Top Stories of the Day // September 10, 2016

Dropbox responds to accusations its Mac desktop client hacks OS X security | The progressive case for replacing the welfare state with basic income | Confirmed: Honest Company in talks to sell | Judge a book through its cover with this terahertz camera setup | The drone race is off and running, with Israel in the lead | Google’s WaveNet uses neural nets to generate eerily convincing speech and music | Ford Smart Mobility acquires Chariot to boost its smart city transit plans |

THE DAILY CRUNCH SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 10 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Natasha Lomas Dropbox responds to accusations its Mac desktop client hacks OS X security Dropbox has responded to concerns about how it implements the desktop client of its cloud storage service on Apple's macOS platform, conceding it needs to do... Read More… Scott Santens The progressive case for replacing the welfare state with basic income It appears some establishment voices have picked up on a way of opposing the idea of the monthly citizen dividend of about $1,000 per month, known as universal... Read More… Connie Loizos Confirmed: Honest Company in talks to sell The Honest Company, the consumer products startup that has largely operated in the limelight thanks to its famous cofounder, actress Jessica Alba, is talking... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Hang Out With Steph Curry At Disrupt SF On September 13, the Golden State Warriors' Stephen Curry will partner with TechCrunch at Disrupt SF to host a charity fundraiser for Nothing But Nets, a global campaign to fight malaria. Attendees of this reception will get to see a 15-minute Q&A moderated by famed sportswriter Rick Reilly, meet with Stephen, and have their photo taken with the NBA MVP. Your tax-deductible ticket can be purchased here. Learn More Devin Coldewey Judge a book through its cover with this terahertz camera setup What do you do if you want to peek inside a book, but you're pretty sure it'll crumble into dust if you even crack the cover a little bit? Well, nothing:... Read More… Yoav Leitersdorf, Ofer Schreiber, Iren Reznikov The drone race is off and running, with Israel in the lead Audiences around the globe enjoyed all the action of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games thanks in large part to the drones hovering above the events (or below them),... Read More… Devin Coldewey Google’s WaveNet uses neural nets to generate eerily convincing speech and music Generating speech from a piece of text is a common and important task undertaken by computers, but it's pretty rare that the result could be mistaken for... Read More… Darrell Etherington Ford Smart Mobility acquires Chariot to boost its smart city transit plans Ford Smart Mobility, the company founded by Ford Motor Company to help provide alternate means of transportation, just made its first acquisition: Chariot, the... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Software Engineer at Consensus Corporation (San Francisco, CA, United States) Software Engineer, Performance at Suitable Technologies, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA, United States) Software Engineer, C++ at Suitable Technologies, Inc. (Palo Alto, CA, United States) ETL, Senior Software Engineer at Sikka Software (San Jose, CA, United States) iOS Engineer @ Jaunt at Jaunt VR (Palo Alto, CA, 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 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service