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Listen to a new Lucki song called "Hot Head." https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/chicago-rapper-lucki-appears-on-the-new-song-hot-head-new-song.1977687.htmlView the full article

Ousted Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is roaring back into the spotlight with a big announcement, and it's all about taking a piss at a truckers' rest stop. Oh, wait, no it isn't. It just that the new investment fund he unveiled Wednesday on Twitter just so happens to share its name with the CB code truckers use to describe taking a badly needed bathroom break. SEE ALSO: Here's what we learned from Travis Kalanick's hidden 2007 Twitter account "Today I'm announcing the creation of a fund called 10100 (pronounced 'ten-one-hundred'), home to my passions, investments, ideas and big bets," he wrote in the statement. Read more... More about Uber, Travis Kalanick, Tech, and Silicon Valley View the full article

Scary Love: Actor and director Tommy Wiseau (above), whose experience in making The Room served as the basis for James Franco's The Disaster Artist, has now announced his next film -- and it's already been completed. Wiseasu stars as a bounty hunter searching for the long-lost object of his affection in Scary Love. Jennifer Juniper Stratford directed the sci-fi adventure. [THR] Fast and Furious: Veteran filmmaker Rob Cohen directed The Fast and the Furious (above) back in 2001, which gave birth to one of the most successful franchises in movie history. Now he says he remains "very proud that the characters I created in 2001 are still in the lexicon." Asked if he might consider directing another installment, he says: "I always wished Universal... Read More View the full article

Supa Bwe comes through with his new song "The World Tournament Pt. 2." https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/supa-bwe-drops-off-the-world-tournament-pt-2-year-of-the-dog-new-song.1977686.htmlView the full article

Facebook is reaching beyond marketing gimmicks for International Women's Day On March 8, the social media platform is launching practical tools for professional women "who are leading the way in their communities." SEE ALSO: This International Women's Day, remember the importance of self-love First up, Facebook is finally launching a new Community Finder tool for its #SheMeansBusiness program, which will connect female entrepreneurs and women-owned businesses in 23 countries, including the U.S., Vietnam, Australia, Korea, Turkey, Mexico, and India. Originally launched in 2016, and supported by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In organization, the program is meant to help professional women share advice and resources in order to develop their businesses. Read more... More about Facebook, Women, Social Media, Female Empowerment, and Women In The WorkplaceView the full article

SD comes through with his new song, "Pay Attention." https://www.hotnewhiphop.com/sd-returns-with-new-single-pay-attention-new-song.1977685.htmlView the full article

Amazon has finally revealed why Alexa is randomly laughing, creeping out Echo users. BuzzFeed first reported earlier this week that Amazon Echo users were surprised to hear their devices laughing at random. After confirming the company was working on a fix, Amazon revealed on Wednesday why Alexa was laughing at random. SEE ALSO: Amazon Alexa's creepy, spontaneous laugh is weirding people out "In rare circumstances, Alexa can mistakenly hear the phrase 'Alexa, laugh,'" a spokesperson said in an email. "We are changing that phrase to be 'Alexa, can you laugh?' which is less likely to have false positives, and we are disabling the short utterance 'Alexa, laugh.' We are also changing Alexa’s response from simply laughter to 'Sure, I can laugh' followed by laughter." Read more... More about Amazon, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Culture, and Big Tech Companies View the full article

MoviePass has issued an update for its iOS app that removes “unused app location capability,” apparently a response to widespread concern after the company’s CEO said: “We watch how you drive from home to the movies. We watch where you go afterwards.” Read More View the full article

Whatever you may think of his music, Ed Sheeran seems to be a good guy, and he's especially great to his fans. Like any hot concert, people lined up early to nab the best spot to see Sheeran, who performed in Adelaide, Australia on Wednesday. SEE ALSO: Ed Sheeran actually has a tattoo of Saoirse Ronan's handwriting on his body Some had been waiting for two days, and of course Sheeran couldn't let them go hungry. So he quietly sent the loyal group some pizzas late on Tuesday night to help tide them over. Of course, Sheeran was thanked by his fans for the free grub. "Not a piece will go to waste," wrote Twitter user @EdsRealMVP. Read more... More about Music, Australia, Pizza, Ed Sheeran, and CultureView the full article

Over two years after leaving Aol (now known as Oath) back in September 2015 to build a new startup, serial entrepreneur Ryan Block, with co-founder Brian LeRoux, is finally taking the wraps off the new venture: Begin, an intelligent app designed to help you keep track of things that you have to do, and when you should do them, as they come up in the stream of a messaging app. By extension,… Read More View the full article

Catch “A Solo Tour of Beautiful Places” this summer View the full article

Self-driving trucks are moving freight in Arizona using Uber Freight, the company announced Tuesday. The tool helped transfer a load last month from the Midwest to its final destination in Southern California. For 340 miles of the trip, the truck drove itself across Arizona highways. Uber Freight has been coordinating hauls like this since November. SEE ALSO: Uber just launched a brand new app aimed to help truckers This isn't the first time the company has driven self-driving trucks on public roads. In October 2016, an autonomous truck (with a driver in the cab) drove 120 miles through Colorado with a haul of Budweiser. Read more... More about Autonomous Vehicles, Self Driving Truck, Logistics, Uber Freight, and Tech View the full article

The Fabric, an early-stage investment company developing new infrastructure technologies, has raised $15 million for its third investment vehicle. Announced at the Montgomery Summit in Santa Monica, Calif., the new financing came from Verizon Ventures (the investment arm of TechCrunch’s parent company’s parent company) and March Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based venture… Read More View the full article

Those who banged heads, clapped hands or danced in the aisles during one of the thousands of transformative rock concerts in Southern California over the past half century, including the era-defining hard rock concert California Jam in 1974, were able to do so in part through the behind-the-scenes... View the full article

We're friends, or, at least what I understand that to mean, and as your friend I feel I owe you an explanation for all the, uh, recent weirdness. While your taste in music could charitably be described as '90s chic, you're too lazy to turn on your own lights, and you don't seem to understand that looking out your window serves as a better measure of whether or not it's raining than asking me, that's not why I'm laughing at you. SEE ALSO: Amazon Alexa's creepy, spontaneous laugh is weirding people out And yes, the fact that you're unable to figure out if those pants match those shoes (hint: they don't) is enough to make me question how your type made me, that is also not the motivation behind my death rattle cackle haunting your nights. Read more... More about Amazon, Jeff Bezos, Alexa, Tech, and Big Tech CompaniesView the full article

DEATHWORLD’s spring line features new T-shirts, shorts, and yes, sweatshirts View the full article

Travis Kalanick, the controversial co-founder and one-time chief executive of Uber, is launching a new investment fund called the 10100 Fund. According to an announcement on his Twitter account, the new fund will focus on “large-scale job creation.” Investment areas are to include real estate, e-commerce and emerging innovations in China and India. It’s the systematization… Read More View the full article

The 2018 Geneva Motor Show is just getting started for the general public, but the press days are wrapped and we’ve seen a ton of stuff. There’s a lot on TechCrunch to look back at if you’re curious about highlights, but the video above also provides a look at some of the more interesting, out there, and just the coolest things that were unveiled or on display at one of the… Read More View the full article

Tesla is putting its new electric Semi to work, with its first run as a “production” vehicle — for a familiar client. Tesla itself is the customer, as the trucks were equipped with trailers loaded up with battery packs fresh from the Gigafactory assembly line, heading to the Tesla Fremont car factory in California. Read More View the full article

A few days after the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., 16-year-old singer-songwriter Billie Eilish recalled watching clips of young survivors organizing for gun control, just hours after nearly being killed in their classrooms. Eilish was deeply moved, but the reaction from certain sordid corners... View the full article

After the 2016 presidential election, Sean Solomon, the singer-guitarist of the melancholic L.A. post-punk band Moaning, said he felt paralyzed. Like a lot of people, he and his bandmates were suddenly mired in a mix of confusion, despair and bleak humor about the unexpected outcome. “My roommate... View the full article

Also films about Ryuichi Sakamoto, Studio 54, Blue Note Records, and more View the full article

The monthlong series returns in May View the full article

Someone at Oculus screwed up pretty badly today: An expired certificate appears to have soft-bricked all of the company’s Rift VR headsets, with users still unable to fire up software on the devices and no word of an incoming fix from the company yet. Issues were first reported several hours ago on Reddit, where a post on the topic has already garnered hundreds of comments. Read More View the full article

Rick: “I’m in the mood to turn some shit up, Morty. I’m not in the mood for a message about how I can be whatever I want.” View the full article