VB EVENT: JR will talk about AR and VR. And games. Unity Technologies CEO John Riccitiello will be one of our speakers for the second annual GamesBeat Summit 2016, an event that’s set for May 3 and May 4 at the scenic Cavallo Point Lodge in Sausalito, California. Riccitiello has … | Continue reading
We asked investors what their favorite startups were from the 60 that launched at Y Combinator’s Winter 2016 Demo Day 1. After huddling with our writers and adding our input, here are TechCrunch’s picks for the 7 most promising companies from the batch, plus an honorable mention. … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Press Release: A new project aims to disrupt the $200 billion Cable TV sector, using a market-driven platform fuelled by its own digital currency Sollars and $ense. The platform where content creators can set their own price for their content was recently announced on bit … | Continue reading
A new report from U.S. consumer rights and privacy advocacy group, the Center for Digital Democracy, has set out the case for the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to tighten data protection rules around how ISPs and telcos collect and use consumer data. Read More | Continue reading
Dark Souls 3 launched in Japan today and developer From Software isn't making it easy on the rest of us by releasing this glorious new launch trailer.While… | Continue reading
Last week, Google gave rideshare services their own Google Maps tab on Android. That same feature has now arrived on iOS. If you live in the US, it doesn’t change that much; the tab will currently just show taxi times from Uber. Elsewhere though, you’ll have additional options: 9 … | Continue reading
With the general election drawing ever closer, Tinder is getting its thirsty userbase involved in politics with some help from Rock the Vote. Starting today, Tinder users will now be able to swipe left or right on a variety of hot-button political issues, all in the hope of match … | Continue reading
Beirut might not be the first place that springs to mind when thinking about ground-breaking technology, but the fact is that Lebanese talent has actually played a pivotal role in many of this century’s most important innovations. With a diaspora estimated at around 14 million, a … | Continue reading
It was tough to narrow it down to just five game-changers, but we believe these are the companies to watch if you want to stay abreast of the most radical moves in the tech world this year. | Continue reading
Not so long ago, I would have mistook the augmented reality headset CastAR for magic or martian technology. In my demo at last week’s Game Developers Conference, the glasses made a real coffee table look like an animated game of Battleship, in which the ocean floor dipped through … | Continue reading
Multiple reports claiming to detail Nintendo's NX controller have surfaced online this week, the latest two of which include photos apparently of the console pad. Today's alleged "leak" is the the third time we have seen suggestion the NX's controller will have an oval form facto … | Continue reading
The topic of women in tech can take on different forms. It is about women’s positions and promotions (or the lack thereof) in the tech industry, with initiatives meant to help women network, find opportunities or hold discriminating industry leaders accountable. It is also about … | Continue reading
Have you heard about Boom? Boom is a relatively new startup that’s aiming to build something pretty crazy. They’re not building an app… or a social network… or even some new gadget for the Kickstarter crowd. Boom wants to build planes. Really, really, really fast planes. Specific … | Continue reading
For the first half of my 20 hours and change with 7 Mages [Free], I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop. For whatever reason, the game wasn't on my radar at all, and when it released seemingly out of nowhere with gorgeous screenshots and some lofty comparisons being thrown ar … | Continue reading
The Moon hasn't always been spinning at the same angle as it does today, a new study suggests. The Moon's axis likely shifted sometime around three billion years ago, due to the work of ancient lunar volcanoes. These volcanoes heated up one side of the lunar surface, changing the … | Continue reading
Have you longed for pinball and Breakout to combine into one delicious hybrid game? Well, I hope you're not specific about the number, because it's becoming a surprisingly busy time for pinball-Breakout hybrids. After Pinball Breaker Forever was announced, Neonchimp (developers o … | Continue reading
Let’s be honest. The Chrome app launcher was always a little bit awkward. I mean, you had to use two clicks to do anything - even just launch vanilla Chrome. | Continue reading
CurrencyFair, one of a number of so-called peer-to-peer currency exchanges, has scored a further €8 million in funding. The round was led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from Proxy Ventures. It brings total raised by the 2010-founded company to around €20 million — a figu … | Continue reading
New research into the priceless papyri library recovered from Herculaneum has revealed that some scrolls were written with metal-based ink rather than the traditional carbon inks used in antiquity. This discovery both rewrites the ancient history of writing and could help scienti … | Continue reading
Not to be left behind as companies like IBM, Cisco and Microsoft all expand their services for enterprises opting for hybrid cloud environments, Google today announced a raft of partnerships to advance its position in the market, too. Google Stackdriver, the company’s platform fo … | Continue reading
Shelter 2 is getting its own standalone expansion tomorrow entitled Paws. It tells the story of a wolf cub.The previous Shelter titles tasked you with playi… | Continue reading
Microsoft and its publishing partners may begin seeing a bump in the sales of their older hits today as the company makes it easier to buy certain classics. An Xbox One update is rolling out today that introduces a number of highly requested features. Key among these is the capab … | Continue reading
Backwards compatibility with Xbox 360 titles was one of Microsoft’s biggest updates for the Xbox One announced at E3 of last year, but it came with a caveat: you couldn’t actually buy the games from the Xbox One itself. But earlier this month, Microsoft started to sell 360 titles … | Continue reading
Today at the GCPNext16 event in San Francisco, Google announced the launch of Google StackDriver, a tool that gives IT a unified tool for monitoring, alerting, incidents management and logging complete with dashboards providing visual insights across each category. Google purchas … | Continue reading
Google today announced at its GCP NEXT conference in San Francisco that it’s adding more enterprise-focused features to its Google Cloud Platform public cloud. Most prominently, there’s a new tool available in beta called Cloud IAM that allows big companies to make sure that cert … | Continue reading
Dark Souls and Tekken Tag Tournament 2 have received backwards compatibility on Xbox One.We knew the former was coming to the service - as it was a pre-order bonus for Dark Souls 3 - but now we can confirm that it's live.Other recent additions to the Xbox One backwards compatibil … | Continue reading
The future of transportation is a tough thing to peg down. It could involve Hyperloops, or self-driving cars, or some strange mix of both. Two years ago, Nissan started up an experimental wing called "Future Lab" to address this shifting landscape. And the first project is the Ni … | Continue reading
Google today announced a new machine learning platform for developers at its NEXT Google Cloud Platform user conference in San Francisco. As Google chairman Eric Schmidt stressed during today’s keynote, Google believes machine learning is “what’s next.” With this new platform, Go … | Continue reading
Google is planning to compete with Nuance and other voice recognition companies head on, by opening up its speech recognition API to third-party developers. To attract developers, the app will be free at launch with pricing to be introduced at a later date. We’d been hearing murm … | Continue reading
It’s not everyday you could end up getting matched with Donald Trump on Tinder – but it’s now more likely than ever as the dating platform wades into the US presidential race in the only way it knows how. Starting today, Tinder is offering to help you decide which candidate is fo … | Continue reading
Google is posting app reviews from low earth orbit on a Nexus 16 - just in time for April Fools' Day 30 years from now. Confused? Take a look at what our interstellar app reviewer can tell us about the future. | Continue reading
The average worker loses 8.5 days of work annually because they can’t catch a decent night’s sleep. That’s probably because your phone is sending you push notifications from all the different services and social networks you’re part of. As a result, we’re suffering at work with l … | Continue reading
Google today announced at its GCP NEXT conference in San Francisco a new service called Cloud Machine Learning in a limited preview. The tool relies on the TensorFlow machine learning library that Google open-sourced a few months ago. And it powers another new product called the … | Continue reading
I owned a Virtual Boy. There, I said it. For most of my life I’ve been obsessed with virtual reality, and Nintendo’s infamous failure of a system was my first real taste. Sure, it only had one color, and it looked silly sticking your face into what looked like a cross between E.T … | Continue reading
ASX remains committed to its plans for potential blockchain integration even after the man who helped lead the project resigned. | Continue reading
Software as a Service (SaaS) is growing at breakneck speeds and the competition in this space is heating up. | Continue reading
Mazda's MX-5 RF is a stunning car and a true showstopper at the 2016 New York Auto Show. Watch the video above to see this beauty in action.More details and photos: http://on.mash.to/1pIgdeR Read more...More about Cars, Transportation, Tech, Dev Design, and Gadgets | Continue reading
There's a lot to love about spring — nice weather! hot pop singles! the melting of stinky ice clogging Manhattan sewer drains! — but there's one thing to hate —€” putting away sweaters. Sweaters are comfy and warm and make you feel like a cuddle bug. I succumb to society's pressu … | Continue reading
Emergence Capital led a $20 million investment for BetterWorks, the startup announced today. BetterWorks’s software helps enterprises to manage and track their employees progress. Some of the startups’ customers includes AOL, Airbnb, and Shutterstock. The Redwood City-based start … | Continue reading
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ThinkUp, a social media insights service co-founded by Anil Dash, is officially looking for a buyer. In a Medium post, Dash says its current subscriber base does not cover the cost of running the service, and wants to work directly with a company to help offer interesting analysi … | Continue reading
Dear friends,Due to the fairly short time until our conference , the original deadline for submitting proposals was relatively early. We thank all those who made the extra effort to submit their proposals on time and we will weigh that timeliness accordingly when considering prop … | Continue reading
We've seen a whole bunch of ways to stream music wirelessly to headphones and speakers lately. Apart from the long list of wireless headphones on the market, Sonos Connect, and Google's Chromecast Audio both let you broadcast audio to existing speakers and stereo systems. And the … | Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE: While there is still much mystery surrounding Huawei’s April 6 launch event in London, at least one of the pieces has fallen into place, with new information on a stripped-down version of the flagship P9 set to debut at the unveiling. Retail branding is not yet known f … | Continue reading
When Apple introduced its new iPad Pro 9.7″, one of the small technical specifications touted has led to the most questions from readers: the new embedded Apple SIM. For context, Apple introduced its Apple SIM — a programmable version of a regular SIM card that allowed people to … | Continue reading
If you’re traveling abroad and are tired of using Skype, WhatsApp, or Viber to call friends and family back in the US, you now have another option. AT&T launched Wi-Fi Calling, allowing users to call US numbers from abroad over Wi-Fi instead of a cellular network. Provided you’re … | Continue reading
Content creation is a vital part of your marketing efforts. But are you creating the right content for the right stages of the buying cycle? | Continue reading
VB WEBINAR: Missed it? Catch our webinar on demand to learn how top marketing minds in the C-suite set the right KPIs, allocate budget across the customer journey, and structure teams for success — and more. Access the webinar on demand right here. How are leading CMOs at top-per … | Continue reading