Facebook may finally let you turn off those annoying notification dots
Sick of those anxiety-inducing red dots constantly appearing on the Groups, Watch, or other tabs in your Facebook app? Well the social network may be easing...
Oregon Climate Bill Appears Dead After Some Ridiculous Bullshit You Can’t Make Up
A landmark climate change bill that appeared on the brink of passing the Oregon state legislature last week now seems to be dead. Read more… Source...
With a portfolio including Acorns, Sweetgreen and Ro Health, Torch Capital raises $60M for its first fund
Jonathan Keidan, the founder of Torch Capital, had already built a portfolio that included Acorns, Compass, Digital Ocean and Sweetgreen, before he raised single dollar for...
Here’s How You Can Use Fragrance to Strengthen Memory and Remember Precious Moments Forever
If you’ve ever caught a whiff of a fragrance and had your memory instantly transported back to another time and place, then you’ve experienced the incredible power of...
Slack, Google Docs among others to be banned by Microsoft
Other programs include Amazon Web and GitHub. The ban will prevent competitors from seeing what Microsoft is working on. Read more here. Read more… More about...
Elon Musk bewilders Twitter users with tweet about Mars
The SpaceX CEO, who’s known for his Twitter of “complete nonsense,” seemingly mistook a blood moon for Mars in a tweet. Read more here. Read more…...
Data finds that Americans spend an hour on their phone while in the car
The data, compiled by the app Drivermode, found that most Americans spend that hour doing things such as listening to music, text, and send voicemails. Read...
Only 100 seats left: Apply to hack at the TC Hackathon at Disrupt SF
Hustle up, hackathon fans. The TechCrunch Hackathon at Disrupt San Francisco 2019 on October 2-4 may be more than three months away, but it’s filling up fast. There’s no application...
The Sex Worker Next Door
1.I’ve been interested in prostitution ever since a “deathbed revelation” in 1998. As my beloved maternal grandmother lay dying, my mother, an only child, cried her...
USB creator discusses successes, regrets regarding the design
In an NPR interview, Ajay Bhatt discussed the design, some ideas he and the IBM team had, and his response to people’s request for a reversible...
