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Watch a Tesla Model 3 play chess against the top-ranked player in the U.S.
Aug 01, 6:07PM
Tesla cars can now take on human players in a game of chess, thanks to a software update it pushed out to vehicles earlier this month. Its programmers likely didn’t imagine they were designing a chess program to take on the best players in the world, however: U.S. no. 1 ranked chess player Fabiano Caruana […]
Daily Crunch: Fires prompt Lyft to pull e-bikes
Aug 01, 6:04PM
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. Lyft pulls e-bikes in light of apparent battery fires Lyft recently won the right to launch its pedal-assist bikes in San […]
FCC cuts red tape on small satellite launches
Aug 01, 5:45PM
The FCC is taking measures to make the launches of small satellites (but not large constellations) easier on the growing private space industry. The new licensing process should be simpler, easier, and more likely to yield a green light from the agency.
Microsoft Azure now lets you have a server all to yourself
Aug 01, 5:43PM
Microsoft today announced the preview launch of Azure Dedicated Host, a new cloud service that will allow you to run your virtual machines on single-tenant physical services. That means you’re not sharing any resources on that server with anybody else and you’ll get full control over everything that’s running on that machine. Previously, Azure already […]
Next-gen Fitbit Versa leak reveals Alexa support
Aug 01, 5:35PM
The original Versa was precisely the hit a stumbling Fitbit needed. The device was a simple and affordable Apple Watch alternative, helping the company finally break into the one bright spot in the wearable field. According to yesterday's earnings, the Versa Lite has so far failed to recapture the Versa's success by offering a fewer […]
Bird, Uber and Lyft get another chance to apply for electric scooter permits in SF
Aug 01, 5:23PM
In light of a so-far successful electric scooter pilot program in San Francisco, the city has opened up the application process for service providers to deploy their respective scooters as part of a more permanent program. However, the permits will only be valid for about one year, “reflecting the rapid pace at which the scooter […]
Why AWS gains big storage efficiencies with E8 acquisition
Aug 01, 5:22PM
AWS is already the clear market leader in the cloud infrastructure market, but it’s never been an organization that rests on its past successes. Whether it’s a flurry of new product announcements and enhancements every year, or making strategic acquisitions. When it bought Israeli storage startup E8 yesterday, it might have felt like a minor […]
Ikea's Sonos Symfonisk speakers are available starting today
Aug 01, 5:09PM
The somewhat zany mash-up of Ikea and Sonos ended up providing great results, in the form of the Symfonisk line of wireless speakers, including the $99 Symfonisk shelf speakers and the $179 Symfonisk table lamp speaker. The speakers are both on sale today, starting at retail stores first, with online availability to follow later. In […]
Google Search gets freshers featured snippets
Aug 01, 4:56PM
Featured snippets are surely one of the most useful features that Google added to its search engine in recent years. Today, the company announced that it has recently updated the algorithm that powers these snippets to prioritize more recent information. In Google’s example, the search engine would previously regularly feature outdated data because it didn’t […]
This $3.5 million new Pagani hypercar got its world debut in a Zynga mobile game
Aug 01, 4:35PM
High-priced, handmade boutique sports cars typically make their debut where the well-heeled and the media gather. Pagani took a different approach this time around. The Italian supercar manufacturer unveiled its new nearly $3.5 million Huayra Roadster BC in CSR2, the mobile game produced by Zynga . The physical car will eventually get its moment. Pagani […]
Which immigration headlines should you care about?
Aug 01, 4:17PM
Newsflash! President Donald Trump is planning to deport naturalized US citizens, force H-1B visa holders to return to their home countries, and revoke the green cards of lawful permanent residents...
An autonomous robot EV charger is coming to San Francisco
Aug 01, 4:03PM
Electric-vehicle chargers today are designed for human drivers. Electrify America and San Francisco-based startup Stable are preparing for the day when humans are no longer behind the wheel. Electrify America, the entity set up by Volkswagen as part of its settlement with U.S. regulators over the diesel emissions cheating scandal, is partnering with Stable to […]
Amazon says U.S. government demands for customer data went up
Aug 01, 3:55PM
Amazon said the U.S. government asked more data from the company during the first-half of 2019 than on the previous six-month period. The latest figures landed in the company’s transparency report, published quietly on its website late Wednesday, said the number of subpoenas it received went up by 14% and search warrants went up by […]
Verizon reports a big boost in wireless subscribers
Aug 01, 3:20PM
Verizon reported its second quarter earnings this morning, and while revenue fall short of analyst predictions, the company had strong profits and subscriber growth. Verizon reported consolidated revenue of $32.1 billion in Q2, down 0.4% year-over-year and lower than analyst estimates of $32.4 billion. However, it also reported adjusted earnings per share of $1.23, compared […]
Holloway launches in-depth startup guides, aims to rewrite publishing with $4.6M from NYT, tech VCs
Aug 01, 3:00PM
Founders need to get smart quickly about the many nuanced aspects of building a company, from understanding weird language in a big term sheet to hiring a key software developer. But the best practical advice is scattered across blog posts, podcasts and books, and it gets outdated quickly as industry norms evolve. Even experienced founders […]
What founders need to know about pro rata rights
Aug 01, 3:00PM
In the context of a term sheet, pro rata rights (or pro rata) govern whether investors may continue to invest in subsequent rounds of funding in proportion with their ownership...
Cloud-based design tool Figma launches plug-ins
Aug 01, 2:30PM
Figma, the startup looking to put design tools in the cloud, has today announced new plugins for the platform that will help users clean up their workflows. Figma cofounder and CEO Dylan Field says that plug-ins have been the most requested feature from users since the company’s launch. So, for the last year, the team […]
The Samsung Galaxy Dongle
Aug 01, 2:02PM
This, friends, is the Samsung Galaxy Dongle. The NSFW photo arrives courtesy of SamMobile. The story isn’t the image itself, so much as what it represents. It's the end of an era. A last key flagship smartphone maker acknowledging the death of the 3.5mm jack. It's been years in the making, of course. Apple took […]
Salesforce closes $15.7B Tableau deal
Aug 01, 1:44PM
In an amazingly quick turn-around for a deal of this scope, Salesforce announced today that it has closed the $15.7 billion Tableau deal announced in June. The deal is by far the biggest acquisition in Salesforce history, a company known for being highly acquisitive. A deal of this size usually faces a high level of […]
Smartphone sales expected to drop 2.5% globally this year
Aug 01, 1:31PM
Smartphone sales have continued their global decline. New numbers from Gartner forecast a drop of 2.5 percent down to 1.5 billion. The biggest hits to the industry are Japan, Western Europe and North America, which saw drops of 6.5, 5.3 and 4.4 percent, respectively. It's all part of a continued trend we've highlighted several times […]
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