OnePlus 3 owners who want to try out Android 7.0 Nougat right now can download OxygenOS Open Beta 8! | Continue reading
Twitter opened up its Moments feature to everyone just this fall, but it only worked on the Web. Given Twitter has been a mobile-first platform since the very beginning, leaving mobile devices out of the equation seemed like an odd decision, but that’s now been rectified. Twitter … | Continue reading
So that’s another day done in the bitcoin price markets (at least out of Europe) and there’s been plenty of action during today’s session that we can look at, and use for tonight’s late US trading. Instead of rambling on like we normally do in this part of the analysis, we’re goi … | Continue reading
Seagate and Amazon have partnered up on a $99 1TB external hard drive that automatically backs up everything stored on it to the cloud. The Seagate Duet drive’s contents are cloned to Amazon Drive, so you can be pretty confident that your important stuff will be safe. Both a phys … | Continue reading
Back in 2011, Onlive, a cloud-based service, tried to do something pretty crazy; let you play games without actually downloading them. Alas, the service was not long-lived and the service got its obituary around 2015. Now Rovio, the developer behind the little-known Angry Birds f … | Continue reading
In a briefing with press today, Motorola Mobility chairman and president Aymar de Lencquesaing said that the company will likely develop a Tango augmented reality mod for the Moto Z line of smartphones. De Lencquesaing did not say when the mod would be released or how much it wou … | Continue reading
USB-C is here to stay, so it may be time to start investing in some compatible external drives. And the EX1, the first external drive from SSD manufacturer Plextor, looks like it'll fit the bill nicely. USB-C is here to staySSDs in general are faster and more reliable than disc-b … | Continue reading
To mark the annual shopping days of Black Friday and Cyber Monday, Event looks at five of the best brand events staged by online companies in the real world. | Continue reading
George “Geohot” Hotz is driving forward with his push to bring self-driving cars to the masses, but he’s going about it a slightly different way. His company Comma.ai is brushing past some previous regulatory issues and is trying another way — open sourcing not only its self-driv … | Continue reading
The Japan Exchange Group (JPX) has formed a consortium between several companies within its umbrella to test a blockchain proof-of-concept.Source | Continue reading
Mozilla is expected to release a security patch in the near future for Firefox, whose vulnerability is apparently exploited to attack Tor users. | Continue reading
Pokémon fever isn’t just for mobile games. Nintendo revealed that fans of its monster-catching role-playing games made Pokémon Sun and Moon the fastest-selling games in the history of the company in the Americas. We already reported that games are, collectively, outselling Call o … | Continue reading
In July 2016, Southwest Airlines was hit with a 5-day system outage. Here's how the brand used social media customer service to mitigate the crisis. | Continue reading
With over 52,000 employees and operating more than 3,900 departures a day during peak travel season, Southwest Airlines is regarded as one of the best domestic airlines in the United States. Well known for its...read moreThe post How Southwest Airlines Used Social Media to Mitiga … | Continue reading
One of Microsoft’s biggest gaming properties is getting its own reality show. Halo studio 343 Industries is partnering with Pilgrim Media on a reality-competition esports series for Halo 5: Guardians. This is the first production to come out of Pilgrim’s previously announced coll … | Continue reading
If you're a PlayStation 4 gamer, then you should probably download the new PlayStation Communities [Free] App, out now for iOS and Android. This app will let players meet players with similar interests so you can socialize or even team up. For instance, you can join parties and l … | Continue reading
Amazon just announced a new service called AWS Snowmobile, which is a 21st century version of the classic "sneakernet" method of data transport. Basically, Amazon is offering to tow a 45-foot-long shipping container full of hard drives to your data center, plug in to your servers … | Continue reading
For the past five years, Amazon has held a big conference for customers of its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud division in Las Vegas. Software industry people and existing customers have always paid attention. But this year AWS has become such a financial juggernaut for Amazon th … | Continue reading
Amazon today announced the launch of Greengrass, a new service that will be built into IoT devices to bring them better and smarter compute capabilities. As AWS CEO Andy Jassy noted in today’s keynote at Amazon’s re:Invent developer conference, Amazon expects that the majority of … | Continue reading
Spark, which I humbly believe to be the best email client on iOS, is now available for your Mac. The free app supports most email services, including Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, iCloud, and Exchange (among others) and brings some of your favorite features form other email apps into on … | Continue reading
A new report from a security firm claims that over 1 million Google accounts have been breached by the Gooligan malware. | Continue reading
Robotic arms seem like they belong in Sci-Fi movies, car factories and the dreams of DIY nerds. Dobot wants to change that, with a shiny new Kickstarter campaign bringing entry-level robotics to the desktop. The robot is extendable and can be equipped to deal with any number of t … | Continue reading
Famed iPhone and PlayStation cracker George Hotz is resurrecting the DIY autonomous car project he canceled in October. But this time, there’s a twist: instead of selling a physical product, Hotz’s Comma.ai is releasing the company’s self-driving software, as well as the plans fo … | Continue reading
For years, studios such as Ubisoft and DICE have seen skilled designers leave these companies to found development houses of their own. Now, another group of vets from these European game makers are trying to make something new work for the PlayStation 4. Lightbulb Club announced … | Continue reading
Yogg-Saron hasn't always been everyone's favorite Hearthstone [Free] Whispers of the Old Gods card; something about a ton of random spells blasting all over the place irked those who hate RNG. The card has been nerfed a bit but is still a powerful one, and in this repeat Tavern B … | Continue reading
Rick Schwartz has produced some great, successful movies, includingThe Departed, Black Swan and Gangs of New York. But with Jerrick Media Holdings (founded with former Wall Street executive Jeremy Frommer), he’s shifting his focus to the online world. Schwartz explained the move … | Continue reading
Getting your hands on an NES Classic — the coveted digital update of Nintendo's popular console from the '80s — is the challenge of this holiday season. But once you've finally called in a few favors and spent as much (or more) than you would on a PS4 or Xbox One, the NES Classic … | Continue reading
Should Uber be able to track you even when you’re not using its app? Uber seems to think so, but some customers are worried that the ride-sharing giant is yet again overstepping its bounds. Last month, Uber launched a major update to its app, streamlining many of its … | Continue reading
The White House announced today new and expanded plans to improve diversity and inclusion within the startup economy, focused on higher education, investment and entrepreneurship. The diversity commitments made by schools, venture capital firms and tech companies represent a pass … | Continue reading
VB LIVE: Don’t just stay on top of real-time data — use it to stay two steps ahead. But if you can’t separate the wheat from the chaff, you won’t just make bad decisions, you’ll look bad, too. Join this VB Live event for insight into finding and turning the right information into … | Continue reading
Google's YouTube video service has added support for live streaming in 4K resolutions, in both standard and 360-degree videos. | Continue reading
At its re:Invent user conference in Las Vegas today, public cloud market leader Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled the next generation of its Snowball boxes that customers can use to move lots of data to AWS. The first version was announced at last year’s re:Invent — it had a cap … | Continue reading
The biggest problem with most smartwatches has been finding a way to deal with the "watch" portion of the design. When it comes down to it, it's difficult for even the nicest-looking smartwatch to compete with the classic style and look of an analog watch. Grayton, a mechanical w … | Continue reading
Meet AWS Snowmobile, a tractor-trailer for when your big data is just to damn big. The truck houses a container that can store 100 petabytes of data. Real-life data hoarders can contract Amazon to move exabytes of data to the cloud using the new tricked-out trucks. Snowmobile can … | Continue reading
Cyber Monday deals aren’t just for buying physical goods from Amazon. You can also get a decent deal on in-app purchases in certain mobile games — and that led to a spike in revenue for one of Kabam’s biggest apps. Marvel: Contest of Champions, a simple fighting game for iOS and … | Continue reading
I usually try to stay on top of the various RPGs that come out from week to week, but every once in a while, something good slips past. Fortunately, the TouchArcade forums are pretty reliable about finding the things we happen to miss, and that's just how I came across Exiled Kin … | Continue reading
There were a lot of jokes and comments at Oracle’s expense today at the AWS re:Invent conference, but perhaps the boldest statement came when AWS announced it was adding PostgresSQL support to the AWS Aurora database, making it easier to move an Oracle database to the AWS cloud. … | Continue reading
Ubisoft is giving away the PC version of Assassin's Creed 3 for a month beginning on 7th December.This is the final part of the publisher's 30th anniversary promotion in which it's given away a new game every month since June to Ubisoft Club members. It's free to sign up.Previous … | Continue reading
Instead of killing time on your phone playing games or browsing Facebook, the recently launched application Hardbound aims to help you fill your spare minutes by learning something new instead. The months-old app introduces its own visual and interactive format for mobile storyte … | Continue reading
One tech fan set up his Google Home and Amazon Echo to respond to one another in an infinite loop. Read more...More about Mashable Video, Technology, Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Amazon Echo | Continue reading
NASA is challenging the world to help them design an in-suit toilet to replace the inconvenient space diaper currently being used. The 'Space Poop Challenge' is offering $30,000 to people who can figure out a waste disposal system that can last up to six days and allows the astro … | Continue reading
Once, long again when magazines still existed, I bought a copy of Popular Mechanics. Inside was a how-to on how to build a robotic lawnmower. Now this was back in the 1980s so it wasn’t a very complex machine – it basically backed up when it hit stuff – but I was amazed. Being on … | Continue reading
Final Fantasy XV is very different from past games in the series, and one of the biggest changes is the shift to a more open world. Along with that comes an important addition: the Regalia, a car that serves as your main form of transportation through the fantasy landscape of Eos … | Continue reading
Welcome to the 2016 TechCrunch Holiday Gift Guide! We’ll be rolling out a bunch of guides leading up to Christmas, hopefully making your holiday shopping a little easier. Looking for gifts for others on your list? Check out our full 2016 Gift Guide Hub. Read More | Continue reading
Netflix finally, finally lets you download movies and TV shows for offline viewing.It's really catch-up for Netflix, to be honestAmazon Instant Video has had downloading and offline viewing for over a year now. Still, better late than never.SEE ALSO: Netflix finally gives us the … | Continue reading
Tactical multiplayer shooter Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege just released a pass for the game's previously teased second year. The Year 2 Pa… | Continue reading
Google today is announcing the launch of App Maker, a new service that people inside organizations can use to easily develop custom applications based on their business needs. Google is now taking applications for early access to the tool from organizations that pay for the G Sui … | Continue reading
Google today announced the launch of App Maker, the newest entry in the low-code, drag-and-drop app building market. Like its competitors from Microsoft and numerous startups, App Maker promises to make it easy for anybody to quickly develop basic apps that serve a very specific … | Continue reading