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As promised, Netflix's user reviews are no more
Aug 19, 9:32PM
Netflix user reviews are no more. Sure, chances are pretty decent you didn't realize Netflix still had reviews at this point, but the video streaming giant has delivered on its promise to do away with the one-time mainstay of the service. Last month, it informed recent users that reviews would be sunset soon. Netflix dropped the […]
The Kindle Voyage is no longer available from Amazon
Aug 19, 9:06PM
The Kindle Voyage is no more. The e-reader is currently unavailable through Amazon, as noted by a few sites. You can still pick up a refurbed version through the retailer, but listings for the new model note that, “[t]his item is only available from third-party sellers.” TechCrunch confirmed that the product is no longer available […]
Jack Dorsey admits Twitter hasn't 'figured out' approach to fake news
Aug 19, 7:18PM
Jack Dorsey is hedging his bets. In an interview with CNN's Brian Stelter, the beard-rocking CEO said Twitter is reluctant to commit to a timetable for enacting policies aimed at curbing heated political rhetoric on the site. The executive's lukewarm comments reflect an embattled social network that has been the brunt of criticism from both […]
A university is outfitting living spaces with thousands of Echo Dots
Aug 19, 4:55PM
Soon, Saint Louis University students won't be able to avoid Amazon's near ubiquitous smart speakers. The university announced this week a plan to outfit living spaces with 2,300 Echo Dots. The devices are set to be deployed by the time classes start, later this month. SLU is quick to note that it's "the first college […]
Soon you'll be able to watch high school football on Twitter
Aug 19, 4:14PM
Just at the NFL is gearing up to kickoff its regular season, Adidas has announced that it will be partnering with Twitter to livestream high school football games on the platform. The "Friday Night Stripes" series (Get it? Get it?) will include eight games, featuring teams from California, Georgia, Florida, Nevada and Indiana. The series […]
HUD complaint accuses Facebook ads of violating Fair Housing Act
Aug 19, 2:31PM
A new complaint filed Friday by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) accuses Facebook of helping landlords and home sellers violate the Fair Housing Act. According to the grievance filed by the department, Facebook's ad settings let sellers disregard laws by targeting specific demographics. HUD says that the ability to tailor Facebook […]
Original Content podcast: 'To All The Boys I've Loved Before' is a charming high school romance
Aug 19, 2:00PM
While Hollywood’s interest in romantic comedies seems to be fading, Netflix has been picking up some of the slack. Just a few months ago, it released the tremendously fun Set It Up. And now we’ve got To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before, a high school romance based on the young adult novel by Jenny Han. […]
What the hell is the deal with Tether?
Aug 19, 1:00PM
It was a simple concept: a cryptocurrency whose units were always and constantly worth exactly one dollar, because they were backed by dollars held in a bank. Voila: dollars with the powers of crypto, such as the ability to quickly and permissionlessly transfer an arbitrary amount … and, er, a certain lack of pesky regulations. […]
The tech angle in dogs, mac and cheese and working out
Aug 19, 12:08AM
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mixtape, the podcast where Megan Rose Dickey and I, Henry Oliver Pickavet, talk about some of the stories of the week that we feel like talking about. This week it was dogs, working out and mac and cheese. BarkBox creators Bark and Co. decided that Nashville, Tenn., needed a place for […]
Distributed teams are rewriting the rules of office(less) politics
Aug 18, 5:47PM
When we think about designing our dream home, we don't think of having a thousand roommates in the same room with no doors or walls. Yet in today's workplace where we spend most of our day, the purveyors of corporate office design insist that tearing down walls and bringing more people closer together in the […]
Global unicorn exits hit multi-year high in 2018
Aug 18, 4:09PM
Unicorn exits are taking flight. With the IPO window wide open, an apparent record number of venture-backed companies privately valued over $1 billion have launched public offerings this year.
Gaming in Asia may be crypto's killer decentralized app
Aug 18, 3:29PM
As money and talent flows into the crypto and blockchain worlds, a persistent question keeps coming up: what is going to be the “killer app” that drives adoption for these nascent technologies? The answer may well be quite simple: gaming in Asia. That’s the theory for Cryptokitties, the notable purveyor of cute cats. The company has […]
Only 48 hours left: Apply to Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin
Aug 18, 8:02AM
The action you take within the next 48 hours could change your life. That's how much time you have left to apply to TechCrunch Startup Battlefield, our world-renowned pitch competition, which takes place at Disrupt Berlin 2018 on November 29-30. The application deadline expires on August 20th at 9 p.m. PST. Don't waste another minute — apply […]
The public finance opportunity
Aug 18, 12:49AM
If you’re a certain age, it’s likely that you've never given a second thought to buying a municipal bond or the process of bond buying, even if you've intuited, rightly, that's it's an intentionally opaque business. Yet there could be a big opportunity for startups, and for people looking for places to invest, and for […]
It's Friday so relax and watch a hard drive defrag forever on Twitch
Aug 18, 12:09AM
It's been a while since I defragged — years, probably, because these days for a number of reasons computers don't really need to. But perhaps it is we who need to defrag. And what better way to defrag your brain after a long week than by watching the strangely satisfying defragmentation process taking place on a simulated DOS machine, complete with fan and HDD noise?
Y Combinator invests in non-invasive breast cancer screening bra EVA
Aug 17, 9:23PM
According to a report by the American Cancer Society, an estimated 266,120 women will be newly diagnosed with breast cancer in the United States this year and (according to a 2016 estimate) can expect to pay between $60,000 and $134,000 on average for treatment and care. But, after hundreds of thousands of dollars and non-quantifiable emotional […]
Tesla lost nearly $8 billion in shareholder value this week and its board should be ashamed
Aug 17, 9:01PM
Over the last five days, Tesla shareholders watched the value of their stock decline by roughly 16 percent and saw nearly $8 billion in value erased, as the company’s celebrity chief executive, Elon Musk, had what amounts to a very public breakdown. However, Musk is not the only person responsible for the collapse of Tesla’s […]
The Automatica automates pour-over coffee in a charming and totally unnecessary way
Aug 17, 8:26PM
Most mornings, after sifting through the night's mail haul and skimming the headlines, I make myself a cup of coffee. I use a simple pour-over cone and paper filters, and (in what is perhaps my most tedious Seattleite affectation), I grind the beans by hand. I like the manual aspect of it all. Which is why this robotic pour-over machine is to me so perverse... and so tempting.
Movado Group acquires watch startup MVMT
Aug 17, 8:25PM
The Movado Group, which sells multiple brands, including Lacoste, Tommy Hilfiger and Hugo Boss, has purchased MVMT, a small watch company founded by Jacob Kassan and Kramer LaPlante in 2013. The company, which advertised heavily on Facebook, logged $71 million in revenue in 2017. Movado purchased the company for $100 million. “The acquisition of MVMT […]
YC-backed Mutiny helps B2B business personalize their website for each visitor
Aug 17, 7:14PM
Mutiny, which is part of the current batch of startups at accelerator Y Combinator, helps business-to-business, software-as-a-service companies present a message that’s customized to each visitor on their website. Co-founder and CEO Jaleh Rezaei said this concept is alive and well in the analog world: When she was at VMware, sales reps were given materials […]
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