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Leo Labs and its high-fidelity space radar track orbital debris better than ever — from New Zealand
Oct 14, 9:14PM
Ask anyone in the space business and they'll tell you that orbital debris is a serious problem that will only get worse,but dealing with it is as much an opportunity as it is a problem. Leo Labs is building a global network of radar arrays that can track smaller debris than we can today, and with better precision — and the first of its new installations is about to start operations in New Zealand.
WeWork pulls thousands of phone booths out of service over formaldehyde scare
Oct 14, 8:04PM
WeWork, the co-working empire once valued at $47 billion before reality struck, plunging the business and its investors into crisis, has another problem to add to its growing pile — one which doesn’t exactly reflect well on its core business of kitting out and maintaining modern working environments. The problem is a safety concern affecting […]
Hulu rolls out 4K content to Xbox One, with Amazon Fire TV and others coming 'soon'
Oct 14, 7:45PM
Hulu this summer finally brought back 4K content to its service, after abruptly removing it in 2018 while it focused on other priorities. Initially, its 4K content was only available on Apple TV 4K and Chromecast Ultra. Today, Hulu says it’s available on Xbox One devices, with support for Amazon Fire TV and LG WebOS […]
Jackson Square Ventures just closed its third fund with $193 million; here's how it plans to invest it
Oct 14, 6:26PM
Jackson Square Ventures (JSV), an eight-year-old, San Francisco-based early-stage venture firm that takes its name from the neighborhood in San Francisco where it’s headquartered, has closed its third fund with $193 million in capital commitments — a sizable step up from its first two funds, which had both rounded up roughly $120 million from the […]
Announcing TechCrunch Robotics & AI on March 3, 2020 at UC Berkeley
Oct 14, 5:39PM
Robotics is back! We are excited to announce that on March 3 next year TechCrunch will host its fourth annual TC Sessions: Robotics & AI at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall. Last year, 1,500 founders, technologists, engineering students and investors turned up for a day of main stage interviews with the top figures in AI and […]
Uber lays off another ~350 across Eats, self-driving and other departments
Oct 14, 5:10PM
Uber has just laid off around 350 employees across a variety of teams within the organization, marking what the company says is its third and final phase of layoffs of the process it began earlier this year, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said to employees today in an email obtained by TechCrunch (full email below). Those […]
Founder's guide to the pre-IPO secondary market
Oct 14, 4:57PM
The increase in activity in the pre-IPO secondary market means that founders, early employees, and investors are receiving liquidity much sooner in a company's lifecycle than ever before...
Daily Crunch: Facebook has a weak stance on political ads
Oct 14, 4:56PM
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 should ban campaign ads. End the lies. Facebook recently formalized its approach to political advertising, declaring, “We don’t believe, however, […]
Shipping giant Pitney Bowes hit by ransomware
Oct 14, 4:29PM
Shipping tech giant Pitney Bowes has confirmed a cyberattack on its systems. The company said in a statement that its systems were hit by a “malware attack that encrypted information” on its systems, more commonly known as ransomware. “At this time, the company has seen no evidence that customer or employee data has been improperly […]
Disney+ tweets all the movies and shows coming to its streaming service
Oct 14, 4:05PM
In an impressive bit of pre-launch marketing, Disney today announced by way of a massive Twitter thread basically every movie and TV show coming to its upcoming streaming service Disney+. The thread, which was posted in chronological order starting with “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” in 1937, reveals not just Disney’s best-known titles but […]
Google updates its Titan security keys with USB-C
Oct 14, 4:00PM
Google has revealed its latest Titan security key — and it’s now compatible with USB-C devices. The latest Titan key arrives just weeks after its closest market rival Yubico — which also manufactures the Titan security key for Google — released its own USB-C and Lightning-compatible key, but almost two years after the release its […]
Fortnite's black hole stunt is the kind of alpha energy we're here for
Oct 14, 3:37PM
As you are likely already aware, Epic Games is pulling a massive PR stunt that has shrunk the world’s most popular game down to a single black hole. As part of Fortnite’s Season 10 live event, called “The End,” the entire Battle Royale Island was sucked into a black hole, with every Fortnite social media […]
India's Reliance Jio unveils video call assistant to help businesses automate customer support
Oct 14, 3:28PM
Before Google moves to bring its human-sounding robot calling service Duplex to help users automate their interactions with businesses to international markets, an Indian giant is deploying its own solution to get a jumpstart on the local market. Reliance Jio today unveiled AI-powered Video Call Assistant service that will allow businesses to automate their customer […]
UK biotech startup Mogrify injects $16M to get novel cell therapies to market soon
Oct 14, 3:10PM
Cambridge, UK-based biotech startup Mogrify, which is working on systematizing the development of novel cell therapies in areas such as regenerative medicine, has closed an initial $16 million Series A. The raise from investors Ahren Innovation Capital, Parkwalk and 24Haymarket follows a $4M seed in February — taking its total raised to date to $20M. Put simply, Mogrify’s approach […]
Samsung opens Android 10 One UI beta ahead of final launch
Oct 14, 2:59PM
After pushing back a planned early-October launch, Samsung has introduced the Android 10 beta of its One UI. The 2.0 version of the Android skin follows a little less than a year after the first version's beta (released in November 2018). The concept goes counter to the earliest Android overlays, instead intending to create a […]
Reddit now lets iOS users share to Snapchat
Oct 14, 2:23PM
Reddit users can now share to Snapchat their favorite content from the site, thanks to a new integration that allows sharing of text, link and image-based posts on iOS from Reddit’s “Safe for Work” communities. The move makes Snapchat the first platform partner with which Reddit is testing content sharing integration, the company says, and […]
DoorDash opens a shared kitchen in Redwood City
Oct 14, 2:02PM
DoorDash is opening its first shared commissary kitchen in Redwood City, Calif., bringing new delivery and pickup options to customers in Peninsula towns, including Atherton, Menlo Park and Palo Alto. This is part of a broader trend of companies like Deliveroo opening shared kitchens that allow restaurant partners to expand their delivery footprint without dealing […]
Pelion Venture Partners adds Jeff Kearl as a managing director, opens Southern California presence
Oct 14, 1:30PM
Salt Lake City-based Pelion Venture Partners is opening an outpost in Southern California and has added Jeff Kearl as a managing director to head up operations in the region. Kearl was the chief executive officer of Stance, a direct-to-consumer retailer selling socks and clothing basics, and has a long history of investing in startup companies […]
Thoma Bravo makes $3.9 billion offer to acquire security firm Sophos
Oct 14, 1:11PM
Sophos announced this morning that private equity firm Thoma Bravo has agreed to buy the British company for £3.1 billion ($3.9 billion USD). The price is based on $7.40 USD per share and the company indicated that the board of directors will recommend shareholders accept the offer. Sophos CEO Kris Hagerman, as you would expect, […]
Opendoor appoints CFO, CPO
Oct 14, 1:00PM
Opendoor has named Gautam Gupta chief financial officer and chief business officer.
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