Top Stories of the Day // September 19, 2015

Autonomous Cars Break Uber | It’s Now Officially Sundar Pichai’s Show At Google | Peace, The Top Selling Ad Blocker From Instapaper Founder, Removed From App Store | Google Is Unveiling ‘New Treats’ — Like Its Next Nexus Device — On September 29th | Microsoft Drops A New Windows 10 Build, Promises Cortana And Xbox Improvements | CrunchWeek: iOS 9 Is A Hit, Facebook Has Empathy, & Snapchat’s Rainbow Barfers | Hotspot Shield Launches VPN Plugins For Chrome And Firefox To Help People Liberate Their Internet Browsing |

DAILY SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 2015 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Kyle Samani Autonomous Cars Break Uber As Bill Gurley (General Partner at Benchmark Capital and board member of Uber) notes, Uber will be the dominant player in the ride-hailing business. Why?... Read More… Drew Olanoff It’s Now Officially Sundar Pichai’s Show At Google Welp, journalists got some inbox candy on a Friday from Google -- an invite to an event on September 29. What will the event be about? Is it hardware? Has to be... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Meet The Disrupt SF 2015 Speakers And Judges Disrupt SF is just DAYS away, and we have some of the most iconic entrepreneurs and thought leaders in the tech industry lined up to speak throughout the three-day-long conference. There's still time to get your tickets! Learn More… Sarah Perez Peace, The Top Selling Ad Blocker From Instapaper Founder, Removed From App Store Only a day after the launch of Apple's new mobile operating system, iOS 9, a number of new applications aimed at blocking ads shot up to the top of the App... Read More… CATCH UP WITH CRUNCH REPORT Google Releasing a New Chromecast This Month? Ad blocking app Peace gets taken down from App Store by its creator, Ahmed Mohammed switches schools after school officials mistake clock for bomb, Shelfie is a new iOS and Android app that identifies books and searches for discounted or free ebooks, new web game “SpaceX Falcon 9 Lander” simulates landing a SpaceX rocket. Watch Now Jon Russell, Drew Olanoff Google Is Unveiling ‘New Treats’ — Like Its Next Nexus Device — On September 29th Good things are coming this month, and I don't just mean our Disrupt San Francisco event. That's because Google just pulled the trigger on invites to a press... Read More… Alex Wilhelm Microsoft Drops A New Windows 10 Build, Promises Cortana And Xbox Improvements Microsoft released a new Windows 10 build to the 'fast ring' of its operating system testing community today. The new code, dubbed build 10547, has quite a lot... Read More… Drew Olanoff, Matthew Lynley, Megan Rose Dickey CrunchWeek: iOS 9 Is A Hit, Facebook Has Empathy, & Snapchat’s Rainbow Barfers Hello fellow disrupters, and welcome to another episode of CrunchWeek, TechCrunch’s weekly roundup show where we talk the biggest things in tech. This... Read More… Lucas Matney Hotspot Shield Launches VPN Plugins For Chrome And Firefox To Help People Liberate Their Internet Browsing A free and unrestricted internet can be a dangerous place, but it’s always important for the tools that prevent government or corporate censorship of the... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  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 © 2015 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service