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Stride raises $2.5M from JetBlue, NFX for its guided trips marketplace
Group travel — it’s something you either love or hate, but Stride, which describes itself as a marketplace for “experiential multi-day and multi-destination packaged trips planned by
Apollo raises $22M for its GraphQL platform
Apollo, a San Francisco-based startup that provides a number of developer and operator tools and services around the GraphQL query language, today announced that it has raised a $22 million growth fun
Apple joins the open-source Cloud Native Computing Foundation
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the home of open-source projects like Kubernetes, today announced that Apple is joining as a top-level Platinum End User Member. With this, Apple is joini
Mozilla gives Firefox a new logo as it looks beyond the browser
Mozilla’s Firefox is getting a new logo that is meant to reflect that the brand now stands for more than a browser. With products like its password manager Lockwise, private file-sharing service
Holberton opens its software engineering school in Medellin
Holberton School, which sees itself as a college alternative for budding software engineers, today announced that it has opened a campus in Medellin, Colombia. With this, it now operates two schools i
Qubole launches Quantum, its serverless database engine
Qubole, the data platform founded by Apache Hive creator and former head of Facebook’s Data Infrastructure team Ashish Thusoo, today announced the launch of Quantum, its first serverless offerin
How Amazon’s delivery robots will navigate your sidewalk
Earlier this year, Amazon announced its Scout sidewalk delivery robot. At the time, details were sparse, except for the fact that the company had started to make deliveries in a neighborhood in Washin
Jeff Bezos wants to build the infrastructure for space startups
At its re:Mars conference, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos took the stage today to be “interviewed” by Jenny Freshwater, Amazon’s director of forecasting. As any AWS machine learning t
Amazon will soon make having a chat with Alexa feel more natural
At its re:Mars conference, Amazon today announced that it is working on making interacting with its Alexa personal assistant more natural by enabling more fluid conversations that can move from topic
A first look at Amazon’s new delivery drone
For the first time, Amazon today showed off its newest fully electric delivery drone at its first re:Mars conference in Las Vegas. Chances are, it neither looks nor flies like what you’d expect
Google Cloud gets capacity reservations, extends committed use discounts beyond CPUs
Google Cloud made two significant pricing announcements today. Those, you’ll surely be sad to hear, don’t involve the usual price drops for compute and storage. Instead, Google Cloud today
Microsoft and Oracle link up their clouds
Microsoft and Oracle announced a new alliance today that will see the two companies directly connect their clouds over a direct network connection so that their users can then move workloads and data
How Kubernetes came to rule the world
Open source has become the de facto standard for building the software that underpins the complex infrastructure that runs everything from your favorite mobile apps to your company’s barely usab
Firefox gets enhanced tracking protection, desktop password manager and more
It’s no secret that Mozilla sees privacy as a differentiating feature for its revitalized Firefox browser. Today, the Firefox team is launching one of its broadest sets of releases that aim to k
Google announces new privacy requirements for Chrome extensions
Google today announced two major changes to how it expects Chrome extension developers to protect their users’ privacy. Starting this summer, extension developers are required to only request ac
Google’s Indigo subsea cable is now online
Google and its partners today announced that the 5,600-mile Indigo subsea cable, which connects Sydney and Perth with Jakarta and Singapore, is now ready for service. To build the cable, which will si
Arm announces its new premium CPU and GPU designs
Arm, the company that designs the basic chip architecture for most of the world’s smartphones, today announced the launch of its next suite of designs for premium phones. It’ll be a while
Google integrates food delivery services into Search, Maps and Assistant
Google today announced that it is launching the ability to order food delivery directly from Google Search, Maps and the Assistant. Google itself isn’t getting into the delivery game, though. In
Takeaways from KubeCon; the latest on Kubernetes and cloud native development
Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Frederic Lardinois and Ron Miller di
Zenkit redesigns its project management app, adds public API and more
There’s no dearth of Trello-style project management services, but while the core of Zenkit is exactly that, it’s also far more flexible than most, and offers plenty of ways to adjust the