People in Scotland have started exploring different currency options following Brexit. There have been calls for the Scottish referendum in the past. While Scotland decided against leaving the United Kingdom in the past, the recent vote by Englanders to leave the European Union … | Continue reading
If you've been watching and enjoying the Netflix Narcos TV show, based on the life of the infamous drug lord Pablo Escobar, then you'll probably want to check out the upcoming Narcos: Cartel Wars, developed by FTX Games, which wants to put you in the middle of a drug war while ho … | Continue reading
In the post-9/11 world, the Bush administration once created a color-coded guide used for fear-mongering detailing the current threat level from bad actors worldwide. This tool — which came to be known as the Homeland Security Advisory System — ranged from green (good) to red ( … | Continue reading
Last week TechCrunch came to you with the dramatic departure of AR helmet maker Skully’s CEO and co-founder Marcus Weller and now several sources from inside the company tell us the startup is no more.Operations have ceased within the company, and we’re told the website will be t … | Continue reading
The water is still toxic for many residents of Flint, MI yet one automotive supply company has plans to turn the crisis into an opportunity. An auto parts supplier today announced plans to relocate a facility from China to Flint, MI in part to turn discarded water bottles into pl … | Continue reading
Funding may be becoming a bit harder to come by for some startups in the current climate, but generally as long as a company has the right idea someone will always be there with a checkbook in hand. A studio building a virtual reality baby brawler seems to have fit that bill. Kit … | Continue reading
Twitter today reported Q2 earnings, and the woe that is its poor user growth continues, with its 313 million monthly active users up just 3% on a year ago, and up less than 1% on its previous quarter. The company reported revenues of $602 million with adjusted earnings per share … | Continue reading
I joined Twitter on a lark in the summer of 2007. My art gig at the Onion News Network had a hurry-up-and-wait rhythm to it: rush to construct and dress a set, then loiter around the craft table until a PA needed me to make a prop or repair a broken flat. I'd heard of Twitter fro … | Continue reading
On a random morning, if you’re invited to come watch David Chang: chef, personality and owner of the Momofuku restaurants cook a “meat burger made of plants” — you go. Read More | Continue reading
For 72 episodes, What’s Tech has invited guests to explain technology and its cultural periphery — from drones and fan fiction to ASMR and biohacking. We were bound to make a podcast about podcasts eventually. This was inevitable.For this momentous occasion, our guest is Alex Gol … | Continue reading
Today T-Mobile’s controversial CEO John Legere took his video blog to announce that T-Mobile has added 16 new partners to their streaming service Binge On. He also had some colorful words for the company's competitors. | Continue reading
Self-driving race cars are a few years away but why not simulate the roar of robotic Formula 1 cars with a little Raspberry Pi magic? The folks at Piborg are offering the opportunity for hackers and makers to try and drive their own autonomous car brain in a centralized race. The … | Continue reading
Apple is turning Carpool Karaoke, the Late Late Show with James Corden segment that regularly goes viral, into its own TV show, which will air on Apple Music. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Apple has ordered 16 episodes, which will be released weekly once the series is read … | Continue reading
In about an hour, Apple will announce its quarterly earnings. So you’ll soon be able to read all about it on TechCrunch as we have a team ready to look at all these numbers and find out if they’re moving up or down. But I’m going to use this opportunity to give you a few thoughts … | Continue reading
If you've been playing Telltale's Minecraft: Story Mode [$4.99], you'll be glad to know that the seventh episode of this long-running series, Access Denied, is available for download - or will be available today at some point. As we talked about recently, this episode moves away … | Continue reading
It has been a decade since forex trading had made its debut on internet. And as it is evident, the industry hasn’t looked back ever since, and is now among the largest markets in the world with its daily trading volume hitting as high as $USD5.3 trillion. There is no harm in sayi … | Continue reading
If you've never heard of LeEco, now is a good time to become familiar with it. The Chinese company that has been called the "Netflix of China" has a foothold in multiple industries such as video streaming, consumer electronics and automobiles. And in a joint announcement Tuesday, … | Continue reading
Today I did two things I do nearly every day. 1) I bought something using a credit card, and 2) I complained about something on Twitter. But today, the complaint on Twitter was related to payments, and now my replies are blowing up. They’re blowing up because I said a very obviou … | Continue reading
Bluetooth 5 was recently announced by the Bluetooth SIG, but what it is? Why is it a good thing? And when will we get it? Let me explain. | Continue reading
3D video, despite never really succeeding as a consumer-level product, still has some success today in movie theaters, as more and more big-budget movies are released in 3D to try and squeeze a few more dollars out of patrons. In fact, we've reached the point where as opposed to … | Continue reading
A PSA for everyone not on Windows 10 yet: You have until July 29 to upgrade – and you really should. Windows 10 has been available just under a year now, meaning its initial free upgrade promotion is running out. After 5:59 AM ET on July 30, you’ll have to pay a heft $120 if you … | Continue reading
The National Transportation Safety Board today issued the preliminary report of its investigation into the May 7th accident which involved a Tesla Model S operating in Autopilot mode. The crash resulted in the death of the driver, Joshua Brown, who was 40 years old. The agency fo … | Continue reading
There are many possible metrics for measuring PR. Some think it’s time to include backlinks as a key metric to evaluate PR success. Incoming links to a company’s domain are among the most important metrics for PR and search engine marketing, these advocates contend. Most PR and S … | Continue reading
LeEco is making a powerful push into the US television market by buying out the hardware and software operations of Vizio. | Continue reading
Joshua Brown, the Tesla driver who on May 7 died in a crash in Florida while the car's Autopilot was engaged was speeding, according to a National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) preliminary report.SEE ALSO: Tesla is the only carmaker beta testing 'autopilot' … | Continue reading
After a storied history making Poke balls, Saffron City tech firm Silph Company recently started trying its hand at software. Inspired by Pokemon Go’s popularity, its latest app Willow aims to hep trainers enjoying Niantic’s location-based hit to be the very best, like no one eve … | Continue reading
It's easy to get caught up in the current smartphone landscape, but every once in awhile we need to look back and remember our history. Join us as we take a look at the most iconic phones from each OEM. | Continue reading
Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin issued new statements today addressing the increasing support for Ethereum Classic. | Continue reading
You’d be forgiven if you’re not super familiar with LeEco. The company, until fairly recently known as LeTV, isn’t exactly a household name here in the States. In its native China, however, the company is a multi-disciplined powerhouse. It has a massive video streaming service, m … | Continue reading
After seeing a “leaked” version of the Nintendo NX controller — which looks an awful lot like a recent patent (below) — we already had inklings that the upcoming console could be a handheld. A report by Eurogamer — from “a number of sources” — seems to confirm that. According to … | Continue reading
Attention night owls: Twitter is making it easier for you to use its app in the dark.The company just updated its Android app and added a dark-themed mode for nighttime viewing. The feature should make late-night tweeting a little easier on your eyes. SEE ALSO: Seriously, stop us … | Continue reading
Early this morning — so early that most of our audience probably didn’t see it — a story was posted on TechCrunch from the ever so friendly OurMine hacking team. The post was up for a handful of minutes and was removed, along with automatically generated social posts. Read More | Continue reading
AMD has announced a new graphics card that incorporates an SSD for the first time. The Radeon Pro SSG features two PCIe 3.0 M.2 slots allowing you to add up to 1TB of NAND flash memory directly to the graphics card. This will allow large datasets to be worked on locally without h … | Continue reading
Find out which 5 psychology principles can help you optimize your lead generation UX. | Continue reading
See you tonight! We’ll be meeting at 7pm in the MakeOffices space in the Loop. There will be some free beers and chicken sandwiches. We’ll hold a pitchoff at 8pm and close up at 9pm and perhaps we can go carousing afterwards. The pitch-off will be very cool. I’ve already picked n … | Continue reading
Chinese electronics firm LeEco is buying American TV manufacturer Vizio for $2 billion. The acquisition was announced during a press event this morning in Los Angeles, giving LeEco an instant foothold in the US television market. Under the deal, Vizio will be operated as an indep … | Continue reading
A couple of months after taking to the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in Brooklyn to show off their neuropriming headset, Halo Neuroscience revealed that a number of Olympic athletes from various countries have been using the system to prep for next month’s Rio games. According to … | Continue reading
A bit more than a year after Automattic acquired WooCommerce, the popular service that turns any WordPress website into an e-commerce store is now integrating with Square. While this kind of integration doesn’t sound groundbreaking on paper, it has bigger implications when it com … | Continue reading
This Fall, iOS users (and likely some Android converts) will have a decision to make: iPhone 7 or 7 Plus? If the phone’s design is of any concern to you, you’ll want to check these pictures out. What we’re seeing are images (via Techtastic) and videos (still not in Space Black!) … | Continue reading
Apple’s anticipated removal of the 3.5mm headphone jack has drawn plenty of ire and consternation, and rightly so. Along with the jack-less Moto Z and LeEco’s 2016 lineup, the next iPhone is expected to be in the vanguard of a new generation of phones that lack a slot for the mos … | Continue reading
Remember Facebook’s Surround 360, the company’s open-source, $30,000 360-degree camera? The company has just released the parts list and assembly manual – which just so happens to look suspiciously like an IKEA one. Lets take a look at some of the materials you you need. Seventee … | Continue reading
Well it took a while, but Twitter for Android users can finally enjoy the their tweets when the sun dips past the horizon, throwing the world into darkness. Yes, Twitter has added a “Night Mode” to its official Twitter for Android app. Long have we suffered with a Twitter usable … | Continue reading
We're living in the Age of the Robocall. The spam calls reached an all-time high this year and FTC complaints increased 50 percent year-over-year. We have apps to help combat these calls on our phones, but for those of us who'd rather not receive them at all, we've been out of lu … | Continue reading
Last week's episode ended on a To Be Continued, with JoJo popping a squat on a tarmac at the rose ceremony to sob deeply at Luke's confession of love. A totally normal reaction to have when someone tells you they love you! But to be fair to our girl JoJo, nothing about this show … | Continue reading
For those casual NBA critics you run into occasionally – particularly the ones who finally have come off their hackneyed “no one plays defense” or “the regular season means nothing” salvos, only to replace them this summer by grumbling about the flood of TV money and overpaid med … | Continue reading
Nest's app has run into some sort of problem today that's causing it to lose control of some thermostats and smoke detectors. The error is causing Nest Thermostats and Nest Protects to appear offline within the app, leaving them out of owners' remote control.While the app is unab … | Continue reading
There are so many hidden mechanics to Pokemon GO [Free] that it can get pretty overwhelming at times. Each Pokemon has a hidden stat for Attack, Defense and Stamina that is unique to each specific creature of its species, and so while my Rattata may be in the top percentage of Ra … | Continue reading