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Daily Crunch: Samsung unveils the Galaxy Note 10

Aug 08, 6:16PM

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. This is Samsung's Galaxy Note 10 and 10+ The landscape has changed dramatically since the Galaxy Note was first unveiled in […]


'The Operators': Experts from Airbnb and Carta on building and managing your company's customer support

Aug 08, 6:00PM

Airbnb's Global Product Director of Customer and Community Support, and Carta's Head of Enterprise Relationship Management share how companies should be thinking about customer service.


GitHub gets a CI/CD service

Aug 08, 5:10PM

Microsoft’s GitHub today launched the beta of a new version of GitHub Actions with full continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD) capabilities built right into the service. General availability is planned for November 13. The company also today announced that it now has more than 40 million developers on its platform. Ten months ago, GitHub launched […]


Apple Music for Artists comes out of beta with an iOS app and Shazam data

Aug 08, 5:00PM

Apple Music launched its data dashboard for musicians more than a year ago. Today, the company is taking that product — Apple Music for Artists — out of beta, and adding some new features in the process. For one thing, it’s no longer a web-only product, because Apple is releasing an iPhone app. On both web […]


Only 24 hours left to save $100 on TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019

Aug 08, 5:00PM

Heads up all you enterprising enterprise software startuppers. You have only 24 hours before the price goes up on tickets to TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019. Save $100 and join us in San Francisco on September 5 — along with some of the industry's top founders, CEOs, investors and technologists. Buy your early-bird ticket before 11:59 […]


Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson joins Disrupt SF to talk about US crewed spaceflight

Aug 08, 5:00PM

The space race is back on, but this time it’s closer to home: A number of U.S. companies are vying to become the first to return Americans to crewed launches, after an eight-year hiatus marked by the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011. Lockheed Martin is one of that very small group, through […]


Keith Rabois, BoxGroup back New York-based Brex competitor

Aug 08, 4:46PM

Ramp Financial, led by Capital One-acquired Paribus founders Eric Glyman and Karim Atiyeh, has raised $7 million.


Apple is under formal antitrust probe in Russia

Aug 08, 2:40PM

Make way for another antitrust investigation into big tech. Step forward Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS), which has opened an official probe of Apple — following a complaint lodged in March by security company Kaspersky Labs. Kaspersky’s complaint to FAS followed a change in Apple’s policy towards a parental control app it offers, called Kaspersky […]


The Navy taps YouTube creators for its latest recruiting campaign

Aug 08, 2:33PM

The U.S. Navy is turning to YouTube creators for help in finding technical recruits. Captain Matt Boren, the chief marketing officer at U.S. Navy Recruiting Command, told me that while past recruiting efforts have focused on TV and other traditional media, that’s no longer the best route to reach the post-millennial generation. “For our audience […]


Statespace picks up $2.5M to help gamers train

Aug 08, 2:05PM

Gaming continues to grow in popularity, with esports revenue growing 23% from last year to top $1 billion in 2019. But the metrics by which talent is evaluated in gaming, and the methods by which gamers can train to better hone their craft, are varied and at times non-existent. That’s where Statespace, and specifically the […]


Netflix signs multi-year deal with 'Game of Thrones' showrunners

Aug 08, 2:02PM

David Benioff and D.B. Weiss, the creators and showrunners of HBO’s adaptation of “Game of Thrones,” have found a new home. Netflix has signed a multi-year film and TV pact with the writer-producers; according to The Hollywood Reporter, the deal is worth $200 million. This follows expensive Netflix deals with other high-profile showrunners, including Ryan Murphy ($300 […]


Opsani helps optimize cloud applications with AI

Aug 08, 2:00PM

Opsani, a Redwood City, Calif. startup, wants to go beyond performance monitoring to continually optimizing cloud applications, using artificial intelligence to help the software learn what is the optimal state. “We have come up with a machine learning technique centered around reinforcement learning to tune the performance of applications in the cloud,” company co-founder and […]


Google adds playable podcast episodes to search results

Aug 08, 1:27PM

Google is making it easier to find and listen to audio content specific to your search interests, with playable episodes surfaced in results that start rolling out today. Playable podcasts will show up in results when you use “podcasts” as a keyword in your search, in combination with other terms. It’s intended to deliver relevant […]


Flawed office printers are a silent but serious target for hackers

Aug 08, 1:00PM

You probably don’t think too much about your humble office printer. But they’re a prime target for hackers, if any of the dozens of vulnerabilities found by security researchers are anything to go by. The latest research by the NCC Group just revealed at the Def Con security conference shows just how easy of a […]


Beynd gets $2M seed to improve customer experience with better onboarding

Aug 08, 12:30PM

Customer experience is a term that gets bandied about quite a bit these days. If you can improve the customer experience, you can win more customers. Beynd, a Utah startup, wants to help by providing a better, more automated onboarding workflow. Today, it announced a $2 million seed round. The round was led by Peak […]


The UK's National Health Service is launching an AI lab

Aug 08, 12:17PM

The UK government has announced it’s rerouting £250M (~$300M) in public funds for the country’s National Health Service (NHS) to set up an artificial intelligence lab that will work to expand the use of AI technologies within the service. The Lab, which will sit within a new NHS unit tasked with overseeing the digitisation of […]


Google Travel adds flight price notifications and a limited-time flight price guarantee

Aug 08, 11:41AM

Google is building out its travel product with more features to convince you to use it to book flights and plan trips directly, instead of having to go anywhere else. The company is adding more sophisticated pricing features, including historical price comparison for specific itineraries — and notifications about when a price is likely to […]


Google launches 'Live View' AR walking directions for Google Maps

Aug 08, 10:00AM

Google is launching a beta of its augmented reality walking directions feature for Google Maps, with a broader launch that will be available to all iOS and Android devices that have system-level support for AR. On iOS, that means ARKit-compatible devices, and on Android, that means any smartphones that support Google’s ARcore, so long as […]


FlixMobility extends Series F at $2B+ valuation as it gears up to add cars to its bus and train network

Aug 08, 10:00AM

Back in July it emerged that FlixMobility — the company behind the network of ubiquitous green FlixBus coaches that crisscross Europe and parts of the U.S. — had raised about €500 million in the largest-ever round of funding for a German tech company. That turned out not to be the full story. Today, the company […]


Sperm storage startups are raising millions

Aug 08, 9:30AM

Men's fertility solutions capture the attention of venture capitalists.



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