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Apple releases iOS 12.4 with potential software support for Apple Card
Jul 22, 5:06PM
While iOS 13 is right around the corner with a ton of new features, it isn’t quite ready just yet. Apple has just released iOS 12.4, a new stable update. There aren't many radical changes, but this is the first version that theoretically supports the Apple Card — the feature isn’t enabled just yet. Apple […]
Apple fixes Walkie Talkie app vulnerability in watchOS update
Jul 22, 5:03PM
If you are, for some reason, an avid Walkie Talkie user on the Apple Watch, you will be pleased to learn that the functionality is back in the latest watchOS update today. The watchOS 5.3 release notes specify that the update “[p]rovides important security updates including a fix for the Walkie-Talkie app.” The feature was […]
You can now get your own artistic portrait in the style of a master thanks to AI
Jul 22, 4:44PM
A new project called AI Portraits from MIT’s IBM Watson AI Lab can capture your essence in the artistic style of some of the world’s great masters, using AI powered by a generative adversarial network (GAN) to actually rebuild your mug from scratch, which goes above and beyond the old trick may other apps used […]
Pinterest launches wellness activities to help users cope with stress, anxiety
Jul 22, 4:44PM
Pinterest wants to help its users relax.
Free stock trading app Robinhood raises $323M at $7.6B valuation
Jul 22, 4:36PM
Robinhood, the popular free stock trading app, this morning announced a massive $323 million round led by DST Global. The Series E financing values the Menlo Park-headquartered business at $7.6 billion, up from its Series D valuation of more than $5 billion. Ribbit Capital, NEA, Sequoia and Thrive Capital have also participated in the round, […]
Meet 500 Startups' 25th batch of startups
Jul 22, 4:24PM
Demo Day season is upon us.
The roles tools play in employee engagement
Jul 22, 4:05PM
Employee engagement isn't just about the morale of individual workers—it also enables broader workforce productivity and leads to better business outcomes...
Announcing the agenda for TC Sessions: Enterprise | San Francisco, September 5
Jul 22, 4:00PM
TechCrunch Sessions is back! On September 5, we're taking on the ferociously competitive field of enterprise software, and thrilled to announce our packed agenda, overflowing with some of the biggest names and most exciting startups in the enterprise industry. And you’re in luck, because $249 early-bird tickets are still on sale — make sure you […]
Huawei reportedly helped North Korea build out 3G network in secret
Jul 22, 3:25PM
A new report could ultimately prove another bombshell in Huawei's ongoing conflicts with the U.S. government. New documents obtained by The Washington Post tie the Chinese hardware giant to North Korea's commercial 3G wireless network. If proven, the ties would be yet more fodder for the U.S., which has already dinged the company over charges […]
Serverless, Inc. expands free Framework to include monitoring and security
Jul 22, 3:00PM
Serverless development has largely been a lonely pursuit until recently, but Serverless, Inc. has been offering a free framework for intrepid programmers since 2015. At first, that involved development, deployment and testing, but today the company announced it is expanding into monitoring and security to make it an end-to-end tool — and it’s available for […]
Slack speeds up its web and desktop client
Jul 22, 3:00PM
Slack is launching a major update to its web and desktop today that doesn’t introduce any new features or a new user interface. Instead, it’s almost a complete rebuild of the underlying technology that makes these two experiences work. Over the course of the last year or so, Slack worked on shifting the web and […]
UK challenger bank Atom raises another £50M from BBVA and more at £530M valuation
Jul 22, 2:53PM
Another hopeful among Europe’s so-called challenger banks — startups taking on the big names in consumer banking by targeting niche groups of users with a more modern set of tools to manage users’ money — has raised a sizeable round of funding to expand its business. Atom Bank — which targets mainly millennial-aged consumers (current […]
Meet the robots Toyota is bringing to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games
Jul 22, 2:26PM
Tokyo’s 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games are fast approaching, and Toyota is playing a key role in on-site mobility and transportation. The Japanese automaker has unveiled five robots it’s going to be bringing to the games, which will each help in some way to support athletes and attendees at venues get around, get information, […]
Amazon is opening a pair of new robotic fulfillment centers in Ohio
Jul 22, 1:59PM
Amazon this morning announced its intentions to open a pair of robotic-powered fulfillment centers in Ohio. The two warehouses — both larger than 700,000 square feet — will be located in the north of the state, in Akron and Rossford, respectively. They'll function much like Amazon's other shipping centers, providing a collaborative workspace between human […]
Just Eat makes layoffs in UK and Ireland after customer and restaurant ops merged
Jul 22, 1:57PM
Just Eat, the publicly listed takeout marketplace that has faced fierce competition from UberEats and Deliveroo in recent years, has made a round of layoffs in the U.K. and Ireland, TechCrunch has learned. The redundancies, of which a source says a U.K. portion were announced internally on Friday, are part of a reorganisation over the […]
China's coffee upstart Luckin pushes into India and Middle East
Jul 22, 1:44PM
Luckin continues to expand at jaw-dropping speed as it announced plans to open shop overseas for the first time. On Monday, the Starbucks challenger from China said it has signed a memorandum of understanding to set up a joint venture with Americana Group, a major international food group. The deal will see Luckin launch a […]
Microsoft invests $1 billion in OpenAI in new multiyear partnership
Jul 22, 1:37PM
Microsoft is making a $1 billion bet on OpenAI, the company formed by notable founders including Elon Musk and Sam Altman three years ago with the aim of doing research and development work to steer the growth of artificial intelligence towards the ‘friendlier’ end of the spectrum, in order to help mitigate what Musk sees […]
FTC slaps Equifax with a fine of up to $700M for 2017 data breach
Jul 22, 1:36PM
Credit agency Equifax will pay up to $700 million in fines as part of a settlement with federal authorities over a data breach in 2017. The Federal Trade Commission said in a statement Monday that Equifax has agreed to initially pay at least $575 million in fines as part of the settlement with the federal […]
Airbnb introduces new search tools for business travelers
Jul 22, 1:00PM
The home-sharing giant is making things easier for business travelers with a new work trip toggle
Adobe brings Alexa integration to its XD prototyping tool
Jul 22, 1:00PM
Adobe XD, the company’s increasingly popular prototyping and design tool, is getting support for testing Amazon Alexa voice experiences on devices like the Echo Dot and the Echo Show. This work builds upon XD’s existing voice prototyping tools, which the company announced last October, and also includes Adobe’s first Alexa skill, which is unsurprisingly the […]
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