November 24, 2016

At the time of its inception some two centuries ago, the supply chain was a revolutionary idea that would improve visibility and control on goods and products as they moved…

Blockchain has the potential to revolutionize the supply chain

This summer saw the inevitable controversy arise when a Tesla automobile was involved in a fatal traffic accident while operating in its headline-grabbing Autopilot mode. While early reports seem to…

Tesla’s Autopilot and the double standard for automotive safety systems

Electric vehicle maker Faraday Future may not be able to make its first cars in time to hit its 2017 shipping deadlines, according to a new report by the Financial…

Faraday Future’s factory construction paused; shipping timelines at risk

When TechCrunch went to Beijing recently, I got the chance to try out KatVR’s Kat Walk virtual reality walking simulation rig. The setup encircles the player’s waist, keeping them upright…

Watch this $9K VR walking rig really put players into the game

Despite ongoing uncertainty for business about the impact of the U.K. Brexit vote to leave the European Union, London-based fintech startup GoCardless reckons the government is now signaling it recognizes…

GoCardless spies a glimmer of hope for UK fintech amid the Brexit gloom

With Thanksgiving Day in full swing, many are turning to the internet to get their holiday shopping started. Adobe is tracking e-commerce transactions in real time, and it said that by 5pm…

2016 Thanksgiving on track to break $2B in online sales

Every big company was a lean and mean startup at one time. Now, confronted with digital disruption all around us, we’re all rushing to rekindle the entrepreneurial flame that first…

Seven principles to ignite a culture of innovators

Virata Watches is the brain-child of Patrick Wacks from Canton, Ohio. Wacks was inspired by his favorite Formula 1 cars to create a watch as streamlined and sexy as a…

Virata is an automatic watch with a racing pedigree

Palantir — that $20 billion secretive outfit that provides government, finance, healthcare and other organizations with analytics, security and other data management solutions — has raised another $20 million in funding, according to…

Big data company Palantir quietly raised another $20M in November
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The tangle of the year

10:00 am PST • November 24, 2016

One of the primary reasons for Thanksgiving was always the celebration of the end of the harvest and the promise of new growth. Home gardens wilted in the first November…

The tangle of the year

Zvooq, a music streaming service in Russia and CIS countries backed by major Western labels, is suing Yandex for $29 million. It accuses the Russian search giant of poaching key…

Zvooq, Russia’s Spotify, sues Yandex for $29M after key staff were allegedly poached

Maserati was said to be looking at 2020 as the target time frame for its first production electric vehicle, and now the company has confirmed to Autocar that a battery-powered…

Maserati plans an all-electric Alfieri for 2020

LeEco would like nothing more than to be everything to everyone. The impulse is no better demonstrated than with the company’s grand U.S. debut a few months back, which included…

LeEco’s Le Pro3 is cheap, fast and frustrating

Live streaming 360-degree video is rarely the right way to go if you’re thinking about doing a live broadcast for an event — but Verizon’s (disclaimer: Verizon owns TechCrunch via…

Watching Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in Daydream VR is actually fun

Dyson’s V8 cordless vacuum is the latest in a long line of the company’s portable category, and it has a more powerful motor that drives more suction than ever before,…

Dyson’s V8 cordless is your best bet for ditching your heavy plug-in vacuum

Snap, the social media company formerly known as Snapchat, has launched a Spectacles pop-up shop in NYC. Inside the store, there is a Snap Bot (a vending machine full of…

U.S. digital health company Provata is one of several hoping to harness virtual reality’s power as an escapist medium by using it as a backdrop for guided meditations.

Anyone for quantifiable VR mindfulness?

TechCrunch Disrupt in London is on December 5-6. Grab tickets here. As well as speakers and panels, we’ll be featuring some demos by some amazing tech companies. The first will…

Autonomous robots and game-playing A.I. — incredible demos at Disrupt London, Dec 5-6

The Hackathon at Disrupt London 2016 is so close we can almost taste it. Soon, thousands of founders, investors and tech enthusiasts will storm London’s Copper Box Arena for the best…

Here’s why you should attend the Disrupt London Hackathon, more tickets now available