Category: Technology
GoldieBlox agreed to pay $1m to charity in Beastie Boys settlement
Argument over ‘fair use’ of Girls song ended in March with deal to donate to STEM education for girls. By Stuart Dredge. In March, the Beastie Boys reached a settlement with the US toy company GoldieBlox over the latters parody of their song Girls in a viral advert. Now the details of that settlement have […]
Facebook said to be working on dedicated video chat device
Facebook is reportedly working on dedicated video chat hardware, per a new report by Bloomberg. The device is said to be the inaugural major product from Facebook’s hardware-focused Building 8 product development lab, and will include a notebook-sized display. “It’s intended to make video chat participants separated geographically feel like they’re together in the same […]
Tech has become another way for men to oppress women | Lizzie O’Shea
“We act as if technology were neutral but it’s not. The challenge now is to remove the gender bias,” says human rights lawyer and writer Lizzie O’Shea. “Most women in the Bay Area are soft and weak, cosseted and naive, despite their claims of worldliness, and generally full of shit,” wrote former Facebook product manager […]
Boom has orders for 76 of its future supersonic passenger jets
Boom has a new design for its XB-1 Supersonic Demonstrator jet, the working prototype aircraft it’s creating to prove out its tech before beginning work on building real, commercial supersonic passenger aircraft. The new design was revealed Tuesday at the Paris Air Show, along with new business milestones: Boom has orders for 76 aircraft thus […]
Announcing the Judges for the Seattle Meetup + Pitch Off
TechCrunch is headed to Seattle this Thursday for the annual Meetup + Pitch Off. And we are ready to announce our esteemed judges. The pitch-off will consist of 10 startup companies presenting for 60 seconds on stage in front of TechCrunch Editors and tier 1 investors from the Pacific Northwest. The winning team will get […]