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What is this weird Twitter army of Amazon drones cheerfully defending warehouse work?
Aug 24, 12:39AM
Here is a strange little online community to puzzle at. Amazon has developed an unnerving, Stepford-like presence on Twitter in the form of several accounts of definitely real on-the-floor workers who regurgitate talking points and assure the world that all is right in the company's infamously punishing warehouse jobs.
Facebook poaches new CMO Antonio Lucio from HP
Aug 23, 10:58PM
Amidst Facebook’s biggest branding crisis, it’s just hired a veteran CMO formerly of Pepsi and Visa to boost the social network’s external image and cross-promote features inside its apps. Antonio Lucio today announced he’ll be leaving his role as HP’s CMO after three years to take that post at Facebook starting September 4th. He's replacing […]
AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers
Aug 23, 10:46PM
AWS Lightsail, which launched in 2016, is Amazon’s answer to the rise of Digital Ocean, OVH and other affordable virtual private server (VPS) players. Lightsail started as a pretty basic service, but over the course of the last two years, AWS added features like block storage, Windows support and additional regions. Today, the company announced it […]
Lyft is offering reduced and free rides on election day
Aug 23, 10:41PM
Lyft is going to offer half-priced and free rides to polling places around the country on Election Day (November 6). The ride-hailing giant said that it’s going to give out 50 percent off promotional codes to partners that encourage voter turnout. The company has linked up with Vote.org, Nonprofit VOTE, TurboVote and others to help […]
Teardown of Magic Leap One reveals highly advanced placeholder tech
Aug 23, 9:31PM
The screwdriver-happy dismantlers at iFixit have torn the Magic Leap One augmented reality headset all to pieces, and the takeaway seems to be that the device is very much a work in progress — but a highly advanced one. Its interesting optical assembly, described as "surprisingly ugly," is laid bare for all to see.
Why engineers are looking to animals for new technology
Aug 23, 9:30PM
As a race, human beings have a lot of shortcomings. We’re not very fast, not all that strong and while we have been able to create technology that helps us overcome our environments, we’re not very good at adapting to them. Animals, on the other hand, have been successfully adapting and evolving to meet the […]
Eventbrite files for $200 million IPO
Aug 23, 9:26PM
Eventbrite filed an IPO today for $200 million, confirming reports earlier this summer that the event-planning company plans to go public later this year. According to the document, the company plans to raise $200 million from selling Class A shares, but has yet to list the price per share. As for what Eventbrite intends to […]
Millions of Texas voter records exposed online
Aug 23, 9:16PM
A massive trove of voter records containing personal information on millions of Texas residents has been found online. The data — a single file containing an estimated 14.8 million records — was left on an unsecured server without a password. Texas has 19.3 million registered voters. It’s the latest exposure of voter data in a […]
Survios president and co-founder Nathan Burba is joining us at TechCrunch Sessions: AR/VR
Aug 23, 8:39PM
There's nothing inherently social about VR. In fact, putting on a headset and entering your own world can be a fairly isolating experience. But Survios' latest offering is looking to turn that truism on its head. Electronauts is designed to deliver a social experience, in which players can create music for their surroundings. The new […]
Fortnite players can unlock a new emote if they enable two-factor authentication
Aug 23, 8:35PM
Historically, we haven’t been great about digital security. In 2016 (not long enough ago to feel OK about it), the top passwords were “123456” and “password.” Awareness has certainly grown, but some folks could still use a nudge in the right direction. Luckily, Fortnite Battle Royale maker Epic Games has a solution. The company has […]
How corporations and startups can more effectively work with one another
Aug 23, 8:00PM
Build versus buy? Potential partner or potential disruptor? The option set for corporations to collaborate with startups used to be simpler.
Inky's book recommendation app helps you find new reads
Aug 23, 7:02PM
Amazon acquired social reading service Goodreads five years ago, squelching the life out of the competitive landscape, as minimal as it was. So it’s promising to see a new app appear with the goal of getting more people to move off of Goodreads for social book recommendations. That app is Inky, built by two bookworm friends […]
Apple moves forward with its adaption of Isaac Asimov's 'Foundation'
Aug 23, 7:01PM
Apple has placed a series order for Foundation, an adaptation of Isaac Asimov’s classic series of science fiction stories and novels. Deadline reported earlier this year that the show was in development, but this was just the latest of several attempts to adapt Foundation, including a version developed by Westworld’s Jonathan Nolan for HBO. Now, […]
Nikon embraces a mirrorless future with Z series cameras and lenses
Aug 23, 6:58PM
The largest trend in photography over the last five years or so, not counting smartphones, has been the emergence and maturity of mirrorless camera systems. These operate in a very different manner from traditional SLRs, and as such market leaders with decades embedded in the latter — namely Canon and Nikon — have resisted making the shift. That changes for Nikon today with its announcement of the Z6 and Z7, which show the company is making the change wholeheartedly.
The consequences of indecency
Aug 23, 6:15PM
I wrote the law that allows sites to be unfettered free speech marketplaces. I wrote that same law, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, to provide vital protections to sites that didn't want to host the most unsavory forms of expression. The goal was to protect the unique ability of the internet to be the proverbial marketplace of ideas while ensuring that mainstream sites could reflect the ethics of society as a whole.
TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 dives deep into artificial intelligence and machine learning
Aug 23, 4:54PM
As fields of research, machine learning and artificial intelligence both date back to the 50s. More than half a century later, the disciplines have graduated from the theoretical to practical, real world applications. We'll have some of the top minds in both categories to discuss the latest advances and future of AI and ML on […]
Twitter ends support for iOS 9 and lower
Aug 23, 4:41PM
Twitter says it’s ending support for all Twitter iOS users who are running older versions of the iOS operating system. According to a message in the app’s update text in its latest App Store release this week, only those users running iOS 10 or higher will continue to have a supported mobile client. The company’s […]
Housing startup Bungalow raises $14 million Series A round led by Khosla Ventures
Aug 23, 4:22PM
Moving to a new city can be tough for a number of reasons, but what’s arguably hardest about moving is a competitive and expensive housing market, and lack of a pre-existing social support network. That’s the problem startup Bungalow is trying to solve. Bungalow, which just raised a $14 million Series A round led by […]
Mixmax launches IFTTT-like rules to help you manage your inbox
Aug 23, 4:05PM
Mixmax, a service that aims to make email and other outbound communications more usable and effective, today announced the official launch of its new IFTTT-like rules for automating many of the most repetitive aspects of your daily email workflow. On the one hand, this new feature is a bit like your standard email filter on […]
Twitch will livestream Pokémon TV series and movies, while viewers 'catch' badges
Aug 23, 4:00PM
Twitch has teamed up with The Pokémon Company to allow viewers to binge watch the Pokémon: The Series TV show and related movies on its site, and “catch” Pokémon badges along the way. While the former is one of Twitch’s many retro binge watch fests – it’s previously streamed old shows like Bob Ross, Julia Child, […]
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