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Here’s a video of Elon Musk watching the Falcon Heavy take off This past week, as we watched SpaceX launch its absolutely massive Falcon Heavy rocket for the first time, many of us wondered if it would make it off the launch pad.

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Grove raises $2.1M to find the sweet spot between old-school financial advisers and chatbots

Grove raises $2.1M to find the sweet spot between old-school financial advisers and chatbots

Right now if you want financial guidance and planning help you basically have two options – shell out thousands (or more) a year for an old-school Wall Street-affiliated advisor, or test your luck with one of the free financial planning chatbot startups that have been popping up over the past few years.

Neither of these are ideal for most people; traditional advisors give good advice but are…

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Script’s app lets parents digitally sign school permission slips and pay for field trips

Script’s app lets parents digitally sign school permission slips and pay for field trips

Schools are often late to taking advantage of new technologies, so today still do much of their business over paper forms. One pain point in particular – for school administrators, teachers and parents alike – is handling permission forms for activities and field trips. A young startup called Scriptaims to help. Schools can use Script’s app to manage the entire trip planning process, from the…

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Startups are (still) making weird name choices

Startups are (still) making weird name choices

If the latest seed-funded startups have their way, this is what your future will look like.

You’ll find your mortgage through a company named Morty, refill your contact lenses with Waldo and get your cannabis news from Herb. (Which is not to be confused with Bud, the startup that handles your banking.)

Later, you can use Cake Technologies to pay the bar tab, cover fertility treatments with Car…

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What to expect from Samsung’s next Galaxy flagships

What to expect from Samsung’s next Galaxy flagships

It’s that time of year again. Samsung is getting ready to unpack some shiny new high end smartphones at the world’s biggest mobile confab. And Android fans are getting ready to cheer.

The TechCrunch team will be on the ground at MWC in Barcelona in two weeks’ time to bring you all the news. But if you’re wondering what Sammy’s got cooking ahead of the official Galaxy unboxing, read on…

S9 and…

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Raise softly and deliver a big exit

Raise softly and deliver a big exit

Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News.

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In the world of venture capital, the prospect of a successful “exit” looms large in the minds of investors. A VC’s business model is less about the money that goes into a startup than it is about what comes out. It’s true that most companies fail to exit gracefully, and of…

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Teaching robots to understand their world through basic motor skills

Teaching robots to understand their world through basic motor skills

Robots are great at doing what they’re told. But sometimes inputting that information into a system is a far more complex process than the task we’re asking them to execute. That’s part of the reason they’re best suited for simple/repetitive jobs.

A team of researchers at Brown University and MIT is working to develop a systemin which robots can plan tasks by developing abstract concepts of…

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Cardlytics up 3% following IPO, raised $70 million Atlanta-based Cardlytics made its public debut on Friday, closing the day at $13.37, just a little above the IPO price of $13.

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Equity Shot: Twitter and Snap’s surprising, synchronized social success

Equity Shot: Twitter and Snap’s surprising, synchronized social success

Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines.

Today we’re doing another Equity Shot, a short topic-centered episode where we assemble the troops to dive into one particular thing. Or, in this case, two particular things.

Matthew Lynley, myself, and Katie Roofgathered to pick over Snap and Twitter’s respective…

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YouTube will remove ads and downgrade discoverability of channels posting offensive videos

YouTube will remove ads and downgrade discoverability of channels posting offensive videos

After barring Logan Paul earlier today from serving ads on his video channel, YouTube has now announced a more formal and wider set of sanctions it’s prepared to level on any creator that starts to post videos that are harmful to viewers, others in the YouTube community, or advertisers.

As it has done with Paul (on two occasions now), the site said it will remove monetization options on the…

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Facebook’s plan to build community with hiring and $10M in grants

Facebook’s plan to build community with hiring and $10M in grants

Facebook will award up to $1 million to five community leaders and $50,000 to 100 more to fund their ideas for how to strengthen people’s online and offline connections. Facebook will also hire double the number of engineers currently working on safety-related causes in its London office. These were a few of the big announcements made at today’s Facebook Communities Summit Europe.

The moves…

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Aurora will power Byton EV’s autonomous driving features

Aurora will power Byton EV’s autonomous driving features

Aurora, the self-driving startup founded by Google self-driving car project alum Chris Urmson, along with Tesla Autopilot developer Sterling Anderson, CMU robotics expert and Uber vet Drew Bagnell, and a team of industry experts, will be making the autonomous smarts for Byton’s forthcoming electric vehicle. Byton, a startup that had a splashy debut at CES earlier this year.

Byton’s Concept…

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Grove raises $2.1M to find the sweet spot between old-school financial advisors and chatbots

Grove raises $2.1M to find the sweet spot between old-school financial advisors and chatbots

Right now if you want financial guidance and planning help you basically have two options – shell out thousands (or more) a year for an old-school Wall Street-affiliated advisor, or test your luck with one of the free financial planning chatbot startups that have been popping up over the past few years.

Neither of these are ideal for most people; traditional advisors give good advice but are…

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Uber settles lawsuit with Waymo

Uber settles lawsuit with Waymo

Uber has agreed to settle the lawsuit brought against it by Waymo for theft of some of the company’s trade secrets.

As part of the settlement, Uber has agreed to work with Waymo to ensure that the company’s LIDAR and software represents just the work of Uber engineers.

The agreement also comes with a financial settlement of roughly $244 million in stock (that is 0.34 percent of Uber’s equity,…

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Viacom to launch its own streaming service this year Is there room in the market for yet another streaming service? Viacom thinks so. The company, on its…

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Lyft partners with Black Girls Code to help develop a more diverse tech industry

Lyft partners with Black Girls Code to help develop a more diverse tech industry

Lyft has teamed up with Black Girls Code, a non-profit organization dedicated to getting more black girls involved in computer programming and technology, to make the non-profit organization one of its Round Up & Donate partners.

Since launching the Round Up & Donate programeight months ago, Lyft riders have donated over $4 million to causes. Other partners include SickKids Foundation, St.…

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Think3 is a new $1B fund that wants to buy up SaaS startups so founders can go out to build again We all know about the unicorns of the startup world — fast-growing companies that appear to be on the road (or have already arrived at) valuations of $1 billion or more — and we hear a lot about the unfortunate ones that either run out of money or fail for another reason.