Apeel gets more cash to fight poverty and food insecurity in emerging markets with its food-preserving tech
In the first real test of the potentially transformative power of its food-preserving technology, Santa Barbara, California-based Apeel Sciences is bringing its innovative food treatment and supply chain management services to distribution centers in select markets in Asia, Africa and Latin America
Former Facebook and Pinterest exec Tim Kendall traces ‘extractive business models’ to VCs
Last month, former Facebook and Pinterest executive Tim Kendall told Congress during a House hearing on the dangers of social media that Facebook made its products so addictive because its ad-driven business model relies on people paying attention to its product longer every day. He said much the s
Gillmor Gang: Unsuppressed
Not just the future of civilization is up for grabs this November. In this age of mobile social computing, we're figuring out how to vote, entertain, teach, learn, and commit to meaningful change. Thanks to the pandemic emergency, our plans for transforming our country and planet are subject t
Microsoft Office gets mouse and trackpad support for the iPad
As promised, Microsoft announced that it has added full trackpad and mouse support for the iPadOS version of Microsoft 360. That includes Word, Excel and PowerPoint, marking another important step in Apple's longstanding push to blur the line between tablet and desktop, making iPads more well-r
Daily Crunch: Facebook launches cloud gaming service
Facebook gets into cloud gaming while continuing its public dispute with Apple, Ant Group prepares for a massive IPO and Pinterest embraces iOS widgets. This is your Daily Crunch for October 26, 2020.
The big story: Facebook launches cloud gaming service
Facebook is launching a clou
Fragomen, a law firm used by Google, confirms data breach
Immigration law firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy has confirmed a data breach involving the personal information of current and former Google employees.
The New York-based law firm provides companies with employment verification screening services to determine if employees are eligible an
Teaching robots through positive reinforcement
There likely isn't a robotics teacher institute in the world actively pursuing robotic learning. The field, after all, holds the key to unlocking a lot of potential for the industry. One of the things that makes it so remarkable is the myriad different approaches so many researchers are taking
Dallas’ ShearShare has a marketplace connecting stylists with available seats at salons and $2.3 million in funding
Courtney Caldwell and her husband Tye have been building the Dallas-based startup ShearShare, which provides a marketplace service connecting stylists with open seats at hair salons, since 2017.
Since their launch the two co-founders have been committed to the humble hustle of starting their own bu
Twitter starts showing all US users election misinformation warnings
Starting today, Twitter users in the U.S. will see two large notices at the top of their feeds that aim to “preemptively debunk” misinformation related to voting. The striking messages are designed to push back against the deluge of false claims about the 2020 election.
One notice warns
Max Q: NASA makes key discovery for future of deep space exploration
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This past week, we unveiled the agenda for TC Sessions: Space for the first time. It’s our inaugural event focused on space startups and related technologies, and it’
Good and bad board members (and what to do about them)
Ryan Caldbeck, co-founder and former CEO of consumer-brands-focused investment platform CircleUp, recently published an email he’d written to a former director on the board of the company.
According to Caldbeck, he wrote the letter after CircleUp had bought out the investor’s firm becau
Freshworks (re-)launches its CRM service
Freshworks, the customer and employee engagement company that offers a range of products, from call center and customer support software to HR tools and marketing automation services, today announced the launch of its newest product: Freshworks CRM. The new service, which the company but on top of
DataFleets keeps private data useful and useful data private with federated learning and $4.5M seed
As you may already know, there’s a lot of data out there, and some of it could actually be pretty useful. But privacy and security considerations often put strict limitations on how it can be used or analyzed. DataFleets promises a new approach by which databases can be safely accessed and an
Decrypted: How Twitter was hacked, GitHub DMCA backfires
One week to the U.S. presidential election and things are getting spicy.
It’s not just the rhetoric — hackers are actively working to disrupt the election, officials have said, and last week they came with a concrete example and an unusually quick pointing of blame.
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