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How to go to market in middle America
Jul 19, 4:39PM
There comes a time for many startup companies where they either realize they need to do a nationwide roll-out, or they need to actively target buyers in the middle of the country...
Lyft expands its PIN feature for airport pickups to LaGuardia
Jul 19, 4:33PM
Lyft has announced an expansion of its new program designed to make airports pickups less confusing for riders and drivers alike, by directing riders to a designated pickup spot where they’ll show the driver a PIN code. The program is launching this weekend at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, the company says, and the plan to […]
Powering the brains of tomorrow's intelligent machines
Jul 19, 4:30PM
Sense and compute are the electronic eyes and ears that will be the ultimate power behind automating menial work and encouraging humans to cultivate their creativity.
Parrot's getting out of the low-end drone business
Jul 19, 4:28PM
Parrot announced the AR.Drone back at CES 2010, three years before DJI's Phantom 1. It was a seemingly odd move by a company best known for making bluetooth speakers and headsets, but over the years it's continued to release fairly novel takes on the growing category. Two years back, the French company announced its intentions […]
Mylk Guys wants to be the online vegan grocery store that non-vegans can love
Jul 19, 4:21PM
Gaurav Maken, the chief executive officer of the online vegan grocery store, Mylk Guys, doesn’t think of his company as a place to just buy food. For him, it’s a testing ground and platform for all of the new food products he expects to be developed as startup entrepreneurs and established food companies start tackling […]
Twitter tests a new way to label replies
Jul 19, 2:56PM
Twitter is testing a new way to make conversation threads easier to follow, with the launch of a new test that labels notable replies with special icons. If the original poster replies somewhere in the thread, their tweet will have a small microphone icon next to their profile picture. Other tweets may be labeled, as […]
Twitter to attempt to address conversation gaps caused by hidden tweets
Jul 19, 2:45PM
Twitter’s self-service tool for blocking content you don’t want to see (as well as a growing tendency for users to delete a lot of the content they post) is making some of the conversations on the platform look like Swiss cheese. The company says in the next few weeks it will introduce added “context” on […]
Huawei's new OS is for industrial use, not Android replacement
Jul 19, 2:27PM
Seems Hongmeng isn't the Android replacement it's been pitched as, after all. The initial story certainly tracked, as Huawei has been preparing for the very real possibility of life after Google, but the Chinese hardware giant says the operating system is primarily focused on industrial use. The latest report arrives courtesy of Chinese state news […]
China's Tiangong-2 space station is officially no more
Jul 19, 2:24PM
Chinese space station Tiangong-2 has officially ended its mission, and the orbital research facility’s entire existence. The platform de-orbited and burned up as planned at just after 9 AM ET on Friday, coming down over the South Pacific Ocean, as confirmed by the official Chinese space agency. The station weighed around nine U.S. tons at […]
After Baidu tie-up, BMW taps Tencent for autonomous driving in China
Jul 19, 2:12PM
China is BMW’s largest market, and the German automaker knows in order to capture the country’s demanding consumers, its future models must support robust autonomous driving capability. But to build it itself in China is hardly possible. The success of autonomous driving relies in part on high-definition mapping, a process that requires an expansive collection […]
Virgin Orbit signs agreement to launch small satellites for the UK's Royal Air Force
Jul 19, 1:51PM
Virgin Orbit, the small satellite launch company backed by billionaire Richard Branson, has signed an initial agreement to develop small satellite launch capabilities for the U.K.’s Royal Air Force (RAF). The deal, which is part of the RAF’s Artemis project, will see Virgin Orbit aim to launch hardware provided by Guildford, U.K.-based Surrey Satellites in […]
Can you really predict the next generation of unicorns?
Jul 19, 1:00PM
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch's venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
Nvidia recreates the Apollo 11 landing with real-time ray tracing
Jul 19, 1:00PM
It’s the 50th anniversary of the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing, and Nvidia is using the anniversary to show off the power of its current GPU technology, using the RTX real-time ray tracing, which was the topic of the day at its recent GTC Conference. Nvidia employed its latest tech to make big improvements to […]
Lexion raises $4.2M to bring AI to contract management
Jul 19, 1:00PM
Contract management isn’t exactly an exciting subject, but it’s a real pain point for many companies. It also lends itself to automation, thanks to recent advances in machine learning and natural language processing. It’s no surprise then, that we see renewed interest in this space and that investors are putting more money into it. Earlier […]
Huawei 5G indecision is hitting UK's relations abroad, warns committee
Jul 19, 12:20PM
The U.K.’s next prime minister must prioritize a decision on whether or not to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei to be a 5G supplier, a parliamentary committee has urged — warning that the country’s international relations are being “seriously damaged” by ongoing delay. In a statement on 5G suppliers, the Intelligence and Security committee (ISC) […]
Tiny UK startup takes on Google's Wing in the race to a drone traffic control system
Jul 19, 11:07AM
A future where drones can easily and cheaply do many useful things such as deliver packages, undertake search and rescue missions and deliver urgent medical supplies, not to mention unclogging our roads with flying taxis, seems like a future worth shooting for. But before all this can happen, we need to make sure the thousands […]
VertoFX raises $2M for its African and EM currency trading platform
Jul 19, 9:30AM
VertoFX, an Africa and emerging markets-focused currency trading and payment startup, has raised a $2.1 million seed round, led by Accelerated Digital Ventures. The London-based company, with a subsidiary in Lagos, Nigeria, has created a platform that allows businesses and banks to exchange and make payments in exotic foreign currencies that don’t often convert or […]
Tesla's new V3 Supercharger can charge up to 1,500 electric vehicles a day
Jul 19, 2:02AM
Tesla has opened a massive next-generation electric vehicle charging station in Las Vegas that combines the company’s core products into one sustainable energy ecosystem, fulfilling a vision CEO Elon Musk laid out nearly three years ago. The new V3 Supercharger, which supports a peak rate of up to 250 kilowatts, is designed to dramatically cut […]
WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has reportedly cashed out of over $700 million ahead of its IPO
Jul 19, 12:52AM
Adam Neumann, the co-founder and chief executive of the international real estate co-working startup WeWork has reportedly cashed out of more than $700 million from his company ahead of its initial public offering. The size and timing of the payouts, made through a mix of stock sales and loans secured by his equity in the company, […]
Chinese space station Tiangong-2 is about to burn up over the Pacific
Jul 19, 12:47AM
The final hours for China's Tiangong-2 space station are at hand, as the 8-ton piece of hardware will fall to earth, or rather sea, some time in the next 20 hours or so in a controlled deorbit manuever. But unlike with its predecessor, it isn't a mystery where this particular piece of space debris is going to fall.
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