TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 will be held at the Moscone Center West, Sept. 5-7
TechCrunch’s Disrupt SF is the pride of TechCrunch’s event line-up, and last September the event reached new heights, including 5,000 attendees, 1,220 investor-founder meetings, 500 exhibiting startups, and millions tuning in online. Most importantly, early-stage founders and investors gave Disrupt great reviews on our reason for being: helping startups excel. There’s just… Read More
Weed beer could become a thing, thanks to the company that owns Corona
Constellation Brands, who’s been serving up some of America’s favorite cervezas, is investing in the cannabis company Canopy Growth Corporation. With this new partnership, they plan to develop pot-infused beverages for the Canadian market. Read more…..
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‘Top Chef’s’ Tom Colicchio wants you to help end hunger for millions of veterans
Tom Colicchio has a long and impressive résumé. He’s a working chef, has founded some of New York City’s most celebrated restaurants, and is easily recognizable as the lead judge on the Bravo reality TV series Top Chef.
Over the past severa…
LinkedIn and Microsoft team up for a resume building tool in Word
LinkedIn, the social network for professionals that was acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion, is today rolling out the latest product in its deepening relationship with its owner. The two are unveiling Resume Assitant, a resume builder in Microsoft Word that will be powered by data from LinkedIn — letting you import information about yourself and the companies that you have worked… Read More
Twitter’s $99 monthly subscription ad program launches into public beta
Twitter unveiled in its Q3 earnings report that it had been testing a new, self-serve advertising subscription aimed at small businesses. That service, known as Twitter Promote Mode, is officially launching today with the goal of letting small businesses and personal brands more easily run ad campaigns on Twitter’s platform by automating them, for the price of $99 per month. As… Read More
Chrome will soon make browsing sketchy sites less frustrating
When you’re browsing the web, there’s little that’s more annoying than clicking on what you think is a video and finding out that it was actually just an image with a link to a dubious site. Or what about those links that actually take you to your destination in a new window but then quickly navigate your original site to some ad for male enhancement pills? And then… Read More
Google Chrome update makes it harder for shady sites to hijack your browser
Google Chrome will now do more to prevent some of the most annoying ways unscrupulous websites try to take advantage of you
A new update aims to prevent shady websites from automatically launching new tabs and windows you never intended on opening.
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Alexa switches on and decides to have a party so loud the police came
The future belongs to AI-powered devices that will play music and party on their own when we’re not there.
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Lebron James gives a cryptic explanation behind his probably petty Instagram posts
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There’s nothing the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Lebron James can’t do that isn’t scrutinized from every single angle—that’s ultimately the price of being the G.O.A.T.
But when James posted the meme of Arthur’s infamous clenched fist this week with the caption “mood” after a long-awaited win on the court, it sparked so much speculation from folks trying to read between the lines of his social media posts that the G.O.A.T had to comment on it.
The Arthur post came just after the Boston Celtics beat the Atlantic Hawks where former Cavs teammate Kyrie Irving, who now plays for the Celtics, played. Read more…
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Elon Musk met with controversial Turkish President and no one knows why
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Elon Musk visited Turkey and met with the country’s president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but no one knows exactly why — but the summit could have something to do with Tesla and Turkey’s domestic automotive ambitions.
The meeting comes shortly after five Turkish businesses launched a joint venture to produce a Turkish-made vehicle, according to the Associated Press. The project was reportedly encouraged by Erdogan, and the state has sponsored electric auto projects in the past that aimed to compete with Tesla in the country.
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On Wednesday, in a security hearing that called both Equifax and Yahoo’s past and present executives to Washington D.C., we’re learning a bit more about what Yahoo didn’t know about the biggest hack in history. When pressed about how Yahoo failed to recognize that 3 billion accounts — and not 500 million as first reported — were compromised in what was later… Read More