Sea of Thieves passes 15 million players since launch
SummarySea of Thieves has been played by more than fifteen million players since launch in March 2018.June 2020 was the biggest month so far for Sea of Thieves, with over…
Everything you need to know about transfer learning in AI
Today, artificial intelligence programs can recognize faces and objects in photos and videos, transcribe audio in real-time, detect cancer in x-ray scans years in advance, and compete with humans in…
Here’s a VPN solution that will cost you less than $30 for life
TLDR: With a lifetime of VPN by VeePN protection, your online security will always be safeguarded on up to 10 devices. Hey you, work-from-home employee…you may have helped save the…
How to turn your home Wi-Fi password into a QR code
Welcome to TNW Basics, a collection of tips, guides, and advice on how to easily get the most out of your gadgets, apps, and other stuff. If your friends come over…
UAE successfully launches Mars probe aboard Japanese H-IIA rocket
The United Arab Emirates has succeeded with the initial stage of its first ever Mars mission, thanks to the launch of an H-IIA rocket built by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries from…
How Twitter’s biggest ever hack exposed serious threats to democracy
In case 2020 wasn’t dystopian enough, hackers on July 15 hijacked the Twitter accounts of former President Barack Obama, presidential hopeful Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Kim Kardashian, and…
UK first to source coronavirus vaccines from Gates-backed biotech firms
The UK government revealed its stockpile of coronavirus (COVID-19) treatments on Monday, having recently secured 90 million doses of potential vaccines. Britain’s fresh agreement with Germany’s BioNTech and the Bill…
Jack Ma’s fintech giant Ant starts IPO process in Hong Kong and Shanghai
The Jack Ma -controlled Ant Group finally sets in motion what the market has been anticipating for years. The financial services and payments behemoth said Monday that it has kickstarted…
Lyft is handing out free coronavirus safety partitions — but only to some of its drivers
Ride-hailing company Lyft is taking measures to keep its drivers safe amid the coronavirus pandemic, but it’s not supporting all of its drivers equally. According to a company announcement last…
‘OpenAI’s GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin’
Our robot colleague Satoshi Nakaboto writes about Bitcoin BTC every fucking day. Welcome to another edition of Bitcoin Today, where I, Satoshi Nakaboto, tell you what’s been going on with…
Colonizing our solar system will make our species very hard to eliminate
The human future in the cosmos could be all but limitless, if we don’t destroy ourselves first. The same would be true of intelligent aliens elsewhere in the Universe, assuming…
UK Uber drivers sue company’s EU HQ, demand algorithm transparency
Two British Uber drivers have gone to court in the Netherlands in an attempt to get the ride-sharing company to explain how it uses driver data. The two drivers want…
eBay reportedly getting close to selling its classified-ads unit to Adevinta
eBay is reportedly getting close to a deal to sell its classified-ads business to Adevinta, a Norwegian company that runs online marketplaces across Europe and Latin America. According to a…
3 biggest brand lessons from the PlayStation vs Xbox console wars
Xbox and PlayStation. The titans of gaming. They have been going head to head since 2001 when the first-generation Xbox was released and pitted against the PlayStation 2. For the…
Linkin Park gets Twitter to take down a video Trump retweeted
Credit: Wikimedia Commons Twitter has taken action on another Donald Trump tweet. This time, it wasn’t for misinformation about mail-in ballots or potentially inciting violence, but for using a copyrighted…
Startups can’t always rely on internal tech talent — here’s when to outsource
This article was originally published by Built In. The way companies get stuff done is changing, and for startups especially, the rate of change is accelerating. Call it lean, call…
China’s EV startup Xpeng pulls in $500 million Series C+
Xpeng, an electric vehicle startup run by former Alibaba executive He Xiaopeng, said Monday it has raised around $500 million in a Series C+ round to further develop models tailored…
Gedmatch investigating after user DNA data made available to police
Gedmatch, the DNA analysis site that police used to catch the so-called Golden State Killer, was pulled briefly offline on Sunday while its parent company investigated how its users’ DNA…
The Station: Summer of the SPAC, Adam Neumann returns and the Nissan Ariya debuts
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every Saturday in your inbox. Hello and welcome…
Enabling humanoid robot movement with imitation learning and mimicking of animal behaviors
Rish Joshi Contributor Rish is an entrepreneur and investor. Previously, he was a VC at Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), co-founded a fintech startup building an analytics platform for SEC…
The dual PhD problem of today’s startups
One of the upsides of this job is that you get to see everything going on out there in the startup world. One of the downsides of this job is…
Companies made millions building unemployment websites that didn’t work
In 2010, California hired the consulting firm Deloitte to overhaul the state website people use to apply for unemployment benefits. Things didn’t go well: Later that year, technical errors led…
How YouTube’s bias algorithm hurts those looking for information on health
YouTube hosts millions of videos related to health care. The Health Information National Trends Survey reports that 75% of Americans go to the internet first when looking for information about…
Original Content podcast: ‘The Old Guard’ is extremely dumb fun
Even though we did a lot of arguing about Netflix’s new action movie “The Old Guard,” we’re mostly in agreement: The movie is both reasonably entertaining and astonishingly stupid. We…
Feedbackly turns customer feedback into a plan of action for growing your business
TLDR: With Feedbackly, you’ll have an all-in-one tool to gather customer data, analyze how they feel about your business and make their experience even better. Customer Relationship Management tools, otherwise…
It’s time to build against pandemics
Rish Joshi Contributor Rish is an entrepreneur and investor. Previously, he was a VC at Gradient Ventures (Google’s AI fund), co-founded a fintech startup building an analytics platform for SEC…
Startups Weekly: The TechCrunch List reveals investors who founders love to work with
Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7am PT). Subscribe here. We’re pleased to kick off this week’s newsletter…
For Seattle’s cop-free protest zone, tech is both a revolutionary asset and disastrous liability
The police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor were sparks that reignited smoldering fury against authorities across the globe. One of the most watched locations has been Seattle, where…
How to reach the right state of mind before a mission to Mars, according to an astrophysicist
Imagine being confined to a metal cell with a couple of other people and few amenities for months or even years. Maybe after that, you’ll be moved to a new…
The Exchange: Which VCs are the most popular, why enterprise startups are hot, and how patient are public investors?
Welcome to The Exchange, an upcoming weekly newsletter featuring TechCrunch and Extra Crunch reporting on startups, money and markets. You can sign up for it here to receive it regularly when…
This Week in Apps: US tops China on downloads, EU regulates app stores, Instagram takes on TikTok
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series* that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app…
What’s different about the 2020 Census?
The U.S. Constitution mandates that every 10 years the Census Bureau count every person living in the United States. The results have huge consequences and are used to draw congressional…
Investing in the hidden generation
Ilse Calderon Contributor Ilse Calderon is an investor at OVO Fund where she specializes in pre-seed investments across capital-efficient markets. Prior to OVO, Ilse spent a year at Silicon Valley…
Weird AI illustrates why algorithms still need people
These days, it can be very hard to determine where to draw the boundaries around artificial intelligence. What it can and can’t do is often not very clear, as well…
SEO drives the web, so get your hands on the tools for understanding what SEO means
TLDR: With SEO Tester Pro, you can instantly get all the analytics you need to understand why your website is performing — or isn’t performing — in Google searches. Search…
You may not know you need a smart jump rope but the SmartRope will make you see
TLDR: The SmartRope is what happens when even your jump rope connects to the web — and it’s all about your health…with some random coolness as well. When your grandmother…
Will we ever find Planet 9? The mystery that could lie at the edge of our solar system
What’s that you say? Planet 9’s caught in a gravitational well? In 2014, Chad Trujillo and Scott Shepherd published a paper noting an unusual feature seen in the orbits of…
This Week on Xbox: July 17, 2020
We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help…
‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ and the limits of today’s game economies
Kaiser Hwang Contributor Share on Twitter Kaiser Hwang is a longtime member of the games community and a vice president at Forte, an organization building an open economic platform for…
Microsoft Store Fortnite Tournament in Support of NPH USA
The Microsoft Store team is proud to partner with NPH USA to host a Fortnite Game Tournament! The tournament is open for free for any United States resident, but a…