The GRAMMY award-winning artist just set a new standard for live VR performances. Fresh off their huge $30 Million funding announcement, virtual music platform Wave hosted an amazing live VR concert last week featuring GRAMMY award-winning singer-songwriter John Legend in an effort to help awareness and support for Legend’s FREE AMERICA campaign, with the goal
Month: June 2020
Starbucks joins the growing list of companies that have pulled out advertising dollars from social media, in a stand against the hate speech that has become prevalent on the online platforms. “We believe more must be done to create welcoming and inclusive online communities, and we believe both business leaders and policy makers need to
Samsung is said to be working on a much cheaper version of the Galaxy Fold, which will reportedly be sold at less than half of the smartphone’s $2,000 price tag. The Galaxy Fold 2, which is expected to be unveiled at an August 5 streaming event, may be a bit cheaper than its predecessor, but
Purchases of the upcoming iPhone 12 will apparently not come with the power adapter, following earlier reports that Apple will not include earphones in the smartphone’s package. Instead of including the charger in the iPhone 12’s box, Apple will be releasing a new 20W power adapter as a separate accessory, MacRumors reported, citing a research
The Trump administration’s decision to extend its ban on issuing work visas to the end of this year “would be a blow to very early-stage tech companies trying to get off the ground,” Silicon Valley immigration lawyer Sophie Alcorn told TechCrunch this week. In 2019, the federal government issued more than 188,000 H-1B visas —
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NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy on Saturday tweeted a cool shot showing SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft docked with the International Space Station (ISS). The capsule, seen to the right of the picture, looks tiny alongside the enormous space station, but its interior is actually large enough for a human to perform something close to a somersault.
Twitter will fix the frequency of the fact-checking labels that is intended only to apply to tweets that link COVID-19 to 5G technology. Twitter has taken a stand against the spread of conspiracy theories that claim 5G is spreading the coronavirus, applying a label on tweets that contain potentially harmful and misleading information related to
Facebook’s Dark Mode has started rolling out to iOS devices, more than a month after the feature went live for the social network’s desktop version. Facebook confirmed with SocialMediaToday that Dark Mode is now available for the social network’s iOS app, but currently only for “a small percentage of users globally.” The confirmation comes after
A new entry in SNK’s iconic Metal Slug franchise is in development, in the hands of the studio behind Call of Duty: Mobile, Arena of Valor, and the recently announced Pokémon Unite. The new Metal Slug game does not have a title yet, but it is currently known as Metal Slug Code: J. The trailer
Log into the TotalAR app on July 4th for a 12-minute spectacle delivered straight to your doorstep. Ohio-based immersive technology developer Holopundits isn’t about to let the COVID-19 outbreak stop you from enjoying this year’s Fourth of July festivities. Next month the company is launching a free AR fireworks experience directly to smartphones, allowing those
Leveraging FOMO to get people to donate to meaningful causes is the best thing to come out of 2020 yet. Advertisement On Thursday, a diverse group of young techies began mobilizing the culture of exclusivity and manufactured excitement in the industry to build hype for a mysterious new project cryptically named “It Is What It
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. While the US tech industry relentlessly tries to do business with the rest of the world, this week it became further embroiled in national politics. High-skill immigration visas have been suspended until the
Bummed about the new Bond movie’s delay and on the hunt for a satiating spy thriller? Killing Eve offers the perfect remedy. The darkly funny and disarmingly sexy spy thriller stars Sandra Oh as Eve Polastri, a woman who is incredibly bored of working her desk job in British intelligence services. That is, until she starts
June is Pride month in the U.S., but with the ongoing threat of coronavirus, many in-person Pride events have been cancelled. A group of Pride organizers have come together to create a streamed Global Pride event to celebrate the LGBTI+ community online, and you can watch the 24-hour event all day Saturday 27 June. Artists
We can – and should – expect the same rigorous standards for clinical trials and regulation in alternative medicine as we do conventional ones. After a public launch of an alleged “cure” for COVID-19, Patanjali Ayurved’s marketing stunt with ‘Coronil’ has effectively backfired. The two COVID-19 treatments that the Ayurveda and FMCG giant launched last
Photo: Getty Images The Trump administration, home to some of the most prominent voices that cry wolf about supposed politically biased censorship online, is calling on some of the biggest names in tech and social media to crack down on how users post about ongoing racial-justice protests. Advertisement As first reported by the Washington Post,
Coca Cola said Friday that it will be removing its millions of dollars in advertising from all social media platforms completely for the next 30 days. The company said the move is not part of the growing number of advertisers boycotting Facebook over its content moderation policies, but “time to reassess our advertising policies to
With the news of Microsoft permanently closing its retail stores, maybe the writing was on the wall. COVID-19 has rocked retail. Just think of the names either in trouble or going out of business that we’ve seen as the pandemic unfolded: Pier 1 Imports, J. Crew, even Neiman Marcus. But honestly, the last retailer I
Ubisoft, dealing with a swirl of sexual harassment and abuse allegations within its company, will bring in external consultants to investigate. The company released a statement on June 25 and apologized for the ongoing issue, saying that it will do whatever is necessary, depending on how the investigation plays out. “Concerning recent allegations raised against
TuSimple, the self-driving truck startup backed by Sina, Nvidia, UPS and Tier 1 supplier Mando Corporation, is headed back into the marketplace in search of new capital from investors. The company has hired investment bank Morgan Stanley to help it raise $250 million, according to multiple sources familiar with the effort. Morgan Stanley has sent
Spot.IM, which offers a platform for publishers (including TechCrunch) to manage their user comments, announced this week that it’s rebranding as OpenWeb. CEO and co-founder Nadav Shoval told me that the new name reflects a vision that’s far grander and more ambitious than the company’s initial product, a location-based messaging service. “We all felt that
Navigate a series of high-speed obstacles as the world’s fastest mammal in this fan-made experience. Available for demo this September at the annual Sonic Amateur Games Expo, Virtua Sonic is a high-speed VR experience inspired by everyone’s favorite fast-footed hedgehog in which players zip across custom Zones as they gather coins and defeat enemies using
Shares of Agora, a China and U.S.-based “real-time engagement” API company, soared today after it went public. Yesterday Agora priced 17.5 million shares at $20 apiece, up from its target range of $16 to $18 per share. The firm raised $350 in its debut, or around 10 times its Q1 2020 revenue and is now
Telemedicine is becoming more widely embraced by the day — and not just for humans. With a pet in roughly 65% of U.S. homes, there is now a dizzying number of companies enabling vets to meet with their furry patients remotely, including Petriage, Anipanion, TeleVet, Linkyvet, TeleTails, VetNOW, PawSquad, Vetoclock and Petpro Connect. One of
Nearly 40 million Americans are unemployed, and a recent study that examined more than 66,000 tech job layoffs found that sales and customer success roles are most vulnerable amid COVID-19. In response, some quarters of Silicon Valley are abuzz about a long-standing technology: reskilling, or training individuals to adopt an entirely new skillset or career
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that the social network will be changing several content moderation policies after a number of major advertisers pledged to boycott the company. In a major reversal, Zuckerberg said the company would ban hate speech in paid advertisements on the platform and start cracking down on harmful posts by public figures.
In a blog post this Friday afternoon, Y Combinator’s president Geoff Ralston said that the accelerator would make two changes to its terms for startups. The first would see the size of the standard deal for YC startups decline from $150,000 for 7% (roughly a $2.1 million post-money valuation) to $125,000 for the same equity
Netflix released a teaser trailer for The Cuphead Show, an upcoming animated series based on the beloved, eye-catching indie video game. The show was originally announced last year, and the clip provides a few seconds of animation as well as information about who’s playing the main characters. “The character-driven comedy follows the unique misadventures of
The beta release of Apple’s iOS 14 revealed that TikTok is still accessing the iPhone’s clipboard, months after a pledge to stop the practice. In February, two software developers found an issue in the copy-paste system of Apple’s iOS that may leave sensitive information vulnerable. Tommy Mysk, one of the developers, told Digital Trends that
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