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US Justice Department investigating Equifax execs who dumped shares before announcing breach
The U.S. Justice Department is said to be investigating the questionable sale of stock by Equifax executives in advance of the company’s public announcement of its massive data breach. The…
What happens when a mad scientist’s musicbots rebel against their own precision? You get “Automatica”, the latest video from Nigel Stanford, who scored 13 million views controlling water, fire, and…
PSA: no matter what, Equifax may tell you you’ve been impacted by the hack
Those hoping to find out if their Social Security number and other identifying info was stolen, along with a potential 143 million other American’s data won’t find answers from Equifax.…
Hackers claim to have personal info of millions of Instagram accounts, including celebs
A group of hackers used a bug earlier this week to scrape the phone numbers and email addresses of six million Instagram accounts and are now selling that information on…
The White House has removed an important report on sexual violence from its website
Since Trump took office, how many times have you asked yourself “What fresh hell is this?” Today is one of those days I feel I’m asking every five minutes. Our…
Pepper the robot can perform funerary rites, but it shouldn’t
It’s not really clear just what “humanoid” robots are actually for. I’ve seen them do all kinds of things, but almost none of them well; at our recent Robotics event…
For its latest trick, watch this Tesla Model X smoke a Lamborghini supercar
The “Ludicrous” Teslas are ludicrous indeed. And this video posted to YouTube by DragTimes is just the latest in a series of evidentiary exhibits that proves it. In the video,…
Someone claiming to be a VC admits he doesn’t hire women out of fear he’ll get sued
On KQED’s Forum show today host Queena Sook Kim discussed venture capital’s sexist culture. But during the call, someone claiming to be a VC emailed the show to say he would…
No, Peter Thiel is not harvesting the blood of the young
Correction below Stories of countesses bathing in virgin blood, or vampiric nobles sucking the juice out of the young, have captured our attention for centuries. But when stories started coming out…
Uber board member gets sexist at a sexism apology all-hands
At least one Uber board member didn’t seem to get the memo about sex discrimination and the changes Uber is trying to make from within. In an audio taping of…
Uber has fired more than 20 people over harassment probe
Uber has fired more than 20 people involved in a harassment probe, TechCrunch has confirmed. The ride share company began investigating at least 215 employees after the company was hit…
Venture investors blast US decision to withdraw from Paris Climate Accord
Joining an overwhelming chorus that includes most Americans, several major businesses in the U.S. and much of the global community, several investors have come out swinging against President Trump’s decision…
John Oliver reminds us that Net Neutrality is still under siege
John Oliver has again fired off his quick wit at the new FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and the Trump administration for trying to roll back Obama-era Net Neutrality rules. This…
Uber employees thought it’d be a good idea to paint a ‘#Undelete’ mural
Well, this is something else. A bunch of mostly male Uber employees decided to get together to spray taint (paint) a wall in San Francisco, basically begging people to reinstall…
Vote now to eliminate your favorite government agency!
For every bad idea, there’s a crowdsourcing campaign with a soapbox and a big-ass megaphone, ready to make it even worse. Interested? In case you missed it, it’s not too…
Unreal’s ‘photorealistic character sample’ is like a Rob Lowe from the uncanny valley
Making the character models you see in games is a very involved process, and as a few recent titles have shown, the faces especially are hard as hell to do…
We’ve all been there: You turn up to the gate and there are more passengers than there are seats on the plane. You wouldn’t be the first person to think,…
Pros and cons of “Oath: A Verizon Company”
Corporate identities! We love ’em. But boy is it hard to come up with good ones. Sounds like we decided to go with “Oath: A Verizon Company.” We already have…
And a bar called SPiN, where photos of them playing ping-pong have the tech media in a great mood this Friday morning. The reason? At the same time as Houston’s…
Transcend VR sues investor Mike Rothenberg for fraud and breach of contract
Mike Rothenberg has been in a heap of trouble over a series of purportedly fraudulent transactions within his investment firm Rothenberg Ventures and his virtual reality startup River Studios. Now…
The White House’s LGBT rights page has disappeared
And so the transition of power begins. First up is the WhiteHouse.gov site where several pages are now changing or altogether disappearing — including a page on lesbian, gay, bisexual…
This bed with built-in subwoofer, TV, lamp and power outlets may be your last purchase, ever
Furlenco’s new “Pod” might just be the most outrageous product hitting the market this holiday season. The Bangalore, India based furniture rental startup has always had a penchant for targeting the…
Amazon Echo may be listening in on your conversations in your Vegas hotel room
The Wynn Las Vegas hotel is adding an Amazon Echo to every one of its 4,748 rooms. A first for a hotel to do and a great way to market…
Secret, the anonymous sharing app developed by David Byttow and Chrys Bader-Wechseler, looks to be on its way to resurrection. The app was part of a wave of anonymous apps…
For a brief, glorious moment, you could do weird things to Donald Trump’s website
The internet found a new way to amuse itself in the final hours of the presidential election cycle. Basically, there was a glitch on the press release page of Donald Trump’s…
Need some good news today? A mutant snail just found love via Twitter
This day will be a stressful one for many Americans, so naturally we turn to the internet: to paraphrase Homer, the cause of and solution to all of life’s problems.…
Finally, at long last, someone hacked Amazon’s Alexa into one of those singing fish
Do you, like many others, wake up each morning, gaze upon your Amazon Echo, and think, “Damn it, Echo. Instead of a shiny cylinder, why can’t you be a singing…
Hillary mentions internet
Hillary says Trump “makes you just want to look at cat GIFs”, and she even pronounced it correctly.* Hillary Clinton appealed to the tech crowd of San Francisco today at…
Billionaire tech investors support divisive plan to ban San Francisco’s homeless camps
The debate over what to do about San Francisco’s homeless population has been building for awhile among the many startups and residents here. But now tech billionaires Ron Conway, Michael…
Mike Rothenberg allegedly wired $5.2 million from Silicon Valley Bank without investor permission
As we first reported last month, Mike Rothenberg, the beleaguered founder of the San Francisco-based venture firm Rothenberg Ventures, has been involved in an ongoing SEC inquiry into possibly deceptive financial practices…