Why you can’t overlook the small details in the pursuit of innovation

Why you can’t overlook the small details in the pursuit of innovation

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This week, we read a very short story, The Great Silence, as we start to head toward the end of Ted Chiang’s Exhalation collection. This story...

FDA allows new diagnostic technologies to test for coronavirus before receiving emergency approvals

FDA allows new diagnostic technologies to test for coronavirus before receiving emergency approvals

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said today that it would allow new diagnostics technologies to be used to test for the novel coronavirus,...

Coronavirus grifts crop up online for political gain and profit

Coronavirus grifts crop up online for political gain and profit

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These days capitalism and democracy seem to mean that it’s never too early to take advantage of the misery of others, and the outbreak of the...

Startups Weekly: Why some fintech companies aren’t blinking at customer acquisition costs

Startups Weekly: Why some fintech companies aren’t blinking at customer acquisition costs

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[Editor’s note: Welcome to our weekly review of news that startups can use from across TechCrunch and Extra Crunch. If you want this post by...

Multiverse virtual worlds will be healthier for society than our current social networks

Multiverse virtual worlds will be healthier for society than our current social networks

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The basis of the classic James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies” is an evil media mogul who instigates war between the U.K. and China because...

This Week in Apps: Coronavirus impacts app stores, Facebook sues mobile SDK maker, Apple kicks out a cloud gaming app

This Week in Apps: Coronavirus impacts app stores, Facebook sues mobile SDK maker, Apple kicks out a cloud gaming app

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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the...

GDC 2020 has been canceled

GDC 2020 has been canceled

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Well, after what I’m sure was a hectic few days for the folks planning the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the team announced...

Lyft ramps up self-driving program

Lyft ramps up self-driving program

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A year ago, Lyft submitted a report to the California Department of Motor Vehicles that summed up its 2018 autonomous vehicle testing activity...

FCC proposes $200M in fines for wireless carriers that sold your location for years

FCC proposes $200M in fines for wireless carriers that sold your location for years

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The FCC has officially and finally determined that the major wireless carriers in the U.S. broke the law by secretly selling subscribers’ location...

Apple has blocked Clearview AI’s iPhone app for violating its rules

Apple has blocked Clearview AI’s iPhone app for violating its rules

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An iPhone app built by controversial facial recognition startup Clearview AI has been blocked by Apple, effectively banning the app from use. Apple...

Facebook Messenger ditches Discover, demotes chat bots

Facebook Messenger ditches Discover, demotes chat bots

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Chat bots were central to Facebook Messenger’s strategy three years ago. Now they’re being hidden from view in the app along with games and...

Facebook brings its 3D photos feature to users with single-camera phones

Facebook brings its 3D photos feature to users with single-camera phones

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Facebook first showed off its 3D photos back in 2018, and shared the technical details behind it a month later. But unless you had one of a...

Maybe ya’ll should have gone public in Q4

Maybe ya’ll should have gone public in Q4

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That’s it, that’s the whole post. How many unicorns will exit before the market turns? ockquote> ...

Daily Crunch: Facebook cancels F8 over coronavirus concerns

Daily Crunch: Facebook cancels F8 over coronavirus concerns

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Coronavirus fears prompt even more event cancellations, controversial facial recognition software is being used widely and DocuSign acquires...

Amazon is the latest to ditch GDC this year

Amazon is the latest to ditch GDC this year

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GDC’s top sponsors continue to pull out of attending the San Francisco gaming conference. Today, Amazon announced it would no longer be sending...

Microsoft’s Cortana drops consumer skills as it refocuses on business users

Microsoft’s Cortana drops consumer skills as it refocuses on business users

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With the next version of Windows 10, coming this spring, Microsoft’s Cortana digital assistant will lose a number of consumer skills around...

Wondering about getting a job at SpaceX? Elon Musk says innovation is the main criterion

Wondering about getting a job at SpaceX? Elon Musk says innovation is the main criterion

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In a wide ranging discussion at the Air Warfare Symposium held by the U.S. Air Force, Elon Musk touched on some old and new themes, but one...

End Game, the startup behind Zombs Royale, raises $3M

End Game, the startup behind Zombs Royale, raises $3M

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End Game Interactive CEO Yang C. Liu has a refreshingly straightforward description of what he and his co-founder Luke Zbihlyj are up to: “We’re...

Google, Toyota invest in WhereIsMyTransport to map transport in emerging cities

Google, Toyota invest in WhereIsMyTransport to map transport in emerging cities

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In emerging markets, up to 80% of the population may have to rely on informally-run public transport to get around. Literally, privately-run...

Public markets fall yet again as venture deal counts appear to slip

Public markets fall yet again as venture deal counts appear to slip

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Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. All around, this has...

Teen hit Yolo raises $8M to let you Snapchat anonymously

Teen hit Yolo raises $8M to let you Snapchat anonymously

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It wasn’t a fad. Yolo became the country’s No. 1 app just a week after launch by letting teens ask for anonymous replies to questions they...