- Tesla and SolarCity made this whole island solar-powered in under a year
Tesla and SolarCity’s union is still very fresh, but the combined companies are already highlighting what they’ve been able to accomplish even just as partners. The SolarCity blog details a project in which SolarCity power generation and Tesla Powerpack-based storage helped the small island of Ta’u... - Volkswagen will begin making electric cars in North America in 2021
Volkswagen’s EV plans include manufacturing in North America starting in 2021, according to the company. The new production expansion is part of VW’s goal to ramp up to sales of 1 million electric vehicles globally by 2025, as electric becomes “the strategic core of the VW brand,” according to Volk... - Tech recruitment startup Yborder finds interest in the UK has almost halved since EU ref
- Aye Finance raises $10.3M to supply micro-loans to small companies in India
- The team behind Cookies is joining Klarna
- Michigan’s 335-acre Willow Run autonomous car test facility breaks ground
Michigan’s new American Center for Mobility at the historic Willow Run one-time manufacturing complex broke ground this week, paving the way for the launch of the technologically advanced testbed for autonomous and connected vehicles. The 335-acre site will play host to a new facility designed to h... - Doppler Labs delays launch of Here One smart earbuds, won’t ship until February
Wireless earbuds are still in their infancy, and there still seem to be some tough issues left to nail when it comes to mass production. Doppler Labs CEO Noah Kraft tells me that the because of manufacturing issues, the company will be delaying the release of their Here One smart earbuds until Febr... - Amazon announces new Dash-powered devices that can auto-reorder your coffee, air filters, and more
- Facebook downsizes small business sales in Europe, reportedly 30 jobs affected in Germany
- Most students can’t tell fake news from real news, study shows
- Apple teases a one-day Black Friday sale, a reversal from last year’s decision to sit out
- Uber launches in Bangladesh to continue its emerging market push
- Vivaldi’s updated browser syncs smart light bulbs to ‘the color of the web’
- Disney launches free Moana-themed coding tutorials
- Spinn’s futuristic coffee maker is now available for pre-order
At Disrupt NY in May we had the pleasure of seeing a very cool hardware startup make its debut on the Battlefield, looking to make waves in an industry very close to my heart (and mouth): coffee. Now Spinn’s high-tech coffee maker is available for pre-order, so if it piqued your interest earlier th... - Google’s redesigned Google Sites goes live
For the longest time, Google Sites felt like the forgotten app in Google’s productivity suite. Earlier this year, though, the company announced that it would finally give Sites a full overhaul. Today, after a short beta, this new version of Sites is going live for all users. Google Sites is essenti... - Xgimi’s H1 is a powerful, portable all-in-one home theater projector
- Fender will release a Bluetooth guitar amp designed for use with its mobile apps
- 10 gizmos and gifts to encourage kids to learn to code
- Call to Action lets you phone your Congressperson with just a tap
- Pepper the robot will be helping out shoppers at two Bay Area shopping centers this holiday
- AWS drops its storage prices and launches new cold storage retrieval options
- 9 great gifts for your favorite 20-something
- Don’t know what they want? Give a pre-swappable Snappy Gift
Gift cards are soulless and buying the wrong gift leads to annoying returns. But you might not know if your loved one would prefer a drone, action camera or a VR headset. With Snappy Gifts, they get to choose. Snappy Gifts is a new startup offering a fresh new approach that takes the guess-work out... - Platio turns sidewalks into solar collectors
Platio is a new company from Hungary dedicated to putting solar panels just about everywhere. They’re starting with sidewalks. Founded by a team of engineers and architects the system uses solid solar panels overlaid on plastic backing that ensures the panels won’t break when stepped on or rolled o... - Building jobs, not walls, in Silicon Valley
- Draper Nexus closes $175 million fund, LP’s include Panasonic, Canon and other Japanese tech giants
- 15 gifts for the social media addict in your life
- The Das Keyboard Prime 13 brings the gaming keyboard to the board room
- Alexa will warm Eight’s new Smart Mattress
- Xbox One game streaming comes to Oculus Rift on December 12
- The 2017 Toyota Yaris points to the future of cars
- Ditto is now in Pokémon GO
This post is going to be brief because I’m about two seconds from running outside to catch me some Ditto, but: Reports are pouring in left and right that Ditto has, at long last, been added to Pokémon GO. The lil’ purple blob has been curiously absent from the game since launch, but the reason wasn... - Bad PR agencies can kill a startup before it has a chance to succeed
Right now there’s a multi-million-dollar con being played on employees, investors and founders of startup companies — and they don’t even realize it. In a dying media world where quality coverage has become invaluable to a rising startup, public relations agencies charge startups anywhere from $10,... - Starbucks starts selling Ember mugs, which keep your drink at a steady temp for hours
- TechCrunch Gift Guide 2016
- Facebook built censorship tool to get into China despite human rights risks
- Patient data API pivotal to DeepMind’s push into UK’s NHS
- Lab-made meat startup Memphis Meats hopes to grow a Thanksgiving turkey
- Zola wedding registry lands $25 million led by Lightspeed
- SpaceX wins NASA launch contract for first-ever global survey of Earth’s water
- Digg CEO Gary Liu is leaving to head up Alibaba-owned newspaper SCMP
Digg, the one-time internet sensation, is losing the CEO that has nursed it back to good health. Gary Liu is leaving the company to become CEO of South China Morning Post (SCMP), the Hong Kong-based newspaper and media firm that Alibaba acquired for $262 million earlier this year. Read More - The SaaS Co. closes €800K seed funding to develop AI-driven sales assistant
The SaaS Co., a startup that helps Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) companies with B2B sales, has raised €800,000 in seed funding, money it plans to use to further develop its AI-driven sales assistant. Backing the round are various unnamed angel investors, along with the European Union via a €300,000 ... - German online wealth management platform Cashboard scores €3M Series A
- Secure messaging app Telegram now offers its own anonymous blogging platform
- Agricool harvests $4.3 million to grow fruits and vegetables in containers
- Twitter mistakenly suspended its own CEO’s Twitter account
- Crunch Report | Tesla and SolarCity-powered Island
- Shopify’s experimental product shop launches flash sales app Frenzy
- Google’s AI translation tool seems to have invented its own secret internal language
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