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Vector's launch business in peril after 'major change in financing'
Aug 11, 6:03PM
Small satellite launch startup Vector has indefinitely shut down operations "in response a major change in financing," the company confirmed. Co-founder and CEO Jim Cantrell has also been pushed out as part of the upset.
Tesla explodes after crash on Russian highway
Aug 11, 5:08PM
A Tesla vehicle involved in a collision burst into flames and exploded on a highway near Moscow last night, local media reported. The occupants were slightly injured, but the car is toast.
Original Content podcast: 'Another Life' is no masterpiece, but we want a second season anyway
Aug 11, 4:11PM
Most critics haven’t found much to like in “Another Life,” a new space opera on Netflix, but look: We had a good time with it. The show stars Katee Sackhoff (best known as Starbuck on “Battlestar Galactica”), who plays Niko Breckinridge, the leader of an expedition across the galaxy to make contact with aliens who […]
2020 and the black-box ballot box
Aug 11, 1:00PM
One of the scarier notions in the world today is the prospect of American voting machines being compromised at scale: voters thrown off rolls, votes disregarded, vote tallies edited, entire elections hacked. That’s why the nation’s lawmakers and civil servants flocked (relatively speaking) to Def Con in Las Vegas this week, where hackers at its […]
Week in Review: Netflix's big problem and Apple's thinnest product yet
Aug 11, 12:00PM
Hey. This is Week-in-Review, where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on TechCrunch this week to surface my favorites for your reading pleasure. Last week, I talked about the Capital One breach and how Equifax taught us […]
Tesla Model 3 owner implants RFID chip to turn her arm into a key
Aug 10, 10:39PM
Forget the keycard or phone app, one software engineer is trying out a new way to unlock and start her Tesla Model 3. Amie DD, who has a background in game simulation and programming, recently released a video showing how she “biohacked” her body. The software engineer removed the RFID chip from the Tesla Model […]
Y Combinator-backed Trella brings transparency to Egypt's trucking and shipping industry
Aug 10, 10:20PM
Y Combinator has become one of the key ways that startups from emerging markets get the attention of American investors. And arguably no clutch of companies has benefitted more from Y Combinator’s attention than startups from emerging markets tackling the the logistics market. On the heels of the success the accelerator had seen with Flexport, […]
How tech is transforming the intelligence industry
Aug 10, 7:30PM
Shay Hershkovitz Contributor Share on Twitter Shay Hershkovitz is a Senior Research Fellow at The Intelligence Methodology Research Center (IMRC). At a conference on the future challenges of intelligence organizations held in 2018, former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats argued that he transformation of the American intelligence community must be a revolution rather than […]
Telegram introduces a feature to prevent users from texting too often in a group
Aug 10, 6:34PM
Telegram, a popular instant messaging app, has introduced a new feature to give group admins on the app better control over how members engage, the latest in a series of interesting features it has rolled out in recent months to expand its appeal. The feature, dubbed Slow Mode, allows a group administrator to dictate how […]
Kobalt, Apple and smartwatches, Hadoop, customer support, and social work and AI
Aug 10, 1:59PM
The Kobalt EC-1: How a Swedish saxophonist built Kobalt, the world's next music unicorn My favorite pieces we host on Extra Crunch are our EC-1 series of in-depth profiles and analyses of high-flying, fascinating startups. We launched Extra Crunch with a multi-part series on Patreon, and then we covered augmented reality and Pokémon Go creator […]
We're all doomed, 2019 edition
Aug 10, 1:00PM
Every year the great and good (and bad) of the hacker/information-security world descend on Las Vegas for a week of conferences, in which many present their latest discoveries, and every year I try to itemize the most interesting (according to me) Black Hat talks for TechCrunch. Do not assume I attended all or even most […]
Most EU cookie 'consent' notices are meaningless or manipulative, study finds
Aug 10, 1:00PM
New research into how European consumers interact with the cookie consent mechanisms which have proliferated since a major update to the bloc’s online privacy rules last year casts an unflattering light on widespread manipulation of a system that’s supposed to protect consumer rights. As Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force in May […]
Startups Weekly: Angel vs. VC
Aug 10, 12:00PM
In this week's newsletter: A WeWork IPO update, the investment opportunity in healthcare and an electric bus unicorn.
How safe are school records? Not very, says student security researcher
Aug 10, 12:00AM
If you can’t trust your bank, government or your medical provider to protect your data, what makes you think students are any safer? Turns out, according to one student security researcher, they’re not. Eighteen-year-old Bill Demirkapi, a recent high school graduate in Boston, Massachusetts, spent much of his latter school years with an eye on […]
How a Swedish saxophonist built Kobalt, the world's next music unicorn
Aug 09, 8:09PM
You may not have heard of Kobalt before, but you probably engage with the music it oversees every day, if not almost every hour. Combining a technology platform to better track ownership rights and royalties of songs with a new approach to representing musicians in their careers, Kobalt has risen from the ashes of the […]
Adobe's Amit Ahuja will be talking customer experience at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise
Aug 09, 8:00PM
As companies collect increasingly large amounts of data about customers, the end game is about improving the customer experience. It’s a term we’re hearing a lot of these days, and we are going to be discussing that very topic with Amit Ahuja, Adobe’s vice president of ecosystem development, next month at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise in […]
Biotech researchers venture into the wild to start their own business
Aug 09, 7:30PM
Much of Silicon Valley mythology is centered on the founder-as-hero narrative. But historically, scientific founders leading the charge for bio companies have been far less common.
Car2go hikes hourly rental rates by as much as a third
Aug 09, 6:23PM
By-the-minute car rental service Car2go is raising its rates for short trips under the guise of variable pricing, the company announced to its users today. As we've seen with other variably priced services like delivery and ride hailing, in practice this means you never really know what it will cost but will have little choice but to pay.
Apple starts selling Mophie's take on AirPower
Aug 09, 6:00PM
There's no shortage of AirPower knockoffs on the market. Many have been in the works since Apple took the wraps off its in-house version, positioned as more affordable alternatives. Since the company unceremoniously pulled the plug on the project, however, they’re the only game in town. We reviewed a $99 one a while ago. It […]
Reports say White House has drafted an order putting the FCC in charge of monitoring social media
Aug 09, 6:00PM
The White House is contemplating issuing an executive order that would widen its attack on the operations of social media companies. The White House has prepared an executive order called “Protecting Americans from Online Censorship” that would give the Federal Communications Commission oversight of how Facebook, Twitter and other tech companies monitor and manage their […]
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