 |  | | Tuesday, November 12, 2019 • By Anthony Ha | |
Happy Tuesday Disney 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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