PayPal, the giant digital payments company that was spun off from eBay last year, has had an up-and-down relationship with the business of crowdfunding over the years, but there are some indications that this could change. We’ve been hearing that PayPal was interested in buying G … | Continue reading
I hope you weren’t looking to engage in an infinite amount of warfare because Sony’s gaming service isn’t working. PlayStation Network is down for many people on PlayStation 4. Players have taken to Twitter and other forums to complain about the outage, and Sony has confirmed tha … | Continue reading
Pinterest has revealed a little easter egg its engineering team has incorporated into the visual search and bookmarking service. For many, it’s a place for creative ideas to be shared with others, but what about those with more technical skills? Well Pinterest hasn’t forgotten ab … | Continue reading
Keyword optimization remains an important strategy for content marketing, but it’s essential for keywords to support a quality-focused SEO approach. | Continue reading
You remember playing games with friends on the same couch, right? Goldeneye on the Nintendo 64. Modern Warfare on the Xbox 360. While today’s online multiplayer experience is better than ever — with thrilling battles, complex raids, and cooperative missions — playing with friends … | Continue reading
The White House today shared open source code for President Obama’s Facebook Messenger bot to help other governments build their own bots. The White House says it’s sharing the code “with the hope that other governments and developers can build similar services—and foster similar … | Continue reading
Cave's notoriously difficult bullet hell shmup DoDonPachi Resurrection is now available for PC on Steam.DoDonPachi Resurrection was first released in Japanese arcades in 2008 as Do-Don-Pachi Dai-Fukkatsu (which translates to Angry Leader Bee Great Resurrection) before arriving in … | Continue reading
Working for Google may sound fun, but the interview process sure doesn't.After applying for a director of engineering role at the company, Pierre Gauthier — a computer engineer who started his own tech company 18 years ago — was asked some pretty intimidating questions in a phone … | Continue reading
New pictures have emerged of the HTC Bolt, a phone that’s rumored to be coming later this month. VentureBeat’s Evan Blass posted the images, which appear to show the physical phone — not a rendered version — for the first time. As we saw in an image Blass leaked in September, the … | Continue reading
Google yesterday announced it will introduce a fact check tag on Google News in order to display articles that contain factual information next to trending news items. Now it’s time for Facebook to take fact-checking more seriously, too. Facebook has stepped into the role of bein … | Continue reading
VMware signed deals with Microsoft, Google and IBM earlier this year as it has shifted firmly to a hybrid cloud strategy, but it was the deal it signed with AWS this week that has had everybody talking. The cloud infrastructure market breaks down to AWS with around a third of the … | Continue reading
I'm sure there was a ton of great tech news this week, but if I'm being honest, Samsung's Galaxy Note7 nightmare eclipsed everything and that's exactly why we only talked about it on this week's MashTalk. We wanted to have Entertainment Editor Josh Dickey dial in to explain why h … | Continue reading
Sunday night, the employees of spaceflight company Orbital ATK will hold their breath as they watch their Antares rocket take flight from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. But their anxiety will stem from more than just pre-launch jitters. It’s been nearly two years sin … | Continue reading
The EU Grants for Literary Translation are aimed at publishing houses or publishing groups wishing to translate literary works (poetry, novels, short stories, comic books, plays etc.) from one European language into another... | Continue reading
Several mall owners and retailers have announced, in reverse course, that they will be closed on Thanksgiving Day. WSJ retail reporter Suzanne Kapner explains why on Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Email marketing is a strong tool. Here are some tips and strategies to think about to help you get the most out of your email list. | Continue reading
Cozmo is just a toy, but it knows my face and, perhaps more importantly, me. Every time I let the new robot toy from Anki connect to my iPhone and roll off its dock, it swivels its block-like head up to me, its pair of LED eyes forming into the semblance of a smile, and it says m … | Continue reading
The investigation into the corruption scandal rocking Malaysia's 1MDB development fund has reached the White House. WSJ's Bradley Hope has exclusive details on Lunch Break with Tanya Rivero. Photo: Getty | Continue reading
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Project Blue will only be able to look at one star system -- but this time that's a good thing. | Continue reading
Virtual reality and the 360 video industry are faced with the chicken and egg problem of content and distribution. The problem is that we haven’t cracked the egg, nor has the chicken hatched. To get to that point, we must look through the consumer’s lens. Read More | Continue reading
So the week has finally drawn to a close, and it’s been an exciting last day to be in the bitcoin price markets. Things have been pretty volatile, and we ended up getting in and out on a quick gap up (unfortunately, for a loss) and the same action occurred same the downside, alth … | Continue reading
With Apple's Mac lineup looking old and dusty (almost all of them are due for refreshes), it's no surprise startups are looking to drum up interest for their products and innovations with dubious rumor-spreading.The questionable Reddit post (since deleted) involved a "smart magic … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: HTC is poised to release a new mid-range Android 7.0 Nougat-powered smartphone this month, the HTC Bolt. Although it closely resembles the flagship HTC 10 in appearance, it’s actually a larger device, with a 5.5-inch FHD display. Known internally at HTC as Acadia, acco … | Continue reading
There are things you do at a concert that you wouldn’t during your everyday life. When thousands of people are pumping their fists in time to the beat, you do it, too. When they chant “encore” in unison, so do you. I did all of those things while attending my first concert from H … | Continue reading
Welcome to another GamesBeat weekly roundup! This time, the Xbox One once again outsells the PlayStation 4, a mobile game player that spent $2 million on one app is now leading a boycott against the title, and … well, just a ton of virtual reality news. Enjoy, and have a great we … | Continue reading
An opportunity presented itself to participate in a whole building open house last night at our main HQ in Ada, Michigan! | Continue reading
I haven’t used a Lenovo laptop as my main computer for years. In fact, the last time I touched a Lenovo laptop for more than a few hours was when I used to manage a fleet of them in a corporate environment before joining The Verge. Lenovo ThinkPads are the de facto laptops of the … | Continue reading
InnoGames, the Hamburg-based developer and publisher of successful browser games such as Elvenar, Tribal Wars, The West, and Grepolis, is going to the next level.MTG (Modern Times Group), the Swedish digital entertainment company, has acquired a 35% stake in the company for an es … | Continue reading
A Russian government agency focused on anti-trust regulation is testing blockchain to exchange and secure documents. Source | Continue reading
Apple is on a research & development spree! The company has announced a bunch of new R&D centers over the past few months, and R&D spendings have skyrocketed. This time, Apple CEO Tim Cook announced that the company plans to open a new center in Japan during a visit in Tokyo, acc … | Continue reading
Diversity is central to TechCrunch’s mission. We believe that everyone, regardless of background, should have access to the immense possibilities of the tech world. We also believe that a diversified workforce can only benefit technology businesses and society at large. In that s … | Continue reading
Cozmo and I are still getting to know each other. It’s been a few days and we’ve warmed to one another, sure, but there’s still a lot of work to be done and blocks to be stacked. I was there when he first woke up, shook himself awake and opened his big, bright eyes, tentatively r … | Continue reading
Anki has created an amazing toy in Cozmo, a cute robot toy that makes use of the company’s deep artificial intelligence research. It shows that Anki has started to figure out how to marry years of A.I. research with a consumer product that has a real personality. Instead of cold … | Continue reading
Human beings have an uneasy relationship with robots. We’re fascinated by the prospect of intelligent machines. At the same time, we’re wary of the existential threat they pose, one emboldened by decades of Hollywood tropes. In the near-term, robots are supposed to pose a threat … | Continue reading
TechCrunch writer Megan Rose Dickey is becoming a White House regular, and recently attended the first ever South By South Lawn festival at the Presidential HQ. I spoke to her about the experience for this week’s episode of TCBC, and we also discuss her first trip from earlier th … | Continue reading
Hey, it's HighScalability time: A pattern from the collective unconscious of the universe. ... | Continue reading
The request comes amid scrutiny by privacy advocates and civil liberties groups about the legal authority and technical nature of the surveillance program, first revealed by Reuters last week. | Continue reading
According to StackOverflow’s 2016 Developer Survey, participating in a mentorship program is more highly correlated with job salary than a…Continue reading on JavaScript Scene » | Continue reading
Famous film directors as Ron Howard, Roberto Benigni, Kenneth Branagh and Matteo Garrone chose Tuscany as a movie set. | Continue reading
If you were worried about Sony's walled garden limiting your enjoyment of the PlayStation VR, you can breathe easy now. | Continue reading
Wir haben ernsthafte Zweifel, dass es wirklich Sinn macht, einen Plattenteller zum Schweben zu bringen, denn ob ein Magnet wirklich in der Lage ist, den so rund, ohne äußere Einflüsse und obendrein plan laufen zu lassen, wagen wir noch... | Continue reading
Facebook-owned virtual reality (VR) firm Oculus has acquired InfiniLED, an Irish startup specializing in low-power LED displays. Founded in 2010, InfiniLED was spun-out from the Tyndall National Institute, a research hub specializing in photonics and micro/nanoelectronics that’s … | Continue reading
The demise of reading may be over-exaggerated. The conventional view holds that reading is falling out of fashion and being replaced by video watching. Young people in particular prefer to watch videos rather than read text, according to that perception. However, young people pre … | Continue reading
Passwords are hard to remember and less secure than you think. Password UX needs a serious facelift. Here's how you can improve your password UX. | Continue reading
There's just something about trying on a Halloween costume for the first time that would make anyone giddy with excitement.Maybe you're not even into Halloween that much, and you do the bare minimum every year by reluctantly slapping on some vampire fangs. That's fine! But even t … | Continue reading
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