Amazon's healthcare play begins. It's The Daily Crunch.

THE DAILY CRUNCH TUESDAY, JANUARY 30 2018 By Darrell Etherington Amazon tips its big health play, and opens some spheres in Seattle. Also, the Valley's main AI hotshot is launching his fund officially. All that and more in The Daily Crunch for January 30, 2018. 1. Amazon (and friends) want to reinvent private health care Amazon is working with JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway to build a new independent company that will seek to rethink how health care works in the U.S. Citing rising costs, and a failure to deliver proper care to employees, the companies have decided they can figure out how to do better. They haven't figured that out just yet, however: This is basically a notice of intent, rather than an announcement of any solid plans. But they seem eager to get started building something more material, too. 2. Meanwhile, Amazon's got spheres Yes, spheres. Big weird geodesic dome things that Amazon is opening to its employees and to specific tour groups at its HQ. I wonder if they can be sealed off from the rest of the surrounding environment in case of a health scare. Sponsored By: Columbia Business School Lead Digital Transformation in Your Organization According to a recent Deloitte and MIT Sloan report, the key driver to digital success is not technology. It's strategy. That's why our programs on digital strategy are specifically designed for business leaders and executives, so you can lead your organization to success in the digital age. Learn more. Learn More… 3. Andrew Ng launches his big AI fund Google Brain founder and SV AI luminary Andrew Ng has officially launched his own $175 million AI investment fund. Can I have some money Andrew? My AI is nearly indistinguishable from a human brain. 4. Snapchat vastly expands its Bitmoji customization option Snapchat has added additional customization options that add up to multiple septillion new variants of a final product. It's called Bitmoji Deluxe, and it's designed to help address a diverse user base as well as provide more customization options. 5. Uber has sold its leasing business Uber was all set to simply shutter its Xchange Leasing business for cars on its platform, but it's now been acquired by leasing startup Fair. Uber shed the business because it was losing money, but a venture focused on the leasing side specifically might stand a chance. 6. Waymo stocks up its self-driving fleet There's a lot of talk about imminent launches of autonomous car fleets, but those require the actual fleets to exist. Waymo has ordered 'thousands' of its Pacifica vans from FCA to make that a reality. 7. The new PlayStation 4 remake of Shadow of the Colossus is amazing It's hard to understate how good this game is. Just go play it, if you have a PS4. Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Senior Software Developer - Shopify Plus at Shopify (Waterloo, ON, Canada) Senior Businesss Process Specialist - HCM at Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (Middletown, PA, United States) Business Systems Supervisor - Finance at Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (Middletown, PA, United States) Full Stack Rails Engineer (remote OK) at ART19 (Oakland, CA, United States) Senior Django/Python Web Developer at National Journal (Washington, DC, United States) 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 If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2018 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service

                                                           

SpaceX's big rocket ready to roll. It's The Daily Crunch.

THE DAILY CRUNCH MONDAY, JANUARY 29 2018 By Darrell Etherington Big rocket gets a launch window, flamethrowers sell fast and Apple looks to expand its use of ARM chips in Macs. All that and more in The Daily Crunch for January 29, 2018. 1. SpaceX is (hopefully) launching Falcon Heavy on February 6 Rockets: They come in different shapes and sizes. Elon Musk wants to start using a really big one called the Falcon Heavy, with a massive cargo load capacity, and he's hoping to fly the first of these on February 6. SpaceX will test fly the Falcon Heavy from Florida, and it's not clear what exactly will happen when it does. There could be some very, very large fireworks in store for folks around Cape Canaveral. 2. Meanwhile, Elon's selling flamethrowers of a different variety Falcon Heavy is going to produce a lot of fire, but you can pre-order a flamethrower from Elon Musk's Boring Company if you want a more manageable, consumer-friendly amount of flame output. Sponsored By: Salesforce Think Salesforce is just for the big guys? Think again. Introducing Salesforce Essentials, a CRM tool built for small businesses. It's Salesforce's powerful enterprise tools, packaged up and priced for small business and startups. Try it now for free and get 3 months of G Suite by Google Cloud at no cost. Learn More… 3. Apple might use ARM coprocessors in up to three Macs this year Apple might bring its ARM-based coprocessor to more Macs this year, to power security features and some controllers to help with power management. 4. Fitness app Strava shows off secret military base locations with social features It's yet another lesson in how being open and free with sharing of personal data might have unintended consequences. Security wonks in my Twitter feeds are going bananas over this, but that's not unusual for anything they sink their teeth into. 5. Intel gave Chinese PC makers a heads up on security flaws before the U.S. government The U.S. isn't thrilled that Intel seems to have given Lenovo and other Chinese tech companies an early warning about Meltdown and Spectre, which would translate to an early warning to the Chinese government in all likelihood, too. 6. Here's how the most unlikely Oscar contender got its fish man I really need to see this movie. Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Senior Businesss Process Specialist - HCM at Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (Middletown, PA, United States) Business Systems Supervisor - Finance at Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission (Middletown, PA, United States) Full Stack Rails Engineer (remote) at Riderflex (San Francisco, CA, United States) Senior Django/Python Web Developer at National Journal (Washington, DC, United States) Sales Associate, Broadcast & Telecom, US & CAD at Haivision Network Video (Los Angeles, CA, United States) 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 If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2018 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service