Free Streaming Service Tubi Plans To Invest $100M+ On Content In 2019, Expand Internationally

Many Xbox Ones aren't working right now due to Xbox Live outage: Greg Kumparak

If you just tried to turn on your Xbox One and were met with nothing but a black screen: you’re not alone. A particularly bad outage in Xbox Live’s core services is causing the console to get stuck at boot. Microsoft is aware of the outage, and says they’ve “…

MIT researchers are training a robot arm to play Jenga: Brian Heater

Turns out training a robotic arm to play Jenga is a surprisingly complex task. There are, so to speak, a lot of moving parts. Researchers at MIT are putting a modified ABB IRB 120 to work with the familiar tabletop game, utilizing a soft gripper, force-sensin…

Rigetti launches the public beta of its Quantum Cloud Services: Frederic Lardinois

Rigetti Computing, one of the leading startups in the quantum computing space, today announced the public beta of its Quantum Cloud Services (QCS) platform. With this, developers can get access to Rigetti’s quantum processors, as well as all the classical com…

Google’s also peddling a data collector through Apple's back door: Zack Whittaker, Josh Constine, Ingrid Lunden

It looks like Facebook is not the only one abusing Apple’s system for distributing employee-only apps to sidestep the App Store and collect extensive data on users. Google has been running an app called Screenwise Meter, which bears a strong resemblance to th…

Free streaming service Tubi plans to invest $100M+ on content in 2019, expand internationally: Sarah Perez

Free TV and movie streaming service Tubi is preparing to double down on content acquisitions this year, the company announced this morning. The service today offers over 12,000 movies and TV series, totalling 40,000 hours of content. All of this can be stream…

NYC Council questions tax breaks and economic impact of Amazon HQ2: Brian Heater

Braving 20-degree weather, protesters crowded the steps of New York City Hall this morning with signs highlighting a “crumbling MTA” and rising tuition. Several held pro-union placards, while a man in a bright yellow warehouse vest claimed, “Amazon doesn’t le…

Daily Crunch: Apple bans Facebook Research app: Anthony Ha

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. Apple bans Facebook’s Research app that paid users for data In th…

Amazon partners with New York colleges on a cloud computing job training program: Sarah Perez

A day after Amazon detailed plans to fund computer science classes in New York area high schools, in an effort to expand its tech pipeline for its new HQ2 location in Queens, the company this morning announced a second educational initiative that sees it team…

Foxconn pulls back on its $10 billion dollar factory commitment: Danny Crichton

Well that didn’t last long. In 2017, Foxconn announced the largest investment of a foreign company in the United States when it selected Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin for a new manufacturing facility. Buttressed by huge economic development grants from Wisconsin,…

Facebook's VPN app puts spotlight on kids' consent: Natasha Lomas

Facebook could face fresh scrutiny in Europe following a TechCrunch report on its use of a VPN app to monitor people’s smartphone activity — including teenagers as young as 13. The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) told us it’s asked Facebook to provide …

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