Top Stories of the Day // August 20, 2016

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Apple just dropped iOS 10 beta 7 for developers and public testers | MySQL founder tries a new software licensing model | Mimo’s new app teaches you how to code on your iPhone | Google will phase out Chrome apps for Windows, Mac and Linux | Is big data in big trouble? | Facebook’s new teens-only app Lifestage turns bios into video profiles | Lyft pauses Carpool service |

THE DAILY CRUNCH SATURDAY, AUGUST 20 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Romain Dillet Apple just dropped iOS 10 beta 7 for developers and public testers Apple keeps releasing new iOS 10 betas ahead of the final iOS 10 release in September. The company just issued the seventh beta for both developers and public... Read More… Frederic Lardinois MySQL founder tries a new software licensing model When it comes to open-source licenses, developers have their fair share of choices (GPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, etc.), all of them with their own pros and cons. The... Read More… Sarah Perez Mimo’s new app teaches you how to code on your iPhone Apple’s new iPad app Swift Playgrounds is popularizing the idea of learning to code on mobile devices, not desktop computers. But its focus is only on... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT MegaBots CEO Gui Cavalcanti, and a giant fighting robot, are coming to Disrupt SF An Oakland-based startup called MegaBots is making giant fighting robots a reality, and forming a league for them to fight each other under clear and fair rules, something akin to Formula 1 or UFC. Taking time away from all the test drives and trash talk that entails, MegaBots' CEO Gui Cavalcanti will join us at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco to discuss the unique design and business challenges his startup is tackling as it makes its robots battle-ready. There will also be a MegaBot at the conference! Learn More Brian Heater Google will phase out Chrome apps for Windows, Mac and Linux First, if you’re using Chrome apps on Windows, Mac or Linux, I’m sorry for your loss. Second, please take some solace in the fact that you really... Read More… Dave Mariani Is big data in big trouble? We recently saw two critical developments in the big data and analytics space. Tableau released earnings and missed their forecast by $0.05; their stock dropped... Read More… Josh Constine Facebook’s new teens-only app Lifestage turns bios into video profiles “What if I figured out a way to take Facebook from 2004 and bring it to 2016? What if every field in your profile was a full video?” asks... Read More… Megan Rose Dickey Lyft pauses Carpool service Well, that was fast. Less than five months ago, Lyft launched a Carpool feature for people commuting outside of San Francisco city limits. The idea was that... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Operations Developer at Ansatz Capital (New York, NY, United States) Front End Developer at Arup (New York, NY, United States) DevOps Engineer at Itemize (New York, NY, United States) Data Engineer at Arup (New York, NY, United States) Computer Science Faculty at African Leadership University (Mauritius) 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