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Former YouTube star sentenced to ten years in prison for child porn
May 04, 12:16PM
Former Youtube star Austin Jones has been sentenced to ten years in a US federal prison after pleading guilty to persuading underage girls to send him explicit videos of themselves. Jones, who made a name for himself online singing covers of songs, was arrested and charged in 2017 with two counts of producing child pornography. […]
Startups Weekly: Will the Seattle tech scene ever reach its full potential?
May 04, 12:00PM
In this week's newsletter: WeWork files confidentially for IPO, Lyft loses scooter head and Magic Leap raises MORE money.
Uber is facing Australian class action suit alleging 'unlawful conduct'
May 04, 10:58AM
As it gears up to go public Uber is facing legacy baggage down under: A class action lawsuit has been filed in Australia on behalf of around 6,000 taxi and hire car drivers and license owners, Reuters reported Friday. The suit was filed Friday at the Victoria Supreme Court by personal injury and compensation law […]
Lego introduces a new STEM Star Wars kit
May 04, 7:00AM
No one does brand synergy quite like Lego. The company's been one of the biggest Star Wars licensers over the years, and for the first time, it's applying one of the most valuable pieces of IP to its own line of STEM kits, Lego Boost. For this year's Star Wars Day, the Danish company is […]
Coinbase loses its first CTO after just one year in the job
May 04, 4:28AM
Coinbase, the $8 billion-valued crypto exchange, has lost its CTO after Balaji Srinivasan announced his departure from the company. Srinivasan became the U.S. company’s first CTO one year ago after it acquired Earn.com, where he was CEO and co-founder. Given the tenure — one year and one day — it looks like Srinivasan’s departure comes […]
A glitch is breaking all Firefox extensions
May 04, 3:53AM
Did you just open Firefox only to find all of your extensions disabled and/or otherwise not working? You’re not alone, and it’s nothing you did. Reports are pouring in of a glitch that has spontaneously disabled effectively all Firefox extensions. Each extension is now being listed as a “legacy” extension, alongside a warning that it […]
Watch Rocket Lab launch its second orbital mission of 2019 late tonight
May 03, 10:52PM
Fast-growing launch provider Rocket Lab is launching its second orbital payload of the year late tonight by our reckoning, early in the evening at the launch site in New Zealand. It will carry three experimental satellites to low Earth orbit, and you can watch it live.
Security lapse exposed a Chinese smart city surveillance system
May 03, 8:14PM
Smart cities are designed to make life easier for their residents: better traffic management by clearing routes, making sure the public transport is running on time and having cameras keeping a watchful eye from above. But what happens when that data leaks? One such database was open for weeks for anyone to look inside. Security […]
Why carriers keep your data longer
May 03, 8:14PM
Your wireless carrier knows where you are as you read this on your phone — otherwise, it couldn't connect your phone in the first place. But your wireless carrier also has a memory. It knows where you took your phone in the last hour, the last week, the last month, the last year — and […]
Trump's tariffs could knock Tesla's Autopilot off course
May 03, 7:55PM
The White House has refused to exempt the “brain” of Tesla's Autopilot technology from punitive import tariffs, a decision that could delay or disrupt the company's self-driving ambitions, TechCrunch has learned. At a special "autonomy day" event last week, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled advanced Autopilot 3.0 hardware, including a new custom chip intended to […]
Dear Hollywood, here are 5 female founders to showcase instead of Elizabeth Holmes
May 03, 7:30PM
It's hard to pass on a chance to stoke startup schadenfreude, but Hollywood could put the spotlight on women who pioneered the bleeding edge of tech and actually produced billion-dollar successes.
Spotify's leanback instant listening app Stations hits iOS
May 03, 7:19PM
Spotify has launched its instant listening app Stations on iOS, but only in Australia for the time being. The release comes nearly a year and a half after the Stations app first arrived on the market, initially for Android users in Australia. Dubbed an “experiment,” the app allows users to jump right into streaming instead […]
Liam O'Connor, hired to help build Lyft's bike and scooter business, has left after 7 months
May 03, 7:12PM
The emerging business of offering bikes and scooters on demand has not always been very smooth, and today comes one of the latest bumps: TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Liam O’Connor, an executive hired to help transportation company Lyft build its bike and scooter operations, has left after seven months with the newly-public company. […]
How German and US authorities took down the owners of darknet drug emporium Wall Street Market
May 03, 7:08PM
The major darknet marketplace known as the Wall Street Market have been seized and its alleged operators arrested in a joint operation between European and U.S. authorities. Millions in cash, cryptocurrency, and other assets were collected, and the markets shut down. How investigators tied these anonymity-obsessed individuals to the illegal activities is instructive.
Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick may not be invited to ring opening bell
May 03, 7:00PM
Despite Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick wanting to be part of the company going public, the company’s board is considering not letting Kalanick be there to ring the opening bell on May 10, Uber’s first day of trading, Axios reports. Kalanick also wants to bring his dad, The New York Times reports. Additionally, Kalanick’s fellow co-founders […]
SEC hits failed Apple sapphire glass manufacturer with fraud charges
May 03, 6:13PM
Way back in 2013, Apple spent a whopping $578 million on sapphire glass. The sum, spread out over four installments, was an advance to GT Advanced Technologies. Already in use on the company's home buttons and camera, the plan was to implement the extremely hard material on a larger scale, replacing Gorilla Glass in the […]
'The Key,' a VR story about dreams and refugees, wins Storyscapes prize at Tribeca
May 03, 6:04PM
“The Key,” a surreal story with a real-world political message, has won the Storyscapes award at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival That’s the festival’s juried award for immersive art. It comes with a $10,000 cash prize, which the creators say will be donated to the Friends of Refugees organizations. I had a chance to experience […]
How Amazon's HQ2 could disrupt government IT, for the worse
May 03, 5:05PM
When Amazon entered markets like bookselling or groceries, its competition proved highly disruptive to incumbents. In November 2018, Amazon declared that it had selected northern Virginia as one of two locations for its new second headquarters, and four months later it announced that HQ2 would only proceed in the Virginia site. The Seattle company has grandly entered yet another market, that for science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) talent in the metro Washington, D.C., area.
Daily Crunch: Facebook bans far-right figures
May 03, 4:50PM
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. Facebook bans a fresh batch of mostly far-right figures The banned figures include Milo Yiannopoulos, Paul Joseph Watson, Laura Loomer, Paul […]
When it comes to elections, Facebook moves slow, may still break things
May 03, 4:16PM
This week, Facebook invited a small group of journalists — which didn’t include TechCrunch — to look at the “war room” it has set up in Dublin, Ireland, to help monitor its products for election-related content that violates its policies. (“Time and space constraints” limited the numbers, a spokesperson told us when he asked why […]
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