Month: February 2020
15 Tickets Left to TechCrunch Winter Party Tomorrow
On February 7, aka this Friday, the Bay Area startup community will descend on Galvanize to celebrate everything great and small about tech startups at the 3rd Annual TechCrunch Winter Party. Lucky for you, we have just 15 tickets left! They’re available on a strictly first-come-first-served basis, so if you…
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Trolls conspired to clog the Democrats’ Iowa caucus hotline
Trolls expressing support for President Trump called into the phone line Democrats were supposed to use for reporting precinct tallies during the Iowa caucuses, adding to the chaos Monday night as the election app failed and precinct chairs tried to phone in results instead, Bloomberg reports. Frustrated poll workers posted…
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Netflix will now let you disable its awful autoplaying feature
Netflix customers have complained for years about the frustrating and annoying autoplay preview feature that occurs on its homepage. Today, the company announced that subscribers can finally disable autoplay functionality. People can choose to disable autoplay in two different formats: one that automatically starts the next episode in a series…
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Pew: 30% of U.S. adults have used online dating; 12% found a committed relationships from it
Dating app usage in the U.S. is on the rise, but so are the issues it brings. According to a new Pew Research Center report on online dating, out today, 30% of U.S. adults have at some point used a dating app or website. That’s up from just 11% in…
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Netflix’s horrible autoplay previews can be turned off
Listen, this week sucks. Last week pretty much sucked, too. Honestly, it’s probably time to just scrap this stupid jerk of a year and give 2021 a go. (Spoiler: that one will suck, too). But you take your victories where you can get them, and Netflix just handed us a…
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Huawei is suing Verizon over patent infringements
China’s largest telecommunications equipment maker Huawei has announced that it is suing the US wireless carrier Verizon for alleged patent violations. The Chinese company sued Verizon in two US District courts in Texas this week, over how the wireless carrier allegedly used 12 of its patents related to computer networking,…
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