The CEO of Uber, Travis Kalanick, resigns from the company, Tesla gets a new lead, Andrej Karpathy, for their autopilot program, University of Michigan students get driverless shuttles and Snapchat introduces Snap Maps. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
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When Mercari became Japan’s first startup unicorn with a $75 million round last year, the funding was earmarked to fuel its goal of becoming the top secondhand marketplace app in the U.S. Now Mercari is doubling down on its efforts to succeed where no other Asian e-commerce company has. Today it launched a refreshed version of its American app and announced the hiring of John Lagerling… Read More
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The latest trailer for “Game of Thrones” is here, and it’s got all the ingredients to get you hyped for season 7.
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Uber may get a fresh start following Travis Kalanick’s resignation. But any new CEO needs to watch out for the old one’s continued involvement.
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Russia-based online freight service Deliver (formerly iCanDeliver) has closed a seed round of $8 million. The startup automates the process of ordering freight transport and makes things more efficient by finding the closest sender. Inventure Partners (which has invested in Gett, Busfor, Amwell, Chronext and Netology) invested $3 million, joining A&NN Group and Singapore-based Amereus Group… Read More
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The iMac 2017 benchmarks have appeared online through Geekbench 4 and show the latest batch paired up against the 2015 models, as well as the Mac Pro. On a graphics compute front, the new iMacs outperform the Mac Pro and the 2015 generation.
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The 117th birthday of the influential filmmaker and artist is marked with a Google Doodle that invites you to make a visual music composition.
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Netflix’s exclusivity deal with Disney is a Force to be reckoned with.
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Summer just started, but HBO wants to remind us winter is coming in less than a month.
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Dust off your Google Glasses, those who still have them — the $1,500 face computer is back in the spotlight today with a few updates. In its first update since September 2014, Google Glass got a “MyGlass” companion app update, some bug fixes and now supports Bluetooth. Read More
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