How Domino’s 20-Year-Old Pizza Tracker Shaped Nearly Every Delivery App You Use Today
Twenty years ago, a Domino’s IT guy built the Domino’s Pizza Tracker. Today, it’s why your Uber and DoorDash look the way they do.
The Download: failed social media bans, and extending pets’ lives
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That’s not a problem we need to solve. —Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd Social media bans are stacking up. In July, France joined…
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Airline Pilots Can Make $100,000 a Month. But Holding Onto Their Cash Is Harder Than You Think.
A record wave of pilots is hitting mandatory retirement age, and their finances have just as much turbulence as their flights.
Warren Buffett Never Chased Flashy AI Stocks. Here’s How He’s Making a Killing on the Boom Anyway.
Buffett made his fortune betting on boring companies like utilities and railroads. Turns out that’s exactly what AI needed.
National Lampoon Said This Store Had the ‘Worst Name’ for a Business. Here’s How to Create a Sign Customers Won’t Forget.
Your store sign is the first thing your customers see. So what makes a great one? We asked some of America’s Favorite Mom & Pop Shops® to explain theirs.
I Help Businesses Get Recommended By Chatbots. Here’s How It Really Works.
Customers are increasingly asking AI to give them business recommendations. Here’s how to make sure you’re on their shortlist.
TikTok’s US arm joins Lantern, a cross-platform child safety initiative
Eight months after establishing a U.S. based joint venture, TikTok is getting on board fellow platforms to support industry-wide child safety work.
4 days to save up to $200: Reason 2 of 5 to be at TechCrunch Disrupt 2026
Save up to $200 on your TechCrunch Disrupt 2026 pass, plus 50% off a second pass before prices increase on September 25 at 11:59 p.m. PT. Register today.
Singapore’s Nexstrom wants to bring 2D semiconductors to chip fabs
Singapore-based Nexstrom has raised new funding to develop equipment that could help chipmakers manufacture 2D semiconductor materials at scale.
Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy bets these 21 startups will shape energy’s future
To the investors at Bill Gates’s Breakthrough Energy, the coming wave of electrification will make data center energy demands look quaint by comparison. Here’s how they’re preparing.
Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction
Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.