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- Instagram may allow creators to syndicate IGTV videos to Facebook a day ago – Following the departure of Instagram’s founders, Facebook is working to more closely integrate the photo-sharing app with its flagship social network. It’s already added its brand name next to Instagram’s, and is working to make both platforms’ messaging products interoperable. Now, Facebook is p...
- Female founders: All Raise AMA applications @ Disrupt SF 2019 close tomorrow 2 days ago – The future is female and all you fierce female founders have one last shot at receiving 30 minutes of face time with some of the industry’s leading female funders. Say what now? We’re talking the All Raise “ask me anything” (AMA) sessions at Disrupt SF 2019 — and applications close tomorrow, Augu...
- Apple will unveil the next iPhone September 10 2 days ago – Invites for the next big Apple event have just landed in press mailboxes everywhere, confirming the rumored September 10 date. Invites for the event, which is set for Steve Jobs Theater on the company’s shiny new Cupertino campus, note that the event is “by innovation only.” It is a small theater...
- 2019 tech IPOs: Some thoughts from the public company roller coaster a day ago – 2019 has already been an active year for U.S. tech IPOs. Some highly anticipated unicorns have disappointed. Others have soared.2019 tech IPOs: Some thoughts from the public company roller coaster a day ago – 2019 has already been an active year for U.S. tech IPOs. Some highly anticipated unicorns have disappointed. Others have soared.
- ‘Filmmaker Mode’ will automatically turn off all the dumb motion smoothing and noise reduction on new TVs a day ago – Most people don’t adjust the settings on their TV after they buy it. Most newer TVs, meanwhile, come with a bunch of random junk turned on by default; things like motion smoothing that makes epic movies look like soap operas, or noise reduction that can wash out details and make an actor’s skin l...
- MIT’s autonomous boat robots can now shapeshift to form new structures a day ago – Work continues on developing MIT’s fully autonomous robot boats — “roboats” if you’d rather — and now they have a new trick, allowing them to change configurations and reassemble with one another to form a range of new structures. When last we checked in on the “roboat” project, the robots had ac...
- Volocopter’s 2X eVTOL records a first with flight at Helsinki International Airport 15 hours ago – The Volocopter 2X air taxi vehicle is now the first electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) craft to fly at an international airport, fully integrated into the same airspace as other commercial passenger craft. It performed this key milestone flight at Helsinki International Airport, in a ...
- Atoms nabs $8.1M for shoes you can buy in quarter sizes for each foot 15 hours ago – The direct-to-consumer trend in fashion has been one of the most interesting evolutions in e-commerce in the last several years, and today one of the trailblazers in the world of footwear is picking up some money from a list of illustrious backers to bring its concept to the masses. Atoms, makers...
- Could Peloton be the next Apple? 15 hours ago – Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.
- Gmail can now tell your co-workers you’re on vacation BEFORE they email you 10 hours ago – Emailing a co-worker without realizing they’re on vacation is a bummer for everyone involved. The second you get that “out of office” auto-reply, you suddenly remember the 20-minute conversation you had about their upcoming trip to Hawaii and feel like a goober. Meanwhile, they come back to a tho...
- Fitbit, Andela, AfricaTech, startups and Brexit, plus content moderation 11 hours ago – Programming note: Happy Labor Day! To our U.S.-based readers, happy Labor Day weekend. Extra Crunch will be off on Monday and will resume publishing next Tuesday. Reminder: EC ticket discounts for Enterprise Sessions and Disrupt SF Next week, we will be hosting our Enterprise Sessions event at Ye...
- Daily Crunch: Apple will unveil the next iPhone on Sept 10 11 hours 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. Apple will unveil the next iPhone September 10 Apple has sent out invites confirming rumors that its ne...
- Did your aluminum Apple Watch mysteriously crack itself? Apple might replace the screen for free 3 hours ago – So your aluminum Series 2 or Series 3 Apple Watch is suddenly cracking around the edges… but you don’t remember bumping it on anything, or being particularly rough with it. Surprise! It might not be your fault at all. Apple says that they’ve determined that “under very rare circumstances”, the di...
- Labor Day Special: One extra week on early-bird pricing for Disrupt SF 2019 4 hours ago – Happy (almost) Labor Day to all the hardworking members of the early-startup community — entrepreneurs, founders, investors, engineers and everyone in between. We know how hard you work to build your dream, so we’re cutting you a break and extending our early-bird pricing on passes to Disrupt San...
- VW Group to pay $96.5M to settle inflated fuel economy lawsuit 5 hours ago – VW Group of America said Friday it has reached an agreement with thousands of U.S. customers over alleged inflated fuel economy information on about 98,000 gas-powered vehicles from its four brands, Audi, Bentley, Porsche and Volkswagen. The agreement involves alleged misinformation about fuel ec...
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- Alto is coming to the Epic Games Store along with a bunch of other indies a day ago – Epic posted a video today announcing that eight indie games are coming to the Epic Games Store, including beloved mobile games Alto’s Adventure and Alto’s Odyssey as The Alto Collection, which we love for their beautiful art style and polished snowboarding gameplay. It’ll be the first time the se...
- Amazon’s sales platform may be too big to police 18 hours ago – Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge When a tech platform grows beyond a certain size, a now-familiar phenomenon begins to unfold. The creators no longer have a view of — or control over — all the day-to-day activity on the platform, allowing bad actors to manipulate it to their own ends. O...
- How NASA’s busiest Florida spaceport is preparing for Hurricane Dorian 13 hours ago – Photo by Bill Ingalls / NASA Hurricane Dorian is slowly making its way toward the eastern coast of Florida, prompting NASA’s premier spaceport, Kennedy Space Center (KSC), to prep for the coming storm. Employees at the spaceport are used to bracing for hurricanes, and they have already started...
- Facebook Stories gets Instagram Stories’ Spotify music-sharing feature 10 hours ago – Spotify Spotify will now let all the people who insist on using Facebook Stories share their musical tastes. Similar to the feature that lets you share music to an Instagram Story from directly within Spotify, users can now do that for Facebook Stories, too. To share music from Spotify, tap “s...Facebook Stories gets Instagram Stories’ Spotify music-sharing feature 10 hours ago – Spotify Spotify will now let all the people who insist on using Facebook Stories share their musical tastes. Similar to the feature that lets you share music to an Instagram Story from directly within Spotify, users can now do that for Facebook Stories, too. To share music from Spotify, tap “s...
- Lime, Jump, Bird, Spin pledge to remove their Florida scooters and bikes to avoid flying menaces 8 hours ago – Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Hurricane Dorian’s expected landfall on Florida has Miami, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, and Tampa scrambling to remove bikes and scooters from their streets. If the devices aren’t removed from the streets, they could potentially be picked up by hurricane w...Lime, Jump, Bird, Spin pledge to remove their Florida scooters and bikes to avoid flying menaces 8 hours ago – Illustration by William Joel / The Verge Hurricane Dorian’s expected landfall on Florida has Miami, Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, and Tampa scrambling to remove bikes and scooters from their streets. If the devices aren’t removed from the streets, they could potentially be picked up by hurricane w...