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The ACLU wants details about videos of Boston Dynamics robot in police exercises
Nov 25, 10:55PM
Back in April at our robotics event at UC Berkeley, Boston Dynamics head Marc Raibert showed off video of the company's Spot robot in a number of different real world scenarios. Some, like construction and first responders, were familiar to anyone who has been following the company — and automation in general. Another scenario, which […]
NASA's space pallet concept could land rovers on the moon cheaply and simply
Nov 25, 10:33PM
Establishing an enduring presence on the Moon will mean making a lot of landings — and NASA researchers want to make those landings as reliable and cheap as possible. This robotic "pallet lander" concept would be a dead simple (as lunar landers go) way to put up to 300 kilograms of rover and payload onto the Moon's surface.
Argentine fintech Ualá raises $150M led by Tencent and SoftBank
Nov 25, 10:30PM
Ualá, an Argentine personal finance management app, has raised a $150 million Series C led by Tencent and SoftBank’s Latin America-focused Innovation Fund. Ualá is a mobile banking app and lending platform with services similar to Revolut, Monzo and Nubank. However Ualá has no intention of actually becoming a bank itself. Founder and CEO Pierpaolo […]
The herd sours on unprofitable unicorns again
Nov 25, 10:13PM
Profitability is tied to growth. You can have one or the other, but rarely both simultaneously.
AI expert Stuart Russell to join TC's Robotics+AI 2020 at UC Berkeley
Nov 25, 10:03PM
Computer scientists agree that artificial intelligence will have a stunning impact on the future of humanity. And more often than not, futurists depict a dystopian outcome – a world where we are at best subservient to machines and at worst exterminated by them. Computer scientist Stuart Russell, one of the world's top experts on AI […]
Google employee activist says she's been fired
Nov 25, 9:41PM
Google has terminated Rebecca Rivers, an employee activist the company put on indefinite administrative leave this month, Rivers tweeted this afternoon. Google declined to comment but confirmed an internal note published by Bloomberg, which said Google fired a total of four employees for repeatedly violating its data-security policies. Earlier this month, Google put Rivers and […]
Ford VP challenges Tesla to a fair F-150 vs Cybertruck tow battle
Nov 25, 9:29PM
Update: Elon Musk responded and this might happen. See below. Elon Musk took a big swipe at Ford during the unveiling of the Cybertruck. Mid-presentation, he played a video of a Cybertruck pulling an F-150 in what was pitched as a head-to-head contest. Many have questioned if it was a fair fight (I don't think […]
Baby Yoda memes return as Giphy stops pulling content over copyright concerns
Nov 25, 9:26PM
Almost as soon as “Baby Yoda” (or “Yoda Baby”?) debuted on the wildly popular new Disney Plus series “The Mandalorian,” a thousand internet memes bloomed in its wake. Yet, nearly as quickly as the image took hold everywhere online, it was mysteriously pulled — as if a thousand bounty hunters all got the same tracking […]
Elon Musk says sledgehammering Cybertruck led to the onstage window failure
Nov 25, 9:03PM
After pounding the side of his new Cybertruck with a sledgehammer with not a mark left behind, Elon Musk turned his focus to the “Tesla Armor Glass”. As we all saw, the glass did not fare so well. A toss of a steel ball into the window caused it to splinter, catching everyone on stage […]
What the partnership at Trinity Ventures sees for the road ahead in 2020
Nov 25, 8:55PM
Over the years, Trinity Ventures has racked up many exits for its limited partners. Through deals in consumer brands like Starbucks and Zulily and enterprise companies like TubeMogul and New Relic, the Menlo Park-based fund has found repeated success, but as it retrenches with a pared-down investment team and a much smaller new fund, Trinity’s […]
New Amazon tool helps machine learning models identify unique objects
Nov 25, 7:57PM
Amazon announced a new capability today called Amazon Rekognition Custom Labels to help customers train machine learning models to understand a set of objects when there is a limited set of information. Typically, machine learning models have to work on large data sets to learn something like what’s a picture of a dog, as opposed […]
CBS All Access launches kids' programming, soon to include Nickelodeon shows
Nov 25, 7:57PM
CBS’s over-the-top streaming service, CBS All Access, is the latest to counter the threat from Disney+ by investing in children’s programming. Today, the company is launching a kids’ programming lineup including original shows and other library content. Plus, in one of the first major content integrations ahead of the ViacomCBS merger, the CBS streaming service […]
Apple releases holiday ad
Nov 25, 7:35PM
Apple has released its annual holiday ad, just in time for Thanksgiving. Named "The Surprise," the ad focuses on two young girls who spend a lot of time playing with an iPad. The ad focuses on a family that travels across the country to visit the mother's father. Like many families, the parents hand them […]
In wake of Sprint/T-Mobile deal, Ryan Reynolds has an announcement
Nov 25, 7:18PM
In other news, Deadpool actor Ryan Reynolds has invested an undisclosed amount in a company selling prepaid phone plans called Mint Mobile. It all sounds like a weird sponsored Instagram post, but a source tells TechCrunch that Reynolds now owns more than 25% of the company with this recent investment. What he invested is thoroughly […]
AWS expands its IoT services, brings Alexa to devices with only 1MB of RAM
Nov 25, 7:13PM
AWS today announced a number of IoT-related updates that, for the most part, aim to make getting started with its IoT services easier, especially for companies that are trying to deploy a large fleet of devices. The marquee announcement, however, is about the Alexa Voice Service, which makes Amazon’s Alex voice assistant available to hardware […]
Daily Crunch: Uber faces legal battle in London
Nov 25, 7:08PM
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. Uber has again been denied licence renewal in London over safety risks With Uber’s two-month license extension in London coming to […]
Omni storage & rentals fails, shutters, sells engineers to Coinbase
Nov 25, 7:00PM
$35 million-funded Omni is packing up and shutting down after struggling to make the economics of equipment rentals and physical on-demand storage work out. It’s another victim of a venture capital-subsidized business offering a convenient service at an unsustainable price. The startup fought for a second wind after selling off its physical storage operations to […]
Coup shuts down its electric moped scooter service
Nov 25, 6:55PM
Coup, an electric moped scooter-sharing service that operates in Berlin, Paris and Madrid, has announced in an email that it is going to shut down in all three cities. On Twitter, the company says that operating the service is "economically unsustainable" in the long term. "We plan to discontinue our service in Berlin and Tübingen […]
Peak Design's new bags and backpacks improve on the originals and add new options
Nov 25, 6:29PM
SF-based Peak Design hasn’t really changed much about its now-classic Everyday bags over the years, and they’ve regularly received plenty of praise and good reviews so that makes sense. Today, however, Peak is launching the ‘V2’ collection of its entire Everyday line, including smart revisions of some of its best equipment, and all-new designs for […]
Weekend Fund raises $10M for second early-stage fund
Nov 25, 6:24PM
Ryan Hoover's Weekend Fund closes second fund.
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