| Apple is talking about future products, dogs and cats are living together and there's mass hysteria. That and more in The Daily Crunch for April 4, 2017. And if you're a Windows user with a Netflix habit, I have good news. 1. Apple opens up about the Mac Pro Apple did something very unusual for the company – it talked openly and frankly about the Mac Pro, about its missteps with the machine's refreshed design from 2013, and about what's coming next. Matthew reports that a completely rethought Mac Pro is coming – but not until next year. Meanwhile, the company will also update the iMac later this year with more pro-friendly features. But the most amazing news of all is still that it had execs talking about all this, on record, to journalists. That's an extreme measure for a company that's generally fond of restraint in comms. 
2. An Oath is a terrible thing to waste Yahoo and Aol will be renamed Oath as a combined media brand under Verizon ownership, which is weird and wrong. It's a puzzling move, because even though both brands have suffered some damage, both are still easily recognizable to the average person. Oath will be starting from scratch, and it's a terrible name for anything (besides maybe an RPG character's most trusted weapon). 3. Daimler and Bosch aim for full self-driving within 5 years Mercedes-Benz owner Daimler is partnering with world-leading automotive supplier Bosch on fully autonomous cars, with the goal of putting them on the road within 5 years. The goal is to develop both Level 4 and Level 5 vehicles, at the top of the self-driving food chain, and this partnership will focus on the software side. It's basically table stakes for an automaker at this point, but it's still no sure thing that we'll actually see autonomous cars in any kind of significant numbers on the road by the beginning of the next decade. 4. Google says Otto co-founder was competing with its own project before Otto New court documents suggest Google self-driving employee Anthony Levandowski was working on competing projects outside the company long before he left and founded Otto, which was then acquired by Uber. This case has not been good for Levandowski's rep, to say the least. 5. The Sonos Playbase is a solid home theatre addition Sonos has new hardware, and John says it's a very good offering from a company with a solid track record. Sonos still seems like a solid acquisition target for someone like Apple or Google. 6. Netflix adds offline viewing to Windows 10 I was actually debating packing my Surface Book on my most recent trip but ended up not doing so because Netflix doesn't support offline playback there like it does on my iPad. But just a few days later, that all changed: The Windows 10 app for Netflix now does support offline viewing. 7. WhatsApp looking at P2P payments launch in India It's a big and lucrative market, and WhatsApp could do very well there. The company's being cagey about its plans but it sounds like it could go down soon. Bonus level: Sign up for our new weekly startups newsletter, curated by Anthony Ha. Just follow the link below and check the "TC Startups" checkbox. You can't go wrong. <a href="http://link.techcrunch.com/join/134/signup-all-newsletters"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1472010" src="https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2017/04/startups-week-in-review-call.png" alt="" width="800" height="201" /></a> | 
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