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Firefox can now block those annoying notification requests
Mar 13, 4:22PM
Virtually every random site you go to these days wants you to subscribe to its push notifications. It’s one of the many small annoyances on the open web but thankfully, those popups may not be for long — at least if you are a Firefox user. With the release of Firefox 59 for the desktop, Mozilla is adding a useful little feature to its browser that lets you stop websites from asking… Read MoreThe U.S. Secretary of State was fired. On Twitter.
Mar 13, 4:19PM
President Donald Trump just fired his embattled Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, via Twitter this morning; replacing him with former Tea Party Congressman and current Central Intelligence Agency chief Mike Pompeo. Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the… Read MoreWaymo shows off what it's like to ride in a truly driverless self-driving car
Mar 13, 4:19PM
Just a few weeks back, Waymo got the thumbs up to start testing its self driving cars in Arizona without the need for a human “safety net” behind the wheel. Wonder what it’s like to ride in one? This morning at SXSW, the company released a video showing off the experience had by the first few riders. The folks in the video up above are part of Waymo’s “Early… Read MoreApple Music now has 38 million paid members
Mar 13, 4:08PM
Here’s another tidbit from Eddy Cue’s content-packed SXSW appearance yesterday. Along with a dive into Apple’s video content strategy, the company’s SVP offered up some insight into the health of its music streaming service. Cue noted that Apple Music has hit 38 million paid subscribers — an increase of two million since the company reported last month. It’s… Read MoreIKEA U.S. launches a furniture assembly service from TaskRabbit
Mar 13, 4:05PM
You can now pay IKEA to help you put together its confusing furniture. The company announced this morning it’s rolling out the new TaskRabbit At-Home Assembly service in select U.S. markets where TaskRabbit is available, and in six stores in New York and San Francisco. The service is a result of IKEA’s acquisition of the contract labor marketplace TaskRabbit last September for… Read MoreYouTube's mobile app gets a dark mode
Mar 13, 4:00PM
YouTube’s mobile app is getting a dark mode. The company announced this morning its dark theme first introduced on its desktop site last year, is launching today on the YouTube iOS app and arriving soon after on Android. With the setting enabled, YouTube’s background turns from white to black throughout the YouTube experience as you navigate, search and browse its app. The setting… Read MoreChelsea Manning says software developers need a code of ethics
Mar 13, 3:35PM
Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst and whistleblower who gave diplomatic and military documents to WikiLeaks, took the stage at SXSW this morning to talk about what life has been like for her post-prison, the current political landscape, and the misuse of technology and data. In Iraq, Manning said she had gone in with the mindset that algorithms could make things better.… Read MoreHulu outbids rivals for 'Little Fires Everywhere' from Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington
Mar 13, 3:02PM
Hulu outbid major players in cable and streaming to obtain the rights to develop “Little Fires Everywhere,” a new limited series produced by Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine, producer of the Emmy-winning “Big Little Lies” on HBO. The show is based on Celeste Ng’s 2017 bestselling book by the same name, and will star both Witherspoon and Kerry Washington.… Read More$280 will get you a 'Champagne Gold' Kindle Oasis
Mar 13, 3:00PM
I’m sure someone, somewhere out there was holding out on purchasing Amazon’s most premium Kindle reader because it wasn’t quite fancy enough for their taste. Perhaps this little garish addition will help push them over the edge. The e-reader now comes in a “Champagne Gold” version, which you can read through your monocle while sitting on your yacht, fancy pants. Read MoreRapidAPI, an API marketplace that processes 400B API calls each month, raises $9M led by A16Z
Mar 13, 2:28PM
APIs — lightweight application interfaces that developers use both to integrate third-party services into their own apps, and to let their apps get used more easily by other developers — have become an essential, and fast-growing, building block of the tech world. Now, a startup that helps app builders find, use, pay for and track calls on those APIs is announcing a round of funding… Read MoreGM said to pilot peer-to-peer car sharing through its Maven brand
Mar 13, 2:15PM
Automaker General Motors is said to be planning a new peer-to-peer car rental service, similar to existing offerings by Daimler-backed Turo and startup Getaround, to debut as early as this summer according to Bloomberg. The service will debut in a test pilot set to begin this summer, under GM’s Maven mobility sub-brand, per the report, and will allow GM car owners to list their vehicles… Read MoreNASA's acting administrator to retire without a successor
Mar 13, 2:01PM
The acting head of NASA is stepping down on April 30. Robert M. Lightfoot Jr. told the space agency on Monday in an email where he says its with “bittersweet feelings” he’s going to retire after 28 years at NASA. A clear successor to chief has not yet named and NASA’s number two position as deputy administrator is also vacant as the Trump administrator has yet to… Read MoreYC-backed DearBrightly makes Rx skin care more accessible
Mar 13, 2:00PM
Almost everybody wants better skin, but not everyone wants to put in all the heavy lifting required. But DearBrightly, a Y Combinator-backed company, wants to simplify the process of making Rx retinoids accessible to everyone. Retonoid is an umbrella term for both retinols and Rx retinoids, which are made from Vitamin A and promote rapid skin cell turnover, helping with skin issues from aging… Read Moremu Space targets 2020 launch of first satellite aboard Blue Origin's New Glenn
Mar 13, 1:36PM
Jeff Bezos’ New Glenn rocket, the reusable launch vehicle created by Blue Origin to put people and large cargo into orbit, has a new confirmed payload for one of its first missions: mu Space. The Thai satellite startup announced it would be working with Blue Origin late last year, but now it has confirmed that the agreement is in place, with a launch window that opens in late 2020.… Read MoreCloudflare is giving developers programmable access to the network edge with new service
Mar 13, 1:30PM
As more computing moves to the edge, programmers are looking for ways to access computing power as close to their users as possible to reduce latency and increase performance. Today, Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Workers, a service that enables developers to write code to execute directly at the edge of the Cloudflare network. Company co-founder and CEO Matthew Prince says that up until now… Read MoreVolkswagen's self-driving electric Sedric concept is heading to production
Mar 13, 1:05PM
Volkswagen confirmed at its annual media conference that it’s going to bring one of its most eccentric concepts to production – the all-electric Sedric shuttle, which is more tiny pod bus than car, will eventually actually get made, after its design is refined by one of the Volkswagen Group’s portfolio brands through a further development process. The Sedric EV debuted at… Read MoreGoogle partners with Ubisoft to launch Agones, an open source game server hosting system
Mar 13, 1:00PM
When you think of cloud computing, chances are you are thinking about massive server farms that let you edit documents in the cloud and update your CRM system, but thankfully, there’s a playful side to the cloud as well. All of those multiplayer games, after all, have to run somewhere, too. Often, gaming companies write their own systems for running these servers, but Google and… Read MoreFitbit CEO James Park on the struggles and future of the wearable maker
Mar 13, 1:00PM
The sentiment is punctuated by the fact that the product felt like a Hail Mary at the time. As Fitbit’s fortune was declining, the executive began talking up the product well in advance of its release, as the company acquired several offerings to bolster the device. Of course, that admission comes in the wake of this week’s product announcement. The Versa is the device the… Read MoreFitbit's Versa is the smartwatch the Ionic should have been
Mar 13, 1:00PM
Half a year after launching the Ionic, Fitbit is back with Versa, a “smartwatch for all.” The new wearable builds atop the same foundation as its predecessor, but offers a lower price point and a smaller frame, addressing two of the main complaints around the company’s first smartwatch. It’s the device the Ionic should have been. Read MoreFitbit is adding menstrual cycle tracking to its smartwatches
Mar 13, 1:00PM
Fitbit’s first smartwatch had its fair share of issues, including a large size, which made it unwieldy for many wrists. That fact no doubt automatically excluded the product from a big chunk of its potential user base, including a lot of women. Fitbit’s hardly alone among wearable makers in that oversight, of course, but the issue certainly stood out for a company whose products… 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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