oldephartte(in training): 2 August - Technology

Tech Crunch

It’s fight night in Las Vegas: Elon Musk’s Loop vs the Monorail a day ago – The latest bout in Las Vegas is not taking place in a raucous casino boxing ring, but in the hushed rooms of planning committees. The reigning champion, the Las Vegas Monorail, is facing upstart challenger The Boring Company, in a fight to decide the future of Sin City’s urban transportation. In ...
Ninja is leaving Twitch for Microsoft’s Mixer a day ago – Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, the biggest streamer ever, has today announced his intention to leave the Twitch platform in favor of Microsoft’s Mixer. Twitch is far and away the biggest video game streaming platform on the internet, claiming 72% of all hours watched, according to StreamElements. Mixer, ...
Google is bringing voice-free emergency operator access to Android a day ago – Google today highlighted a new feature that will bring voice-free emergency service interaction to Pixels and other Android devices. Designed for instances of injury, situations where speaking can present a danger and for users with speech impairments, the feature allows callers to communicate vi...
Citizen Ray: Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio is the wise uncle you wished you had
Watch a Tesla Model 3 play chess against the top-ranked player in the US
Go behind the curtain with Wall Street titan Ray Dalio
Daily Crunch: Fires prompt Lyft to pull e-bikes
FCC cuts red tape on small satellite launches
Microsoft Azure now lets you have a server all to yourself
Next-gen Fitbit Versa leak reveals Alexa support

The galaxy is not flat, researchers show in new 3D model of the Milky Way a day ago – Six years of tracking a special class of star have yielded a new and improved 3D model of our galaxy, based on direct observation rather than theoretical frameworks. And although no one ever really thought the Milky Way was flat flat, the curves at its edges have now been characterized in better ...

StockX admits ‘suspicious activity’ led to resetting passwords without warning a day ago – StockX, a popular site for buying and selling sneakers and other apparel, has admitted it reset customer passwords after it was “alerted to suspicious activity” on its site, despite telling users it was a result of “system updates.” “We recently completed system updates on the StockX platform,” s...

Amazon is killing off the Dash button later this month a day ago – The idea seemed simple: If you find yourself regularly ordering the same thing from Amazon — coffee, laundry detergent, whatever — why not replace the whole ordering process with a button you put somewhere in your house? Push a button, get a thing. And from that, Amazon’s Dash button was born. An...

Bloomscape raises $7.5M to sell you plants of all sizes

In SF, tech crumbled the American dream — LA can do better

President throws latest wrench in $10B JEDI cloud contract selection process

DoorDash is buying Caviar from Square in a deal worth $410 million

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After the Capital One breach, do you know who’s in your

Biome Makers closes $4M to assess the quality of the ‘gut bacteria’ of a farm’s soil 18 hours ago – The agriculture industry faces huge problems of sustainability. The world’s population is increasing, leading to higher food demand, but this then threatens increasing deforestation, pesticide use and some fertilizers that are responsible for greenhouse emissions. Farming can also be a source of ...
Bring your team to Disrupt Berlin 2019 and save big 21 hours ago – Early-stage startuppers around the world are getting ready for Disrupt Berlin 2019, which takes place on 11-12 December. Our premier tech conference attracts an international startup community from more than 50 countries. It’s the intersection of current and future tech and an incomparable networ...
Babylon Health confirms $550M raise at $2B+ valuation to expand its AI-based health services 21 hours ago – Babylon Health, the U.K.-based startup that has developed a number of AI-based health services, including a chatbot used by the U.K’.s National Health Service to help diagnose ailments, has confirmed a massive investment that it plans to use to expand its business to the U.S. and Asia, and expand...
Digital identity startup Yoti raises additional £8M at a valuation of £82M
Africa Roundup: Canal+ acquires ROK, Flutterwave and Alipay partner, OPay raises $50M
UrbanClap, India’s largest home services startup, raises $75M
Apple suspends Siri response grading in response to privacy concerns
Dasha AI is calling so you don’t have to
Lux Capital just closed on a whopping $1 billion in capital, doubling the amount of money it manages
Clothing marketplace Poshmark confirms data breach

Journalist behind Cambridge Analytica story launches crowd-funder after libel threat 11 hours ago – There have been millions of words written about the story of how Cambridge Analytica (CA) was employed by the Trump campaign to affect the 2016 U.S. election and the U.K.’s Brexit referendum via the use of millions of Facebook profiles it had illegally bought, not least our recent review and anal...

A closer look at China’s smartphone market 13 hours ago – In February 2013, China surpassed the United States to become the world’s largest smartphone market. More than half a decade on, it still proves an elusive target for international sellers. A glance at reports from the past several quarters reveals the top spots dominated by homegrown names: Huaw...

Digitizing construction sites with Scaled Robotics 13 hours ago – Approximately 20% of construction costs are wrapped up in fixing errors. Barcelona-based Scaled Robotics wants to minimize the rework by automating progress monitoring with autonomous mobile robots. Leveraging lidar and autonomous vehicle technology (similar to what’s used by Google cars to map ...

Google to auction slots on Android default search ‘choice screen’ in Europe next year, rivals cry ‘pay-to-play’ foul

Following Ninja’s news, Mixer pops to top of the App Store’s free charts

Texas joins growing list of AGs looking to block T-Mobile/Sprint merger

SpaceX details launch and landing plans for Starship and Super Heavy in new document

Unpacking DoorDash’s $410M Caviar acquisition

Scottish spaceport closer to launch after land lease signed

Google ordered to halt human review of voice AI reco

MaC Ventures, the brainchild of Adrian Fenty and Marlon Nichols, is quietly making its first investments 5 hours ago – MaC Ventures, the new Los Angeles-based investment firm formed from the merger of Cross Culture Ventures and M Ventures, has quietly started deploying capital from its fund. One of the firm’s first disclosed investments is Edge Delta, which announced a $3 million seed round earlier this week. The...
The SEC wants disgraced VC Mike Rothenberg to cough up more than $30 million 8 hours ago – Nearly three years ago, TechCrunch reported on suspected fraud committed by Mike Rothenberg, a self-described “millennial venture capitalist” who’d made a name for himself not only by eponymously branding his venture firm but for spending lavishly to woo startup founders, including on Napa Valley...
United Airlines CISO Emily Heath joins TC Sessions: Enterprise this September 8 hours ago – In an era of massive data breaches, most recently the Capital One fiasco, the risk of a cyberattack and the costly consequences are the top existential threat to corporations big and small. At TechCrunch’s first-ever enterprise-focused event (p.s. early-bird sales end August 9), that topic will b...
Nyca Partners raises $210M to invest in fintech startups
Northrup Grumman is among the companies tapped to make the US Army’s drone-killing lasers
Daily Crunch: Apple responds to Siri privacy concerns
Early-bird pricing ends next week for TC Sessions: Enterprise 2019
Don’t miss this epic Twitter fight between the IAB’s CEO and actual publishers
The evolving airspace ecosystem
What to expect from Samsung’s Galaxy Note event

The Verge

Domino’s asks the Supreme Court to shut down a lawsuit requiring its website be accessible to blind people a day ago – Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images Domino’s, the leading US pizza chain that pinned its remarkable turnaround nearly a decade ago on an investment in technology, is currently waging a legal battle so that it does not have to make its website accessible to the blind. The case, which began three y...

Breastfeeding does not violate Twitch’s rules, company confirms

What is ‘Ultra Cruise’? GM teases mysterious autonomous technology to investors

Tesla hit with another lawsuit over a fatal Autopilot crash

YouTube TV is offering an extended two-week free trial until August 14th

Twitch handed out 24-hour suspensions after last night’s Democratic debates

Pentagon pauses $10 billion cloud contract over Amazon concerns

Amazon will stop taking orders from Dash buttons at the end of August

Burger King’s nationwide rollout of the Impossible Whopper starts next week

DoorDash is acquiring Square’s food delivery platform

Deleting your Siri voice recordings from Apple’s servers is confusing — here’s how 16 hours ago – Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Last night, Apple joined Google in ceasing its program of having human graders listen to user voice commands recorded by its voice assistant. Apple didn’t specify whether or not it was actually ceasing whether those recordings still take place at all. I ...

The best note-taking apps for class, work, and life

I will miss Amazon’s Dash buttons

Why we like fake stuff on Facebook

Swiss drone crashes near children, forcing suspension of delivery program

Nintendo and Tencent reveal Switch release plans for China

Google will charge search providers to be the Android default in Europe

Apple stops letting contractors listen to Siri voice recordings

Razer’s new Viper is a light and fast ambidextrous wired

No women competed at the Fortnite World Cup, but top players want to change that 13 hours ago – Photo: Epic Games Stars from Gen.G and Faze Clan are inspiring a new generation of Fortnite players Continue reading…

No Man’s Sky will get its next major expansion on August 14th

Why Netflix’s Derry Girls is the perfect show to stream this weekend

TikTok’s a year old, when will its creators make money?

The FTC is looking into the Amazon and Apple deal that crushed small resellers

Space startup aims to launch thousands of satellite ‘cell towers’ that connect to the average phone

Verizon overhauls its ‘unlimited’ offerings with four new plans and $5 price cuts

TikTok turns one: its first 12 months, as told through TikToks

Acer Swift 7 review: thin at all costs

The Outer Worlds swaps Fallout’s post-apocalypse for