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Apple's long-time Siri leader reportedly no longer in charge
Feb 02, 12:36AM
The man who has headed up Siri at Apple since 2012 is no longer at the helm, according to The Information. Bill Stasior remains at the company in a different role, the report states. We’ve reached out to Apple for comment. Stasior joined Apple to take over Siri in 2012 after being poached from Amazon’s A9 […]
Snopes and AP stop fact checking for Facebook
Feb 01, 11:55PM
Two of Facebook's four fact-checking partners in the U.S. have left the program as of the beginning of this year: Snopes, which recently rebuffed reports that its relationship with Facebook was strained, and the Associated Press. Both confirmed they are leaving the program, but left the possibility of future collaboration open.
This light-powered 3D printer materializes objects all at once
Feb 01, 11:20PM
3D printing has changed the way people approach hardware design, but most printers share a basic limitation: they essentially build objects layer by layer, generally from the bottom up. This new system from Berkeley, however, builds them all at once more or less by projecting a video through a jar of light-sensitive resin.
LittleBits lays off employees as it shifts focus toward education
Feb 01, 11:03PM
New York City open-source maker startup LittleBits began to lay off staff last month, TechCrunch has learned. The loss of jobs comes as the company looks to shift more focus toward the K-12 market. Education-specific offerings have been lucrative for the company in its eight-year existence, but recent products have found the company embracing licensed […]
Twitter bug makes it look like random retweets are appearing in your timeline
Feb 01, 8:09PM
A number of Twitter users have been complaining that tweets that were retweeted by people they don’t follow are now showing in their timeline. The issue, thankfully, is not related to a new Twitter algorithm or recommendation system, as some had feared. Instead, the company confirmed that a bug affecting Android users was mislabeling the […]
Foxconn says Wisconsin factory plans are back on after talk with Trump
Feb 01, 8:03PM
It seems Foxconn's plans for a $10 billion Wisconsin plant are back on. After a couple of years of back and forths, the manufacturing giant says it's recommitting to plans for a plant in the upper Midwest. A statement today cited a phone call between chairman/founder Terry Gou and Donald Trump. "After productive discussions between […]
The next big bet for former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick may be cloud kitchens — in China
Feb 01, 7:47PM
Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick may have been nudged out of one of the world’s most highly valuable private companies by investors frustrated over its troubled culture, but his moves remain of great interest given how far he’d driven the rideshare giant. One such move, according to a new report in the South China Morning […]
The Super Bowl gets voice-enabled
Feb 01, 7:46PM
Amazon, Dish, Comcast and others are hoping to turn Super Bowl 2019 into a way to show off the potential for their voice technologies and TV integrations. The companies this week have been touting new features and a variety of voice commands that will allow viewers to get prepared for the big game, learn about […]
Everything you need to know about Facebook, Google's app scandal
Feb 01, 7:01PM
Facebook and Google landed in hot water with Apple this week after two investigations by TechCrunch revealed the misuse of internal-only certificates — leading to their revocation, which led to a day of downtime at the two tech giants. Confused about what happened? Here’s everything you need to know. How did all this start, and […]
Let's save the bees with machine learning
Feb 01, 6:27PM
Machine learning and all its related forms of "AI" are being used to work on just about every problem under the sun, but even so, stemming the alarming decline of the bee population still seems out of left field. In fact it's a great application for the technology and may help both bees and beekeepers keep hives healthy.
Commuters become crypto users, as DOVU signs loyalty deal with rail service
Feb 01, 6:18PM
While blockchain emerged first as a platform for currency and value, its employment in the tokenization of data and information has become recognized as being of at least, if not more, underlying value. You could perhaps even use it to track movements on a grid associated with mobility. That was the underlying idea behind the […]
Daily Crunch: Facebook fallout continues
Feb 01, 5:41PM
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. We dismantle Facebook's memo defending its ‘Research’ The fallout continues following TechCrunch reporting about a Facebook app that was paying people […]
AWS and Microsoft reap most of the benefits of expanding cloud market
Feb 01, 5:34PM
While it appears that overall economic activity could be slowing down, one area that continues to soar is the cloud business. Just this week, Amazon and Microsoft reported their cloud numbers as part of their overall earnings reports. While Microsoft’s cloud growth was flat from the previous quarter, it still grew a healthy 76 percent […]
After challenger banks comes the wave of anti-fraud startups
Feb 01, 5:23PM
The sheer scale of global financial crime is not to be underestimated. The U.K.'s National Crime Agency recently observed that it's "in the hundreds of billions of pounds" annually, and that's just in the U.K. In the U.S., domestic financial crime, excluding tax evasion, generates approximately $300 billion of proceeds each year for potential laundering. […]
Huawei's folding phone debuts this month
Feb 01, 4:12PM
Huawei mobile chief Richard Yu has already made mention of the company's upcoming foldable phone amid talks of smartphone world domination. This morning, however, we caught our first glimpse of the handset in profile, along with the promise of more, arriving February 24, during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Foldables are very much heating up […]
Alexa skills top 80,000 after a big Alexa-powered holiday season
Feb 01, 3:44PM
Amazon had a record-breaking holiday quarter, with revenue of $72.4 billion and profits of $3 billion, but it’s not making much money off its top-selling item, the Alexa-powered Echo Dot. While the e-commerce giant said the device was its 2018 holidays best seller across all products, it also reminded investors on yesterday’s earnings call that […]
Vice Media will lay off 10 percent of its staff
Feb 01, 3:39PM
Vice Media plans to cut 250 jobs — about 10 percent of its total workforce. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news. When contacted by TechCrunch, a Vice spokesperson confirmed the story but declined to comment further. This comes after a brutal couple of weeks in the media business, as companies began the year with major […]
Sony posts strong music earnings, as gaming business disappoints
Feb 01, 3:28PM
Sony posted record quarterly earnings this week on the strength of very strong music profits. Those numbers were catapulted thanks to the company's $2.3 billion acquisition of EMI as part of an ever-consolidating music industry. The electronics giant's operating profit rose to $3.46 billion for the quarter — up from $3.21 billion a year prior, […]
Juul Labs hires former Apple employee to lead the fight against counterfeits
Feb 01, 3:20PM
Juul Labs, the e-cig company under fire for its product’s popularity with young people, has brought on a new VP of Intellectual Property Protection with Adrian Punderson, formerly of PwC and Apple. Punderson’s job is all about working alongside government agencies, as well as Juul Labs Intellectual Property VP Wayne Sobon, to combat the sale […]
Twilio closes acquisition of email specialist SendGrid in all-stock deal now worth $3B
Feb 01, 2:41PM
Twilio’s bid to become the go-to platform for all of a business’s external communication needs took a big step ahead today. The company said that it has closed its acquisition of email specialist SendGrid. First announced four months ago, Twilio today said the all-stock deal is valued at $3 billion — up from a $2 billion […]
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