Broad City's Ilana Glazer and Paul W. Downs just released the trailer for their three-part miniseries, Time Traveling Bong. In the show, Glazer and Downs play Sharee and Jeff, two cousins who discover a magical bong that sends them tumbling back in time. The catch is, they might … | Continue reading
I’ve spent a lot of time in virtual reality. A whole lot. We’re in the middle of building a VR testing lab at the TechCrunch office, and I’m trying to iron out as many kinks as possible before said kinks end up costing me money. Between the Rift CV1 and the Vive, I’ve spent more … | Continue reading
Sooner or later, every programmer ends up searching for code snippets and algorithms. Most search engines, though, don’t exactly specialize in code search and so you end up with a couple of links (one of them most likely to StackOverflow). Now, Microsoft has partnered with Hacker … | Continue reading
Facebook has long been trying to catch up YouTube as a source for videos, but it’s faced one big problem: you could only see videos shared on your News Feed or individual pages. The company is now changing that by finally implementing video search, a small but important addition … | Continue reading
In an effort to expand the number of tools teachers need to reach those internet-minded kids these days, Google for Education announced today via blog post that it now offers the ability to make polls. Google offers a host of reasons why polls are helpful in reaching kids, from m … | Continue reading
Earlier this week a couple of hardcore Zelda fans put up a browser-based remake of the original The Legend of Zelda made with voxels to commemorate the seri… | Continue reading
VanMoof, an Amsterdam-based cycling company, arrived on the scene about three years ago with an electric bike that could be tracked via a smartphone app in the event that it got stolen. The respected Dutch manufacturer is back again with a new model, the Electrified S, that makes … | Continue reading
The Acatel Xess is a simply massive tablet that aims to bring multitasking to your kitchen and living room. You can grab one later this month for 500 bucks. | Continue reading
When it comes to high score chasers on mobile, there's a few studios that crank out reliably good stuff. Happymagenta is a consistently good creator, but Umbrella deserves a ton of credit too. Boom Dots [Free] and Down the Mountain [Free] are both quite solid, entertaining games. … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Core, the open source project that maintains bitcoin client software called “Bitcoin Core,” has launched a sponsorship program in an effort to involve more of the cryptocurrency community in the project. The sponsorship program provides a way for the industry to support r … | Continue reading
Google today launched Android Studio 2.0, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE), with a long list of new features. You can download the new version now directly from Android.com/SDK. In November, Google unveiled Android Studio 2.0, the second major ve … | Continue reading
Microsoft today released its first standalone keyboard application for iOS users. No, it’s not the rumored version of its Windows Phone keyboard that’s being ported to the iPhone – it’s an iOS version of the Microsoft Hub keyboard, which hit Android this February. Like the prior … | Continue reading
Charlize Theron is officially joining the cast of F. Gary Gray's Fast 8. According to Variety, the particulars regarding Theron's role aren't exactly clear, but it's likely she's going to play some sort of villain. She's been circling the project for a while, but the combination … | Continue reading
Facebook isn’t done making it easier for you to find live videos on the social network, both on desktop and on mobile. The company announced today that it has updated its search capability to help you discover when someone is broadcasting live. Those Facebook Live videos that bec … | Continue reading
Theranos has taken a pretty damning hit in a string of bad news reports over the past year but it looks like the one drop blood analysis company is trying to turn things around. Theranos announced this morning it would add eight medical and lab experts to its scientific and medic … | Continue reading
While the FBI has been relatively tight-lipped about the method it used to unlock San Bernardino shooter Syed Farook’s iPhone, Director James Comey opened up a bit last night in a speech at Kenyon College. “It’s a bit of a technological corner case, because the world has moved on … | Continue reading
Facebook is desperate to get you to watch videos. They’re all over the feed, yesterday it announced a dedicated video browsing hub, and now it’s announcing a video search engine. It’s also baking Live videos into its Trends in search, and will show when there’s a Live video broad … | Continue reading
Gerald Kelley's Abzorb [$2.99] has just gotten an update on iOS that adds in a new Daily Challenge mode that should encourage you to come back again and again to this one. Each day, you get 5 levels to play back to back – get through all 5 without failing and get your scores on | Continue reading
Twitter is seeing some pretty good adoption of its mobile developer platform, at least when it comes to the number of devices it serves. The company announced today that Twitter Fabric is now serving more than 2 billion active iOS and Android devices, a marked increase from July … | Continue reading
As small drones have become increasingly commonplace, so have reports of close calls by airliners. A recent FAA report tallied the average at four sightings a day, a five-fold increase from the year before. To help address the issue, the American Association of Airport Executives … | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: With a 3800% ROI, email is your strongest channel — but you’ve got plenty of competition. Join top marketers as they discuss the personalization strategies that can dramatically increases open rates, CTR, and, mosts importantly, conversion. Register here for free. Wit … | Continue reading
Es wirkt wie Zauberei, ist aber nur Naturwissenschaft. Fontus ist eine Wasserflasche, die in der Lage ist, Wasser aus Luft herzustellen. Quasi eine nie leer werdende Durstlöscherquelle ist das Device, das solarbetrieben ist und aus der umlieg... | Continue reading
Does the Exynos Galaxy S7 offer better battery than the Snapdragon Galaxy S7, and how does they compare to the competition? Find out in this Galaxy S7 battery life review. | Continue reading
Telltale Games will be publishing the open-world zombie survival sim 7 Days to Die for consoles.Due this June on PS4 and Xbox One, 7 Days to Die is described by Telltale as "a unique combination of first person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games." It' … | Continue reading
The FBI has released some pretty awesome figures showing just how much money is being sent to scammers pretending to be your boss asking for you to wire some cash – amounting to $2.3 billion lost in just over two years. Turns out, the person responsible for that embarrassing inci … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced that it’s enhancing the Outlook app for iOS and Android with the ability to flesh out your calendar with to-do items from Microsoft-owned Wunderlist, events from Facebook, and notes from Evernote. The addition is coming by way of an Outlook feature calle … | Continue reading
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Twelve South, who concentrate its efforts on making accessories for Apple’s various devices, has unveiled the TimePorter travel case for Apple Watch. Its main purpose is cord management, as the interior has bumpers you can wrap a cord around and a cutout in the lid for the magnet … | Continue reading
Ubisoft said that Tom Clancy’s The Division has had the biggest first week of any new video game franchise, so it’s no surprise that it is also the top-trending game on YouTube Gaming for March. The popularity of games on YouTube Gaming is yet another indicator of how much people … | Continue reading
In this list we'll explore the best SNES emulators that you can get for Android! It's a short list but these days you only need a couple of good options. | Continue reading
Add Ford to the list of companies that are being pillaged by Uber in its quest to excel in the hyper-competitive world of self-driving cars. Sherif Marakby, director of global electronics and engineering at Ford, is joining Uber as vice president of global vehicle programs, the r … | Continue reading
While voice-recognition-powered virtual assistants like Siri, Cortana and Amazon’s Echo continue to get more useful and reliable on the march to platform-dom, there is a parallel wave of development underway that has captured the public eye, where machine learning, artificial int … | Continue reading
As reported by TechCrunch in February, valet service Luxe has now confirmed that it has raised $50 million in Series B funding from car rental company Hertz. Redpoint Ventures and Venrock will also be participating in the round. Luxe also announced that Hertz Global Holdings CEO … | Continue reading
It's been a long time coming since I first previewed Heavy Rockets, but the fun, neon-infused, game of fast rockets shooting and racing each other finally has a global release date. April 21st will be the date when everyone can explore the glowing neon catacombs for themselves – … | Continue reading
GM announced Ed Welburn's retirement today, the man who has led the company's global design program since 2005. Welburn, 65, is a lifetime General Motors employee, having joined in 1972 after graduating from Howard University; before his current appointment, he ran the company's … | Continue reading
Telltale Games said today it is taking the hit survival game 7 Days to Die to the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One video game consoles in June. The PC game was made by Dallas-based indie developer The Fun Pimps, and it will now be part of Telltale’s stable of third-party produced video … | Continue reading
One week after Elon Musk unveiled the Tesla Model 3, the company’s first mass-market car, hundreds of thousands of people have paid $1,000 to reserve the car despite its expected late-2017 launch. That reservation figure totals to $14 billion dollars in sales, or 325,000 cars, wi … | Continue reading
Koei Tecmo's Attack on Titan game now bares the subtitle Wings of Freedom and is slated for a 26th August release in Europe on PS4, Xbox One, PC, PS3 and Vi… | Continue reading
People subscribing to Cablevision's Optimum TV service can now flip the channel to Hulu. As in, Hulu is literally now located on channel 605.This time last year, Hulu and Cablevision made a deal to start offering Hulu's subscription service (formerly known as Hulu Plus and now co … | Continue reading
Ever since 2011's Bridesmaids, Melissa McCarthy's films have played as though she walked into the studio before shooting began and told the producers, "Here's the deal. I will do absolutely anything you want in this film, as long as there's one scene where I actually get to act." … | Continue reading
In this 2016 State of Conversion Optimization Report, we gave a 48 question survey to 722 people who work in the optimization space. Of course, a lot of what we learned was expected. For instance, many optimizers have little to no budget (sadly). But we also learned some surprisi … | Continue reading
T-Mobile has just announced a new plan that will make it easier for smaller families to get more data for less each month | Continue reading
Bitcoin price continues inside its two-month sideways consolidation range. This time we’re in for a price dip that should return to current price levels after a small descent. This analysis is provided by xbt.social with a 3-hour delay. Read the full analysis here. Not a member? … | Continue reading
The 200th episode of Vergecast is today! Tune in live at 4PM EST to see the extended, uncut, and unscripted episode featuring Nilay Patel, Dieter Bohn, and special guests.We'll be live a bit earlier today for an extended edition at 4PM ET / 1PM PT / 8PM GMT. You can watch via the … | Continue reading
Das Smartphone Mi 5 von Xiaomi ist seit kurzer Zeit in China erhältlich und ist zunächst auch nur für den heimischen Verkauf konzipiert. Das Midrange-Phone verfügt über eine enorme Stabiltität, die in einem aktuellen... | Continue reading
AirMap, a startup that provides drone operators with airspace information to let them know when and where they can fly, today announced that it has raised a $15 million Series A funding round. The round was led by General Catalyst Partners, with Lux Capital (which led the company … | Continue reading
AXONI, the distributed fintech solutions company recently tested a new blockchain solution for financial institutions. Read more... | Continue reading
Sadako Technologies won the $100,000 prize at Nvidia’s Emerging Companies Summit with a robot that uses machine learning to sort recycled products. The Barcelona, Spain-based Sadako beat out 11 other contestants in the annual Nvidia Early Stage Challenge at the Emerging Companies … | Continue reading