Another Silicon Valley company is settling with the SEC: the online lending company Prosper, which the SEC had accused of “miscalculating and materially overstating annualized net returns to retail and other investors.

A hacker has stolen thousands of documents from Mexico’s embassy in Guatemala and posted online.

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Alphabet’s subsidiary focused on urban tech development, Sidewalk Labs, is now trying to reinvent signage for smart cities.

Netflix is testing a new feature that can help you start streaming when you don’t know what to watch.

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Reese Witherspoon’s media company Hello Sunshine already has its hands in movies, television, Apple TV+ shows, podcasts, Audible originals, books, and more.

Apple wants to add more iOS features to macOS according to a report from 9to5mac’s Guilherme Rambo.

ProcessOut has grown quite a lot since I first covered the startup.

The French government just launched its own messaging app called Tchap in order to protect conversations from hackers, private companies and foreign entities.

Back in January, Sequoia India announced plans for its first early-stage startup accelerator program in India and Southeast Asia, and today the firm revealed the first cohort of 17 startups.

Uber’s has confirmed it will spin out its self-driving car business after the unit closed $1 billion in funding from Toyota, auto-parts maker Denso and SoftBank’s Vision Fund.

Last year at our TC Sessions: Robotics conference, Boston Dynamics announced that SpotMini will be its first commercially available product.

Start spreading the news. Netflix is coming to New York City in a big way.

Russian operatives successfully targeted and hacked “at least one” Florida county government in the run up to the 2016 U.

Ivan Poupyrev, the technical projects lead at Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects division, just gave a TED talk that was simultaneously a presentation and a demo of new technology.

San Francisco soft robotics startup Breeze Automation made its debut today onstage at TechCrunch’s TC Sessions: Robotics + AI event at UC Berkeley.

Oh golly does the new trailer for “Child’s Play” look good.

The round values Pilot at $355 million.

Industrial automation is already streamlining the manufacturing process, but first those machines must be painstakingly trained by skilled engineers.

The company’s vast power in e-commerce is only the initial, quick jab to an opponent’s face.

“We want your followers to focus on what you share, not how many likes your posts get.

A single paragraph in the Mueller report out Thursday offers an interesting look into how the Special Counsel’s investigation came head-to-head with associates of President Trump who used encrypted and ephemeral messaging to hide their activities.

If you want to build a robot that can fall hundreds of feet and be no worse the wear, legs are pretty much out of the question.

Amazon today announced the launch of a free, ad-supported music service in the U.

Is reading the news feeling a little stressful today? Can’t imagine why.

On Thursday, Attorney General William Barr released the long-anticipated Mueller report.

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In one of the weirder revelations to come out of the Mueller report released this morning, it seems that Craigslist was yet another tech platform used in Russia’s election influence campaign.

Uber and Lyft instituted new safety features and policies this week.

Facebook has confirmed its password-related security incident last month now affects “millions” of Instagram users, not “tens of thousands” as first thought.

Pinterest is the latest high-profile tech unicorn to go public.

The Mueller report contains new information about how the Russian government hacked documents and emails from Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee .

Microsoft has never been shy about being acquisitive, and today it announced it’s buying Express Logic, a San Diego company that has developed a real-time operating system (RTOS) aimed at controlling the growing number of IoT devices in the world.

Following reports that Amazon is preparing to launch a free, streaming music service for Echo owners, Google today announced YouTube Music will be free on its Google Home smart speakers and other Google Assistant-powered speakers — like those from JBL, Panasonic, Sony and others.

He invented modern social media, then had it stolen from him. So how does Evan Spiegel feel about it, and how will he turn Snapchat’s product leadership into a profitable business? We’ll bring you the answers at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, where Snap CEO Evan Spiegel will join us.

Today at TechCrunch’s TC Sessions: Robotics + AI event at UC Berkeley, Nvidia VP of Engineering Claire Delaunay announced that the company’s Isaac SDK is available for download.

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Venture investors, private equity, and corporations funneled $2 billion into digital health startups in the first quarter of 2019, down 19% from the nearly $2.

CloudBees, the enterprise continuous integration and delivery service (and the biggest contributor to the Jenkins open-source automation server), today announced that it has acquired Electric Cloud, a continuous delivery and automation platform that first launched all the way back in 2002.

Soylent is leaving liquids behind as it journeys deeper into the packaged food business with a selection of snack sized bars.

Zoom, a profitable tech unicorn, has begun trading on the Nasdaq.

A new report from Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo obtained by 9to5mac details the cameras in the next-generation iPhones.

The USDA this morning announced the launch of a pilot program that will open up online grocery shopping to those on public assistance.

Pete Curley and Garret Heaton, who previously co-founded team chat app HipChat and sold it to Atlassian, are officially launching their new product Swoot today.

The Mueller report has been published. It was posted at 11am ET, a month after Special Counsel Robert Mueller submitted his findings to the Justice Department examining Russian interference in the 2016 U.

Fuzzbuzz, a graduate of the most recent Y Combinator class, got the kind of news every early-stage startup wants to hear when it landed a $2.

If there weren’t enough obstacles already standing between Congress and the results of the special counsel’s multiyear investigation, lawmakers are expecting to need an optical drive to read the document.

Apple announced today a further investment in its recycling programs and related e-waste efforts, which includes an expansion of its recycling program for consumers and the announcement of a new, 9,000-square-foot Material Recovery Lab based in Austin, Texas, focused on discovering future recycling processes.

After nearly two years of investigation and months of delays (not to mention partisan bickering the whole time), Special Investigator Robert Mueller's report on the President's campaign and Russian interference in the 2016 election is out.

It might be time to move on from BBM. The consumer version of the BlackBerry Messenger will shut down on May 31.

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Google and Amazon are burying the hatchet to better serve users of their respective streaming video platforms, the companies announced this morning.

In an era of social media manipulation and disinformation, we could sure use some help from innovative entrepreneurs.

Marketers get a lot of incoming from the data they have to deal with, bound up in hundreds of spreadsheets and reports, making it time consuming and tricky to get value out of.

Weengs, the U. K.. logistics startup for e-commerce businesses that need a more convenient way of getting online orders to customers, has raised £6.

Amazon has finally given up the fight with Chinese online shopping giants to capture the domestic market.

French startup Bankin’ is raising a new $22. 6 million funding round (€20 million).

Remote driving startup Phantom Auto has raised $13. 5 million of financing in a Series A round led by Bessemer Venture Partners — capital used to expand a logistics business targeting sidewalks, warehouses and cargo yards, all the places where autonomy and teleoperation are being deployed today.

Spotinst, the cloud automation and optimization startup founded in Tel Aviv but now with offices in San Francisco, New York, and London too, has acquired AWS partner StratCloud.

If there weren’t enough obstacles already standing between Congress and the results of the special counsel’s multiyear investigation, lawmakers are expecting to need an optical drive to read the document.

Coffee startup Luckin is continuing its fundraising spree as it sets its sight on becoming an alternative to Starbucks in China.

Samsung has issued a statement about its new, folding phone as early photos of tech reviewers with their shiny new toys were replaced on social media (and in numerous columns) with complaints from those same tech reviewers about problems with the phone’s screen.

Best Buy is partnering with the Israeli technology Tyto Care to become the official retailer for the company’s all-in-one digital diagnostics kit through its physical stores in California, the Dakotas, Ohio and Minnesota and through its online store.

With a clinical version of PathAI‘s computer vision-based pathogen detection service still at least one year from coming to market, the diagnostic technology developer has snagged $60 million in its latest round of financing.

Car2go, free-floating car-sharing service owned by Daimler, temporarily shut down its service in Chicago on Wednesday after dozens of Mercedes-Benz vehicles were stolen using the app.

Pinterest will begin trading on the NYSE tomorrow.

Nothing scales like a horoscope. If you haven’t heard of Co-Star, you might just be in the wrong circles.

A seemingly endless number of startups has attracted funding in recent years to make life easier for people with money to spend.

I’ve not had any technical issues with my Samsung Galaxy Fold. So far, so good.

A stream of Chipotle customers have said their accounts have been hacked and are reporting fraudulent orders charged to their credit cards — sometimes totaling hundreds of dollars.

Salesforce announced today it’s buying another company built on its platform.

The video conferencing business will go public on the Nasdaq tomorrow, the same day as fellow tech unicorn Pinterest.

There isn’t much left to be done in online networking apps. We are all familiar with professional (LinkedIn), social (Facebook), realtime (Twitter), and dating (Tinder, Bummble etc).

It’s super early-bird season for startuppers of every stripe, meaning it’s time to grab the lowest prices on passes to Disrupt San Francisco 2019, going down on October 2-4 at Moscone North.

The FCC has proposed to deny an application from China Mobile, a state-owned telecom, to provide interconnect and mobile services here in the U.

Shared electric scooters are close to overtaking bike-sharing, according to the National Association of City Transportation Officials.

Coinbase is currently only available in 32 countries around the world — mostly in North America, Europe, Australia and Singapore.

Investors have forked over $33 million in a new round of funding for Redox, hoping that the company can execute on its bid to serve as the link between healthcare providers and the technology companies bringing new digital services to market.

With air quality not improving any time soon (hello pollution!) respiratory conditions are on the rise.

Foxconn chairman Terry Gou officially announced on Wednesday that he will run for president of Taiwan.

Quotes from articles are much more eye-catching than links on Twitter, so the social giant is scooping up the team behind highlight sharing app Highly.

Audi’s self-driving unit has tapped a startup with a unique approach to lidar as it ramps up testing in Munich using a fleet of autonomous electric e-tron crossover vehicles.

Thomas Kurian, the newly-minted CEO of Google Cloud, used the company’s Cloud Next conference last week to lay out his vision for the future of Google’s cloud computing platform.

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Walt Disney and dating app Badoo are the latest companies to pledge funds for the rebuilding of Notre-Dame after the historic cathedral sustained severe damage in a fire earlier this week.

In 2009, the National Institutes of Health launched a five-year, $150 million project to stimulate research into a new field of medicine examining the connections between the millions of bacteria living in the human gut and overall human health.

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Our live conference call on Google Cloud Next Last week at its conference in San Francisco, Google Cloud unveiled a bevy of new features, and we also got to hear for the first time from its head honcho, Thomas Kurian .

Sick of pausing and rewinding YouTube tutorials to replay that tricky part? Jumprope is a new instructional social network offering a powerful how-to video slideshow creation tool.

Maybe you love the sound of your alarm clock blaring in the morning, heralding a new day full of joy and adventure.

Five years ago, Dynamic Yield was courting an investment from The New York Times as it looked to shift how publishers paywalled their content.

While billions of people are now online, thousands of companies large and small are using every channel they can to reach them.

Apple is working to combine its tracking apps, “Find My iPhone” and “Find My Friends” into one unified app available on both iOS and Mac, according to a new report from the Apple news site 9to5Mac.

Apple Pay has been a payment option in Uber’s app since fall 2014, but the payment option hadn’t made its way over to Uber’s food delivery app, Uber Eats.

EAT Club, the lunch delivery service that counts companies like Facebook, Postmates and others as customers, has acquired meal delivery service Taro.

In 2017, Lake Buckley turned down an in-house role at Patagonia to launch her freelance design career in a 400 sq.