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Daily Crunch: Toyota backs Didi Chuxing
Jul 25, 4:52PM
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. Toyota invests $600 million in Didi, with the two setting up a new joint venture for driver services Toyota has made […]
NBCUniversal plans to launch its streaming service in April 2020
Jul 25, 4:46PM
NBCUniversal is getting a little more specific about its streaming plans. Variety reports that NBCUniversal CEO Steve Burke was on this morning’s earnings call for parent company Comcast, announcing that the NBCUniversal streaming service will launch in April 2020. The company had previously said the service would launch in “early 2020”, and would be ad-supported […]
AWS gets a chatbot
Jul 25, 4:24PM
AWS, Amazon’s cloud computing arm, today announced the beta launch of the AWS Chatbot, a chatty little chap who slides into your Slack and Amazon Chime channels and can inform you of any issues with your AWS resources. It’s hard to imagine DevOps teams that don’t use Slack or similar tools, so it’s actually a […]
Standard Cognition lands $35M at $535M valuation to battle Amazon Go
Jul 25, 4:21PM
European venture capital fund EQT Ventures leads the round for Standard Cognition.
Nearly a third of US households don't have a broadband connection
Jul 25, 4:15PM
Over the past several years, many have suggested that broadband internet should be regarded as a public utility, like water or gas. Staying connected has become an essential part of nearly every facet of life, but according to a new report, high-speed connections may not be as prevalent here in the States as you may […]
Stackery lets AWS Lambda developers debug their serverless programs locally on a laptop
Jul 25, 4:02PM
Serverless developers have always faced a steep challenge when it comes to writing code on their laptops, and debugging said code on cloud services. It’s sort of a chicken and egg thing. You can’t deploy until you’re ready, but you can’t know if you’re ready without testing. That requires access to your cloud services on […]
Netflix cancels 'Tuca and Bertie'
Jul 25, 3:41PM
Netflix has canceled the animated series “Tuca and Bertie” after a single season. The show, which starred Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong as the titular friends (a toucan named Tuca and a songbird named Bertie), debuted in May. It shared some creative DNA with Netflix’s “BoJack Horseman — creator Lisa Hanawalt designed the characters on […]
Waymo and DeepMind mimic evolution to develop a new, better way to train self-driving AI
Jul 25, 3:37PM
Alphabet’s autonomous driving and robotaxi company Waymo does a lot of training in order to refine and improve the artificial intelligence that powers its self-driving software. Recently, it teamed up with fellow Alphabet company and AI specialist DeepMind to develop new training methods that would help make its training better and more efficient. The two […]
Location-based virtual reality goes to the mall as The Void plans a rollout in 25 more locations
Jul 25, 3:17PM
The Void, a developer of immersive virtual reality entertainment centers, is partnering with the multi-national, multi-hyphenate mall developer Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield to build twenty five new locations around the world. Location-based virtual reality has become the default gateway into the consumer market for virtual reality headsets given that adoption of the consumer wearable device hasn’t been all […]
Elk, a blockchain dev board for decentralized IoT, launches on Kickstarter
Jul 25, 2:55PM
Hardware developers toying with the idea of building physical stuff that can plug into the decentralized world of blockchain should point their eyes at Elk: A dev board in the making that’s been designed to support all sorts of IoT projects with a blockchain flavor. Such as, for example, a connected door-lock that doesn’t demand […]
Airbud raises $4 million to add a voice interface to your website
Jul 25, 2:49PM
Amazon’s Alexa ushered in a new dawn of user interfaces, bringing voice into the mix as a viable option. Dozens of companies have sprouted because of this, not least of which being Airbud.io. Airbud allows any company to add a voice interface to its website. The company just closed a $4 million round led by […]
eBay will offer long overdue Amazon shipping competitor next year
Jul 25, 2:41PM
eBay had a front row seat for Amazon's historic growth. The auction site does just fine, thank you very much, but in terms of revenue is only a fraction of the e-commerce giant. That ship has almost certainly sailed, but eBay's finally readying a service to take on Amazon's offering more directly. Launching in the […]
Formget security lapse exposed thousands of sensitive user-uploaded documents
Jul 25, 2:32PM
If you’ve used Formget in the past few years, there’s a good chance we know about it. Formget bills itself as an online form maker and email marketing company based in Bhopal, India. The company allows its 43,000 customers to create online forms so others can submit their resumes or apply for a job, or […]
ispace Europe tapped by the European Space Agency for mission to extract water from the Moon
Jul 25, 2:19PM
Space startup ispace, which is headquartered in Japan but has a European subsidiary based in Luxembourg, will take part in PROSPECT, a program run by the European Space Agency (ESA) that intends to extreme water from the Moon’s southern pole, with a target mission date of 2024 or 2025. PROSPECT isn’t just a cool reference […]
Brainly, a crowdsourced homework helper for students, raises $30M to expand in the US
Jul 25, 2:13PM
When it comes to turning the wheels of the internet, crowdsourcing is a key component of the engine: the power of people can fund big ideas and good causes; it can help you decide what (or what not) to buy, read, watch or listen to when faced with too much choice; it can help unite […]
iSpace becomes the first private Chinese company to launch satellites to orbit
Jul 25, 1:20PM
With as successful launch from the Gobi desert blasting off at around 1:10 PM Beijing time (1:10 AM ET), Chinese space launch startup iSpace (which, awesomely, is also called ‘StarCraft Glory Space Technology Co.’) became the first private Chinese commercial space launch provider. The company’s SQX-1 Y1 rocket delivered two commercial satellites to an orbit […]
Apple leads corporate American solar energy usage
Jul 25, 1:07PM
Apple led the way in solar usage as technology companies step up their development of renewable energy projects to offset their carbon emissions. That’s the word from the Solar Energy Industry Association in its latest tally of leading corporate solar energy installers across the U.S. Last year, Apple installed 400 megawatts of solar capacity to […]
Ethyca raises $4.2M to simplify GDPR compliance
Jul 25, 1:05PM
GDPR, the European data privacy regulations, have been in effect for more than a year, but it’s still a challenge for companies to comply. Ethyca, a New York City startup, has created a solution from the ground up to help customers adhere to the regulations, and today it announced a $4.2 million investment led by […]
Sonos and Ikea's Symfonisk wireless speakers are a symphony of sound and design
Jul 25, 1:00PM
Sonos and Ikea’s Symfonisk collaboration took a lot of people by surprise when it was announced earlier this year, but the match-up is less unlikely than it might appear at first glance. Ikea’s entire mission has been delivering practical, quality design concepts at price points that are more broadly accessible — and that’s exactly what […]
Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 delivers amazing images of its deployed solar sail
Jul 25, 12:58PM
We got word yesterday that the crowdfunded LightSail 2 spacecraft had successfully deployed its Mylar solar sail, a large sheet of reflective material that will harness the minute power of photons bouncing off its surface to make an energy-efficient traversal through space. But that was based on data transmitted by the spacecraft. Now we have […]
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