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Watch 1000s of Boston Dynamics SpotMinis in this Planet Earth-style video
Mar 09, 4:13PM
Straight out of Black Mirror, this video is a mock documentary showing a future where Boston Dynamics SpotMinis roam the Earth in packs (herds?) of thousands. It’s fictional but I suspect plausible if Boston Dynamics only defense against its robots is an engineer with a hockey stick. Boston Dynamics has been steadily advancing its robotics technology and design and its latest creation is… Read MoreThere's a shakeup on Qualcomm's board amid Broadcom's hostile takeover attempts
Mar 09, 4:09PM
Things have not been so rosy for Qualcomm over the past few months, whether you are looking at an ongoing legal dispute between the chipmaker and Apple or Broadcom’s aggressive attempts to acquire the company. Now, Qualcomm is saying its executive chairman, Dr. Paul E. Jacobs, will no longer serve as executive chairman for the company’s board of directors. He’s going to remain… Read MoreAnother new survey underscores that skilled workers can pretty much live wherever they want
Mar 09, 4:05PM
If you want to live outside an expensive city like San Francisco or New York, it pays to have specialized knowledge. So suggests a new survey out of Upwork, the freelancing platform created from the 2013 merger of Elance and oDesk that connects businesses and independent contractors. According to feedback from more than 1,005 workforce hiring decision-makers conducted on Upwork’s behalf… Read MoreFacebook and Warner Music ink recorded and published music deal for videos and messages
Mar 09, 3:34PM
Just weeks after signing a large licensing deal with leading indy label representative ICE, Facebook has continued its march into the world of music with the news that it has now added Warner Music Group into the mix, the last major label that was not yet working with the social network. Facebook has signed a wide-ranging licensing deal that covers all of Warner Music’s recorded and… Read MorePorsche's electrification to lead to most powerful 911 to date, says CEO
Mar 09, 3:29PM
The storied 911 will not be immune from Porsche’s electrification plans and that could be a good thing. The car company’s CEO recently told Autocar that the hybrid 911 “will be the most powerful 911 we’ve ever had; 700 bhp might be possible.” Count me in (as long as someone buys it for me). Porsche already makes 911 models above the 700 mark so it’s likely… Read MoreThis shoemaker in Barcelona sees a crypto future for artisans
Mar 09, 3:16PM
Tiago Maximo’s grandparents were shepherds. They word solid, handmade boots into the fields, trudging through dry grass and mud, over rutted country roads and through barnyards. He brought that tradition – handmade boots for people who appreciate quality – to his business, Urban Shepherd – where sources boots from Portugal to sell to customers in Barcelona and all over… Read MoreYC-backed Playbook wants students to make plans online, hang out offline
Mar 09, 3:00PM
Social planning apps have yet to take the world by storm. A handful of these apps tried and failed years ago, and even Swarm decided to ditch that methodology and focus on location logging. But a new Y Combinator-backed company seems to be picking up traction. And shockingly enough, the winning ingredient seems to be location! Location! Location! The startup is called Playbook, and its main… Read MoreVolkswagen's head of electric mobility says China will drive autonomy roll-out
Mar 09, 2:27PM
What’s the biggest motivating factor behind automakers embracing autonomous vehicles and self-driving? You might think ‘safety’ or maybe even consumer demand, but in truth the biggest driver might be China and its incentivization programs for automakers. Much like China’s rules for qualifying for subsidies and restrictions on selling vehicles in market have led to… Read MoreMagic Leap gets $461M more, Travis goes VC, and HQ Trivia scales up
Mar 09, 2:10PM
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had a corking set of news to get through, so we rounded up the usual gang (Matthew Lynley, Katie Roof, and myself), and brought in Eric Feng from Kleiner Perkins to help us get under the skin of the latest. He was the right person to have in… Read MoreWaymo and Google launch a self-driving truck pilot in Atlanta
Mar 09, 1:13PM
Waymo’s autonomous trucking program is coming along – though we haven’t heard much about it since discovering it was a real thing last year, Waymo today announced that it’s launching a pilot program in Atlanta to focus specifically on self-driving trucks and automated logistics. The pilot is being done in partnership with Google, another Alphabet company and… Read MoreDropbox announces deeper integration with Salesforce ahead of IPO
Mar 09, 1:00PM
Dropbox is not messing around. Two weeks ago it announced its IPO. Just last week it announced a big partnership with Google and today comes news that it is integrating more deeply with Salesforce. Dropbox and Salesforce have danced a bit in the past as cloud companies tend to do, but today’s announcement is a bit broader. It involves having Dropbox folders embedded in Salesforce… Read MoreInfoSum's first product touts decentralized big data insights
Mar 09, 12:18PM
Nick Halstead’s new startup, InfoSum, is launching its first product today — moving one step closer to his founding vision of a data platform that can help businesses and organizations unlock insights from big data silos without compromising user privacy, data security or data protection law. So a pretty high bar then. Read MoreMad Paws, Australia's Wag, raises $5M led by airline giant Qantas
Mar 09, 10:44AM
SoftBank’s Vision Fund invested $300 million into dog walking app Wag earlier this year, and a new deal on the other side of the world is evoking similarities. Mad Paws, an Australia-based startup that offers dog-walking, pet-sitting and other services for the fluffy friend in your life, has pulled in a $5 million investment led by Qantas, the $8 billion-valued Australian airline. Yes… Read MoreGrab launches a bike-sharing service in Southeast Asia
Mar 09, 9:30AM
After much speculation, Southeast Asian Uber rival Grab has jumped into the bike-sharing space after it launched a service in Singapore. GrabCycle Beta will offer services from a range of services, including bike-sharing services oBike — which includes Grab as an investor — GBikes and Anywheel, plus electric scooter rental Popscoot. The project is the first to launch… Read MoreBarack Obama's next move could be a series on Netflix
Mar 09, 7:16AM
Former U.S. presidents are typically inundated with offers from the private sector when they leave office. Recent White House tenant Barack Obama is about to take a unique step, however, with reports suggesting that he is close to agreeing to have his own show on Netflix. The New York Times is reporting that Obama is in “advanced negotiations” to produce a series for the global… Read MoreTrump's take on gaming and violence was wrong in the '90s and it's twice as wrong now
Mar 09, 2:19AM
A cobbled-together meeting at the White House is the latest chapter in the long, misguided crusade against video games. It would be comical if the country were not in a bitter ongoing debate about gun control and the safety of children; but since we are, it’s frustrating that time is still being spent on this long-settled “debate” instead of on practical matters. Read MoreBoxed reportedly rejected $400 million buyout offer from Kroger
Mar 08, 11:48PM
Boxed, the site for buying food and household items in bulk, has turned down a $400 million acquisition offer from Kroger, Bloomberg reports. Earlier this year, word on the street was that Boxed was in talks with Kroger to be acquired for about $500 million. At the time, other retailers were rumored to also be making bids. It seems those other interested parties were Amazon, Target and Costco. Read MoreNintendo is bringing Super Smash Bros. to Switch in 2018
Mar 08, 11:33PM
This is the best news you’ll hear all day: Super Smash Bros. is coming to the Nintendo Switch this year. Nintendo dropped a new teaser for the game, which is as yet untitled, during its Nintendo Direct webcast on Thursday. If you’re not familiar with the franchise, you are living a sad, unfulfilling existence. Actually, though, you should know about Nintendo’s brawler… Read MoreBlue Apron stock suffers as Weight Watchers gets into meal kits
Mar 08, 10:39PM
Life has not been pretty for Blue Apron, the meal-kit company that went public last June. Today, Blue Apron’s shares dropped to a record low following Weight Watchers announcing it would launch its own meal kits to be sold in grocery stores. Read MoreTribeca Film Festival unveils its VR and AR lineup
Mar 08, 10:38PM
New York City’s Tribeca Film Festival released its Immersive lineup this morning, including 20 virtual reality and augmented reality pieces in the Virtual Arcade, plus five that are part of the Storyscapes competition. 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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