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Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual and in-person healthcare offering for employees
Sep 24, 8:21PM
Amazon has gone live with Amazon Care, a new pilot healthcare service offering that is initially available to its employees in and around the Seattle area. The Amazon Care offering includes both virtual and in-person care, with telemedicine via app, chat and remote video, as well as follow-up visits and prescription drug delivery in person […]
Facebook promises not to stop politicians' lies & hate
Sep 24, 8:18PM
Facebook confirms it won’t fact-check politicians’ speech or block their content if it’s newsworthy even if it violates the site’s hatespeech rules or other policies. This cementing of its policy comes from Facebook’s head of global policy and communication Nick Clegg who gave a speech today about Facebook’s plans to prevent interference in the 2020 […]
Media metrics giant Comscore pays SEC $5 million in fraud settlement
Sep 24, 7:50PM
Comscore, a company that’s performance metrics are widely touted in the media world, has settled with the SEC following charges of inflating its own metrics. The company and its former CEO Serge Matta have been charged with fraud by the SEC and have agreed to pay $5 million and $700,000 respectively, in a settlement. Matta […]
Boston Dynamics puts its robotic quadruped Spot up for sale
Sep 24, 7:25PM
Since the days of BigDog, the quadrupedal robots of Boston Dynamics have impressed and repelled us. But while the early, bulky robots never felt like something we’d see in real life, the company’s latest and greatest creation, Spot, is not only quite real but now for sale — in fact, some people have had them […]
Apple says a bug may grant 'full access' to third-party keyboards by mistake
Sep 24, 7:00PM
Apple is warning users of a bug in iOS 13 and iPadOS involving third-party keyboards. In a brief advisory posted Tuesday, the tech giant said the bug impacts third-party keyboards which have the ability to request “full access” permissions. iOS 13 was released last week. Both iOS 13.1 and iPadOS 13.1, the new software version […]
Lyft revamps app to focus on multimodal transportation
Sep 24, 7:00PM
Lyft is rolling out an update that makes it possible to access bikes, scooters, transit and car rentals within the app. Uber, however, did something similar more than one year ago. With Lyft’s update, customers can more easily see all of the transportation modes available to them. “At Lyft, we're working toward a future where […]
CrunchMatch is open: Ready, set, vet and network at Disrupt SF 2019
Sep 24, 6:46PM
Attention all current and future pass holders to Disrupt SF 2019! Our CrunchMatch platform is up, operational and ready for you to create your profile and get down to the business of connecting with the people who can move your business to new heights. Hold up a sec'. If you don't already have one, stop what […]
Google veteran Tony Wang joins 500 Startups as managing partner
Sep 24, 6:24PM
Wang was most recently the COO at Color Genomics.
Daily Crunch: Facebook acquires a neural monitoring startup
Sep 24, 5:52PM
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. Facebook buys startup building neural monitoring armband Facebook has talked a lot about working on a non-invasive brain input device that […]
Stealth startup Manticore Games raises $30M to launch a game-making platform for novices
Sep 24, 5:51PM
Investors are betting on gaming platforms as an area of consumer tech with plenty of room left to grow. Today, Manticore Games, a stealth gaming startup announced that it has raised $30 million in Series B funding from Benchmark, Correlation Ventures, BITKRAFT Esports Ventures, M Ventures, Arrive, Sapphire Sport, Tuesday Capital, and SV Angel. The gaming […]
WeWork CEO Adam Neumann steps down
Sep 24, 5:12PM
WeWork's Adam Neumann to become executive chairman.
Meme editor Kapwing grows 10X, raises $11M
Sep 24, 5:07PM
Kapwing is a laymen’s Adobe Creative Suite built for what people actually do on the internet: make memes and remix media. Need to resize a video? Add text or subtitles to a video? Trim or crop or loop or frame or rotate or soundtrack or… then you need Kapwing. The free web and mobile tool […]
iOS, iPadOS and tvOS 13.1 updates are now available
Sep 24, 5:05PM
Apple has just released iOS 13.1. This update brings everything new in iOS 13 in case you haven't updated yet, as well as many bug fixes. I recommend updating to iOS 13.1 to get a more stable phone. But that's not all — iPadOS and tvOS are finally making the jump to version 13 with […]
Windows 10 now runs on over 900M devices
Sep 24, 5:00PM
So you thought there were 800 million Windows 10 Devices that will get Microsoft’s most recent out-of-band emergency patch? Think again. As the company announced on Twitter today, Windows 10 now runs on more than 900 million devices. That’s a bit of bad timing, but current security issues aside, the momentum for Windows 10 clearly […]
Cute Little Fuckers gets Kickstarter's seal of approval for sex toy project
Sep 24, 5:00PM
Running a sex tech company is hard, so it’s worth calling out when companies overcome the many barriers to running one. Cute Little Fuckers, a gender-inclusive sex toy company, just launched a $13,500 campaign on Kickstarter. “This is the first one that has been approved for a while,” Kickstarter Senior Outreach Lead of Design & […]
MegaBots calls it a day, puts fighting robot up for sale on eBay
Sep 24, 4:47PM
MegaBots is bankrupt. The Bay Area-based fighting robot startup noted in a video that "this is the end of MegaBots in its current form," marking the occasion by selling the 15-ton Eagle Prime ‘bot on eBay. Bids started at $1, but as of this writing, a few dozen bidders have pushed it up past $50,000. […]
Watch the full trailer for Netflix's 'Breaking Bad' movie 'El Camino'
Sep 24, 4:34PM
After releasing a brief “date announcement” and an equally brief commercial at the Emmys, Netflix has finally launched the full trailer for “El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie.” The trailer shows the film following directly from the “Breaking Bad” finale, with Aaron Paul returning to the role of Jesse Pinkman, the former-student-turned-meth-cooking-partner of Bryan Cranston’s […]
Grammarly gets a tone detector to keep you out of email trouble
Sep 24, 4:23PM
In recent months, Grammarly started expanding beyond its core grammar and spellchecking tools by adding features like a more detailed clarity score, for example. Today, it’s expanding on this work by launching the first beta of its new tone detector that makes sure your email or document sounds just like you want it to. You may […]
JAXA's HTV-8 cargo mission to the ISS successfully launches from Tanegashima, Japan
Sep 24, 4:21PM
Japan’s Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has successfully launched one of its H-IIB rockets, carrying a payload of supplies, experimental materials and new replacement batteries to help power the International Space Station. The rocket, commissioned by Japan’s Aerospace Exploration Agency, took off from Japan’s Tanegashima Space Center at its scheduled instantaneous launch window of 12:05 PM […]
Meet SoundCloud rival Audius, free & anti-takedowns
Sep 24, 4:20PM
“It was SoundCloud’s opportunity to lose and now it’s ours” says Audius CEO Roneil Rumburg. Plenty of musicians and fans are sick of SoundCloud’s expensive hosting costs, haphazard content takedowns, and lagging user experience as the site’s status withers. Audius wants to be the opposite, and offer a new home for artists where they’ll eventually […]
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