|       |   |    |   |    |   Tuesday, November 12, 2019  • By Anthony Ha   |  | 
      |     |     |     | Happy TuesdayDisney makes its big bet on streaming, Instagram launches its take on TikTok and Twitter shares details about its deepfakes policy. Here’s your Daily Crunch for November 12, 2019. |  |  |  | 
    |     |     |     | After an initial test in the Netherlands, Disney+ is officially launching in the United States and Canada today, with a lineup of original content that includes the first episode of the very first live-action Star Wars series, "The Mandalorian," along with a deep library of Disney, Pixar and Marvel movies and shows — not to mention the first 30 seasons of "The Simpsons” — all for $6.99 per month. If that sounds pretty exciting, well, maybe that’s why the service has been plagued with launch-day bugs and crashes.   Read more   |  |    |   Image Credits: Disney |  |  | 
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    |     |     |     | Instagram is launching a video-music remix feature to finally fight back against Chinese social rival TikTok. Instagram Reels lets you make 15-second video clips set to music and share them as Stories.   Read more   |  |  |  | 
    |     |     |     | Twitter has provided a draft of its deepfakes policy. When it sees synthetic or manipulated media, it will place a notice next to them, warn people before they share those tweets or add a link so people can see why sources believe something is manipulated.   Read more   |  |    |   |  |  | 
    |     |     |     | Inspired Capital is being spearheaded by LearnVest founder Alexa von Tobel and Penny Pritzker, a former U.S. Secretary of Commerce under former President Barack Obama and serial entrepreneur who currently serves on the boards of Microsoft and Harvard.   Read more   |  |  |  | 
    |     |     |     | After much deliberation from the judges, we're pleased to announce the winner of Hardware Battlefield at TechCrunch Shenzhen 2019.   Read more   |  |    |   |  |  | 
    |     |     |     | No one's going to pay $380 for decent point-of-view video glasses and some trippy filters. But that's kind of the point of Snapchat Spectacles 3.   Read more   |  |  |  | 
    |     |     |     | New research commissioned by U.K. VC firm Octopus Ventures has put a spotlight on which of the country's higher education institutions are doing the most to support spin outs. (Extra Crunch membership required.)   Read more   |  |  |  | 
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