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...
Windham Campbell Prizes Name Recipients for 2019
The Windham-Campbell Prizes announced eight winners today at an event in London. Established in 2013, the prize seeks to “call attention to literary achievement and provide...
Two CNN reporters wore matching green jackets, and of course they got green screened
I love a good matching outfit — and so, too, does Twitter. On Wednesday, two CNN correspondents looked like twins when they wore seemingly identical green...
Meet the 19 startups in AngelPad’s 12th batch
AngelPad just wrapped the 12th run of its three months long New York City startup accelerator. For the second time, the program didn’t culminate in a...
The Inactive Ingredients in Pills Can Cause Side Effects, Too
The annoying, even life-threatening, side effects of a medication may not actually be caused by the drug itself, explains a new study out Wednesday. Sometimes, the...
My List of Taylor Swift’s 10 Best Songs of All Time
Taylor Swift has been releasing bangers since she was 16-years-old. A post shared by Taylor Swift (@taylorswift) on Mar 2, 2019 at 2:15pm PST That’s like, a...
Doctors Are Prescribing Fewer Opioids, but Not Always for the Right Reasons
Doctors are starting to give out significantly fewer new opioid prescriptions to their patients, according to a study this week in the New England Journal of...
