Key Updates: Sept. 11, 2021, 6:12 p.m. ET Sept. 11, 2021, 6:12 p.m. ET Emma Raducanu wins the U.S. Open in straight sets. Sept. 11, 2021, 5:25 p.m. ET Sept. 11, 2021, 5:25 p.m. ET Raducanu wins a stirring first set, 6-4. Sept. 11, 2021, 4:04 p.m. ET Sept. 11, 2021, 4:04 p.m. ET The … Read more
Supabase, the backend-as-a-service startup, announced this week that it has raised a Series A of $ 30 million. Supabase is often described as an open source alternative to Google’s Firebase … which is a pretty good phrase for those who know what Firebase is. For those who don’t, Supabase is a collection of tools that … Read more
Aron Solomon, JD, is Esquire Digital’s Head of Strategy and Editor of Today’s Esquire. He taught entrepreneurship at McGill University and the University of Pennsylvania and was the founder of LegalX, a legal technology accelerator. More contributions from this contributor If you don’t want robot dogs patrolling the streets, consider CCOPS legislation On Tuesday, the … Read more
Waymo, Google’s former self-driving car project that is now a separate business unit of Alphabet, is expanding its presence in the eastern US in the steel city. The company will initially hire about a dozen engineers, a source familiar with the move told TechCrunch, and they will be based in Google’s existing offices in the … 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 15, 2021. Good news from the TechCrunch front: The agenda for our big disrupt conference in September is set. It’s going to be incredible, … Read more
PARIS – Naomi Osaka’s withdrawal from the French Open wasn’t the result everyone in tennis had wanted, and yet it happened anyway. It could probably have been avoided through better communication and smarter decisions, but on Monday night the sport’s most prominent young star felt she had no better choice than to retire from the … Read more
(Would you like to receive this briefing by email? Here is the registration.) Here are the top stories of the week and a look ahead As the pace of vaccination in the United States has slowed, the nation is nearing President Biden’s goal of vaccinating 70 percent of adults by July 4. The greatest advances … Read more
As cloud-native apps become more and more central to how businesses function, a startup founded by the developers of a popular open-source authorization management tool for cloud-native application environments is announcing some means to expand its commercialization efforts to expand the opportunity. Styra, the startup behind Open Policy Agent, has raised $ 40 million in … Read more
According to data from Johns Hopkins University, more than 550,000 Americans died from the coronavirus epidemic late Monday, claiming the lives of 1 in 600 residents. In the midst of the grim milestone, more than a dozen states will be opening up all adults to vaccinate this week, signifying a significant increase in COVID-19 shots … Read more
TikTok’s Q&A is now official. The feature was first spotted last month when TikTok started testing it with users who had 10,000 or more followers. But now the app allows anyone with a creator account to log in. Once activated, there are a few ways that users can take advantage of the question and answer … Read more