Extra Crunch members get 20% off an annual Canva Pro plan
Extra Crunch is excited to announce an update to our Partner Perk from design and publishing platform Canva. Starting today, annual and two-year members of Extra Crunch can receive 20%…
Samsung Galaxy Tab S7+ hands-on
During an Unpacked event that featured the announcement of five key new devices, the Galaxy Tab S7 didn’t get a ton of love. Understandable, perhaps. It doesn’t quite have the…
Human Capital: Uber and Lyft’s ongoing battle with the law and a brief history of diversity at Snap
Welcome back to Human Capital (formerly known as Tech at Work), which looks at all things labor in tech. This week presented Uber and Lyft with a fresh labor lawsuit…
Next Week on Xbox: August 10 – 14
Welcome to Next Week on Xbox, where we cover all the new games coming soon to Xbox One and Windows 10 PC! Every week the team at Xbox aims to…
Beautiful Finnish speakers with an impressive soundstage
If you live stateside and hadn’t heard of Amphion Loudspeakers, I wouldn’t blame you. The small Finnish audio company has been around for over two decades, offering a neatly curated…
R&D Roundup: Supercomputer COVID-19 insights, ionic spiderwebs, the whiteness of AI
I see far more research articles than I could possibly write up. This column collects the most interesting of those papers and advances, along with notes on why they may…
Playtest Hotshot Racing on Xbox One Aug 7 – Aug 10!
Curve Digital invites you to jump into another Hotshot Racing playtest this weekend from Friday, August 7 @ 1 PM PT (8 PM GMT) to Monday, August 10 @ 10…
I just can’t get over how good Fender’s Acoustasonic Stratocaster sounds
My “wow” moment came when I picked up the Acoustasonic Stratocaster for the third time and finally plugged it into an amp. The first couple of times I noodled around with…
Federal judge approves ending consent decrees that prevented movie studios from owning theaters
A federal judge has approved the Department of Justice’s efforts to end the Paramount Consent Decrees — 70-year-old court orders that prevented movie studios from engaging in a variety of…
Watch JablinskiGames Play Psychonauts 2
Summary Related:Let Psychonauts 2 and Jack Black Rock Your Senses on Xbox Game Pass and Xbox Series XIntroducing the Largest, Most Creatively Diverse Games Lineup in Console History, Led by…
How to pick the right Series A investors
Early-stage startup founders who are embarking on a Series A fundraising round should consider this: their relationship with the members of their board might last longer than the average American…
IoT and data science will boost foodtech in the post-pandemic era
Sunny Dhillon Contributor Share on Twitter Sunny Dhillon is an early-stage investor at Signia Ventures in San Francisco where he invests in retail tech, e-commerce infrastructure and logistics, alongside consumer…
How to access ‘America’s Seed Fund,’ the $3 billion SBIR program
One of the best kept secrets in the world of capital is that the federal government has billions of dollars it’s dying to give away to early stage founders and…
Survey: Tell us what you think of Extra Crunch
Since launching our membership product Extra Crunch 1.5 years ago, we’ve added a number of new features at the request of our community. This includes improvements to login stability, introducing…
Algorithm that determines school exam results risks ‘baking in inequality’
An algorithm used to calculate exam results in England risks unfairly punishing poorer pupils, politicians have warned. The system was introduced when school exams were cancelled due to the COVID-19…
mmhmm, the virtual presentation software from Phil Libin, launches its Beta 2
mmhmm, the latest project from Evernote founder Phil Libin and All Turtles, has today announced the launch of the mmhmm Beta 2. The 100,000-strong waitlist of people who have requested…
Conversational analytics are about to change customer experiences forever
Evan Kohn Contributor Share on Twitter A digital marketing and customer experience leader, Evan Kohn is chief business officer at Pypestream, where he created PypePro, an AI onboarding methodology used…
Sign up for the next Pitchers & Pitches competition on 8/13
Here’s a shout out to all the early-stage founders attending Disrupt 2020. Don’t forget to register for our next Pitchers & Pitches — on August 13 — and get ready to…
Extra Crunch Live: Join Eric Hippeau for a live Q&A on August 13 at 11am PT/2pm ET
The media landscape is changing rapidly. Even before COVID, media companies were looking at new revenue models beyond your standard banner ad, all the while trying to navigate the oft-changing…
Clean.io raises $5M to continue its battle against malicious adtech
Clean.io, a startup that helps digital publishers protect themselves from malicious ads, recently announced that it has raised $5 million in Series A funding. The Baltimore-based company isn’t the only…
Sign up to attend The Dos and Don’ts of Working with the Press
If you’re exhibiting in Digital Startup Alley during Disrupt 2020 — or you plan to — do not miss this opportunity to sharpen your media skills. The first of our…
Hood: Outlaws and Legends Reveal, Coming to Xbox Series X and Xbox One in 2021
It’s always an exciting moment when you finally get to reveal the game you’ve been working on behind closed doors for so long. Hood: Outlaws and Legends is a multiplayer…
Civic tech platform Mobilize launches a census hub for the 2020 count’s critical final stretch
With the already narrow window of remaining time to complete a census count abruptly cut short by the Trump administration, getting every person living in the U.S. to fill out…
Wendell Brooks has resigned as president of Intel Capital
When Wendell Brooks was promoted to president of Intel Capital, the investment arm of the chip giant in 2014, he knew he had big shoes to fill. He was taking…
Hear how working from home is changing startups and investing at Disrupt 2020
Let’s just say it has been a year. While a few ambitious startups like InVision and GitLab built their corporate cultures and talent hiring with a remote-first mentality, the reality…
Last chance to save on Disrupt 2020 passes
It’s last call startup fans, last call. We’re not talking about International Beer Day (which is a thing and it’s today — look it up). No, we mean August 7…
The Story of Fast and Furious Crossroads, Available Today on Xbox One
Fast & Furious Crossroads is a brand-new extension of the Fast & Furious saga that begins its story right after the events of the “Fate of the Furious” and also…
Hypotenuse AI wants to take the strain out of copywriting for ecommerce
Imagine buying a dress online because a piece of code sold you on its ‘flattering, feminine flair’ — or convinced you ‘romantic floral details’ would outline your figure with ‘timeless…
LivingPackets hopes to nurture a circular economy with its smart parcels
More than ever before, people are getting life’s essentials delivered — good news for Amazon, but bad news for the environment, which must bear the consequences of the resulting waste.…
Here are a few ways GPT-3 can go wrong
Liz O'Sullivan Contributor Share on Twitter Liz O’Sullivan is a co-founder and VP of Commercial at Arthur, an AI monitoring and explainability company. She is also Technology Director of STOP,…
It’s a Rare 35 Year Anniversary Event! Exclusive Soundtracks, Battletoads Competition and More to Celebrate
SummaryCelebrate 35 years of Rare with new soundtracks – 35th Anniversary Collection and music from the new Battletoads!Go behind the scenes with Dlala Studios and meet the developers of the…
A look inside Gmail’s product development process
Google has long been known as the leader in email, but it hasn’t always been that way. In 1997, AOL was the world’s largest email provider with around ten million…
As the world stays home, edtech’s Q2 venture totals rose sharply
My friend and colleague Natasha Mascarenhas has been reporting on the edtech beat quite a lot in 2020. So far reading her coverage, I’ve discovered that not only is edtech…
Gates commits $150M to make $3 COVID-19 vaccines for vulnerable nations
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has committed $150 million towards manufacturing 100 million doses of potential COVID-19 vaccines specifically for low- and middle-income countries. Gates‘ millions ensure the Serum Institute…
The perfect all-electric Ford Mustang is actually a souped-up Tesla
When American carmaker Ford announced that it was breathing new life into the Mustang name and resurrecting it in the form of an electric vehicle people were a bit miffed.…
The rules of VC are being broken
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. As ever I was joined by TechCrunch managing editor Danny…
Streamline your social media presence with HelloWoofy’s AI-powered platform
TLDR: HelloWoofy uses artificial intelligence to take control of your social media posting, creating great content, expanding your interaction…while costing you a lot less time. Almost three out of four…
This startup is fighting air pollution with AI
This year’s Startup Games event, from Germany’s Digital Hub Initiative and hosted by TNW, welcomed ten of Germany’s most innovative startups from the network of Digital Hubs to the virtual…
Your digital marketing plan can make or break your business. Find out what you need to know
TLDR: The Complete Digital Marketing Growth Hacking Certification Bundle offers insight into dozens of strategies for finding and converting customers online. From search engine optimization (SEO) to content marketing, from…
Algorithm reveals some of us have DNA from a mystery ancestor
Interbreeding gets a bad rap these days, but early humans loved a bit of interspecies action. Genes from fossils show our ancestors had entanglements with both Neanderthals and an ancient group…