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Cult classic indie game La-Mulana finally gets a proper sequel
Jul 30, 10:44PM
The sequel to the legendary, and legendarily difficult, indie sleeper hit La-Mulana has finally been released, and all gamers with a penchant for retro-style platforming and a broad masochistic streak are encouraged to descend into its depths.
MoviePass could block more big movies from its subscription service
Jul 30, 10:04PM
During an all-hands meeting earlier today, MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe reportedly informed staff that the service will bar additional big titles from its subscription service. According to a report from Business Insider, upcoming titles Christopher Robin and The Meg will be getting similar treatment as Mission: Impossible — Fallout. The service caused an uproar among […]
Gillmor Gang: Backflip
Jul 30, 8:44PM
The Gillmor Gang — Esteban Kolsky, Frank Radice, Michael Markman, and Steve Gillmor . Recorded live Sunday July 29, 2018. Social markets, what is notification media, the 20 percent solution. Produced and directed by Tina Chase Gillmor @tinagillmor Liner Notes Live chat stream The Gillmor Gang on Facebook
MoviePass is down again
Jul 30, 8:32PM
After the revelation that MoviePass borrowed $5 million to keep its service up and running last week, things aren’t looking good. MoviePass subscribers, myself included, were met on Monday with a blank screen where their choice of screening should be. Navigating around dozens of theaters only shows a message that “There are no more screenings […]
Uber's self-driving trucks division is dead, long live Uber self-driving cars
Jul 30, 8:20PM
Uber is shuttering its self-driving trucks unit, a beleaguered program borne out of the company’s controversial multi-million acquisition of Otto nearly two years ago. The company said Monday that Uber Advanced Technologies Group will stop development of self-driving trucks and instead focus its efforts on self-driving cars. "We recently took the important step of returning to […]
Optoro raises $75 million more to make it easier for brands to manage and resell returned and excess inventory
Jul 30, 8:04PM
As the economy has chugged along, so have retail sales, which last year capped their strongest year since 2014. Online sales have been especially brisk, growing 16 percent between 2016 and 2017 alone, according to the U.S. Commerce Department, which estimates that consumers spent $453.5 billion online last year. Of course, with every booming market comes supporting […]
Google gives Chrome the virtual reality treatment
Jul 30, 7:50PM
Google is injecting a little Chrome into its VR platform, bringing the web browser to Daydream headsets, the company announced today. It’s been a long time coming considering the depths of Google’s WebVR experimentation on desktop and mobile Chrome. The Mountain View tech giant announced it was working on this quite a while ago, back at […]
Google's lead lawyer moves into a global policy role
Jul 30, 7:38PM
Google is promoting its top lawyer, Kent Walker, into a global policy position, CNBC reports. Walker, Google SVP and general counsel, has already been a public voice in the company’s recent privacy tangles, but will move into a formal role as senior vice president of global affairs, overseeing Google’s policy, trust and safety, corporate philanthropy […]
OpenAI's robotic hand doesn't need humans to teach it human behaviors
Jul 30, 7:20PM
Gripping something with your hand is one of the first things you learn to do as an infant, but it's far from a simple task, and only gets more complex and variable as you grow up. This complexity makes it difficult for machines to teach themselves to do, but researchers at Elon Musk and Sam Altman-backed OpenAI have created a system that not only holds and manipulates objects much like a human does, but developed these behaviors all on its own.
One more thing re: "privacy concerns" raised by the DCMS fake new report…
Jul 30, 6:49PM
A meaty first report by the UK parliamentary committee that’s been running an inquiry into online disinformation since fall 2017, including scrutinizing how people’s personal information was harvested from social media services like Facebook and used for voter profiling and the targeting of campaign ads — and whose chair, Damian Collins — is a member […]
Drive.ai's self-driving vehicle service is now live in Texas
Jul 30, 6:42PM
The bedroom community of Frisco, Texas might seem like an unusual place to find a self-driving vehicle. But here in this city of nearly 175,000 people, there are seven. And as of Monday, they’re available for the public to use within a specific sector of the city that has a concentration of retail, entertainment venues […]
YouTube's dark theme has started gradually rolling out to Android
Jul 30, 6:35PM
A dark theme option for YouTube users on Android is in the early stages of rolling out to end users, Google confirmed to TechCrunch, following a number of reports and sightings of the dark mode showing up for users in the app’s settings. The feature has taken a bit longer to launch than expected – […]
Amazon is planning to give Prime Video a big makeover
Jul 30, 5:50PM
Could user profiles and better personalization features be coming to Amazon’s Prime Video app at long last? The company’s new Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke just teased that a major upgrade to Amazon’s streaming video app is in the works – and she already has it running on a phone in her office, she said. The […]
A pickaxe for the AI gold rush, Labelbox sells training data software
Jul 30, 5:45PM
Every artificial intelligence startup or corporate R&D lab has to reinvent the wheel when it comes to how humans annotate training data to teach algorithms what to look for. Whether it’s doctors assessing the size of cancer from a scan or drivers circling street signs in self-driving car footage, all this labeling has to happen […]
Google Calendar makes rescheduling meetings easier
Jul 30, 5:28PM
Nobody really likes meetings — and the few people who do like them are the ones with whom you probably don’t want to have meetings. So when you’ve reached your fill and decide to reschedule some of those obligations, the usual process of trying to find a new meeting time begins. Thankfully, the Google Calendar […]
Venture capital's diversity disaster
Jul 30, 5:21PM
The lack of diversity issue in Silicon Valley touches all aspects of the industry — entrepreneurship, big tech company demographics and venture capital. While tech companies have been a bit more deliberate about fostering diversity and inclusion in the last few years — and have made a small bit of progress — the venture capital […]
Body scanning app 3DLOOK raises $1 million to measure your corpus
Jul 30, 5:20PM
3D body scanning systems have hit the big time after years of stops and starts. Hot on the heels of Original Stitch’s Bodygram, another 3D scanner, 3DLOOK, has entered into the fray with a $1 million investment to measure bodies around the world. The founders, Vadim Rogovskiy, Ivan Makeev, and Alex Arapovd, created 3DLOOK when […]
Amazon starts canceling free Echo Spot orders
Jul 30, 5:13PM
Update: Amazon has admitted the error here. No free Spots, sorry. The company provided TechCrunch the following note, which is going out to everyone who purchased a device during that window. Thanks for playing. We noticed an error in an order you recently placed and wanted to make you aware of the issue. Due to […]
72 hours left to buy early-bird tickets to Disrupt SF 2018
Jul 30, 5:00PM
Deadlines have a sneaky way of creeping up on you — as busy TechCrunch writers can readily attest. If you're planning to attend Disrupt San Francisco 2018 at Moscone Center West on September 5-7, you've got a major deadline snapping at your heels. Your chance to purchase passes at our early-bird rate disappears forever at midnight […]
Chinese "hackers" are sending malware via snail mail
Jul 30, 4:51PM
In what amounts to one of the simplest but most baffling forms of social engineering, hackers from China have taken to sending CDs full of malware to state officials, leading the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a government security outfit, to release a warning detailing the scam. The trick is simple: a package arrives […]
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