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- How to Stay Safe on Ice? Walk Like a Penguin
Tuck and roll. Or walk like a penguin. With a deep freeze covering the South and New England, you need to be extra careful.
- How The Dealmaker Failed On Health Care
Health care was the first test of Donald Trump's business skills. It didn't go well. - 'It's Like Watching Pro Wrestling': Voters React to Health Care Bill Failure
- How Can You Keep Your Internet Searches Private?
- Scientists Can Now Store Information on Single Atoms
- Oklahoma Tribe Votes in Favor of Same-Sex Marriage
- Hate Filing Taxes? Thank Tax-Prep Firms, Who Lobby for You to Need Them
- 90 Percent of London Police Don't Carry a Gun: Here's Why
- Hawaii Republican Leader Officially Resigns From GOP
- Trump's Rhetoric Has This Town 'Ready for War'
- Cops Without Guns Protect London Amid Terror Fears
- London Attack: Fundraising Site Criticized for Profiting From Fund for Murdered Cop
The fundraising website collecting contributions for the family of the hero police officer killed in the London attack has refused to waive its five percent fee for collecting the money. - What's Next On The Trump Agenda?
- Killer Turned Peacemaker Leaves Divided Legacy
- Putin Meets Marine Le Pen in Moscow, Denies French Election Interference
- House Dems Hit GOP With First Attack Ads On Health Care
- Tillerson to Visit NATO, After News He Could Skip Meeting
- Penn State's Ex-President Convicted Over Sandusky Case
- Jury Finds Officer Guilty in Fatal Shooting of 6-Year-Old
- Nunes Backs Down From Explosive Claim Trump Was Monitored
- Yes, Speaker Ryan, You Do Have The Worst Job In Washington
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- Startups downplay tobacco as they talk up cannabis
Shops patronized by pot smokers have a long tradition of labeling their pipes and vaporizers “for tobacco use only.” But startups developing smoking and vaping gear are basically asking customers to put their weed in it. Self-described cannabis product companies are raising capital in droves, while... - Acer’s S 13 makes the case for the inexpensive ultrabook worth having
Acer has made a lot of ultrabooks, but the only one worth mentioning is the current S 13. Priced aggressively even for the “high-end” model, as configured, it sports a slim profile, backlit keys and a Core i7 processor. Acer is taking the perks of owning a pricier machine and making them more acces... - Samsung is aiming to widen access to contactless payments
- Revolut launches a premium subscription and starts raising a new round
- Zenreach raises $30M to help businesses boost their marketing with free Wi-Fi
- Tour and activities marketplace Zozi lays off 30% of staff
Zozi, a startup that describes itself as an OpenTable for tours and activities, and which raised $30 million from Richard Branson and others back in 2015, has laid off 30 percent of staff, TechCrunch learned and Zozi confirmed. The company says the restructuring will allow Zozi to focus on its core... - Zero Motorcycles CTO Abe Askenazi on the future of two-wheeled EVs
Electric cars and buses have already begun to take over the world, but the motorcycle industry has been much slower to put out all-electric and hybrid models. TechCrunch recently caught up with Zero Motorcycles CTO Abe Askenazi, who has been in the motorcycle industry for about two decades, to get ... - Post Intelligence says it can make your tweets better
- Theranos is offering investors Elizabeth Holmes’ shares if they promise not to sue
- Senators reintroduce a bill to improve cybersecurity in cars
- Online ticket marketplace Vivid Seats is looking to sell for $1.5 billion
- MIT researchers take a cue from color-changing beetles in quest to 3D print robot skin
- The FCC is talking about everything but the imminent repeal of its internet privacy rules
- How Everette Taylor went from a homeless college dropout to chief marketing officer at Skurt
- Equity Podcast: Apple and Amazon buy more companies, and Uber’s saga
Welcome to the second episode of TechCrunch’s newest podcast, Equity, our venture capital-focused show focused on the numbers, people and companies driving the technology industry. This week, TechCrunch’s Katie Roof, Matthew Lynley, and myself were joined by special guest Elizabeth “Beezer” Clarkso... - Alibaba gets serious in Southeast Asia in preparation for battle with Amazon
Done betting, Alibaba is getting down to work in Southeast Asia as it bids to lead the region’s promising e-commerce space and maximize its early mover advantage over Amazon. Read More - SoftBank’s self-driving bus project pulls in $4.6M to push for 2020 commercialization
- Enterprise data firm Alteryx set to raise $126 million from NYSE IPO
- Instacart agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit for $4.6 million
- Crunch Report | Amazon Buys Souq
- Twitter remembers it owns Tweetdeck
- Apple says recent Wikileaks CIA docs detail old, fixed iPhone and Mac exploits
- CREDO and Cloudflare argue against national security letter gag orders
- Tesla’s solar roof tiles will be available to order starting in April
The Tesla solar roof tiles the company unveiled last year, which look like regular roof tiles and yet have roughly equivalent efficiency of traditional solar power gathering cells, will be up for order starting in April, according to Tesla CEO Elon Musk. These are a key step in Tesla’s combined vis... - Facebook finally tests a GIF button for comments
After years of stubborn caution, Facebook is finally embracing the animated GIF. Next week Facebook will begin testing a GIF button that lets users post GIFs from services like Giphy and Tenor as comments, a source told TechCrunch. We inquired with Facebook, which confirmed the GIF test is coming w... - What do you want to ask SoFi CEO Mike Cagney at Disrupt NY?
- Polis is reinventing the door-to-door salesman
- What it’s like at San Quentin’s coding school
- Watch the Tesla Model 3 release candidate take its first drive
- Tesla Model 3 is ‘just a smaller, more affordable’ Model S, says Elon Musk
- Erato’s Muse 5 wireless in-ear headphones give AirPods a run for their money
- This sensory wearable is designed for flirting
- The SEC and DOJ just dropped their inquiries into Hampton Creek
The SEC and the Department of Justice, which had launched preliminary inquiries into the vegan food company Hampton Creek last summer, have officially closed their inquiries, according to founder and CEO Josh Tetrick. He informed the company’s 160-plus employees of the status change this morning in... - Insta360 Air brings affordable, easy 360 photo and video to Android phones
You can share 360-degree video and images in more places than ever before, but how to capture that content in the first place? Insta360 has built a bit of a name for itself creating relatively inexpensive add-ons for the smartphone you already have that’d the ability to use those devices to record ... - Steve Mnuchin has been compromised (by robots)
- How Trump will impact venture capital: The future of QSBS
- Google is working on a new social app for small groups to edit photos together
- Get your pitch applications in for the Boulder Micro-Meetup
- The days of Google Talk are over
- Tesla Model 3 will get a Performance version next year
- Uber reportedly denied recruiters diversity data
- Uber self-driving test car involved in crash in Arizona
More bad news for Uber: one of the ride-hailing giant’s self-driving Volvo SUVs has been involved in a crash in Arizona — apparently leaving the vehicle flipped onto its side, and with damage to at least two other human-driven cars in the vicinity. Read More - Crunch Report | Tesla’s Long List of Updated Updates
Tesla’s long list of updated updates, Instacart agrees to settle class-action lawsuit and SB Drive pulls in $4.6 million. All this on Crunch Report. Read More - Weekly Roundup: Apple acquires Workflow, Uber loses its president
- What to do about those ‘government-backed attack’ warnings from Google
- We got our hands on the new red limited-edition iPhone 7 Plus
- CubeFit TerraMat hides under your standing desk to give your feet a rest
- Include Office Hours partners with Intel Capital for Bay Area underrepresented founders
- Swedish scientists successfully implant 3D-printed human cartilage cells in baby mice
- Alteryx rises 11% in data analytics IPO
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