Day: April 6, 2019

A few months shy of his high school graduation, Kal Turnbull came to a realization: Conversations on the internet are broken. The Scottish teenager had been looking for an online community for friendly debate, a forum whose participants would crack open his mind and fill […]

We wait all year for March Madness and then, before you know it, we’re down to the Final Four. And the first of the two games coming from Minneapolis is the number one ranked team Virginia going up against Auburn of Alabama. The great news […]

This is Gault, an asteroid that is slowly breaking apart as it moves through space. It’s about 500,000 miles long and over 3,000 miles wide. Scientists think that it’s being destroyed by a mechanism called YORP—basically sunlight hits the surface of the asteroid and warms […]

Editor’s Note: refocused newsletters It was another dizzying week here at Extra Crunch as you will shortly see in this newsletter. One change that we are making: we are simplifying our newsletters to keep you better informed on what is happening on Extra Crunch. We […]

In debates about the future of work, technology is often portrayed as the villain. One recent study calculated that 38 percent of jobs in the United States were at a “high risk” of being automated during the next decade. In the construction industry, predictions are […]

Time to put down the form book (and, let’s face it, the pins) – the 2019 Grand National is very nearly here! 40 runners and riders will be hoping to jump their way to victory in the world’s most famous steeplchase trying at Aintree Racecourse […]

San Salvo. “Ravvedimento operoso per pagare sanzioni in misura ridotta e aggiornamento dei regolamenti per le entrate tributarie. Sono i … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit

Extra Crunch offers members the opportunity to tune into conference calls led and moderated by the TechCrunch writers you read every day. This week, TechCrunch’s Kirsten Korosec and Kate Clark led a deep-dive discussion into Lyft’s IPO and the outlook for the business going forward. […]

Civil rights groups, lawmakers, and journalists have long warned Facebook about discrimination on its advertising platform. But their concerns, as well as Facebook’s responses, have focused primarily on ad targeting, the way businesses choose what kind of people they want to see their ads. A […]