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The future of micromobility is your ebike coming to you, autonomously
Robotaxis block San Francisco street for no reason, surprising no one
How to bootstrap your startup with €50K – €200K of European funding
Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee: Screw Web3 — my decentralized internet doesn’t need blockchain
How quantum batteries could lead to EVs that go a million miles between charges
Firefox continues its fight for privacy by automatically stripping URL trackers
Happy 15th birthday, iPhone! Here’s a brief history — and some predictions for its future
SpaceX’s Starlink is coming to planes, trains, and automobiles
These activists are taking SUVs off the road, one flat tire at the time
GitHub Copilot works so well because it steals open-source code and strips credit
Tech Crunch
Daily Crunch: OpenSea, an NFT marketplace, revealed email data breach that may have affected 1.8M users
a day ago –
Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the
most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single
package.
Crypto wants its own iPhone
a day ago –
Apple’s relative hostility to the desires of crypto developers
hasn’t gone unnoticed, and as the industry buckles down for a bear
market, some of its proponents are pushing forward plans to rebuild the
iPhone with their own industry’s best interests at heart. Hello and
welcome back to the Chain R...
Nikola delays shareholder meeting to drum up support to issue more shares
a day ago –
Troubled electric truck maker Nikola adjourned its annual
meeting to July 18, giving the company time to lobby shareholders to
pass a money-raising measure to issue more shares of common stock.
Nikola said the proposal is crucial to support the growth of the
business. The company has been slowed ...
US CFTC charges South African company over $1.7 billion bitcoin Ponzi scheme
14 hours ago –
The U.S. commodities regulator, Commodity Futures Trading
Commission (CFTC), has filed civil charges against a South African
company and its CEO for running a fraudulent commodity pool worth more
than $1.7 billion in bitcoin, and over registration violations. The
regulator stated that the fraud s...
Promoted grabs more funding to help e-commerce marketplaces achieve profitability
14 hours ago –
For many marketplaces, those search, recommendation and ad
functions are typically siloed, but Promoted has them all under one
umbrella.
Open source developers urged to ditch GitHub following Copilot launch
15 hours ago –
Software Freedom Conservancy, a not-for-profit organization that
provides support and legal services for open source software projects,
has called on the open source community to ditch GitHub after quitting
the code-hosting and collaboration platform itself. The move comes a
week after Microsoft-...
18 hours ago –
Google said Thursday it will pay $90 million to settle a
lawsuit with US developers that accused Google of abusing its power of
app distribution and charging an unfair fee of 30% for app purchases and
in-app purchases made through the Play Store. The company noted that US
developers who made less...
Bring your team to TechCrunch Disrupt and save big with our flash sale
10 hours ago –
Whether you’re enjoying a long holiday weekend with friends and
family or crushing hard to build your startup, take a few minutes to
score two-for-one passes to TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco on
October 18-20. This holiday flash-sale won’t last forever. In fact, it
ends on July 5 at precisel...
Steve Jobs to receive posthumous Medal of Freedom
10 hours ago –
The Biden administration announced today that Steve Jobs is
receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously. Steve Jobs
died on October 5, 2011, from complications following a relapse of
pancreatic cancer. Jobs is among a list of notable Americans receiving
the honor, including olympian ...
AI-powered photo stock startup Wirestock lands partnership with Getty Images
11 hours ago –
As a stock photographer, taking great photos is often only just a
tiny part of the job. To run a successful business, keywording,
categorizing, captioning and all the other admin that goes with it can
take up almost as much time. That’s the problem Wirestock is solving,
and the company just lande...
FTX US deal with troubled crypto lender BlockFi floats acquisition with ‘up to’ $240M purchase price
7 hours ago –
Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX is taking advantage of rampant
instability in the crypto lending market to assert itself while propping
up major institutions. The company’s U.S.-based arm has a deal in place
with troubled crypto lender BlockFi that gives them the option to buy
the startup, recently value...
Most startups were overvalued before 2021, and now it’s causing problems
8 hours ago –
In a normalizing market like this one, once-inflated valuations
can become a big problem, particularly for founders, employees and early
investors.
Spotify partners with Netflix to curate a personalized ‘Stranger Things’ playlist for fans
8 hours ago –
Which song will save you from Vecna? In partnership with
Netflix, Spotify has launched a personalized “Stranger Things” playlist
dedicated to Season 4 Volume 2, which premieres this Friday, July 1. The
Upside Down playlist, as it’s called, blends music from a listener’s
own selection with a handf...
Google will start erasing location data for abortion clinic visits
3 hours ago –
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to strip
federal abortion rights in the U.S., many people are questioning how the
apps they use every day might suddenly be turned against them. As
concerns mount over the endless well of data that tech companies built
an entire industry around, Go...
Crypto mega hedge fund Three Arrows Capital reportedly files for bankruptcy in New York
3 hours ago –
Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC) has filed for
Chapter 15 bankruptcy in New York, according to a report in Bloomberg.
The mega fund, founded by Credit Suisse traders Zhu Su and Kyle Davies,
at one time managed an estimated $10 billion in assets and was a
linchpin among crypto finance ...
Daily Crunch: Organization urges open source developers to dump GitHub following Copilot launch
4 hours ago –
Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the
most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single
package.
5 hours ago –
Samsung announced yesterday that it is bridging its hardware
and software for a better gaming experience, bringing the Samsung Gaming
Hub to its 2022 lineup of smart TVs and monitors. Game streaming
content on the hub includes Xbox, NVIDIA GeForce Now, Google Stadia and
Utomik, along with apps Yo...
The Verge
The Supreme Court just decided a major climate court case
a day ago –
Activists including Climate Action Campaign (CAC) gather outside
of the Supreme Court to show support for protecting the Clean Air Act. |
Photo by Leigh Vogel/Getty Images for NRDC
Update 6/30/2022: The Supreme Court ruling in West Virginia v.
Environmental protection agency came out toda...
Meet the modder making $20,000 a month bringing the biggest games to VR
14 hours ago –
Illustration by Jarett Sitter / The Verge
Luke Ross is doing what most game publishers won’t
Continue reading…
a day ago –
The logo of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin is seen on a symbolic
“Bitcoin coin” | Photo by Silas Stein / Picture Alliance via Getty
Images
Bitcoin miners in New York state faced a regulatory blow today as the
state denied air permits for a gas-fired power plant used to mine
Bitcoin. It’s the ...
Steve Jobs awarded posthumous Medal of Freedom by President Biden
10 hours ago –
Photo by Justin Sullivan / Getty Images
Steve Jobs, the co-founder and former CEO of Apple, has been awarded a
posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Joe Biden, the
White House announced Friday. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the
highest US honor that can be given to ...
12 hours ago –
But bigger sensors come at bigger costs
Continue reading…
The Sims 4 High School Years expansion adds a Depop-created ‘virtual thrift store’
7 hours ago –
The Sims 4 High School Years will be available on July 28th. |
Image: EA
Later this month, clothing from the fashion marketplace Depop will be
available in an expansion pack for The Sims 4 called High School Years
(via Polygon). Depop describes itself as a “circular” and
“community-powere...
9 hours ago –
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
After years of mounting pressure, TikTok provided US lawmakers with
more details into how it limits Chinese access to American data in a new
letter dated Thursday.
In a letter addressed to nine of the app’s most prominent Republican
critics, TikTok...
The best early Amazon Prime Day deals you can get right now
3 hours ago –
The actual start of Prime Day is July 12th, and it will continue
through the 13th. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge
Amazon Prime Day is inching ever closer, and there’s already some
momentum building with early deals. July 12th is slated as the start of
the two-day sales event, b...
5 hours ago –
Image: Nintendo
You can now play one of the internet’s most famous memes right on your
Nintendo Switch. Zero Wing, which features the classic line “all your
base are belong to us” during its introductory cutscene, is now
available to play on the Sega Genesis app that’s accessible with a N...
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