Month: May 2021
Daily Crunch: Ford’s powerhouse F-150 Lightning pickup can actually power your house
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here. It’s Thursday, everyone, and the technology and startup worlds were a mixed bag today. We learned about the final death of Internet Explorer (RIP), new AR glasses…
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One of the US’s largest insurance companies reportedly paid $40 million to ransomware hackers
CNA Financial, one of the largest US insurance companies, paid $40 million to free itself from a ransomware attack that occurred in March, according to a report from Bloomberg. The hackers reportedly demanded $60 million when negotiations started about a week after some of CNA’s systems were encrypted, and the…
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Slack’s newest feature will help me remember to pause notifications before calls
Slack has added a small but very welcome new feature: when you’re setting a status, you can check a box in that same menu to pause notifications for as long as that status is up. I discovered the checkbox on Thursday while preparing for an interview. When I do interviews…
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Blizzard shows off Overwatch 2’s new 5 vs. 5 multiplayer and a trio of maps
Blizzard’s two-hour Overwatch 2 stream showed off the best look yet at the much-anticipated sequel to the competitive team shooter. And while there’s still no release date, the studio did show off plenty of new information about the game. Chief among those is one of the biggest changes to Overwatch…
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US Treasury wants cryptocurrency transfers over $10,000 to be reported to the IRS
The US Treasury Department said Thursday it will require any cryptocurrency transfer worth $10,000 or more to be reported to the IRS. “Cryptocurrency already poses a significant detection problem by facilitating illegal activity broadly including tax evasion,” the agency said in a new report on tax compliance proposals. “This is…
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Apple employees call for company to support Palestinians in internal letter
Apple employees are circulating an internal letter calling on Tim Cook to put out a statement supporting the Palestinian people. Nearly 1,000 workers have signed. The writers, who are part of the Apple Muslim Association, specifically ask the company to recognize that “millions of Palestinian people currently suffer under an…
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