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Ubiquity6's Display.land is part 3D scanner, part social network
Nov 18, 10:15PM
The world is being mapped in 3D — one brick, one bench, one building at a time. For things like hyper-accurate augmented reality, autonomous robots and self-driving cars, 2D maps and GPS only get you so far. Apple is building its map with lasers strapped to the tops of cars. Niantic has talked about building […]
Luko raises $22 million to improve home insurance
Nov 18, 10:00PM
French startup Luko has raised a $22 million Series A round led by Accel (€20 million). Founders Fund and Speedinvest are also participating in today's funding round. When you rent a place in France, you have to provide a certificate to your landlord saying that you are covered with a home insurance product. And, of […]
NASA adds SpaceX, Blue Origin and more to list of companies set to make deliveries to the surface of the Moon
Nov 18, 9:30PM
NASA has added five companies to the list of vendors that are cleared to bid on contracts for the agency’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) program. This list, which already includes nine companies from a previous selection process, now adds SpaceX, Blue Origin, Ceres Robotics, Sierra Nevada Corporation and Tyvak Nano-Satellite Systems. All of these […]
Uber's chief product officer is stepping down
Nov 18, 9:09PM
Uber Chief Product Officer Manik Gupta announced today he is leaving the company. Gupta’s last day will be December 13, he wrote in a note to Uber’s product team today. “After a few discussions with Dara as well as with my family—and now that we've made it through the IPO and an important year for […]
Twitter launches a way to report abusive use of its Lists feature
Nov 18, 8:29PM
Like many things found on today’s social media platforms, Twitter’s Lists feature was introduced without thinking about the impact it could have on marginalized groups, or how it could otherwise be used for abuse or surveillance if put in the hands of bad actors. Today, Twitter is taking a step to address that problem with […]
Top VCs in Paris share their investment interests
Nov 18, 7:48PM
Since the election of president Emmanuel Macron in 2017, Paris has experienced a surge of momentum as a startup hub. Investor interest had been building for years, but Macron’s government has aggressively focused on adopting more business-friendly regulations and heavily courted the startup and VC community. In September, he announced a €5 billion initiative to […]
Google acquires CloudSimple
Nov 18, 7:42PM
Just a few months back, Google announced a partnership with a company called CloudSimple to help more enterprise teams move their on-site operations to the cloud. Now Google is outright acquiring them. So what is CloudSimple? It lets businesses run VMware vSphere workloads on the cloud, allowing them to take their existing on-premises tools and […]
Daily Crunch: John Legere is leaving T-Mobile
Nov 18, 7:28PM
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. John Legere is stepping down as CEO of T-Mobile, succeeded by deputy Mike Sievert on May 1 Sievert, who’s currently T-Mobile’s […]
Nanoracks just booked a SpaceX launch to demo tech that turns used spacecraft into orbital habitats
Nov 18, 7:21PM
SpaceX is going to launch a payload for client Nanoracks aboard one of its new rideshare missions, currently targeting late 2020, that will demonstrate a very ambitious piece of tech from the commercial space station company. Nanoracks is sending up a payload platform that will show off how it can use a robot to cut […]
Intel and Argonne National Lab on 'exascale' and their new Aurora supercomputer
Nov 18, 7:17PM
The scale of supercomputing has grown almost too large to comprehend, with millions of compute units performing calculations at rates requiring, for first time, the exa prefix — denoting quadrillions per second. How was this accomplished? With careful planning... and a lot of wires, say two people close to the project.
Gremlin brings Chaos Engineering as a Service to Kubernetes
Nov 18, 6:26PM
The practice of Chaos Engineering developed at Amazon and Netflix a decade ago to help those web scale companies test their complex systems for worst-case scenarios before they happened. Gremlin was started by a former employee of both these companies to make it easier to perform this type of testing without a team of Site […]
Logitech accessory kit makes the Xbox Adaptive Controller even more accessible
Nov 18, 5:59PM
Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Controller was a breath of fresh air in a gaming world that has largely failed to consider the needs of people with disabilities. Now Logitech has joined the effort to empower this diverse population with an expanded set of XAC-compatible buttons and triggers. Logitech’s $100 Adaptive Gaming Kit comes with a dozen […]
Juno shuts down its operations in NYC as owner Gett signs strategic partnership with Lyft
Nov 18, 5:24PM
Gett, the ridesharing company backed by Volkswagen and valued at around $1.5 billion, is putting the brakes on a major part of its growth strategy. Today, the company announced that it is closing its operations in New York, which run under the Juno brand, effective today. The company has a substantial business serving enterprise customers […]
If you don't have an investment banker, replicate one
Nov 18, 5:21PM
Good news: even if you have a small company and can't afford a banker, you can synthetically and cheaply replicate one.
Steve Jang & Kanyi Maqubela form or fund as Kindred Ventures
Nov 18, 5:10PM
Venture capitalists often mutter, “I haven’t seen anything I like lately.” Founders frequently complain that “investors are back-seat drivers who won’t get their hands dirty.” A $55 million fund with a fresh approach is aiming to address both those issues. Steve Jang and Kanyi Maqubela are two exceedingly smart and sweet guys who couldn’t help […]
BMW unveils the powerful i4 electric sedan with 530 hp, 373 miles of range
Nov 18, 5:04PM
BMW just took the wraps off its first purely electric premium mid-size sedan. Appropriately called the i4, the vehicle is powered by the company's fifth-generation eDrive platform and is just part of the company's upcoming onslaught of EVs. But put down the credit card. This car isn't coming until late 2021, at the earliest. Right […]
Pitch onstage at TechCrunch's Robotics & AI show — March 3 at UC Berkeley
Nov 18, 5:00PM
On March 3 next year, TechCrunch will host the fourth annual TC Sessions: Robotics + AI at UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall. This time around we're adding a new twist to the incredible line-up of speakers, breakout sessions and Q&As: a pitch-off for early-stage companies in the robotics and AI space. How it works: The night […]
Google Maps tests a social networking feature with the ability to 'follow' Local Guides
Nov 18, 4:54PM
Google Maps will soon begin testing a new feature that’s more common to social networks like Facebook, rather than a maps app: the ability to find and follow other users. In Google Maps’ case, it’s specifically rolling out the ability to follow top “Local Guides” — its community members who actively review business and share […]
Weber's new SmokeFire pellet grill uses June technology for smart cooking
Nov 18, 4:28PM
BBQ legend Weber is getting into the connected cooking game with their new SmokeFire grill, which uses wood pellets for fuel and incorporates technology developed by Weber in partnership with appliance startup June for Wi-Fi-enabled smart cooking. The SmokeFire grill, which will be available for pre-order in the U.S. starting on Cyber Monday and which […]
Bill McDermott takes reins as ServiceNow CEO sooner than expected with new CFO
Nov 18, 3:32PM
It was pretty unexpected when former SAP CEO Bill McDermott announced he was stepping down in October after a decade in the position. He indicated at that point he would stay until the end of the year to help with the transition to new leadership — then ServiceNow hired him to be its CEO just a […]
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