Top Stories of the Day // July 15, 2017

Google’s life sciences unit is releasing 20 million bacteria-infected mosquitoes in Fresno | Light starts shipping the L16, its 16-camera pocket DSLR challenger | BetterWorks and CEO sued by ex-employee for alleged sexually suggestive assault | Is Amazon working on a new messaging app called Anytime? | Microsoft’s Path Guide is an unconventional approach to indoor navigation | Uber acqui-hires social app studio Swipe Labs | This 32-year-old state senator is trying to get patent trolls out of Massachusetts |

THE DAILY CRUNCH SATURDAY, JULY 15 2017 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Sarah Buhr Google’s life sciences unit is releasing 20 million bacteria-infected mosquitoes in Fresno Verily, the life science's arm of Google's parent company Alphabet, has hatched a plan to release about 20 million lab-made, bacteria-infected mosquitoes upon... Read More… Darrell Etherington Light starts shipping the L16, its 16-camera pocket DSLR challenger Light's L16 was a radical design concept when it was originally introduced in October, 2015 -- but the concept has become a reality, as the company is now... Read More… Josh Constine BetterWorks and CEO sued by ex-employee for alleged sexually suggestive assault Beatrice Kim is suing her former employer, BetterWorks, and its CEO Kris Duggan for allegedly assaulting her in a sexual manner during a company retreat. The... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT TechCrunch TechCrunch comes to London this July Join TechCrunch for our Meetup+Pitch-Off London event on July 19th. Join hundreds of founders, investors, media and more for a startup-filled night of pitches and networking. Tickets are just £10! Buy your tickets today. Learn More Ingrid Lunden Is Amazon working on a new messaging app called Anytime? Messaging apps today are one of the most popular ways consumers communicate today, not just with each other but, increasingly, with businesses and services. Now... Read More… Devin Coldewey Microsoft’s Path Guide is an unconventional approach to indoor navigation Indoor mapping is one of those problems that seems to only have solutions that involve a great deal of money and infrastructure: beacons, lasers, emitters,... Read More… Josh Constine Uber acqui-hires social app studio Swipe Labs Why would Uber buy a team that builds Snapchat competitors? To make its driver app feel more human. Uber has acqui-hired Swipe Labs, the social product studio... Read More… Connie Loizos This 32-year-old state senator is trying to get patent trolls out of Massachusetts When the internet security company Cloudflare decided to engage in all-out war with what it views as a “dangerous new breed of patent troll,” it... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: iOS Developer at Badoo (London, United Kingdom) UI Engineer @ Athos at Athos (Redwood City, CA, United States) Designer at Flocabulary (Brooklyn, NY, United States) Data Engineer at Flocabulary (Brooklyn, NY, United States) Senior Software Engineer at Flocabulary (Brooklyn, NY, 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 © 2017 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service