all News of 08/21/19

Should Your New VC Fund Use Revenue-Based Investing?

David Teten Contributor Share on Twitter David Teten is a Venture Partner with HOF Capital . He was previously a Partner for 8 years with HOF Capital and ff Venture Capital . David writes ...

Why Are Revenue-Based VCs Investing In So Many Women And Underrepresented Founders?

Why are revenue-based VCs investing in so many women and underrepresented founders? image David Teten Contributor Share on Twitter David Teten is a Venture Partner with HOF Capital . He was previously a Partner for 8 years with HOF Capital and ff Venture Capital . David writes ...

Here Are The 82 Startups From Day 2 Of Y Combinator’S s19 Demo Days

Here are the 82 startups from day 2 of Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Days image Team TechCrunch was back for Day 2 of Y Combinator’s Summer 2019 Demo Days where we heard from another massive chunk of startups that are taking disruption very seriously, even if they’re aiming to upend companies that only launched in ...

The American AI Initiative: A Good First Step, Of Many

Mark Minevich Contributor Share on Twitter Mark Minevich is a digital fellow at IPsoft. The path to general AI — and possibly superintelligence — is being paved before our eyes. And with ...

DoorDash Acquires Autonomous Driving Startup Scotty Labs

DoorDash has been on an acquisition tear of late with  Scotty Labs as its latest target. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but this comes after DoorDash acquired Caviar in a deal worth $410 million . Scotty Labs, a tele-operations ...

Walmart Sues Tesla For Negligence After Multiple Solar Panel Fires

Walmart is suing Tesla for breach of contract and gross negligence after rooftop solar panel systems on seven of the retailer’s stores allegedly caught fire, according to a filing. Walmart said the lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in New ...

YC-Backed Stoic Is A Journaling App With A Focus On Understanding Your Feelings

YC-backed Stoic is a journaling app with a focus on understanding your feelings image The process of using the Stoic journaling app is simple: You open the app in the morning and the evening, when you’ll prompted to answer a couple questions and perform a few simple exercises. For example, this evening the app asked me to ...

timbuk2’S Parker Is A Commuter Backpack Made For The Long Haul

Timbuk2’s Parker is a commuter backpack made for the long haul image It’s finally  Bag Week  again! The most wonderful week of the year at TechCrunch. Just in time for back to school, we’re bringing you reviews of bags of all varieties: from backpacks to rollers to messengers to fanny packs. Honestly, I’d ...

Beto O'Rourke Proposes Plan To Punish Tech Companies For Failing To Censor Hate Speech

Democratic presidential hopeful and former congressman Beto O'Rourke announced on Friday that he would like to remove legal protections from tech companies if they fail to police hate speech online. As with previous attempts to interfere with ...

Do These 21 Mass Shootings That Did Not Happen Show The Benefits Of California's 'Red Flag' Law?

A new study of California's "red flag" law describes 21 cases in which fear of a mass shooting prompted police or relatives to seek "gun violence restraining orders" (GVROs) from 2016 (when the law took effect) through 2018. Judging from "print, ...

Researchers Look Into Keeping Autonomous Vehicles From Becoming Mobile Vomitoriums

If you’re like me, and I’m just going to assume most of you are, motion sickness is a serious consideration on any car trip where you’re not driving. So what are we supposed to do in self-driving vehicles? Researchers are finally ...

MoviePass Exposed Thousands Of Unencrypted Customer Card Numbers

Movie ticket subscription service MoviePass has exposed tens of thousands of customer card numbers and personal credit cards because a critical server was not protected with a password. Mossab Hussein, a security researcher at Dubai-based ...

Trump’S Muddled Message On Hong Kong Captures The Real Problem With His Foreign Policy

Trump’s Muddled Message on Hong Kong Captures the Real Problem With His Foreign Policy image On his way to an Aug. 1 campaign event in Ohio, President Donald Trump was asked about America’s position on the months-long pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. “That’s between Hong Kong and that’s between China, because Hong ...

President Trump: Any Jewish Person Voting Democratic Shows ‘Lack Of Knowledge Or Great Disloyalty’

President Trump: Any Jewish Person Voting Democratic Shows ‘Lack of Knowledge or Great Disloyalty’ image WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump says any Jewish people who vote Democratic show “either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.” Trump commented Tuesday amid his ongoing feud with Democratic congresswomen Ilhan Omar of ...

Waxed Canvas Bags From Waterfield, Manhattan Portage, Saddleback And More

Waxed canvas bags from Waterfield, Manhattan Portage, Saddleback and more image It’s finally Bag Week again! the most wonderful week of the year at TechCrunch. Just in time for back to school, we’re bringing you reviews of bags of all varieties: from backpacks to rollers to messengers to fanny packs. This year, like ...

4 Businessmen Used Cash And Casino Chips As Bribes To Secure Mississippi Prison Contracts

Four contractors will plead guilty to participating in a prison bribing scheme that took down a former Mississippi Department of Corrections (MDOC) commissioner. In 2014, former MDOC Commissioner Christopher B. Epps was indicted by a federal grand ...

My Review Of An Important New Book On The Supreme Court's Impact On American Federalism

My Review of an Important New Book on the Supreme Court's Impact on American Federalism image Publius: The Journal of Federalism recently published my review of political scientist Michael Dichio's important new book The US Supreme Court and the Centralization of Federal Authority . Although I have some disagreements (detailed in my ...

Trump Reiterates That Russia Should Be Allowed To Rejoin The G-7

Trump Reiterates That Russia Should Be Allowed to Rejoin the G-7 image (WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump says it would be appropriate for Russia to be readmitted to a group of the world’s major industrial nations. Trump says Russia is often discussed when he and the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, ...

Bernie Sanders Calls For Legalizing Marijuana And Curtailing Asset Forfeiture In Sprawling Criminal Justice Plan

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (D–Vt.) released a plan over the weekend to transform the U.S. criminal justice system, calling for federal marijuana legalization, a ban on private prisons, an end to cash bail, and curtailing ...

NASA Confirms Mission To Jupiter’S Moon Europa To Explore Its Icy Oceans

NASA has confirmed a mission to Europa , one of the Moons of Jupiter, will indeed happen. The mission was initially explored starting in 2017 , with the space agency looking for reports on how it might proceed, and now NASA has said it will go ...