… Read MoreMIT study shows how much driving for Uber or Lyft sucks
Mar 02, 3:45PM
Ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft are delivering pitiful levels of take-home pay to the hundreds of thousands of US independent contractors providing their own vehicles and driving skills to deliver the core service, according to an MIT CEEPR study examining the economics of the two app platforms. The report catalyses the debate about conditions for workers on gig economy platforms, and… Read MoreeBay joins Amazon in battle with Wish with launch of an 'Under $10' storefront
Mar 02, 3:03PM
The popularity of low-cost online deals, like those found on Wish, led Amazon in January to launch an “under $10” selection of products that ship for free. This week, eBay is following suit. The company announced on Thursday a new “under $10” shopping destination of its own, also with the perk of having items ship for free. The selection includes fashion, tech,… Read MoreRylo brings its cool little 360 camera to the world of Android
Mar 02, 3:00PM
Rylo is a powerful little 360 camera that tries to keep its 360-degree features in the background most of the time; the real goal of the company is to rethink the camera so that you end up deciding how to frame the perfect photo or video after you’ve already grabbed the footage. The startup’s camera has been iOS-only since it launched last year, but today the company’s app… Read MoreAlibaba rival JD.com posts first annual profit as a public company
Mar 02, 2:53PM
When you hear ‘e-commerce in China’ you’ll probably ‘Alibaba,’ but another company is making progress to challenge the assumption that $450-billion company is China’s only online retail giant. JD.com, the nearest e-commerce competitor to Alibaba in China, has reported its first year of profitability as a public company. The Beijing-headquartered company… Read MoreSnap reportedly working on new Spectacles, including two-camera version
Mar 02, 2:49PM
Snap, Inc. calls itself a “camera company” so it shouldn’t be all that surprising that it’s working on new versions of its Spectacles hardware (especially since we reported just that last June). But a new report from Cheddar has surprised some with news that Snap is working on a refresh of their hardware´set to launch later this year, as well as a two-camera version… Read MoreEquity podcast: Spotify's anti-IPO, Dropbox is going public, Amazon's $1B doorbell, and more money for DoorDash
Mar 02, 2:10PM
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. We had the full crew on hand this week with Matthew Lynley, Katie Roof, and myself, along with Mar Hershenson from Pear Ventures who stepped into the guest chair. It was a damn busy week, with news raining down from the skies. We had to pick the best, so… Read MoreToyota creates a new advanced research company fo focus on self-driving
Mar 02, 2:07PM
Toyota has an existing think tank, research organization and long-term development wing courtesy of Toyota Research Institute (TRI), but now it’s expanding TRI with a new sub-company of its own: Toyota Research Institute-Advanced Development (TRI-AD), which I have to assume was so named just so they could have the really cool acronym. The new company will elevate TRI CTO James Kuffner… Read MoreMaven brings its Maven Gig service for on-demand economy workers to Austin
Mar 02, 1:06PM
Maven has launched its Maven Gig offering in Austin, just ahead of SXSW when there will probably be a fair amount of ride-hailing and on-demand food delivery activity. Maven Gig is the arm of GM’s Maven mobility brand that caters specifically to gig economy workers, with cars available to freelancers who drive only occasionally, and only essentially to offer ride-hailing services via… Read MoreUK and Australian governments now use Have I Been Pwned
Mar 02, 12:38PM
Troy Hunt is turning Have I Been Pwned into an essential pwning monitoring service. The service monitors security breaches and password leaks so that you and your users remain secure. And now, the U.K. and Australian governments are monitoring their own domain names using the service. Most people are familiar with the consumer-facing version of Have I Been Pwned. You go on Have I Been… Read MoreAngry Birds maker Rovio misses Q4 on sales of €73.9M, EPS of €0.10, closes London studio
Mar 02, 11:23AM
Gaming and entertainment company Rovio continues to have a very hard time of it as it faces the music on the waning popularity of its once-might Angry Birds franchise. Today, the Helsinki-based company reported Q4 and full-year financials that fell short of analysts’ most conservative estimates as it blamed lower-than-expected interest in its new slate of games. The company also… Read MoreSocial media handed "one-hour rule" for terrorist takedowns in Europe
Mar 02, 11:18AM
The European Commission is still considering whether to regulate social media platforms to ensure they promptly remove illegal content — be it terrorist propaganda, child sexual exploitation or hate speech but also commercial scams and even copyright breaches. Read MoreThe Samsung Galaxy S9+ camera bumps the Pixel 2 for DxOMark's top spot
Mar 02, 10:48AM
You know the drill, right? A new flagship comes out and bumps the last big name out of the top spot. We’re still a couple of weeks out from the Samsung Galaxy S9/S9+ release date, but the premium handset just got the DxOMark treatment, and it seems the company’s got another feather to put in its flagship’s cap. The site posted a 99 for the S9+, edging out the Pixel 2’s… Read MoreGoogle's Song Maker experiment makes making songs easy
Mar 02, 10:43AM
Google has added a new instrument to its Chrome Music Lab: Song Maker. As the name implies, Song Maker is all about making songs. It’s essentially an easy to use sequencer that lets you draw melodies in the browser (though it doesn’t feature some of the automation in the Music Lab’s Melody Maker tool). It’s no FL Studio, but it’s fun and you get to choose between… Read MoreThe world's largest DDoS attack took GitHub offline for less than ten minutes
Mar 02, 8:07AM
In a growing sign of the increased sophistication of both cyber attacks and defenses, GitHub has revealed that it weathered the largest-known DDoS attack in history this week. DDoS — or distributed denial of service in full — is a cyber attack that aims to bring websites and web-based services down by bombarding them with so much traffic that their services and infrastructure… Read MoreBGF Ventures leads ticket search engine TickX's £3M Series A
Mar 02, 7:00AM
TickX, a U.K., Manchester-based startup that has developed a search engine and discovery platform for events and other “attractions” tickets, has raised £3 million in Series A funding. Read MoreGoogle's new YouTube Stories feature lets you swap out your background (no green screen required)
Mar 02, 1:56AM
Google researchers know how much people like to trick others into thinking they’re on the moon, or that it’s night instead of day, and other fun shenanigans only possible if you happen to be in a movie studio in front of a green screen. So they did what any good 2018 coder would do: build a neural network that lets you do it. Read MoreInstagram code reveals unreleased voice and video calling
Mar 02, 1:04AM
Instagram wants to be your phone, not just your camera. And it wants to be better at it than Snapchat. Files buried in Instagram and the Instagram Direct standalone app’s Android Application Packages (APKs) are files and icons for “Call” and “Video Call”. APKs often show files for unreleased features that are lying dormant in an app waiting to be surfaced when… Read MoreTravis Kalanick joins medical tech startup's board of directors
Mar 02, 12:40AM
Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has joined the board of directors for Kareo, a medical health tech startup, Axios reports. TechCrunch has since confirmed the appointment, along with the addition of Rob Reid to the board. This is Kalanick’s first public appointment since his ouster from Uber in June. Kalanick was an angel investor in Kareo, a company that has raised about $125 million… Read MoreUber co-founder Garrett Camp is creating a new cryptocurrency
Mar 02, 12:05AM
Garrett Camp, best known for being a co-founder of Uber and founder of the accelerator/venture fund Expa, is launching his own cryptocurrency. The currency is called Eco, and Camp wants it to be a digital global currency that can be used as a payment tool around the world for daily-use transactions. There will be one trillion tokens issued initially, of which 50% will be given away to the… 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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