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Update: Mass shooting at Madden Championship Series event in Florida leaves several dead
Aug 26, 8:50PM
This post has been updated to indicate that three people, including the shooter, were killed in the Jacksonville mass shooting event earlier today. At least eleven people have been shot and three people were killed in a mass shooting attack at a livestreamed competition for the “Madden NFL 19” game at an arcade in Jacksonville, […]
Cryptocurrency and blockchain bring Asia funds to the forefront of U.S. tech
Aug 26, 4:07PM
Since early 2017, there's been a new trend in the U.S. where a number of Asian funds have been actively involved in early-stage crypto investing. Many folks in traditional tech have not heard of them before, but these funds will only be growing more important as cryptocurrency and blockchain solidify their position in the American […]
Rebuilding employee philanthropy from the bottom up
Aug 26, 3:44PM
In tech circles, it would be easy to assume that the world of high-impact charitable giving is a rich man's game where deals are inked at exclusive black tie galas over fancy hors d'oeuvre. Both Mark Zuckerberg and Marc Benioff have donated to SF hospitals that now bear their names. Gordon Moore has given away $5B […]
Kencko wants to help you eat more fruit and vegetables
Aug 26, 2:05PM
People don’t eat enough fruit and vegetables, that’s despite an embarrassment of options today that include fast grocery delivery and takeout services with a focus on health. A study from the U.S-based Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released last November found that just one in ten adults in America “meet the federal fruit […]
Hating the wrong tech people for the right reasons
Aug 26, 1:00PM
The slings and arrows aimed at tech’s titans these days are almost too numerous to count. Jeff Bezos: squandering money on space while exploiting warehouse employees. Mark Zuckerberg: complicit in everything from genocide to the death of democracy. Larry Page and Sergey Brin: in bed with China and the military. Elon Musk: where even to […]
Only 24 hours left to apply for Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2018
Aug 26, 8:00AM
What's standing between you and a chance to launch your pre-Series A startup in front of Europe's influential technorati? A mere 24 hours. That's how much time you have left before we stop accepting applications to Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2018, which takes place on November 29-30. There's still time, but not a moment to waste. […]
China's Didi suspends carpooling service after another female passenger is murdered
Aug 26, 7:30AM
Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing, the $60 billion-valued company that bought out Uber’s China business, has suspended its carpooling service after the murder of a female passenger. The fatality is the second such incident this year after a passenger was murdered in May. Police this weekend arrested a man who is accused of raping and […]
Pirated Twitch streams hijack YouTube's pay-per-view Logan Paul/KSI boxing match
Aug 25, 11:06PM
Today, there was a little bit of a skirmish between two professional YouTubers. Our dear old friend Logan Paul and KSI had an actual boxing match at the Manchester Arena where 15,000 tickets were sold (!!!!!!!!) for an event that ultimately ended in a draw and vows for a rematch. The action onstage wasn’t the […]
Learn more about the future of robotics at Disrupt SF
Aug 25, 5:52PM
What’s next for robotics? At at Disrupt SF, we’ll be joined by four experts to discuss how new technologies are changing the field. Those experts include Peter Barrett, founder and CTO and Playground, a venture fund and design studio focused on hardware startups. Barrett is a 30-year veteran of the tech industry, whose accomplishments include […]
Weak passwords let a hacker access internal Sprint staff portal
Aug 25, 5:43PM
It’s not been a great week for cell carriers. EE was hit with two security bugs and T-Mobile admitted a data breach. Now, Sprint is the latest phone giant to admit a security lapse, TechCrunch has learned. Using two sets of weak, easy-to-guess usernames and passwords, a security researcher accessed an internal Sprint staff portal. Because […]
The filmmakers behind 'Searching' know why you're skeptical about computer screen movies
Aug 25, 5:00PM
If you’re not sure about watching a whole movie where your point-of-view is limited to computer and smartphone screens, you’re not alone — “Searching” filmmakers Aneesh Chaganty and Sev Ohanian told me they had very similar reservations. Chaganty said that when the pair was first approached by Timur Bekmambetov’s Bazelevs (the production company behind the […]
The alumni of these universities raised the most VC in the past year
Aug 25, 4:09PM
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Global unicorn exits hit multi-year high in 2018 Boston-area startups are on pace to overtake NYC venture totals Whatever criteria we look at, whether it's schools with the highest number of well-capitalized founders, highest funding totals or even where startup investors went to college, the same names top […]
For IGTV, Instagram needs slow to mean steady
Aug 25, 3:29PM
Instagram has never truly failed at anything, but judging by modest initial view counts, IGTV could get stuck with a reputation as an abandoned theater if the company isn’t careful. It’s no flop, but the long-form video hub certainly isn’t an instant hit like Instagram Stories. Two months after that launched in 2016, Instagram was […]
Amazon isn't the only tech company getting tax breaks
Aug 25, 1:00PM
Amazon has a big target on its back these days, and because of its size, scope and impact on local business, critics are right to look closely at tax breaks and other subsidies they receive. There is nothing wrong with digging into these breaks to see if they reach the goals governments set in terms […]
48 hours left to apply for Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2018
Aug 25, 8:00AM
"Nothing is more expensive than a missed opportunity." H. Jackson Brown, Jr. threw down a heavy dose of truth with those wise words. It's almost like he knew the opportunity to apply to Startup Battlefield at Disrupt Berlin 2018 on November 29-30 will evaporate — in just about 48 hours — on August 27 at 9 p.m. PST. […]
Elon Musk: Tesla will remain a public company
Aug 25, 3:50AM
Tesla will remain a public company, CEO Elon Musk said Friday night, less than three weeks after he announced to the world via Twitter that he was considering taking the electric automaker private at $420 a share. Musk, who posted the announcement via Tesla’s blog, said Friday that after speaking with shareholders and investigating the […]
Fortnite's Android installer shipped with an Epic security flaw
Aug 25, 12:23AM
Google has clapped back in tremendous fashion at Epic Games, which earlier this month decided to make the phenomenally popular Fortnite available for Android via its own website instead of Google's Play Store. Unfortunately, the installer had a phenomenally dangerous security flaw in it that would allow a malicious actor to essentially install any software they wanted. Google wasted exactly zero time pointing out this egregious mistake.
The lobbying is fast and furious as gig companies seek relief from pro-labor Supreme Court ruling
Aug 24, 11:00PM
For four years, Edhuar Arellano has left his house at 7 a.m. on weekdays to drive customers around the Bay Area for Lyft and Uber. Most days, he doesn't get home to Santa Clara until 11 p.m. On weekends, he delivers pizzas to make ends meet.
Facebook and Microsoft briefed state officials on election security efforts today
Aug 24, 10:47PM
So much for summer Fridays. Yesterday, BuzzFeed reported that a dozen tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Snapchat, would meet at Twitter headquarters on Friday to discuss election security. For two of them, that wasn’t the only meeting in the books. In what appears to be a separate event on Friday, Facebook and Microsoft […]
UK phone giant EE hit by another security lapse
Aug 24, 6:34PM
For the second time this week, U.K. phone giant EE has fixed a security lapse, which allowed a security researcher to gain access to an internal site. The researcher, who goes by the pseudonym Six, found the company’s internal training site indexed on Google. (We’re not linking to the page as it remains an active […]
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