Sunday, March 17, 2019

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  • Pi Day wasn’t pleasant for a lot of tech execs 3 days ago  –  Pi Day is apparently New Job day for tech execs and VCs these days. Leaving: Lee Fixel It’s not every day that one of the top VC investors heads out from their shop. TechCrunch’s @cookie aka Connie Loizos has the story: Lee Fixel, the low-flying head of Tiger Global’s private equity business, is ...
  • YC-backed Aura Vision analyzes video footage to provide new data to retailers 3 days ago  –  Aura Vision, which is part of the current batch of startups at Y Combinator, helps retailers understand who’s visiting their stores and what they’re doing there. In other words, if you want to see the demographics of who’s visiting the store, or which displays and products are actually prompting ...
  • Uber’s IPO targets April, Stash stacks cash and YC shakes it up 3 days ago  –   Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was a lot of fun. Connie Lozios took the captain’s chair in San Francisco while I manned the sails, and we had Female Founders Fund’s founder Anu Duggal in...
  • Passbase is building a full-stack identity engine with privacy baked in
  • Apple addresses Spotify’s claims, but not its demands
  • Tesla Model Y orders are now open
  • The Tesla Model Y is a 300-mile-range Model 3 doppelgänger coming in fall 2020
  • Lee Fixel is leaving Tiger Global
  • Adventurous taps live actors and AR to take families on high-tech scavenger hunts
  • ‘Ape Out’ and ‘Baba Is You’ demonstrate the depth of simpli
  • After Christchurch, Reddit bans communities infamous for sharing graphic videos of death 2 days ago  –  In the aftermath of the tragic mosque massacre that claimed 49 lives in Christchurch, New Zealand, tech companies scrambled to purge their platforms of promotional materials that the shooter left behind. As most of the internet is now unfortunately aware, the event was broadcast live on Facebook,...
  • Verified Expert Lawyer: Mital Makadia 2 days ago  –  Mital Makadia’s legal career began on the East Coast, with Big Law firms, but she moved into early-stage startup work with long-time Silicon Valley boutique Grellas Shah nearly a decade ago. She’ll work with companies on a range of usual startup issues, but she and the firm also focus on individu...
  • What to watch for in a VC term sheet 2 days ago  –  Mital Makadia Contributor Mital is a partner at Grellas Shah, focusing on representing tech startups and startup founders. She provides counsel on a variety of corporate and transactional matters and negotiates and structures equity financings, M&A transactions, and commercial and intellectua...
  • Portal automatically opens doors for wheelchair users, no button pressing required
  • Beto O’Rourke could be the first hacker president
  • Zeus raises $24M to make you a living-as-a-service landlord
  • The inevitability of tokenized data
  • PagerDuty just filed its S-1
  • James Gunn is back at the helm of Guardians of the Galaxy 3
  • Twitter confirms a new ‘Subscribe to Conversation’ feature 
  • Equity transcribed: Uber IPO, Stash’s raise and more YC movement a day ago  –  Welcome back to this week’s transcribed edition of Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast that unpacks the numbers behind the headlines. We’re running an experiment for Extra Crunch members that puts the words of our wildly popular venture capital podcast, Equity, in your eyes inste...
  • Pre- and Post-Money SAFEs: Choosing the right one for your startup a day ago  –  Jared Verzello Contributor Jared Verzello is a startup and venture capital lawyer and GM of Atrium Seed where he guides companies through formation, fundraising, hiring, and managing board meetings. With Y Combinator’s Demo Day taking place at Pier 48 in San Francisco next week, its largest batch...
  • Apex Legends is prepping for a big Battle Pass launch a day ago  –  Apex Legends surprised the gaming world two months ago, bringing a new, frenetic dynamic to the Battle Royale genre of games that has already attracted 50 million players. That first huge milestone didn’t come at a cheap price — EA reportedly paid Ninja $1 million to stream the game. But now the ...
  • This YC-backed startup preps Chinese students for US data jobs
  • Apple kerfuffles, praise groups, and media layoffs
  • Startups Weekly: Uber’s headline-grabbing week and sextech at SXSW
  • U.S. federal court jury finds Apple infringed three Qualcomm patents
  • No Man’s Sky has a big new update due out this summer
  • XGenomes is bringing DNA sequencing to the masses
  • Shiok Meats takes the cultured meat revolution to the seafo
  • Transportation Weekly: Uber’s spending habits, Tesla Model Y, scooters and AVs in Austin 5 hours ago  –  Welcome back to Transportation Weekly; I’m your host Kirsten Korosec, senior transportation reporter at TechCrunch. We love the reader feedback. Keep it coming. Never heard of TechCrunch’s Transportation Weekly? Catch up by reading the first edition here or check out last week’s edition, which of...
  • To get big faster, younger unicorns start buying startups sooner 5 hours ago  –  In the name of getting big quick, it seems like some of the most valuable private tech companies are turning to mergers and acquisitions (M&A) as a way to accelerate business growth. So-called “unicorns”—privately-held technology companies which achieve billion-dollar valuations sometime befo...
  • These are the robots that help you get your Amazon packages on time 6 hours ago  –  Months before the hard-fought battle for its second global headquarters in Queens, Amazon planted a massive, 855,000-square-foot flag in Staten Island. The $100 million JFK8 fulfillment center opened last fall, after an “on the spot” hiring spree, aimed at employing an eventual 2,250 people. The ...
  • Doorport wants to make your apartment building’s front door smarter
  • Nala has built a hassle-free, offline mobile money payment platform for Africa
  • Facebook failed to block 20% of uploaded New Zealand shooter videos
  • A huge trove of medical records and prescriptions found exposed
  • Welcome to the hub of all hubs: Cosmos has launched
  • Decade in review: Trends in seed- and early-stage funding
  • Vectordash’s cloud gaming service brings crypto-miners a

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  • Beto O’Rourke was a member of the US’s oldest hacking group 2 days ago  – , something he and former members kept under wraps until now, the former representative from El Paso, Texas said in an interview with Reuters. O’Rourke announced his bid for the presidency yesterday. It’s unclear what kind of...
  • Facebook adds dedicated gaming tab to its mobile app
  • A field guide to the wacky future of folding phones
  • NASA making its Moon mission commercial could signal a paradigm shift for deep-space travel
     2 days ago  –  NASA has the opportunity to demonstrate a new way of exploring space — will the space agency take it? Continue reading…
  • For the original take on love, death, and robots, stream Robot Carnival for free online
  • PlayStation Plus one-year subscription is 25 percent off, and some Pi Day deals are still happening
  • Electric scooter charging is a cutthroat business, and Lime wants to fix that
  • New Huawei P30 Pro spec leak reveals the secrets of the 10x zoom camera
  • These sleek animations highlight the relationship between designers and clients
  • Vergecast: Galaxy S10E review and Spotify vs. Apple
  • Here’s why Apple is saying Spotify is suing songwriters 2 days ago  –  Spoiler: Spotify isn’t suing songwriters Continue reading…
  • Disney rehires James Gunn for Guardians of the Galaxy 3 after firing him over old tweets
  • Watch ULA launch one of the last single-core Delta IV rockets this evening
    2 days ago  –  To round out the end of the work week, the United Launch Alliance plans to launch a military satellite out of Florida this evening, marking the second flight of the year for the company. ULA’s Delta IV rocket will be lofting a communications satellite called Wideband Global SATCOM, or WGS-10, for...
  • Netflix finally agrees to remove real-life train derailment footage from Bird Box
  • Students ‘strike for climate’ across the United States
  • 11 new science fiction and fantasy books to check out for the rest of March
  • Walmart is planning to launch its own low-cost Android tablet
  • Deadly Boeing crashes raise questions about airplane automation
  • The FCC is planning new rules for tracking indoor 911 calls
  • Huawei’s MateBook X Pro, one of the best laptops around, is
  • Sky New Zealand yanks Sky Australia after Christchurch footage sparks outrage 2 days ago  –  When news broke of the mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand that left at least 49 dead Thursday evening, I started watching Twitter. Two surprising themes stood out: people urging their social media followers to protect themselves from accidentally watching an extremely graphic 17-minute vi...
  • Questions about policing online hate are much bigger than Facebook and YouTube
  • This week’s Simpsons focuses on League of Legends
  • Valve says it will investigate Steam review bombing campaigns and hide bad-faith scores
    Valve says it will investigate Steam review bombing campaigns and hide bad-faith scores 2 days ago  –  Valve says it’s taking a new approach to user reviews on its gaming marketplace Steam, after attempting and largely failing to solve the problem of so-called review bombing that taints its consumer recommendation system. In a blog post published today, Valve says that it’s “continued to listen to...
  • Tinder says it no longer uses a ‘desirability’ score to rank people
  • LG’s 2019 OLED TV lineup with AirPlay 2 will hit stores starting in April
  • Snapchat may launch a gaming platform as early as next month
  • How to turn off autoplay videos on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, and more
  • Reddit bans r/watchpeopledie in the wake of the New Zealand mosque massacres
  • Why can’t YouTube automatically catch re-uploads of dist
  • The response to the deadly mass shooting in Christchurch, New Zealand a day ago  –  Limiting the spread of an attack designed to go viral Continue reading……
  • Valve takes down user tributes memorializing the New Zealand shooting suspect
  • Spotify responds to Apple, calling it a ‘monopolist’
  • Apple and Stanford’s Apple Watch study identified irregular heartbeats in over 2,000 patients
  • 7 new trailers you should watch this week
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson will return to National Geographic after sexual misconduct allegations
  • Save $30 on a Mario game when you buy a Nintendo Switch, and catch up on leftover Pi Day sales
  • American Gods will get a third season and a new showrunner
  • The first woman to fly commercial to space describes what it’s like to see Earth from 55 miles up
  • Everything we think we know about Google’s mystery gamin
  • Arizona State University released a free sci-fi anthology about the future of solar power 7 hours ago  –  Over the last couple of years, organizations and companies have begun to look at science fiction in ways that go beyond mere entertainment, with writers and thinkers pointing out that genre stories can be used as a practical tool to imagine optimistic futures. One such organization is Arizona Sta...
  • The Internet Archive is working to preserve public Google+ posts before it shuts down
  • The top ten 2020 Tokyo Olympics pictograms, ranked
  • YouTube creators are using a hilarious tactic to combat copyright policies
  • Golf Peaks turns mini-golf into a card-based puzzle game
  • WhatsApp co-founder urges users to delete their Facebook accounts — again
  • Is Huawei a security threat? Seven experts weigh in
  • Facebook says that it removed 1.5 million videos of the New Zealand mass shooting
  • Foldable phones are about to make the US very jealous
  • Spotify vs. Apple: the latest updates 
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