Orchid Labs is in the process of raising $125 million for its surveillance-free layer atop the internet
Orchid Labs, a San Francisco-based startup that’s developing a a surveillance-free layer on top ...View More
Friday Night Lights is on Hulu now. You’re welcome.
Friday Night Lights, the football show that was never just about football (and one of the best shows ...View More
SmugMug acquires Flickr
Two photo-sharing services are teaming up, as SmugMug buys Flickr from Verizon’s digital media subs ...View More
TaskRabbit’s app is offline while it investigates a “cybersecurity incident”
TaskRabbit, the on-demand errand service acquired by IKEA last year, announced today that has taken ...View More
Judge says class action suit against Facebook over facial recognition can go forward
Whenever a company may be guilty of something, from petty neglect to grand deception, there’s usuall ...View More
The Eminem AR show
[embedded content]With the debut of his Eminem Augmented app at Coachella last night, hip hop’s ...View More
Waymo reportedly applies to put autonomous cars on California roads with no safety drivers
Waymo has become the second company to apply for the newly-available permit to deploy autonomous ve ...View More
Elon Musk says ‘humans are underrated,’ calls Tesla’s ‘excessive automation’ a ‘mistake’
In a rare mea culpa for the mercurial billionaire, Tesla CEO Elon Musk acknowledged that the ...View More
Android Auto now works without wires if you have the right hardware
Android Auto — Google’s system for powering your car’s dash display from your phone, and the compan ...View More
Twitter replaces its gun emoji with a water gun
Twitter has now followed Apple’s lead in changing its pistol emoji to a harmless, bright green wat ...View More
Reddit has banned 944 accounts linked to the IRA Russian troll farm
While much of the tech media has had their eyeballs glued to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimon ...View More
Tentrr is turning private land into glampgrounds, with the help of VCs
If you’ve ever gone camping and found yourself thinking it kind of sucks, likely because you’re too ...View More
App downloads and revenue again broke records in the first quarter of 2018
Global app downloads and consumer spending in apps had yet another record quarter, according to a ne ...View More
Scribd will get Veronica Roth’s ‘Fates Divide’ on launch day
Scribd is setting its sights on bigger, newer titles.E-book and audiobook versions of The Fates Divi ...View More
Facebook teams with nonprofits to launch election research commission
Facebook’s post-Cambridge Analytica apology tour continues this morning with the announcement of an ...View More
Benchmark just funded Chainalysis, the crypto intelligence company that helped crack the Mt. Gox case
When the virtual currency exchange Mt. Gox collapsed into bankruptcy in 2014 following the disappear ...View More
IMAX and Conversive launch a conversational AR app with chatty pandas
While IMAX has become synonymous with enormous theatrical screens, Chief Marketing Officer JL Pomer ...View More
Suplari raises $10.3M Series A round to bring AI to procurement
Procurement isn’t the most exciting topic in the world, but for large businesses, it’s an area where ...View More
Facebook plans crackdown on ad targeting by email without consent
Facebook is scrambling to add safeguards against abuse of user data as it reels from backlash over ...View More
Original Content podcast: We drop by Netflix’s ‘Terrace House’
Terrace House is a tough show to explain.Like The Real World and other reality TV, the show puts a g ...View More
Arbtr wants to create an anti-feed where users can only share one thing at a time
At a time when the models of traditional social networks are being questioned, it’s more important t ...View More
Refugee charity turns to crypto with $1M donation from Ethereum’s founder and OmiseGo
The crypto industry is often criticized from the outline for creating wealth that exists only in dig ...View More
CardUp raises $1.7M to help small businesses get more out of their credit cards
CardUp founder and CEO Nicki Ramsay (front, second from right) with her teamCardUp, a Singapore-base ...View More
What Tesla knows about the fatal Model X crash
Tesla has shed some more light on the fatal crash and fire involving a Model X car last week. In a ...View More
Zuckerberg refuses UK parliament summons over Fb data misuse
So much for ‘We are accountable‘; Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has declined a summons f ...View More
Shuly Galili and Yahal Zilka join us in Tel Aviv
In a bit more than two months, the TechCrunch team is heading to Tel Aviv for a day-long event. And ...View More
Amazon partners with French retailer Monoprix to launch Prime Now grocery deliveries in Paris
Amazon’s business in France is taking a big step forward after announcing a new deal today with ret ...View More
Monarch is a new platform from surgical robot pioneer Frederic Moll
Auris Health (née Auris Surgical Robots) has done a pretty good job flying under the radar, in spite ...View More
Facebook was warned about app permissions in 2011
Who’s to blame for the leaking of 50 million Facebook users’ data? Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zu ...View More
JASK and the future of autonomous cybersecurity
There is a familiar trope in Hollywood cyberwarfare movies. A lone whiz kid hacker (often with blue, ...View More
