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Google delays mandating Play Store payments rule in India to April 2022
Google is postponing the enforcement of its new Play Store billing rule in India to April 2022, days after more ... -
The revamped Motorola Razr foldable launches October 2, starting at $1,200
Foldable phones have had…quite the journey over the last few years. The second time appears to have been the charm ... -
Facebook to block new political ads 1 week before Nov 3, adds more tools and ...
We’re now 61 days away from the US Presidential election, and Facebook is once more ramping up its efforts to level the ... -
Tencent and Chinese scientists use deep learning to predict fatal COVID-19 cases
Tech firms around the world are in an overdrive to help battle the coronavirus pandemic. Research showed that 6.5% of COVID-19 patients ... -
Artlist raises $48M led by KKR for its royalty-free music, video and sound effect library
Like it or loathe it, video has proven to be the most engaging of all mediums across the web, and ... -
Amazon launches ‘Smart Stores’ in India to win mom and pop
For Amazon, it’s never too late to try something in India. The e-commerce giant is exploring ways to further spread its tentacles ... -
5 Tips for Startups to Protect Themselves Against Cyberattacks
Almost every day, we get news of data breaches making the rounds.The ones we hear about, though, are that of ... -
Walmart’s Flipkart makes local languages push to win small Indian cities and towns
Flipkart on Wednesday added support for three more local languages as the Indian e-commerce giant looks to widen its foothold ... -
Google updates its analytics tools for newsrooms
Google is introducing new tools for newsrooms looking to understand their online audiences and how those audiences feed into their ... -
Google employees demand company stop selling tech to police
A growing group of more than 1,666 Google employees is demanding Google stop selling its technology to police departments, TechCrunch has ... -
The Station: DoorDash snags $400M, Bolt Mobility deploys self-cleaning tech, and disappearing Jump bikes
Hi friends and first-time readers. Welcome back to The Station, a newsletter dedicated to all the present and future ways ... -
Tesla’s big battery event and shareholder meeting tentatively set for September 15
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been hyping a potential battery day for quite a while now, and it looks like we ... -
Tesla wants a $68M property tax break to locate its Cybertruck gigafactory near Austin
Tesla is seeking up to $68 million in property tax abatement from a Texas school district to build a factory ... -
DroneBase nabs $7.5 million in a slight down round to double down on its work ...
DroneBase, a Los Angeles-based provider of drone pilots for industrial services companies, has raised $7.5 million during the pandemic to ... -
Basecamp launches Hey, a hosted email service for neat freaks
Project management software maker Basecamp has launched a feature-packed hosted email service, called Hey — which they tout as taking aim at the traditional ... -
Amazon is using AR to encourage employee social distancing
From the outside, at least, Amazon’s COVID-19 response has been a mixed bag. The company has noted in various reports ... -
Apple adds new MacBook Pro graphics option and Mac Pro SSD upgrade kit
A week before kicking off WWDC, Apple introduced a pair of upgrades to its pro-level hardware lines. Both the 16-inch ... -
WhatsApp resolves issue that exposed some users’ phone numbers in Google search results
WhatsApp has resolved an issue that caused phone numbers of some of its users to appear in Google search results. The fix comes ... -
India’s Reliance Jio Platforms to sell $750 million stake to Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
Mukesh Ambani has courted the seventh major investor for his telecommunications business in just as many weeks. On Sunday, Reliance Jio Platforms said ... -
Budget devices are still the heart of Motorola’s portfolio
People were already buying fewer handsets well before COVID-19 came into our lives. Now that the pandemic has impacted most ... -
Facebook and PayPal invest in Southeast Asian ride-hailing giant GoJek
Facebook and PayPal have made investments in GoJek, joining Google and Tencent among other high-profile technology firms that have backed ... -
Facebook strikes global licensing deal with Indian music label Saregama
Facebook said on Wednesday it has entered into a global deal with Saregama, one of India’s oldest and largest music labels, to ... -
Mobile safety app Parachute’s new feature prevents anyone from turning off your live-streamed video
Mobile safety app Parachute is today rolling out a new feature that will prevent an unauthorized person who grabs your iPhone to ... -
Facebook employees stage virtual walkout in protest of company’s stance on Trump posts
Some Facebook employees are virtually walking out today to challenge the company’s lack of response to President Donald Trump’s posts pertaining to protests ... -
Google and Microsoft reportedly considering stakes in telecom firms in India after Facebook deal
Weeks after Facebook acquired a 9.9% stake in India’s Reliance Jio Platforms, two more American firms are reportedly interested in the ... -
Google removes millions of negative TikTok reviews amid backlash in India
ByteDance’s TikTok app, which has gained hundreds of millions of users in India with its short-form videos, is facing criticism in ... -
Apple begins offering Macs with custom configurations in India
Apple is finally giving customers in India the ability to order customized versions of iMac, MacBook Air, Mac Mini and ... -
Jabra’s Elite Active 75t earbuds offer great value and sound for both workouts and workdays
Technology improvements over the past few years mean that most fully wireless earbuds are a lot better than they used ... -
Bolt, the European on-demand transport company, raises $109M on a $1.9B valuation
Bolt, a rival to Uber and others providing on-demand ridesharing, scooters and other transportation services across some 150 cities in ... -
Indian ride-hailing firm Ola cuts 1,400 jobs
Ola said on Wednesday it is cutting 1,400 jobs in India, or 35% of its workforce in the home market, ... -
Huawei admits uncertainty following new US chip curbs
Following the U.S. government’s announcement that would further thwart Huawei’s chip-making capability, the Chinese telecoms equipment giant condemned the new ruling for ... -
Fitbit’s Chinese rival Amazfit mulls a transparent, self-disinfecting mask
The COVID-19 pandemic has ushered in a wave of Chinese companies with manufacturing operations to produce virus-fighting equipment: Shenzhen-based electric ... -
Amazon Prime Video to globally premiere 7 Indian movies as theaters remain closed
Amazon has secured rights to premiere seven Indian movies that were initially scheduled for a theatrical release directly on its Prime Video on-demand streaming ... -
Xiaomi spinoff POCO’s F2 Pro undercuts Android rivals with low price and flagship features
POCO, a brand that spun out of Chinese electronics giant Xiaomi earlier this year, today launched the POCO F2 Pro smartphone ... -
Spotify signs deal with Saregama to add more than 100,000 tracks to India catalog
Spotify has secured another deal in India to fill much of the remaining void in its catalog in the country. ... -
UK’s NHS COVID-19 app lacks robust legal safeguards against data misuse, warns committee
A UK parliamentary committee that focuses on human rights issues has called for primary legislation to be put in place to ensure ... -
A security expert says India’s contact-tracing app has flaws; New Delhi says they are ‘by ...
The Indian government has said that its contact-tracing app Aarogya Setu “by design” fetches the location data of its 90 ... -
Silver Lake to invest $747M in India’s Jio Platforms
Weeks after Facebook invested $5.7 billion in Jio Platforms, India’s top telecom operator, private equity firm Silver Lake is following suit — ... -
Video app Marco Polo adds a subscription option amid coronavirus-led boost in usage
The coronavirus pandemic has sent record numbers of new users to video chat apps. Now, video messaging app Marco Polo aims to ... -
DJI’s mini Mavic Air gets an upgrade with improved camera and battery life
DJI had to kibosh its usual big unveil this time out, for obvious reasons, but the company won’t let a ... -
Apple said to sell Macs powered by in-house ARM-based chips as early as 2021
Apple’s long-rumored Mac ARM chip transition could happen as early as next year, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The report ... -
Facebook invests $5.7B in India’s Reliance Jio
Facebook has enjoyed unparalleled reach in India for more than a decade. But as China’s fast-growing ByteDance emerges as a formidable ... -
Facebook launches Fundraisers in India, expands partnerships with state governments for WhatsApp and Messenger helplines
Facebook has expanded Fundraisers to India and is working with several additional state governments to provide authoritative information about the coronavirus to ... -
Facebook adds new ‘care’ emoji reactions on its main app and in Messenger
As a lot of us continue to stay indoors, Facebook has become a go-to platform for many people to check in with ... -
India says video conference app Zoom is ‘not safe’
India said today Zoom is ‘not a safe platform’ and advised government employees to not use it as the video conference service surges ... -
Airbnb ups its debt by $1BN amid the coronavirus travel crunch
Airbnb has secured commitments of $1 billion for a syndicated term loan from institutional investors, it said. The emergency cash injection comes ... -
Digital mapping of coronavirus contacts will have key role in lifting Europe’s lockdown, says Commission
The European Commission has set out a plan for co-ordinating the lifting of regional coronavirus restrictions that includes a role for digital tools — ... -
African genomics startup 54gene raises $15M led by Adjuvant Capital
Greater availability of African genomic data could lead to medical breakthroughs for the continent’s 1.2 billion people. That’s the driving ... -
India’s lockdown is making life hard for its most popular apps
The coronavirus pandemic, which has forced billions of people to stay home, has led to a surge in new downloads of several ... -
Coronavirus conspiracies like that bogus 5G claim are racing across the internet
As the U.S. and much of the world hunkers down to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, some virus-related ... -
FDA clears N95 decontamination process that could clean up to 4 million masks per day
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has provided an emergency use authorization (EUA) for a decontamination process provided by company ... -
Apple said to be planning fall iPhone refresh with iPad Pro-like design
Apple is readying a new iPhone for fall to replace the iPhone 11 Pro this fall, Bloomberg reports, as well as follow-ups ... -
Tesla to cut salaries, furlough workers as COVID-19 shutdowns expected to last until May 4
Tesla will suspend production at its U.S. factories until at least May 4 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, prompting the company ... -
WhatsApp introduces new limit on message forwards to fight spread of misinformation
WhatsApp is imposing additional restriction on how frequently a message can be shared on its platform in its latest effort to ... -
WHO Africa hosts hackathons, offers seed funds to fight COVID-19
The World Health Organization in Africa is holding virtual hackathons and offering up to $20,000 in seed-funds to finalists with ... -
General Motors spins up global supply chain to make 50,000 face masks a day
GM today announced manufacturing details around building much-needed medical face masks. According to the company’s press release, it took the company ... -
Fauci: US can expect more than 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, millions of cases
On CNN’s State of the Union Sunday, the leading U.S. authority on the COVID-19 pandemic made some grim predictions about the ... -
FDA grants emergency authorization to system that decontaminates N95 respirator masks for re-use
The global coronavirus pandemic has meant that there’s a widespread effort to develop and advance creative solutions to new problems, ... -
Self-reporting app tracking COVID-19 symptoms in UK sees 750K downloads in 24 hours
One of the big challenges (among many) with the coronavirus pandemic is that overwhelmed health services do not always know ... -
Coordinated response required to optimize telehealth during COVID-19 pandemic
As the COVID-19 epidemic scales exponentially across the United States, calls for expended use of telehealth, innovative technology solutions and optimization of life-saving ... -
UPS partners with Wingcopter to develop new multipurpose drone delivery fleet
UPS is working with German startup Wingcopter to develop a new type of delivery drone, to be used for the logistics company’s ... -
LetsBeatCOVID.net launches to track the spread of the Coronavirus in the UK/US
A startup behind one of the world’s most successful tech platforms for doctors has launched a new initiative to try ... -
Facebook Messenger provides governments, agencies with free developer tools to combat Covid-19
Big tech has been making a huge effort to mobilize its power to help people work better together to battle ... -
Non-profit launches COVID-19 treatment and vaccine tracker with daily updates
There are a lot of global efforts underway to develop vaccines and treatments for COVID-19, including repurposing of existing drugs ... -
Amazon donates $1 million to D.C. organizations helping those impacted by COVID-19 outbreak
Amazon announced this morning it’s making a $1 million donation that will be split among four Washington D.C. region community ... -
Google cancels its 2020 I/O developer conference
After Facebook canceled its F8 developer conference and Google itself moved its Cloud Next event in April to a digital-only conference, it doesn’t ... -
Uber sold its food delivery business in India to Zomato for $206M
Uber sold its food delivery business in India to the local rival Zomato for $206 million, the American ride-hailing company disclosed in a ... -
Spin is launching electric scooters in Germany this spring
Spin, the electric scooter company owned by Ford, is gearing up to launch its vehicles for the first time outside ... -
Roblox raises $150M Series G, led by Andreessen Horowitz, now valued at $4B
Online gaming platform Roblox, now home to 115 million largely Gen Z players per month, announced today it has raised $150 million in Series ... -
Tier Mobility acquires Coup’s electric moped scooters
Tier Mobility operates a scooter service, the kick-scooter-with-a-motor kind. And it has acquired assets from Coup, a now defunct scooter service, ... -
Huawei’s ill-fated foldable returns with a more robust upgrade
MWC may have been canceled on account of rising coronavirus concerns, but the party still went on for Huawei (albeit to what ... -
Sony announces its first 5G flagship, the triple lens Xperia 1 II
Sony has announced its first 5G smartphone: The Xperia 1 II — which, for the curious and/or confused, is pronounced ‘Xperia One, Mark ... -
Karius raises $165 million for its liquid biopsy technology identifying diseases in a drop of ...
“What Karius is good at is identifying those novel microbes before they become an outbreak like coronavirus,” says Mickey Kertesz, ... -
Tier Mobility, the European e-scooter rentals startup, adds another ~$40M to its Series B
Tier, the European e-scooter rentals startup that operates in 55 cities across 11 countries, has topped up its funding for ... -
Google gobbling Fitbit is a major privacy risk, warns EU data protection advisor
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) has intervened to raise concerns about Google’s plan to scoop up the health and activity data of millions ... -
Adobe celebrates Photoshop’s 30th anniversary with new desktop and mobile features
Adobe’s Photoshop celebrates its 30th birthday today. Over that time, the app has pretty much become synonymous with photo editing and ... -
Middle East healthcare platform Vezeeta raises $40M Series D led by Gulf Capital
Vezeeta, a healthcare platform operating in the Middle East and Africa, has raised a $40 Million Series D funding round ... -
As top exhibitors pull out of MWC, organizers implement stringent safeguards
A couple of weeks out, Mobile World Congress organizer, the GSMA, has issued some fairly sweeping safeguards over growing concerns ... -
NASA astronaut Christina Koch returns to Earth after record-setting stay in space
Astronaut Christina Koch made the return trip from the International Space Station (ISS) early on Thursday, along with ESA astronaut ... -
Apple unifies its app stores by extending the universal purchase option to Mac apps
Apple surprised its app developer community today with the official announcement that they’ll soon be able to sell their cross-platform apps as ... -
Twitter reports $1.01B in Q4 revenues with 152M monetizable daily active users
As Twitter continues to try to find the right balance between making its platform easier to use while also less prone to toxicity and abuse, ... -
Tier Mobility, the European e-scooter rentals startup, adds new COO and CCO to executive team
Following Tier Mobility’s $60 million Series B late last year, the e-scooter rentals startup has been busy bolstering its C-suite. The ... -
Avast shuts down marketing analytics subsidiary Jumpshot amid controversy over selling user data
Avast has made a huge business out of selling antivirus protection for computers and mobile devices, but more recently it was ... -
Tesla temporarily closes Shanghai factory over coronavirus concerns
Tesla has shut down its Shanghai factory as part of a broader order by the Chinese government to stem the spread ... -
Match Group CEO Mandy Ginsberg is stepping down
Match Group, home to Tinder, Match, OkCupid, PoF and a host of other online dating apps, announced today that CEO Mandy Ginsberg would ... -
Toothless: Facebook proposes a weak Oversight Board
Facebook’s internal “Supreme Court” can’t set precedents, can’t make decisions about Facebook Dating or Marketplace, and can’t oversee WhatsApp, Oculus, or ... -
Playing traffic cop for drones in cities and towns nets Airspace Link $4 million
As the number of drones proliferates in cities and towns across America, government agencies are scrambling to find ways to ... -
Uber’s self-driving unit starts mapping Washington, D.C. ahead of testing
Uber Advanced Technologies Group will start mapping Washington, D.C., ahead of plans to begin testing its self-driving vehicles in the city ... -
Tencent to grow gaming empire with $148M acquisition of Conan publisher Funcom in Norway
Tencent, one of the world’s biggest video and online gaming companies by revenue, today made another move to help cement ... -
Uber sells food delivery business in India to Zomato
Uber said on Tuesday it has sold its food delivery business, Uber Eats, in India to local rival Zomato as ... -
DuckDuckGo still critical of Google’s EU Android choice screen auction, after wining a universal slot
Google has announced which search engines have won an auction process it has devised for an Android ‘choice screen’ — as its response ... -
Paytm targets merchants to fight back Google and Walmart in India’s crowded payments field
Paytm today announced two new features for businesses as the financial services firm looks to expand its reach in the nation ... -
Here’s everything Google announced at CES 2020
Another year, another blast of Google Assistant news on the first official day of CES. Google slimmed things down a touch for ... -
Facebook data misuse and voter manipulation back in the frame with latest Cambridge Analytica leaks
More details are emerging about the scale and scope of disgraced data company Cambridge Analytica’s activities in elections around the world — ... -
TiVo announces a $49.99 device that combines streaming and live TV
TiVo is announcing a new device at the Consumer Electronics Show called the TiVo Stream 4K, which CEO Dave Shull described ... -
Facebook bans deceptive deepfakes and some misleadingly modified media
Facebook wants to be the arbiter of truth after all. At least when it comes to intentionally misleading deepfakes and heavily ... -
Fire TV Edition expands to more soundbars, plus cars, cable boxes and more
Amazon’s Fire TV Edition, the version of Fire TV that now powers over 150 Fire TV Edition smart TVs as a ... -
Amazon drives deeper into cars with new Alexa partners, Echo Auto expansion
Amazon is no longer content trying to dominate the home. The ecommerce giant made several announcements Monday ahead of CES ... -
This new wireless charger from Zens nearly fulfills the promise of Apple’s AirPower
Apple’s cancellation of its AirPower wireless charging mat was one of the company’s few big public flubs, but the concept behind ... -
Made in China: Tesla Model 3 deliveries to Chinese customers to begin January 7
The first deliveries of Tesla Model 3 sedans made in China will begin January 7, one year after the U.S. ... -
Can a $30 pair of wireless earbuds actually be any good?
2019 was the year wireless earbuds went mainstream. The category has been around much longer, of course, and Apple really ... -
India’s richest man is ready to take on Amazon and Walmart’s Flipkart
As Amazon and Walmart-owned Flipkart spend billions to make a dent in India’s retail market and reel from recent regulatory hurdles, the two ... -
Huawei’s revenue hits record $122B this year despite US sanctions, forecasts ‘difficult’ 2020
Huawei on Tuesday reported resilient revenue for 2019 as the embattled Chinese technology group continues to grow despite a prolonged ... -
Goldman Sachs leads $15M investment in Indian fintech startup ZestMoney
One of America’s largest banks has just poured some money to help millions of Indians without a credit score secure ... -
Xilis believes cultivating micro-tumors may hold the key to more effective cancer treatments
Despite near-miraculous advances in the treatment of cancer in the U.S. and around the world, the disease remains the second ... -
Airbnb is a platform not an estate agent, says Europe’s top court
Airbnb will be breathing a sigh of relief today: Europe’s top court has judged it to be an online platform which ... -
How 2020 can be a tipping point for women in STEM
As we welcome 2020 with ambitions set high for greater diversity and inclusion in the workforce, it provides us with ... -
Indian education startup Byju’s turns profitable
One of India’s biggest tech startups is no longer losing money. Education tech startup Byju’s on Tuesday posted a net ... -
Google has fired another worker-activist
Google has fired another worker-activist, Kathryn Spiers. Spiers, who worked on the platform security team, was generally tasked with writing code ... -
1-800 Contacts buys the at-home eye exam provider 6over6 Vision
New developments in sensor technologies, computer vision and machine learning technologies are combining to drive medical diagnostics further into the ... -
Automated web app testing startup ProdPerfect raises $13M Series A led by Anthos Capital
This morning ProdPerfect, a technology startup focused on web application testing, announced a $13 million Series A led by Anthos Capital. Anthos is ... -
Uber all set to sell UberEats’ India business to Zomato
Uber is in advanced stages of talks to sell its food delivery service UberEats’ India business to local rival Zomato as the American ... -
Let’s talk Samsung Galaxy S11
We’ve officially entered the mid-December hardware doldrums. Obviously no major hardware maker in its right mind is going to be ... -
Rocket Lab adds new $7.5 million “Mission Success” coin to its online store
Rocket Lab’s merch store has pretty much what you’d expect from a space-themed gift shop – baby onesies, t-shirts, caps ... -
Porsche and Lucasfilm co-designed a new starfighter for the Star Wars universe
Porsche typically concerns itself with terrestrial vehicle designs, but for a new project it worked with Lucasfilm designers in collaboration ... -
Amazon launches Audible Suno free app featuring short-stories in India
Amazon is having another go at expanding its reach to listeners in India. The company, which launched pay-to-use Audible in the ... -
Google makes moving data to its cloud easier
Google Cloud today announced Transfer Service, a new service for enterprises that want to move their data from on-premise systems to the ... -
Many smart home device makers still won’t say if they give your data to the ...
Ayear ago, we asked some of the most prominent smart home device makers if they have given customer data to governments. The ... -
Northrop Grumman lands customer for first OmegA rocket launch in 2021
Space industry heavyweight Northrop Grumman has signed a costumer for the launch of its first OmegA rocket, a medium/heavy lift launch vehicle ... -
Atom Finance’s free Bloomberg Terminal rival raises $12M
If you want to win on Wall Street, Yahoo Finance is insufficient but Bloomberg Terminal costs a whopping $24,000 per ... -
Audi experiments with a ride share service in Southern Germany using an EV and gasoline ...
Audi Business Innovation is testing out a ride sharing service in Southern Germany called BITS that uses both gasoline and electric vehicles in ... -
Twitter will now preserve JPEG quality for photo uploads on web
Twitter is changing the way it processes uploaded images, and the new way of doing things will be much-appreciated by ... -
Electric vehicle startup Nio lays off 141 employees at its North American headquarters
Electric vehicle startup Nio is laying off 141 people at its North American headquarters. According to a filing from Employment Development Department of ... -
North ending production of current Focals smart glasses to focus on Focals 2.0
Smart glasses maker North announced today that it will be ending production of its first-generation Focals glasses, which it brought to market ... -
Near Space Labs provides unmatched high-resolution imaging using stratospheric satellites
Imaging is one of the key markets in the emerging space tech industry, and for good reason – there’s a ... -
Snapchat Cameos edit your face into videos
Snapchat is preparing to launch a big new feature that uses your selfies to replace the faces of people in ... -
Instagram finally launches 13+ age checkups
Instagram is done playing dumb about users’ ages. After nine years, Instagram is finally embracing more responsibility to protect underage kids ... -
Flipkart leads $60M investment in logistics startup Shadowfax
Walmart’s Flipkart has backed Indian startup Shadowfax in a new $60 million financing round as the retail giant works to strengthen its logistics network ... -
Huawei sues FCC over “unconstitutional” ban on the use of federal subsidies to buy its ...
Huawei said today it is suing the Federal Communications Commission, asking to overturn a ban on carriers from using money from ... -
In a first, Amazon launches a battery-powered portable Echo speaker in India
After launching nearly a dozen Echo speaker models in India in two years, Amazon said on Wednesday it is adding a ... -
Google CEO Sundar Pichai is taking over as CEO of Alphabet
Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin just announced that Google CEO Sundar Pichai will be replacing Page as the CEO of parent ... -
Xiaomi launches app to offer credit to millennials in India
Xiaomi, the top smartphone vendor in India, today joined a growing wave of fintech startups in the nation that are offering ... -
Now even the FBI is warning about your smart TV’s security
If you just bought a smart TV on Black Friday or plan to buy one for Cyber Monday tomorrow, the ... -
Facebook launches a photo portability tool, starting in Ireland
It’s not friend portability, but Facebook has announced the launch today of a photo transfer tool to enable users of its social network ... -
Millions of SMS messages exposed in database security lapse
A massive database storing tens of millions of SMS text messages, most of which were sent by businesses to potential customers, has ... -
Foodvisor raises $4.5 million to track what you eat using AI
French startup Foodvisor has raised a $4.5 million funding round after generating 2 million app downloads. Agrinnovation is leading the round and ... -
2019 Thanksgiving e-commerce sales show 14% rise on 2018, $470M spent so far
With popular social networks seeing some downtime, most shops closed, and many people off work today for Thanksgiving, bargain hunters are ... -
Apple and Google Maps accommodate Russia’s annexation of Crimea
Global politics are difficult to navigate ordinarily, but in times of conflict companies that aim to provide an unbiased service, ... -
Indian scooter rental startup Bounce raises $150M
Big bucks are pouring to get you through the chaotic traffic on Indian roads. Bounce, a Bangalore-based startup that operates over ... -
Brexit ad blitz data firm paid by Vote Leave broke privacy laws, watchdogs find
A joint investigation by watchdogs in Canada and British Columbia has found that Cambridge Analytica-linked data firm, Aggregate IQ, broke privacy laws in ... -
Lego’s take on the Tesla ‘Cybertruck’ comes with innovative roof racks
Lego seems to have been inspired by recent events to bring its own vision fo the truck of the future ... -
India’s electric bike rental startup Yulu inks strategic partnership with Bajaj Auto, raises $8M
Yulu, a Bangalore-based electric bike sharing platform that maintains a partnership with Uber, said today it has won the backing of ... -
Here’s why the Tesla Cybertruck has its crazy look
Elon Musk revealed the Cybertruck last night, saying it looks like nothing else on the market. That’s true, but the Cybertruck shares ... -
Apple expands and updates its ‘Everyone Can Code’ program
Apple announced today an expansion of its program designed to get more students coding. The company says it has redesigned the “Everyone ... -
Google limits political ad targeting and all ‘demonstrably false claims’
Google has joined Twitter in revising its political ad rules ahead of what promises to be a brutal election season. But ... -
Karma’s new electric hinge-winged hypercar concept goes 0 to 60 mph in 1.9 seconds
Karma Automotive took the wraps off Tuesday of a new electric concept car called the SC2 that produces a heart-thumping 1,100 ... -
Scooter maker Superpedestrian raises $20 million as it gears up to launch
Superpedestrian, the startup working with a handful of scooter operators to deploy vehicles that can perform self-diagnostics, just raised a $20 ... -
Volkswagen’s new all-electric concept wagon could be coming to the U.S. by 2022
Volkswagen revealed Tuesday evening a new concept vehicle called the ID Space Vizzion, and despite the crazy Frank Zappaesque name, ... -
Google makes converting VMs to containers easier with the GA of Migrate for Anthos
At its Cloud Next event in London, Google today announced a number of product updates around its managed Anthos platform, as ... -
SocialRank sells biz to Trufan, pivots to a mobile LinkedIn
What do you do when your startup idea doesn’t prove big enough? Run it as a scrawny but profitable lifestyle ... -
Xiaomi integrates earthquake alert system into MIUI OS, unveils Xiao AI 3.0 digital assistant
Xiaomi today unveiled a new iteration of its virtual assistant Xiao Ai and shared a new feature of Android -based MIUI operating system as the publicly ... -
Cybersecurity startup CyCognito raises $23M in Series A funding
CyCognito, a cybersecurity platform that aims to give visibility into a company’s security weak spots, has raised $23 million in ... -
Bolt Bikes launches e-bike subscription platform for gig delivery workers in U.S., UK
Bolt Bikes, the Sydney, Australia-based startup founded in 2017, is taking its electric bike platform designed for gig economy delivery ... -
Microsoft announces changes to cloud contract terms following EU privacy probe
Chalk up another win for European data protection: Microsoft has announced changes to commercial cloud contracts following privacy concerns raised by European Union data ... -
Virgin Galactic begins ‘Astronaut Readiness Program’ for first paying customers
Virgin Galactic has begun its ‘Astronaut Readiness Program’ this week, which is being run out of Under Armour Global HQ ... -
Microsoft announces its xCloud streaming service and a truckload of new games are coming in ...
Microsoft has announced a vague intention to launch its xCloud game streaming service sometime in 2020, and dropped a double handful of new ... -
Apple Music introduces Replay, a playlist of your top songs of the year
Apple Music is taking on Spotify with the launch of a new feature, Apple Music Replay, that will allow subscribers ... -
Motorola throws back to the future with a foldable Razr reboot
The rebirth of the Razr has been rumored for several months now. And honestly, such a product is a bit of ... -
Google to offer checking accounts in partnership with banks starting next year
Google is the latest big tech company to make a move into banking and personal financial services: The company is gearing ... -
Apple’s Mac Pro ships in December with maximum 8TB of storage
Apple is making its Mac Pro and Apple Pro Display available in December, it announced today. The machine was announced earlier this ... -
Google Chrome to identify and label slow websites
Is it the web page that’s slow or is it your network connection? In the future, Google’s Chrome web browser ... -
Facebook finally lets you banish nav bar tabs & red dots
Are those red notification dots on your Facebook home screen driving you crazy? Sick of Facebook Marketplace wasting your screen space? Now ... -
Smartphone maker Realme is taking India and other emerging markets by storm
As Xiaomi widens its smartphone lead over Samsung in India, a new competitor is increasingly posing a challenge. Realme, a one-and-half-year-old smartphone vendor ... -
Snapchat Spectacles 3 review: Pretty, pricey
No one’s going to pay $380 for decent point-of-view video glasses and some trippy filters. But that’s kind of the point ... -
Watch MIT’s ‘mini cheetah’ robots frolic, fall, flip – and play soccer together
MIT’s Biomimetics Robotics department took a whole herd of its new ‘mini cheetah’ robots out for a group demonstration on ... -
Voi raises another $85M for its European e-scooter service
Voi Technology, the “micro-mobility” startup that operates an e-scooter service in a 38 cities across 10 European countries, has raised ... -
Google Pay comes to Curve, the banking platform that consolidates all your cards into one
Hot on the heels of adding support for Samsung Pay, Curve, the London-based “over-the-top” banking platform that lets you consolidate all of ... -
Saudi Arabia reportedly recruited Twitter employees to steal personal data of activists
Saudi Arabian officials allegedly paid at least two employees of Twitter to access personal information on users the government there was interested ... -
Salesforce announces new content management system
Salesforce has its fingers in a lot of parts of the customer experience, so why not content management? Today, the company ... -
Shopify expands into email marketing
Shopify continues to expand beyond its core e-commerce platform with a new product called Shopify Email. Shopify’s chief product officer Craig Miller and ... -
Huawei calls hackers to Munich for secret bug bounty meeting
Chinese tech giant Huawei has asked some of the world’s best phone hackers to a secret meeting in Munich later ... -
Goldman Sachs leads $50M round for credit card platform Deserve
Deserve, a credit card startup helping young people establish themselves, as well as a cloud-based credit card platform for businesses, ... -
Xiaomi launches Mi Watch, its $185 Apple Watch clone
Xiaomi, which competes with Apple for the top position in the wearable market, today made the competition a little more interesting. The ... -
UK drone register takes off
A UK drone registration scheme has opened ahead of the deadline for owners to register their devices coming into force at the ... -
Virgin Galactic becomes the first public space tourism company on Monday
Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic wil find out what the public markets think of its ambitious plan to make commercial space ... -
Real estate broker HelloOffice expands to Los Angeles after closing on $6.5 million
HelloOffice, a new real estate brokerage business out of San Francisco, has nabbed $6.5 million in new financing and is ... -
Amazon acquires Health Navigator for Amazon Care, its pilot employee healthcare program
Amazon has acquired Health Navigator, a startup that develops APIs for online health services. According to CNBC, which first reported the deal, Health ... -
Bird-owned Scoot deploys new electric mopeds
Scoot, owned by Bird, has just unveiled what it’s calling the Scoot Moped. At first glance, it appears to be Bird’s two-seater vehicle. ... -
Axon adds license plate recognition to police dash cams, but heeds ethics board’s concerns
Law enforcement tech outfitter Axon has announced that it will include automated license plate recognition in its next generation of dash cams. ... -
Jeff Bezos announces Blue Origin will form new industry team to return to the Moon
At the International Astronautical Congress in Washington, D.C. today, Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos announced a new “national team” that ... -
New Nvidia Shield Android TV streaming device leaks via Amazon listing
The fact that Nvidia is updating its Shield TV hardware has already been telegraphed via an FCC filing, but a leak ... -
Volvo creates a dedicated business for autonomous industrial and commercial transport
Volvo Group has established a new dedicated business group focused on autonomous transportation, with a mandate that covers industry segments ... -
Amazon’s Echo gets a decent-sounding refresh
Amazon seemingly didn’t realize what it had on its hands with the original Echo. Released five and a half years ... -
Zoho launches Catalyst, a new developer platform with a focus on microservices
Zoho may be one of the most underrated tech companies. The 23-year-old company, which at this point offers more than 45 ... -
Google Nest Mini hands-on
Two years after the release of the Home Mini, Google’s back with the sequel. Well, “sequel” might be a bit ... -
Here’s everything Google just announced at the Made By Google 2019 event
Google held its annual “Made By Google” hardware event this morning in New York City, where they launched all sorts of ... -
Walmart’s Flipkart confirms it is entering the food retail business in India
India’s Flipkart is entering the food retail business as the e-commerce giant looks to expand its reach in the nation, its chief ... -
Wheels raises $50 million for pedal-less e-bike share
Wheels, the startup founded by Wag founders Jonathan and Joshua Viner, just announced a $50 million round led by DBL Partners. ... -
Porsche has a new, cheaper version of the all-electric Taycan
Porsche introduced Monday the Taycan 4S, a third version of its all-electric vehicle. The 4S, which will offer a performance ... -
Samsung’s Galaxy Fold concierge service is live in the US for those who need it
Part of Samsung’s reboot of the Galaxy Fold was the announcement of a Premiere Service. Along with a reinforced version of ... -
Toyota’s LQ concept car will make friends with you via its onboard AI
Toyota is doubling down on its prediction that the key to building a compelling car of the future will be ... -
NASA Administrator ‘very confident’ SpaceX crew launch could happen in early 2020
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine was at SpaceX HQ in Hawthorne, Calif. on Thursday, delivering an address alongside NASA astronauts Bob Behnken ... -
NASCAR could debut hybrids as early as 2022
NASCAR could introduce hybrid powered cars as early as 2022, NASCAR’s SVP for Racing Development John Probst told TechCrunch. The auto-racing series — ... -
European risk report flags 5G security challenges
European Union Member States have published a joint risk assessment report into 5G technology which highlights increased security risks that will require ... -
The first spacecraft that can service satellites to extend their life launched today
Up until now, commercial satellites have essentially been disposable. Even the massive, multi-ton ones that can have service lives spanning ... -
Toyota, GM, Nvidia, Bosch and others form new autonomous driving tech consortium
We’re still very much in the collaboration phase of autonomous driving, since it’s looking still quite a ways off from ... -
Amazon introduces a Kindle for kids
While it’s true that many parents are doing their best to reduce screen time as much as possible, there’s something ... -
Berlin’s Tier Mobility scoops up $60M as its scooter-based transportation service passes 10M rides
On the heels of Bird closing a $275 million round to help put itself in pole position in the electric scooter market, ... -
Mars Curiosity Rover finds evidence of an ancient oasis on Mars
On its latest trek through the Gale Crater on Mars, the Curiosity Rover has discovered evidence that’s leading . scientists to believe ... -
Facebook is being leaned on by US, UK, Australia to ditch its end-to-end encryption expansion ...
Here we go again. Western governments are once again dialing up their attack on end-to-end encryption — calling for either ... -
NASA’s first all-electric experimental X-plane is ready for testing
NASA will fly a crewed X-plane, one of the experimental aircraft it creates to test various technologies, for the first time ... -
Harness launches Continuous Insights to measure software team performance
Jyoti Bansal, CEO and co-founder at Harness, has always been frustrated by the lack of tools to measure software development team performance. Harness ... -
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon arrive at Cape Canaveral ahead of key test ...
SpaceX’s facility at Cape Canaveral just received a crucial new delivery: A Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule that it ... -
Instagram launches Threads, a Close Friends chat app with auto-status
What if Instagram could automatically tell you’re Close Friends you’re (home), (working), (on the move), or (chilling and might want to hang out)? That’s ... -
Facetune maker Lightricks expands with a trio of apps for small businesses
Fresh of its recent raise of $135 million, Lightricks, the maker of popular selfie editor Facetune and several other top consumer-focused photo ... -
Tesla acquires computer vision startup DeepScale in push toward robotaxis
Tesla has acquired DeepScale, a Silicon Valley startup that uses low-wattage processors to power more accurate computer vision, in a bid ... -
WhatsApp is testing a self-destructing messages feature
WhatsApp users may soon get the ability to have their messages self-destruct after a set period of time. That’s according to ... -
Twitter launches its anti-abuse filter for Direct Messages
Twitter is rolling out its spam and abuse filter for Direct Messages, a month and a half after the company announced it had ... -
PayPal to enter China through GoPay acquisition
The People’s Bank of China has approved PayPal’s acquisition of a 70% equity state in GoPay (Guofubao Information Technology Co. [GoPay], Ltd.), ... -
Logitech acquires popular game streaming tool Streamlabs for around $89M
If you’re into live-streaming video games, you’ve probably heard of Streamlabs. They make a popular, free software tool for overlaying content ... -
Facebook’s plan for our post-web future
Let us connect some dots. Five years ago, Facebook acquired VR pioneers Oculus for $2 billion. This week, it snapped up neural-interface ... -
Amboss, the knowledge platform for medical professionals, scores €30M Series B
Amboss, the Berlin-based ‘medtech’ startup that originally offered a learning app for students but has since pivoted to a knowledge ... -
Tesla V10.0 car software update adds Smart Summon, Netflix/YouTube, Spotify, karaoke and more
Tesla is rolling out a new software update that adds a slew of new features to its cars. These include the new ... -
Last year’s Gatwick drone attack involved at least two drones, say police
A major drone incident at the UK’s second business airport last year continues to baffle police. Last December a series of drone ... -
YouTube Music will be preinstalled on Android 10 and new Android 9 devices
Here’s one way to play catch up in the competitive streaming music market: preinstall your app on millions of Android ... -
The Galaxy Fold is now available for purchase in the US
This is, surely, the moment some loyal fans have waited for. And understandably so. The Galaxy Fold is, by all ... -
Hands-on with Oculus Link: Rift who?
Four months after its release, the Rift S is looking pretty irrelevant. My colleague Josh and I went hands-on with ... -
Indonesia’s ride-hailing giant Gojek launches video streaming service GoPlay
On-demand video streaming giant Netflix, which is increasingly expanding its footprint in developing markets, now has a new competitor in Indonesia: Gojek. The ... -
With a new $20 million in funding, electronic stethoscope startup Eko wants to research your ...
It’s hard to compete against the Apple Watch or even an app on your phone when it comes to personal ... -
Amazon launches Amazon Care, a virtual and in-person healthcare offering for employees
Amazon has gone live with Amazon Care, a new pilot healthcare service offering that is initially available to its employees in and ... -
Inside Apple’s reimagined Fifth Ave. store
After two years of work, the wrapper comes off the giant glass cube this week, as Apple’s Fifth Avenue flagship opens to ... -
iOS 13 is now available to download
Apple has just released the final version of iOS 13. This update brings many much needed quality-of-life improvements — and there are ... -
Google is bringing Assistant to people without internet access
Google Assistant, the digital assistant from the global search giant, is available to users through their smartphones, laptops, and smart ... -
Facebook launches Portal TV, a $149 video chat set-top box
Facebook wants to take over your television with a clip-on camera for video calling, AR gaming, and content co-watching. If you ... -
Google will unveil the Pixel 4 and other new hardware on October 15
Google will reveal the next Pixel in greater detail at an event happening October 15 in New York, the company confirmed ... -
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S6 combines creative flexibility with great design
The Android tablet market isn’t exactly a hotbed of excitement and activity, which makes it all the more impressive that Samsung ... -
Google Photos adds a time-traveling version of Stories, plus more sharing and printing options
Google Photos is getting its own version of Stories. But instead of focusing on what you’re doing now, as Stories on other platforms ... -
Why does the new iPhone 11 Pro have 3 cameras?
On the back of the iPhone 11 Pro can be found three cameras. Why? Because the more light you collect, ... -
Apple TV+ will cost $5.99 in Canada, £4.99 in the UK and INR 99 in ...
At its big press event yesterday, Apple announced that its TV+ streaming service would cost $4.99 per month and a launch ... -
Web feature developers told to dial up attention on privacy and security
Web feature developers are being warned to step up attention to privacy and security as they design contributions. Writing in ... -
Google Express to close in a few weeks, will become part of Google Shopping
Google’s failed online shopping service Google Express is closing in a few weeks, as its features will be merged into ... -
Live from Apple’s iPhone 11 event
The moment is finally here, Apple fans. This morning at 10AM PT/1PM ET, the company will unveil the latest version of the iPhone. ... -
Volocopter raises $55M led by Volvo owner Geely, sets 3-year timeline for its flying taxi ...
The promise of flying cars has become an idea more synonymous with the tech world’s shortcomings than its exciting potential, but today one of ... -
Google Nest Hub Max review
There were two standout features I really appreciated off the bat about the original Nest (nee Google Home) Hub: its compact ... -
Xiaomi has shipped 100 million smartphones in India
Xiaomi said on Friday it has shipped over 100 million smartphones in India, its most important market, since beginning operations in ... -
Samsung’s Galaxy Fold arrives in Korea September 6, US in ‘coming weeks’
Five months after its planned launch, the Samsung Galaxy Fold is finally here. Well, almost. After offering a broad September time ... -
Sources say China used iPhone hacks to target Uyghur Muslims
A number of malicious websites used to hack into iPhones over a two-year period were targeting Uyghur Muslims, TechCrunch has learned. Sources ... -
Volocopter’s 2X eVTOL records a first with flight at Helsinki International Airport
The Volocopter 2X air taxi vehicle is now the first electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) craft to fly at ... -
Malicious websites were used to secretly hack into iPhones for years, says Google
Security researchers at Google say they’ve found a number of malicious websites which, when visited, could quietly hack into a ... -
NASA completes inflight testing of supersonic plane X-59’s virtual cockpit window
The X-59 supersonic research airplane developed by NASA, which aims to pioneer quiet supersonic flight for eventual use in commercial ... -
ZTE tries for a US return with an affordable flagship
ZTE’s U.S. government dealings have never been as high-profile as fellow Chinese smartphone maker Huawei, but it has had its ... -
Peloton files publicly for IPO
Peloton, the well-funded maker of internet-connected stationary bikes and treadmills, has finally revealed documents for its upcoming initial public offering. The business ... -
Experimental US Air Force space plane breaks previous record for orbital spaceflight
The Boeing-built X-37B space plane commissioned and operated by the U.S. Air Force has now broken its own record for ... -
Web host Hostinger says data breach may affect 14 million customers
Hostinger said it has reset user passwords as a “precautionary measure” after it detected unauthorized access to a database containing ... -
Inside the Porsche Taycan’s minimalist, 911-inspired interior
Porsche has taken the wraps off the interior of the all-new, all-electric Porsche Taycan ahead of its world debut September ... -
VMware acquires Carbon Black for $2.1B and Pivotal for $2.7 billion
VMware today announced that it is acquiring Carbon Black, a publicly traded security company that focuses on securing modern cloud-native workloads. The price ... -
N26 launches Shared Spaces and is now fully available in the U.S.
Challenger bank N26 is announcing two things this week. First, the company lets you share sub-accounts with other N26 users in just a few ... -
Apple reportedly launching new iPhone Pro and iPads with better cameras, 16-inch MacBook Pro and ...
Apple is getting ready for its usual fall iPhone launch event, which is rumored to be happening September 10, though ... -
Xiaomi launches Mi A3 Android One smartphone with 48MP rear camera in India for $181
Google has found a committed Android One partner in Xiaomi. The Chinese electronics giant today launched the Mi A3, its ... -
Waymo self-driving cars head to Florida for rainy season
Waymo is taking some of its autonomous vehicles to Florida just in time for hurricane season to begin testing in heavy ... -
Segway-Ninebot’s new scooter drives to its docking station for a recharge
At an event in Beijing last week, Chinese scooter company Segway-Ninebot Group unveiled a trio of new products. The most compelling of ... -
This hand-tracking algorithm could lead to sign language recognition
Millions of people communicate using sign language, but so far projects to capture its complex gestures and translate them to verbal speech ... -
Didi Chuxing and oil giant BP team up to build electric vehicle charging infrastructure in ...
Ride-sharing and transportation platform Didi Chuxing announced today that it has formed a joint venture with BP, the British gas, oil and ... -
Smartphone sales expected to drop 2.5% globally this year
Smartphone sales have continued their global decline. New numbers from Gartner forecast a drop of 2.5 percent down to 1.5 billion. The ... -
Amazon-backed food delivery startup Deliveroo acquires Edinburgh software studio Cultivate
As two of the largest players in online-food ordering and delivery in Europe work on a $10 billion merger to expand ... -
Jamf acquires Digita Security to gain native Mac security
Jamf has been widely known as an enterprise Mac deployment and management tool company, but it has been looking for ways ... -
China’s Vivo is eyeing smartphone users in Africa and Middle East
Africa’s mobile phone industry has in recent times been dominated by Transsion, a Shenzhen-based company that is little known outside the African ... -
Report claims all three new iPhones planned for 2020 will support 5G
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo — sometimes described as “the most accurate Apple analyst in the world” — has written a new ... -
Huawei’s first 5G phone goes on sale in China next month
Huawei on Friday announced the upcoming release of its first 5G handset in its home market. Following on the heels of ... -
AWS revenue growth slips a bit, but remains Amazon’s golden goose
Like Azure last week, AWS reported some slippage in its cloud earnings growth numbers today, dropping from 49% growth last year ... -
Samsung readies Galaxy Fold for September release
When it was unveiled on stage, the Galaxy Fold was heralded as the next big thing. Samsung seeded units to ... -
Facebook ignored staff warnings about “sketchy” Cambridge Analytica in September 2015
Facebook employees tried to alert the company about the activity of Cambridge Analytica as early as September 2015, per the SEC’s complaintagainst ... -
Facebook ends friend data access for Microsoft and Sony, the last 2 of its legacy ...
One more consequence of the FTC’s investigation of Facebook, which culminated in a record $5 billion settlement announced today: it’s finally ... -
Apple’s latest Tesla hire specializes in car interiors
Another high-level Tesla engineering executive has hopped over to Apple. Steve MacManus, who was vice president of engineering at Tesla, is now ... -
Facebook fails to keep Messenger Kids’ safety promise
Facebook’s messaging app for under 13s, Messenger Kids — which launched two years ago pledging a “private” chat space for kids to talk with contacts ... -
With Chandrayaan-2 launch, India’s ISRO shoots for the Moon on a shoe-string budget
India took a giant leap in its space program on Monday after its space agency launched a spacecraft that is ... -
Huawei 5G indecision is hitting UK’s relations abroad, warns committee
The UK’s next prime minister must prioritize a decision on whether or not to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei to ... -
Tesla’s new V3 Supercharger can charge up to 1,500 electric vehicles a day
Tesla has opened a massive next-generation electric vehicle charging station in Las Vegas that combines the company’s core products into one ... -
Boeing set to take $4.9 billion Q2 charge on 737 Max grounding
Boeing’s 737 Max fiasco has cast a dark shadow over the company’s reputation and is impacting the company’s financials in ... -
Altitude Angel launches an API for safer drone flights
Altitude Angel, a U.K. startup that provides safety, data and traffic management systems for drones, is launching a de-confliction service ... -
FaceApp gets federal attention as Sen. Schumer raises alarm on data use
It’s been hard to get away from FaceApp over the last few days, whether it’s your friends posting weird selfies using the ... -
Elon Musk’s Neuralink looks to begin outfitting human brains with faster input and output starting ...
Neuralink, the Elon Musk-led startup that the multi-entrepreneur founded in 2017, is working on technology that’s based around ‘threads’ which it ... -
Sutro’s smart pool monitoring device arrives next month
Sutro’s device has changed a lot since the company appeared as a contestant in our Hardware Battlefield way back in 2015. But who ... -
The Dreamlight Zen uses lights and music to help wearers relax
Every time I’m back in Asia, it seems like I’m meeting with another sleep mask company. And every time, I ... -
Amazon said to be launch new Echo speaker with premium sound next year
Amazon is reportedly looking to offer an Echo that more directly competes with high-end speakers like the Sonos line of ... -
Amazon reportedly ramps development on Alexa-powered home robot on wheels
Bloomberg reported last April that Amazon was working on a home robot codenamed ‘Vesta’ (after the Roman goddess of the ... -
Signavio raises $177M at a $400M valuation for its business process automation solutions
Robotic Process Automation has been the name of the game in enterprise software lately — with organizations using advances in ... -
N26 launches its challenger bank in the U.S.
European fintech startup N26 is now accepting customers in the U.S. The company is launching a bank account with a debit card ... -
Amazon invests $700 million to retrain a third of its U.S. workforce by 2025
Amazon announced this morning a plan to invest over $700 million to retrain workers across the U.S. to allow them to move ... -
BMW unveils the first all-electric Mini with the Cooper SE
The all-electric Mini Cooper was once just a demonstration car and a dream for EV fans, but now it’s a ... -
BMW is making it easier to charge electric vehicles near America’s national parks
BMW has finished a nearly two-year project to bring 100 electric vehicle charging stations to America’s national parks. The automaker ... -
Apple stops selling the 12-inch MacBook, a computer you either loved or were confused by
Apple officially stopped selling the 12-inch MacBook today, a computer that hasn’t had an update since June 2017 and that is ... -
The News Project’s publishing platform goes live with its first customer, CALmatters
CEO Merrill Brown says he founded The News Project to address one of the big problems in the journalism business: “It costs ... -
UK’s ICO fines British Airways a record £183M over GDPR breach that leaked data from ...
The UK’s Information Commissioner is starting off the week with a GDPR bang: this morning, it announced that it has fined British Airways and ... -
Uber rival Bolt has closed another tranche of funding at a $1B+ valuation
Uber and Lyft going public may have put closer public scrutiny on the economics of ridesharing, but it hasn’t had ... -
Google debuts ‘Code with Google’ coding education resource for teachers
Google is offering a new coding resource for educators via ‘Code with Google,’which collects Google’s own free course curriculum on teaching ... -
Waresix hauls in $14.5M to advance its push to digitize logistics in Indonesia
Waresix, one of a handful of startups aiming to modernize logistics in Indonesia — the world’s fourth most populous country ... -
Smart scooter company Gogoro launches GoShare, an end-to-end vehicle sharing platform
Founded in 2011, Gogoro now makes the best-selling electric scooters in Taiwan, where it is headquartered. The startup has always seen itself ... -
Clever Cloud launches GPU-based instances
French startup Clever Cloud is a cloud hosting company that operates a Platform as a Service (or PaaS). The company just launched ... -
Sony’s new wireless earbuds pack great noise-canceling and battery life
I’ve got a 16 hour flight coming up in about a week, so I’m hoping our review units come through ... -
BMW and Daimler partner on autonomous driving, first results of team-up in market by 2024
Global automakers BMW and Daimler will join forces in a new long-term partnership to co-develop automated driving technologies, including levels of automation ... -
Europe moves closer to making VTOL air taxis a reality
The European Union Air Safety Agency (EASA), the regulatory body that provides the rules of the skies needed for commercial ... -
Facebook News Feed changes downrank misleading health info and dangerous ‘cures’
No, drinking bleach is not a miracle cure for diseases and other conditions — but that’s the sort of bogus ... -
Only 2% of genomic material available for research comes from Africa, 54gene wants to change ...
New advances in genetic mapping and manipulation hold the promise of reshaping medical treatments in the 21st century, but thanks ... -
Analysts think global 5G smartphone shipments will overtake 4G in 2023
After years of buildup, 5G is finally here — albeit more as a trickle than a deluge. These things take time, ... -
TCL Alto 7+ Review
It’s never been easier — or more affordable — to ditch your crappy TV speakers for something better. Over the ... -
The Honor 20 is a great phone, but it lives in the shadow of its ...
The Honor 20 is a great little phone. It’s lightweight, has a decent camera, comes in a shiny color, and ... -
Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency: All you need to know
Facebook has finally revealed the details of its cryptocurrency, Libra, which will let you buy things or send money to ... -
Facebook and Instagram’s AI-generated image captions now offer far more details
Every picture posted to Facebook and Instagram gets a caption generated by an image analysis AI, and that AI just ... -
Alibaba shares jump on Jack Ma’s first appearance in 3 months
Alibaba’s billionaire founder resurfaced as he spoke to 100 rural teachers through a video call, three months after his last ... -
Flipkart doubles down on rewards program, partners with 5,000 retail outlets in India
Flipkart on Monday launched SuperCoin Pay that its customers will be able to use across thousands of retail stores across ... -
Tencent-backed Hike, once India’s answer to WhatsApp, has given up on messaging
India’s answer to WhatsApp has completely moved on from messaging. Hike Messenger, backed by Tencent, Tiger Global and SoftBank and valued at ... -
Trump Administration adds Xiaomi to military blacklist
Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi is the latest to be added to the Trump Administration’s military blacklist. On Thursday, the Department ... -
How Twitter is handling the 2021 US presidential transition
Twitter has set out its plans for US Inauguration Day 2021, next Wednesday, January 20, when president-elect Joe Biden will ... -
Sony unveils AirPeak, its camera-carrying video drone
When Sony teased the AirPeak late last year, it didn’t give us much to go one. We knew the consumer electronics giant ... -
PopSockets announces its MagSafe-compatible iPhone 12 accessories
In October, broke the news that PopSockets was developing its own line of MagSafe-compatible products that will support the new wireless charging ... -
San Francisco police are prepping for a pro-Trump rally at Twitter headquarters
San Francisco police are preparing for a pro-Trump protest at Twitter’s headquarters, a building that has been essentially abandoned since the start ... -
Holographic startup Envisics partners with Panasonic to fast-track in-car AR tech
Envisions founder and CEO Dr. Jamieson Christmas launched the startup three years ago to “revolutionize” the in-car experience with its holographic technology. Now, ...