Archives for May 2020

The Station: Amazon eyes Zoox, Aurora goes back to school and Cabana hits the road The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every Saturday in your inbox. Hi and welcome back to The Station, a newsletter dedicated to all the […]

SpaceX’s first crewed spacecraft successfully docks with the International Space Station SpaceX’s Crew Dragon ‘Endeavor’ successfully docked with the International Space Station as planned on Sunday morning, marking another key milestone during this historic Commercial Crew demonstration mission it’s conducting with NASA. On board Crew Dragon were NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, the […]

6 VCs share their bets on the future of work As tech companies like Twitter and Facebook gear up for longer-term remote work solutions, the future of work is becoming one of the more exciting opportunities in venture capital, Charles River Ventures general partner Saar Gur told TechCrunch. And as loneliness mounts with shelter-in-place orders […]

Watch live as SpaceX’s first astronaut-carrying spacecraft docks with the International Space Station [embedded content] Today at around 10:30 AM EDT (7:30 AM PDT), SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule will dock with the International Space Station, with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board. The two have been in flight on orbit since launching […]

Meeting spec (doing the minimum) Two ways of saying the same thing. If the bridge needs to hold 20,000 pound vehicles, the client isn’t interested in paying extra for you to build it to hold 30,000 pound vehicles. The spec is clear–15,000 is unacceptable, and 30,000 isn’t worth a penny extra in steel, concrete or […]

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‘What the Coronavirus Crisis Has Taught Me About My Business’: 4 Entrepreneurs Weigh In In the stages of grief we are experiencing from the coronavirus crisis, we’ve moved past denial. We’re now keenly aware of how real this pandemic is, and that it will continue to impact every one of us long-term. We’ve (hopefully) worked […]

SpaceX’s astronaut launch marks the dawn of the commercial human spaceflight industry SpaceX on Saturday launched two NASA astronauts aboard its Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the accomplishment is a tremendous one for both the company and the U.S. space agency. At a fundamental level, it means that the U.S. will have continued access to the […]

Even Small Businesses Can Benefit From Immersive Technologies Like Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality All small businesses want to increase customer engagement. After all, the more engaged your customers are, the more loyal they will be to your small business. Immersive technology is a new strategy successful businesses are using to attract the attention of […]

NASA astronauts successfully pilot SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft manually for the first time NASA astronauts Doug Hurley took over manual control of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on Saturday, shortly after the vehicle’s historic first launch from Cape Canaveral in Florida. Crew Dragon is designed to fly entirely autonomous throughout the full duration of its […]

Houses Passes PPP Loan Forgiveness Bill, Treasury Issues Harsh Forgiveness Regulations—What You Need to Know On May 27, 2020, the House passed the Paycheck Protection Program Flexibility Act by 417-1, which attempts to ease restrictions on small businesses as they seek loan forgiveness under the Paycheck Protection Program authorized by the CARES Act. The House […]

Director Ani Acopian breaks down her drone-shot video, ’A World Artists Love’ “A drone is a camera,” Ani Acopian begins simply. “And it can fly. It’s basically a flying super-camera! I’d love to see more film and TV productions embrace the nimble and magical nature of drones and use them for more than bird’s eye […]

Startups Weekly: Remote-first work will mean ‘globally fair compensation’ Editor’s note: Get this free weekly recap of TechCrunch news that any startup can use by email every Saturday morning (7am PT). Subscribe here. Most tech companies base compensation on an employee’s local cost of living, in addition to their skills and responsibilities. The pandemic-era push to […]

Huawei’s terrible week When news broke Friday morning that Britain is looking to propose an alliance of democracies to build a 5G alternative to Huawei, you might think that that was the worst thing to happen to the controversial Chinese telecoms giant this week. In fact, it just caps off a series of fast-moving events that […]

Original Content podcast: ‘The Lovebirds’ has charming leads and not much else “The Lovebirds” was originally slated for a theatrical release, but with movie theaters closed, Paramount decided to release the film through Netflix instead. But even without a global pandemic, a Netflix release was probably the right call. As we discuss latest episode of […]

This Week in Apps: Facebook launches trio of app experiments, TikTok gets spammed, plus coronavirus impacts on app economy Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the Extra Crunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a […]

Applying effort How will you spend your resources? If you want to open a can of tomato juice, you can squeeze the sides of the can as hard as you can, for as long as you can, but it’s unlikely to open. You can also focus all of your energy on a very tiny point […]

Zuckerberg explains why Facebook won’t take action on Trump’s recent posts In a statement posted to Facebook late Friday afternoon, Mark Zuckerberg offered up an explanation of why his company did not contextualize or remove posts from the accounts associated with President Donald Trump that appeared to incite violence against American citizens. “We looked very […]

Toyota’s first plug-in hybrid RAV4 Prime priced a skosh under $40,000 When Toyota unveiled the 2021 Toyota RAV4 Prime in November, the vehicle garnered a lot of attention because it achieved two seemingly conflicting goals. It was Toyota’s most fuel efficient and one of its most powerful vehicles. Now, it’s getting praise for managing a […]

Amid unprecedented growth on its platform, Acorns cuts roles and shuts down an office Acorns, which helps millions of people invest their spare change in the stock market, has laid off between 50 to 70 people, TechCrunch has learned from multiple sources. The Irvine, Calif.-based company would not confirm the total number of people laid […]