| NYC will cap new licenses for Uber and Lyft, Samsung unveils the Galaxy Note 9 and the SEC has some questions about Elon Musk and Tesla. Here's your Daily Crunch for August 9, 2018. 1. New York City Council votes to cap licenses for ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft Despite determined opposition from Uber and Lyft, New York is moving forward with legislation that will prevent ride-hailing services from adding new vehicles (unless they're wheelchair accessible) for the next year. Meanwhile, the ride-hailing companies have argued that this will result in fewer drivers on the road and poorer service. Now that the new rules are going forward, they're looking to get creative to find other ways to get more drivers on the road. 
2. This is the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 Like the S9 before it, the new Note isn't a radical departure, but it does come with more storage, a better camera, an improved S-Pen and a considerably larger battery. 3. The SEC wants Tesla to explain Elon's 420 tweet Wall Street Journal sources say the SEC has since made inquiries to Tesla to find out whether Elon Musk's tweet was truthful and why he chose to announce such a move on Twitter instead of through a regulatory filing. 4. IBM teams with Maersk on new blockchain shipping solution Marie Wieck, GM for IBM Blockchain says the product provides a way to digitize every step of the global trade workflow, transforming it into a real-time communication and visual data sharing tool. 5. RIP EmuParadise, a haven for retro gamers for almost two decades If you're a fan of retro games, chances are you've visited EmuParadise, a stalwart provider of ambiguously legal ROMs. Well, EmuParadise is no more — or at least its current form is going away. 6. Vector is Cozmo for grownups In many ways, the new 'bot is built on the lessons learned from Cozmo, its predecessor at Anki, coupled with more advanced internals. 7. Apple defends decision not to remove Infowars' app At this point, it seems like every major tech platform has either cracked down on Infowars or been pressured into offering a (usually vague) explanation. | 
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