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Lyft's Raj Kapoor joins the TechCrunch Tel Aviv conference on mobility, June 7
Apr 15, 12:01PM
The TechCrunch Tel Aviv conference on mobility is in June and we're excited to announce that Raj Kapoor, the Chief Strategy Officer for Lyft, will be joining as a speaker. TechCrunch Tel Aviv will focus on mobility and all that it implies, such as autonomous vehicles, drones, you name it. As well as being the […]
Zillow surprises investors by buying up homes
Apr 15, 12:27AM
Real estate platform Zillow changed up its business model this week, announcing that it plans to purchase and sell homes in Las Vegas and Phoenix. Zillow will be working with Berkshire Hathaway and Coldwell Banker to make offers on homes before it finds a buyer. Zillow will pay commissions and also “make necessary repairs and updates and […]
Ad king Sir Martin Sorrell steps down from WPP following misconduct investigation
Apr 14, 11:06PM
There’s big news in the world of advertising. Sir Martin Sorrell has stepped down from WPP, the world’s largest ad business. Sorrell had been in the midst of an unspecified investigation about “personal misconduct and misuse of company assets.” He has denied the allegations. WPP provided us with the following statement. “Sir Martin Sorrell has stepped […]
NASA's planet-hunting TESS telescope launches Monday aboard a SpaceX rocket
Apr 14, 6:30PM
Some of the most exciting space news of the past few years has been about Earth-like exoplanets that could one day (or perhaps already do) support life. TESS, a space telescope set to launch Monday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, will scan the sky for exoplanets faster and better than any existing platforms, expanding our knowledge of the universe and perhaps finding a friendly neighborhood to move to.
How to save your privacy from the Internet's clutches
Apr 14, 5:51PM
Another week, another massive privacy scandal. When it's not Facebook admitting it allowed data on as many as 87 million users to be sucked out by a developer on its platform who sold it to a political consultancy working for the Trump campaign, or dating app Grindr ‘fessing up to sharing its users' HIV status with third […]
Austin is piloting blockchain to improve homeless services
Apr 14, 5:27PM
While the vagaries of the cryptocurrency markets are keeping crypto traders glued to their CoinDesk graphs, the real potential of blockchain is its capability to solve real human challenges in a decentralized, private, and secure way. Government officials have increasingly investigated how blockchain might solve critical problems, but now one city intends to move forward […]
Playground is betting big on robots
Apr 14, 4:00PM
You find robotics in unexpected corners of Playground Global's Palo Alto headquarters. They're in the lobby and scattered amongst the cubicles. Inside the venture fund's labs, an older Spot Mini stands next to RightHand Robotics' pick and place mechanical arm. A recent video shoot in the space shows Boston Dynamics' latest creation meeting Playground-funded bipedal […]
Facebook's Bookmarks menu gets a facelift that makes its settings easier to find
Apr 14, 3:25PM
Facebook is rolling out a redesigned bookmarks section in its app that will make it easier to navigate and access various Facebook settings – including Account Settings, Privacy Shortcuts, News Feed Preferences, Activity Log, Payments Settings, access to Help & Support, and more. None of the options in the updated menu are new to Facebook. […]
Singapore orders Grab to delay closing Uber app for an additional 3 weeks
Apr 14, 5:15AM
Grab’s plan to shutter Uber’s app quickly following its merger deal in Southeast Asia has hit another snag in Singapore where the ride-hailing firm has been forced to delay closing its rival’s service until May 7. This is the second time that Grab has pushed back the removal of Uber’s app in Singapore, which was initially […]
Waymo reportedly applies to put autonomous cars on California roads with no safety drivers
Apr 14, 1:15AM
Waymo has become the second company to apply for the newly-available permit to deploy autonomous vehicles without safety drivers on some California roads, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. It would be putting its cars — well, minivans — on streets around Mountain View, where it already has an abundance of data.
Elon Musk says 'humans are underrated,' calls Tesla's 'excessive automation' a 'mistake'
Apr 14, 12:05AM
In a rare mea culpa for the mercurial billionaire, Tesla CEO Elon Musk acknowledged that the company has been too reliant on robots for production. Yes, excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake. To be precise, my mistake. Humans are underrated. — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) April 13, 2018 “Excessive automation at Tesla was a mistake,” Musk […]
Android Auto now works without wires if you have the right hardware
Apr 13, 10:10PM
Android Auto — Google’s system for powering your car’s dash display from your phone, and the company’s answer to Apple’s CarPlay — is going wireless. You can leave your phone in your bag, and it’ll still be able to push your apps and content to your in-dash screen. Alas, there’s a catch: To get it […]
Yahoo Japan buys a minority stake in a Tokyo cryptocurrency exchange
Apr 13, 7:43PM
Yahoo Japan has gotten its hands on 40 percent of a Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange set to launch this fall. The investment, made in BitARG Exchange through a Yahoo Japan subsidiary gives the company a minority stake with BitARG parent company CMD Laboratories still maintaining 60 percent ownership of the exchange. A source told CNBC the deal […]
Apple details its crackdown on leakers…in a leaked memo
Apr 13, 7:14PM
In an internal memo to employees, Apple threatened severe consequences for leaking confidential company information – reminding staff that those who leak can lose their jobs, have difficult finding future employment, and even get arrested. Last year, Apple claimed to have busted 29 leakers, 12 of whom were arrested. The memo itself was leaked, and […]
Elon Musk says Tesla will be profitable in Q3 and Q4
Apr 13, 6:54PM
Tesla is one of the more interesting companies for Wall Street that had an interesting couple of months this year — and it seems even tweets from Elon Musk, who said that the company will be profitable in the back half of the year, may be enough to swing its stock. The Tesla and SpaceX […]
Facebook shouldn't block you from finding friends on competitors
Apr 13, 5:58PM
Twitter, Vine, Voxer, MessageMe. Facebook has repeatedly cut off competitors from its feature for finding your Facebook friends on their apps… after jumpstarting its own social graph by convincing people to upload their Gmail contacts. Meanwhile, Facebook’s Download Your Information tool merely exports a text list of friends’ names you can’t use elsewhere. As Congress […]
Is Android Popsicle next?
Apr 13, 5:56PM
Barring any sort of major shakeup at Google's mobile division, there are two things we know for sure about the next Android's name: it will start with the letter "P" and it will be a dessert food. That already narrows things down quite a bit — you've got pudding, pecan pie, peanut brittle… Then, of […]
Google's 'Semantic Experiences' let you play word games with its AI
Apr 13, 5:50PM
Google does have a little fun now and then, when the master AI permits it, and today it has posted a few web experiments that let you engage with its word-association systems in a playful way.
Coinbase acquires decentralized app browser/wallet Cipher Browser
Apr 13, 5:13PM
Coinbase announced today that it has acquired Cipher Browser, a decentralized app browser and wallet for the Ethereum blockchain that it will be using to bolster its own similar product. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. We're excited to welcome @CipherBrowser to Coinbase! https://t.co/CIqK0EtDbb — Coinbase (@coinbase) April 13, 2018 Coinbase operates a decentralized mobile […]
Zuora's IPO is another step in golden age of enterprise SaaS
Apr 13, 4:39PM
Zuora’s founder and CEO Tien Tzuo had a vision of a subscription economy long before most people ever considered the notion. He knew that for companies to succeed with subscriptions, they needed a bookkeeping system that understood how they collected and reported money. The company went public yesterday, another clear sign post on the road […]
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