Why Chennai, India’s Sixth Biggest City, Has Run Out of Water
In what’s becoming an increasingly common story, a major city has run out of water. Chennai, India is home to 4.65 million and a severe deficit...
Airbus-owned Voom will compete with Uber Copter in the US in 2019
The U.S. air taxi market is heating up: Aeronautics industry giant Airbus will be among the companies operating on-demand air travel service in 2019 in American...
Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative gives $68M to fund Human Cell Atlas projects
An ongoing global project to map the human body cell by cell has received a $68 million shot in the arm from the Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative. It...
Researchers Discover Giant Freshwater Aquifer off U.S. East Coast
In a welcome bit of news as water shortages hit major cities worldwide, scientists have discovered an enormous low-salinity aquifer off the U.S. East Coast. The researchers...
‘Child’s Play’ is the most gruesome sendup of Big Tech yet
Warning: Mild spoilers for Child’s Play (2019) below. It may seem strange that a horror movie about a killer doll is better primed to terrify Big...
Ray Dalio is coming to Disrupt SF
When it comes to the gods of finance, few people reach the stratosphere of Ray Dalio . The founder of Bridgewater, the investment firm that has...
Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 prepares to go sailing on sunlight
Among the many spacecraft and satellites ascending to space on Monday’s Falcon Heavy launch, the Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 may be the most interesting. If all...
This company wants cars to get software updates while driving
I sat with my hands on the wheel in the middle of a mini green race track, watching the feed from the tiny car I was...
Daily Crunch: Google’s not making any more tablets
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at...
Slack and Zoom are flying high; they’re also being chased already by upstarts
Two of the highest-flying now-public enterprise companies of the year — Slack and Zoom — are different in many ways, besides the fact that one is...
