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2:51

Alcohol delivery service Drizly confirms data breach

TechCrunch Industry News ·

2020/07/29

Online alcohol delivery startup Drizly has told customers that it was hit by a data breach. In an email to customers obtained by TechCrunch, the company said that a hacker “obtained” some customer data. The hacker took customer email addresses, date-of-birth, hashed passwords, and in some cases delivery address, the email read. Drizly did not […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:55

Google is building a new private subsea cable between...

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2020/07/28

Google today announced its plans to build a new subsea cable with landing points in New York in the U.S. and Bude, UK and Bilbao, Spain in Europe. The new cable, named after the pioneering computer scientist Grace Hopper, will join Google’s various other private subsea cables like Curie between the U.S. and South America, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:31

Google will continue to let employees work from home...

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2020/07/28

Following earlier reporting, Google has confirmed that it will continue to allow employees to work from home through the end of June of next year. The company told TechCrunch that Sundar Pichai announced the plan in an email sent to staff earlier today. “To give employees the ability to plan ahead, we are extending our […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:45

Space Force debuts official logo and motto, both...

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2020/07/27

Earlier this year, the oft-mocked but actually pretty important new branch of the military, the Space Force, revealed an image that was suspiciously reminiscent of Star Trek. Now the Space Force has revealed a new, sharper graphic that is the force’s actual logo — and a motto to go with it: “Semper Supra,” or “always […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:59

Instacart blames reused passwords for account hacks,...

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2020/07/27

Online shopping service Instacart says reused passwords are to blame for a recent spate of account breaches, which saw personal data belonging to hundreds of thousands of Instacart customers stolen and put up for sale on the dark web. The company published a statement late on Thursday saying its investigation showed that Instacart “was not […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:22

Gorilla Glass Victus can survive a two-meter drop and...

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2020/07/24

You might not know Gorilla Glass by name, but odds are pretty good you own at least one device sporting Corning’s chemically strengthened glass composite. It’s been a ubiquitous feature of consumer products ranging from smartphones to wearables for more than a decade now, courtesy of excellent drop and scratch resistance. All in all, it […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:17

Fox Sports is adding ‘virtual fans’ to empty baseball...

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2020/07/24

The Toronto Blue Jays may not have a have a home yet this season, but one things for sure: plenty of teams are going to be playing in the uncanny valley this year. The spectacle of a major league baseball team playing in front of an empty has some precedent from places like Korea, Taiwan […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:16

Lenovo brings some unique features to its new gaming...

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2020/07/23

Gaming phones are a weird one. They make sense on paper to some degree. As we well know, everyone’s a gamer these days, and much or most of that gaming happens on mobile devices. So why aren’t devoting gaming phones a more popular phenomenon? It’s not for lack of trying. Lenovo’s the latest company to […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:46

The Herman Miller x Logitech gaming chair will set...

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2020/07/23

I’ve learned a lot during this pandemic. About myself, about the world. But perhaps most important of all, I’ve learned the value of a good chair. In normal years I’m rarely home, between work and travel, and as such it’s not something I gave much thought to. So naturally, I spent the first month and […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:43

Diaspora Ventures wants to invest in French founders...

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2020/07/22

Meet Diaspora Ventures, a new VC fund based in the U.S. founded by two partners who grew up in France but have been in the U.S. for more than a decade —Â Ilan Abehassera (pictured right) and Carlos Diaz (pictured left). As the name suggests, Diaspora Ventures wants to invest in the French diaspora, and especially […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:31

Nord is OnePlus’s sub-$500 5G handset

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2020/07/22

While other premium smartphone makers were exploring mid-tier devices amid slowing sales, OnePlus’s prices were slowly creeping up. It’s true that the company never cracked the $1,000 price point (beyond a few limited-edition models), but for those following the company’s story, it felt like it was straying a bit from its biggest appeal: flagship-quality devices […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:52

Netflix tests new low-cost subscription plan in India

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2020/07/21

Netflix is testing a new pricing tier in India as the on-demand video streaming service looks to court more subscribers in Asia’s third-largest economy. The American giant has unveiled a “Mobile+” plan for some new subscribers in India that delivers streaming in high-definition (HD) quality and supports mobile, tablet, and computer screens (but not TV). […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:59

Fox Sports launches redesigned app with modern...

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2020/07/21

As the sports world slowly begins to emerge from the pandemic shut down with MLB scheduled to start this week, Fox Sports is launching its redesigned sports app today for Android and iOS. The new app and accompanying website, offers a more modern interface, access to live sports (with cable subscription) and bonus camera angles […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:57

Gaming sales had another great month in June

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2020/07/20

We continue to be stuck inside, and video games continue to sell well. It’s pretty much as simple as that, honestly. I mean, there’s more nuance than that, obviously, but that’s really the top line takeaway from NPD’s June gaming numbers. More specifically, last month saw $1.2 billion total spent on gaming, up 26% from […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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4:16

Play the prologue of ‘Linda & Joan,’ a video game...

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2020/07/20

It’s not hard to see why Russell Quinn calls 2017 the worst year of his life. That was the year he moved back to the United Kingdom to take care of his mother, and the year in which both his mother and grandmother died within a month of each other. Quinn recalled returning to Los […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:54

With 600+ more founder recommendations, the second...

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2020/07/17

Let’s just say it’s been busy times over here (Twitter being completely unusable has helped productivity though!) On Tuesday, we launched the first draft of The TechCrunch List, a verified, curated list of investors who have demonstrated a commitment to first checks and leading rounds from seed through growth, organized by market vertical. We constructed […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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5:24

U.S. beat China on App Store downloads for first time...

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2020/07/17

The U.S. App Store’s downloads have surpassed China’s downloads for the first time since 2014, in a new milestone. According to data from Sensor Tower’s Q2 2020 report, out today, the U.S. App Store saw 27.4% year-over-year growth in the quarter, compared to the 2.1% growth for the China App Store. During the quarter, the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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2:54

Uber acquires Routematch as it drives deeper into...

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2020/07/16

Uber said Thursday it has acquired Routematch, an Atlanta-based company that provides software to transit agencies as the ride-hailing company looks to offer more SaaS-related services to cities. Uber did not share terms of the deal. However, this doesn’t appear to be a minor “acquihire,” in which a company is purchased to land a few […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:00

Tilting Point acquires FTX Games assets and Plamee...

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2020/07/16

Game publisher Tilting Point announced today that it has made its third acquisition in eight months, buying games, key employees and “most of the assets” from FTX Games and Plamee Studios — both previously owned Playtech, which will be focusing on its gaming and sports betting software moving forward. Plamee previously developed Narcos: Cartel Wars, […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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3:27

Kobo introduces the lackluster Nia to replace its...

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2020/07/15

The e-reader category was exciting once — or at least as exciting as one could hope from such a space. It was a vibrant category, with plenty of key players, each looking to outdo one another. But as is the case with a depressing number of verticals, Amazon has largely wiped the floor with the […] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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