Top Stories of the Day // May 5, 2016

GoPro hitched a ride on a rocket and the video is incredible | Apple’s App Store search is completely broken right now | Pivotal scores $253 million Series C led by Ford on hefty $2.8 billion valuation | Why Zuck is funding the evolution beyond cookie-cutter education | Free Code Camp survey reveals demographics of self-taught coders | Periscope mimics FB Live by letting you permanently #Save replays | Robot surgeon outperforms human colleagues doing same procedure |

DAILY THURSDAY, MAY 5 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Emily Calandrelli GoPro hitched a ride on a rocket and the video is incredible Today, GoPro released some pretty incredible footage of a suborbital rocket launch that climbed to 396,405 feet at speeds as high as Mach 5.5. The launch took... Read More… Sarah Perez Apple’s App Store search is completely broken right now Apple’s App Store search is experiencing significant issues this morning, which, if allowed to continue for a longer period of time, could end up... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Programmatically Enable Voice, Text, Email, and Direct Mail with the message360°API message360° is a developer API that provides the infrastructure to programmatically enable voice, text, email, and direct mail communication. Learn More… Ron Miller Pivotal scores $253 million Series C led by Ford on hefty $2.8 billion valuation Pivotal has a couple of new friends with big wallets. Today it announced that Ford and Microsoft were joining EMC, VMware and GE as investment partners on a... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT A GoPro Trip on a Rocket Ship GoPro attaches a A Hero4 to a Rocket Ship, Apple music gets a redesign in June, Uber forms a public policy group, Instagram’s business pages are coming soon, Google’s next self driving car is going to be a minivan. Watch Now Josh Constine Why Zuck is funding the evolution beyond cookie-cutter education The best teachers see how each student requires a unique inspiration and learning style. Yet with classroom sizes ballooning and teachers underpaid,... Read More… Devin Coldewey Free Code Camp survey reveals demographics of self-taught coders If you've ever wondered who exactly is signing up for all these free learn-at-home coding classes and tutorial websites, Free Code Camp (which is one of them)... Read More… Josh Constine Periscope mimics FB Live by letting you permanently #Save replays Periscope added its biggest missing feature today in a move that could make it more palatable to brands and social stars, and help it compete with Facebook... Read More… Devin Coldewey Robot surgeon outperforms human colleagues doing same procedure It's another victory for the machines: a robotic surgical system outperformed humans and robot-assisted human operators in a soft-tissue procedure, bringing us... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Senior Product Manager @ Ampush at Ampush (San Francisco, CA, United States) Interactive Software Engineer at Edward M Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate (Boston, MA, United States) Sales Development Representative at RetailNext (San Jose, CA, United States) Senior Software Engineer at RetailNext (San Francisco, CA, United States) Android Developer at MapQuest (Denver, CO, USA) 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