Twitter has appointed a resident complaints officer in India days after the American social media company reportedly lost liability cover for user-generated content in the South Asian nation for failing to comply with local IT rules. On Sunday, Twitter identified Vinay Prakash as his new resident complaints officer and shared an opportunity to contact him … Read more
It is easy to find large meteorites (or their craters) once they hit Earth, but the smaller ones are often neglected – scientists recover less than 2 percent of them. Soon, however, it might just be a matter of sending a robot to do the job. Universe Today reports that researchers have developed a system … Read more
A young surfer is carving on the man-made EpicSurf wave created by a couple from Seattle. (CitySurf photo) Surfing is not the easiest sport. But it’s definitely harder to get funding, secure land, and actually build a man-made deep-water wave for surfing in the Seattle area. John and Trisha Hoss have learned from the experiences … Read more
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Even people who don’t own Samsung devices can now enjoy its ad-supported streaming service. According to Protocol, tech giant TV Plus – something that used to be exclusively available on the brand’s TVs and mobile devices – launched for the Internet in May. It was likely a soft launch, as the publication put it, as … Read more
How serious could the suborbital space race between Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos get? (GeekWire photos) Jeff Bezos has a longstanding rivalry with SpaceX’s Elon Musk, but now his space company Blue Origin is stepping up the stakes with future space traveler Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic – and the Twitterverse isn’t amusing. Today’s escalation from … Read more
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s greatest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3:00 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for July 9th, 2021. We made it to Friday, be proud. But we can’t relax yet – there is a lot to do today. From fraudulent … Read more
TikTok uses automation to detect and remove many of the videos that violate its guidelines. For the past year, the service has tested and optimized systems to find and remove such content. It will roll out these systems in the US and Canada over the next few weeks. First, the algorithms will look for posts … Read more
(Nathan Myhrvold Photo / The Cooking Lab) If you think New York is a blast as the best pizza town in the United States, then fuggedaboutit! According to Nathan Myhrvold and Francisco Migoya, co-authors of the upcoming Modernist Pizza, Portland, Oregon makes the best pizzas. Bloomberg reported this week that the authors came to this … Read more
As environmental issues really grew up in the 1990s, some German automakers met in secret groups to make sure their cars continued to diligently contribute to greenhouse gas emissions. According to the European Union, Volkswagen, Audi, Porsche, BMW and the Mercedes-Benz parent company Daimler have made illegal agreements to restrict competition in the emission control … Read more