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Netflix is testing a pop-out floating video player on desktop
Jun 22, 11:27AM
Netflix is testing out a new feature that could mean you never have to stop watching, not even while you work – it’s a pop-out video player, similar to the one you may be used to from iOS and macOS for any website or app that supports Safari’s native video player. Basically, that means you […]
Google Pay expands its integration with PayPal to online merchants
Jun 21, 8:09PM
Google and PayPal have been strategic partners for some time. The companies in 2017 announced that PayPal would become a payment method in Android Pay, the service that later rebranded as Google Pay. Last year, users who added PayPal as a payment method on Google Pay could then pay for services like Gmail, YouTube, Google […]
What money should be
Jun 21, 7:00PM
With the release of the Facebook consortium's project Libra whitepaper, the internet, tech world, financial services industry and policy circles are all burning with conversation on the project's potential.
Airbus-owned Voom will compete with Uber Copter in the US in 2019
Jun 21, 6:56PM
The U.S. air taxi market is heating up: Aeronautics industry giant Airbus will be among the companies operating on-demand air travel service in 2019 in American skies, FastCompany reports. Airbus’ Voom on-demand helicopter shuttle operation will set up shop in the U.S. starting this fall, after previously providing service exclusively in Latin America. Uber announced […]
Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative gives $68M to fund Human Cell Atlas projects
Jun 21, 6:33PM
An ongoing global project to map the human body cell by cell has receive a $68 million shot in the arm from the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative. It will support dozens of individual projects contributing to the eponymous atlas of human cells.
Ray Dalio is coming to Disrupt SF
Jun 21, 5:53PM
When it comes to the gods of finance, few people reach the stratosphere of Ray Dalio . The founder of Bridgewater, the investment firm that has grown to manage $150 billion in assets, Dalio is one of the most successful financial entrepreneurs of his generation, and indeed, of all time. While Dalio and Bridgewater are […]
Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 prepares to go sailing on sunlight
Jun 21, 5:47PM
Among the many spacecraft and satellites ascending to space on Monday's Falcon Heavy launch, the Planetary Society's LightSail 2 may be the most interesting. If all goes well, a week from launch it will be moving through space — slowly, but surely — on nothing more than the force exerted on it by sunlight.
Daily Crunch: Google's not making any more tablets
Jun 21, 5:42PM
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. Google says it's not making any more tablets "For Google's first-party hardware efforts, we'll be focusing on Chrome OS laptops and […]
Slack and Zoom are flying high; they're also being chased already by upstarts
Jun 21, 5:42PM
Two of the highest-flying now-public enterprise companies of the year — Slack and Zoom — are different in many ways, besides the fact that one is focused on workplace messaging while the other is centered around video conferencing. Slack began life as a very different startup, while Zoom founder Eric Yuan knew from the outset […]
Apply to Startup Battlefield for a shot at TC fame and fortune
Jun 21, 5:30PM
What would a $100,000 cash infusion do for your early-stage startup? Don't just imagine it. Apply to compete in Startup Battlefield at Disrupt San Francisco 2019 on October 2-4. Our premier pitch competition has launched hundreds of startups on an exponential success trajectory, attracts massive media and investor attention and, yeah, it offers a fat $100K […]
'Harry Potter: Wizards Unite' reaches 400K downloads, $300K in consumer spend in UK and US
Jun 21, 5:29PM
Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, the highly anticipated new mobile game from Pokémon GO makers Niantic and Warner Brothers’ games division, is off to a good start, but it’s not breaking Pokémon GO records. According to preliminary estimates from Sensor Tower, the new game has been installed some 400,000 times in its first 24 hours in […]
'This is Your Life in Silicon Valley': Nomiku Founder CEO Lisa Fetterman on why Silicon Valley doesn't care about female founders
Jun 21, 5:11PM
Welcome to this week's transcribed edition of This is Your Life in Silicon Valley. We're running an experiment for Extra Crunch members that puts This is Your Life in Silicon Valley in words – so you can read from wherever you are. This is your Life in Silicon Valley was originally started by Sunil Rajaraman and […]
Prices increase tonight on passes to Disrupt SF 2019
Jun 21, 5:00PM
This is it, the final day the super-early-bird is hanging out at TechCrunch dispensing serious savings on passes to Disrupt San Francisco 2019. Once the clock ticks onto 11:59 p.m. (PT) tonight, the bird flies off to parts unknown. The known part? Ticket prices go up. Disrupt events provide outstanding ROI at any price. But […]
LTE flaws let hackers 'easily' spoof presidential alerts
Jun 21, 4:46PM
Security vulnerabilities in LTE can allow hackers to “easily” spoof presidential alerts sent to mobile phones in the event of a national emergency. Using off-the-shelf equipment and open-source software, a working exploit made it possible to send a simulated alert to every phone in a 50,000-seat football stadium with little effort, with the potential of […]
TechCrunch is back in New York next week!
Jun 21, 4:39PM
TechCrunch is headed back to NYC to find the next wave of early-stage startups tackling big ideas! Last time we held an event in New York it was 2017, so we are overdue for a visit. Hear about what TechCrunch has been up to — Startup Battlefield, Extra Crunch and more. This is your chance […]
Nowports raises $5.3 million to become Latin America's digital shipping answer to Flexport
Jun 21, 4:38PM
Nowports, a developer of software and services to track freight shipments from ports to destinations across Latin America, has aims to become the regional answer to Flexport’s billion-dollar digital shipping business. Almost 54 million containers are imported and exported from Latin America each year, and nearly half of them are either delayed or lost due […]
YouTube confirms a test where the comments are hidden by default
Jun 21, 4:01PM
YouTube’s comments section has a bad reputation. It’s even been called “the worst on the internet,” and a reflection of YouTube’s overall toxic culture, where creators are rewarded for outrageous behavior — whether that’s tormenting and exploiting their children, filming footage of a suicide victim, promoting dangerous “miracle cures” or sharing conspiracies, to name a […]
Three years after moving off AWS, Dropbox infrastructure continues to evolve
Jun 21, 3:35PM
Conventional wisdom would suggest that you close your data centers and move to the cloud, not the other way around, but in 2016 Dropbox undertook the opposite journey. It (mostly) ended its long-time relationship with AWS and built its own data centers. Of course, that same conventional wisdom would say, it’s going to get prohibitively […]
Early-bird pricing ends tonight for TC Sessions: Mobility 2019
Jun 21, 3:30PM
The robotaxi's blowin' its horn and zooming autonomously down the home stretch. At 11:59 p.m. (PT) on June 21 — that's tonight, people — we hit the brakes on early-bird pricing for TC Sessions: Mobility 2019. Don't miss your chance to join us in San Jose, Calif. on July 10 and save a smooth $100. […]
Space startup Wyvern wants to make data about Earth's health much more accessible
Jun 21, 3:25PM
The private space industry is seeing a revolution driven by cube satellites, which are affordable, lightweight satellites that are much easier than traditional satellites to design, build and launch. It’s paving the way for new businesses like Wyvern, an Alberta-based startup that provides a very specific service that wouldn’t even have been possible to offer […]
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