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Tesla hits Model 3 production goal
Jul 01, 8:56PM
Tesla appears to have produced nearly 5,000 Model 3 electric vehicles in the last week of June, coming within hours of hitting a target CEO Elon Musk initially planned to meet by the end of 2017. The 5,000th Model 3 came off the assembly line early Sunday morning, according to Reuters, which spoke with two […]
WTF is dark pattern design?
Jul 01, 5:52PM
If you’re a UX designer you won’t need this article to tell you about dark pattern design. But perhaps you chose to tap here out of a desire to reaffirm what you already know — to feel good about your professional expertise. Or was it that your conscience pricked you? Go on, you can be […]
Old VC firms hold entrenched position in fundraising despite fresh entrants
Jul 01, 5:10PM
Apart from the sheer size of its third "Global Growth" investment vehicle, there isn't anything surprising about an old stalwart like Sequoia raising a big-dollar fund. But the fact that it's unsurprising points to an important trend in venture capital fundraising.
Original Content podcast: Summer movie madness with 'Solo', 'Incredibles 2' and more
Jul 01, 2:00PM
While we generally keep the Original Content podcast focused on the latest movies and TV shows from the big streaming services, we’ll occasionally go further afield when it like something might relevant to TechCrunch readers — or when we just feel like it. This week, we’re joined by Greg Kumparak to offer rapid-fire reviews of […]
Tech in a time of travesties
Jul 01, 1:00PM
“Violence is like XML,” a hacker friend once said to me sardonically, re the USA’s endless flailing military presence in Afghanistan, “if it doesn’t work, you’re obviously just not using enough of it.” This is true of the tech and Valley attitude towards life in general. When all you have is a hammer, everything looks […]
OpenPhone lets you get a business phone number with an app
Jul 01, 11:41AM
Meet OpenPhone, a startup in the current Y Combinator batch. The company has been working on an app to make it easier to get and use a business phone number. You don't need a second phone, you don't need to get an expensive solution designed for big teams. "Both my cofounder and I grew up […]
The five best reasons you don't want to miss Disrupt SF this September
Jul 01, 5:27AM
TechCrunch’s Disrupt SF (Sept. 5-7) is our most ambitious event ever. And if we’re sure of one thing, it’s that people in the startup scene will extract more insights and inspiration from this Disrupt than any before. Here’s why… More, better programming. For the first time ever at Disrupt, we have two stages, plus two […]
Hydrate, intoxicate, caffeinate, repeat: Meet the startups pouring the future
Jun 30, 5:10PM
These days, it seems like everyone with extra cash has some kind of pricey drinking habit. No matter what your preference, startups and their backers likely have you covered.
Announcing TechCrunch's Startup Battlefield Latin America in São Paulo on Nov. 8
Jun 30, 11:00AM
TechCrunch is excited to announce that the Startup Battlefield Latin America is coming to São Paulo on November 8 this year. This is the first event TechCrunch has ever held in Latin America, and we are all in to make it a memorable one to support the fast-emerging startup ecosystem in the region. The Startup […]
The hottest investors at The Europas, & your specially discounted ticket
Jun 30, 10:50AM
In partnership with TechCrunch, The Europas Unconference & Awards, features smaller breakout sessions on key subjects for startups, followed by a glittering awards show for the hottest startups in Europe, based on voting by expert judges and the industry itself. Plus loads of networking opportunities with investors, and the super-fun Pitch Rolette pitch competition. See below […]
Benchmark's Mitch Lasky will reportedly step down from Snap's board of directors
Jun 30, 6:31AM
Benchmark partner Mitch Lasky, who has served on Snap’s board of directors since December 2012, is not expected to stand for re-election to Snap’s board of directors and will thus be stepping down, according to a report by The Information. Early investors stepping down from the board of directors — or at least not seeking re-election […]
WhatsApp copies Telegram to add one-way 'broadcast' mode to group chats
Jun 30, 4:54AM
“Good artists borrow great artists steal” is a phrase that Facebook seems acutely aware of. It’s common to speak of Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo-app-now-social-network, borrowing from Snapchat, but now Facebook’s WhatsApp chat app is increasingly drawing its innovation from others such as Telegram. This week, WhatsApp outed a new feature for its groups that is […]
California man arrested for sending death threats to FCC's Ajit Pai over net neutrality
Jun 30, 12:46AM
While many people in this country are angry with current chairman of the FCC Ajit Pai, arguably with good reason, it’s unfortunate that at least one has descended to the level of sending credible death threats and, unsurprisingly, has subsequently been arrested. Shortly after the FCC voted in December to nullify the agency’s 2015 net […]
Here's what it was like to stumble into Netflix and Lyft's activation for GLOW at 'Muscle Beach'
Jun 29, 10:53PM
Today at “Muscle Beach” in Venice, Calif., Netflix and Lyft joined forces for a promotional campaign in support of the streaming media site’s (really excellent) dramatization of the origin story for the women’s wrestling league — GLOW (or the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling). Your intrepid reporter was taking a walk on the beach and stumbled upon […]
What we know about Maryland's controversial facial recognition database
Jun 29, 8:37PM
When police had difficulty identifying the man whom they believed opened fire on a newsroom in Maryland, killing five people, they turned to one of the most controversial yet potent tools in the state’s law enforcement arsenal. As The New York Times reports, Anne Arundel County Police Chief Timothy Altomare’s department failed to ID its suspect […]
Replacing pills with a Band-Aid? Avro Life Science thinks there's a patch for that
Jun 29, 7:30PM
Shak Lakhani, the 21-year-old chief executive and co-founder of Avro Life Science, started researching biomaterials when he was 15 years old. Every summer and after school the teenager would travel nearly two hours by bus and train from the Richmond Hill neighborhood of Toronto where he lived to the tissue engineering lab at the University […]
Hackers took over the Gentoo Linux GitHub repository
Jun 29, 7:07PM
Popular Linux distribution Gentoo has been "totally pwned" according to researchers at Sophos, and none of the current code can be trusted. The team immediately posted an update and noted that none of the real code has been compromised. However, they have pulled the GitHub repository until they can upload a fresh copy of the […]
Instagram PR director Gabe Madway exits, replaced by Facebook's Anna White
Jun 29, 7:05PM
Facebook likes to keep it in the family. Gabe Madway, Instagram’s director of comms who’s run its day-to-day efforts for the past four years, is departing to work for a new company later this summer, and he’ll be replaced by Anna White from Facebook’s internal PR team. She’ll report to Kristina Schake, Instagram’s Global Comms director […]
Sign up for the Disrupt SF Virtual Hackathon today
Jun 29, 7:00PM
Developers and creators, this is your shot to flex your technical building skills for a chance to win free passes to Disrupt SF 2018 — and maybe even $10,000! Sign up today to participate in the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 virtual hackathon! Here's how the virtual Disrupt SF Hackathon works. Our expert judges will review, evaluate and score every eligible […]
Tinder bolsters its security to ward off hacks and blackmail
Jun 29, 6:46PM
This week, Tinder responded to a letter from Oregon Senator Ron Wyden calling for the company to seal up security loopholes in its app that could lead to blackmail and other privacy incursions. In a letter to Sen. Wyden, Match Group General Counsel Jared Sine describes recent changes to the app, noting that as of […]
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