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Facebook teams up with The Trevor Project for LGBTQ youth suicide prevention

Facebook teams up with The Trevor Project for LGBTQ youth suicide prevention

Facebook has partnered with The Trevor Project, a suicide prevention hotline for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or queer youth, to bring additional crisis support to Facebook Messenger. Back in March, Facebook brought suicide prevention tools to both Live and Messenger in partnership with organizations like the Crisis Text Line, the National Eating Disorder Association and the National…

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Upload VR startup raised $4.5 million Series A from Colopl, General Catalyst last year

Upload VR startup raised $4.5 million Series A from Colopl, General Catalyst last year

Upload, which shiftedthe UploadVR brandto its media armearlier this year,closed a funding round in September of last yearraising $4.5 million, TechCrunch has learned. The timing of the previously unreported funding round was alluded to in a sexual harassment lawsuit filed yesterday by a former employee. The funding round was led by Colopl. Other participants in the $4.5 million Series Ainclude…

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SpaceX successfully launches its heaviest geostationary orbital payload yet

SpaceX successfully launches its heaviest geostationary orbital payload yet

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying a payload from communications satellite operate Inmarsat, the fourth in a constellation created to provide high-bandwidth broadspeed Internet globally. The payload is the largest ever launched on a Falcon 9, which is why the mission parameters didnt call for an attempt to recover the first stage of the rocket. The launch was originally slated to be done…

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WannaCry ransomware is still spreading fast, but kill switch defenses hold for now

WannaCry ransomware is still spreading fast, but kill switch defenses hold for now

The WannaCry ransomware sweeping the world hasnt stopped its progress, but quick action by cybersecurity professionals has at least partially limited the damage it does as it goes. Over the weekend a kill switch was discovered by accident, which doesnt stop the malware from spreading, but at least prevents it from activating the code that encrypts and ransoms your data. Researchers at Check Point…

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Intel could be about to release a very expensive Core i9 CPU

Intel could be about to release a very expensive Core i9 CPU

Computex is right around the corner. While we dont generally cover PC component updates, this leak about Intels plan is interesting. The company is apparently about to unveil a new lineup of desktop CPUs with a new high-end Core i9 CPU with 12 cores. Intels plans leaked on AnandTechs board. It looks like some employee or partner took a photo of a PowerPoint presentation in German with the full…

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Oscar Healths CEO believes the U.S. has a moral obligation to provide healthcare to its citizens

Oscar Healths CEO believes the U.S. has a moral obligation to provide healthcare to its citizens

Health insurance in the US is broken. That much seems to be regarded as a universal truth. Oscar Health co-founder and CEO Mario Schlosser acknowledged that the system is need of some major fixes this afternoon during a panel at Disrupt New York. And the country, he added, certainly has a ways to go in order to address those key shortcomings. Asked whether the United States has a moral obligation…

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Guy has a hilarious reaction to a strong sedative Reactions to pain medication have a special place on the internet. Eight years and 135 million views later, …

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‘Black Mirror’ game of whack-a-mole becomes reality using Hololens The augmented reality game of whack-a-mole in the popular Black Mirror episode "Playtest" may have seemed like a fascinating look at the future but now it's real.

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Protesters visit a Trump golf course with one objective: \

Protesters visit a Trump golf course with one objective: \

Image: indivisible san pedro What do you get when you cross 200 protesters with a Donald Trump-branded golf course? It’s not a joke; this actually happened, and those 200 protesters hit the dirt at southern California’s Trump National Golf Club to spell out an emphatic statement: “RESIST!” SEE ALSO: Scorching ‘SNL’ Weekend Update hits Comey firing, Trump-Russia The group in question is the San…

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Lyft teams with Google's Waymo for self-driving cars

Lyft teams with Google’s Waymo for self-driving cars

Image: Kelly Sullivan/Getty Images for Lyft The ride-hailing app wars just took another dramatic turn with the announcement that Google’s Waymo self-driving car team will be teaming up with Lyft, Uber’s chief rival. This could change everything. SEE ALSO: Google goes after Uber in court over self-driving car secrets In a deal that was confirmed by both Waymo and Lyft in a report from The New York…

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NBCUniversal buys an arts and crafts tutorial site

NBCUniversal buys an arts and crafts tutorial site

Image: craftsy NBCUniversal is getting into arts and crafts. The media conglomerate said this week that it’s buying Craftsy, a DIY tutorial and art supply site, in what Recode reported to be a $230 million deal. The Denver-based startup merges media and e-commerce with paywalled courses on everything from watercolor painting to “mastering the art of the pizza,” as well as a catalog of crafting…

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Brazils fintech boom offers new vertical opportunities for investors

Brazils fintech boom offers new vertical opportunities for investors

Romero Rodrigues Contributor Romero Rodrigues is a managing partner at Redpoint eVentures, the Brazilian-focused arm of the Silicon Valley venture firm Redpoint. More posts by this contributor: Brazils tech-sector bright spots beckon asit begins to emerge from long economic crisis Latin Americas chronic inefficiency could drive more O2O commerce growth Fintech is booming around the world. Global…

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Crunch Report | Waymo v. Uber is going to trial Todays Stories Waymos lawsuit against Uber is going to trial, judge rules Apples Watch can detect an abnormal heart rhythm with 97% accuracy, UCSF study says Credits Written by: Tito Hamze, John MannesEdited & Hosted by: Tito HamzeFilmed & Teleprompter:Tito Hamze Notes: I dont know what to wear on Crunch Report (Its a hard decision and I suck at dressing myself). If you are a startup andwant to me to wear something mail me an XL T-shirt and Ill wear it in an episode. Im not going to mention the company on the shirt in the episode but it will be there. No offensive stuff, its totally at my discretion if I wear it.Mail it to me. Thanks ❤ Ok, bye. TechCrunch C/O Tito Hamze 410 Townsend street Suite 100 San Francisco Ca. 94107 Read more:

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Designs exclusion problem

Ashleigh Axios Contributor Prior to joining Automattic as design exponent, Ashleigh was the Creative Director and a digital strategist for the Obama White House. Youve probably seen one or a few public relations disasters pop up in the tech industry. Usually, a well-meaning, well-funded, and far-reaching tech company lands itself in the hot seat after rolling out a product and then discovering…

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That global ransomware attack was halted apparently by accident

That global ransomware attack was halted apparently by accident

Yesterdays global ransomware attack was scary for several reasons, but quick action by a security researcher at MalwareTech at least put an end to its spreading although the researcher didnt realize it at the time. The whole story is here, but the gist is this. The ransomware, as you may have heard, was spreading using an exploit disclosed from NSA records by the Shadow Brokers last month. It had…