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Tesla Autopilot was engaged before 2018 California crash, NTSB finds
Sep 03, 7:34PM
A Tesla Model S was in Autopilot mode —the company’s advanced driver assistance system — when it crashed into a fire truck in Southern California last year, according to a preliminary report released Tuesday by the National Transportation Safety Board. Reuters was the first to the report on the contents of the public documents. A […]
How Zhihu's become one of China's biggest hubs for experts
Sep 03, 7:29PM
Zhihu may not be as well known outside of China as WeChat or ByteDance's Douyin, but over the past eight years, it has cultivated a reputation for being one of the country’s most trustworthy social media platforms. Originally launched as a question-and-answer site similar to Quora, Zhihu has grown to be a central hub for […]
WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey becomes COO of AT&T
Sep 03, 7:25PM
WarnerMedia CEO John Stankey is taking on even broader responsibilities with a promotion to president and chief operating officer at AT&T (which acquired and renamed Time Warner last year). According to the official announcement, this is a new position reporting directly to AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson. Stankey will take on the new position on October […]
Bunq simplifies group payment tracking and adds analytics
Sep 03, 7:01PM
European challenger bank Bunq is announcing a handful of updates today. You now get a better overview of your account with more insights on how you spend money. If you're going on vacation with someone else, you can now choose to automatically add transactions to a Slice Group. There are also improvement to VAT management […]
Apple patents Watch band that could ID you from your wrist skin
Sep 03, 6:39PM
It looks like Apple is playing with the idea of making the Apple Watch’s band a bit smarter. As spotted by PatentlyApple, the company was granted a handful of patents this morning, all focused on bringing new tricks to the Watch by way of the band. The first patent describes a sensor built into the […]
Employee survey startup Culture Amp closes $82M round led by Sequoia China
Sep 03, 6:14PM
Each unhappy startup may be unhappy in its own way, but there’s still wisdom in understanding what drives employee satisfaction and dissatisfaction across companies. Culture Amp is just one the companies aiming to help employees anonymously express how they feel about their place of work, but the Melbourne company is using the anonymized employee survey […]
Near miss between science craft and Starlink satellite shows need to improve orbital coordination
Sep 03, 6:01PM
A European satellite that measures the Earth's winds using lasers had a close encounter with one of SpaceX's Starlink constellation yesterday in a situation that illustrates the growing inadequacy of existing systems for global coordination of orbital issues. It's getting crowded up there, and email and phone calls between HQs soon won't cut it.
Starship Technologies CEO Lex Bayer on focus and opportunity in autonomous delivery
Sep 03, 5:02PM
Starship Technologies is fresh off a recent $40 million funding round, and the robotics startup finds itself in a much-changed market compared to when it got its start in 2014. Founded by software industry veterans, including Skype and Rdio co-founder Janus Friis, Starship's focus is entirely on building and commercializing fleets of autonomous sidewalk delivery […]
Google releases Android 10
Sep 03, 5:00PM
Android 10 is now available, assuming you have a phone that already supports Google’s latest version of its mobile operating system. For now, that’s mostly Google’s own Pixel phones, though chances are that most of the phones that were supported during the beta phase will get updated to the release version pretty soon, too. Since […]
Daily Crunch: Facebook might remove Like counts
Sep 03, 4:36PM
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. Now Facebook says it may remove Like counts Instagram is already testing something similar in seven countries, including Canada and Brazil. […]
Deadline alert: Only 4 days to save on passes to Disrupt SF 2019
Sep 03, 4:15PM
October is right around the corner, and if you want to get the lowest possible price on your passes to Disrupt San Francisco 2019 you have just four days left to make it so. Depending on which pass you buy, you can save up to $1,300, but only if you buy your Disrupt SF pass […]
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is coming to Disrupt SF 2019
Sep 03, 4:07PM
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is perhaps best known for his acting across films like “10 Things I Hate About You,” “500 Days of Summer” and “Snowden.” But times weren’t always peachy for Gordon-Levitt as a creative. After leaving the movie business to go to college, he realized the limits of the industry on his potential as a […]
Mozilla flips the default switch on Firefox tracker cookie blocking
Sep 03, 3:24PM
>From today Firefox users who update to the latest version of the browser will find a pro-privacy setting flipped for them on desktop and Android smartphones, assuming they didn’t already have the anti-tracking cookie feature enabled. Mozilla launched the Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) feature in June as a default setting for new users — but leaving […]
The next Apple Watch could feature sleep tracking
Sep 03, 3:09PM
Details have surfaced about one of the potentially key features of the next Apple Watch — sleep tracking. Bloomberg originally reported that Apple has been working on a sleep-tracking feature, and 9to5mac now details how the implementation could work. The new feature would work on the next Apple Watch. The new device could be unveiled at […]
YouTube claims it removed 5x more hateful content in Q2, including 100K+ videos, 17K+ channels
Sep 03, 3:06PM
In an update today, YouTube is claiming to have made significant progress in removing harmful video on its platform following a June update to its content policy which prohibited supremacist and other hateful content. The company says it has this quarter removed over 100,000 videos and terminated over 17,000 channels for hate speech — a […]
The NFL joins TikTok in multi-year partnership
Sep 03, 1:55PM
The NFL and social video app TikTok today announced a multi-year partnership to bring NFL content to worldwide fans, just ahead of the NFL’s 100th season kickoff on September 5. The partnership includes the launch of an official NFL account on the video platform, as well as a series of NFL-themed hashtag challenges and other […]
Only 4 days left on super early-bird pricing for Disrupt Berlin 2019
Sep 03, 1:42PM
Our countdown to the super early-bird deadline and serious savings continues unabated, people! The best pricing for passes to Disrupt Berlin 2019 ends in four days. When the clock strikes 11:59 p.m. (CEST) on 6 September, your chance to save up to €600 evaporates. Save your euros for another day and buy your pass right […]
Kabbage acquires Radius Intelligence, the marketing tech firm with a database of 20M small businesses
Sep 03, 12:15PM
Data is the new oil, as the saying goes, and today Kabbage — a fintech startup backed by SoftBank that has built a business around lending up to $250,000 to small and medium enterprises, using AI-based algorithms to help determine the terms of the loan — is picking up an asset to expand its own […]
India's mobile payments firm MobiKwik reaches rare key profit milestone
Sep 03, 11:30AM
Indian mobile payments firm MobiKwik has reached a milestone very few of its local rivals can even contemplate: not burning money. The 10-year-old Gurgaon-headquartered firm said Tuesday it is now generating a profit excluding interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. “We have been in an ecosystem where we have seen a lot of high-growth and several […]
OpenGov raises $51M to boost its cloud-based IT services for government and civic organizations
Sep 03, 10:55AM
OpenGov, the firm co-founded by Palantir’s Joe Lonsdale that helps government and other civic organizations organise, analyse and present financial and other data using cloud-based architecture, has raised another big round of funding to continue expanding its business. The startup has picked up an additional $51 million in a Series D round led by Weatherford […]
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