Google announced today it’s giving higher placement to articles in Google News that come from those publishers who have embraced the Google-backed “Accelerated Mobile Pages Project” (or, AMP). The company debuted this open source initiative last year, as something of a rival to F … | Continue reading
VR content will soon be arriving on yet another digital streaming service – this time, Sony’s Crackle. But it will also include VR-enabled ads, the company announced today. That is, in addition to streaming its entire content library – including movies and original programs – in … | Continue reading
Earlier this month, Tesla Motors recalled 2,700 Model X cars to fix a third-row seat latch that could allow the seat to fold forward during a collision. But owners of the $138,000 sport utility vehicle — whose many features include falcon-wing doors, seating for seven, a 200-plus … | Continue reading
Self-driving cars seem an awful lot like magic. Containing elements of automotive technology, computer vision, artificial intelligence and many other cutting-edge fields of tech. So, if you wanted to learn how it all hangs together, where would you even start? MIT decided to star … | Continue reading
Google released version 50 of its Chrome browser last week and it has been rolling out to users for the last few days. The major new feature in Chrome 50 is support for improved push notifications. To celebrate this release, Google today announced a number of new stats for Chrome … | Continue reading
If you’re seriously attempting to learn another language then at least one dictionary app will be a staple on your smartphone homescreen. And familiarity with its UX foibles will have long ago set your teeth on edge. Read More | Continue reading
Happy 4/20 day everybody! To celebrate, Snapchat teamed up with the estate of Bob Marley, and the results were … unfortunate.Snapchat created a lens that makes your face look more like the legendary musician’s by adding Marley-like features — a cap, dreadlocks, a beard and darker … | Continue reading
Scandy is aiming to make it easier to print full-color 3D prints of photographs, from sources such as depth aware cameras, and technology like Google’s Project Tango. Scandy today announced it raised a $1m angel/seed round from Callais Capital, in an effort to bring the technolog … | Continue reading
Citus has been making headlines lately. Just a couple of weeks ago it announced Citus 5, the latest version of its Postgres database product, but even bigger news was that it was open sourcing it , a bold move for sure. Today, it announced it was releasing a beta of Citus Cloud, … | Continue reading
Google is launching an update to Inbox by Gmail today that adds three new features to the company’s Gmail-based next-gen email client for the web and mobile. Probably the most interesting of these new features is that Inbox can now help you keep track of events and the emails you … | Continue reading
If you know LeEco at all, it’s likely for the Chinese company’s smartphones. Or, maybe you’ve caught wind of its video streaming services or smart televisions — it was known as LeTV until fairly recently, after all. Those elements were present in a massive Bejing press conference … | Continue reading
Google today is making its easier for Android users to listen to podcasts, by introducing podcast support right into its Google app for Android. That means you’re able to search for podcasts using Google’s search engine, then click a button to begin listening without having to su … | Continue reading
The field of medicine is in the process of being profoundly transformed by new technologies; much of this transformation comes from exciting advances in genomics. Although genomics is relatively unknown to the general public, innovations in the field have started to make headline … | Continue reading
If you’re of a certain age, you may remember flipping through the classic children’s magazine Highlights while in the waiting room of your doctor’s office, many years ago. Now this long-running, 70-year old print magazine is making a serious attempt at transitioning into the digi … | Continue reading
Helsinki-based mobile gaming startup Armada Interactive, which is still a way off from launching its first title, has closed a $3 million seed round. Investment is being led by Initial Capital, with participation from Index Ventures, PROfounders Capital, Backed VC, Reaktor Ventur … | Continue reading
Giphy is updating its Android app to follow the app’s progress on the iOS platform. Today, Giphy for Messenger will be phased out via an update to become a standard Giphy app. This comes on the heels of Facebook integrating Giphy into its own Messenger platform. The standard Giph … | Continue reading
FreedomPop — the startup that has built a mobile service based on the premise of a free basic tier of voice and data services — has announced plans to launch its services in Spain, its second market in Europe after the UK. And to woo users in one of the world’s most competitive a … | Continue reading
SkySafe, a six-month-old, San Diego, Ca.-based company whose technology can disable drones that are flying where they shouldn’t, has raised $3 million in seed funding. Andreessen Horowitz led the round, with participation from Founder Collective and SV Angel. No doubt the company … | Continue reading
Red Hat made it clear a few years ago that it couldn’t rely on its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) glory forever. It needed a path to transformation and it saw a way with OpenStack and the hybrid cloud.Today it continued its steady march toward fulfilling that cloudy vision with … | Continue reading
DoorDash, for better or worse, has become an example of the 2016 VC funding environment. After reportedly failing to raise at a $1 billion valuation, the company had to settle for a flat round. So what happened, and how will it affect the company going forward — and other compani … | Continue reading
Photo-editing app PicsArt wants to grow in China and Japan after getting $20 million in fresh funding from returning investor DCM Ventures and Siguler Guff & Company. Read More | Continue reading
Mandatory drone registration and a massive national database of drone owners is already under way in the U.S. But simply knowing who owns what won’t stop unmanned aerial vehicles from collisions or becoming a public nuisance. A Raleigh, North Carolina company called PrecisionHawk … | Continue reading
We’re announcing our very first formal Meetup + Pitch-off in Tel Aviv, presented by Leumi Tech. Israel remains one of the world’s key producers of startups and cutting edge technology, so it would be remiss of us not to get the TechCrunch community together there. The event will … | Continue reading
Europe’s antitrust chief has just confirmed the Commission is stepping up an ongoing investigation into Google’s Android mobile OS, issuing a Statement of Objections today. The move comes a year after the EC announced an in-depth probe into Android rivals’ concerns that Google is … | Continue reading
A report into the market power of large online platforms such as Google, Facebook, Amazon and Airbnb has concluded that more needs to be done to bolster consumer trust in tech giants’ handling of their data. The review was carried out by the UK’s upper House of Parliament respond … | Continue reading
India’s pharmaceutical market is filled with generic options—but they don’t always save consumers money. In fact, some drugs are even more expensive than their branded counterparts. Created to give patients more power over their health costs, startup 1mg announced today that it h … | Continue reading
Mark up one more sizeable round of funding for another regional startup that is rivalling Uber and other services in the world of on-demand transportation. Cabify, a ride-sharing app based out of Madrid and active in Spain and Latin America, has raised $120 million — money that i … | Continue reading
Barcelona-based Lodgify, which offers website builder software to enable vacation rental owners to build their own branded website and accept online bookings, has raised €1.4 million in funding. Read More | Continue reading
Two former Rocket Internet executives are out to beat Foodpanda, the food delivery startup backed by the German incubator-cum-investor, at its own game, and they’ve raised $800,000 to get to it. Read More | Continue reading
Apple’s head of legal has denied a long-standing rumor that it has collaborated with the Chinese government to provide its source code. Read More | Continue reading
Samsung has already said it will launch Samsung Pay in Singapore this year, but today it set a more definite timeline–sort of. The company announced that the service will be available in retail stores “as early as Q2 2016,” the day after rival Apple Pay rolled out in Singapore fo … | Continue reading
I write. I work with writers. I studied English — many of my friends became journalists. The future of being able to charge for quality material online is really important to me. However, to make progress in this area, I think the industry needs to stop pinning its hopes on the s … | Continue reading
A group of tech coalitions has written an open letter to Senators Richard Burr (R-N.C.) and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), concerning their bill requiring all encryption to be breakable on command, which achieved infamy in record time following the leak of a draft earlier this mont … | Continue reading
Apple is finally getting around to adding web previews for tvOS apps — correcting a rather baffling and prolonged omission. Read More | Continue reading
About a week ago, Snapchat flipped on a new feature: the ability to "pin" emojis to objects in your videos, and have those emojis track that object and move around with them. It was only for Android users when it launched last week, but it's hitting iOS today. Here's how to use t … | Continue reading
The fight to drag the healthcare system kicking and screaming into the 21st century often overlooks the little picture in favor of larger systematic fixes. But for many users on multiple meds, the only thing standing between them and an incorrect or missed dosage is a big, plasti … | Continue reading
The hardware tinkerers and prototype mavens out there will invariably have stumbled across the Arduino platform. Completely open source and always pushing the limits for collaboration, there are a ton of different development boards available, but none are as awesome as Johan Kan … | Continue reading
Does the government secretly force companies to decrypt their customers’ messages, build backdoors or hand over their source code so that law enforcement officials can pick through it for vulnerabilities? Those are the questions at the center of an Electronic Frontier Foundation … | Continue reading
We’re excited to announce the launch of the first cross-platform and personalized news recommendations bot on Facebook Messenger. The bot is part of Facebook’s “Agents for Messenger” program revealed at F8, and it will help our readers get the news they want from us in a more con … | Continue reading
OneWeb Satellites, the joint venture between OneWeb LLC and Airbus Defense and Space, has selected Florida to be the home of their satellite manufacturing facility. Located in Exploration Park near NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, the factory will turn out most of OneWeb’s 900 satell … | Continue reading
Wall Street is watching Yahoo today, but not just because of its first quarterly earnings announcement that was reported after the bell. The company is for sale and reportedly has a slew of bidders, including TechCrunch’s parent, Verizon. While it is not yet clear what the final … | Continue reading
Intel just announced it was slashing its workforce by 11 percent calling it in all its corporate press speak glory “a restructuring to accelerate its transformation.” Sure. What it means in real human terms is that 12,000 people will be losing their jobs worldwide and that is ne … | Continue reading
Banking as we know it is in the midst of its first fundamental remaking in centuries. What’s driving this transformation? Two major shifts: our transition to interacting with money digitally instead of physically, which opened finances to tech disruption, and a tech wave that has … | Continue reading
On-demand delivery startup Postmates is launching Pop, its 15-minutes-or-less food delivery service, in New York City tomorrow at 11am ET. With Pop, which launched in San Francisco back in October, Postmates features a daily curated list of lunch items that you can receive in 15 … | Continue reading
The FBI’s legal battle with Apple over an iPhone belonging to one of the San Bernardino shooters was rehashed today before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which heard testimony from law enforcement officials and technologists about the role encryption plays in criminal i … | Continue reading
This isn’t a rant post. But if you have worked in tech for long enough, you know this feeling — tech fatigue. At some point, everything new feels old, everything different feels dumb. If you get stuck in this circle of endless cynicism, you need to ask yourself the important ques … | Continue reading
Casual gaming, say hello to super-duper casual gaming. A mobile game that you can play in your iPhone’s Notification Center – yes, without even unlocking your phone – is now the #15 top game in Apple’s U.S. App Store and flirting with becoming a top 50 Overall app. Called “Steve … | Continue reading
Mesosphere‘s Data Center Operating System (DC/OS) aims to allow developers and admins to treat a data center as a single computer that runs applications in software containers. It’s based on a number of open source projects, including the Apache Mesos cluster manager and projects … | Continue reading