The “splinternet” is already here
Keith Wright Contributor Share on Twitter Keith Wright is a Villanova School of Business instructor of Accounting and Information Systems, founder of Simplicity On-Demand LLC and...
Flight on Southwest or American? Make sure it wasn’t on a Boeing 737 Max.
The FAA may have just messed up your travel plans. On Wednesday, the agency announced that it’s grounding all Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 airplanes...
Uber reportedly raising $1B in deal that values self-driving car unit at up to $10B
Uber is in negotiations with investors, including the SoftBank Vision Fund, to secure an investment as large as $1 billion for its autonomous vehicles unit. The...
Ford is expanding its self-driving vehicle program to Austin
Ford is preparing to open an autonomous vehicle program in Austin as the automaker continues to ramp up testing ahead of launching a self-driving taxi and...
Ysplit wants to make it so you never owe your friends money again
When you live with roommates or go out often with friends, it’s common for someone to front the payment — be that for utilities, the cable...
HP expands fire risk laptop battery recall
Back in January 2018, HP issued a battery recall covering 50,000 laptop batteries which had the potential to overheat and become either a burn of fire...
Inside Tufts University’s grade-hacking case
Each week, Extra Crunch members have access to conference calls moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, security reporter Zack Whittaker discussed his...
It’s not your imagination: This Facebook outage is massive
Facebook is in the midst of its biggest outage in recent memory. Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp have been down for users around the world for at...
DoorDash claims drivers made an average of at least $17.50/hour on deliveries in 2018
On-demand food delivery startup DoorDash has been under fire as of late for its practices around paying drivers. In an email to drivers today, obtained by...
‘The Boy Band Con’ struggles to hide the hatred it has for its subject
The Boy Band Con: The Lou Pearlman Story isn’t so much a Ponzi scheme documentary as it is a bitter obituary for a now-deceased conman, written...
