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No Man's Sky has a big new update due out this summer
Mar 16, 1:46AM
After a conspicuous stretch of silence ending with a mysterious teaser tweet on Thursday, No Man’s Sky creator Sean Murray revealed that another major free update is on the way. The new content, which is the first since last year’s Visions update, will hit the massive space exploration game this summer. The bundle of new […]
XGenomes is bringing DNA sequencing to the masses
Mar 15, 11:30PM
As healthcare moves toward genetically tailored treatments, one of the biggest hurdles to truly personalized medicine is the lack of fast, low-cost genetic testing. And few people are more familiar with the problems of today’s genetic diagnostics tools than Kalim Mir, the 52-year-old founder of XGenomes, who has spent his entire professional career studying the […]
Shiok Meats takes the cultured meat revolution to the seafood aisle with plans for cultured shrimp
Mar 15, 11:05PM
Rising consumer interest in alternative proteins and meat replacements has brought hundreds of millions of dollars to companies trying to grow or replace beef or chicken, but few companies have turned their attention to developing seafood alternatives. Now Shiok Meats is looking to change that. The company has raised pre-seed financing from investors like AIM […]
After Christchurch, Reddit bans communities infamous for sharing graphic videos of death
Mar 15, 10:12PM
In the aftermath of the tragic mosque massacre that claimed 49 lives in Christchurch, New Zealand, tech companies scrambled to purge their platforms of promotional materials that the shooter left behind. As most of the internet is now unfortunately aware, the event was broadcast live on Facebook, making it one of the most horrific incidents […]
Verified Expert Lawyer: Mital Makadia
Mar 15, 9:16PM
Mital Makadia's legal career began on the East Coast, with Big Law firms, but she moved into early-stage startup work with long-time Silicon Valley boutique Grellas Shah nearly a decade ago. She'll work with companies on a range of usual startup issues, but she and the firm also focus on individual founder representation (when it […]
What to watch for in a VC term sheet
Mar 15, 9:09PM
Mital Makadia Contributor Mital is a partner at Grellas Shah, focusing on representing tech startups and startup founders. She provides counsel on a variety of corporate and transactional matters and negotiates and structures equity financings, M&A transactions, and commercial and intellectual property transactions for her clients. When startup founders review a VC term sheet, they […]
Portal automatically opens doors for wheelchair users, no button pressing required
Mar 15, 8:51PM
Buttons or plates (like the one above) that automatically open doors can do a lot to make a building more accessible, but they aren’t always a perfect solution. For wheelchair users with limited upper body movement, the buttons can be tough to hit. Other times, the button is installed poorly — too high, too low, […]
Beto O'Rourke could be the first hacker president
Mar 15, 7:33PM
Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke has revealed he was a member of a notorious decades-old hacking group. The former congressman was a member of the Texas-based hacker group, the Cult of the Dead Cow, known for inspiring early hacktivism in the internet age and building exploits and hacks for Microsoft Windows. The group used the […]
Zeus raises $24M to make you a living-as-a-service landlord
Mar 15, 7:30PM
Cookie-cutter corporate housing turns people into worker drones. When an employee needs to move to a new city for a few months, they're either stuck in bland, giant apartment complexes or Airbnbs meant for shorter stays. But Zeus lets any homeowner get paid to host white-collar transient labor. Through its managed ownership model, Zeus takes […]
The inevitability of tokenized data
Mar 15, 7:30PM
Chris McCoy Contributor Chris McCoy is the chief executive of Footprint and the creator of Storecoin. More posts by this contributor Yesterday’s “plastics” are today’s crypto tokens We're reaching the endgame of an inevitable showdown between big tech and regulators with a ley battleground around consumer data. In many ways, the fact that things have […]
PagerDuty just filed its S-1
Mar 15, 7:14PM
Yet another San Francisco-based company looks to be going public imminently. PagerDuty, an 8.5-year-old startup that sends a wide range of companies information about their technology, just filed its S-1, a public disclosure about its IPOs plans. PagerDuty, which helps companies quickly respond to IT incidents, as well as increasingly tries to anticipate them, had […]
James Gunn is back at the helm of Guardians of the Galaxy 3
Mar 15, 7:05PM
In a rare turn, director James Gunn is once again heading up up the third installment of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy series. Gunn, who directed the previous two films, was fired over the summer when offensive tweets dating from between 2008 and 2011 resurfaced after being promoted by right-wing personalities like Jack Posobiec and […]
Twitter confirms a new 'Subscribe to Conversation' feature for following tweets of interest
Mar 15, 7:00PM
In addition to testing out a new format for conversations within a prototype app called twttr and other features like a “Hide Tweet” button, Twitter today confirmed it’s also developing a feature that would allow users to subscribe to individual conversations taking place on its platform. The new option was first spotted by Jane Manchun […]
Suse is once again an independent company
Mar 15, 6:19PM
Open-source infrastructure and application delivery vendor Suse — the company behind one of the oldest Linux distributions — today announced that it is once again an independent company. The company today finalized its $2.5 billion acquisition by growth investor EQT from Micro Focus, which itself had acquired it back in 2014. Few companies have changed […]
CoParenter helps divorced parents settle disputes using AI and human mediation
Mar 15, 6:06PM
A former judge and family law educator has teamed up with tech entrepreneurs to launch an app they hope will help divorced parents better manage their co-parenting disputes, communications, shared calendar and other decisions within a single platform. The app, called coParenter, aims to be more comprehensive than its competitors, while also leveraging a combination […]
Big data AI startup Noble.AI raises a second seed round from a chemical giant
Mar 15, 5:27PM
Noble.AI, an SF/French AI company that claims to accelerate decision making in R&D, has raised a new round of funding from Solvay Ventures, the VC arm of a large chemical company, Solvay SA. Although the round was undisclosed, TechCrunch understands it to be a second seed round, and we know the company has closed a […]
Last day to save $100 on TC Sessions: Robotics + AI 2019
Mar 15, 4:45PM
Like all good things must, early-bird pricing for tickets to TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics + AI comes to an end today. This is your last chance to save $100 on our day-long gathering of the greatest minds, makers and investors in the robotics and AI communities. Procrastination has a price. Buy your $249 ticket today or […]
Daily Crunch: Social media struggles with shooting tragedy
Mar 15, 4:30PM
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. Videos of shooting tragedy in New Zealand continue resurfacing on social media Earlier today there was a horrendous mass mosque shooting […]
Facebook says its new AI technology can detect 'revenge porn'
Mar 15, 3:24PM
Facebook on Friday announced a new artificial intelligence-powered tool that it says will help the social network detect revenge porn — the nonconsensually shared intimate images that, when posted online, can have devastating consequences for those who appear in the photos. The technology will leverage both AI and machine learning techniques to proactively detect near-nude […]
Toyota and Panasonic will showcase assistive robotics during the Tokyo Summer Olympics
Mar 15, 3:10PM
Next year, the world's top athletes will compete in the Tokyo Summer Games. Some of Japan's biggest companies will also happily be using the opportunity to show off their latest technologies — namely a fleet of robotics aimed at helping human spectators navigate around the event. Officials behind the games showcased some of the technologies […]
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