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Facebook develops a new way to interact with AR, Uber’s facial recognition policy faces scrutiny and SpaceX’s Starship rocket booster hits a major milestone. This is your Daily Crunch for March 19, 2021.The big story: Facebook shows off wrist-based interfaceThis project comes out of Facebook Reality Labs and is supposed to present , with electromyography sensors to interpret motor nerve signals.In a blog post, Facebook said a wrist-based device “could reasonably fit into everyday life and social contexts,” while allowing the company to “bring the rich control capabilities of your hands into AR, enabling intuitive, powerful and satisfying interaction.”Facebook identifies this as a research prototype, so don’t expect it to turn into a commercial product anytime soon. But it’s still suggestive, particularly given the company’s sometimes-surprising hardware strategy and rumors that it might be working on an Apple Watch competitor.The tech giants— The Indian government alleged on Friday that WhatsApp’s planned privacy update violates local laws on several counts.— Uber’s use of facial recognition technology for a driver identity system is being challenged in the U.K.—&nbsp;The outage began around 1:40 p.m. ET and lasted for more than half an hour.Startups, funding and venture capital—&nbsp;SpaceX has completed what’s known as the “stacking” of its first Super Heavy prototype.—&nbsp;Throughout their lives, the founders had heard their parents complain about the sorry state of maintenance and heavy equipment in their factories.—&nbsp;Superpedestrian is considered an up-and-coming player in the micromobility world because of how it handles safety issues.Advice and analysis from Extra Crunch—&nbsp;Organizations spend ungodly amounts of money on business intelligence tools, but adoption rates are still below 30%.—&nbsp;Sounding Board’s Christine Tao discusses raising her Series A on the How I Raised It podcast.—&nbsp;Tell us what you think about Extra Crunch!(Extra Crunch is our membership program, which helps founders and startup teams get ahead. .)Everything else— That’s according to new research from Sydney Research Group.—&nbsp;Just as countless aspects of corporate life have been reshaped over the course of the last year, boards of directors are undergoing significant and lasting transformation.—&nbsp;If three jam-packed days of TechCrunch Disrupt 2021 wasn’t enough to get your startup motor running, listen up.The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 3pm Pacific, you can .

Facebook develops a new way to interact with AR, Uber’s facial recognition policy faces scrutiny and SpaceX’s Starship rocket booster hits a major milestone. This is your Daily Crunch for March 19, 2021.The big story: Facebook shows off wrist-based interfaceThis project comes out of Facebook Reality Labs and is supposed to present , with electromyography sensors to interpret motor nerve signals.In a blog post, Facebook said a wrist-based device “could reasonably fit into everyday life and social contexts,” while allowing the company to “bring the rich control capabilities of your hands into...

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