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The Left and the Right Speak Different Languages—Literally

WILL KNIGHT

A study analyzed patterns in online comments and found liberals and conservatives use different words to express similar ideas.

4 quick bites and obituaries on Quibi (RIP 2020-2020)

LUCAS MATNEY

In memory of the death of Quibi, here's a quick sendoff from three of our writers who came together to discuss what we can learn from Quibi's amazing, instantaneous, billions-of-dollars failure. Lucas Matney looks at what the potential was for Quibi and how it missed the mark in media. Danny Crichton discusses why billions of […]

Daily Crunch: Quibi is shutting down

ANTHONY HA

The end is in sight for Quibi, PayPal adds cryptocurrency support and Netflix tests a new promotional strategy. This is your Daily Crunch for October 21, 2020. The big story: Quibi might be shutting down The much-hyped streaming video app led by Jeffrey Katzenberg and Meg Whitman, which raised nearly $2 billion in funding, is […]

Tesla is a chain of startups, Elon Musk explains

MATT BURNS

Today during a call with investors and journalists, Tesla CEO Elon Musk was asked to expand a tweet from yesterday. In it, he stated: "Tesla should really be thought of as roughly a dozen technology startups, many of which have little to no correlation with traditional automotive companies." Tesla wows on latest numbers In short, […]

NASA reaches out and touches an asteroid 320 million kilometers away

ERIC BERGER

"Literally, we crushed it."

How to Watch the Final 2020 Presidential Debate

CAITLIN KELLY

Joe Biden and Donald Trump square off for the second and last time on a debate stage Thursday night in Nashville.

New Google Nest Hub experiment nixes the “Hey Google” voice hotword

RON AMADEO

A leaked "Blue Steel" feature will answer anyone standing in front of the display.

This former Tesla CIO just raised $150 million more to pull car dealers into the 21st century

CONNIE LOIZOS

"I have to choose my words carefully," says Joe Castelino of Stevens Creek Volkswagen in San Jose, Ca., when asked about the software on which most car dealerships rely for inventory information, to manage marketing, to handle customer relationships and to otherwise help sell cars. Castelino, the dealership's service director, laughs as he says this. […]

Narf! Yakko, Wakko, and Dot are back in first trailer for Animaniacs reboot

JENNIFER OUELLETTE

They're "animaney, totally insaney, never man-splainy Animaniacs."

Zurich investors look to Switzerland’s depth in fintech, deep tech and blockchain for the future

MIKE BUTCHER

European entrepreneurs who want to launch startups could do worse than Switzerland. In a report analyzing Europe's general economic health, cost of doing business, business environment and labor force quality, analysts looked for highly educated populations, strong economies, healthy business environments and relatively low costs for conducting business. Switzerland ended up ranking third out of […]

Acapela, from the founder of Dubsmash, hopes ‘asynchronous meetings’ can end Zoom fatigue

STEVE O'HEAR

Acapela, a new startup co-founded by Dubsmash founder Roland Grenke, is breaking cover today in a bid to re-imagine online meetings for remote teams. Hoping to put an end to video meeting fatigue, the product is described as an "asynchronous meeting platform," which Grenke and Acapela's other co-founder, ex-Googler Heiki Riesenkampf (who has a deep […]

Health insurance startup Alan lets you chat with a doctor

ROMAIN DILLET

French startup Alan is building health insurance products. And 100,000 people are now covered through Alan . I caught up with the company’s co-founder and CEO Jean-Charles Samuelian-Werve so that he could give us an update on the product. Alan has obtained its own health insurance license and is a proper insurance company. It doesn’t […]

Facebook Dating launches in Europe after 9-month+ delay over privacy concerns

NATASHA LOMAS

Facebook's dating bolt-on to its eponymous social networking service has finally launched in Europe, more than nine months after an earlier planned launched was pulled at the last minute over privacy concerns. From today, European Facebook users in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Croatia, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, […]

Hearings begin in Samsung vice chairman Jay Y. Lee’s accounting fraud trial

CATHERINE SHU

The trial of Samsung leader Jay Y. Lee, who is accused of accounting fraud and stock price manipulating, held its first hearing today at the Seoul Central District Court. The Seoul Central District Court denied prosecutors' arrest warrant request for Lee in June, stating that even though they had secured a "considerable amount of evidence," […]

Adyen alumni raise €2.6M seed to launch Silverflow, a ‘cloud-native’ card payments processor

STEVE O'HEAR

Silverflow, a Dutch startup founded by Adyen alumni, is breaking cover and announcing seed funding. The pre-launch company has spent the last two years building what it describes as a "cloud-native" online card processor that directly connects to card networks. The aim is to offer a modern replacement for the 20 to 40-year-old payments card […]