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Lime wants to block Scoot and Skip from deploying electric scooters in SF next week
Oct 11, 11:04PM
Lime is doing the most right now. In light of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency denying Lime a permit to operate electric scooters in the city, Lime is gearing up to request a temporary restraining order. “Lime believes that after selecting two other less experienced electric scooter companies and comparatively weaker applications in a process that […]
DARPA wants to teach and test 'common sense' for AI
Oct 11, 10:18PM
It's a funny thing, AI. It can identify objects in a fraction of a second, imitate the human voice, and recommend new music, but most machine "intelligence" lacks the most basic understanding of everyday objects and actions — in other words, common sense. DARPA is teaming up with the Seattle-based Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence to see about changing that.
Astronauts land safely after Soyuz launch fails at 20 miles up
Oct 11, 9:29PM
A fault in a Soyuz rocket booster has resulted in an aborted crew mission to the International Space Station, but fortunately no loss of life. The astronauts in the capsule, Nick Hague (US) and Alexey Ovchinin (Russia) successfully detached upon recognizing the fault and made a safe, if bumpy, landing nearly 250 miles east of the launch site in Kazakhstan. This high-profile failure could bolster demand for U.S.-built crewed spacecraft.
Watch Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot leap up massive steps like it's nothing
Oct 11, 9:19PM
Two years ago, Boston Dynamics’ humanoid robot Atlas needed a big ol’ safety tether to shuffle its way down a flat hiking trail. Five years ago it needed a big, bolted-down support structure to keep itself upright. Now it’s casually leaping up and over obstacles that would leave many humans huffing and puffing. The company demonstrated […]
Bird hires Uber's former head of finance and director of corporate development
Oct 11, 9:05PM
Bird, the scooter-sharing startup founded by former Uber VP of International Growth Travis VanderZanden, has brought a couple of former Uber employees to the flock. Joining Bird as VP and Head of Finance is Dennis Cinelli, who worked as Uber’s head of finance for global rides up until this month, according to his LinkedIn. Uber, […]
How this Kazakhstan internet giant built success on ideas from Russia and China
Oct 11, 9:00PM
The advantage of entering an emerging market is that the market still has a lot of empty space to fill, and as a startup you can be the first player. Kazakhstan might not be the first country that comes to mind when you think of overseas expansion. However, it is the world's largest landlocked country, and shares borders with Russia and China, which are important consumer markets as well as technology hubs.
Facebook mistakenly deleted some people's Live videos
Oct 11, 8:46PM
This time instead of exposing users’ data, a Facebook bug erased it. A previously undisclosed Facebook glitch caused it to delete some users’ Live videos if they tried to post them to their Story and the News Feed after finishing their broadcast. Facebook wouldn’t say how many users or livestreams were impacted, but told the […]
YC-grad Papa raises $2.4M for its 'grandkids-on-demand' service
Oct 11, 7:58PM
Alexis Ohanian's Initialized Capital and Ashton Kutcher's Sound Ventures participated in the round for the Y Combinator graduate.
Grado takes the wraps off their first pair of wireless headphones
Oct 11, 7:55PM
Legacy open-backed headphone maker Grado is taking their classic design into the future with the small Brooklyn company’s first pair of wireless headphones. The GW100s have a familiar look, but integrate Bluetooth tech and volume controls. They go for $249. Grado headphones are a favorite of mine; they have a very unique open sound that really […]
Copyright compromise: Music Modernization Act signed into law
Oct 11, 7:11PM
Musicians are celebrating as the Music Modernization Act, an attempt to drag copyright and royalty rules into the 21st century, is signed into law after unanimous passage through Congress. The act aims to centralize and simplify the process by which artists are tracked and paid on digital services like Spotify and Pandora, and also extends the royalty treatment to songs recorded before 1972.
G2 Crowd, a business software marketplace, raises another $55M at just under a $500M valuation
Oct 11, 7:11PM
G2 Crowd, a platform that lets businesses search for, compare reviews and pricing for, and then buy software and other IT services — it likes to refer to itself as the “Amazon of business software” — has raised $55 million in growth funding to continue expanding its business. This round was led by IVP, with […]
Instagram tests tapping instead of scrolling through posts, first in Explore
Oct 11, 7:10PM
The effortless way you fast forward through Stories could be coming to more of Instagram . A screenshot from user Suprateek Bose shows Instagram “Introducing a new way to move through posts — Tap through posts, just like you tap through stories.” Now Instagram confirms to TechCrunch that it’s testing tap to advance within Explore, […]
Improbable brings its massive multiplayer platform to Unity game engine
Oct 11, 6:25PM
As battle royale games like Fortnite pit more players against each other, studios are starting to realize the potential of bringing a massive online audience together at one time. This ambition has always existed, but Improbable, a well-funded startup aiming to enable these vast online worlds, is looking to bring these experiences to more game […]
Why missing Saudi journalist's Apple Watch is an interesting, but unlikely, lead
Oct 11, 6:01PM
Police investigating the missing Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi are searching for his Apple Watch to obtain his health and location data before his disappearance. But that may prove impossible, according to new details learned by TechCrunch. The Saudi-born U.S. resident and Washington Post columnist went missing last week after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, […]
Facebook rolls out 3D photos that use AI to simulate depth
Oct 11, 5:53PM
What if you could peek behind what’s in your photos, like you’re moving your head to see what’s inside a window? That’s the futuristic promise of Facebook 3D photos. After announcing the feature at F8 in May, Facebook is now rolling out 3D photos to add make-believe depth to your iPhone portrait mode shots. Shoot one, […]
With Cred partnership, PwC wants to help make stablecoins legit
Oct 11, 5:26PM
Audit giant PwC is the latest mainstream firm to show new interest in digital currencies. This week it announced a partnership with decentralized lending platform Cred to advise on better standards for stablecoins. While details of the partnership are light, Cred is working on its own stablecoin tied to the U.S. dollar, and is hoping to avoid […]
App Store generated 93% more revenue than Google Play in Q3
Oct 11, 5:09PM
There’s always been a gap between how much money Apple’s App Store makes when compared with Google Play. But in the third quarter of 2018, that gap widened considerably – possibly to the widest point yet. According to a new report from Sensor Tower, the App Store earned nearly 93% more than Google Play in […]
CommonSense Robotics' first automated fulfillment center is now live
Oct 11, 5:01PM
Israeli startup CommonSense Robotics is launching its first automated micro-fulfillment center in Tel Aviv. It's a tiny 6,000 square feet warehouse that is packed from ground to ceiling with products. Robots do the heavy lifting when it comes to getting items ready to dispatch. TechCrunch shot a video of CommonSense Robotics' test fulfillment center. Today's […]
SpankChain spanked
Oct 11, 4:52PM
SpankChain, a cryptocurrency aimed at decentralized sex cams, has announced that a hacker stole about $38,000 from their payment channel thanks to a broken smart contract. They wrote: At 6pm PST Saturday, an unknown attacker drained 165.38 ETH (~$38,000) from our payment channel smart contract which also resulted in $4,000 worth of BOOTY on the […]
Coord, a Sidewalk Labs spin-out, raises $5 million to help mobility services better integrate into cities
Oct 11, 4:46PM
Coord, the mobility data startup that spun out of Alphabet-owned Sidewalk Labs, has raised a $5 million Series A round led by Alliance Ventures, with participation from Trucks, Urban.Us and DB Digital Ventures. The plan with the funding is to continue to enhance Coord’s APIs and geographic coverage, as well as “build a bridge between […]
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