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- Save 50% now on the meal planning app that takes the guesswork out of dieting 3 days ago – Eat This Much is dedicated to the idea that meal planning in a way that aligns with your goals doesn’t have monopolize hours of your free time. You can check out the effectiveness of the Eat This Much Automatic Meal Planning program with this one-year subscription plan, currently half off the reg...
- Foxconn teams up with Nanox to make futuristic X-ray machines 3 days ago – Foxconn announced it has invested in Israel-based startup Nanox, to produce futurist and affordable X-ray machines. Apart from leading a round of $26 million investment, the Taiwanese company will also help with manufacturing these machines. The X-ray machine, called Nanox.arc, looks quite cool a...
- AlphaZero beat humans at Chess and StarCraft, now it’s working with quantum computers 2 days ago – A team of researchers from Aarhus University in Denmark let DeepMind‘s AlphaZero algorithm loose on a few quantum computing optimization problems and, much to everyone’s surprise, the AI was able to solve the problems without any outside expert knowledge. Not bad for a machine learning paradigm d...
- Smash Bros Ultimate to get 6 more fighters. Who the heck could they be? 2 days ago – We learned at today’s Nintendo Direct that Super Smash Bros Ultimate’s latest fighter is Byleth, the reserved player character from Fire Emblem Three Houses. And while that reveal sounds a little underwhelming, fear not: we’re getting six more character between now and December 2021. Who could th...
- If a Japanese billionaire farted in front of you, what would you say? 2 days ago – Back in 2018, SpaceX revealed its first passenger for a trip to the moon will be none other than Japanese entrepreneur and billionaire Yusaku Maezawa. The space voyage, which is slated to take place in 2023, has since generated quite a buzz. So much so, that a local streaming service has picked i...
- New Hampshire bill to allow taxes to be paid in Bitcoin falls short 2 days ago – No, New Hampshire residents won’t be able to pay their taxes in Bitcoin or cryptocurrency. Public records show that a bill filed this time last year, which would allow government agencies to accept digital assets for tax payments, has been shuttered. [Read: This Canadian town is letting residents...
- Pardon the Intrusion #9: Privacy or security? 2 days ago – Subscribe to this bi-weekly newsletter here! Welcome to the latest edition of Pardon The Intrusion, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter in which we explore the wild world of security. We’re starting off with some good news for a change! California’s landmark Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is now in effect — ...
- Thailand launches probe into $2.46M cryptocurrency pyramid ‘scam’ a day ago – Cryptocurrency investors who fell for an alleged pyramid scheme that resulted in losses of more than $2.46 million (THB75 million) have asked Thailand‘s Department of Special Investigation (DSI) to investigate. According to the Bangkok Post, the cryptocurrency project, known as “Khung Nong Crypto...
- Oscar-nominated ‘1917’ leaks in massive screener dump a day ago – It only hit theaters in December, but Sam Mendes‘ epic war flick 1917 has already leaked on the internet. The World War I-themed movie, which clinched a Golden Globe award for best movie and secured 10 Oscar nominations earlier this week, was one of six film releases leaked in a massive screener ...Oscar-nominated ‘1917’ leaks in massive screener dump a day ago – It only hit theaters in December, but Sam Mendes‘ epic war flick 1917 has already leaked on the internet. The World War I-themed movie, which clinched a Golden Globe award for best movie and secured 10 Oscar nominations earlier this week, was one of six film releases leaked in a massive screener ...
- Facebook and Zuckerberg keep getting ‘freedom of expression’ wrong 7 hours ago – Last week, Facebook reaffirmed its hands-off approach to political ads, saying it won’t ban them, won’t fact-check them, and won’t limit how granularly they can be targeted. Under siege, Facebook has continued to defend this stance by trying to position the tech giant is a bastion of free speech....
- Animals use some wild tricks to survive bushfires 7 hours ago – Have you ever wondered how our native wildlife manage to stay alive when an inferno is ripping through their homes, and afterwards when there is little to eat and nowhere to hide? The answer is adaptation and old-fashioned ingenuity. Australia’s bushfire season is far from over, and the cost to w...
Tech Crunch
- Foxconn and Fiat Chrysler partner to develop EVs and an ‘internet of vehicles’ business 2 days ago – Foxconn Technology Group, the Taiwanese electronics giant best known for its iPhone manufacturing contract, is forming a joint venture with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles to build electric vehicles in China. The joint venture was disclosed in a regulatory filing. Nikkei was first to report the joint v...
- Visa’s Plaid acquisition shows a shifting financial services landscape 2 days ago – When Visa bought Plaid this week for $5.3 billion, a figure that was twice its private valuation, it was a clear signal that traditional financial services companies are looking for ways to modernize their approach to business. With Plaid, Visa picks up a modern set of developer APIs that work be...
- Investors like Sundar Pichai; they just pushed Alphabet into the trillion-dollar club for the first time 2 days ago – Alphabet this afternoon became the fourth tech giant to join the highly exclusive trillion-dollar club, one whose original member, Apple, saw its market cap soar past $1 trillion for the first time in August 2018 and which has since welcomed — and pushed back out — Amazon, which passed the $1 tri...
- DigitalOcean is laying off staff, sources say 30-50 affected a day ago – After appointing a new CEO and CFO last summer, cloud infrastructure provider DigitalOcean is embarking on a wider reorganisation: the startup has announced a round of layoffs, with potentially between 30 and 50 people affected. DigitalOcean has confirmed the news with the following statement: “D...
- Privacy experts slam UK’s ‘disastrous’ failure to tackle unlawful adtech a day ago – The UK’s data protection regulator has been slammed by privacy experts for once again failing to take enforcement action over systematic breaches of the law linked to behaviorally targeted ads — despite warning last summer that the adtech industry is out of control. The Information Commissioner’s...
- We’ve gone Plaid # a day ago – Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Danny and Alex were back together to riff over the latest early-stage rounds, the latest on the late-stage front and more. It was yet another stacked week, f...
- Harvestr gathers user feedback in one place a day ago – Meet Harvestr, a software-as-a-service startup that wants to help product managers centralize customer feedback from various places. Product managers can then prioritize outstanding issues and feature requests. Finally, the platform helps you get back to your customers once changes have been impl...
- Daily Crunch: NBCUniversal reveals its streaming plans a day ago – The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. NBCU’s streaming service Peacock launches April 15 for Comcast subscribers, everyone else on July 15 NB...
- How scooter charging startups want to make the industry more profitable a day ago – In an industry where unit economics are low, operators are seeking ways to improve margins while also maintaining fleet reliability and low prices for riders. Charging stations may be part of the solution. Already, there are a handful of companies, other than the operators themselves, looking to ...
- Amazon partners with thousands of mom-and-pop stores in India 15 hours ago – Neighborhood stores dot tens of thousands of cities, towns and villages in India. They have survived — and thrived, despite — retail giants’ billions of investment in the country. Now, Amazon is beginning to embrace them. Amazon said on Saturday it has partnered with thousands of neighborhood sto...
- Deep tech VCs on what they view as some of the most impactful young startups right now 19 hours ago – During this week’s Democratic debate, there was a lot of talk, unsurprisingly, about ensuring the future of this country’s children and grandchildren. Climate change was of particular interest to billionaire Tom Steyer, who said repeatedly that addressing it would be his top priority were he elec...
- SpaceX’s Crew Dragon astronaut spacecraft has a key launch Saturday — here’s what’s going down a day ago – Update: Due to weather conditions, SpaceX and NASA won’t be attempting their launch Saturday, and will instead look to their backup window on Sunday. Weather for Sunday also isn’t looking great today, so this could shift again. Stay tuned for updates. SpaceX and NASA are getting ready for a key t...
- Week in Review: Forget cord cutting, here comes the stream slashing 3 hours ago – Hey everyone, welcome back to Week in Review where I dive deep into a bit of news from the week or just share some thoughts and go over some of the more interesting stories of the week. If you’re reading this on the TechCrunch site, you can get this in your inbox here, and follow […]
- Taiwan’s entrepreneurs move forward after tense presidential election 5 hours ago – Last Saturday, Taiwanese voters re-elected President Tsai Ing-wen to her second term after an election that split the country among generational and ideological lines. A crucial issue were the differences in how Tsai, a member of the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), and her main opponent, Han ...
- Original Content podcast: Netflix goes to the Oscars 6 hours ago – When this year’s Academy Award nominations were announced on Monday, Netflix received 24 nominations — the most of any Hollywood studio. That’s thanks in large part to “The Irishman,” which received 10 nominations, and “Marriage Story,” which received six (both films were nominated for Best Pictu...
The Verge
- Bernie Sanders thanks popular Facebook teen meme group for endorsement 2 days ago – Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is a friend to public transportation. His Green New Deal plan calls for a big boost in transit spending, a network of high-speed rail, and the phasing out of internal combustion engine vehicles. He is also quite popular with young v...
- Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers’ late-night shows will stream early exclusively on Peacock 2 days ago – Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images Late-night TV is going to start a little earlier thanks to NBCUniversal’s new streaming service, Peacock. Both The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers will air on Peacock hours before the shows air on...
- BT partners with Google to bundle free Stadia with broadband deals in the UK 2 days ago – BT is partnering with Google to launch broadband plans in the UK that come with access to the Stadia cloud gaming service. It’s a first for Europe, allowing BT to offer a free Google Stadia Premiere Edition with broadband deals direct to consumers. BT, the biggest ISP in the UK, is planning to of...
- Bad Boys for Life is the year’s first pleasant surprise a day ago – The worst thing about Bad Boys for Life is that it is not heralded with a chart-topping rap collab between Nelly, P. Diddy, and Murphy Lee. The era of the St. Lunatics is firmly behind us. The era for Bad Boys seemed to be as well. But 17 years after Bad Boys II, Bad Boys for Life returns to Miam...
- a day ago – Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Chrome OS may one day be able to play games from Steam. In an interview with Android Police, a Chrome OS product leader said that Google is working to allow Chromebooks to run Valve’s game platform, seemingly with help from Valve. No timeline was given o...
- We’re blowing it with self-driving car safety reporting, Cruise says a day ago – Photo by Andrej Sokolow/picture alliance via Getty Images Next month, California’s Department of Motor Vehicles will release the latest batch of reports from companies testing self-driving vehicles in the state. But the reports offer, at best, a flawed glimpse into the slow and often opaque pr...
- Even pokémon are getting in on the ASMR mukbang trend a day ago – The Pokémon Company has released two ASMR videos to kick off your weekend: one featuring a Charmander peacefully snoozing beside a crackling fire, and one with a Chespin munching away on some macarons. “This is a ASMR video for those who need a gentle Pokémon touch in everything!” the description...
- Watch as SpaceX’s newest spacecraft attempts to escape a fake rocket emergency 7 hours ago – (NASA/Joel Kowsky) On Sunday, SpaceX is launching one of its last big flight tests for NASA, one that could ultimately pave the way for the company to fly people to space later this year. For this flight, SpaceX will test out the emergency escape system on its new passenger spacecraft — and wi...
- 10 hours ago – Image: Sony Pictures With all the noise around how there’ll probably never be a second season of Watchmen this week, I figured I should finally get around to writing about Watchmen since it’s been weeks since it wrapped up. There was a ton I liked about the series: the show within a show; the ...
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