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- This startup is helping food app delivery workers start their own damn delivery companies 2 days ago – Following many months of pressure, DoorDash, one of the most frequently used food delivery apps in the U.S., said late last month that it was finally changing its tipping policy to pass along to workers 100% of tips, rather than employ some of that money toward defraying its own costs. The move w...
- ULA successfully launches fifth US Air Force-protected communications satellite 2 days ago – The United Launch Alliance (ULA), a joint-effort commercial launch service provider set up by Boeing and Lockheed Martin, succeeded in launching a U.S. Air Force communications satellite to orbit today, the fifth in a series of launches to form a constellation. The satellite, code-named AEHF-5 (f...
- Auto supplier Continental shifts gears — and its capital — to an electric future 2 days ago – Continental AG, a global auto-parts supplier, will no longer invest in parts used in internal combustion engines, the latest sign that the automotive industry is being forced to respond to increasingly strict emissions laws. Instead, the company said it will put more focus and capital on the elec...
- A.Capital Partners, founded by Ronny Conway, targets $140 million for its third fund 2 days ago – Silicon Valley investor Ronny Conway is raising his third early-stage venture fund, shows a new SEC filing that states the fund’s target is $140 million and that the first sale has yet to occur. The now six-year-old firm, A.Capital, focuses on both consumer and enterprise tech, and has offices in...
- The Russians are coming! The Russians are … complicated! 2 days ago – Did you know that Russia’s security services, particularly those related to hacking / information security, have been in the throes of vicious high-stakes infighting for years? Did you know that the perceived Russian doctrine which informed much Western analysis of Russian strategies never actual...
- Facebook could face billions in potential damages as court rules facial recognition lawsuit can proceed 2 days ago – Facebook is facing exposure to billions of dollars in potential damages as a federal appeals court on Thursday rejected Facebook’s arguments to halt a class action lawsuit claiming it illegally collected and stored the biometric data of millions of users. The class action lawsuit has been working...
- Preclusio uses machine learning to comply with GDPR, other privacy regulations a day ago – As privacy regulations like GDPR and the California Consumer Privacy Act proliferate, more startups are looking to help companies comply. Enter Preclusio, a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2019 class, which has developed a machine learning-fueled solution to help companies adhere to these priva...
- Robocall blocking apps caught sending your private data without permission 2 days ago – Robocall-blocking apps promise to rid your life of spoofed and spam phone calls. But are they as trustworthy as they claim to be? One security researcher said many of these apps can violate your privacy as soon as they are opened. Dan Hastings, a senior security consultant at cybersecurity firm N...
- Skip scooters are returning to Washington, DC after battery fires 2 days ago – Following battery issues and a single-alarm fire caused by improperly disposed of batteries in Washington, D.C., Skip has been given the green light to resume operations in Washington, D.C. and the surrounding areas of Alexandria and Arlington. The plan is to redeploy the scooters in the coming w...
- Adobe’s Amit Ahuja will be talking customer experience at TechCrunch Sessions: Enterprise a day ago – As companies collect increasingly large amounts of data about customers, the end game is about improving the customer experience. It’s a term we’re hearing a lot of these days, and we are going to be discussing that very topic with Amit Ahuja, Adobe’s vice president of ecosystem development, next...
- Biotech researchers venture into the wild to start their own business a day ago – Much of Silicon Valley mythology is centered on the founder-as-hero narrative. But historically, scientific founders leading the charge for bio companies have been far less common.
- Car2go hikes hourly rental rates by as much as a third a day ago – By-the-minute car rental service Car2go is raising its rates for short trips under the guise of variable pricing, the company announced to its users today. As we've seen with other variably priced services like delivery and ride hailing, in practice this means you never really know what it will c...
- Tesla Model 3 owner implants RFID chip to turn her arm into a key 5 hours ago – Forget the keycard or phone app, one software engineer is trying out a new way to unlock and start her Tesla Model 3. Amie DD, who has a background in game simulation and programming, recently released a video showing how she “biohacked” her body. The software engineer removed the RFID chip from ...
- Y Combinator-backed Trella brings transparency to Egypt’s trucking and shipping industry 5 hours ago – Y Combinator has become one of the key ways that startups from emerging markets get the attention of American investors. And arguably no clutch of companies has benefitted more from Y Combinator’s attention than startups from emerging markets tackling the the logistics market. On the heels of the...Y Combinator-backed Trella brings transparency to Egypt’s trucking and shipping industry 5 hours ago – Y Combinator has become one of the key ways that startups from emerging markets get the attention of American investors. And arguably no clutch of companies has benefitted more from Y Combinator’s attention than startups from emerging markets tackling the the logistics market. On the heels of the...
- How tech is transforming the intelligence industry 8 hours ago – Shay Hershkovitz Contributor Share on Twitter Shay Hershkovitz is a Senior Research Fellow at The Intelligence Methodology Research Center (IMRC). At a conference on the future challenges of intelligence organizations held in 2018, former Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats argued that he...
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- Facebook wants to be relevant in news again, and it’s willing to pay millions to bring back publishers 2 days ago – Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Facebook is approaching big-name news publishers hoping to secure licensing deals to republish stories and other news content, reports The Wall Street Journal. The deals could be worth millions of dollars per publisher, with Facebook reportedly offer...
- Bungie is launching cross-save for Destiny 2 on August 21st 2 days ago – Image: Bungie Bungie has revealed the date Destiny 2 players will be able to start moving accounts freely between platforms to be August 21st. That’s when the game studio says it’s expecting to launch cross-save support for the open-world shooter, a long-awaited feature only just announced bac...
- Prep for GLOW’s new season by watching the original Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling 2 days ago – Photo by Ali Goldstein / Netflix There are so many streaming options available these days, and so many conflicting recommendations, that it’s hard to see through all the crap you could be watching. Each Friday, The Verge’s Cut the Crap column simplifies the choice by sorting through the overwh...Prep for GLOW’s new season by watching the original Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling 2 days ago – Photo by Ali Goldstein / Netflix There are so many streaming options available these days, and so many conflicting recommendations, that it’s hard to see through all the crap you could be watching. Each Friday, The Verge’s Cut the Crap column simplifies the choice by sorting through the overwh...
- Adobe’s next big bets are on AR and mixed reality software a day ago – Adobe By the end of this year, designers will be getting three new Adobe apps, which are all part of the company’s vision for the next era of creativity. This next generation of apps will focus on mixing real-life, physical elements with digital ones, and it will emphasize experiences “outside...
- Verizon is charging a rural library $880 for accidentally using 440MB of data in Canada a day ago – Photo: Chris Welch / The Verge Internet telecom companies aren’t your friends, no matter how cheerful they may try to portray themselves in advertisements. The latest reminder of that fact is the story of Tully Free Library in rural Tully, NY, which got hit by an absurd $880 bill from Verizon ...
- Norway mosque shooter allegedly posted to 8chan before attack 8 hours ago – Photo credit should read TERJE PEDERSEN/AFP/Getty Images One week after a gunman killed 22 people in El Paso, Texas, another allegedly planned to live-stream an attack on a mosque in Oslo, Norway, and posted his intentions to hate forum 8chan. Worshippers told Budstikka (via the BBC), that th...
- Watch Porsche’s first electric car make an EV expert’s mind melt 12 hours ago – Porsche started teasing its first all-electric car almost four years ago to the month, and we’ve learned a lot about it since then. Two of the biggest things left to discover about the car (called the Taycan) are what it will truly, actually, finally look like, and how it performs. We can now sta...
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