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Another US court says police cannot force suspects to turn over their passwords
Nov 21, 11:18PM
The highest court in Pennsylvania has ruled that the state’s law enforcement cannot force suspects to turn over their passwords that would unlock their devices. The state’s Supreme Court said compelling a password from a suspect is a violation of the Fifth Amendment, a constitutional protection that protects suspects from self-incrimination. It’s not an surprising […]
Twitter will finally let you turn on two-factor authentication without giving it a phone number
Nov 21, 10:42PM
Two-factor authentication is good! SMS-based two-factor authentication? Not the best option. After countless tales of people having their phone numbers and inbound SMS hijacked by way of SIM swapping, it’s clear that SMS just isn’t the right solution for sending people secondary login codes. And yet, for many years, it’s been the mandatory go-to on […]
Y Combinator abruptly shutters YC China
Nov 21, 10:39PM
Prolific startup accelerator Y Combinator has abandoned plans to establish a branch of the program in China. The company cites a general change in strategy, but a deafening silence on the complexity and controversy of working with China right now suggests there's more at play.
OutVoice officially launches its freelancer payment tools
Nov 21, 10:30PM
OutVoice, a startup that allows editors to pay freelancers with the click of a button, has officially left beta testing and is open to any publication. The company is also announcing that it has raised an undisclosed amount of seed funding from content monetization startup Coil. OutVoice was founded by Matt Saincome and Issa Diao […]
Alphabet's X details a garbage-sorting bot that's part of its plan to make robots an everyday thing
Nov 21, 10:25PM
Alphabet subsidiary X, which is the former Google X and which focuses exclusively on ambitious ‘moonshots,’ or applications of tech you might expect are science fiction, not a real product in development. Like a robot that can sort through office trash. X does a lot of its work more quietly than other Alphabet companies – […]
Google employees will rally in protest of alleged worker retaliation
Nov 21, 9:52PM
Google is under fire again for its treatment of employees. Tomorrow, a group of Google employees is holding a rally and press conference to speak out against the company’s decision to place two employees on indefinite administrative leave. Earlier this month, Google fired one employee and put two, Laurence Berland and Rebecca Rivers, on leave […]
Netgear's Meural Canvas II is a better version of the best home gadget for photographers
Nov 21, 9:18PM
Netgear has released the first updated Canvas digital art from from Meural since acquiring the company last September, and the next-generation connected frame comes with some decent quality-of-life improvements as well as a new, additional size. It’s not a dramatic change from the original Meural Canvas, but it means that a product that was already […]
Morgan Stanley's 'Teflon banker' talks direct listings and much more
Nov 21, 8:53PM
Michael Grimes has been dubbed “Wall Street’s Silicon Valley whisperer” for landing a seemingly endless string of coveted deals for his bank, Morgan Stanley. The sprawling financial institution has served as the lead underwriter for Facebook, Spotify and Slack. Grimes, a banker for 32 years — 25 of them with Morgan Stanley — has also […]
Camp Grounded Digital Detox returns after founder's death
Nov 21, 8:45PM
Summer camp for adults and beloved tech-free weekend getaway Camp Grounded ground to a halt in 2017. Its big-hearted founder, Levi Felix, who’d espoused the joys of trading screens for nature walks, was tragically killed by brain cancer at just age 32. Left in his wake was a mourning community that had lost their digital […]
The Flux beamo is a $1,500 laser cutter with simple but powerful software
Nov 21, 8:29PM
Laser cutters are in a fun place right now. Gone are the days when the cheapest machines were tens of thousands of dollars, and when the “compact” models were roughly the size of a freezer. They've gotten affordable enough, and small enough, that a DIY home hobbyist can add it to their toolset without taking […]
Keywee introduces a new Loyalty Score to help publishers reach the most valuable readers
Nov 21, 7:56PM
I don’t want to hurt your feelings, but here’s the truth: Not all readers are created equal. At least, that’s how things look from a user acquisition perspective, where publishers running ad campaigns to reach new readers might end up bringing in a whole bunch of random visitors who are unlikely to ever return their […]
Linear takes $4.2M led by Sequoia to build a better bug tracker and more
Nov 21, 7:51PM
Software will eat the world, as the saying goes, but in doing so, some developers are likely to get a little indigestion. That is to say, building products requires working with disparate and distributed teams, and while developers may have an ever-growing array of algorithms, APIs and technology at their disposal to do this, ironically […]
MIT researchers develop a much better way to optimize the control of soft robots
Nov 21, 7:41PM
MIT researchers have developed a new way to optimize how soft robots perform specific tasks — a huge challenge when it comes to soft robotics in particular, because robots with flexible bodies can basically move in an infinite number of ways at any given moment, so programming them to do something in the best way […]
Define and manage growth on your own terms
Nov 21, 7:13PM
Growth means different things at different companies, but correctly identifying avenues for sustainable and scalable growth is a universal priority.
The top 1% of app store publishers drive 80% of new downloads
Nov 21, 7:09PM
The current app store ecosystem doesn’t favor the indie developer. According to new data from Sensor Tower, the top 1% of publishers globally accounted for a whopping 80% of the total 29.6 billion app downloads in the third quarter of 2019. That means just 20%, or 6 billion, downloads are left for the rest of […]
GM will bring an electric truck to market in 2021
Nov 21, 7:01PM
GM CEO Mary Barra said Thursday that the automaker will bring its first electric truck to market in the fall of 2021. The comments were made Thursday during GM’s investor day. Later this evening, Tesla, which also plans to start selling an electric truck in 2021, will reveal its “cybertruck” at an event in Hawthorne, […]
Toyota's first plug-in hybrid RAV4 piles on the power and fuel efficiency
Nov 21, 6:15PM
Toyota gave its first plug-in hybrid RAV4 more than just a plug. It piled on the power as well. The 2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime, which was unveiled this week at the LA Auto Show, will achieve two seemingly conflicting goals. The vehicle will be its most fuel efficient and one of its most powerful. This […]
Valve's flagship Half-Life VR game will land in March of 2020
Nov 21, 6:15PM
As expected, Valve just dropped some details about Half-Life: Alyx, the flagship VR game it teased earlier this week.
Congress extends NSA call records collection powers to March
Nov 21, 6:03PM
In passing a short-term funding bill to avoid a U.S. government shutdown, Congress has also extended the government’s legal powers allowing it to collect daily millions of Americans’ call records. Buried in a funding bill passed by the House this week was a clause that extended the government’s so-called Section 215 powers, which allow the […]
Daily Crunch: PayPal acquires Honey
Nov 21, 5:40PM
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. PayPal to acquire shopping and rewards platform Honey for $4B Currently, Honey's 17 million monthly active users take advantage of its […]
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