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Watch the Porsche Taycan make a 0-90-0 test run on the USS Hornet flight deck
Porsche is squeezing in one more teaser ahead of the global debut of the all-electric Porsche Taycan. And this time, the German automaker didn’t hold back. Professional racer Shea Holbrook drove
Only 5 days left for super early bird savings at Disrupt Berlin 2019
Our super early bird countdown continues startup fans. If you don’t have your pass to Disrupt Berlin 2019 yet, it’s time to mach schnell — make it quick! Buy your pass now before the deadline st
Urban, the on-demand wellness platform, adds physiotherapy to its roster of on-demand services
Urban, the London-headquartered company that lets you book a growing range of “wellness” services on demand — spanning massage, osteopathy, to various beauty treatments — is adding phy
Spotawheel picks up €5M for its online used car dealership
Spotawheel, a startup operating in Greece and Poland with a car dealership model quite similar to Carvana in the U.S., has picked up €5 million in new funding. Backing the online used car dealership
What you missed in cybersecurity this week
There’s not a week that goes by where cybersecurity doesn’t dominates the headlines. This week was no different. Struggling to keep up? We’ve collected some of the biggest cybersecur
Police hijack a botnet and remotely kill 850,000 malware infections
In a rare feat, French police have hijacked and neutralized a massive cryptocurrency mining botnet controlling close to a million infected computers. The notorious Retadup malware infects computers an
Week in Review: Apple makes a rare apology, Nintendo tries to reinvent its invention
Hey. This is Week-in-Review, where I give a heavy amount of analysis and/or rambling thoughts on one story while scouring the rest of the hundreds of stories that emerged on TechCrunch this week to su
Sources say China used iPhone hacks to target Uyghur Muslims
A number of malicious websites used to hack into iPhones over a two-year period were targeting Uyghur Muslims, TechCrunch has learned. Sources familiar with the matter said the websites were part of a
Tesla’s Model 3 interior (even the steering wheel) is now 100% leather-free
Tesla said Saturday that its Model 3 interiors are now completely free of leather, fulfilling a promise made by CEO Elon Musk at this year’s annual shareholder meeting. Tesla has been closing in
Apple products under pricing pressure as new 15% tariffs drop Sunday
A new 15% tariff on Chinese imports will go in effect just after midnight Sunday, placing levies on hundreds of household goods and consumer tech, including a bevy of Apple products. The tariffs, put
Apple still has work to do on privacy
There’s no doubt that Apple’s self-polished reputation for privacy and security has taken a bit of a battering recently. On the security front, Google researchers just disclosed a major fl
Original Content podcast: Netflix’s new ‘Dark Crystal’ is a visual delight, no nostalgia needed
“The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance” returns viewers to the world of Thra — a distant, magical planet ruled over by the sinister, long-lived Skeksis, who have lied their way into owners
Meet Olli 2.0, a 3D-printed autonomous shuttle
From afar, Olli resembles many of the “future is now!” electric autonomous shuttles that have popped up in recent years. The tall rectangular pod, with its wide-set headlights and expansiv
Startups Weekly: Peloton’s 29 secret weapons
In this week's newsletter: Peloton's going public, Boll & Branch raised another $100M and more.
Did your aluminum Apple Watch mysteriously crack itself? Apple might replace the screen for free
So your aluminum Series 2 or Series 3 Apple Watch is suddenly cracking around the edges… but you don’t remember bumping it on anything, or being particularly rough with it. Surprise! It mi
Labor Day Special: One extra week on early-bird pricing for Disrupt SF 2019
Happy (almost) Labor Day to all the hardworking members of the early-startup community — entrepreneurs, founders, investors, engineers and everyone in between. We know how hard you work to build you
VW Group to pay $96.5M to settle inflated fuel economy lawsuit
VW Group of America said Friday it has reached an agreement with thousands of U.S. customers over alleged inflated fuel economy information on about 98,000 gas-powered vehicles from its four brands, A
Bear Robotics is raising big bucks for robots that deliver food to restaurant patrons
Some days, it feels like there’s almost no end to the number of jobs that might be replaced altogether or in some part by smart machines, from radiologists to truck drivers to, gulp, journalists
At-home blood testing startup Baze rakes in $6 million from Nature’s Way
By now, the venture world is wary of blood testing startups offering health data from just a few drops of blood. However, Baze, a Swiss-based personal nutrition startup providing blood tests you can d
A hacker has compromised Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account
A hacker has compromised Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account. A stream of rogue tweets — including racial slurs — were posted to the Twitter chief executive’s own Twitter account just after