Tuesday, March 03, 2020

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  • Project management training could be your fast track to a high-paying career.  2 days ago  –  Project management isn’t for everybody. Even for talented doers, sometimes all that admin and attention to every minute detail can be a drag. But if you’re a goal-oriented, process-driven type with a knack for leadership, project management could be the right direction. Of course, it doesn’t hurt...
  • The AirPods Pro have weaselled their way into my everyday life 2 days ago  –  I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with AirPods. On one hand, I adore their design and ease-of-use — but, on the other, I think lots of the people who use them are terrible. Well, friends, gather round; there’s something I have to tell you. Okay, let me take a deep breath. Here we go. I’m n...
  • Renault’s concept EV can make itself bigger to fit more batteries
    Renault’s concept EV can make itself bigger to fit more batteries 2 days ago  –  Even though battery technology is moving forward, many EVs still struggle to match their gasoline counterparts for range. But French marque Renault thinks it’s got an idea to address that. Renault‘s 100% electric Morphoz concept can make itself longer to accommodate more batteries to increase its...
  • How VR is bringing ancient cities back to life
  • Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Virgin Galactic chair says you should have 1% of your assets in Bitcoin’
  • Twitter’s new stakeholder reportedly wants to remove CEO Jack Dorsey
  • 4 data points that will help your startup grow
  • India will finally allow inflight Wi-Fi after all these years
  • AI will dominate the 2020s — governments must ensure it’s ethical
  • Companies are on a full stack developer hiring spree. 
  • Steve Wozniak says he might be ‘patient zero’ for US coronavirus cases (Update: he’s not) a day ago  –  Update (8:21AM IST): Jessica Guynn, senior technology writer at USA Today, tweeted that Steve Wozniak’s spouse, Janet, told the publication hours after her husband went public that she only had a sinus infection — not a case of COVID-19 as he originally thought. It seems awfully irresponsible of ...
  • OnePlus teases a surprise announcement on March 3, and it’s not a phone a day ago  –  What could OnePlus be up to? While leaks and rumors about the OnePlus 8 have already started to make the rounds, it seems OnePlus has something else up its sleeve – and it’s neither a phone nor a commercial product. The company posted a short teaser video on its India and UK Twitter accounts show...
  • Alibaba’s new AI system can detect coronavirus in seconds with 96% accuracy
  • Google’s second ‘Pixel drop’ adds better selfies, more emoji, and new gestures
  • Death Stranding is coming to PC and bringing Half-Life content with it
  • Vatican’s AI ethics plan lacks the legal restrictions it needs to be effective
  • Facebook Messenger on iOS is now twice as fast and a quarter the size
  • Apple can sell devices in India because of Trump administration, says Tim Cook
  • How to repair a toxic work culture with ‘psychological safety’
  • Alphabet’s AI-powered camera system will help fish 
  • Satoshi Nakaboto: ‘Bitcoin hash rate hits all-time high’ 17 hours ago  –  Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with Bitcoin in the past 24 hours. As Marie Curie used to say: Talk to a stranger on a bus! Bitcoin price We closed th...
  • New research sheds light on the big bang that was bigger than the Big Bang 17 hours ago  –  Did you know TNW Conference has a track fully dedicated to exploring new design trends this year? Check out the full ‘Sprint‘ program here. The largest explosion ever seen in the history of the Universe ripped through a plasma cloud hundreds of millions of years ago, creating the most powerful ex...
  • 6 cringeworthy mistakes founders make when pitching journalists
  • I won’t be able to play Half-Life: Alyx, but I can’t wait to watch it
  • How to keep your existing clients when pivoting your product
  • Apple will pay $500 million to settle cases claiming it throttled aging iPhones
  • How to add Spotify to Google Maps for your road tunes
  • How to keep Facebook Memories from showing up on your newsfeed
  • The GorillaPod Vlogging Kit is an all-in-one light and sound setup for mobile creators
  • Huawei P40 leaked hands-on shows off a familiar des
  • Here’s how AI can help you sleep 11 hours ago  –  Modern life is turning us into sleep-deprived zombies. The traditional distractions of jobs, family, and friends have been exacerbated in recent years by irregular work, long commutes, smartphones, and all-night benders — leaving us with little time to snooze. And that’s without mentioning what k...
  • TNW reschedules 2020 event to October 1 & 2 11 hours ago  –  The spread of the Coronavirus has been top of mind for most of us recently. Over the past week especially, it’s become clear the number of new infections is growing, not slowing down. With that in mind, we have decided to reschedule TNW Conference 2020 to October 1 & 2. It’s a decision that w...
  • Google’s self-driving biz Waymo eyes expansion with $2.25B cash injection
  • 10 questions to consider before entering a startup accelerator
  • US charges Chinese pair for laundering $100M in stolen crypto for North Korea
  • Meet Europe’s top 100 scaleups at Tech5 Founders Day
  • Now over 90% off, Page Builder lets you create a gorgeous site in minutes
  • China’s coronavirus detection app is reportedly sharing citizen data with police
  • Why location-based marketing outperforms industry averages
  • Hackers submitted a record number of bug reports to 
  • Is time broken? Physicists filmed a quantum measurement but the ‘moment’ was blurry 5 hours ago  –  They captured an instant in time, but the moment was blurry. That may sound like the lyrics to a sweet but ultimately nihilistic song from the grunge era, but in fact it appears to be one possible take away from an exotic new quantum physics experiment. The team set out to discover if the “ideal ...
  • Google just canceled the ‘physical’ portion of its I/O conference 5 hours ago  –  According to a report from 9to5 Google, the Mountain View company has officially canceled I/O, it’s annual developer’s conference amid concerns over the ongoing COVID-19 (coronavirus) global outbreak. The event was scheduled to take place on May 12-14, but has apparently been canceled with no imm...
  • How to use the sleek new version of Facebook Messenger on iOS
  • Google algorithm teaches robot how to walk in mere hours
  • It’s official: WhatsApp is rolling out Dark Mode to all users
  • Fender’s new Acoustasonic Stratocaster is the guitar for people who want it both ways
  • Cisco is reportedly helping the Kashmir government block social media apps
  • Coronavirus proves great for Boku’s bottom line, as payments jump 30%
  • Your gadgets are likely made in Chinese forced labor camps
  • Mobile voting is far from perfect, but it’s better than wh

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  • Ampere launches new chip built from ground up for cloud workloads 13 hours ago  –  Ampere, the chip startup run by former Intel President Renee James, announced a new chip today that she says is designed specifically to optimize for cloud workloads. Ampere VP of product Jeff Wittich says the new chip is called the Ampere Altra, and it’s been designed with some features that sho...
  • Datastax acquires The Last Pickle 14 hours ago  –  Data management company Datastax, one of the largest contributors to the Apache Cassandra project, today announced that it has acquired The Last Pickle (and no, I don’t know what’s up with that name either), a New Zealand-based Cassandra consulting and services firm that’s behind a number of popu...
  • DocSend’s new pre-seed data shows how many founders you should have and how many investors you should meet 14 hours ago  –  DocSend has become one of the most popular tools for sharing venture fundraise decks, not only because of the control it offers, but also because of the analytics it can provide founders on how VCs read decks and where they might get stuck as they are perusing from slide to slide. The company has...
  • Shasta Ventures debuts ‘Ignite,’ a collection of help and services to drive its startups to $10M ARR
  • Honeywell says it will soon launch the world’s most powerful quantum computer
  • Valued at $10B, Nubank launches it’s Nu credit card in Mexico
  • RTP Global outs new $650M early-stage fund to back tech in US, Europe, India and South-East Asia
  • iPrice, a platform for comparison shopping in Southeast Asia, raises $10 million Series B
  • Le Wagon raises $19M to build a global coding bootcamp
  • New York’s Governor Cuomo requires insurers to wa
  • Equity Shot: What’s Elliott Management and why is it coming after Twitter and SoftBank? 11 hours ago  –  After a long Equity Shot hiatus, we're back to dig into Elliott Management's imposition into Twitter's world after sticking its nose into SoftBank earlier this year.
  • Target reports mixed fourth quarter, but notes same-day services grew more than 90% in 2019 11 hours ago  –  Target today reported mixed fourth-quarter results, but promising growth on the e-commerce side of its business. The retailer’s earnings per share came in at $1.69, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.66, but revenue fell short at $23.40 billion versus the $23.50 billion expected, as the c...
  • Looking for liquidity and cash, a16z-backed Accolade files for IPO 11 hours ago  –  Let's explore Accolade's IPO filing and start with what the firm does and its capital history. After that, we'll look at its (somewhat surprising) numbers.
  • Down again, Robinhood will offer ‘case-by-case’ compensation for its outage on the day markets gained $1.1 trillion
  • Stack Overflow expands its Teams service with new integrations
  • FairShake automates the individual arbitration process
  • SmartNews’ local news feature now covers more than 6,000 U.S. cities
  • Amazon makes its same-day delivery service faster in select U.S. cities
  • Brooklinen raises $50M to open more stores and expand internationally
  • Sensel raises a $28M Series A to bring pressure sens
  • Daily Crunch: Waymo raises $2.5B 8 hours ago  –  Alphabet’s self-driving car company raises its first outside investment, Robinhood goes down and Pixel phones get new gesture controls. Here’s your Daily Crunch for March 3, 2020. 1. Waymo brings in $2.25B from outside investors, Alphabet This is the company’s first external investment, led by Si...
  • Boston Dynamics unveils OTTO Motors collaboration to bring our robot overlords to the warehouse 8 hours ago  –  Boston Dynamics, the undisputed heavyweight of technical robotics wizardry, unveiled a new collaboration with the warehouse autonomous material handling and transportation technology developer, OTTO Motors. Over the past year Boston Dynamics has moved from building the stuff of robotic uprising n...
  • The future of gig work could involve unions and co-ops 9 hours ago  –  The classification of gig workers for companies like Uber, Lyft, Instacart, DoorDash and Postmates has long been a topic of debate. Since California worker-protection bill AB 5 became law, some companies have gone to great lengths to continue classifying workers as independent contractors. Uber a...
  • Finally dark mode arrives to soothe your 3am WhatsApps
  • Startup Battlefield applications for TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2020 are now open
  • Applications are open for the latest Disney accelerator program
  • Apple Stores to host over 5,000 female-focused sessions in March for International Women’s Day
  • SendBird’s messaging platform gets new moderation tools, full-text search and more
  • Dear Sophie: I live in India and run a startup
  • Leap Finance raises $5.5M to democratize financing


  • Robinhood offers $15 discount, blames outage on record trades 2 hours ago  –  It wasn’t the leap year, a coding blip, or a hack that caused Robinhood’s massive outages yesterday and today that left customers unable to trade stocks. Instead, the co-CEOs write that “the cause of the outage was stress on our infrastructure — which struggled with unprecedented load. That in tu...
  • Five, the self-driving startup, raises $41M and pivots into B2B, away from building its own fleet 2 hours ago  –  We are still years away from a time when fully-autonomous cars will be able to drive us from A to B, and the complexity of getting to that point is likely going to need hundreds of billions of dollars of investment before it becomes a reality. That hard truth is leading to some shifts in […]
  • Los Angeles-based Talespin nabs $15 million for its extended reality-based workforce training tools 2 hours ago  –  It turns out the virtual and augmented reality companies aren’t dead — as long as they focus on the enterprise. That’s what the Los Angeles-based extended reality technology developer Talespin did — and it just raised $15 million to grow its business.  Traditional venture capitalists may have mad...
  • $75M legal startup Atrium shuts down, lays off 100
  • WellSet is doing a limited launch in Los Angeles of its alternative medicine booking platform
  • Los Angeles gets a new consumer fund as founders of Sprinkles seek $25 million for CN2 Ventures
  • How Stack Overflow’s new CEO plans to kickstart enterprise growth
  • Uber sold its food delivery business in India to Zomato for $206M
  • Facebook fact-check feud erupts over Trump virus ‘hoax’
  • NASA moves forward with 17 companies as part of bi

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  • The regulatory fights facing every major tech company
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  • Everything you need to know about Section 230
  • Twitter is strongly encouraging all employees to work from home to prevent spreading coronavirus
  • Google cloned Apple’s 3D Touch for the Pixel using just software
  • Elon Musk lends support to Twitter’s embattled CEO: ‘he has a good heart’
  • Disney Plus to launch on Sky Q in the UK later this month
  • Foxconn expects to resume normal production by end 
  • How emergency declarations are helping governments respond to COVID-19 9 hours ago  –  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Emergency Operations Center | Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images Two US states, Washington and Florida, are in states of emergency over COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus that’s sickened over 90,000 people around the wo...
  • Robinhood experienced two major outages in two days
  • Go read this New York Times profile of the inscrutable Hideo Kojima
  • Hyundai’s Prophecy concept looks like the baby of a Porsche and a Model 3
  • Amazon speeds up same-day shipping
  • Connected is a warning about technology wrapped in an animated family road trip movie
  • You can get two Google Nest Mini speakers for the price of one
  • DARPA’s competition to find a rapid rocket launch provider ends without a winner
  • Volkswagen ditches awful ID Crozz name for its forthcoming electric compact SUV
  • The Verge guide to the 2020 election  


  • The earliest known deaths from COVID-19 in the US went undetected for a week 5 hours ago  –  Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images Two people who died last week in Seattle had undetected cases of COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, The New York Times reported. One person was hospitalized on February 24th and died on February 26th. The other also died on Februa...
  • Microsoft teases new Windows 10 Start menu that de-emphasizes Live Tiles
  • Facebook fact-checking is becoming a political cudgel
    5 hours ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Facebook’s fact-checking program is designed to stop false information from spreading. But being able to decide what’s true can also be a political weapon, and for the past few days, it’s been used in a fight over President Donald Trump’s coronavirus res...
  • Google pulls latest Android update for AT&T Pixel 4 devices
  • What Facebook could learn from Microsoft
  • Nikola is going public to try to become the first zero-emission big rig company
  • Ford bans business travel after two employees test positive for COVID-19
  • Google cancels I/O 2020, its biggest event of the year
  • This tiny $29 computer lets you build DIY synths, pedals, and more
  • Apple is planning to launch a 14.1-inch MacBook Pro w
  • WeChat has been censoring keywords about coronavirus, study finds 6 minutes ago  –  Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge China’s most popular messaging app, Tencent-owned WeChat, has been censoring keywords about coronavirus since as early as January 1st, an analysis found. Popular Chinese livestreaming platform YY has been censoring coronavirus content, too. To make this ...
  • Pinterest now showing custom search results for coronavirus to combat misinformation
  • The most disturbing video game cosmetic is this Call of Duty Tamagotchi that feeds off your kills
  • A Dell partner facility was damaged by the Nashville tornado
     3 hours ago  –  Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images Monday night, a powerful tornado tore through Nashville, Tennessee and its surrounding counties, killing at least 23 people and leaving power and transportation systems in disarray. Part of that damage included facilities working for Dell, which operates cor...
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  • Google and Microsoft are giving away enterprise conferencing tools due to coronavirus
  • Ford announces an all-electric Transit cargo van
  • Panic buying of masks puts health care workers’ ‘lives at risk,’ WHO says
  • Facebook is shifting its Libra cryptocurrency plans after intense regulatory pressure
  • Microsoft strikes a new deal with NFL to have all 32 t
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