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- California lawmakers are one step closer to bringing back Obama-era net neutrality protections 3 days ago – California’s state Assembly voted 58-17 on Thursday to advance a bill, called S.B. 822, that would implement the strongest net neutrality provisions in the U.S. The bill now heads back to the Senate for final approval. If a vote is not held by end of day tomorrow — the deadline for lawmakers to p...
- Enveritas’ technology lets small growers tap into the market for sustainable coffee 3 days ago – Demand for sustainable coffee is growing, a boon for socially conscious coffee lovers — but many small growers are missing out because they lack the ability to verify that their coffee beans are grown using sustainable labor and eco-friendly practices. In fact, verification is often accessible on...
- Weebly brings more e-commerce features to mobile 3 days ago – Weebly is part of Square now, but it continues to update as a standalone product. This week, for example, the company announced a number of new e-commerce features for the Weebly mobile app. Those features include the ability to ship and print labels, to respond to customer questions (via Faceboo...
- Wish, Netflix, Uber and ~100 others testing WhatsApp’s new Business API 2 days ago – Earlier this month, WhatsApp announced the launch of its first revenue-generating enterprise product, the WhatsApp Business API. The API allows businesses to respond to messages from WhatsApp users for free up to 24 hours, then charges for any responses after that point on a per message basis. Th...
- The Windows 10 October 2018 Update is called ‘Windows 10 October 2018 Update’ 2 days ago – 🤷But what’s in a name, right?
- YC-backed travel startup Duffel inks $4.7M round led by Blossom Capital, but stays coy on the details 2 days ago – A new London-based travel-industry startup is slowly coming out of stealth mode, but although it’s releasing it’s funding round, it’s keeping the actual product close to its chest. For now. Y Combinator -backed travel startup Duffel says it is working on “a new way to book travel online, aiming a...
- User’s Guide to Disrupt SF 2018 2 days ago – Disrupt SF (Sept 5-7) approaches with just a few days until things kick off. We have an all-star lineup that only TechCrunch can assemble, and we’re expecting our largest number of attendees yet. Check out our star-packed agenda here, and keep reading to find out everything you need to make for a...
- Rappi raises $200M as Latin American tech investment reaches new highs 2 days ago – Rappi, the Colombian on-demand delivery startup, has brought in a new round of funding at a valuation north of $1 billion, as first reported by Axios and confirmed to TechCrunch by a source close to the company. DST Global has led the more than $200 million financing, with participation from Andr...
- The Village Voice will no longer publish new stories 2 days ago – The Village Voice is dead — at least, as a functioning journalistic organization. Starting today, the legendary alternative newspaper will no longer publish new stories. Gothamist reports that at a staff meeting, owner Peter Barbey said that about half the team would be laid off, while the other ...
- The Amazonization of Whole Foods, one year in a day ago – Amazon promised to breathe new tech into the relationship with Whole Foods after putting a $13.7 billion ring on it one year ago. So how did that promise shake out? At the time, Amazon said the goal was to make “high-quality, natural and organic food affordable for everyone.” Bananas, avocados an...
- DJI Mavic 2 review a day ago – The Mavic Pro was a revelation. It wasn’t a perfect product, to be sure, but it represented a new paradigm for DJI and the consumer drone industry in general. It was compact, folding up into a nice, portable package, while still being portable enough to shove into a backpack. It was also the begi...
- How Silicon Valley should celebrate Labor Day a day ago – Ask any 25-year old engineer what Labor Day means to him or her, and you might get an answer like: it’s the surprise three-day weekend after a summer of vacationing. Or it’s the day everyone barbecues at Dolores Park. Or it’s the annual Tahoe trip where everyone gets to relive college. Or simply,...
- One extra week to apply for Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 5 hours ago – There’s no lack of creative innovators, makers and technical entrepreneurs throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, and that’s why we’re bringing Startup Battlefield Africa 2018 — our world-renowned startup pitch competition — to Lagos, Nigeria on December 11. We want to give every innovative early-stage s...
- Used car site Vroom is raising $70M six months after a big round of layoffs 13 hours ago – After cutting a big portion of its staff in March, Vroom is back pitching investors. Yesterday, the site for buying and selling used cars filed to raise $70 million in new equity funding.
- It’s time for Facebook and Twitter to coordinate efforts on hate speech 17 hours ago – Since the election of Donald Trump in 2016, there has been burgeoning awareness of the hate speech on social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. While activists have pressured these companies to improve their content moderation, few groups (outside of the German government) have outright s...
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- The Motorola One is a slick budget iPhone X clone 2 days ago – Motorola has officially announced the Motorola One and Motorola One Power, the company’s pair of midrange Android phones with distinctly iPhone X-style notches. The Motorola One is the smaller of the pair. It has a 5.9-inch HD display, Gorilla Glass 2.5 on the front and back, a Qualcomm Snapdrag...
- A brief history of Spider-Man games 2 days ago – He’s a vigilante, a public menace and the star of more than three decades of absurd video games Continue reading…
- Twitter is testing threaded replies and status indicators 2 days ago – Sara Haider, Twitter’s director of product management, tweeted a couple screenshots today showing off changes the platform is considering to make things more “conversational.” Their solution? Threaded conversations and status indicators. They make the app look a lot more like Facebook comment th...
- The viral ‘Johny, Johny’ kids’ videos are a godforsaken nightmare a day ago – Over the years, the sector of YouTube dedicated to children’s entertainment has become notorious for its deep well of barely filtered trash. The lack of sufficient algorithmic moderation has been shown to be actually harmful in recent years: in 2017, The New York Times published a lengthy piece e...
- Finding silence online is difficult, but the pursuit is worthwhile 17 minutes ago – In My Year of Rest and Relaxation, the latest novel from the ferociously talented writer Otessa Moshfegh, the protagonist sets out to sleep through an entire year to get far enough away from her life so that she might have a chance at rebirth. “Mine was a quest for a new spirit,” Moshfegh’s unnam...Finding silence online is difficult, but the pursuit is worthwhile 17 minutes ago – In My Year of Rest and Relaxation, the latest novel from the ferociously talented writer Otessa Moshfegh, the protagonist sets out to sleep through an entire year to get far enough away from her life so that she might have a chance at rebirth. “Mine was a quest for a new spirit,” Moshfegh’s unnam...