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- Original Content podcast: Making sense of the surreal terrors in Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’ 2 days ago – Jordan Peele fans who go to his latest film “Us” hoping to find another “Get Out” may be disappointed: Where Peele’s directorial debut lent itself to straightforward political allegory, the follow-up feels murkier and stranger. “Us” is a nightmarish journey into a world invaded by sinister doppel...
- Twitch’s first game, the karaoke-style ‘Twitch Sings,’ launches to public 2 days ago – Amazon-owned game-streaming site Twitch is today publicly launching its first game. But it’s not a traditional video game — like those the site’s creators stream for their fans. Instead, the new game is called “Twitch Sings” and is a free karaoke-style experience designed for live streaming. The ...
- Microsoft: Hackers compromised support agent’s credentials to access customer email accounts 2 days ago – On the heels of a trove of 773 million emails, and tens of millions of passwords, from a variety of domains getting leaked in January, Microsoft has faced another breach affecting its web-based email services. Microsoft has confirmed to TechCrunch that a certain “limited” number of people who use...
- After its first attempt botched the landing, SpaceIL commits to second Beresheet lunar mission 21 hours ago – The minds behind Israel’s SpaceIL attempted lunar landing convened today to begin planning for a second lunar mission. In an announcement yesterday, the chairman of SpaceIL, Morris Kahn, said that the leaders of the group behind the Beresheet launch would begin meeting to find a new group of dono...
- Diving into Google Cloud Next and the future of the cloud ecosystem a day ago – Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Frederic Lardinois and Ron Miller offered up their analysis on the major announcements that came out of Google’s Cloud Next conference ...
- Whither native app developers? a day ago – I’ve noticed something interesting lately. Five years ago, senior developers with significant iOS experience available for new work seemed approximately as easy to find as unicorns who also laid golden eggs. Even two years ago, they were awfully hard to unearth. This year, though? Maybe it’s just...
- iOS 13 could feature dark mode and interface updates 5 hours ago – According to a report from 9to5mac’s Guilherme Rambo, the next major version of iOS for the iPhone and iPad will present many new features, such as universal dark mode, new gestures, visual changes for the volume popup and more. Dark mode should work more or less like dark mode on macOS Mojave. Y...
- Match Group restructures exec team with focus on Asia 7 hours ago – Tinder parent company Match Group, also the owner of a suite of dating apps including OkCupid, Meetic, Match, PlentyofFish and others, announced this morning plans to restructure its leadership team in order to better focus on the market opportunities for dating apps in Asia. Specifically, the co...
- Disc-free Xbox One S could land on May 7th 7 hours ago – Microsoft is about to launch an even cheaper Xbox One S. In order to cut costs, the company is removing the Blu-ray disc drive altogether. According to leaked marketing images spotted by WinFuture (via Thurrott), the console could launch on May 7th for €229 in Germany. Given that the launch is ju...
- Skip is way more popular than Scoot in San Francisco 3 hours ago – San Francisco has hit the mid-point for its one-year electric scooter pilot program. In a slide deck to be presented at the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency’s board of directors meeting tomorrow, the SFMTA reports that there were 242,398 electric scooter trips between October 2018 an...
- YC alum Keeper raises $1.6M to help gig workers pay taxes 3 hours ago – Matrix Partners has backed one of Y Combinator's recent graduates.
- Talk all things robotics and AI with TechCrunch writers 3 hours ago – This Thursday, we’ll be hosting our third annual Robotics + AI TechCrunch Sessions event at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. The day is packed start-to-finish with intimate discussions on the state of robotics and deep learning with key founders, investors, researchers and technologists. The event ...
- New USPTO Guidance May Clear Path for More Technology Patents 34 minutes ago – James J. DeCarlo Contributor James J. DeCarlo is a shareholder in Greenberg Traurig’s Intellectual Property Practice Group. A registered patent attorney, he is actively involved in virtually all aspects of intellectual property counseling. He has spent nearly 30 years litigating, licensing and pr...
- The other micro VC allocation model 38 minutes ago – We’re always curious to see how rounds come together when there is limited capacity for both new investors and existing investor pro-rata.
- The most overlooked path to commercialize AI is for companies to do it themselves an hour ago – This tweet of breaking news went out 49 minutes late after the article was published. That really hurt our ability to spread the news and our traffic. Any update on getting this fixed?
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- Twitch’s first-ever video game is a free karaoke title built for live streaming 2 days ago – Since becoming the de facto game streaming platform of the modern generation, Twitch is finally ready to design its own video games, starting with a karaoke title built specifically to take advantage of the Twitch platform. The news, announced this morning on the first day of TwitchCon Europe, ma...
- Game of Thrones’ new opening credits sequence holds a lot of clues for this season 17 hours ago – Spoilers ahead for “Winterfell,” episode 1 of Game of Thrones, season 8, and for season 7. Game of Thrones is back for its long-awaited eighth season. After an energetic recap sequence, the season premiere, “Winterfell,” presented a whole new opening credits sequence, which departs from the title...Game of Thrones’ new opening credits sequence holds a lot of clues for this season 17 hours ago – Spoilers ahead for “Winterfell,” episode 1 of Game of Thrones, season 8, and for season 7. Game of Thrones is back for its long-awaited eighth season. After an energetic recap sequence, the season premiere, “Winterfell,” presented a whole new opening credits sequence, which departs from the title...
- Parrot adds a thermal camera to its folding Anafi drone 7 hours ago – French dronemaker Parrot has created a new version of its folding Anafi quadcopter that has an onboard thermal camera. The company is pitching the drone to businesses and professionals in fields like security, search and rescue, construction, and agriculture. It’s also raising the price: the Anaf...
- Game of Game of Thrones: season 8, episode 1, Winterfell 4 hours ago – Starring Beric Dondarrion and his magic sword, and Sansa as MVP Continue reading…
- 5 hours ago – Microsoft is said to be developing a Surface-branded pair of wireless earbuds. According to Thurrott, the earbuds will likely include Cortana integration and noise cancellation, and it’s possible (but “not guaranteed”) that they’ll come out by the end of the year. The Surface-branded earbuds woul...
- What Arya’s new weapon could mean for Game of Thrones 30 minutes ago – Spoilers ahead for “Winterfell,” episode 1 of Game of Thrones, season 8. In Game of Thrones’ season 8 premiere, Arya Stark reunites with her crush, Gendry, who’s also a blacksmith, and asks him to make her a mysterious new weapon. We only get a quick look at a design she’s drawn, but there are a ...
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