 |  | | Tuesday, October 29, 2019 • By Anthony Ha | |
Happy Tuesday Apple reveals AirPods with noise cancellation, Amazon starts offering free grocery delivery for Prime members and Lyft revamps its monthly membership plan. Here’s your Daily Crunch for October 29, 2019. | | | |
| These new Airpods feature active noise cancellation, with two microphones in each earbud to listen to background noise and actively cancel sound around you. AirPods Pro will be available for $249 starting on October 30. Regular AirPods remain available for the same price of $159 to $199, depending on whether you get the wireless charging case. Read more | |  | | |
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| Alongside free delivery, Amazon is giving users one- and two-hour delivery options for quicker turnarounds, and it's making local Whole Foods inventory available online and through the Amazon app. Read more | | | |
| Lyft is ditching its All-Access plan and replacing it with Lyft Pink, which costs just $19.99 per month. The perks of the membership differ (for Pink, they include 15% off on all car rides), but this lower price point will likely prove to be much more of a win-win for Lyft and its riders. Read more | |  Image Credits: Pkg203 under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license. | | |
| The Federal Communications Commission said it will move ahead with proposals to ban telecommunications giants from using Huawei and ZTE networking equipment, which the agency says poses a "national security threat." Read more | | | |
| Brian Heater says there's a lot about the Echo Buds that would have made them an excellent addition to the category two or three years ago. Now, however, it’s all-but-assured that third-party products will eclipse Amazon’s earbuds shortly. Read more | |  | | |
| TikTok-owner ByteDance has responded to a report in the Financial Times that said the Chinese internet startup plans to go public in Hong Kong as early as the first quarter of next year: "There is absolutely zero truth to the rumors that we plan to list in Hong Kong in Q1.” Read more | | | |
| Google and NASA have demonstrated that quantum computing isn't just a fancy trick, but almost certainly something actually useful — and they're already working on commercial applications. What does that mean for existing startups and businesses? (Extra Crunch membership required.) Read more | | | |
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