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Singapore activist found guilty of hosting 'illegal assembly' via Skype
Jan 04, 6:03AM
An ongoing case in Singapore is testing the legal boundaries of virtual conferences. A court in the Southeast Asian city-state this week convicted human rights activist Jolovan Wham of organizing a public assembly via Skype without a permit and refusing to sign his statement when ordered by the police. Wham will be sentenced on January 23 […]
FloWater just raised $15 million to put bottled water out of business
Jan 04, 2:14AM
FloWater, an eight-year-old, Burlingame, Ca.-based company whose reusable water bottle refilling stations produce purified water, has raised $15 million in its first major round of funding. Bluewater, a Swedish company that sells water purifiers, among other things, led the round. FloWater caters to schools, colleges, fitness centers, hotels, and offices, and, in the words of […]
Samsung's Space Monitor is practical and minimal
Jan 04, 1:47AM
Samsung always has a huge presence at CES, but it isn't the giant TVs and flashy next-generation gadgets that have my attention this year; it's this simple, flexible monitor that looks like it would be right at home in any workspace. It's called the Space Monitor, presumably because it gives you space, not because it's meant for use in space. I don't see why you couldn't, though.
Pokémon GO creator Niantic closes $190M funding round
Jan 03, 11:21PM
Mobile AR gaming startup Niantic has closed a $190 million round of funding according to newly filed SEC docs. The filing comes after a WSJ report last month suggested the company was in the process of closing a $200 million raise from investors, including IVP, aXiomatic Gaming and Samsung, at a $3.9 billion valuation. The […]
Zelda has a minus world
Jan 03, 10:35PM
Listen, everyone. It's not every day that a new fact comes to light regarding a game that came out more than 30 years ago. And I happen to love it when retro games get broken in fabulous and entertaining ways. So the news that The Legend of Zelda for NES has a minus world like Super Mario Bros and others hit me like like a freight train.
Apple losses trigger a plunge in US markets
Jan 03, 10:30PM
Bad news from Apple and signs of slowing international and domestic growth sent stocks tumbling in Thursday trading on all of the major markets. Investors erased some $75 billion in value from Apple alone… an amount known technically as a shit ton of money. But stocks were down broadly based on Apple’s news, with the Nasdaq […]
Square finds its Sarah Friar replacement with new CFO Amrita Ahuja
Jan 03, 10:27PM
The mobile payments company has tapped former Blizzard Entertainment CFO Amrita Ahuja.
Political 'fixer' Bradley Tusk seeks $70M for Tusk Ventures' sophomore fund
Jan 03, 9:31PM
Led by early Uber investor and advisor Bradley Tusk, the firm has invested in Bird, Coinbase, Eaze and several others.
Hey look, it's the Samsung Galaxy S10
Jan 03, 8:51PM
Well, what have we here? If it isn't the Samsung Galaxy S10, courtesy of perennial smartphone outer, EVLeaks. This marks one the first good looks we've got at the phone, which is likely due out in a couple of months at Mobile World Congress. It's a pretty rough photo — the icons are all blurred […]
Elon Musk is sticking with SpaceX board member Steve Jurvetson, shows new SEC filing
Jan 03, 8:42PM
Several weeks ago, the WSJ reported that SpaceX, Elon Musk's rocket company, was set to raise $500 million from earlier shareholders and the Scottish money management firm Baillie Gifford & Co. in a bid to help get its internet service business off the ground. The Hawthorne, Calif. company still hasn’t announced the round, but it nevertheless […]
Synapse raises $6M to bring neural net weapon detection to x-ray machines
Jan 03, 8:36PM
With all of the advances made by computer vision tech in the past few years, it might seem a little crazy that so much of the x-ray security equipment being used at sensitive locations is leaning so heavily on human workers to stop weapons from slipping through. Synapse Technology is creating computer vision tech that can […]
Automation will be the end of banks as we know them
Jan 03, 8:01PM
The unbundling of the bank has begun.
3D-printed gun activist Cody Wilson indicted for sexual assault
Jan 03, 7:53PM
The State of Texas has indicted Cody Wilson, a 3D-printed gun rights activist who fought to allow makers to post and print guns, of sexual assault after he had sex with a 17-year-old girl. The affidavit noted that he met the girl on a website for finding “sugar daddies.” The indictment, posted on Ars, notes […]
Cruise and DoorDash to test food delivery using self-driving cars in San Francisco
Jan 03, 7:31PM
Cruise is partnering with DoorDash to pilot food and grocery delivery in San Francisco using self-driving vehicles. The companies announced Thursday that the testing program will begin in early 2019 with an initial focus on the San Francisco market. "Delivery is a significant opportunity for Cruise as we prepare to commercialize our autonomous vehicle technology and […]
Apple's App Store pulled in $1.22B over the holidays plus a record $322M on New Year's
Jan 03, 6:06PM
Apple today is sharing some good news in the wake of yesterday’s reveal of a significant, market-moving cut to its revenue forecast, attributed to declining iPhone sales in China’s slowing economy. The company says its App Store, at least, was having a good holiday. This year, customers spent $1.22 billion during the 2018 holiday season and […]
Scratch 3.0 is now available
Jan 03, 5:33PM
The only kids’ programming language worth using, Scratch, just celebrated the launch of Scratch 3.0, an update that adds some interesting new functionality to the powerful open-source tool. Scratch, for those without school-aged children, is a block-based programming language that lets you make little games and “cartoons” with sprites and animated figures. The system is […]
Cloudera and Hortonworks finalize their merger
Jan 03, 5:26PM
Cloudera and Hortonworks, two of the biggest players in the Hadoop big data space, today announced that they have finalized their all-stock merger. The new company will use the Cloudera brand and will continue to trade under the CLDR symbol on the New York Stock Exchange. "Today, we start an exciting new chapter for Cloudera […]
Daily Crunch: AR startups face an uneasy future in 2019
Jan 03, 5:15PM
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. Magic Leap and other AR startups have a rough 2019 ahead of them 2018 was supposed to be the year where […]
The NFL launches its first standalone voice app with 'A Rookie's Guide to the NFL' for Alexa
Jan 03, 5:00PM
The NFL is giving voice assistants a go. Earlier this year, the organization tested the waters with the launch of a flash briefing called “NFL in :60,” but today the company is debuting its first standalone voice-enabled app. The new Alexa skill, “A Rookie’s Guide to the NFL,” is designed to serve as a companion that […]
Apple stock has dropped 38 percent in 90 days
Jan 03, 4:59PM
Apple stock was down more than 9 percent overnight and continued the downward trend in trading this morning. In fact, the company’s stock price is down a total of 38 percent since October. This, after the company halted trading yesterday afternoon to provide lower guidance for upcoming earnings. As the iPhone upgrade market softened, it was […]
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