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Former Tinder VP Jeff Morris Jr. opens up Product Club, an accelerator meant to stay small and focused

Startup accelerators tend to grow the size of each new class over time, as more of their portfolio companies find exits, their network of mentors expands, and they find new ways to scale things up. Th

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Ford’s Bronco relaunch demonstrates the power of nostalgia

Ford is finally taking the wraps off the reborn Bronco next week. Literally. The company has teased the vehicle for months, showing a camouflaged SUV bouncing through rocky streams and charging over d

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Decrypted: Police hack criminal phone network; Randori raises $20M Series A

Last week was, for most Americans, a four-day work week. But a lot still happened in the security world.The U.S. government’s cybersecurity agencies warned of two critical vulnerabilities — one

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Facebook cofounder Saverin’s B Capital just closed its third flagship fund with $822 million

It hasn’t taken long for B Capital to amass a pretty hefty third fund.Just five years after the venture firm was launched by Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and Raj Ganguly, a veteran of pri

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Amazon eliminates single-use plastic in packaging in India

Amazon said on Monday it has eliminated all single-use plastic in its packaging across its fulfillment centers in India, delivering on a pledge it made last year to achieve this goal by June.The Amer

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Here’s how Apple’s stock fared during the WWDC keynote

Apple held its WWDC keynote today, a virtual affair that managed to convince swaths of the technology industry to watch a pre-recorded video.While TechCrunch has posts galore up on the site about all

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MSCHF launches an internet-wide contest to see who can touch their phone the longest

Whatever you do, don’t take your finger off your phone screen.MSHCF, a company striving to build a flashy brand by creating viral moments, is taking the wraps off of their next stunt, an interne

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TikTok teens and K-pop fans claim responsibility for half empty Trump rally

Social media users said they had been signing up for the rally for days with no plans to attend.

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Tesla wants a $68M property tax break to locate its Cybertruck gigafactory near Austin

Tesla is seeking up to $68 million in property tax abatement from a Texas school district to build a factory that will be used to produce Model Y crossovers for the East Coast market as well as its up

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Grado unveils its $420 Hemp Headphone

Grado has a new pair of their signature headphones on the way, and between the pricing, hemp-infused wooden body and pot leaf insignia, it’s clear they’ve got their eye on a very particula

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Plex launches a co-watching experience for its on-demand library and users’ personal media

Virtual viewing parties that let people watch video together remotely have become a popular way to stay connected with friends and family amid the coronavirus pandemic. Earlier today, Hulu announced t

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Daily Crunch: Facebook unveils its Shops e-commerce platform

Facebook and Instagram are making a bigger push into e-commerce, MasterClass raises $100 million and Microsoft launches a new project management tool called Lists.Here’s your Daily Crunch for M

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DJI’s latest industrial drone has 55 minute flight time, 15 km video range

DJI took the wraps off its latest drone today. Targeting industrial users, the Matrice 300 builds on the company’s Matrice platform, and sports a host of improvements from longer battery life, object

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More than 40 top security execs have formed an investing syndicate to back startups

Ensuring that a company’s information assets and technologies are protected remains a tall order for many a chief information security officer (or CISO). Cybercriminals can be both persistent an

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Andreessen Horowitz just closed its second crypto fund

Two years ago, the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) took the wraps off a dedicated crypto fund from a subset of its limited partners, who’d provided the firm with $300 million in capital commi

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Female-centric Star Wars TV series in development at Disney+ streaming service

A female-centric Star Wars TV series is in development at Disney+ streaming service, according to U.S. media outlets. The new Star Wars original TV series will be writ

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Otter.ai’s newest feature offers live, interactive transcripts of your Zoom meetings

Real-time voice transcription service Otter.ai is adding new functionality that will aid home school students and work-from-home employees alike. The company today is introducing an integration with Z