Top Stories of the Day // June 4, 2019

NASA research crew embarks on mock mission to Mars moon | Spotify launches its lightweight listening app Stations in the U.S. | Tinder adds sexual orientation and gender identity to its profiles | Ori Living partners with IKEA to bring robotic furniture to customers by 2020 | Facebook fails to stop Europe's top court weighing in on EU-US data transfers | Jewish dating app JCrush exposed user data and private messages | NASA's Space Launch System passes key milestone for Moon mission |

THE DAILY CRUNCH TUESDAY, JUNE 4 2019 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Darrell Etherington NASA research crew embarks on mock mission to Mars moon Space is hard on humans – it's just not what we're used to, because it's very unlike this Earth most of us generally occupy for most of our lives. That's... Read More… Sarah Perez Spotify launches its lightweight listening app Stations in the U.S. Spotify Stations, the streaming service's lightweight listening app offering easy access to curated playlists, has arrived in the U.S. The app has been considered an experiment by Spotify -- and... Read More… Jonathan Shieber Tinder adds sexual orientation and gender identity to its profiles Tinder is adding information about sexual orientation and gender identity to its profiles. The company worked with the LGBTQ advocacy organization GLAAD on changes to its dating app to make... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Diligent It's Time to Start Being Diligent About Your Board Meetings The job of a board of directors and executives is hard. With the right solutions, you can be better prepared with the insights and analytics needed to improve boardroom performance. Learn how Diligent's solutions have helped +50% of the Fortune 500. Learn More Jonathan Shieber Ori Living partners with IKEA to bring robotic furniture to customers by 2020 Welcome to the robotic bedroom of the future, coming in 2020 to tiny apartments beginning in Hong Kong and Japan, but expanding around the world. IKEA is now selling robotic... Read More… Natasha Lomas Facebook fails to stop Europe's top court weighing in on EU-US data transfers Facebook has failed in its last ditch attempt to block a referral by Ireland's High Court of questions over the legality of EU-US data transfer mechanisms to the region's top... Read More… Zack Whittaker Jewish dating app JCrush exposed user data and private messages A security lapse at JCrush, a dating app designed for the Jewish community, left a databases open without a password, exposing sensitive user records and private messages to anyone who... Read More… Darrell Etherington NASA's Space Launch System passes key milestone for Moon mission NASA is celebrating a key step towards its mission to get people back to the Moon: The first large core rocket stage that will power the new Space Launch System... Read More… Kirsten Korosec Bill Gates, Neo, Gigafund backing Luminous in photonics supercomputer moonshot Luminous Computing, a one-year-old startup, is aiming to build a photonics chip that will handle workloads needed for AI at the speed of light. It's a moonshot and yet, the... Read More… Megan Rose Dickey Bird is launching a two-seater electric vehicle to become more than a kick scooter startup Bird won't stop deploying new mobility vehicles and services. Bird has just unveiled the Bird Cruiser, an electric vehicle that is essentially a blend between a bicycle and a moped.... Read More… Frederic Lardinois Firefox gets enhanced tracking protection, desktop password manager and more It's no secret that Mozilla sees privacy as a differentiating feature for its revitalized Firefox browser. Today, the Firefox team is launching one of its broadest set of releases that... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Developer Marketing Manager at Rasa (San Francisco, CA 94103, USA) Solutions Architect at Rasa (San Francisco, CA 94103, USA) Developer Advocate at Rasa (San Francisco, CA 94103, USA) Customer Success Manager at Rasa (San Francisco, CA 94103, USA) Account Executive at Rasa (San Francisco, CA 94103, USA) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month View this email online in your browser Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Unsubscribe © 2019 Oath Tech Network. All rights reserved. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107

                                                           

Twitter acquires Fabula AI

THE DAILY CRUNCH MONDAY, JUNE 3 2019 By Anthony Ha A Twitter acquisition to help in the fight against disinformation, we review Ring's new outdoor lights and Apple's big developer keynote is about to start. Here's your Daily Crunch for June 3, 2019. 1. Twitter bags deep learning talent behind London startup, Fabula AI Fabula AI has been developing technology to identify online disinformation by looking at patterns in how fake stuff versus genuine news spreads online — making it an obvious fit for the rumor-riled social network. Twitter says the acquisition of Fabula AI will help it build out its internal machine learning capabilities, writing that the startup's "world-class team of machine learning researchers" will become part of an internal research group led by Sandeep Pandey. 2. Review: Ring's new outdoor lighting products are brilliant Twenty minutes after opening the box and throwing the instructions aside, Matt Burns says he had five new lights installed around his house and configured to his home's network. SPONSORED CONTENT: HERE Technologies Discover how location-centric data can transform your business Did you know that location data is one of the most critical pieces for adding context to existing business analytics? It can improve your bottom line, and make sense of transactional, user and sensor data. Working with Location Intelligence is easier than you might think. Download your free Open Location Platform Integration eBook. Learn More… 3. Live from WWDC 2019 The keynote starts at 10am Pacific today. 4. Amazon sellers to hit UK high streets in year-long pop-up pilot The Amazon pop-up pilot program — which is couched as an exploration of "a new model to help up-and-coming online brands grow their high street presence" — will see more than 100 small online businesses selling on the UK high street for the first time. 5. A look at the many ways China suppresses online discourse about the Tiananmen Square protests The effects of the crackdown appears to have spread beyond China, with the suspension of many Chinese-language Twitter accounts critical of China, even if they originated outside the country. (For what it's worth, Twitter said this was part of a "routine action.") 6. 'Weirdo' fintech VC Anthemis marches to its own drummer Apparently, visiting the Anthemis office is like stepping into a Wes Anderson film. (Extra Crunch membership required.) 7. This week's TechCrunch podcasts The latest episode of Equity features a discussion of whether the tech press is too positive in its coverage of startups, while the Original Content team reviews the (excellent) animated Netflix series "Tuca & Bertie." Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Machine Learning Research Engineer for Small Tech Company at Etegent (Cincinnati, OH, USA 45212) Android Developer at Parts Town (Addison, IL, USA) Machine Learning Research Scientist at Etegent (Cincinnati, OH 45212, USA) IT Project Manager - GeoAnalytics at Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (Middletown, PA, United States) Senior Lead Developer at Commissionly (London, UK) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month View this email online in your browser Privacy Policy | Terms of Service | Unsubscribe © 2019 Oath Tech Network. All rights reserved. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107