Top Stories of the Day // March 26, 2016

This War On Math Is Still Bullshit | Microsoft apologizes for hijacked chatbot Tay’s ‘wildly inappropriate’ tweets | Beware the pitfalls of Silicon Valley | 2020 is set to be the biggest year yet for Mars exploration | With Privacy, you can create virtual debit cards to protect your online payments | Billionaire investor Peter Thiel nabs another $1.3 billion for Founders Fund | What marketers can learn from the economy of convenience |

DAILY SATURDAY, MARCH 26 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Jon Evans This War On Math Is Still Bullshit In the wake of Paris, San Bernardino, and now Brussels, the encryption debate has become such a potent cocktail of horror, idiocy, and farce that it has become... Read More… Devin Coldewey Microsoft apologizes for hijacked chatbot Tay’s ‘wildly inappropriate’ tweets The colossal and highly public failure of Microsoft's Twitter-based chatbot Tay earlier this week raised many questions: How could this happen? Who is... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt to talk fighting the establishment at Disrupt NY TechCrunch is excited to announce that Baiju Bhatt, cofounder of the popular commission-free stock trading app Robinhood, while be speaking on the TechCrunch Disrupt New York stage this coming May. Get your tickets today! Learn More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Dieter Gerdemann Beware the pitfalls of Silicon Valley A recent article in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung titled "Will Facebook Enslave Us?" captures a sentiment prevalent among companies around the world:... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT Snapchat Buys Emoji Startup Snapchat buys Bitstrips, June smart oven raises $22.5 million, Netflix caps videos, Apple plans TV shows, Microsoft shipping Surface Hub Watch Now Emily Calandrelli 2020 is set to be the biggest year yet for Mars exploration 2020 is set to be a good year for Mars exploration. The United States, China, the United Arab Emirates, Europe and Russia all have planned Mars missions that... Read More… Romain Dillet With Privacy, you can create virtual debit cards to protect your online payments Meet Privacy, a new startup with a confusing name but an interesting product. Privacy lets you generate a virtual burner card every time you need to enter your... Read More… Sarah Buhr Billionaire investor Peter Thiel nabs another $1.3 billion for Founders Fund Peter Thiel’s decades old Founders Fund pulled together another $1.3 billion dollars today for Founders Fund VI. Thiel, a billionaire investor in... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Justin Gray What marketers can learn from the economy of convenience If you think about it, money is a ridiculous concept. Without going into a William Jennings Bryan gold standard history lesson, let's just say the idea... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Sr. Database Administrator-MS SQL at GTE Financial (Tampa, FL, United States) POSTGRADUATE / SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING SPECIALIST at CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation (Fullerton, CA, United States) Full-Stack Engineer @ Blueshift at Blueshift Labs (San Francisco, CA, United States) Head of Programmatic and Ad Operations at Blasting News (Greater London, Regno Unito) VP, Engineering (Fox Sports Digital) at Fox Networks Group (Playa Vista, CA) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month 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 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service