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Porsche Taycan sets fastest 4-door electric car record at Nürburgring Nordschleife
Aug 26, 7:08PM
Porsche’s upcoming all-electric Taycan has set a narrow, yet notable record lap time at the famous Nürburgring Nordschleife test track in Germany. The company said Monday the Porsche Taycan, which will debut Sept, 4., completed the 12.8-mile course in 7 minutes and 42 seconds. This is the fastest lap for a four-door electric vehicle. The […]
India's 9-month-old CRED raises $120M to help people improve their financial behavior
Aug 26, 7:08PM
Many Silicon Valley companies and fintech startups in India today share a common mission: They all want to bring their financial services to the next billion users. Dozens of fintech startups that we have spoken to in recent months have told us that they all want to address much of India, one of the last […]
Daily Crunch: A big funding round for Boll & Branch
Aug 26, 6:58PM
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. Bedding startup Boll & Branch raises $100M The company sells sustainably sourced sheets, pillows, mattresses and towels. Until now, it had […]
Bell's innovative VTOL cargo craft takes its first successful autonomous flight
Aug 26, 6:15PM
Bell Helicopter’s catchily-named Autonomous Pod Transport 70 (aka APT 70) has managed a major milestone, performing its first autonomous flight during a test at its Forth Worth providing ground. The aircraft is a small vertical take-off and landing craft that users four rotors to provide lift and propulsion once it’s in the air, and it’s […]
Apple patches previously-fixed security bug that allowed iPhone jailbreak
Aug 26, 6:14PM
Apple has fixed a security flaw for a second time after it accidentally reintroduced an old bug in a recent software update. iOS 12.4.1, released Monday, contains a security fix that was first patched months earlier in iOS 12.3. Apple rolled out a fix in May, but accidentally undid the security patch in its latest […]
IBM's quantum-resistant magnetic tape storage is not actually snake oil
Aug 26, 6:08PM
Usually when someone in tech says the word "quantum," I put my hands on my ears and sing until they go away. But while IBM's "quantum computing safe tape drive" nearly drove me to song, when I thought about it, it actually made a lot of sense.
Amazon's free streaming service IMDb TV comes to mobile devices
Aug 26, 5:31PM
IMDb TV, the free ad-supported streaming service launched by Amazon-owned IMDb at the beginning of the year (originally called Freedive), is today arriving on mobile devices. With the updated version of iOS and Android IMDb app rolling out now, users can stream from the app’s growing library of free movies and TV series. Prior to […]
Satellite internet startup Astranis books first commercial launch on SpaceX Falcon 9
Aug 26, 5:11PM
Y Combinator-backed startup Astranis is now set to launch its first commercial telecommunication satellite aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, with a launch time frame currently set for sometime starting in the fourth quarter of next year. Astranis aims to address the market of people who don’t currently have broadband internet access, which is still a […]
The Void's Curtis Hickman on scaling, creative IP and the future of VR experiences
Aug 26, 5:05PM
What can you do with virtual reality when you have complete control of the physical space around the player? How “real” can virtual reality become? That’s the core concept behind The Void. They take over retail spaces in places like Downtown Disney and shopping malls around the country and turn them into virtual reality playgrounds, […]
Udacity names former LendingTree executive to CEO post
Aug 26, 4:21PM
Online education startup Udacity has hired former LendingTree executive Gabriel Dalporto as its new CEO, an appointment that follows months of layoffs and a restructuring directed by the company’s co-founder and executive chairman Sebastian Thrun. Dalporto comes to Udacity after seven years at LendingTree, where he served in numerous positions, including chief marketing officer and […]
US and France reach a compromise on France's tax on tech giants
Aug 26, 4:20PM
During a news briefing at the Group of Seven summit, French President Emmanuel Macron announced that U.S. President Donald Trump and Macron have agreed on a compromise regarding the controversial tax on tech giants. France is still going to tax big tech companies. But the French government promises that it'll scrap the French tax as […]
Microsoft will let some Windows 7 customers get free security updates for an extra year
Aug 26, 4:12PM
In four months, Windows 7 will reach end-of-life and no longer receive security updates. That’s going to be a problem for some enterprises that still run the decade-old operating system. Starting January 14, 2020, Windows 7 computers will stop receiving security patches, leaving enterprises vulnerable to malware. According to the latest data, some 37% of […]
Why now is the time to get ready for quantum computing
Aug 26, 4:02PM
For the longest time, even while scientists were working to make it a reality, quantum computing seemed like science fiction. It’s hard enough to make any sense out of quantum physics to begin with, let alone the practical applications of this less than intuitive theory. But we’ve now arrived at a point where companies like […]
Google falls to third place in worldwide smart speaker market
Aug 26, 4:02PM
The global smart speaker market grew 55.4% in the second quarter to reach 26.1 million shipments, according to a new report from Canalys. Amazon continued to lead the race, accounting for 6.6 million units shipped in the quarter. Google, however, fell to the third spot as China’s Baidu surged ahead. Baidu in Q2 grew a […]
Facebook succeeds in blocking German FCO's privacy-minded order against combining user data
Aug 26, 3:54PM
Facebook has succeeded in blocking a pioneering order by Germany’s Federal Cartel Office earlier this year that would have banned it from combining data on users across its own suite of social platforms — Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp — without their consent. Pioneering because the antitrust regulator had liaised with EU privacy authorities during a […]
Downloads needed to rank No. 1 on App Store is down 30+% since 2016 for apps, up 47% for games
Aug 26, 2:55PM
With the App Store’s big makeover in fall 2017, Apple attempted to shift consumers’ attention away from the Top Charts and more toward editorial content. But app developers still want to make it to the No. 1 position. According to new research from app store intelligence firm Sensor Tower, it’s become easier for non-game apps […]
Experimental US Air Force space plane breaks previous record for orbital spaceflight
Aug 26, 2:32PM
The Boeing-built X-37B space plane commissioned and operated by the U.S. Air Force has now broken its own record for time spent in space. Its latest mission has lasted 719 days as of today, which is one day longer than its last mission, which ended in 2017, as noted by Space.com. It’s not an overall […]
Presight Capital raises $80M fund to connect US startups with Europe
Aug 26, 2:18PM
Presight Capital, the international venture arm of Apeiron Investment Group, is announcing that it’s closed its first fund of $80 million. Apeiron is the family office of German entrepreneur Christian Angermayer (pictured above), who previously co-founded pharmaceutical company Ribopharma — which is now the publicly traded company Alnylam. Angermayer told me he sees his investments […]
Bedding startup Boll & Branch raises $100M
Aug 26, 1:11PM
Boll & Branch, which sells sustainably sourced sheets, pillows, mattresses and towels, is announcing that it has raised $100 million in a strategic investment from L Catterton’s Flagship Buyout Fund. This looks like a big change from the company’s previous approach to funding. It was self-funded for its first two years (resulting in what CEO […]
Watch the first look at 'Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker' from Disney's big fan event
Aug 26, 12:59PM
Disney showed off at its D23 expo this past weekend some exciting new footage from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, the final installment of the newest Star Wars trilogy. Now, that footage is available online for everyone else to see. The clip includes a swelling montage of clips from the previous two trilogies, and […]
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