Top Stories of the Day // July 16, 2017

Disney is opening an immersive Star Wars Hotel where each guest gets a storyline | Death to C, ++ | A farm shouldn’t be a factory | The decentralization of startup building | Health insurance startup Alan adds life insurance | Lionel Richie says “Hello” to startup investing | Does Silicon Valley have a moral responsibility to stop developing robots? |

THE DAILY CRUNCH SUNDAY, JULY 16 2017 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Greg Kumparak Disney is opening an immersive Star Wars Hotel where each guest gets a storyline AHHHHHHH. Disney just announced something that’s potentially so damned cool that I hardly need complete sentences here: Immersive. Star Wars. Hotel.... Read More… Jon Evans Death to C, ++ The C programming language is terrible. I mean, magnificent, too. Much of the world in which we live was built atop C. It is foundational to almost all computer... Read More… Gunnar Lovelace A farm shouldn’t be a factory A shift to technologically driven organic farming practices could save our topsoils, lessen our dependence on synthetics and even capture 100% of today's CO2... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT TechCrunch TC Sessions: Robotics | July 17 @ MIT TechCrunch Sessions: Robotics is a single-day event designed to facilitate in-depth conversation and networking between the robotics researcher community and founders/investors. We'll discover the science behind the systems and explore topics like: mobility, medical robotics, investment trends, and so much more. Tickets are on sale now. Learn More Sam Cash The decentralization of startup building Breakthroughs in technology, changes to regulation and socio-economic tailwinds are allowing talent and capital to be more widely distributed and at the same... Read More… Romain Dillet Health insurance startup Alan adds life insurance French startup Alan launched a brand new full-stack health insurance last year. This week, the company is launching corporate-owned life insurance so that it... Read More… Jonathan Shieber Lionel Richie says “Hello” to startup investing It's been a while that he's had the idea of startup investing inside his mind... And in Lionel Richie's dreams he's thought of pulling the trigger on a deal at... Read More… Andrew Keen Does Silicon Valley have a moral responsibility to stop developing robots? Should Silicon Valley exercise its moral authority to stop developing this job-killing technology? Andrew McAfee, author of "The Second Machine Age" and the... 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