American Airlines will use passenger planes for cargo-only flights to Europe: Frederic Lardinois American Airlines today announced that it will fly a handful of cargo-only flights to Europe, using its

The 20 best startups from Y Combinator's W20 Demo Day: Anna Escher, Josh Constine, Brian Heater, Greg Kumparak, Ingrid Lunden, Natasha Mascarenhas, Lucas Matney, Alex Wilhelm With world events overtaking

Beware of "ZoomBombing": screensharing filth to video calls: Josh Constine The world is vulnerable to a new type of trolling as people turn to Zoom video calls to feel connected amidst quarantines.

The latest Powerbeats bring Pro-style updates to a tethered design at $149: Brian Heater After several weeks worth of leaks, the latest version of Apple/Beat’s Powerbeats arrive this week. One key thing

How big tech is taking on COVID-19: Brian Heater Over the past week, one thing has become painfully clear for U.S. residents: COVID-19 is going to permeate every aspect of our lives for a long time to

White House and House Democrats agree to funding package for paid sick leave, funding for tests: Jonathan Shieber Late Friday night, after nearly two full days of negotiations, the House of Representatives

Coronavirus could force ISPs to abandon data caps forever: Devin Coldewey Pressure from the global pandemic has broadband companies loosening the arbitrary restrictions on the connections users pay for

Twitter makes working from home mandatory for employees around the world in response to COVID-19: Catherine Shu After “strongly encouraging” it earlier this month, Twitter said today that working from

Hitachi Vantara acquires what's left of Containership: Frederic Lardinois Hitachi Vantara, the wholly-owned subsidiary of Hitachi that focuses on building hardware and software to help companies manage

Immutouch wristband buzzes to stop you touching your face: Josh Constine In the age of coronavirus, we all have to resist the urge to touch our faces. It’s how the virus can travel from doorknobs or other

Burn the EARN IT Act: Jon Evans I want to talk about malignant incompetence on the part of our elected officials, and this isn’t even about the pandemic. Rather, it’s about the spectacularly misguided,

The first SpaceX Dragon capsule is taking its final flight: Jonathan Shieber Last night, SpaceX launched its first generation Dragon capsule on its twentieth — and final — resupply run to the International

India's Yes Bank breakdown disrupts Walmart's PhonePe among a dozen other services: Manish Singh Tens of millions of merchants and users in India are struggling to make online transactions and use some

Hailo raises $60M Series B for its AI chips: Frederic Lardinois Israeli AI chipmaker Hailo today announced that it has raised a $60 million Series B funding round led by its existing investors, who were

Resso, Bytedance's music streaming app, officially launches in India, sans Tencent-backed Universal Music: Ingrid Lunden, Manish Singh TikTok, the hugely popular social media app, found a lot of early

Robinhood suffers prolonged outage on the day the Dow enjoyed its single biggest point gain: Jonathan Shieber Robinhood, the startup with a stock trading app valued upwards of at least $7.6 billion, suffered

How to work during a pandemic: Devin Coldewey The world is bracing for the seemingly inevitable proliferation of SARS-COV-12, also known as COVID-19 and coronavirus, which has already paralyzed cities

Why you can’t overlook the small details in the pursuit of innovation: Danny Crichton This week, we read a very short story, The Great Silence, as we start to head toward the end of Ted Chiang’s Exhalation

GDC 2020 has been canceled: Lucas Matney Well, after what I’m sure was a hectic few days for the folks planning the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, the team announced today that they have

Indian research firm Convergence Catalyst is ready for its second act: Manish Singh A 9-year-old is smashing the shuttle far and wide, and frantically pacing back and forth on the court in Bangalore, India,