Scooter Startup Bird Tried To Silence A Journalist. It Did Not Go Well.

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I had fight a couple of coworkers for this thing. It’s a strange thing to fight over, I realize, but we are strange people with a strange job. And more importantly, I won. I’m plugged into the PowerPort Atom as I write this. It’s keeping my 13-inch MacBook Pr…

SpaceX will lay off hundreds to 'become a leaner company': Devin Coldewey


SpaceX plans to lay off approximately 10 percent of its workforce in order to manage its costs, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today. The news comes as the company embarks on an ambitious plan to develop and test an interplanetary spacecraft while simult…

Scooter startup Bird tried to silence a journalist. It did not go well.: Zack Whittaker


Cory Doctorow doesn’t like censorship. He especially doesn’t like his own work being censored. Anyone who knows Doctorow knows his popular tech and culture blog Boing Boing, and anyone who reads Boing Boing knows Doctorow and his cohort of bloggers. The part-…

Sensel’s pressure-sensitive display tech works underwater: Brian Heater


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WeWork gets into the food business, backing the superfood startup of big wave surfer Laird Hamilton: Connie Loizos


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That GoFundMe to build a border wall is issuing $20 million in refunds: Taylor Hatmaker


A Trump-inspired GoFundMe campaign that raised $20 million to ostensibly to build a wall on the southern U.S. border will refund every cent. Run by Brian Kolfage, a veteran with a track record of questionable business practices, the project defied all logisti…

GM is transforming Cadillac into an electric brand: Kirsten Korosec


General Motors is turning Cadillac into its lead electric vehicle brand in a bid to compete against Tesla as well as a host of other automakers bringing EVs onto the market. Plans are already underway to introduce the first model from the company’s new batter…

Improbable urges Unity to unsuspend their license, to rectify 'farcical' situation for developers: Lucas Matney


Improbable may be pissed at Unity, but they still want them back. In a blog post titled “A final statement on SpatialOS and Unity,” the team at the cloud gaming startup aimed to tell their side of the story and implored Unity to “clarify their terms or unsusp…

The NYT gets into voice with 5 new Alexa skills, including a daily briefing, quiz and more: Sarah Perez


The New York Times is expanding its efforts around audio programming and voice assistants, the company announced today. The NYT says it’s launching a daily flash briefing for Alexa devices, as well as an interactive news quiz, and – in an interesting twist – …



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