Only about 220 people have ever been on board the International Space Station. Now, thanks to a 3D video by the European Space Agency, you can pretend to be one of them. At least until space tourism becomes a thing and we can all visit the ISS and experience zero gravity.The vide … | Continue reading
Hi, I’m John and I am super pumped to be TechCrunch’s new summer writing intern. As a venture-capital obsessed Michigan Wolverine, I’m thrilled to be thawing out in the startup mecca of SOMA, San Francisco. Read More | Continue reading
When a developer puts a spin on the typical auto-running formula, I'm usually there to check it out. While virtual buttons work just fine after years of acclimating to the concept, certain experiences lend themselves well to automatic movement, but there can be concessions in ter … | Continue reading
The US Department of Commerce has demanded that Huawei turn over information regarding the export of tech to Cuba, Iran, North Korea, the Sudan, and Syria. | Continue reading
The Unicode Consortium has officially unveiled the 72 new emoji to be included in Unicode 9 on June 21, including bacon, selfie and face palm. | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: T-Mobile is holding its Uncarrier 11 marketing campaign kickoff event on Monday, and more information has come to light about its unique offer enabling customers to earn shares of the company’s stock. According to the same person who earlier provided VentureBeat with d … | Continue reading
In a surprise announcement earlier today, Nest cofounder Tony Fadell revealed that he is stepping down from the CEO role he's held since co-founding the company in 2011. Fadell guided Nest from its earliest days to its acquisition by Google, and on through its transition under th … | Continue reading
Tony Fadell is stepping down as the head of Nest Labs, effective immediately. The move is yet another in a tumultuous history since Google purchased the smart thermostat in 2014 for $3.2 billion, its third-largest acquisition ever. The deal brought in not only a hot product in a … | Continue reading
Tony Fadell is leaving Nest. The former Apple executive, who co-founded the company in 2010, announced his departure on the Nest blog. Fadell will continue to serve in an advisory role to Alphabet CEO Larry Page. Marwan Fawaz, a former executive vice president at Motorola Mobilit … | Continue reading
The Google Play Store is rolling out a new “Show installed apps” toggle in app lists to remove apps you already have installed from its top app lists. | Continue reading
As we all know, love it or hate it, freemium is a concept that is never going away. That said, there is a very specific subset of freemium that I like to call freemium fan service games. When a popular franchise or intellectual property wants to cash in on their loyal fan-base, s … | Continue reading
Bitcoin prices surged nearly 20% during the week ending 3rd June, rising to its highest point in 20 months. But what was the cause of the increase? | Continue reading
Someone has made an 8-bit demake of Jonathan Blow's fiendishly difficult puzzle game The Witness.Or at least its starting area anyway. This free demo for the cutely titled The Wit.nes only encompasses 32 puzzles (whereas the real The Witness has 600).Developed by Dustin Long, thi … | Continue reading
Verizon (a telecommunications company) is partnering with Mashable (a website) to bring you an EDM musical called Pulse, presented in 12 episodes on its free go90 video app.The series will be available sometime this fall, Playbill reports, but you don't have to wait until then to … | Continue reading
Can’t say we saw this coming. In a surprise post today on the official Nest blog, co-founder Tony Fadell announced that he will be exiting his role as CEO of Nest, in favor of an advisory role at the company’s parent, Alphabet. According to Fadell, “This will give me the time and … | Continue reading
We go hands on, and give you the first look at the Huawei P9 Lite! | Continue reading
When Google+ launched in 2011, many saw it as a potential anti-Facebook – an alternative for someone who’s ready to try something different. We all know how that story played out. But according to an excerpt from a new book from a former Facebook employee, the day Google+ launche … | Continue reading
Nest CEO Tony Fadell is leaving the company he founded six years ago — two years after selling to Google. Fadell penned the announcement in a lengthly blog post on Nest’s blog, where he called his departure “bittersweet.” The company Fadell is leaving behind is reportedly not in … | Continue reading
If you've been using Facebook Messenger through the mobile version of the site, then it looks like you're soon going to have to download the separate app. | Continue reading
Recharge, a year-old, San Francisco-based company whose app enables users to book a stay in hotel for just for 67 cents a minute, or $40 an hour, has closed on $2.3 million in seed funding. Binary Capital led the round, with participation from Floodgate, entrepreneur Rick Marini, … | Continue reading
I have a prophecy for Path of Exile players — you’ve got some new challenges ahead of ya. Publisher Grinding Gear Games released its Content Update 2.3.0 today. This drop includes both Standard and Hardcore versions of Path of Exile’s Prophecy Challenge League. And it wouldn’t be … | Continue reading
Tony Fadell is leaving Nest, the home automation company he founded and sold to Google (now Alphabet). He'll be stepping into an advisor role to Larry Page and Alphabet, but won't be involved in Nest day-to-day. According to a blog post he just put up, the transition has been in … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Tinder CEO Sean Rad said he is working to make the site more friendly for non-binary genders that don’t necessarily fit neatly into a male or female box. For the moment, the app works by pairing either sex (with the same or opposite sex) with a quick swipe left or righ … | Continue reading
The global drone market has been rapidly expanding, attracting loyal consumers while integrating itself as an emerging pillar in the technological sector. One country that has seen an extremely rapid rise in drone growth in terms of usage and production is China. Already heavily … | Continue reading
Airbnb has long lauded their ability to give guests the ability to have a really unique vacation experiences that go beyond just staying in bland and forgettable hotel rooms. Now the company is looking to revitalize the entire travel experience by giving guests the option to expe … | Continue reading
The most powerful weapon in the universe has a weakness: it cannot withstand the neccesary heat to remove a cast iron pizza pan once warmed to 400-plus degrees. Reports of the weapon's fragility have been making the rounds by way of Loot Crate, which shipped an Infinity Gauntlet … | Continue reading
DmC: Devil May Cry and Enslaved developer Ninja Theory has a tendency to shoot for the moon with its narratively ambitious roster of action games, and early impressions on its upcoming psychological viking adventure Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice have left our Bertie Purchese a bit … | Continue reading
Grandparents and technology are nearly always viral video gold. This Northern Irish woman donned a virtual reality headset to experience some Jurassic Park VR for the first time. It’s not clear what she’s actually seeing but chances are she doesn’t want to see it again. If I had … | Continue reading
Perhaps you've noticed that the posts in your Facebook timeline appear slightly off. In fact, it turns out that Facebook is testing a new font for some desktop users. And if you're a typeface nerd, you'll likely recognize the new font as Geneva, a font developed at Apple in the e … | Continue reading
SCOOP: THESE ARE VERY GOOD KITTENS AND THEY ARE ON THE INTERNET — Grizebella (named for the "Glamor Cat" in the worst Broadway musical that your family inexplicably loves) and her three kittens are live on the internet and they are playing with toys. The kittens haven't been vacc … | Continue reading
The DAO is an amazing experiment that has raised the equivalent of $164 million at the time of this publication, the decentralized autonomous organization is holding 12 million ETH, representing near 15% of all the ether in circulation, and has already received a few proposals, t … | Continue reading
In our in-depth report, ContentWRX News + Media we evaluated the effectiveness of content available on a sample of leading news + media websites. Our infographic gives a visual snapshot of the index and several of its key findings. The comprehensive findings of this index centere … | Continue reading
Toledo, Ohio has a dope science museum and a decent minor-league baseball team — although I think that squad’s newest jersey might make it the top attraction in that town. The Mud Hens, the triple-A developmental baseball team for Major League Baseball’s Detroit Tigers, are weari … | Continue reading
Every battle is won before it is fought. This bit of pop wisdom, brought down to us from Sun Tzu and countless motivational speakers, is the koan for a generation of can-do entrepreneurs. But there is another version of this line, one that is less rosy. Every battle is won or lo … | Continue reading
One of the games we highlighted during our GDC coverage was Super Stickman Golf 3, the third game in the very successful mobile franchise. At the time of our preview, the developers didn't have a release window in mind yet, but today they announced that the game will be releasing … | Continue reading
A Chicago agency that reviews police misconduct cases has just released a series of video clips related to dozens of shooting investigations in the city. Continue reading… | Continue reading
Researchers at the U.S. Navy have created a high-tech, in-helmet display for divers in the service that looks like something out of “Iron Man” — perhaps one of Stark’s early prototypes. The invention could make divers safer and more effective, and it definitely looks cool. Read M … | Continue reading
Yesterday, Mic reported that a Google Chrome extension called "Coincidence Detector" was creating a database of Jewish people in order to notify users when they were reading the work of, or reading about, a Jewish person online. The extension placed three sets of parentheses (a s … | Continue reading
Alignment is a type of things that ought to be ruthlessly pursued and constantly checked at early stage corporations. Additionally, we host a novel aggressive-studying occasion annually: The Un-Conference: 360 Degrees of Brand Strategy for a Changing World For organizations in s … | Continue reading
Instagram is becoming more like Facebook, and it isn’t the end of the world. Earlier this year, Instagram announced it would test ditching chronological order for its feeds. Instead, it will be more like a Facebook News Feed, guesstimating which photos you’d be most interested in … | Continue reading
Every year, digital technology and business observers look forward to the Internet Trends Report from Mary Meeker, a venture capital analyst at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. With 213 slides, this year’s report is bursting with data on digital trends as well as the global econ … | Continue reading
Uber, which has recently been trying to appease its drivers, has secured a $1 billion loan in a deal led by Goldman Sachs to underwrite new car leases for drivers, Bloomberg reports.The ride-sharing giant's wholly owned subsidiary, Xchange Leasing, LLC, which received the massive … | Continue reading
The Minecraft Pocket Edition [$6.99] developers wasted no time jumping into the beta for the 0.15 update, also called The Friendly Update, so today we got a crazy trailer showcasing many of the upcoming features. And it really is a fantastic trailer both because it shows off what … | Continue reading
Yesterday’s whirlwind episode of VB Engage with Joel Comm left our imaginations racing. We discussed Snapchat, live video, and being an Internet pioneer, as well as ’80s video games and talking shadows. So what could be better than to get into some future gazing today? Chatbots a … | Continue reading
With their latest smartphones, vivo is hoping to expand and make a dent on the market but is the Vivo V3Max the handset to do it? Find out in our review! | Continue reading
"It is now in ramp-up stage. We call it Project `i Next'." | Continue reading
“We just need a technical co-founder!” “We have the idea, we’re just trying to find a CS major to build it!” In 2016, everyone and their mother has an idea for an app. This is especially true on college campuses, where starting an app has seemingly replaced beer pong as the most … | Continue reading
Instagram is officially giving its feed the Facebook treatment.The photo app is finally rolling out its new algorithmic timeline, which orders your feed based on "what you care about" rather than chronology. The changes should appear "soon," though Instagram says it's already liv … | Continue reading