Top Stories of the Day // June 22, 2016

Elon Musk’s Tesla offers to acquire Elon Musk’s SolarCity for $2.8B | The Apple App Store graveyard | These guys built the ‘World’s Largest Nerf Gun’ and it shoots massive darts at 40 mph | Austin police are now impounding drivers in the peer-to-peer ridesharing group | A federal safety board just OK’d the first CRISPR trial to genetically alter humans | Tesla gets more than solar panels with offer to acquire SolarCity | Never leave Slack with message button bots for using Kayak, Trello, and more |

DAILY WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22 2016 TODAY'S TOP STORIES: TOP HEADLINE | Josh Constine Elon Musk’s Tesla offers to acquire Elon Musk’s SolarCity for $2.8B The great Elon Musk empire is uniting. Today his electric car and battery company Tesla announced its offer to acquire his solar panel installation company... Read More… CRUNCH NETWORK | Alex Austin The Apple App Store graveyard People just don't seem to have the same excitement lately about Apple's App Store or the Google Play platform. The air of hopelessness that surrounds the... Read More… SPONSORED CONTENT Monetize your mobile app or site with native ads from Facebook Audience Network We help publishers earn more revenue with access to ads from more than 3 million Facebook advertisers worldwide. Learn More… Greg Kumparak These guys built the ‘World’s Largest Nerf Gun’ and it shoots massive darts at 40 mph Bigger isn't necessarily better when it comes to Nerf battles — but... well, this one wins. It's a four foot tall recreation of the Nerf N-Strike Maverick... Read More… Fitz Tepper Austin police are now impounding drivers in the peer-to-peer ridesharing group Austin’s transportation saga just keeps getting more interesting. Last week, we wrote about a 30,000 member Facebook group that had formed in Austin to... Read More… Sarah Buhr A federal safety board just OK’d the first CRISPR trial to genetically alter humans In the spring of 2015, a group of Chinese scientists modified the DNA of 54 embryos using CRISPR/Cas 9 technology. Twenty-eight of those embryos were... Read More… John Mannes Tesla gets more than solar panels with offer to acquire SolarCity News of an offer from Tesla to acquire SolarCity came mostly unexpected to traders earlier this afternoon. In a rapid “knee-jerk” reaction,... Read More… Ingrid Lunden, Josh Constine Never leave Slack with message button bots for using Kayak, Trello, and more Now you can approve expenses, assign deadlines, check flights, and interact with other enterprise tools from inside Slack with its new Message Buttons. Slack is... Read More… Get more stories at techcrunch.com  Newest Jobs From CrunchBoard: Seeking Visionary Founder for Messaging App Startup at Founders Wanted (Anywhere) Software Development Project Manager at Wisconsin Court System (Madison, WI, United States) Sales Operations at Mapbox (San Francisco, CA, United States) Enterprise Sales Representative at Mapbox (San Francisco, CA, United States) Developer at Matomy Media Group (Plantation, FL, United States) SEE MORE JOBS ON CRUNCHBOARD Post your tech jobs and reach millions of TechCrunch readers for only $200 per month If you do not want to receive this email or you would like to update your preferences click here. 410 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107 © 2016 AOL Inc. All rights reserved.   Privacy Policy   Terms of Service