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Robotics VCs On What’S Real, What’S Coming, And What To Keep In Mind
Last week, at TechCrunch’s robotics event at UC Berkeley, we sat down with four VCs who are making a range of bets on robotics companies, from drone technologies to robots whose immediate applications aren’t yet clear. Featuring Peter ...
Network With CrunchMatch At TC Sessions: Mobility 2019
If you’re planning to attend TC Sessions: Mobility 2019 on July 10, then get ready to network like never before. And by that, we mean easily. TC’s day-long event — dedicated to the future of mobility and transportation — features ...
Airbnb Wants To Get Into Streaming Media… Because Why Not?
Airbnb is looking to book a place in the streaming media business. The company best known for its controversial marketplace of on-demand accommodations is now plotting a foray into becoming a production studio, according to a report in Reuters . ...
A Journalist’S Killing In Northern Ireland Comes As Tensions Threaten To Boil Over
Calls for peace in Northern Ireland have begun anew after a journalist was killed during rioting in Derry on April 18 amid a recent rise of violence in the region. Lyra McKee, 29, was shot dead in Derry, Northern Ireland (also called Londonderry) ...
London’S Absurdly Broad ‘Junk Food’ Ad Ban Puts Its Own Culture On A Starvation Diet
In a fit of nanny-state pique last year, London announced it would be banning "junk food" advertising on public transportation, allegedly part of an effort to "fight obesity" by laying the blame on people selling food rather than those eating too ...
The Contradiction At The Heart Of Bernie Sanders’ Medicare For All Plan
There is a huge contradiction at the heart of Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All plan. On the one hand, Sanders not only wants to expand government-provided coverage to everyone in the country, he wants that coverage to be significantly more generous ...
NASA, FEMA And International Partners Are Planning An Asteroid Impact Exercise
When it comes to planning for a potential asteroid strike on planet Earth, The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Federal Emergency Management Agency don’t want to miss a thing . Alongside international partners like the ...
41% Of Voice Assistant Users Have Concerns About Trust And Privacy, Report Finds
Forty-one percent of voice assistant users are concerned about trust, privacy and passive listening, according to a new report from Microsoft focused on consumer adoption of voice and digital assistants. And perhaps people should be concerned ...
LEGO Braille Bricks Are The Best, Nicest, And In Retrospect Most Obvious Idea Ever
Braille is a crucial skill for children with visual impairments to learn, and with these LEGO Braille Bricks kids can learn through hands-on play rather than more rigid methods like Braille readers and printouts. Given the naturally Braille-like ...
Mary Meeker Raises $1.25b For Bond, Her Debut Growth Fund
As the Kleiner Perkins empire crumbles , Mary Meeker builds her own. The author of the Internet Trends Report has $1.25 billion in capital commitments for her debut growth fund, Bond Capital, as first reported by Axios and confirmed to ...
Pinterest Employee #1 Launches Blockchain Art Market MakersPlace
Pinterest is a great place to find digital art but a terrible place to sell it. The fact that anything online is infinitely copyable makes it tough for artists to establish a sense of scarcity necessary for their work to be perceived as valuable. ...
President Trump Says He Would Fight Impeachment In The Supreme Court. That’S Not How It Works
Constitutional experts say that President Donald Trump got a fundamental fact about impeachment wrong in his latest complaint about Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Under the Constitution, the House of Representatives can vote ...
President Trump Says Administration Will Fight ‘All The Subpoenas’ From House Democrats
(WASHINGTON) — President Donald Trump says his White House will be “fighting all the subpoenas” issued by House Democrats in their investigations into his administration. Trump is criticizing those investigations and telling ...
Rep. Steve King Says Criticism He’S Received Gives Him ‘Better Insight’ Into Jesus’ Persecution
(CHEROKEE, Iowa) — Iowa Republican Steve King says the criticism he has faced from fellow members of Congress over his offensive remarks gives him “better insight” into what Jesus Christ experienced when he was persecuted for his ...
N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy Wants To Raise Gun Permit Fees By 2,000 Percent
New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, is renewing his push to strengthen the already-strict guns laws in the state by raising the fees required to buy a firearm by 2,000 percent or more. New Jersey residents already have to jump through a lot of ...
California Politicians Hiked Gas Tax, Now Demand Investigation Into State’S $4 Per Gallon Gas Prices
As lieutenant governor, Gavin Newsom supported a 2017 bill increasing the state's gas taxes. When running for governor in 2018, he opposed a ballot initiative that would have repealed that same increase. It's 2019, and Newson, now the state's ...
Beyond The First Amendment: Anti-Libel Injunctions In States That Have Repealed Criminal Libel Laws
[I'm continuing to serialize my forthcoming Penn Law Review article on Anti-Libel Injunctions .] So far, I have argued that the First Amendment does not preclude properly crafted anti-libel injunctions, in part because they are similar to ...
It’S Now Easier To Find Work-From-Home Jobs In Google Search
Over the course of the last year or so, Google started adding more job search features to its search engine. Today, it’s expanding this program by also making it easier to find work-from-home jobs. Typically, when you searched for a job ...
Bumble’S ‘Private Detector’ Uses AI To Detect Dick Pics
Dating apps are finally leveraging AI to clean up users’ chat messages. Badoo has introduced a new feature coming to its network of dating apps, including most notably, Bumble. The penile detecting “Private Detector” feature will ...
Microsoft Is Considering Dropping Its Windows Password Expiration Policy
Microsoft has proposed scrapping a policy in Windows that requires users to periodically change their login password. In a blog post , the software giant said its new draft security configuration baseline settings would no longer force users whose ...
