Sometimes I see a color in the world and think, "that would be fun to wear on my face." But I can't just whip up lipstick in my house and I also can't follow through on every makeup shopping whim. Yesterday, though, I discovered a company that might help me live out my lipstick f … | Continue reading
The payments giant that is PayPal posted strong Q1 earnings today, counter balancing some of the weaker showings from other tech stocks yesterday and outstripping the overall growth rate of e-commerce, in its own words. Following in the footsteps of its former parent, which also … | Continue reading
Clash Royale [Free] developers continue to tease upcoming changes, and after talking about changes to Legendary cards and Level caps, a recent tweet is also teasing changes to Super Magical Chest drop rate, which will be good news for everyone around. If you don't know what a Sup … | Continue reading
Earlier today, Mycelium officially announced the introduction of their new wallet. The new wallet application is expected to be a feature rich product with various integrations according to the company’s website. The announcement about the new wallet was made on the well-known so … | Continue reading
Ever wonder what graphic designers do all day? Boston-based designer Alison Eagle paints the picture quite literally in this infographic. | Continue reading
DeWalt, a name familiar to anyone who loves power tools (and who doesn’t?), is jumping into the mobile market with the rugged MD501. It’s waterproof, has a good variety of high-end features, and looks like you could use it to pound nails. Read More | Continue reading
Confirming a long-rumored move, gaming and digital media platform Steam is now accepting bitcoin payments through processing service BitPay. | Continue reading
In its first quarter 2016 earnings announcement today, Facebook revealed it now has 1.65 billion monthly active users (up 15 percent year over year) and 1.51 billion mobile users (up 21 percent year over year). The company also shared that it now has 1.09 billion daily active use … | Continue reading
If you've been paying attention to Android rumors for the past month or so, you know that at this point it's a fait accompli that HTC will make two Android Nexus phones this year. It started (as it usually does) with some Chinese sites, was further confirmed (as it usually is) by … | Continue reading
The Washington Wizards can't promise hiring Scott Brooks as coach will lead to Kevin Durant signing as a free agent, but it doesn't hurt. | Continue reading
Facebook today, as part of its earnings release, said it would add a new class of non-voting stock for the company, which will keep Mark Zuckerberg in control of the company. “This proposal is designed to create a capital structure that will, among other things, allow us to remai … | Continue reading
Facebook has reported its first quarter 2016 earnings with $5.38 billion in revenue and earnings per share of $0.52. Much of the revenue ($5.2 billion) came from advertising — a 57 percent annual increase — of which 82 percent was through mobile. The social networking company now … | Continue reading
Facebook continued its winning streak as other tech companies floundered, reaching 1.65 billion monthly users and surpassing estimates in its Q1 2016 earnings report with $5.38billion in revenue and $0.77 earnings per share. It grew 3.77% from 1.59 billion users last quarter, and … | Continue reading
A Red Dragon is headed for the Red Planet, courtesy of SpaceX. | Continue reading
Wolfram Research has teamed up with open-source software maker Canonical to bring its data collection services to Ubuntu-powered mobile devices. The new application gives Ubuntu phones the ability to send location, acceleration, rotation, and brightness data directly to Wolfram's … | Continue reading
With the U.S. knee deep in what has been an unusual presidential primary season, many eligible voters are highly engaged in the process. But the number of Americans heading to the polls each election has been declining for the last 50 years, which helps explain a push by election … | Continue reading
Okay, that was a bad quarter, Apple.I know, Apple is held to a higher standard. The company makes $50 billion and there’s panic in the streets. I don’t think there’s cause for panic, but concern — even alarm — is warranted.The trend line that’s been clear on the iPad for nearly t … | Continue reading
Ubisoft's The Division has been having serious cheating problems since it launched, but new information suggests the problem may not fixable -- at least not without a complete code rewrite. | Continue reading
Mobile spenders, assemble! D3 Go today announced an event for its mobile game Marvel Puzzle Quest based off of the upcoming film Captain America: Civil War. New content like this can keep players engaged and more likely to spend money on a free-to-play game. Of course, this speci … | Continue reading
The U.S. House of Representatives has passed H.R. 699, the Email Privacy Act, sending it on to the Senate and from there, hopefully anyhow, to the President. The yeas were swift and unanimous. Read More | Continue reading
Pan-European train travel booking website Loco2 has launched its first app, letting iOS users book and pay for trips via their phone. Launching an Android app is also on its roadmap for this year. Read More | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
The FTC originally filed the case in 2014, claiming that Amazon did not provide enough warning that free apps could contain in-app purchases. | Continue reading
A leaked schematic of the next iPhone has purportedly found its way to a Japanese magazine, suggesting all the rumors are true. The device, which is believed to be the larger ‘plus’ variant of the iPhone 7, has space for two cameras as well as no headphone jack. Curiously, Apple’ … | Continue reading
There's a decent chance you've never heard of sepak takraw. I'm not very familiar with it, except one of my favorite videos by The Onion covered it, mocking American sports drama. And the sport looks absolutely absurd: like volleyball but with kicks instead of volleys with the ar … | Continue reading
Transparency and accessibility to information have always been issues dealt with during elections. Blockchain voting could help pave the way to | Continue reading
Doom developer id Software has shown off a few sections of the upcoming shooter's single-player campaign ahead of its 13th May release for PC, PS4 and Xbox One. On a Twitch stream creative director Hugo Martin and executive producer Marty Stratton played through a couple … | Continue reading
Today, Oculus announced it was offering up ‘Minecraft: Gear VR Edition’ for a mere $6.99 on the Oculus Store. TNW took Minecraft VR for a spin a couple months back and the experience was equal parts amazing and nauseating. Upset stomach aside, it’s truly an immersive experience … | Continue reading
Cavaliers point guard Kyrie Irving expressed empathy toward stars Stephen Curry and Chris Paul, who have sustained injuries in this year's NBA playoffs. | Continue reading
Someone tell Leica it's 2016. The German camera maker is preparing to release a production M-Series Leica without an LCD screen. According to leaked images and details from Meister Camera and Leica Rumors, the M-D Typ 262 will be the first digital M-Series camera to go into produ … | Continue reading
OpenAI, the nonprofit artificial intelligence research company established last year with backing from several Silicon Valley figureheads, today announced its first product: a proving ground for algorithms for reinforcement learning, which involves training machines to do things … | Continue reading
The VR console war is still heating up. At Samsung's developer conference today, the company's head of R&D, Injong Rhee, confirmed the company is working on a standalone VR headset, Variety reports. Samsung is incorporating positional tracking — the primary drawback of phone-base … | Continue reading
While all eyes are currently focused on Nintendo's next piece of hardware, the mysterious NX, the company says that it could end production of the Wii U by March 2018, one year after the NX is expected to launch. The news comes from Nintendo president Tatsumi Kimishima, as report … | Continue reading
Good news, klutzes! Your British 4x4 SUV can now help you find your lost belongings.SEE ALSO: Lego's crazy-detailed Porsche 911 GT3 RS has moving engine partsLand Rover announced on Tuesday evening that it is the first automaker to integrate Bluetooth tracking app Tile to help yo … | Continue reading
So you wanna buy a startup? But how do you get the deal signed and roll their team into yours? Consulting behemoth Ernst & Young wants to have the answers and rule M&A advisory services in Silicon Valley. So today it acqhired Tasman Consulting, Bay Area specialists in integrating … | Continue reading
Ride-sharing giant Uber is piloting a new cancellation policy in New York City, New Jersey, Phoenix, and Dallas, TechCrunch reported. The policy reduces the amount of time riders have to cancel trips and the amount of time drivers have to wait before charging tardy passengers.The … | Continue reading
Researchers at Waseda University in Tokyo have created a way to realistically colorize black-and-white photos without any human intervention for the first time ever. The team's approach is based on convolutional neural networks — a type of machine learning originally inspired by … | Continue reading
Get ready for lots of virtual cubes in virtual reality! Minecraft: Gear VR Edition is now available on the Oculus Store for $6.99. The blocky blockbuster was met with major fanfare when it was revealed last month that it was landing on the Gear VR. I had a chance to try it out a … | Continue reading
The bulk of the popular conversation surrounding Beyoncé’s new album Lemonade has revolved around the specifics underpinning the record’s central drama. Is "Becky with the good hair" Rachel Roy, Rita Ora, or no one at all? (We know it’s not Rachael Ray.) When did her marriage fra … | Continue reading
24: Legacy, Fox's upcoming 24 revival series, has gotten a full series order. Deadline reports that the new show will run for 12 episodes in its first season, half the length of a traditional season of the long-running series, but mirroring the approach taken by 2014's 24: Live A … | Continue reading
I’ve officially been at TechCrunch for a week and a half now, which I’ve been informed is the hot sauce anniversary. You know, the one where GE sends you a bottle of scientifically-engineered hot sauce made from peppers with names like the Trinidad moruga scorpion, Carolina reape … | Continue reading
Samsung announced its first 360-degree camera back at Mobile World Congress, and now we know it’s arriving very soon: April 29. The company made its announcement at its developer conference in San Francisco. Apparently things like price are trivial though, as we still don’t know … | Continue reading
Dust: An Elysian Tail [$5.99] knocked off a lot of socks around here when it released on iOS last October. Originally an Xbox 360 release, Dust made its way to iOS in style. We liked it enough to give it our Game Of The Week and a five-star review, and I personally included the g … | Continue reading
Reaching out for the support of game developers, Samsung said today that it is constantly developing new game technologies for its smartphones, and it expects mobile performance to surpass that of the PlayStation 4 game console by 2020. The Samsung Galaxy S7 smartphone already su … | Continue reading
Reports are coming in that a dead body has been found at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, CA. Though it appears that neither Apple nor local law enforcements authorities are commenting, Matt Keller, a reporter for ABC7 News out of San Jose, has said that it was a man and a gun … | Continue reading
On March 28th, the FBI bought a way to break into the iPhone at the center of the San Bernardino fight — and ever since, the tech world has been wondering what they'll do with the new bug. The White House maintains a process for disclosing any vulnerabilities that might post a th … | Continue reading
(Reuters) — SpaceX plans to send an unmanned Dragon spacecraft to Mars as early as 2018, the company said on Wednesday, a first step in achieving founder Elon Musk’s goal to fly people to another planet. The program, known as Red Dragon, is intended to develop the technologies ne … | Continue reading
On Tuesday, the self-driving car industry introduced itself to the world. Five companies —€” Ford, Google, Uber, Lyft, and Volvo —€” announced the formation of the Self-Driving Coalition for Safer Streets, a lobbying and advocacy group. The industry's public face is David Strickl … | Continue reading