Month: February 2020
Netflix makes autoplay previews optional
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Netflix’s horrible autoplay previews can be turned off Netflix’s autoplay trailers are now optional. That’s it.…
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Trying to buy the new Motorola Razr on its ‘release date’ was a frustrating failure
Yesterday was the official release date for the Motorola Razr on Verizon Wireless. Or was it? By the end of an entire day spent searching for this nostalgia-inducing phone, I was feeling pretty duped. The Razr is arriving not long after Samsung’s Galaxy Fold fiasco, so there are naturally going…
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Our.News fights misinformation with a ‘nutrition label’ for news stories
A startup called Our.News is working to make its users smarter consumers of the news. In other words, it’s confronting some big, seemingly intractable problems. For one thing, there’s a tremendous amount of disinformation online — as Our.News founder and CEO Richard Zack put it, “Unfortunately, you have thousands of…
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How to watch tonight’s Democratic debate online
It’s been a wild week with the Iowa caucuses mess, the State of the Union, and impeachment, but we’re closing it out with the last Democratic debate ahead of the New Hampshire primary. On Friday, seven familiar faces will take the stage at St. Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire,…
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AssoConnect is a service that helps you manage your non-profit organization
Meet AssoConnect, a French startup that is building a software-as-a-service application to give you all the tools you need to manage your non-profit organization (association in French). The company just raised a $7.7 million (€7 million) funding round with XAnge and ISAI leading the round. Various business angels, such as…
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You can buy the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X today – if you have the cash
When AMD announced the Threadripper 3990X back at CES 2020, we were awestruck by the sheer amount of performance it promised, performance that put it out of reach of most people, but was amazing nonetheless. And now it’s finally out. Starting today, you can buy the monster processor at either…
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