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DARPA wants new ideas for autonomous drone swarms
Apr 01, 5:18PM
The Defense Department's research wing is serious about putting drones into action, not just one by one but in coordinated swarms. The Offensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics program is kicking off its second "sprint," a period of solicitation and rapid prototyping of systems based around a central theme. This spring sprint is all about "autonomy."
Charting the adoption of direct startup investments by family offices
Apr 01, 5:00PM
There's money, and then there's wealth. In all likelihood, money is what most of us have (or don't have). It's what we use to buy lunch, pay rent or put a down payment on a house. Wealth, on the other hand, is what buys yachts. But more than superficial material things, wealth also buys financial security (and all the good and ill that comes with it) for subsequent generations.
Nostalgia eats itself in 'Ready Player One'
Apr 01, 4:38PM
First things first: I had a really good time watching Ready Player One. As promised, the movie feels like a chance for Steven Spielberg to return to his roots as a blockbuster filmmaker, and to take all the toys out of the box and smash them together. The film is based on Ernest Cline’s bestselling […]
Patterns, Predictability, and the Rise of Donald Trump
Apr 01, 4:30PM
Tom Goodwin Contributor Share on Twitter Tom Goodwin is EVP, head of innovation at Zenith Media and the co-founder of the Interesting People in Interesting Times event series and podcast. More posts by this contributor Andrew Yang is running for President to save America from the robots The battle for consumers gets physical (instead of […]
'Highly critical' CMS bug has left over 1 million sites open to attack
Apr 01, 3:33PM
The team behind the popular open-source CMS Drupal is urging admins to update their sites to ward off a nasty bug that could leave their sites “highly compromised” to attackers, according to the organization. The effected versions (Drupal 6, 7 and 8) of the CMS power over one million websites on the internet. Drupal has […]
Gillmor Gang: The Great Divide
Apr 01, 2:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Denis Pombriant, Esteban Kolsky, and Steve Gillmor . Recorded live Saturday, March 31, 2018. @stevegillmor, @ekolsky, @DenisPombriant, @fradice, @kteare Produced and directed by Tina Chase Gillmor @tinagillmor Liner Notes Live chat stream The Gillmor Gang on Facebook
Parasitism and the fight for the wrong century
Apr 01, 1:00PM
Generals are famously always “studying how to fight the last war,” with the last war’s technology, while dismissing how the world and its tech have changed in the interim. This is true for dissidents, rebels, and culture wars too. Our fears tend to be of 20th century boogeymen, the Nazis and the Soviet Union — […]
Krablr's ICO is cookin' on gas
Apr 01, 9:25AM
How many second acts can a startup have before its procession of unlikely pirouettes must raise more than a quizzical eyebrow? It depends where you're asking the question of course. And as we sit here, contemplating the smooth-faced Krablr founder, Wilson Poney, gazing out at the Pacific ice blue from inside his underwater glass cube, […]
Facebook plans crackdown on ad targeting by email without consent
Apr 01, 1:41AM
Facebook is scrambling to add safeguards against abuse of user data as it reels from backlash over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Now TechCrunch has learned Facebook will launch a certification tool that demands that marketers guarantee email addresses used for ad targeting were rightfully attained. This new Custom Audiences certification tool was described by Facebook representatives […]
Original Content podcast: We drop by Netflix's 'Terrace House'
Mar 31, 9:50PM
Terrace House is a tough show to explain. Like The Real World and other reality TV, the show puts a group of largely young and attractive strangers together in a house. But that’s about where the similarities end. On Terrace House, most of the cast members genuinely seem to be rooting for each other. And […]
Arbtr wants to create an anti-feed where users can only share one thing at a time
Mar 31, 6:50PM
At a time when the models of traditional social networks are being questioned, it's more important than ever to experiment with alternatives. Arbtr is a proposed social network that limits users to sharing a single thing at any given time, encouraging "ruthless self-editing" and avoiding "nasty things" like endless feeds filled with trivial garbage.
Does Ready Player One reveal the future of VR?
Mar 31, 6:30PM
Maggie Lane Contributor Share on Twitter Maggie Lane is a writer and producer of virtual reality experiences and covers the industry for various publications. It was barely minutes after the Ready Player One premiere, and texts from my friends and colleagues in the VR community began pouring in… "How was it?" Those of us in […]
Knitting machines power up with computer-generated patterns for 3D shapes
Mar 31, 5:49PM
At last, a use for that industrial knitting machine you bought at a yard sale! Carnegie Mellon researchers have created a method that generates knitting patterns for arbitrary 3D shapes, opening the possibility of "on-demand knitting." Think 3D printing, but softer.
Who gains from Facebook's missteps?
Mar 31, 5:00PM
When Facebook loses, who wins? That's a question for startups that may be worth contemplating following Facebook's recent stock price haircut. The company's valuation has fallen by around $60 billion since the Cambridge Analytica scandal surfaced earlier this month and the #DeleteFacebook campaign gained momentum.
Red Hat looks beyond Linux
Mar 31, 4:30PM
The Red Hat Linux distribution is turning 25 years old this week. What started as one of the earliest Linux distributions is now the most successful open-source company, and its success was a catalyst for others to follow its model. Today’s open-source world is very different from those heady days in the mid-1990s when Linux […]
Google needs your help finding Waldo
Mar 31, 4:00PM
At some point in the not-so-distant past, April Fools was about pranks and hoaxes, but given that we apparently have enough of those on the web, the day has somehow morphed into a celebration of random jokey things. This year’s Google Maps gag is no exception. Starting today, when you open Google Maps on your […]
Tapster's robots are built to poke touchscreens
Mar 31, 4:00PM
The CEO and COO are at their desks when I knock on the door, intently assembling robots to fulfill the company's latest order. Tapster is about as lean as startups get. Founded three years ago (on Star Wars Day), the company's two-person staff is half the size it was at its height, but a third […]
Tesla says fatal crash involved Autopilot
Mar 31, 1:34AM
Tesla has provided another update to last week’s fatal crash. As it turns out, Tesla said the driver had Autopilot on with the adaptive cruise control follow-distance set to minimum. However, it seems the driver ignored the vehicle’s warnings to take back control. “The driver had received several visual and one audible hands-on warning earlier […]
How Facebook Can Better Fight Fake News: Make Money Off the People Who Promote It
Mar 31, 1:30AM
Facebook and other platforms are still struggling to combat the spread of misleading or deceptive "news" items promoted on social networks. Recent revelations about Cambridge Analytica and Facebook’s slow corporate response have drawn attention away from this ongoing, equally serious problem: spend enough time on Facebook, and you are still sure to see dubious, sponsored […]
UberRUSH is shutting down
Mar 30, 11:56PM
Uber is closing the doors on its on-demand package delivery service for merchants, RUSH, in New York City, San Francisco and Chicago, TechCrunch has learned. In an email to users, Uber said it plans to close RUSH operations June 30, 2018. “At Uber, we believe in making big bold bets, and while ending UberRUSH comes […]
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