In a nod to the growing popularity of Bitcoin, Microsoft Excel – the most popular and widely used spreadsheet program in the world, will provide native support for the cryptocurrency’s format within the program. The Microsoft Office software suite, a collection of various program … | Continue reading
Ever since Android Pay launched, Google Wallet has been something of a second class citizen. Now Wallet is losing one of its features: Google is killing the physical Wallet Card. For those not familiar, the Wallet Card allowed you to use your Wallet balance at regular retail outl … | Continue reading
Last year when Microsoft rolled out Windows 10, one of the biggest promises of the new operating system was the support of universal apps, meaning that developers would be able to make simple changes to their apps to enable them to run across multiple Microsoft platforms. It's ta … | Continue reading
On-demand delivery startup Postmates announced a monthly subscription service today called Plus Unlimited. It will cost $9.99 a month and come with free delivery on orders over $30 from the company's growing list of partners. The move is part of longer term strategy for Postmates … | Continue reading
Uber is raising its fares 10 percent in Pittsburgh, the city where the company is currently building a gigantic facility to build and test self-driving cars. The story was first reported by a reporter from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, who also tweeted that Uber cited the need f … | Continue reading
VB INSIGHT: You have nothing to lose — and everything to gain — by localizing your app to be more aligned with local culture and preferences. Get it right and you can massively extend the reach and appeal of your app without spending a bundle. It’s why VB Insight’s forthcoming pr … | Continue reading
For a product line that starts around $300, Dyson fans, vacuums, and humidifiers have often been on the high end of the price spectrum – but it wasn’t until this week that it finally added a feature most other home gadgets have had for years: IoT integration. With its new Pure Co … | Continue reading
Yahoo is expected to lose yet another major executive, this time Sandy Gould, who is currently SVP of talent acquisition and development at the company. It is not clear where the well-regarded exec is headed, said sources close to the situation (are there any other kind?). C … | Continue reading
As more devices adopt the USB Type-C format, we're going to see more accessories that offer support. With that in mind, here are some of the best USB-C portable chargers on offer right now. | Continue reading
Zynga is banking on new games to boost its fortunes in the $34.8 billion mobile game market. And today, it is launching two games, including the new match-3 title Crazy Cake Swap. The title is a mobile game in the match-3 genre popularized by Bejeweled, one of the most popular ca … | Continue reading
Wi-Fi could soon have a very detailed geofence, if MIT researchers have their way. They’ve introduced a new project named ‘Chronos’ that helps Wi-Fi signals locate you within “tens of centimeters.” The team managed this by monitoring several Wi-Fi bands, then cobbling the data to … | Continue reading
So you want to change the world and help people — and you’ve started a healthcare startup. You know it will take a great team to pull it off, and you’re starting to build the initial group that will mold the company’s DNA. You’re (hopefully) spending time thinking about the kind … | Continue reading
What would Tinder look like if you used it at work – for people you work with? Atlassian wanted to know, so it created ‘Teamder.’ Like Tinder, Teamder uses swipe-right functionality to help people choose who they may want to work with on a team. Atlasian says it will help users “ … | Continue reading
We've been following the progress of Power Hover's [$2.99] forthcoming update for the past few months as developer Oddrok has been posting bits and pieces of the update in our forums. Now it's all coming full circle as that update is finished and set to arrive next Thursday, Apri … | Continue reading
Nintendo's new loyalty program My Nintendo has launched in Europe and North America today to coincide with the western release of its first mobile app Miitomo.Players earn points by completing missions - such as purchasing games, linking your My Nintendo account to your Nintendo … | Continue reading
LEGO Jurassic World has just made its way to the Google Play Store for $4.99! | Continue reading
Formula E, the first electronic car circuit race — and the brains behind ‘Roborace,’ the first AI racing series featuring cars without human drivers — just unveiled its car design for the upcoming 2016/2017 race season. The ‘Robocar’ looks like a Formula 1 racer if someone manage … | Continue reading
If you want to get technical, Leon Vynehall still hasn’t released an "album." His 2014 breakthrough Music for the Uninvited gets called a mini-LP or an EP depending on where you’re looking, and his new collection Rojus is explicitly labelled a "double-pack." Whether it’s harmless … | Continue reading
The headquarters of Brooklyn-based ConsenSys, don't look like your typical financial sector offices. Check out this rare behind-the-scenes tour. | Continue reading
The days of CDs and vinyl might be (mostly) over, but singer-songerwriter Beatie Wolfe is making music physical again, in a very literal way. Wolfe stopped by the TechCrunch New York office to show off her a jacket designed by Mr. Fish, who also created designs for legends like D … | Continue reading
Proving that there is no concept that people with too much money and time on their hands can’t smother to death in a desperate bid for your love and admiration, the annual parade of April Fools’ fake products has arrived a day early to torment us and make us briefly forget how mu … | Continue reading
Whistle, the “Fitbit for dogs,” has found a home at Mars Petcare, TechCrunch has learned. The maker of Snickers and M&M’s also has a large pet division and has plans to integrate Whistle’s animal technology. “Whistle is excited to join the Mars Petcare family. This opportunity c … | Continue reading
Ottm is a crowd-sourced project to bring wooden smartwatch bands to the market. For every band sold, Ottm is planting a tree in a national forest. | Continue reading
On Thursday, a report from ZDNet claimed Microsoft was planning to build ad blocking right into its new Microsoft Edge web browser. We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that's not going to happen.Mashable has confirmed that Microsoft is not building native ad-blocking featur … | Continue reading
The tedious wait for Tesla’s Model 3 continues. Tonight Tesla CEO Elon Musk is set to unveil the company’s first mass-market car, the Model 3, at its design studio in Hawthorne, California. You can watch the event live on Tesla’s website starting at 8:30 p.m. PT (11:30 p.m. ET) … | Continue reading
Should we set the record straight once and for all? Because some of these bad smartphone manners are really starting to get to me! | Continue reading
Writers who work on children’s books or are looking for a unique challenge might be intrigued by Cleartext, a barebones text editor for Macs that doesn’t allow you to use anything other than the 1,000 most common words in the English language.SEE ALSO: This writing app deletes ev … | Continue reading
Kevin Hart is gearing up to serve comedy all day, every day. Canadian-American entertainment company Lionsgate announced today that it is entering a partnership with Hart's company Hartbeat Digital to launch Laugh Out Loud — a video-on-demand service just for comedy content.Hart … | Continue reading
Earlier this month we checked out the trailer for Go Surf, a new one-touch endless surfing game that had a really killer visual style. Developer Diverso Games has got in touch with us to let us know that Go Surf now has an official release date, and should be arriving on the App … | Continue reading
The recent announcement that Facebook would soon allow all publishers to access its Instant Articles platform wasn’t the only change coming to the platform. The social network also told The Wall Street Journal that it plans to enable publishers to place video ads into content pub … | Continue reading
Jon Snow, who is obviously very dead and never coming back, may have been the key to the whole A Song of Ice and Fire story. Whoops!At least, that's what Andrew Beveridge and Jie Shan of Math Horizons argue in a new research paper that maps out the insanely complicated social net … | Continue reading
Daily fantasy sports sites DraftKings and FanDuel have voluntarily ceased college sports betting indefinitely in all US states as part of a deal with the NCAA. The action takes effect following the conclusion of the NCAA March Madness tournament on April 4th, according to a repor … | Continue reading
Final Fantasy 11 has finally shuttered its PS2 and Xbox 360 servers, Square Enix has announced.We knew this was coming as Square made the announcement last year, but the publisher never listed a specific date for the closure. The PS2 version launched way back in May 2002, at leas … | Continue reading
You thought yesterday’s Build 2016 keynote was long? Day 2 was no different. If you didn’t sit through the entire keynotes for both days, here’s a quick recap of what you missed on this second half of the conference. All about Azure Today, we’re starting Microsoft’s cloud computi … | Continue reading
Following yesterday’s news about bringing bots to the Skype platform, Microsoft today unveiled two more SDKs for its Skype platform which will allow businesses and application developers a way to integrate Skype’s capabilities into their own applications. On stage at its annual B … | Continue reading
The first thing I have to mention before I launch into my tirade is that I'm no teen expert. Sure, I recently rewatched season 1 of Gossip Girl, putting my mental age at 17. Yes, I'm a proud member of the #vox-teens (for 25 and under!!) Slack chatroom. I know full well that they' … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: Developing for Windows 10 might sound complicated. But 14-year-old Mihir Kasmalkar figured it out. Now he and his classmates at the Valley Christian Schools in San Jose, California — with a little help from Microsoft — are preparing to send a MinnowBoard Max running th … | Continue reading
The dinner was a Japanese-inspired six-course meal made by a chef in Brooklyn. The sample menu included dishes like "steamed silken tofu with edamame sauce" and "stuffed potato ball in Dashi soup" and a roasted green tea crème brûlée for dessert. For a night out in New York City, … | Continue reading
TechCrunch Include Office Hours are happening on April 15th! Bryan Schreier and Bill Coughran from Sequoia Capital will join TechCrunch to provide valuable advice and feedback to startups. Launched in 2014, Include is TechCrunch’s diversity program, aimed at facilitating opportun … | Continue reading
Voice detection has come to Twitter Fabric by way of Nuance, the company behind the powerful Dragon voice-to-type platform. SpeechKit is Nuance’s plugin for Fabric apps, offering cloud-based speech recognition and natural text-to-voice interactions for users. It can be installed … | Continue reading
The US Office of Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) is looking to establish a framework for regulating financial technologies like blockchain. | Continue reading
Microsoft’s new Windows Ink platform was probably the biggest feature coming in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, but one big piece of news was left out of the keynote presentation at Build 2016: Microsoft and Wacom are partnering to create a new ‘universal’ stylus than can work … | Continue reading
The Financial Stability Board has discussed and reviewed distributed ledger or blockchain technology in a wider meeting covering its priorities in 2016, during a discussion in Tokyo over the past two days. The Financial Stability Board (FSB), a common platform that sees the comin … | Continue reading
The best action cameras are still susceptible to capturing super shaky footage. A new company called Revl has a solution to this problem — it's called the Arc, and it's the first action camera with built-in, motorized image stabilization.At first glance, the Arc doesn't look all … | Continue reading
SPONSORED: Next week, eight VR startups are hoping to retrace Oculus’s path. They’ll participate at the company’s 2016 Emerging Companies Summit, in a session called the VR Showcase. Each will have an opportunity to describe their VR-based business in front of a live audience of … | Continue reading
Facebook Messenger has reorganized the way its call feature is setup in an attempt to get more user engagement from the service. | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced a slew of incoming Edge extensions. Partners announced include Pinterest, Ad Block, Adblock Plus, LastPass, Amazon Assistant, Evernote, and Page Analyzer powered by Vorlon.js. Exactly two weeks ago, Microsoft released a new Windows 10 preview build with … | Continue reading
This week on the Vergecast, Nilay, Dieter, Jake, and Nicola review the reviews! The iPad Pro 9.7, the iPhone SE, and the Microsoft Build developer conference; we're covering all the top tech news this week. If you liked our video reviews this week, then tune in live to hear in ou … | Continue reading