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Airbnb to ban 'party houses' in wake of Halloween shooting that left 5 dead
Nov 02, 7:38PM
Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky said Saturday the company will ban “party houses” and take other steps to safeguard hosts and guests after five people died at a Halloween party hosted at California home that was rented on the service. Chesky made the announcement via a series of tweets Saturday. “What happened on Thursday night in […]
Nintendo's Ring Fit Adventure is a silly, gentle way to shape up
Nov 02, 4:33PM
Nintendo has a long history when it comes to exercise-driven games. I'm dating myself, but I can say I remember playing Track & Field on NES with the Power Pad. How far we've come! Ring Fit Adventure is a full-body workout for grown-ups, but fun, gentle, and ridiculous enough to forget it's exercise.
Twitter's political ads ban is a distraction from the real problem with platforms
Nov 02, 4:00PM
Sometimes it feels as if Internet platforms are turning everything upside down, from politics to publishing, culture to commerce, and of course swapping truth for lies. This week’s bizarro reversal was the vista of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, a tech CEO famed for being entirely behind the moral curve of understanding what his product is platforming […]
This Week in Apps: iOS 13 complaints, Q3 trends, App Store ratings bug
Nov 02, 3:00PM
Welcome back to This Week in Apps — the easiest way to keep up with everything that happened in the world of apps over the past week — from the breaking news to the trends and all the other information an industry watcher needs to know. The app industry is as hot as ever, with […]
Startups Weekly: Understanding Uber's latest fintech play
Nov 02, 12:00PM
In this week's newsletter: Fintech's banner year, subscription rental furniture and Particle's Series C.
Amazon now sells movie tickets in India
Nov 02, 10:19AM
Amazon has set its eye on the next business it wants to disrupt in its key overseas market India: online movie tickets. The e-commerce giant said Saturday it has partnered with local online movie ticketing giant BookMyShow to introduce booking option on Amazon India shopping site and app. The move comes months after the e-commerce […]
Los Angeles-based BuildOps, subcontracting software for real estate, raises $5.8 million
Nov 01, 11:27PM
Software development companies tackling services for niche industries, like commercial real estate subcontracting, continue to find Los Angeles to be fertile ground for development. The latest company to raise funding from a clutch of investors is BuildOps, which raised $5.8 million in seed financing from some big names in the Los Angeles tech ecosystem. Led […]
This startup is making customized sexual harassment training that it says employees won't hate (or forget)
Nov 01, 10:22PM
If you work for someone else, you likely know the drill: in comes that annual email reminding you that it’s time for unconscious bias or sexual harassment training, and if you could please finish up this mandatory module by this date, that would be terrific. The email — not to mention the programming itself — […]
Reaction Engines' Mach 5 engine is just the tip of the new aerospace boom
Nov 01, 9:28PM
Imagine a hypersonic passenger aircraft that would cut the journey time between London and New York to around two hours. At Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, the aircraft would complete a trip across the Atlantic in around 120 minutes. Mach 5 is more than twice as fast as the cruising speed of Concorde […]
Backed by Will Smith and FabFitFun, OurPlace brings cookware and dinnerware direct to consumers
Nov 01, 9:12PM
The husband and wife co-founders behind the direct-to-consumer cookware and dinnerware startup retailer OurPlace are big believers in the notion that the doorway to inclusive communities opens through the kitchen. Amir Tehrani, the company’s co-founder and chief executive spent, his life in the cookware and kitchen business, while his wife, Shiza Tehrani, is the co-founder of […]
Waymo's UX challenge is getting people to enjoy the ride
Nov 01, 8:43PM
Google has been working on autonomous vehicles — one of the biggest challenges in AI — for more than a decade, but it’s learning that the hardest part might just be getting people to enjoy the ride. “This is an experience that you can’t really learn from someone else,” Waymo’s Director of Product Saswat Panigrahi […]
After signing a big food additive deal, cell-based protein company Geltor is looking for at least $50M
Nov 01, 8:18PM
After inking what sources said was a nine-figure deal with the world’s leading supplier of collagen proteins, Gelita, the cell-based collagen maker Geltor is in the market for at least $50 million in new funding, TechCrunch has learned. According to people with knowledge of the company’s plans, the new funding could range from $50 million […]
Can a combined Google/Fitbit take on the Apple Watch?
Nov 01, 7:57PM
In January 2014, Google announced plans to acquire Nest for $3.2 billion; the acquisition was completed the following day, but since then, Nest’s integration has been a controlled burn. Initially, the company existed as a subsidiary of the newly-formed Alphabet Inc., but in early 2018, Google tightened its grip and integrated it directly into its […]
Google's Fitbit purchase could reshape its healthcare ambitions
Nov 01, 7:56PM
Google has reached into parent company Alphabet’s $121 billion cash reserves to spend $2.1 billion on Fitbit, a move into the key consumer health market that places them in more direct competition with rival Apple. For more than a year, Ftibit and Google have partnered on healthcare applications; last April, Fitbit announced that it would […]
Mario Kart Tour will test real-time multiplayer in December
Nov 01, 7:55PM
The mobile version of Nintendo's iconic racing franchise, Mario Kart Tour, will soon support multiplayer races, bringing the game closer to its competitive roots. A limited beta test is planned for December, just in time for holiday laziness, but only for paying subscribers — the rest of us will have to wait.
Daily Crunch: Google is buying Fitbit
Nov 01, 7:01PM
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. Google is acquiring Fitbit for $2.1 billion Google will pay $7.35 per share for the wearables company — an all-cash deal […]
Cervest raises £3.7M for Earth Science AI platform to predict climate effects
Nov 01, 4:33PM
Climate risk, including extreme events and the related pressures our environment, are fundamentally affecting the way businesses and governments operate — both tactically and strategically. Increasing climate volatility is causing food supply disruptions and increasing pressure on Enterprises (including financial institutions, insurers and producers) to disclose what's going on. The trouble is, while there is […]
MIT's self-propelled block robots can now manage basic swarm coordination
Nov 01, 4:28PM
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has come up with a clever way for its small cube-like robots, which can move on their own, to communicate and coordinate with one another for self-assembly. The behavior is described by MIT researchers as somewhat “hive-like;” in the video above you can see what they mean by […]
Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew is on the hunt for always-on media startups
Nov 01, 4:27PM
Perhaps best known for a career-making seed investment in Snapchat, Lightspeed partner Jeremy Liew is a leading investor across media and entertainment, making bets on startups like Cheddar, Giphy, HQ, SpecialGuest, Mic, Beme, Playdom, Duta and Flixster. I spoke to him earlier this week about how he assesses the market for media startups, which led […]
Google Maps Incognito mode starts rolling out for Android users
Nov 01, 4:00PM
We’ve known for a while now that Google was bringing the “Incognito mode” concept to Maps, allowing you to run searches and find routes without them automatically being tied to your account history. If you’ve been digging around trying to find the option without any luck, you weren’t just missing it. Though first mentioned back […]
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