13 TechCrunch stories you don’t want to miss this week

This week, Tesla uncovered its most up to date show; the HTC Vive VR headset dropped; the web saw the biggest break of private reports ever; and Facebook's chatbot arrangements were uncovered. Here are the top tech stories from this week.

1. Tesla revealed the $35,000 Model 3. In this way, we realize that the base model will do 0-60 in less than 6 seconds and get no less than 215 miles for every charge. All Model 3s will have autopilot equipment and accompanied supercharging standard. Here are 16 genuine photos of the auto.

2. A week ago saw the greatest hole of private records ever seen on the Internet. The "Panama Papers" contained about 2.6 terabytes of reports, identified with a huge number of seaward organizations, spilled from a little Panamanian law office called Mossack Fonseca.

3. Facebook had a tremendous week quite recently in front of its yearly F8 engineer gathering. The system presented a versatile video revelation tab for Live video and another suite of devices for Pages intended to help Facebook clients better associate with organizations. Gracious, and spoiler ready: we discovered that Facebook chatbots, which could supplant 1-800 numbers, will be uncovered at F8.

4. The HTC Vive virtual reality headset dropped at a $799 value point (only a week after Facebook's Oculus discharged its exceedingly foreseen Rift headset). We preferred the room-scale following, the shockingly helpful camera and quality optics. The movement followed controllers are first rate. We weren't fanatics of the massive headset plan and the UI bugginess.

5. Amazon tackled Paypal with the dispatch of Amazon Payments. The thought is that traders can take advantage of Amazon's immense client base, taking out the requirement for clients to make another username/secret word on the dealer's site. Speedier checkout = more deals. Reward: Amazon extended same day conveyance to more fair sized U.S. urban areas.

6. Twitter marked an arrangement with the NFL to stream Thursday Night Football. The organization will likewise incorporate pre-amusement Periscope telecasts from players and groups, and in addition in-diversion highlights.

7. WhatsApp is presently authoritatively completely scrambled. This implies the substance of correspondences are not put away in plaintext on WhatsApp's servers, and the organization doesn't hold the encryption keys expected to decode messages. In this way, regardless of the possibility that powers requested access, WhatsApp would be not able hand over any informing information.

8. Reddit propelled its first authority versatile applications and Alien Blue close down. The site likewise presented another client blocking device to battle badgering and trolls.

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9. A monstrous series of occasions has unfolded in the UK gig-economy space after Delivery Hero covered Valk Fleet, its nourishment conveyance startup. Drivers and staff have asserted that they are owed cash and Valk Fleet UK has placed itself into "organization" (an intentional procedure in the UK when an organization has acquired obligation that it is unrealistic to have the capacity to benefit). Valk Fleet's administration group says they have gotten "demise dangers" from disappointed drivers who, because of their independently employed status, have no vocation rights past the agreement they marked with Valk Feet.

10. Salesforce procured MetaMind, a Palo Alto-based AI startup.

11. Ron Miller expounded on Microsoft's missing versatile technique, offering the conversation starter of regardless of whether Microsoft can succeed without a solid Windows portable position.

12. Sarah Buhr acquainted us with 13 ladies driving the life sciences development in Silicon Valley.

13. Valet administration Luxe affirmed it has raised a $50 million Series B round from can rental organization Hertz. Let you know so.