Working from home is an important part of many people’s everyday lives. To help them stay in touch with colleagues, video conferencing and recording software is a must. There’s a wide selection of free video recording applications, but one of the most popular is Loom, and with good reason. You can even get the professional
Month: April 2020
Losing your laptop or being a victim of theft can compromise your private information, not to mention that replacing a laptop can be pretty expensive. Thankfully, there are ways of figuring out where you left your laptop. Tracking a laptop doesn’t always work since you need to have some location and tracking settings enabled, but
Graphic: Discord Discord’s testing a new noise suppression tool to help prevent background noise like barking dogs or the deafening clatter of a mechanical keyboard from drowning out people’s voices. Advertisement In a blog post Friday, the popular chat service announced its partnership with Krisp, a service and standalone app that uses machine learning to
Do you want more control over your smartphone? Android rooting opens up a whole new world of possibility, but it can also void your warranty, leave you with a broken smartphone or tablet, or worse. Before proceeding, it is important to understand that rooting is not always a straightforward process and you may encounter hiccups
Computer privacy is no joke, especially when hacking attempts can take control over your built-in webcam and even turn it on without your permission. It’s a fairly common tactic for ransomware and other malware, but the webcam on your desktop or laptop usually doesn’t have a physical cover to help protect against these things. Phone
Instacart is adding more support roles to help its shoppers, customers, and retail partners, as the company faces unprecedented demand for its grocery delivery services due to COVID-19 shelter in place orders. Today Instacart announced that it has doubled its Care team, from 1,200 agents to 3,000 agents. Care team employees will work on answering
One of the most downloaded apps on SideQuest just got even better. Today’s launch of Update v1.2.1 for Physics Playground adds a whole suit of new features to the popular VR sandbox experience, including full-body physics, a brand new playground environment, improved NPC physics, new weaponry and tools, and a slew of other additions and
Here’s a tech trend no one saw coming. Suddenly, external webcams are among the hottest gadgets money can buy. Hop on Amazon, Best Buy, or Walmart, and you’ll be hard-pressed to find a webcam at a reasonable price. Your choices are slim. Even eBay and Craigslist are unreliable sources. Amazon is flooded with knockoffs from
NASA has awarded a grant to explore an ambitious plan that seeks to transform a crater on the far side of the Moon into a massive one-kilometer (3,281-foot) radio telescope. If it comes to fruition, that would be approximately twice the size of China’s recently opened FAST telescope, the world’s largest single dish radio telescope.
Earlier this week TechCrunch caught up with Union Square Ventures‘ (USV) Albert Wenger. Wenger, a managing partner at the venture firm, is well-known in the New York startup scene. USV has invested in former startups like Twitter, Twilio, Etsy and Cloudflare. TechCrunch is touching base with a number of investors during the COVID-19-driven economic slowdown.
Pangea.app, a Providence, Rhode Island-based startup has raised a $400,000 pre-seed round, it told TechCrunch this week. The company’s new capital, raised as a post-money SAFE, comes from PJC, a Boston-based venture capital firm and Underdog Labs. Previously, Pangea.app raised money from angel investors. The company links “remote college freelancers,” per its website, to businesses
Hello and welcome back to our regular morning look at private companies, public markets and the gray space in between. Airbnb’s recent moves in the wake of a global travel slowdown are interesting and worth understanding in chronological order. What it details is a company spending heavily today to keep up its future health. Demand
Joe White Contributor Joe is general partner of Entrepreneur First, a Greylock-backed early-stage deep tech fund; co-chair of GBx, a curated network of British entrepreneurs in the Bay Area; and a former co-founder of Moonfruit.com, a website and e-commerce platform. We’re in unprecedented times and are likely at the beginning of a long journey back
As domestic and global economies grapple with the COVID-19 era, its impact on startups is coming into focus: All will be impacted, many will suffer and some will close. Boston, a city that TechCrunch keeps tabs on, has seen a number of well-known startups struggle in recent weeks. Their misfortunes come quickly after companies in
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. The whole crew was present this week: Natasha, Danny and Alex, along with our intrepid producer Chris. And like the last few episodes it was good to have everyone around as there was so very much to get through. Even better there
Although virtually all major sporting events have been canceled or postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus outbreak — including, most notably, the 2020 Summer Olympic Games which were to be held in Tokyo — the Ultimate Fighting Championship looked to be one of the lone holdouts. Despite the upcoming UFC Fight Nights being shelved, CEO
Nimish SawantApr 10, 2020 18:00:17 IST Coronavirus-mandated lockdowns everywhere have forced us to rethink how we collaborate and communicate. Unless you have been living under a rock, the one video chat app that has clearly seen a massive rise in popularity is Zoom. Before February, Zoom was only known among enterprise users and tech journalists
FP TrendingApr 10, 2020 17:35:22 IST Apple has been contributing in its own way in the fight against the coronavirus. This time, the Cupertino-based tech giant has come up with something innovative for kids. It has released a new “30 Creative Activities for Kids” worksheet keeping in view those children who are forced to opt
So, you’ve spilled something on your laptop. Time is of the essence. You must turn your laptop off, unplug it, and remove the battery at once. Go ahead and press that power button until your machine shuts down. Do that now! Every second counts. Okay, are you back with us? Here’s a more in-depth guide
Employees sit behind protective screens as they eat in a cafeteria at the offices of Hyundai Card credit card company in Seoul, South Korea on April 9, 2020.Photo: Getty Images The city of Daegu, South Korea reported no new cases of the coronavirus on Friday, the first time that’s happened since February after spending months
More than six dozen startup founders, venture capitalists, and lobby groups in India have requested the government to grant them a “robust relief package” to help combat severe disruptions their businesses face due to the coronavirus outbreak. In a joint letter to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, startups requested the government to bankroll 50% of their
tech2 News StaffApr 10, 2020 09:35:24 IST Solar winds, released by the Sun, might hit the Earth from 10 to 11 April. However, worry not, the Earth has its shield in place and the winds should not have any negative effects on the life on the planet. This was reported by a space weather site,
Missing your workplace? Course you are. Lockdowns around the world have forced millions of people to swap their regular office for a home office. But, really, working from home isn’t quite the same. For a start, the ambience is completely different. Because your co-workers aren’t there. That may be a blessing for some, but for
It didn’t take long for The Mandalorian to become the flagship series of Disney’s streaming video service, Disney+. The first season of the Star Wars spinoff series earned critical acclaim and delivered a cultural touchstone in the form of an adorable, Force-wielding 50-year-old toddler. Season 1 of The Mandalorian concluded in December 2019 with an impressive
It’s a brutal time for marijuana startups. I’m hearing some are raising at 1/5th of their 2019 valuation amidst rampant competition, tall taxes, and slow legalization. The struggles for marijuana’s best-known startup, delivery service Eaze, continue as today it’s losing one of its top partners. $75 million-funded weed brand empire Caliva has dropped Eaze in
Graphic: Sam Rutherford (Emojipedia) The coronavirus pandemic has already been wrecking release schedules for everything from blockbuster movies to new operating systems. But now, even something that’s been helping people stay connected in this time of social distancing is running into issues: emoji. Advertisement In a recent blog by the Unicode Consortium (the organization responsible
Seeqc, a startup that is part of a relatively new class of quantum computing companies that is looking at how to best use classical computing to manage quantum processors, today announced that it has raised $5 million from M Ventures, the strategic corporate venture capital arm of Merck, the German pharmaceutical giant. Merck will be
Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ rare fish will be the bane of your completionist career. Whether trying to fill out your museum or critterpedia, or to just make stacks of bells from C.J., there’s bound to be a finned friend or two that’ll stop you in your tracks. Animal Crossing doesn’t throw every fish at you at
It looks like the Google Pixel 4a may step things up in terms of performance and features. A new report from 9to5Google claims to detail the majority of the specs of the upcoming budget phone. If it’s correct, the new device will offer some serious value for the money. First up, the Pixel 4a will
A new partnership will see the delivery of VR headsets to senior care facilities across all 50 states. According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control), older adults with preexisting medical conditions are prone to more serious complications as a result of the COVID-19 virus. It’s for this reason senior care facilities across the US
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