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Sean Parker's govtech Brigade breaks up, Pinterest acqhires engineers
Feb 11, 7:45AM
Facebook co-founder Sean Parker bankrolled Brigade to get out the vote and stimulate civic debate, but after five years and little progress the startup is splitting up, multiple sources confirm to TechCrunch. We’ve learned that Pinterest has acqhired roughly 20 members of the Brigade engineering team. The rest of Brigade is looking for a potential […]
Two former Qualcomm engineers are using AI to fix China's healthcare problem
Feb 11, 7:31AM
Artificial intelligence is widely heralded as something that could disrupt the jobs market across the board — potentially eating into careers as varied as accountants, advertising agents, reporters and more — but there are some industries in dire need of assistance where AI could make a wholly positive impact, a core one being healthcare. Despite […]
Xiaomi-backed electric toothbrush Soocas raises $30 million Series C
Feb 11, 5:12AM
China’s Soocas continues to jostle with global toothbrush giants as it raises 200 million yuan ($30 million) in a series C funding round. The Shenzhen-based oral care manufacturer has secured the new capital from lead investor Vision Knight Capital, with Kinzon Capital, Greenwoods Investment, Yunmu Capital and Cathay Capital also participating in the round. The new […]
Saudi Arabia denies involvement in leak of Jeff Bezos' private messages
Feb 11, 4:01AM
In his extraordinary Medium post last week accusing American Media Inc of "extortion and blackmail," Bezos hinted (but did not explicitly state) that there may be a connection between Saudi Arabia and the publication of his personal messages with Lauren Sanchez. Now Saudi Arabia's minister of foreign affairs has denied it was involved, stating during […]
Aurora cofounder and CEO Chris Urmson on the company's new investor, Amazon, and much more
Feb 11, 3:21AM
You might not think of self-driving technologies and politics having much in common, but at least in one way, they overlap meaningfully: yesterday's enemy can be tomorrow's ally. Such was the message we gleaned Thursday night, at a small industry event in San Francisco, where we had the chance to sit down with Chris Urmson, the cofounder […]
Users complain of account hacks, but OkCupid denies a data breach
Feb 10, 9:39PM
It’s bad enough that dating sites are a pit of exaggerations and inevitable disappointment, they’re also a hot target for hackers. Dating sites aren’t considered the goldmine of personal information like banks or hospitals, but they’re still an intimate part of millions of people’s lives and have long been in the sights of hackers. If […]
Original Content podcast: Netflix's 'Velvet Buzzsaw' is lethally dull
Feb 10, 6:31PM
Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo and writer-director Dan Gilroy — who worked together on the creepy crime thriller “Nightcrawler” — have reunited for a new Netflix Original film, “Velvet Buzzsaw.” While “Nightcrawler” wasn’t perfect, it was tense and unsettling, filled with eerily beautiful shots of nighttime L.A., plus a career-best performance from Gyllenhaal. It’s hard to […]
Companies raising supergiant VC aren't getting any younger
Feb 10, 6:10PM
Despite the fact that supergiant venture capital rounds have become an almost everyday occurrence, the age at which companies close their first nine-figure funding deal hasn't really changed.
Privacy is a commons
Feb 10, 2:00PM
“The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society,” quoth Wikipedia, “held in common, not owned privately.” We live in an era of surveillance capitalism in a symbiotic relationship with advertising technology, quoth me. And I put it to you that privacy is not just a virtue, or a […]
Is Europe closing in on an antitrust fix for surveillance technologists?
Feb 10, 12:33AM
The German Federal Cartel Office’s decision to order Facebook to change how it processes users’ personal data this week is a sign the antitrust tide could at last be turning against platform power. One European Commission source we spoke to, who was commenting in a personal capacity, described it as “clearly pioneering” and “a big deal”, […]
Fitbit's newest fitness tracker is just for employees and health insurance members
Feb 09, 8:32PM
Fitbit has a new fitness tracker, but it’s one that you can’t buy in stores. The company quietly uncorked the Inspire on Friday, releasing its first product that is available only to corporate employees and health insurance members. The idea is to offer a fully subsidized wearable that helps the company dig deeper into the […]
What to expect from Mobile World Congress 2019
Feb 09, 8:00PM
I've said it before, and I'll say it again: 2019 just might be the year that smartphones get fun again. After years of similar form factors and slight upgrades, the mobile industry's back is against the wall. For the first time ever, sales are down, owning to economic factors and slower upgrade cycles. Most people […]
Netflix reportedly paid $10M for campaign documentary featuring Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Feb 09, 7:53PM
Freshman Congresswomen and meme queen Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is headed to Netflix. The streaming service said this week that it has snapped up ‘Knock Down the House,’ a Sundance award-winning documentary profiling the campaigns of four female progressive candidates, including Ocasio-Cortez, in the 2018 midterm election. The documentary raised money via a Kickstarter campaign last year and it […]
Ambitious Singapore startup Delegate wants to bring its event booking platform to the US
Feb 09, 7:08PM
It’s not often that you hear about a startup from Singapore with ambitions to expand to the U.S, but that’s exactly the goal for event booking service Delegate. Founded in August 2015, the company aims to be a one-stop shop for booking an event, that covers corporate and professional functions, celebrations like weddings and more personal events […]
Startup names may have passed peak weirdness
Feb 09, 5:09PM
For years, decades even, startup names have been getting weirder. This isn't a scientific verdict, but it is how things have seemed to someone who spends a lot of hours perusing this stuff.
Startups Weekly: Spotify gets acquisitive and Instacart screws up
Feb 09, 1:00PM
This week in startups: Turvo takes center stage, a mental health unicorn emerges and Reddit rakes in cash.
Feel the beep: This album is played entirely on a PC motherboard speaker
Feb 09, 12:33AM
If you're craving a truly different sound with which to slay the crew this weekend, look no further than System Beeps, a new album by shiru8bit — though you may have to drag your old 486 out of storage to play it. Yes, this album runs in MS-DOS and its music is produced entirely through the PC speaker — you know, the one that can only beep.
Transportation Weekly: Amazon's secret acquisition and all the AV feels
Feb 08, 10:32PM
Welcome to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. I cover all the ways people and goods move from Point A to Point B — today and in the future — whether it’s by bike, bus, scooter, car, train, truck, robotaxi or rocket. Sure, let’s include hyperloop and eVTOLs, or […]
Waymo CTO on the company's past, present and what comes next
Feb 08, 10:22PM
A decade ago, about a dozen or so engineers gathered at Google’s main Mountain View campus on Charleston Road to work on Project Chauffeur, a secret endeavor housed under the tech giant’s moonshot factory X. Project Chauffeur — popularly know as the “Google self-driving car project” — kicked off in January 2009. It would eventually […]
Facebook picks up retail computer vision outfit GrokStyle
Feb 08, 10:05PM
If you've ever seen a lamp or chair that you liked and wished you could just take a picture and find it online, well, GrokStyle let you do that — and now the company has been snatched up by Facebook to augment its own growing computer vision department.
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