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When someone great is gone: How to address grief in the workplace with empathy
Jul 12, 5:01PM
Birthday cakes, gift cards, free lunches, snacks, movie tickets, and other perks are generously bestowed on employees to celebrate life's happy moments. This is an improvement from the industrial...
Daily Crunch: Twitter will let you hide replies
Jul 12, 4:21PM
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. Twitter will start testing its 'hide replies' feature next week, in Canada Before you start complaining about censorship, keep in mind […]
Verified Expert Brand Designer: Studio Rodrigo
Jul 12, 4:02PM
Ritik Dholakia worked as a startup product manager before he co-founded Studio Rodrigo, a branding and product design agency based in NYC. Unlike traditional branding firms, Studio Rodrigo is proud of its product design chops, especially when it comes to helping early-stage startups build version one of their product. It's not an easy balancing act […]
Facebook answers how Libra taxes & anti-fraud will work
Jul 12, 3:53PM
Facebook provided TechCrunch with new information on how its cryptocurrency will stay legal amidst allegations from President Trump that Libra could facilitate “unlawful behavior”. Facebook and Libra Association executives tell me they expect Libra will incur sales tax and capital gains taxes. They confirmed that Facebook is also in talks with local convenience stores and […]
The Google News tab in Search is being redesigned for readability
Jul 12, 3:39PM
The Google News tab is getting a makeover. Google announced this week, by way of a tweet, a significant redesign of the Google.com News tab on the desktop, which will organize articles in a card-style layout, while also better emphasizing publisher names. The end result makes Google News more aesthetically pleasing, but it comes at […]
Sage Plus for Experts gives travel experts a central place to share their content
Jul 12, 3:04PM
Sage is giving reviewers, chefs and other experts and publishers a central place to share all their content. To do this, the startup has created a new product called Sage Plus for Experts, which isn’t open to the public yet, but is accepting signups from those aforementioned travel experts — the kinds of experts who […]
MIT's human-mirroring robot nails the Bottle Cap Challenge
Jul 12, 2:53PM
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has a robot that can mirror the actions of a human just by watching their bicep. This has a number of practical applications, including potentially assisting a person to lift large or awkward objects, but it can also be applied to… more topical pursuits. The robot, which […]
Amazon Prime Day's top device deals include discounted Echo speakers and Fire TV's
Jul 12, 2:36PM
Amazon’s list of Prime Day deals has finally dropped. The retailer’s Black Friday-style sale for its Prime members is one of the biggest online shopping days of the year, as other retailers now take part with their own competitive sales. But some of the best deals to be found on Prime Day are those on […]
Dejbox wants to deliver food to offices in business districts at scale
Jul 12, 2:10PM
Meet Dejbox, a French food delivery startup that tries to avoid busy cities in order to accommodate people who really need a new lunch option. The company is a food delivery startup that designs its own meals and works with other companies to cook them, sell them and deliver them. "Corporate headquarters are more and […]
Elon Musk-backed Neuralink to detail its progress on upgrading the brain to keep pace with AI
Jul 12, 2:02PM
Elon Musk’s brain computer interface (BCI) venture Neuralink will provide some more insight into what they’ve been working on for the past two years, during which time we’ve heard very little in the way of updates on their progress. In 2017, we learned that Neuralink’s overall driving mission was to help humans keep pace with […]
FEC says political campaigns can now get discounted cybersecurity help
Jul 12, 1:09PM
In a long-awaited decision, the Federal Elections Commission will now allow political campaigns to appoint cybersecurity helpers to protect political campaigns from cyberthreats and malicious attackers. The FEC, which regulates political campaigns and contributions, was initially poised to block the effort under existing rules that disallow campaigns to receive discounted services for federal candidates because […]
Amazon reportedly ramps development on Alexa-powered home robot on wheels
Jul 12, 1:06PM
Bloomberg reported last April that Amazon was working on a home robot codenamed “Vesta” (after the Roman goddess of the hearth and home), and now the publication says that development on the project continues. Plus, the report includes new details about the specifics of the robot, including that it will indeed support Alexa and have […]
The IPO window that never closes
Jul 12, 1:00PM
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was a bit of a turn-about. Kate was off this week and Alex was back, so we brought back a few favorites to tide us over until our regular leader returns. For this IPO-themed episode, we […]
Amazon said to be launching new Echo speaker with premium sound next year
Jul 12, 12:42PM
Amazon is reportedly looking to offer an Echo that more directly competes with high-end speakers like the Sonos line of devices or Apple’s HomePod, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The speaker should be released sometime next year, according to the sources cited in the report, and will be somewhat wider than the existing […]
SpaceX targets Tuesday for Starhopper demo rocket hover test
Jul 12, 12:30PM
SpaceX is preparing for a key test in the development of its next-generation Starship spacecraft, with a target of performing a “hover” demo of its “Starhopper” prototype rocket on Tuesday next week. The test will be the first time the rocket attempts liftoff with the new Raptor engine SpaceX is designing to succeed the Merlins […]
WPP sells 60% of market research giant Kantar to Bain, valuing Kantar at $4B
Jul 12, 12:10PM
Some M&A is afoot in the world of market research and analysis, underscoring just how much of our media consumption and consumer habits revolve around digital platforms. WPP today announced that it would sell 60% of Kantar — the firm that provides stats and insights on how consumers buy and think of products in services […]
VW invests $2.6 billion in self-driving startup Argo AI as part of Ford alliance
Jul 12, 11:59AM
VW Group is investing $2.6 billion in capital and assets into Argo AI, the Pittsburgh-based autonomous vehicle startup that burst onto the scene two years ago with $1 billion in backing from Ford. The deal, which has been rumored for months, is part of a broader alliance between VW Group and Ford that covers autonomous and […]
Ford and Volkswagen team up on EVs, with Ford the first outside automaker to use VW's MEB platform
Jul 12, 11:59AM
Automakers Ford and Volkswagen have announced a partnership today that covers a number of areas, including autonomy (via a new investment by VW in Argo AI) and collaboration on development of electric vehicles. This EV tie-up will see Ford use Volkswagen’s MEB platform, which it’s using as the core of its forthcoming line of consumer […]
City Pantry, the UK corporate catering marketplace, has been acquired by Just Eat for £16M
Jul 12, 11:55AM
City Pantry, the office catering marketplace that lets you order in food for staff, company events and meetings, has been acquired by takeout marketplace and delivery giant Just Eat. The price is described as an initial cash offering of £16 million, with a possible further payout due if City Pantry achieves agreed operational and financial […]
Kencko chugs down $3.4M to help you get more fruit and vegetables in your diet
Jul 12, 10:12AM
Kencko, a company that wants to help people eat more fruit and vegetables in their daily life, is entering feast mode after it announced a $3.4 million seed round for growth and product development. We profiled the company last year, but — for those who missed it — Kencko develops plant-based products that help people […]
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