Day: August 5, 2021

Struggling to Recruit, Police Turn to Targeted Ads

Your favorite social media platform likely knows more about you than your parents do. Our clicks, likes, and follows reveal patterns that sophisticated algorithms turn into behavioral profiles revealing our political beliefs, sexualities, ethnicities, even our health. Now police recruiters are tapping these insights to […]

Daily Crunch: Second-day trading surge launches Robinhood stock into meme territory

To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for August 4, 2021. It’s been hectic: Robinhood’s stock lost its mind. Facebook made another chunk […]

Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 rumored to support both Google Assistant and Bixby Samsung Galaxy Watch 3

The Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 could support both Samsung’s Bixby voice assistant and Google Assistant, according to a new rumor. While we knew the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4 would probably inherit some fun perks from Google’s Wear OS now that it and Samsung have collaborated […]

Uber CEO calls Massachusetts gig economy ballot measure the ‘right answer’

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi expressed his support Wednesday for a ballot initiative in Massachusetts that would keep gig economy workers classified as independent contractors, fulfilling a promise he made nearly a year ago to push for laws that preserve its business model. “In the state […]