Y Combinator-Backed Trella Brings Transparency To Egypt'S Trucking And Shipping Industry
Week in Review: Netflix's big problem and Apple's thinnest product yet: Lucas Matney
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 surface my favorites for your reading pleasure. Last week, I …
Tesla Model 3 owner implants RFID chip to turn her arm into a key: Kirsten Korosec
Forget the keycard or phone app, one software engineer is trying out a new way to unlock and start her Tesla Model 3. Amie DD, who has a background in game simulation and programming, recently released a video showing how she “biohacked” her body. The softwar…
Y Combinator-backed Trella brings transparency to Egypt's trucking and shipping industry: Jonathan Shieber
Y Combinator has become one of the key ways that startups from emerging markets get the attention of American investors. And arguably no clutch of companies has benefitted more from Y Combinator’s attention than startups from emerging markets tackling the the…
How tech is transforming the intelligence industry: Shay Hershkovitz
Shay Hershkovitz Contributor Share on Twitter Shay Hershkovitz is a Senior Research Fellow at The Intelligence Methodology Research Center (IMRC). At a conference on the future challenges of intelligence organizations held in 2018, former Director of National…
Telegram introduces new feature to prevent users from texting too often in a group: Manish Singh
Telegram, a popular instant messaging app, has introduced a new feature to give group admins on the app better control over how members engage, the latest in a series of interesting features it has rolled out in recent months to expand its appeal. The feature…
Kobalt, Apple and smartwatches, Hadoop, customer support, and social work and AI: Danny Crichton
The Kobalt EC-1: How a Swedish saxophonist built Kobalt, the world’s next music unicorn My favorite pieces we host on Extra Crunch are our EC-1 series of in-depth profiles and analyses of high-flying, fascinating startups. We launched Extra Crunch with a mult…
We're all doomed, 2019 edition: Jon Evans
Every year the great and good (and bad) of the hacker/information-security world descend on Las Vegas for a week of conferences, in which many present their latest discoveries, and every year I try to itemize the most interesting (according to me) Black Hat t…
Most EU cookie 'consent' notices are meaningless or manipulative, study finds: Natasha Lomas
New research into how European consumers interact with the cookie consent mechanisms which have proliferated since a major update to the bloc’s online privacy rules last year casts an unflattering light on widespread manipulation of a system that’s supposed t…
Startups Weekly: Angel vs. VC: Kate Clark
In this week's newsletter: A WeWork IPO update, the investment opportunity in healthcare and an electric bus unicorn.
How safe are school records? Not very, says student security researcher: Zack Whittaker
If you can’t trust your bank, government or your medical provider to protect your data, what makes you think students are any safer? Turns out, according to one student security researcher, they’re not. Eighteen-year-old Bill Demirkapi, a recent high school g…
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