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Uber threatened to fire engineer at center of Waymo trade secret lawsuit

May 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Uber has issued a sternly worded letter to Anthony Levandowski, the engineer at the center of a lawsuit alleging theft of trade secrets from Google parent Alphabet’s self-driving technology unit Waymo. The gist? Comply with the court’s orders [...]

Facebook takes on Twitch with new live-streaming deal for esports

May 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

In addition to Facebook’s announcement of a new partnership with the MLB to live stream a number of regular season games, the social network this week also signed a deal with global esports company ESL to bring over [...]

Facebook rolls out a new “Order Food” option in its main navigation

May 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Facebook is now making it easier for you to order food from your favorite restaurants directly within its app, without having to navigate away to a delivery service or restaurant’s own app or website. In the main Facebook [...]

Away nears 100K stylish suitcases sold as it raises $20M

May 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

What do people actually want in luggage? A phone charger, unbreakable exterior, and maximum packing space at a resonable price is what Away discovered. So it built a line of sleek but expansive polycarbonite suitcases equipped with battery [...]

A new era for startup investing in Latin America

May 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Startups in Latin America are using creative solutions to address not just local but also global problems. For investors outside the region, the prospect of working with these startups can appear attractive, yet complicated. Investing in early-stage startups [...]

Facebook takes on Twitch with new livestreaming deal for esports

May 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

In addition to Facebook’s announcement of a new partnership with the MLB to live stream a number of regular season games, the social network this week also signed a deal with global esports company ESL to bring over [...]

Weekly Roundup: WannaCry ransomware attack, Google I/O, RecordGram wins Startup Battlefield

May 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

This week the TechCrunch team threw another successful Disrupt conference, this time in New York City. 20 companies took the stage at TechCrunch’s Startup Battlefield, where they presented their products and took questions from our expert judges. The [...]

3D printing soft legs can help a robot walk across rough and rocky terrain

May 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

A team of engineers at the University of California San Diego have applied the biologically-inspired principles of soft robotics in order to develop a robot capable of navigating uneven terrain like rocks and sand. The soft and pliable [...]

Naval Ravikant hints at future plans for Product Hunt and adding secondary trading to AngelList

May 19th, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Earlier this week, at TechCrunch’s Disrupt event in New York, we sat down with AngelList cofounder and CEO Naval Ravikant to talk primarily about the platform’s new Angel Funds product, wherein a select number of proven “angel-operators” is [...]