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Patturn | Disrupt San Francisco 2020
9:00 AM PDT • September 14, 2020
Recorded on September 10, 2020. Patturn is a platform to help manage and sell customer returns.
Allthenticate | Disrupt 2020
9:00 AM PDT • September 14, 2020
Recorded on September 10, 2020. Allthenticate is building an all-in-one, secure, smartphone-based solution for companies’ authentication needs.
Evertracker | Disrupt 2020
9:00 AM PDT • September 14, 2020
Recorded on September 10, 2020. Evertracker builds a neutral and smart logistics platform that enables manufacturers and producers to get full predictability and transparency on…
Crediverso | Disrupt 2020
9:00 AM PDT • September 14, 2020
Recorded on September 10, 2020. Crediverso is the leading trusted financial products advisor to the US Latino community.
Startups
Courier raises $10.1M Series A to help developers integrate multichannel notifications
9:00 am PDT • September 14, 2020
Courier is an API platform with a no-code twist that helps developers add multichannel user notifications to their applications. The company today announced that it has raised a $10.1 million…
Bonnet | Disrupt 2020
9:00 AM PDT • September 14, 2020
Recorded on September 10, 2020. Bonnet has developed a Tesla supercharger network, but for all EVs and all chargers.
Blue Origin’s human lunar lander all-star space team completes first key milestone for moon mission
8:46 am PDT • September 14, 2020
Blue Origin, along with it partners Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Draper, was one of three companies to be awarded contracts by NASA to develop human lunar landers for future…
Welcome to Day One of Disrupt 2020, our biggest Disrupt ever! Over the next five days (cue Star Trek theme), you’ll explore strange new technology, seek out new opportunities and…
If this was a normal year, we would be settling in for an iPhone event right about now. This is, however, very much not a normal year. And while we…
Biotech & Health
Scientists detect a gas that typically indicates the presence of biological life in the atmosphere of Venus
8:08 am PDT • September 14, 2020
In a press briefing today, scientists rom the Royal Astronomical Society announced a potentially revolutionary scientific discovery: They’ve detected the presence of phosphine in the atmosphere of Venus, which suggests…
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Hardware
Arm co-founder starts ‘Save Arm’ campaign to keep independence amid $40B Nvidia deal
8:03 am PDT • September 14, 2020
Arm Holdings, the U.K. semiconductor company, made history for the second time today, becoming the country’s biggest tech exit when Nvidia announced over the weekend that it would buy it…
Media & Entertainment
YouTube launches its TikTok rival, YouTube Shorts, initially in India
7:44 am PDT • September 14, 2020
As TikTok’s fate in the U.S. remains murky, YouTube today announced the launch of a new short-form video experience it’s calling YouTube Shorts. The feature will allow users, initially in…
Climate
Microsoft’s Project Natick underwater data center experiment confirms viability of seafloor data storage
7:37 am PDT • September 14, 2020
Microsoft has concluded a years-long experiment involving use of a shipping container-sized underwater data center, placed on the sea floor off the cost of Scotland’s Orkney Islands. The company pulled…
Biotech & Health
Europe starts testing app interoperability service to power cross-border COVID-19 exposure alerts
6:42 am PDT • September 14, 2020
The European Commission has begun testing backend infrastructure that’s needed to make national coronavirus contacts-tracing apps interoperate across the bloc’s internal borders. It has kicked off test runs between the…
Venture
Equity Monday: The TikTok mess, two funding rounds and Nvidia will buy ARM
6:42 AM PDT • September 14, 2020
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This is Equity Monday, our weekly kickoff that…
Biotech & Health
Beyond Meat is introducing pre-packaged meatballs at stores across the US
6:01 am PDT • September 14, 2020
Indulging in American food companies’ favorite pastime of marketing innovations that no one needs but potentially everyone wants, Beyond Meat is launching Beyond Meatballs in grocery stores nationwide this week.…
Startups
Airtable raises $185M and launches new low-code and automation features
6:00 am PDT • September 14, 2020
The spreadsheet-centric database and no-code platform Airtable today announced that it has raised a $185 million Series D funding round, putting the company at a $2.585 billion post-money valuation. Thrive…
Startups
Red Ventures acquires CNET Media Group from ViacomCBS for $500M
5:31 am PDT • September 14, 2020
Another big M&A play is going down in the world of media. Publishing group Red Ventures today announced that it is buying CNET Media Group from ViacomCBS for $500 million.…
Privacy
YouTube hit with UK class action style suit seeking $3BN+ for ‘unlawful’ use of kids’ data
5:01 am PDT • September 14, 2020
Another class action style lawsuit has been lodged against a tech giant in the U.K. alleging violations of privacy and seeking major damages. The latest representative action, filed against Google-owned…
Media & Entertainment
Facebook introduces a co-viewing experience in Messenger, ‘Watch Together’
5:00 am PDT • September 14, 2020
Facebook today is rolling out a new feature that will allow friends and family to watch videos together over Messenger. The feature, called “Watch Together,” works with all Facebook Watch…
