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Twitter's efforts to suspend fake accounts have doubled since last year
Jul 06, 9:58PM
Bots, your days of tweeting politically divisive nonsense might be numbered. The Washington Post reported Friday that in the last few months the company has aggressively suspended accounts in an effort to stem the spread of disinformation running rampant on its platform. The Washington Post reports that Twitter suspended as many as 70 million accounts […]
US court upholds FAA drone regulations
Jul 06, 8:52PM
The FAA just scored a legal win in its ongoing back and forth with drone hobbyists. The U.S. Court of Appeals opted to uphold a ruling granting the administration's authority over consumer UAVs, a move that is expected to lead the way for additional restrictions on flight. The ruling is based, in part, on a […]
Virgin Galactic agrees to launch space flights from Italy
Jul 06, 8:49PM
U.S. space venture Virgin Galactic announced it has partnered with two aerospace companies to help bring commercial space launches to Italy. The agreement with Italy’s largest private space company SITAEL, and ALTEC, a public-private company owned by the Italian Space Agency and Thales Alenia Space, has been two years in the making. The idea is to […]
Daimler can now test self-driving cars on public roads in Beijing
Jul 06, 5:35PM
Daimler has been granted a license to test self-driving vehicles on public roads in Beijing, making it the first international automaker to receive such permission. The owner of the Mercedes-Benz brand was given the test permit by the Chinese government after extensive closed-course testing, the company said in a statement, adding that it marks a […]
Early uses of blockchain will barely be visible, says Hyperledger's Brian Behlendorf
Jul 06, 5:10PM
The blockchain revolution is coming, but you might not see it. That’s the view of Brian Behlendorf, executive director of the Linux Foundation’s Hyperledger Project. Speaking at the TC Sessions: Blockchain event in Zug, Switzerland, Behlendorf explained that much of the innovation that the introduction of blockchains are primed to happen behind this the scenes unbeknownst to most. […]
Your next summer DIY project is an AI-powered doodle camera
Jul 06, 5:08PM
With long summer evenings comes the perfect opportunity to dust off your old boxes of circuits and wires and start to build something. If you’re short on inspiration, you might be interested in artist and engineer Dan Macnish’s how-to guide on building an AI-powered doodle camera using a thermal printer, Raspberry pi, a dash of […]
Buckyballs are back
Jul 06, 4:48PM
Years ago – six years ago, to be exact – a toy called Buckyballs came under attack by government officials intent on destroying fun. The Consumer Product Safety Commission banned the toys, which we noted were tiny rare earth magnets that were good for play but bad for a snack, because a few overzealous children […]
The future of Ethereum looks bright
Jul 06, 4:12PM
In what amounted to one of the most far-reaching and interesting conversations at TC Sessions in Zug, Ethereum masterminds Vitalik Buterin, Justin Drake, and Karl Floersch spoke openly – and often candidly – about a bright future for Ethereum scaling and, more interestingly, their way to build teams that work. “There’s definitely changes that we […]
SpaceX/Boring Company engineers are being sent to help with Thai cave rescue
Jul 06, 3:19PM
In a series of late-night/early morning tweets, Elon Musk offered up engineers from SpaceX and the Boring Company to help the soccer team trapped in a Thailand cave. Musk began by suggesting a potential solution to help rescue the team and their coach who went missing late last month. As he noted, the Boring Company […]
Boost VC backs Storyline's Alexa skill builder
Jul 06, 3:08PM
Have you felt a disconnect with your Alexa and wished she could share more of your sense of humor or tell you an actually scary ghost story? Startup Storyline makes designing your own Alexa skills as easy and dragging and dropping speech blocks, and has just raised $770,000 in a funding round led by Boost VC to […]
This startup streamlines the pro bono work of lawyers, including those fighting for immigrants at the border
Jul 06, 3:00PM
Felicity Conrad and Kristen Sonday were on very different paths until three years ago. Conrad was an associate at the powerhouse law firm Skadden Arps. Meanwhile, Sonday, a Princeton grad and the first person in her family to go to college, was reflecting on the several years she’d spent with the U.S. Department of Justice in […]
Jina Choi, SF Regional Director of the SEC, is coming to Disrupt to talk ICOs and more
Jul 06, 3:00PM
The Securities and Exchange Commission, the federal agency responsible for protecting investors and maintaining fair and orderly functioning of our securities markets, has 11 regional offices, including in Miami, New York, Boston and Chicago. None has quite the workload as the SEC’s San Francisco regional office, where a major area of focus in recent years […]
Coinbase CTO says the company is like a mullet
Jul 06, 2:32PM
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is the go-to place for buying and exchanging cryptocurrencies — as long as you’re fine sticking to Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ethereum and Bitcoin Cash. But Coinbase is actively looking at adding support for additional cryptocurrencies, Coinbase CTO Balaji Srinivasan said at TechCrunch Sessions: Blockchain today in Zug, Switzerland. In June, Coinbase announced it would […]
Netflix is ditching user reviews
Jul 06, 2:28PM
Once a mainstay of the service, Netflix's user reviews are going away. The movie streaming giant has shifted away from the feature over the last few years, and by the end of the summer, they'll be gone from the site altogether. If you still got something to get off your chest about the new season […]
Sonos files to raise up to $100M in IPO
Jul 06, 2:17PM
Smart speaker maker Sonos has filed to go public. In the filing, the company says it’s aiming to raise up to $100 million in the IPO. However, that number may simply be a placeholder, or it could change as the IPO approaches. Sonos says that as of March 31, it’s sold a total of 19 […]
Vitalik Buterin: "I definitely hope centralized exchanges go burn in hell as much as possible"
Jul 06, 1:46PM
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin talked about a wide range of topics during an interview with Jon Evans at TechCrunch Sessions: Blockchain. He was surprisingly balanced and stated multiple times that everyone has different needs and it's hard to live in a world where everything is centralized or decentralized. "Back in 2013, when GHash had 51 […]
Lyft goes biking, Airbnb is going public (eventually), big money for software robots and Juul
Jul 06, 1:00PM
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
Spain's Cabify 'categorically denies' that it is in negotiations for a full or partial sale to Lyft
Jul 06, 12:49PM
Transportation-on-demand service Lyft, now valued at over $15 billion after raising another $600 million in June, is on the hunt to scale its business. One move it might not be making soon, however, is to expand operations into Spain and Latin America by way of an acquisition of one of the leading players in the […]
Samsung forecasts slowing profit growth for Q2, missing analyst estimates
Jul 06, 9:25AM
Samsung has put out earnings guidance for its Q2 which indicate quarterly growth at its slowest for more than a year — as a lack of new ideas to sell high end smartphones drags on the company’s bottom line. The electronics maker is reporting estimated profit of 14.8 trillion Korean won (USD$13.2BN) on revenue of 58 trillion Korean won […]
Booksy, the worldwide booking system, raises $13.2 million
Jul 06, 8:48AM
Booksy, a Poland-based booking application for the beauty business, has raised $13.2 million in a Series B effort to drive global growth. The company, founded in 2014 by Stefan Batory and Konrad Howard, is currently seeing 2.5 million bookings per month. The company raised from Piton Capital, OpenOcean, Kulczyk Investments, and Zach Coelius. Batory, an […]
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