More

    WorldDesk

    Jeannette Williams-Parker, Nurse With a Daredevil Streak, Dies at 48

    This obituary is part of a series about people who have died in the coronavirus pandemic. Read about others here.Jeannette Williams-Parker loved rock music...

    Fragomen, a law firm used by Google, confirms data breach – TechCrunch

    Immigration law firm Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy has confirmed a data breach involving the personal information of current and former Google employees. The...

    Teaching robots through positive reinforcement – TechCrunch

    There likely isn’t a robotics teacher institute in the world actively pursuing robotic learning. The field, after all, holds the key to unlocking a...

    Twitter to Highlight Accurate Voting Information

    Twitter’s emphasis on up-to-the-second posts has made the site a must-visit destination for people to find the latest in news and current events. It...

    Dallas’ ShearShare has a marketplace connecting stylists with available seats at salons and $2.3 million in funding – TechCrunch

    Courtney Caldwell and her husband Tye have been building the Dallas-based startup ShearShare, which provides a marketplace service connecting stylists with open seats at...

    Twitter will show all U.S. users warnings about voting misinfo and delayed election results – TechCrunch

    Starting today, Twitter users in the U.S. will see two large notices at the top of their feeds that aim to “preemptively debunk”...

    Good and bad board members (and what to do about them) – TechCrunch

    Ryan Caldbeck, co-founder and former CEO of consumer-brands-focused crowdfunding site CircleUp, recently published an email he’d written to a former director on the board...

    NASA makes key discovery for future of deep space exploration – TechCrunch

    Max Q is a weekly newsletter from TechCrunch all about space. Sign up here to receive it weekly on Sundays in your inbox. This past...

    Freshworks (re-)launches its CRM service – TechCrunch

    Freshworks, the customer and employee engagement company that offers a range of products, from call center and customer support software to HR tools and...

    DataFleets keeps private data useful, and useful data private, with federated learning and $4.5M seed – TechCrunch

    As you may already know, there’s a lot of data out there, and some of it could actually be pretty useful. But privacy and...

    How Twitter was hacked, GitHub DMCA backfires – TechCrunch

    One week to the U.S. presidential election and things are getting spicy. It’s not just the rhetoric — hackers are actively working to disrupt the...

    Hubilo raises $4.5 million, led by Lightspeed, to focus on virtual events – TechCrunch

    Earlier this year, the founders of event analytics platform Hubilo pivoted to become a virtual events platform to survive the impact of COVID-19. Today,...

    Mailman’s new Gmail assistant aims to tame your inbox – TechCrunch

    A new startup, Mailman, recently launched an email assistant that helps Gmail users to get better control over their inbox. Unlike many email startups,...

    What would Databricks be worth in a 2021 IPO? – TechCrunch

    Some Monday morning mathmagic TechCrunch recently covered Databricks’ financial performance in 2020, contrasting its recent performance to some historical 2019 data that the company shared. The...

    NASA discovers water on the surface of the sunlit portion of the Moon – TechCrunch

    NASA has made a groundbreaking discovery – confirming the presence of water on the surface of Moon, in the area that is exposed to...

    This startup wants to fix the broken structure of internships – TechCrunch

    Internships are an opportunity for students to experiment with new career paths and land a full-time offer ahead of graduation. For companies, the weeks-long...