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Zcash: life on the crypto roller coaster
Jun 24, 1:00PM
Suppressed in Japan. Championed in New York. Accused of betraying the billion-dollar community he created with an arcane and byzantine ritual, while accidentally solving — maybe — a transnational clandestine mining mystery. All this while leading the rollout of some of the world’s most cutting-edge cryptographic technology into production. It’s been an interesting six months […]
Snag your super early-bird passes for Disrupt Berlin 2018
Jun 24, 9:00AM
Der frühe vogel fängt den wurm! Yikes, if we're trotting out our tortured German to say "the early bird catches the worm," it can mean only one thing, folks. It's time for all you European startup fans to go catch super early-bird tickets to TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin 2018 on November 29-30. Our pricing tiers start at €595 […]
In Army of None, a field guide to the coming world of autonomous warfare
Jun 24, 12:21AM
The Silicon Valley-military industrial complex is increasingly in the crosshairs of artificial intelligence engineers. A few weeks ago, Google was reported to be backing out of a Pentagon contract around Project Maven, which would use image recognition to automatically evaluate photos. Earlier this year, AI researchers around the world joined petitions calling for a boycott […]
Open source sustainability
Jun 23, 7:25PM
Open source sustainability has been nothing short of an oxymoron. Engineers around the world pour their sweat and frankly, their hearts into these passion projects that undergird all software in the modern internet economy. In exchange, they ask for nothing in return except for recognition and help in keeping their projects alive and improving them. […]
Are scooter startups really worth billions?
Jun 23, 5:05PM
It’s been hard to miss the scooter startup wars opening fresh, techno-fueled rifts in Valley society in recent months. Another flavor of ride-sharing steed which sprouted seemingly overnight to clutter up sidewalks — drawing rapid-fire ire from city regulators apparently far more forgiving of traffic congestion if it’s delivered in the traditional, car-shaped capsule. Even […]
How backups, backups, backups protect NYC's cellular infrastructure
Jun 23, 2:11PM
The infrastructure that underpins our lives is not something we ever want to think about. Nothing good has come from suddenly needing to wonder "where does my water come from?" or "how does electricity connect into my home?" That pondering gets even more intense when we talk about cellular infrastructure, where a single dropped call […]
Bag Week 2018: Timbuk2's Launch featherweight daypack is tough and tiny
Jun 22, 11:41PM
If you need something small, lightweight and indestructible, Timbuk2’s Lightweight Launch Backpack ($129) might be right up your alley. The pack, constructed from famously tough Tyvek, can fit a 13″ laptop comfortably and plenty else. At only 18L, it sounds small, but due to its drawstring-top design and large main compartment, it holds more than […]
Bag Week 2018: P.MAI's women's leather laptop bag is luxury packed with utility
Jun 22, 10:25PM
Welcome to Bag Week 2018. Every year your faithful friends at TechCrunch spend an entire week looking at bags. Why? Because bags — often ignored but full of our important electronics — are the outward representations of our techie styles, and we put far too little thought into where we keep our most prized possessions. […]
Apple will repair busted keyboards on recent MacBooks and MacBook Pros for free
Jun 22, 9:53PM
Back in 2016, Apple redesigned the MacBook Pro’s keyboard. It… hasn’t gone as well as they probably hoped. Complaints of failing keys quickly started popping up. Some keys had a tendency to get stuck in place; others move freely, but simply don’t respond. Two years and a lawsuit later, Apple is officially acknowledging the issue […]
VC Brian O'Malley jumps from Accel to Forerunner Ventures
Jun 22, 6:15PM
Brian O'Malley may be the most-poached venture capitalist in Silicon Valley. While rising through the ranks at the global investment firm Battery Ventures, where O’Malley had led deals in Hotel Tonight among others, he was plucked out of the firm by Accel Partners in 2013, where both O’Malley and Accel thought he could be even […]
A look back at the best tech ads of the last 35 years
Jun 22, 5:47PM
Last week the Association of Independent Commercial Producers announced the winners of its annual awards honoring the best moving image marketing of the year and Apple's "Welcome Home" ad took home the prize for Advertising Excellence in the single commercial category. Directed by Spike Jonze, the person behind movies like Her and Being John Malkovich, […]
Reddit launches a 'News' tab into beta testing
Jun 22, 5:30PM
Reddit is rolling out its “news” tab into beta, the company announced this week. The expansion follows on Reddit’s initial test of a news-related feature that began this May, when an alpha version shipped to some users of Reddit’s iOS app. At the time, Reddit explained it wanted to give news its own dedicated home […]
Konsus looks to give companies a way to get specially designed documents in under a day
Jun 22, 5:00PM
Fredrik Thomassen as a consultant used to have the resources to offload the annoying project tasks — like making PowerPoint presentations — but now that it’s gone, he and his team wanted to make that available for everyone. Now the startup, called Konsus, wants to turn that around even faster. Konsus is a design marketplace […]
Your second chance for Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF
Jun 22, 5:00PM
If you missed the deadline last week to apply for the renowned Startup Battlefield at Disrupt SF, have no fear. There is still one more chance at being part of the action! Out of all of the early-stage companies exhibiting at Disrupt, three Startup Alley companies will have the opportunity to be selected as one of the "Wild Card" […]
Facebook mistakenly leaked developer analytics reports to testers
Jun 22, 4:57PM
Set the “days without a Facebook privacy problem” counter to zero. This week, an alarmed developer contacted TechCrunch, informing us that their Facebook App Analytics weekly summary email had been delivered to someone outside their company. It contains sensitive business information, including weekly average users, page views and new users. Forty-three hours after we contacted […]
Uber safety driver of fatal self-driving crash was watching Hulu, not the road
Jun 22, 4:54PM
A safety driver operating an Uber self-driving vehicle looked down at a phone that was streaming The Voice on Hulu 204 times during a 43-minute test drive that ended when pedestrian Elaine Herzberg was struck and killed in Tempe, Arizona, according to a 318-page police report reviewed by TechCrunch. The Tempe Police Department released late […]
WordPress.com parent company acquires Atavist
Jun 22, 4:47PM
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Longreads, Simplenote and a few other things, is acquiring Brooklyn-based startup Atavist. Atavist has been working on a content management system for independent bloggers and writers. With an Atavist website, you can easily write and publish stories with a ton of media. You might think that this isn't particularly […]
Lime scooters are live in Paris
Jun 22, 4:24PM
Lime is the hot new thing in San Francisco, but will it work in other countries? The company just launched its electric scooter service in Paris. This isn't the first European city as Lime is also operating in Berlin, Bremen, Frankfurt and Zurich. But it's a significant launch as alternative mobility solutions have all been […]
Amazon FreeTime Unlimited finally lands on Apple's App Store
Jun 22, 4:07PM
Five and half years after it launched, one of the more popular apps for kids’ reading and entertainment has finally arrived on the iOS. Amazon FreeTime Unlimited, the e-commerce giant’s subscription service for children 3-12 that gives unlimited access to 10,000 books, movies and TV shows starting at $2.99 for one user per month for […]
Sphero acquires a music education startup
Jun 22, 4:04PM
It's hard to say precisely how Sphero's pivot to education is going in these early stages, but it recently got an infusion of funding and is already out acquiring new startups. The BB-8 maker announced this morning that it's picked up Specdrums — the fellow Boulder, Co-based startup is a Kickstarter success story that lets […]
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