Articles by Techcrunch from August 2016

 Proposed rules thatwould allow for testing of truly driverless cars on roads in California are gaining steam in the state’s legislature. Specifically, Assembly Bill 1592 in California was ...

 London-based Pusher, the company powering The NY Times’ live election results and DraftKing’s fantasy scoring results, just raised $2.5 million to up its stakes further. The money ca...

 VR is widespread in design, education and entertainment. But before VR hit the mainstream, it was first and foremost an important resource for our armed forces. After decades of perfecting VR in...

 Nest Labs, the maker of smart thermostats and smoke detectors, is parting ways with a few dozen employees who work on its Internet of Things platform. According to aFortune reportthat we’v...

 Google is running its own ride-sharing service in San Francisco, the Wall Street Journal reports. The move would put Google in direct, immediate competition with Uber, which helps explain even f...

 Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump had a slow fundraising start in Silicon Valley. In the June lead-up to the final state primaries, Trump had raised very few dollars in the region t...

 Digital hospitality platform Velocity announced this week that, following its $16 million Series A last year, the company raised $22.5 million led by DIG Investments. The company creates curated...

 Facebook’s goalof tracking adsall the way through to a customer’s purchase at point-of-sale is getting a big boost today with a makeover of the Facebook Offers program. Now designed ...

 A little-known startup is in meltdown mode after a former employee took to Medium to accuse the company of scamming her out of her wages and firing her in retaliation after she filed a wage clai...

 Pebble is getting ready to start shipping new hardware, including the Pebble 2 and Pebble Time 2, but first it has something for existing device owners. The new Pebble software update includes s...

 On-Demand Geofilters from Snapchat let anyone build a custom filter for their event (or for whatever reason – I’m not judging your Snapchat filter needs), which was a petty good idea...

 On-Demand Geofilters from Snapchat let anyone build a custom filter for their event (or for whatever reason – I’m not judging your Snapchat filter needs), which was a petty good idea...

 Calramon Mabalot is a pretty wild kid. He likes 3D printing and, along with his brother, he builds lots of cool projects – including a mechanical hand for a local teacher he met while buil...

 Apple’s reality TV show ‘Planet of the Apps’ keeps getting weirder. Every time Apple and Propagate release new information about the show, it gets harder to understand what the...

 Online furniture shop Wayfair has acquired aBoston-based mobile messagingapplication called Trumpit, with the aim of utilizing its technology in order to expand its customer service offerings. S...

 Luxembourg based satellite company SESannouncedtoday that they’ve made an agreement with SpaceX to be the first company to launch a payloadon a used Falcon 9 rocket. The re-flight, schedul...

 You don’t need a PlayStation to play PlayStation games anymore: Sony’s Playstation Now subscription-based game streaming service is now out for PC, and you an grab the app and start ...

 While Kickstarter is a great place to start selling products online, and Amazon is a goodnext step, you’ll often see hardware companies begin shipping their products to local retailers lik...

 Okta announced it was bringing identity management to APIs today at its Oktane customer conference in Las Vegas.For a long time, Okta was about connecting people with cloud applications such as ...

 Audi’s upcoming four-door luxury electric car will have a 311-mile range, along with Level 4 self-driving features (essentially full autonomy for those keeping track) and three separate el...

 Despite progress in creating bug-resistant crops, pesticide is still one of the most effective and cost-efficient ways to ensure good produce yields. But the current approach actually involves a...

 Washio, the on-demand laundry startup that launched in 2013, has today announced that it will shutter its service.In a letter posted to the website, Washio founders announced that the company wi...

 After opening up its Amplify program last fall to a wide range of publishers, Twitter says it’s expanding the video ad program again, this time to individual creators. After creators are a...

 If you’ve got a thing with a battery, odds are Belkin’s looking for a way to charge it. If Belkin already charges it, the company’s no doubt searchingfor another thing it can c...

 Are we moving toward a headphone jack-free future? Motorola recently fired the first warning shots with its Moto Z handset, and Apple is widely expected to follow suit in a week or so when most ...

 Here’s one answer to the question of what, precisely, one is supposed to do a 3D pen. If you’re Nissan Europe, you draw a car, of course (or get a handful of artists to do it for you...

 Do you know what goes great with binge watching Netflix? Pizza. At least, that’s one reason why Papa John’s has today launched a new application for Apple TV which allows you to orde...

 Wireless speaker system maker Sonos announced two software partnerships today with Spotify and Amazon. The Spotify integration allows users to control their Sonos speakers via the Spotify app, e...

 LinkedIn’s story has come to a close — being acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion — and its rise and finale is thanks to a laundry list of people. Two of those who were inst...

 After the dust settles, the real takeaway from Instagram’s cloning of Snapchat is that the connected camera revolution is just beginning. Instagram Stories sends a powerful message to hund...

 When it comes to keeping track of diabetes, the manual process can be a bit of a pain. Healthtech startup Health2Sync, which launched at the Hardware Battlefield at CES 2014, wants to change all...

 Mophie wants everyone to know that it’s more than just battery cases — the company made as much extremely clear when we met to take a look at its new offerings. Not that it minds tha...

 When I reviewed the Boosted Board earlier this year, I have to admit it was closer to the refresh cycle than I had anticipated, because here’s the Boosted Board 2 in all its glory. Read Mo...

 Kwikset, makers of the Kevo smart lock, have just unveiled the second-generation of the device with a fresh design and added security features. The second-gen Kevo still comes with the same touc...

 Intel’s latest processor generation is now official, and the 7th generation of Core processors looks to pack a punch. The so-called “Kaby Lake” lineup is the first to follow th...

 Uber and Visa this morning announced the launch of a new rewards program which will credit Uber users with free rides by spending at nearby businesses. Called “Local Offers,” the sys...

 Swedish startup Greta is on a somewhat quiet mission to disrupt the multi-billion dollar Content Delivery Network (CDN) market. Read More ...

 If starring your important emails is your way of creatinga to-do list inyour inbox, but you long for something more robust, a new product from Moo.do aims to help. With Moo.do for Gmail, theidea...

 A new game from ESPN’s Discover channel sponsored by Gatorade highlight Snapchat’s efforts to distinguish itself as a marketing vector for brands, as well as its potential to expand ...

 Startup Drive.ai is revealing its product and strategy for the first time, and the autonomous driving tech company is looking not only to create the best hardware and software to enable self-dri...

 How much food should you feed your dog? Pet owners everywhere have asked this question at one time or another – and probably multiple times during the course of their dog or cat’s li...

 Parrot CEO Henri Seydoux held a press conference in Paris to unveil two new minidrones. In addition to the usual quadcopter update, Parrot also unveiled a new kind of drone that wants to mix the...

 Tim Cook has rejected the EU’s demand for Apple to return $14.5 billion in ‘unpaid’ taxes in Ireland as having “no basis in fact or law.” Read More ...

 VMware announced a series of updates to its virtual desktop (VDI) line today at VMworld in Las Vegas. Theannouncement attempts to set the virtual desktop in a more modern context, byoffering cus...

 India-based home design and furnishing company Livspace has closed a $15 million Series B round which will be used to fund an expansion into new cities. Read More ...

 ‘The battle between entrepreneurs and VCs is unfair’, according toPeter Pham, the co-founder ofScience Inc. His reasoning: VCs have experienced thousands upon thousands of pitching p...

 The bill is getting quite expensive as the European Commission has just released a statement saying that Apple has benefited from illegal tax benefits in Ireland for its European operations. The...

 Did you get banned from playing Pokmon Go after downloading an app that you thought might make the game more fun? Well, it turns out that you might be able to get back into the smash hit title a...

 The funding environment is so overheated that it often seems like no idea is too silly to attract investment. You might be surprised by how many companies struggle to raise money — even th...

 David Drummond, who joined Uber’s board of directors in August 2013, stepped down several weeks ago, Uber has confirmed to TechCrunch.The Wall Street Journalfirst reported the news. At fir...

 Are we alone in the universe? An international group of astronomers hasdetected an interesting radio signal spike, one that could possibly be of alien origin, from a star system located 95 light...

 iPhones around the world are dying in a peculiar way, and Apple isn’t doing right by affected users, asserts a lawsuit filed over the weekend. The plaintiffs are three in number for now, b...

 The Federal Aviation Administration has given permission to a drone tech startup called PrecisionHawk to fly its unmanned aerial vehicles beyond the visual line of sight (BVLOS) in U.S. airspace...

 Apple’s roadmap for the rest of the year (and perhaps a bit beyond that) appears to take aim at big spenders and power users. Expect updates to the iPad, MacBook Air and Pro and Thunderbol...

 Startups in the VR space are increasingly growing confident that consumers will want to interact with objects in the virtual world the same way they do irl — with their hands. uSens is sho...

 Once again a powerful tool has been implemented against the public, without its knowledge or consent. Which rather defeats the point of having a voluntary, civilian police force, doesn’t i...

 Bruno Guez has spent decades in the music business — he hosted a show on public radio, founded Quango Music Group and even worked as the creative director of music at Cirque de Soleil. Ove...

 Over the last couple of years of boom times for venture capital-backed startups, round sizes ballooned and valuations filled with all that hot air. Valuations of new financings have started decl...

 The number of traffic fatalities in the U.S. in 2015 was up 7.2 percent from the year prior, to 35,092, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is doing things a little differentl...

 Admit it: you’ve always wanted your very own Australopithecus. Unfortunately, they’re extinct — but the best known representative of our 3-million-year-old ancestor, the famous...

 Admit it: You’ve always wanted your very own Australopithecus. Unfortunately, they’re extinct — but the best known representation of our 3-million-year-old ancestor, the famous...

 In case you missed the premiere last week, TechCrunch has a new podcast, and it’s TCBC, a show where I speak to a different writer on staff each week about their beat, the stories theyR...

 Falling is awful. It causes irreparable harm to senior citizens and the fear of falling reduces senior citizen mobility drastically, creating a feedback loop that can be catastrophic. Now, thank...

 Who decides who’s cool? Snapchat refuses to recommend accounts for fear of feeling heavy-handed. Maybe it learned from Twitter, whose old one-size-fits-none suggested user list immediately...

 Well, that was fast. Three days after Facebook said it would remove the human editors who curate the Trending topics section and replace them with a purely algorithmic system, the company trende...

 In an effort to highlight its upcoming launch of more in-train Wi-Fi (not to be confused with in-train cricket attacks), the New York MTA, Transit Wireless, and publishing powerhouse Penguin Ran...

 A new Google application called Crowdsource has quietly appeared on Google Play, asking users to perform brieftasks that will help improve the quality of Google services like Maps, translation, ...

 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is living at least a few years out ahead of anyone reading this post – the founding executive told an audience in Rome (via Verge) today that he hopes to demon...

 On September 7 at 10 AM, Tim Cook will walk on stage and start the most anticipated tech press conference of the year — the introduction of the new iPhone. In New York, two hours later and...

 Google just took a big step in tying together your computing world, with full integration of its Google Cast capability directly into its Chrome browser. This is a step up from the Cast extensio...

 The FBI warned states to check the security of their election systems after hackers stole voter data from one state election board earlier this summer and attempted to access another this month....

 The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration put new rules into effect today regulating the commercial use of small, unmanned aircraft systems, or drones. The rules apply to drones that weigh up to ...

 Google is kicking off registration for its first-ever festival aimed at celebrating indie games on Android. The company is now taking sign-ups for those who want to attend theGoogle Play Indie G...

 Recently, T-Mobile came under fire for its new One plan. For those of you unaware, T-Mobile’s original One plan gave you unlimited on-device data, but only 480p resolution was covered for ...

 It’s happening! On Friday, September 9thfrom 4-6 p.m, Greylock Partners will join TechCrunch in hosting Include Office Hours. Apply now. Unlike previous sessions, the upcoming office hours...

 Apple just sent out invites for a press conference on Wednesday, September 7. The company will most likely unveil the next iPhone. The invite doesn’t say much. Apple usually likes to give ...

 On Monday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan met with Pope Francis, as part of Zuckerberg’strip of Italy, announced followingthe devastating earthquake that hit the ...

 A Polish company, In Utero 3D, is doing something really sweet. They’re printing 3D models of babies in the womb so blind mothers can feel their children before they’re born and expe...

 Sony announced an update to the curious-looking FES Watch with a new design. The FES Watch U features an e-ink display and pairs with your phone. But the surprising part is that the band is also...

 Los Angeles startup GOAT (incorporated as 1661 Inc.) has raised $5 million in new venture funding to grow its mobile-only marketplace for used and collectible sneakers. The GOAT app features eve...

 The Brazilian Airbnb for pet-sitting, DogHero, has raised $3.1 million in financing aspet care spending in Brazil starts totake bigger and bigger bites out of consumers’ wallets.Brazil alr...

 Roku’s popular media players will be getting a refresh later this fall, according to a new report, as well as a rebranding which will see the device models renamed from those sporting nume...

 The Oracle versus Google verdict set a positive precedent for the future of the API economy, but will it last? What is at stake if the decision is reversed? While on the surface Oracle versus Go...

 HBO has what looks like an expansive new epic TV series on the way, only this time it’s swapping fantasy, swords and castles for androids, AI and western duds. Westworld is a new sci-fi se...

 Square is turning point-of-sale companies that at one time could’ve been considered enemies into allies, with two new partnerships with Vend and TouchBistro. Square will now offer Vend and...

 Since 2013, the human wrist has served as the company’s primary domain. That year Fitbit offered up the Flex, a simple wearable designed to keep track of activity and sleep. A year later, ...

 FitBit is kicking the week off right with a slew of announcements that affect a large numberwearable company’s offerings. The biggest updates are coming to the company’s best selling...

 Generally, you don’t see the first spy shots of a new device coming from the company itself, but Microsoft isn’t really following all that many of the rules with its Surface lineup o...

 A New York City startup called Helix Sleep Inc. raised $7.35 million in Series A funding to grow its bespoke mattress business, according to cofounder Adam Tishman. With 20 full-time employees t...

 TechCrunch had the opportunity to speak with Chemi Peres, co-founder of Pitango Venture Capital, about Israel’s tech scene. In the above video, Peres explained why he believes digital heal...

 Grocery on-demand service HappyFresh has delivered a mixed bag of news today. Firstly, the company has withdrawn from two markets in Asia as it aims to focus on creating a sustainable business. ...

 Philips Hue is expanding its line up of smart light devices with a motion sensor. This one is pretty straightforward — when you walk in front of the sensor, your Hue lights will turn on.Wh...

 As China’s digital business grows, it’s going to provide more opportunities for many players. Who “gets it” and who doesn’t will certainly not only be a function of...

 A new player has entered the enterprise productivity race. For decades, Microsoft reigned as the market leader in enterprise productivity — until Google pushed into the space with Google A...

 History repeats herself, but she mumbles. Most of the time we can only in retrospect discern what she was trying to say. Sometimes, though, history’s intent is clear. That’s where we...

 One of America’s leading experts on the technology of government isBill Eggers, the executive director of Deloitte’s Center for Government Insights.Eggers’ great observation, a...

 Given the massive chunk of our lives spent at work, shouldn’t we enjoy the tools we need to use for our jobs? Shouldn’t they feel more human and delightful, like Amazon’s Alexa...

 Earlier this week, we sat down with Naval Ravikant, cofounder of five-year-old AngelList, a popular platform that matches startups with early-stage investors. Three million people, including 50,...

 Guys like Walter Duncan know what they’re talking about when it comes to edtech. Before becoming co-founder of Quick Key, Duncan spent years teaching in schools public and private and know...

 Bluetooth beacons are proven technology. So why isn’t anyone using them effectively? Sure, companies are using them to track users and boost sales — but are we seeing a return on tha...

 Artificial intelligence pops up as a buzzword every few years, but it has never moved beyond novelty status. This time, though, it is here to stay, and startups are poised to drive the AI econom...

 Every important technology goes through a hype cycle. You’ve probably seen the Gartner Hype Cycle diagram: inflated expectations, followed by despair and eventually a pragmatic understandi...

 There are two kinds of crowdfunded watches – fashion accessories and real efforts at classical design and workmanship. Thankfully the Reverie Classic holds the latter place. The Classic is...

 Fundraising for a startup is a notoriously stressful process. Much ink has been spilled dissecting every aspect of what works when pitching a venture capitalist, and there are countless “t...

 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, August 26, 2016. Oh no, Volumetrics meets the Beatles in a trip forward d...

 Retailers grasp the web-focused future of the industry, but the sale of Jet.com to Walmart earlier this month has sped up the shift and validated the online marketplace approach to e-commerce. R...

 August, the weekend of months. This week a zero-day hack rocked Apple, WhatsApp announced a major privacy change and Tesla announced a new model that takes Ludicrous Mode to the next level. Woul...

 Without leverage, the private equity sector as we know it wouldn’t exist. While some tech execs and VCs recoil at the thought of using leverage, the truth is that the Innovation Economy ha...

 I won’t insult your intelligence by pretending to be unbiased. I think exactly what you’d expect a Canadian who lives in San Francisco to think: how could anyone with a reasonable co...

 Opera, which recently agreed to sell its browser business in a Chinese consortium, has reset user passwords for one of its services after it servers were breached by hackers. Read More ...

Justin Kan swings by the TC studio to talk YC, Snapchat and a new app he is working on, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is working on a proposal to retain foreigners who build startups, a ne...

 Accusations that Spotify has been punishing artists for signing exclusives with other streaming services hit the internet in full force this morning, originating from a Bloomberg article.When co...

 Pokmon Go has been downloaded more than 100 million times since its July debut, making it the biggest-growing mobile game ever. Naturally, the phenomenon has drawn much commentary about what thi...

 TechCrunch recently went down south to Los Angeles for our mini-meetup and to catch up with the region’s burgeoning tech scene. One of the startups that caught our attention is HopSkipDriv...

 Microsoft today pushed out in a blog post for users of its consumer services new resources to reduce hate speech. Users will now be able to communicate directly with the company to report hate s...

 IT is shifting from the SaaS workflow applications that characterized the cloud computing era to those that help customers make decisions: the intelligence era. The source of competitive advanta...

 The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and a series of university partners are developing an earthquake early warning system called ShakeAlert, which aims to provide the general public with alerts up...

 Big data is hardly new at this point — nor has it wrought anywhere near its potential effects on many companies and institutions insulated by inertia and red tape. A summer program at the ...

 Trying to get more followers on Instagram? If you follow a few verified banks and financial institutions, you’ll suddenly end up with dozens of new followers. There’s just one drawba...

 The Google equivalent in every major market where Google doesn’t really play is making a self-driving car of some kind, and Russia is the latest to join the fray. Yandex is the company in ...

 Launching with a marketplace for landscaping, snow plowing, and other home care and repair services, Plowz &Mowz has raised $1.5 million from the Los Angeles-based startup studio, Science an...

 Twitter’s “Trends” are often confusing. Why is #MPBMS or #TechMunch trending? You had to click through and figure it out for yourself. When Facebook copied Twitter’s tren...

 This is a LIVE recording session of The Gillmor Gang – today with: Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Today’s LIVE recording has concluded.Our ...

 This is a LIVE recording session of The Gillmor Gang – today with: Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Today’s LIVE recording has concluded.Our ...

 The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, an office under the Department of Homeland Security, put forward a proposal today that would allow the U.S. government to offerparole (temporary pe...

 Google today is stepping up its battle with Venmo, Square Cash and other person-to-person payment applications with an update to its Google Wallet mobile app, which now allows for automatic tran...

 Domino’s Pizza Enterprises has demonstrated delivery of hot pizzas by drone in Auckland, New Zealand.The company has a long history of embracing high-tech concepts. Last year, they tested ...

 San Francisco-based education startup StudySoup, which calls itself “a peer-to-peer learning marketplace,” announced it has raised $1.7 million in seed funding.The company works as a...

 Well that was fast. Just one day after WhatsApp revealed a sea-change in its attitude to user data, by detailing plans to share the mobile numbers and last seen status of its users with parent c...

 A personalized video channel for Apple TV, Rheo, has now closed on $2.3 million in seed funding, the company announced this week. It has also updated its application and expanded its content lin...

 Mobile ad startup AppLovin is in talks with a Chinese buyer for an acquisition of around $1.5 billion, according to multiple sources with knowledge of the company. We have not confirmed the iden...

 Google has a new director at its self-driving car unit: Shaun Stewart, former head of Airbnb’s vacation rentals business, and CEO at TripAdvisor prior to that. Stewart’s entire caree...

 Want to attend the Disrupt SF Hackathon but don’t have a ticket yet? We’re excited to announce the release of a fresh batch of tickets. And this hackathon comes with a twist. For the...

 Rackspace, which is still best known as a hosting company even as it has expanded aggressively into offering services for businesses that use other platforms, went public in 2008. Now, however, ...

 We are often told that starting a startup on your own is madness. There are thousands of articles out there that tell you that and why why you need a co-founder. Probably solid advice, but data ...

 MIT and the Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD) teamed up to create a new kind of structure that can “remember” its original shape, and return to that state even aft...

 FOX Sports GO has now arrived on Apple TV, allowing viewers to watch up to four games at the same time, thanks to an innovative split-screen interface that lets you arrange video feeds side-by-s...

 Startup Battlefield is back. In just a few short weeks, TechCrunch’s premiere startup competition will kick off at Disrupt SF and we’reexcited to announce the judges tasked with dete...

 Sequoia-backed kids educational startupDuckDuckMooseis heading to Khan Academy, to add preschool learning to the non-profit’s digital education offerings. The startup’s 21 mobile app...

 mSurvey, a Kenya based startup specializing in mobile data collection, hasraised seed capital as it looks to expand its survey business in partnership with retailers in sub-Saharan Africa. Safar...

 While many of the ideas of transhumanism are noble, the field is accused of sharing traits with eugenics. I can’t answer the many ethical, moral and existential questions raised by transhu...

 Self-driving cars have a tendency to become more adorable as big tech companies iterate their design, and Baidu’s new modified Chery eQ all-electric test vehicle is no exception. It resemb...

 This year’s Paris motor show will host the unveiling of Volkswagen’s first all-electric car, according to an interview with company chairman Herbert Diess in German magazine Wirstsch...

 Danish startup Spiri believes urban transportation is still massively inefficient, and it’s setting out to tackle the problem from a few different directions. First, it’s building an...

 WhatsApp has started pushing out its new terms and conditions. If you want to opt out of sharing your data with Facebook for ad-targeting and product-related purposes, click through the slides t...

 India-based mobile wallet startup MobiKwik has landed a $40 million strategic investment from Net1, a mobile payment firm specializing in solutions for the unbanked that has been listed on the N...

 When I wrote “it’s game on” afterMondobecame the last of the four British challenger banks to secure a banking license earlier this month, I didn’t think competitor Starl...

 London-based ticketing startup Dice, which sells mobile tickets without booking fees and with a current focus on millennials wanting to discover new bands to go see live, has closed a $6 million...

 Truecaller has landed a partnership with Huawei which will see its caller ID and smart phone book app pre-loaded on the fast-growing Chinese company’s overseas smartphones. Read More ...

WhatsApp is sharing some user data with Facebook, Nutonomy brings self-driving cars to Singapore, Apple is rumored to be working on a Snapchat-type app, True Ventures closes its fifth fund worth $310 ...

 Krstic announced that Apple was launching a bug bounty program, offering $50,000 for zero-day vulnerabilities that allow malicious code exploits in the kernel, among other rewards. The thinking ...

  TechCrunch recently took a trip down to Los Angeles for our meetup and to check in on the growing startup scene there. One of the fast-growing businesses that’s been on our radar is Thriv...

 Insider threats are the biggest cybersecurity threats to firms, organizations and government agencies. This is something you hear a lot at security conference keynotes and read about in data bre...

 Today, NASA tossed a mock-up of their Orion spacecraft with two crash-test dummies sitting inside into a pool to simulate a return-to-Earth splashdown scenario. The test lasted all of about ten ...

 Dropbox is requiring users that have not changed their passwords since mid-2012 to reset their passwords this afternoon.The action appears to be related to continue fallout overthe massive hack ...

 Aconsortium of companies, including DigitalGlobe, CosmiQ Works and NVIDIA, todaylaunched SpaceNet, an open-data initiative aimed at improving image analysis tools. The data are being hosted by A...

 There’s no shortage of portable Bluetooth speakers out there, but lord are a lot of them ugly. What I need is something that will not look amiss sitting on a stump next to me while I hew a...

 WeVideo has rebuilt its browser-based video editor using HTML5 instead of Flash. For many of you, the whole debate about HTML5 versus Flash may seem like a weird flashback to 2010. But Flash is ...

 Technology is creating a new generation of companies that increasingly choose to collaborate as a coordinated ecosystem, even if they have overlapping or competitive offerings. This transparent ...

 You know you screwed up if Apple is about to one-up you on social. Facebook hasn’t upgraded its video editor in well over three years. Lagging far behind Snapchat, YouTube and even Instagr...

 Songkick, which allows you to track the gigs of your favorite music artists and buy tickets to concerts, has raised a further $15 million in funding from Access Industries.Songkick says it now p...

 The Bluetooth workout headphone field is as wide as it is colorful. It’s one that Danish wireless headset maker Jabra has been involved with for some time now, with its simply named Sport ...

 The 2017 Audi A4 has an all-new suite of advanced driver assistance systems, joining Volvo, Honda, Ford and others in making semi-autonomous safety features available in cars we can buy today.Ac...

 AngelList, the onlineplatform that matches startups with early-stage investors, has grown by leaps and bounds since its 2010 founding—and so have its ambitions. In fact,the company, which ...

 Automatic emergency braking systems, or AEB, will be installed in 99% of all new passenger vehicles by 2022. Toyota has promised to have it on all of its vehicles by 2017, and manyvehicles alrea...

 You’ll want to be updating your iOS devices to 9.3.5, the version released today by Apple — especially if you’re a prominent human rights activist. A recently thwarted attack o...

 Garmin has just announced the Fenix Chronos, an amazingly elegant smartwatch with all the features of their standard GPS exercise watches – theVivoactve, for example – with a case an...

 Grabr, the peer-to-peer marketplace that lets anyone become an international shopper, has today announced the close of a $3.5 million seed round led by Alexey Repik from RBV Capital. Kanstantin ...

 Whether you’re clumsilyattemptingto find where your Uber is parked or trying to find your friend at a crowded venue, it’s clear that GPS has somemajor limitations that need to be fix...

 The 11-year-old, early-stage firmTrue Ventures, with offices in San Francisco and Palo Alto, has closed its fifth fund with $310 million, slightly more than the $290 million that the firm raised...

 Looking to waste time with a round of solitaire on your phone? You no longer need a separate app for that – Google today is rolling out a couple of simple games right into its search engin...

 Symphony Commerce, a provider of cloud technology for e-commerce platforms, is raising $11 million to grow its fulfillment business. Charles River Ventures,Blue Cloud Ventures, Bain Capital Vent...

 Dutch hardware startup Mint Solutions has closed a 5 million (~$5.6M) Series B funding round for its pill-scanning device, MedEye, which is designed to reduce bedside errors when patients are gi...

I’m incredibly honored to announceAsh Carter, the sitting U.S. Secretary of Defense, willjoinme for a fireside chat at Disrupt SF 2016. After we chat for a few minutes he will take questions fro...

 New York-based Citymaps, a social mapping application backed by $12 million in venture funding, has been acquired by TripAdvisor, the companies have announced. The service, which serves both as ...

 Facebook-owned messaging giant WhatsApp has announced a big change to its privacy policy which, once a user accepts its new T&Cs, will see it start to share some user data with its parent co...

 JIRA, Atlassian’s flagship project management service, is getting a new feature today that will let you easily convert JIRA tickets into job postings on Upwork’s freelance marketplac...

 Exploring the world is something that’s always been a bit of a luxury for those who can afford to travel, but technology is changing that. With VR and 360-degree videos, you can now immers...

 BuzzFeed has a new chief technology officer — Todd Levy, who was already serving as the vice president of engineering. Levy joined the company through the acquisition of startup Torando La...

 With just a few months left in his term, President Obama is still trying out some cool, new stuff. Through the Ages: President Obama Celebrates America’s National Parks is a virtual realit...

 Connected, autonomous vehicles are around the corner. Many of the most innovative and deep-pocketed companies in the world are racing to bring them to market — and for good reason: the eco...

 Seemingly emboldened by the temporary success of Deliveroo “riders” who held a series of protests in London over proposed changes to the formula by which they are paid, couriers work...

 As an avid non-fisher it’s hard for me to quite grasp the depths of depravity associated with a fishing trip. Waking up at 4am? Swinging a pole at some water? Drinking beers all morning in...

 Shopping for a car? You might want to do your research on Amazon. The ecommerce giant just announced and releasedwww.amazon.com/vehicles that’s as impressive as it is comprehensive. ItR...

 DJI just announced an upgraded version of its lovely Osmo camera. Called the Osmo Plus,this model offers key features not found on the original Osmo such as zoom, motion timelapse and an improve...

 After a failed attempt to go social with Ping in 2010, Apple may have a renewed sense of excitement over the social space, according to a report from Bloomberg. Sources told Bloomberg that Apple...

 WhatsApp will finally take a step to becoming a platform after the Facebook-owned company revealed it will begin to integrate businesses services into its app before the end of this year. Read M...

 WhatsApp will finally take a step to becoming a platform after the Facebook-owned company revealed it will begin to integrate businesses services into its app before the end of this year. Read M...

 Xiaomi’s numbers have been slipping some of late in its native China, but the company’s still announcing handsets at a healthy clip. A month after debutingthe Redmi Pro, a high-end t...

 Productivity focused third party iOS keyboard app ThingThing is hoping to woo fans of the Sunrise calendar by adding a meeting invite feature — following the latter’s kiss-of-death a...

 Here’s a fresh example to show that Twitter, a ten-year-old company that has been public for the last three, retains the propensity to act like a newborn when it comes to its users. Read M...

 One of the most beloved camera series out there, the Canon EOS Mark 5D was due for a refresh. Announced today, Mark IV of the EOS 5D brings a 30.4 megapixel full frame sensor,with 4K video capab...

 It’s a good day for photographers who favor the Fujifilm system. The camera company announced an update to its X-A series mirrorless cameras and solid new lens today. Read More ...

 Uber has taken the plaudits for its audacious plans to deploy driverless cars as soon as this month, but the U.S. giant has been beaten to the punch for actually introducing autonomous vehicles ...

Opera now offers a free VPN to Android users, North Korea Netflix clone is now live, Y Combinator Demo Day 2, YouTube updates its app for TVs, and a VC firm says “Fu*k Trump” on its websit...

 Forget Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump — we need a trust-buster like Teddy Roosevelt, who in 1902 attacked the Northern Securities Company, a railroad holding company led by J.P. Morgan a...

 Wireless interference is one of those things that we tend to not think about, because, well, we can’t see it. But routers are all over the place, sometimes several in a room when you’...

 For years roboticists have been looking into using softer materials for parts rather than the usual metal and plastic — sometimes even building entirely soft robots. But this Octobot from ...

 SigOpt, a company aiming to “optimize everything,” announced today that it has raised $6.6 million in Series A funding. When startups talk about optimization, they often mean trying ...

 Uber drivers are being given the opportunity to save for retirement. The ride-hailing company announced today that drivers in several cities will be offered retirement plans through Betterment, ...

 Serendipity has long been a staple of scientific study, and a new discovery by MIT is no exception. Researchers at the school were trying to build better batteries, but instead found a better wa...

 Hot on the heels of a deal with a self-driving sensor technology startup this month, the automotive giant has backed Zoomcar, a Zipcar-like company that operates in India. Subsidiary Ford Smart ...

 Rats and other whiskered animals use senses that we don’t yet possess. In addition to being able to run mazes and lick our faces to confirm we aren’t covered in BBQ sauce, scientists...

 Gunshot detectors and anti-drone defense topped our list of favorites from the 48 startups that presented atY Combinator Summer 2016 Demo Day 2. We asked investors what wowed them and huddled wi...

 After the close of the bell, technology stalwartHewlett-Packard announced better than expected numbersin their Q3 earnings report. This comes after a relatively flatweekon the public markets for...

 David Lortscher was one of a few dozen people practicing dermatology in New Mexicowhen he realized a huge problem in the field: there weren’t enough dermatologists, and people were skippin...

 While innovations like mobile payments and biometrics may one day change the way we safeguard consumer financial information in the digital age, we cannot neglect the here-and-now of both online...

 Best Buy has provided in-person demonstrations for Oculus Rift basically since there were real Oculus Rift headsets to demonstrate – the retailer announced back in May it would provide dem...

 For the first time, astronomers have discovereda planet orbitingour sun’s nearest neighbor.The newly identified exoplanet(a planet outside our solar system) is officially the closest known...

 Twitter today continues to push forward with its increased emphasis on its messaging feature, with the rollout of a new button for websites that allows visitors to privately message an individua...

 Halo 5: Forge, the level creation tool that lets players build their own worlds and create new game experiences for Halo 5: Guardians, comes to Windows 10 PCs. The free download puts gamers in t...

 The U.S. presidential election is fast approaching, and a growing number of VCs who’ve historically shied from making taking sides publicly, are tweeting,talking with reporters, and bloggi...

 Dyson’s been on something of a product launching roll, of late – hair dryers, robotic vacuums, it’s a diverse portfolio to put it mildly. The latest launch from the company, ho...

 While Pokmon Go is definitely the primary benefactor of its own success, that doesn’t mean it’s hurting its competition in the mobile gaming space. New data from mobile commerce prov...

 If customizedkeyboards for mobile devices are to be the next-gen interface for accessing the wider web – including information you’d normally turn to a search engine to find – ...

 A startup called SelfScore has raised $7.1 million in new venture funding to help bring much-needed financial services to international students at U.S. colleges and universities. SelfScore co-f...

 Genius, the service that lets users add annotations and context to other docs, has today announced the launch of Questions and Answers, or Q+A. Genius originally launched as a rap lyrics data tr...

 China’s got some lofty space plans lined up for the next couple of decades, culminating with a manned moon landing by 2036. Meantime, the country is looking evenfurther out, geographically...

 SkyGiraffe helps enterprises give their employees access to their line-of-business apps and enterprise data from virtually any device. The company today announced that it has raised a $6 million...

 With more people than ever cutting the cord, watching via smart TVs,and turning to streaming media players like Roku and others, YouTube decided it was time to update is TV application to be eas...

 Amazon today announced a new program calledthe Kindle Reading Fund which is aimed at making digital books more easily available worldwide. The Fund will donate a number of Kindle e-readers, Fire...

 VR’s content problem has been baffling more than a fair share of co-founders in the space looking to create experiences or networks in the space. Sliver.tv wants to create the Twitch of VR...

 Chatbots offer the promise of frictionless access to goods, services and information, but creating effective bots can be deceptively tricky. The flip side of the opportunity to interact with use...

 In what amounts to a very detailed and very heartfelt white paper on building and shutting down a business, John Gruber has written about shutting down Vesper, his iOS notes app and syncing serv...

 “Identity-as-a-service” startup Auth0 (pronounced “auth zero”) has raised $15 million in Series B funding.CEO Jon Gelsey said that for many website and mobile app develop...

 In January, GM did something somewhat unusual for a company founded in 1908 – it began a car sharing operation, offering customersa fleet of new vehicles on-demand, for use in exchange for...

 Some days, life just throws you a giggle. Today is one of those days. The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (aka North Korea) has announced a new Netflix-style on-demand streaming serv...

 A fresh chapter of the crypto wars looks to be opening up in Europe, after the French and German interior ministers took to a podium yesterday to lobby for a law change that would enable courts ...

 A San Francisco-based startup called DroneDeploy has raised $20 million in Series B funding to grow their drone data management platform. The drone tech startup closed its Series B deal just bef...

 Attention, startup fans in the U.K. and around the world. While December may seem like a long way away, TechCrunch Disrupt London will be here before you know it, so it’s time to start thi...

 Art filter app sensation Prisma, which has revved up from nothing to an incredible 55 million+ downloads for its iOS and Android apps in just two months this summer, has now added an offline mod...

 Today, Beijing-based PowerVision made itsovoid cameradrone, the PowerEgg, available to international customers viapre-order on the company’s website for$1,288.Customers who pre-order a Pow...

 Stratasys has one of those classic founder stories. According to the company, inventorS. Scott Crump got the bright idea to make a toyfrog for his daughter using a hot glue gun full of plastic a...

 VR makes the mostsense when you don’t have to learn the controls and stuff just works. Today, Leap Motion dropped an early access beta version of their Interaction Engine which makes it ea...

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 The world’s most prestigious startup school launched 48 companies today at part 2 of its Summer 2016 Demo Day. Nanoparticle analytics and delivery robots were amongst the products revealed...

 The past 15 months has created a lot of confusion around where the technology sector is going. I’m constantly being asked by entrepreneurs if the timing is right to start a new business an...

 TechCrunch has a new podcast, and it’s TCBC, a show where I speak to a different writer on staff each week about their beat, the stories they’re following, and the tech news thatR...

 SMS is terrible, yet it’s still the way more than half of video gets shared on mobile. Meanwhile, Facebook is trying to turn everyone into famous broadcasters when most people just to show...

 TableauSoftware‘sshares soared 13 percent on Tuesday following the announcement that the data analytics provider has partnered with Narrative Science, a Chicago-based company that develops...

 The country faces a plethora of issues that affect millions of people every day. Although there has beensome progress as a society around pro-LGBTQ legislation and healthcare, there is a lot lef...

 The FBI is reportedly looking into hacking attempts against U.S. journalists that may have been orchestrated by Russian intelligence services. New York Times journalists were among those targete...

 It’s in the country’s best interests to stay at (or at least near) the forefront of advanced computing techniques, and the National Science Foundation has just put $110 million down ...

 It’s in the country’s best interest to stay at (or at least near) the forefront of advanced computing techniques, and the National Science Foundation has just put $110 million down t...

 CoinTent might be the solution forpublishers worried about the money they’re losing to ad blockers. The San Francisco-based company started with a focus on paywalls, but it’s recentl...

 It can be tough going to the movies as a cybersecurity expert. Films handling the very real issues of internet security and modern computer science are overwhelmingly unrealistic. As we get our ...

 It’s a sign that we’re living in the future when using our own genetic machinery as a form of calculator or storage is nothing new — but make no mistake, it’s still very ...

 Content management systems are boring until you have to use one. You can install a little Drupal or WordPress, pick up some Squarespace, or just dump to Medium, the graveyard for posts about pro...

 Virtual reality is quickly earning a reputation in Hollywood beyond its nerdy niche, with manyindustry professionalsshifting resources and attention to catching this platform wave early.STX Ente...

 EVEN Electric may be based in Ottawa, Ontario, but it has its sights set on selling electric vehicles from multiple brands worldwide. The sales and distribution network — not a dealership ...

 The joy that comes fromlistening to music with friends is something that’s been around ever since…well, ever since music. But today, thanks to digital services that let you listen an...

 What’s really going on at Hyperloop One – the futuristic transportation system proposing to shoot humans from point A to B at 750 miles-per-hour? The startup changed its name from Hy...

 Tesla has a new, larger battery option for the Model S and Model X line of electric vehicles, which includes an improved Ludicrous Mode that boasts a 2.5 second 0-60 mph time on the Model S, whi...

 One of the few new top-level domains that actually makes sense, .blog, is starting the process of registration. Automattic, which runs WordPress and a number of other useful web apps, owns .blog...

 PlaySation Now, the all-you-can game subscription service that provides access to classic PlayStation titles on-demand, is making its way to Windows PCs, starting now in Europe and rolling out s...

 As the venture funding landscape continues to flourish, entrepreneurs who want to build a sustainable business should proceed with caution before heading down the VC path. As a veteran in the st...

 Disrupt SF 2016 is right around the corner, and soon thousands of the best and brightest entrepreneurs and tech enthusiasts will make their way to San Francisco’s Pier 48 for the show.But ...

 One user’s bloatware is another’s feature. And really, depending on where you fall on Microsoft productivity software, this could go either way, really. Lenovo announced today that i...

 A controversial data-sharing agreement between Google-owned AI company DeepMind and the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) has caught the eye of the National Data Guardian — the gove...

 Google today announced two major changes related to its mobile search results. The one you’ll probably notice first is that Google is removing the “mobile-friendly” label that ...

 Comcast entered the cord cutting fray last fall with the launch of its online and mobile streaming service Watchable, which offered a variety of videos from popular websites like VICE and Vox, i...

 In-flight VR entertainment and security guard drones were amongst our favorites from the44 startups that launched at Y Combinator’s Summer 2016 Demo Day 1. After querying investors and our...

 Pinterest said today that it would be acquiring the team behind Instapaper, which will continue operating as a separate app. The Instapaper team will both work on the core Pinterest experience a...

 We first covered Remind back in 2011, when it launched as a way for K-12 teachers to broadcast communications to a classroom full of parents. But over the past 5 years the company has ...

 Google is set to launch Daydream VR sometime “in the coming weeks,” according to Bloomberg, after laying the groundwork for its launch with the official debut of Android 7.0 this wee...

 Half a year after debuting a prototype at CES, Parrot’s finally ready to show off the final version of its next radical entry in the rapidly expanding drone space. The Disco marks a noted ...

 Something meets boy, and something meets girl and they both look the same and they’re overjoyed in this world. But how much more overjoyed would they be if they could on a Skeletonized And...

 Elon Musk is going to unveil some Tesla product news at noon PT (3 PM ET) today, and the market is liking the potential, despite the CEO not providing any details. Share price for Tesla is up ov...

 Researchers at MIT’s CSAIL research lab might help future network hardware better keep pace with ever-increasing network data demands. Where typical network router hardware directing traff...

 Facebook today is rolling out a number of improvements to its “Slideshow” ads, announced last fall as a means of offering an alternative to video ads in developing markets where band...

 At Harvard Business School, students pay top dollar to learn everything from how to manage international trade to scaling technology ventures. They’re also schooled in the art of venture c...

 Project management service Trello today announce that its Power-Ups, which are essentially third-party integrations, are now available to all of its users, including those who are onthe service&...

 Karmic Bikes today began accepting pre-orders for their newest model, the Karmic Kyoto, a “pedelec” (or pedal electric bike) designed for women.The upright street bike features a 500...

 Content marketing company ScribbleLive announced today that it has acquired Linkdex. In a blog post, ScribbleLive’s Geoffrey Gualano said the deal will combine his company’s content ...

 Slice, a company best known to consumers for its mobile shopping assistant that helps you find the best deals, track packages, organize your receipts, and more, is out today with a new service a...

 Centricient, a new customer service messaging management toolkit, is throwing its hat into the increasingly crowded market of companies competing to helpbusinesses transition to using messaging ...

 Mobileye, a key supplier of components like image processing and computer vision systems for automakers, announced a partnership with self-driving software and hardwareprovider Delphi today to b...

 The rise in consumer usage of ad blockers is leading to a few creative alternatives to try to achieve a ‘better relationship’ between ad tech and web browsers. To wit Russia’s ...

 We are the Uber of our industry, applying curated, user-generated gamification to the sharing economy. That’s pretty much it. That’s the sentence you’d craft if you’re lo...

 Coda Payments, one company that helps simplify the complexity of alternative payments in Southeast Asia, has raised $2 million in new funding. Read More ...

 Faraday Future is driving a camouflaged version of a real upcoming production EV in LA, according to Electrek. The site reports that a candid shot of a covered-up SUV is actually a test vehicle ...

 CrunchBase, the database of startups, announced today the launch of its iOS app. The app allows users to look up information about companies, acquisitions, investors, funding rounds and business...

 Bitfinder, the company behind the Awair air quality monitor, has today announced the close of a $4.5 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Altos Ventures, with participation from ...

 Bitfinder, the company behind the Awair air quality monitor, has today announced the close of a $4.5 million Series A funding round. The round was led by Altos Ventures, with participation from ...

 Amazon wants to do what it does best, selling subscriptions with a competition-beating value prop. This time around, it hopes to provide a subscription music streaming service for $4 or $5 per m...

NGINX, the company behind the popular open-source NGINX server, launched the latest version (R10) of its NGINX Plus commercial offering today. Like similar open-source companies, NGINX offers its core...

 It’s every founder’s dream: you launch a product, and by the next day it’s a worldwide phenomenon. But it’s never quite that simple.For most people, Pokemon Go came out o...

 Walk through a bookstore and you can see $5.99 paperbacks along one wall and omg-how-much? college textbooks along the other. E-textbook company RedShelf today announced it raised a $4 million S...

 Earlier this year, Opera launched its free and unlimited VPN service for iOS; today it is bringing the same functionality to Android. Like the iOS version, the Android app is based on Opera̵...

 As entertaining and interesting as made-for-TV lawsuits (like the O.J trial)are, they always leave out one key element. The hundreds of hours of research that goes on behind the scenes to prepar...

 Shopify is launching its retail hardware and point-of-sale app for merchants in the UK. The reader supports tap, chip and swipe payments, letting retailers accept both contactless and traditiona...

 Mozilla has invested in Cliqz, an anti-tracking browser with a pro-privacy built-in ‘quick search’ feature. The startup currently targets web users in German speaking countries ̵...

 Less than two weeks after raising a fresh round of $25 million, FullContact has opened its checkbook to snap up India-based startup Profoundis in an undisclosed deal. Read More ...

 Not content with letting you 3D print your images on demand, Scandy is today launching a beta program for its $500 device to make it easy to scan objects in 3D, all from your Android device. The...

 Journi, a Vienna, Austria-based startup that offers a travel journal app for iOS and Android, has raised 400,000 in seed funding, having been largely bootstrapped since launching around a year a...

 Innovations in 3D printing have done their part to inspire maker-culture. We print, or at-least try to print, drones, human organs, and even medications. Additive techniques are practical and ac...

Linux is about to celebrate its 25th birthday, Apple has acquired Gliimpse, Media.net was acquired for $900 million, Kobe Bryant is starting a $100 million fund with Jeff Stibel, and Android Nougat is...

 Farm drones, autonomous security guards and next-generation tampons were among the products presented at today’s Y Combinator startup accelerator Summer 2016 Demo Day 1. YC’sincrease...

 There are two things that pop into my head when I hear Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus. The first is “are they are still around?” And the second is “I really hope t...

 Coder or not, at one point or another you’ve thought of tackling web design. Or mobile app development. Or database querying. Or something else from the evolving list of savvy, modern lang...

 After attempting to regain contact for nearly two years, NASA has finally reestablished communications with the sun-studying satellite, STEREO-B. At 6:27 p.m. ET, NASA received a downlink signal...

 Pax Labs, the folks responsible for the Ploom and the Juul and the Pax loose-leaf vaporizer, have today announced some leadership changes. Former Deezer CEO Tyler Goldman will be taking over as ...

 A study from Carnegie Mellon University and subsequent analysis by the Information Technology & Innovation Foundation indicate that the U.K.’s blockage of more than 50 websites was ind...

 Allstate is on a mission to vertically develop its telematics expertise and find new sources of revenue across different sectors by launching a new standalone unit called Arity (dedicated to dat...

 Banks win when the poor lose. Credit cards can trap people in debt and bleed them dry with late fees. But it’s this exploitative experience that makes banks vulnerable to fintech startups ...

 Apple has just dropped the 7th developer beta for macOS Sierra, along with the macOS Sierra Public Beta 6, for other early adopters of the newversion of the Mac operating system first shown off ...

 Linux will turn 25 years old on August 25, the day Linus Torvalds sent out his fateful message asking for help with a new operating system. “I’m doing a (free) operating system (just...

 A startup called Proxy has raised $1.6 million in seed funding to help people use internet-enabled devices of every kind without all the annoying login processes and standalone apps for each sep...

 While we all know the best business cards are printed on bone paper with lettering in Silian Rail, the second best business cards are the ones you roll yourself right in front of your intended r...

 Amazon’s same-day delivery service Prime Now, which is today available in more than a couple of dozen U.S. metros, is experimenting with another type of service that goes beyond traditiona...

 Google surprised everyone when it launched a public beta of the Android Nougat back in March.Annual updates are nothing new for Android, butnot only did thisannouncement come very early, it also...

 Chinese smartphone manufacturers are very much on the ascent, but it’s been a pretty mixed bag.Some have offered some trulyexciting hardware to market (read: Nexus 6P) and others, well, no...

 Twitter is rolling out night mode to users of its official iOS app, the company announced today. Night mode turns Twitter’s dark-text-on-light-background interface upside down, giving a da...

 Microsoft has quietly released a new productivity application to both Google Play and the iTunes App Store called Project Sonoma. The app is aimed at those who work outside of a traditional offi...

 The Analogue Nt mini isn’t an NES – it’s better. The third-party system created by designer Christopher Taber is a work of art in its own right, crafted from a solid piece of a...

 We’re excited to announce the full agenda for TechCrunch Disrupt SF. The show runs from September 10-14 and is returning to the wonderful Pier 48 venue. General admission tickets and exhib...

 When Newsela was created in 2012, the edtech startup aimed to help students master reading at their own pace, specifically with news articles adapted to different reading levels. The companyR...

 Researchers at MIT’s Self-Assembly Lab have stepped up their game from an Ikea-like chair that can put itself together: the team built a working cell phone that’s self-building, Fast...

 Things have been rough going on the home front for Xiaomi of late. According to numbers posted by IDC last week, the Chinese smartphone maker’s marketshare has slipped considerably on its ...

 Microsoft has picked up another productivity app — announcing the acquisition of AI-powered scheduling tool Genee. In a blog post today the software giant said it will be plugging Genee in...

 Microsoft announced today that it acquired Genee, an AI-powered scheduling assistant bot that specializes in planning meetings for large groups or when organizers don’t have direct access ...

 Talk about being at the right place and at the right time. Following revelations of governmentspying, data breaches, malicious hacking, identity theft and other online threats, the email and fil...

 Sony’s XAV-AX100 in-dash car stereo system might be the best way to get your hands on Android Auto or CarPlay without plonking down a fortune for a new car. The new receivers will retail f...

 Startups like Eero and Luma have built entire companieson betting that your home WiFi situation just flat out sucks. But why look to address dead spots after the the fact when you can cut the pr...

 AppFormixhelps enterprises, including the likes of Rackspace and its customers, monitor and optimize their OpenStack- and container-based clouds. The company today announced that it has also now...

 AppFormixhelps enterprises, including the likes of Rackspace and its customers, monitor and optimize their OpenStack- and container-based clouds. The company today announced that it has also now...

 Apple has reportedly acquired health data startup Gliimpse, a company that collects and combines disparate threads of personal health info. Fast Company reports that the acquisition went down ea...

 Samsung is looking to sell its own refurbished devices in order to make money on its premium smartphones a second time around, according to Reuters. The company will introduce a refurbished devi...

 Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, anearly four-year-old, seed-stage venture firm that’s solely run by founder andgeneral partner, Charlie O’Donnell, just closed its second fundwith$15 millio...

 The flowof Chinese capital into foreignad-tech companiesincreased this morning with the acquisition of Media.net for $900 million USD. A consortium will be paying cash for the startup with key o...

 A startup called SmartSite has released hardware and cloud-based software to help the construction industry track what their employees are exposed to and take measures to protect them from harm....

 Aptonomy Inc.has developeddrone technology that could make prison breaks, robberies ormalicious intrusionsof any kind impossible for mere mortals. Dubbing it a kind of “flying security gua...

 Samsung will close its U.S. mobile music service — Milk Music — next month. Read More ...

 Disrupt London 2016 is fast approaching, and we’re thrilled to announce that we all had such a great time last year that this year’s show is returning to the fabulous Copper Box Aren...

 Shooting hoops and writing checks might not seem to have too much in common, but this is the road that Bryant is taking following his retirement from basketball. Read More ...

 Sony will reportedly unveil two new versions of the PlayStation 4 at its upcoming New York press event on September 7. Read More ...

 Whether designing a software or hardware product, you focus on a few key principles: What you’re creating should be easy to use, elegant and intuitive. How does this differ, then, when you...

 As the Rio Games draw to a closeandthe competing athletes packup, leaving the Brazilian metropolis behind, theInternational Olympic Committee (IOC)is already hard at work laying the foundation f...

 For presidential nominee Donald Trump, the importance of articulating a vision for the tech industry seems to be lost. While nominee Hillary Clinton released a comprehensive technology policy pl...

 The traditional Silicon Valley view is that innovation happens in spite rather than because of government. But according to Accenture Senior Director of Strategy, Anand Shah, government does hav...

 Self-driving cars may never reach accessible autonomy and might only be an add-on feature. It is very likely that the driver will still be liable for the actions of their vehicles. This means th...

 Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are progressing technology in the trucking industry and helping to pave the path to fully autonomous trucks. Read More ...

 The movement of capital around the globe is of paramount importance to an increasingly globalized society. As companies, workers and jobs become more fluid across permeable borders, it will beco...

 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, August 19, 2016. The Gang goes mobile as in cars, autocurated Twitter not...

 Carbon nanotubes are one of thosesupermaterials — a cylinder with a diameter of one or two nanometers — that are full of dreamy applications, ranging from supercomputers to ultra-eff...

 Is virtual reality porn merely an example of an industry — already known for early adoption of new tech — extending its market reach, or could the growing sophistication of the onlin...

 Every so often, I find myself forced to use the Web on a browser without uBlock or an equivalent; and every time, I think to myself “How do people live like this?” The un-ad-blocked ...

 The Securities and Exchange Commission has opened a preliminary inquiry into Hampton Creek after it was accused of running a secret project to buy up its own mayonnaise product from stores. Bloo...

SolidEnergy, a startup out of MIT, is working on the next generation of Lithium batteries, Pandora is looking to launch on-demand music streaming, Samsung Drops the Galaxy Note 7 in 10 countries, Raku...

 We recently saw two critical developments in the big data and analytics space. Tableau released earnings and missed their forecast by $0.05; their stock dropped 5 percent. Then Hortonworks annou...

 Well, that was fast. Less than five months ago, Lyft launched a Carpool feature for people commutingoutside of San Francisco city limits. The idea was that people would pick up passengers on the...

 Most of the companies raising fundingin the VR space right now are focused on entertaining potential consumers. Perhaps getting less attention are the companies jockeying to provide cool solutio...

 Access to credit and establishing a credit history aren’t a luxury for people living in the US, they’re a necessity. A credit score is required to rent most apartments, get credit ca...

 A group calling itselfthe ShadowBrokers dumped data online last weekend that it claimed to have stolen from a hacking team widely believed to be linked to the NSA. The data contained vulnerabili...

 MeQ Inc., the company behindEvenearphones, the tunable earbuds that adjust to users’ unique hearing abilities,has raised $2 million as it looks to expand its business.Financing came from i...

 “What if I figured out a way to take Facebook from 2004 and bring it to 2016? What if every field in your profile was a full video?” asks Facebook’s 19-year-old product prodigy...

 Transgender and gender non-conforming people are at risk of injustice and discrimination ineducation, housing, health care, public accommodations and employment.As a result of such widespread di...

 “What if I figured out a way to take Facebook from 2004 and bring it to 2016? What if every field in your profile was a full video” asks Facebook’s 19-year old product prodigy ...

 “What if I figured out a way to take Facebook from 2004 and bring it to 2016? What if every field in your profile was a full video” asks Facebook’s 19-year old product prodigy ...

 First, if you’re using Chrome apps on Windows, Mac or Linux, I’m sorry for your loss. Second, please take some solace in the fact that you really were one of a kind. As Google noted ...

 First, if you’re using Chrome apps on Windows, Mac or Linux, I’m sorry for your loss. Second, please take some solace in the fact that you really were one of a kind. As Google noted ...

 Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today.Our live chat stream during the show broadcastGillmo...

 Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today.Our live chat stream during the show broadcastGillmo...

 Want to sit in judgement of original content and decide its fate? Now’s your chance – Amazon’s latest slate of original TV show pilots is available for streaming, and it includ...

 It’s the 50th anniversary of the International Photography Hall of Fame, a museum and foundation in St Louis, and among the inductees this year are some real whoppers. Annie Leibowitz, Ern...

 It’s the 50th anniversary of the International Photography Hall of Fame, a museum and foundation in St. Louis, and among the inductees this year are some real whoppers: Annie Leibovitz, Er...

 What’s in a name? When it comes in the form of a password, everything. The password has long been the safeguard — and in many cases, the only one — to protect our online identi...

 Apple’s new iPad app Swift Playgrounds is popularizing the idea of learning to code on mobile devices, not desktop computers. But its focus is only on teaching kids to code in Swift. A new...

 Yeah, you could pick up TekServe’s 35-piece Mac museum (now $29,000), but can you really call yourself an Apple fan if you don’t own an Apple-1? That earliest of Apple paraphernalia ...

 The Pokmon Company, what is going on right now. How is it possible that one of the new pocketable monsters you created for Pokmon Sun/Moon is actually a pile of sand?? Look: What are you doing t...

 The UK government’s independent reviewer of terrorism legislation has supported the inclusion of bulk collection powers contained within the controversial Investigatory Powers bill. Read M...

 Apple keeps releasing new iOS 10 beta ahead of the final iOS 10.0 release in September. The company just issued the seventh beta for both developers and public beta testers — public beta&#...

 Look out phone scammers. Alphabet, Apple, AT&T, Comcast, Samsung and Microsoft are coming for you. The big names are among 30 tech companies that have joined up to form the Robocall! Strike!...

 What does the future of Cadillac look like? The Escala, the company’s new concept car, holds the answers. The Escala is on show publicly for the first time at the Pebble Beach Concours d&#...

 Many of today’s fashion applications are targeted toward women, but a new appfrom Looklive wantsto help men look great, too, without needing to be a fashion expert. Instead, the company &#...

 Soon cars, drones, phones, and almost anything with a battery are about to get a boost from a new MIT spin-out,SolidEnergy Systems. The company promises to double the battery life of basic lithi...

 When it comes to open-source licenses, developers have their fair share of choices (GPL, BSD, MIT, Apache, etc.), all of them with their own pros and cons. The same goes for commercial licenses....

 It’s no secret, I love Markdown. But when it comes to collaborating with someone, Google Docs, Quip, Pages on iCloud.com and Word on Office.com are all rich-text editors. Meet Canvas, a re...

 AOL CEO Tim Armstrong is no stranger to the stage at Disrupt, but his job’s gotten a lot bigger in recent months with the acquisition of Yahoo. So Armstrong will be with us again at Disrup...

 The old-fashioned structure of traditional healthcare has led to poor quality, low availability and efficiency, especially in primary healthcare. The answer may be to sweep that away and build p...

 This week, Uber revealed imminent plans to get passengers into self-driving cars, Gawker died, Snapchat made a big acquisition and an early stage SF venture firm may be imploding. Get the Weekly...

Accelerators have been all the rage for the last 10 years in tech, but VC funds tend not to launch them in addition to their normal investment strategy. London-based Octopus Ventures is however taking...

 What did you do this summer? A few outdoor concerts, maybe some grilling. But did you complete a room-sized 40,000 transistor CPU made entirely by hand? Didn’t think so. James Newman wante...

 In-vehicle infotainment systems on newer cars increasingly offer access to your favorite media and navigation apps, thanks to systems like CarPlay and Android Auto, but older cars from even just...

 Muchhas been written about Brazil during the Rio Olympics. But one facet of the country that’s relatively unknown to foreigners is how nine percent the population – or the roughly17 ...

 It’s finally here. After four years without a new album and a few weeks of cryptic teasing, Frank Ocean has finally released… well, something. In the same vein as Beyonce’s Lem...

 Okay, you’ve procrastinated long enough, startup fans. If you somehow haven’t yet gotten your tickets to the hottest startup show in the Bay Area, today is the day to do it. It’...

 India continues to be one of the rare growth markets in the global smartphone industry after lodging a 17 percent year-on-year increase in shipments in the second quarter of 2016, according to a...

 Dyson’s 360 Eye robot vacuum has been a long time coming to U.S. carpets. The squat little cylinder of a bot first broke cover in September 2014, with a splashy product announcement and a ...

 Amazon is rolling out a new way for businesses to use its cloud-based virtual desktop service, Amazon WorkSpaces: insteadof paying monthly for access to an always-on WorkSpace you can connect to...

 There’s more than one way to monetize your online video content. Sure, you can go the old fashioned route, making ads and clicks and such — but just wait until your preferred platfor...

 London-based GuestReady officially opened its doors this week, launching its service in six cities: London, Paris, Amsterdam, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, and Hong Kong. The idea is simple, provide ...

 Technology is quickly redefining what it means to be human. There is no denying that we are considerably different from the people who came before us, not only in that we successfully wield tech...

 After years of resistance, it looks like Pandora is about ready to jump on the on-demand streaming wagon. According to a report from the WSJ, Pandora is in the process of signing deals with reco...

 And if you’ve been eyeing one, go ahead and pull the trigger. It’s a really great phone. Assuming, of course, that you’ve got, you know, $800+ burning a hole in your pocket. Th...

 NASA astronauts are venturing out into space to install a component key to the future of commercial crew mission. The International Space Station is getting a new dock, which will be used in 201...

 Foodpanda, the food delivery startup backed by Rocket Internet, is selling its operations in Indonesia and evaluating its presence in the rest of Southeast Asia as part of a push towards profita...

 The team beyond Ticwatch 2, the Chinese smartwatch project that has crossed $1.5 million on Kickstarter, has clarified the apps and services its wearable device will initially support. Read More...

Listen up, startups in the U.K. and around the world. Disrupt London 2016 is right around the corner, and we’re happy to announce that tickets to display your company in Startup and Hardware all...

 Rakuten has confirmed that it has acquired the assets of Bitnet, a bitcoin wallet startup it invested in, which will be used to create a ‘bitcoin lab’ for the Japanese retail giant. ...

Uber’s self-driving cars start driving this month in Pittsburgh, Rothenberg Ventures might be in some financial trouble, Twitter increases its efforts to remove terror propaganda, CNN adds drone...

 Fitbit is facing a class-action lawsuit regarding the accuracy of their heart-rate data, which have been shown to be inaccurate by a margin of up to 20 beats per minute. This news risks sending ...

 The range of benefits that Silicon Valley companies offer employees may vary fromdental, vision and 401(k) all the way to yoga massages, car washes and beauty services. With tech giants like Fac...

 Heap announced today that it has raised $11 million in Series A funding. We’ve written about the company’s “capture everything” approach to analytics before — it ai...

 I’ve lived through a lot of liveblogs in my life, mostly by the skin of my teeth, desperately watching as my battery ticks down, hoping desperately that the company is nearing the finish l...

 Nintendo had a very good month in mobile gaming, according to NPD Group’s latest data. The 3DS won in both hardware and software sales for the analyst firm’s latest tracker report, w...

 Aftermarket EV charging company Evatran is almost ready to start shipping its Plugless wireless charging aftermarket solution to Tesla Model S owners who pre-ordered the product, and a new video...

 Microsoft is making it easier for Mac users to ditch Evernote in favor of OneNote, its rival note-taking app, and a part of the Microsoft Office suite. The company has today released a new appca...

 Uber’s self-driving cars will hit the road this month, earlier than anticipated. That’s an exciting surprise…unless of course you’re a driver. They won’t be the onl...

 In 2009, I went to what was probably the saddest auto show Detroit has ever seen. It was the January after the economy collapsed and auto makers were teetering on the edge of going bust. But the...

 We reported yesterday that several high-level employees had parted ways withRothenberg, including its director of finance and the head of its SF office, who happen to be father and son (Tom and ...

 Greylock Talent Partner Dan Portillo sat down with Twitter Head of Revenue Engineering Wade Chambers to outline the best interview process to attract and retain talent. Read More ...

 Amazon’s Alexa skill set continues to grow, and owners of the Genesis G80 and G90 from Hyundai’s standalone luxury car brand are the latest to benefit. Genesis now uses lets Amazon E...

 Drones have the potential to revolutionize our lives in many ways. However, some people have concerns. In the case of drone technology, one we hear often is the possible invasion of privacy. Aft...

 Dexter, the betaworks-backed company that helps people build integration-based apps, has today announced the close of a $2.3 million seed round. The funding round was led by Rakuten Ventures, wi...

 While the fate of Gawker is still unclear – last-minute Hail Mary media saves are the norm when it comes to online properties (even if it doesgut the site) – what is clear is that Ga...

 Google today announced that it plans to set up a new space for developers and startupsat 301 Howard Street in San Francisco, just a few blocks from its main San Francisco office on SpearStreet. ...

 Every week it seems like another retailer, bank, or technology company launches amobile payments solution. Apple Pay, Android Pay, CVS Pay, Walmart Pay…Pre Pay…Over Pay…Tai Pay...

 Twitter just unveiled a new feature that will let everyone filter low quality notifications from bots and spammers. Twitter has had bullying issues in the past, and the company is now taking act...

 Score another win for CRISPR. Scientists at MIT are using the ever-intriguing genome-editing system to engineer human cells capable of recording and reporting the intensity and duration past eve...

 Coding bootcamps can be quite costly. In order to combat that, the U.S. Department of Education has launched a new experimental initiativein partnership with colleges and universities to enable ...

 French startup Whyd started off as a social network for music lovers but recently announced that it would switch its focus for a hardware project. The company just unveiled this secret hardware ...

 CNN has been using drones to gather video for a some time now, having employed aerial vehicles to cover such recent key stories as the Flint water crisis and the floods that ravaged Louisiana. U...

 Gawker.com, pioneering web publication and the brainchild of Nick Denton, will be shut down as of next week, according to Gawker itself. The closure of the site comes after Univision’s win...

 Before there were Apple Stores in Williamsburg, Grand Central Station and the World Trade Center – heck, before there were Apple Stores at all – there was Tekserve. For nearly 30 yea...

 Over the last year, Twitter has been suspendingaccounts for promoting terrorism. The social network had already made it public that 125,000 accounts were suspended between mid-2015 and early 201...

 Dish Network’s Sling TV has so far offered a different way for cord cutters to subscribe to the “best of TV” via its onlinestreaming TV service. However, that hasn’t incl...

 John Maeda is leaving VC firm KPCB where he was a design partner to join Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and a bunch of other things. Maeda will have a long, elaborate title at Auto...

A couple of times a week for about 3-5 hours, Sam Triplett sits in his abode in China, opens a live-streaming app called Huajiao and talks about anything and everything, prompted mostly by commenters ...

 Every day, billions of pieces of content are shared on Facebook. To keep up with the data, Facebook has been using a variety of tools to classify text. Traditional methods of classification, lik...

 IT monitoring specialist ScienceLogictoday announced that it has acquired AppFirst, a service to give IT admins deeper visibility in what apps and services run across a company’s servers, ...

 We’ve extended the deadline once, but it won’t be happening again. Tomorrow is your last chance to score early bird tickets to Disrupt SF 2016 for the super-low price of $1,995 each,...

 Microsoft today announced that it is open sourcing PowerShell and bringing it to Linux and OS X. PowerShell is Microsoft’s command line shell for Windows power users, as well as an extensi...

 After struggling to find a sustainablebusiness model and sizable user base, The New York Times today announced it will shut down its news summary application NYT Now. The publisher claims that t...

 The name “MiniStudio” should give you a pretty clear idea of what you’re in for with Tascam’s new offerings. The two devices are essentially little boards designed to rec...

 Redbooth, makers of project managementand collaboration software, announced a new Apple TV app today that brings their service directly to Apple TV. We mostly think of Apple TV as a consumer dev...

 Spotify’s first original videos, a music cartoon series called “Deconstructed,” may have been something of a dud, but don’t count out Spotify’s entire lineup of ori...

 NASA is giving us some more insight into its plans to get humans to Mars, under the blanket mission called ‘Journey to Mars,’ and during the press conference, NASADeputy Associate Ad...

 Google has detailed a slew of updates over at its Developers Blog aimed at making Street View rendering less crummy, courtesy of some tweaks to the Maps JavaScript API. Among the resulting impro...

 Human’s team will join Mapbox and work on Mapbox’s mobile SDK and real-time maps. I’ve covered Human quite a few times over the years. It’s a well-designed fitness app th...

 In Atlassian‘s view, video is the next battlefield in the enterprise chat wars (a war it is mostly fighting with Slack, it seems). Its HipChat groupmessaging app launched one-on-one video ...

 Facebook may try to compete with Steam, or at least win back revenue lost when casual gaming shifted to mobile. Today Facebook formally announced it’s working with game engine Unity to bui...

 Facebook may try to compete with Steam, or at least win back revenue lost when casual gaming shifted to mobile. Today Facebook formally announced it’s working with game engine Unity to bui...

 Turns out, most people aren’t all that into their day jobs. According to a study performed by Wakefield Research, around 75 percent of 2,000 respondents said they are unfulfilled by their ...

 The internet is all about sharing information, but for the more than 285 million people around the world who are visually impaired, browsing the ‘net can be a less than fruitful experience...

 From single-player, 16-bit 2D arcade games to free-to-play online multi-player games, the gaming industry has come a long way in the last decade. We can only watch with awe as newer games surpri...

 Wannabe ad industry nemesis Shine has chalked up another telco to commit to deploying its mobile ad blocking technology which uses deep packet inspection to detect and eject ads at the network l...

 In an age dominated by short attention spans, Boston Dynamics has managed to capture our imaginations time and again through sometimes frightening, sometimes adorable and always fascinating robo...

 Part of the arrangement that will bring self-driving Uber on-demand vehicles to Pittsburgh roads by the end of this year will also help Volvo bring its own self-driving cars, for use as either p...

 Uber revealedtoday that it would put self-driving Volvo SUVs on the road in Pittsburgh, picking up actual passengers, with a driver on board only to make sure everything goes smoothly. It’...

 Uber is making yet another big push in the self-driving car space. In addition to launching self-driving rides in Pittsburgh with the help of Volvo, the company is acquiring Otto and its all-sta...

 In an interview with Bloomberg, CEO Travis Kalanick revealed that the company is preparing to introduce self-driving cars to its fleet of drivers in Pittsburgh this month. The company will deplo...

 What growth there is left in the smartphone market continues to center on emerging markets where consumers are upgrading from feature phones. Read More ...

 One of the few remaining universal truths is that healthcare costs are too high. Insurance companies are bucking under the pressure from the Affordable Care Act (ACA), and they are willing to tr...

 Nokia has reduced the price of its high end VR camera Ozo by $15,000. The new global price-tag for the teardrop-shaped device, which captures 360 spherical video and 360360 surround sound to cre...

 Many speculated that India is the next battleground for Uber after it agreed to sell its China business last month, and the U.S. company certainly does seem to be increasing its focus on India a...

 Meesho is a Shopify for mobile that targets the many thousands small business that rely on WhatsApp for sales and marketing. Read More ...

An interview with TC’s cybersecurity reporter Kate Conger about the NSA hack, Instagram brings us concerts and sporting events, Casper now offers dog beds for delivery, Amazon has a curated stor...

 While most kids their age are glued to various digital devices, often wasting hours playing mindless games or watching cat videos, 164 fourth and fifth graders, along with eight elementary schoo...

 Reigns is a new gaming app, currently featured as a favorite by Apple. You are a king and the answer to whether you live or die — and how — is in the cards. Quite literally. As ruler...

 It’s a magical world we live in, people. Where once our brilliant crayon drawings were condemned to live forever two-dimensionally on a piece of dog-eared construction paper, now they can ...

 In a blog post,Coursera co-founderDaphne Koller announced she is leaving the company to join Alphabet subsidiary Calico. Koller founded Coursera withAndrew Ng back in 2012 after working together...

 Part of YC’s Winter 2015 class, Instavest is a startup trying to turn investing — an activity most of us are used to doing privately — into a social activity. The sitelaunched ...

 Blockai is supposed to help photographers and artists defend their intellectual property. Now it’s launching a new feature to make that process easier — or at least better-integrated...

 There’ve been quite a few “clean” vitamin and supplement startups popping up lately —Olly, Ritual, ElysiumHealth,Nootrobox are just a few of the venture-backed chosen in ...

 There have been quite a few “clean” vitamin and supplement startups popping up lately —Olly, Ritual, ElysiumHealthandNootrobox are just a few of the venture-backed chosen in th...

 A group calling itself the Shadow Brokers dumped data online this weekend that it claimed to have stolen from the Equation Group, a hacking team widely believed to be associated with the NSA. Fi...

 If we’re ever to have things like smart contact lenses and permanent brain implants, one of the things we need to figure out is the power problem. Those devices need energy for collecting,...

 The most recent numbers out of analyst firm IDC show a major shakeup in the Chinese smartphone market for Q2. During an especially rough quarter, local handset maker Xiaomi’s shipment dipp...

 The hit cybersecurity-focused TV show “Mr. Robot,” a psychological thriller popular among the tech crowd for its relatively accurate portrayal of hacking, is now a mobile game. Relea...

 We caught wind earlier this week that Cisco was planning a major cost-cutting operation to reduce its costs by around 15% throughout the month. It looks like the first stage of that is a round o...

 Ford might be looking to put self-driving cars into service for on-demand taxi scenarios by 2021, but that’s thinking small by Airbus standards – the aircraft manufacturer wants to m...

 The latest move by McDonalds to distance itself from its enduring image as a greasy, unhealthy fast food apocalypse is once sure to please fitness-conscious parents: for a limited time, every Ha...

 Mathias Biilmann— a former CTO of a firm that built websites for small businesses— says developers have gotten so used to using Github as a central workflow, they expect the entire r...

 Mathias Biilmann— a former CTO of a firm that built websites for small businesses— says developers have gotten so used to using Github as a central workflow, they expect the entire r...

 Pretty soon, there will be a Marvel universe version of every kind of content, and the next genre up for inclusion is the teen drama. Hulu has placed an order for an adaptation of Runaways, the ...

 One of the things I really love about working with startup founders is that they are by nature an optimistic crowd: They set out to build amazing things, change the world and fundamentally shift...

 Make way for robot! Two driverless buses will be hitting the streets in Helsinki for some real-world testing for the next month or so. The EasyMile minibuses have previously been tested on publi...

 Smart home technology offers a lot of potential to make things generally easier, but in practice, it can add a lot of complexity and confusion to a person’s life – especially if you ...

 A Master’s Thesis by CMU’s Simon Kalouche posits a new form of robotic leg, one designed for maximum range of motion and, more importantly, an easily control method for force reducti...

 Warning: don’t look at these photos before going to bed. Read More ...

 Come for the Pokmon Go AR, stay for the muzak Pokmon show theme: Gesture control startup Gestigon has created their very first mixed reality experience you can control with your own hands, and t...

 Over the past year Instagram has been working to reinvigorate the Explore tab, which is the app’splace for showing you personalized content. What started as a simple algorithm to determine...

 Netflix and an Enseo, the makers of an in-room entertainment platform for the hospitality industry, today announced an expanded agreement that will see the Netflix app offered in more hotel room...

 While it seems like a new food delivery business launches or gets funded every season in the U.S., several have scaled back, like Sprig, or shut down entirely like Spoonrocket. Among those that ...

 The meme of the moment is here and it’s pretty creepy. As our ownRomain Dillet points out the title artistry for the Netflix series Stranger Things is surprisingly beautiful and compelling...

 Wheelys Caf just raised a large chunk of equity funding on Swedish crowdfunding platform FundedByMe to expand to more countries and pour gas on its already explosive growth around the world. The...

 The self-driving car market is set to get very big, very fast, on the back of efforts by the likes of Ford, GM and other major car makers. Hyundai is not a company often included in the list of ...

 Google Classroom, the company’s platform that brings together Google Apps for Education and a number of tools for managing classes and content, is getting one of its regular summer updates...

 Pizza Hut is giving you more than just grease in your next pizza box: The maker of fine savory Italian pies has created a playable DJ interface out of cardboard using partner Novalia’s pri...

 Cash Money Records will sound familiar if you’re a fan of Drake, Lil Wayne or Nicki Minaj — they all share the same record label. An Instagram photo with Apple Music executive Larry ...

 Several high-level employees at the early-stage venture firm Rothenberg Ventures have recently left, TechCrunch has learned. Among them is Tommy Leep, a partner and the head of Rothenberg’...

 Amazon has teamed up withProduct Hunt – the San Francisco-based startup that helps curate and surface the hottest new apps, websites, gadgets, tech creations, and more – by offering ...

 He mastered flying it, and then got a bigger drone. And then another bigger drone.Then came fighting the drones and building his own. Soon, Ettinger was considered by many to be the best drone f...

 110 protoypes, 460 hours of lab testing and 11 months of sleep studies later, Casper is ready to starting shipping out dog beds. The mail order mattress startupthat is almost single-handedly pro...

 Airbnb’s ambitions to expand into the travel services market were outed ahead of plans this week, when an “Airbnb Trips” app was briefly available on the Google Play Store for ...

 Sources are telling TechCrunch that Cisco is planning a significant cost reduction this week, which could involve budget cutsand layoffs. We’ve been hearing that the reductions will be ann...

 Women 2.0, a for-profit for-good media business that works to bring women into the tech industry and help them succeed there, has appointed Kate Brodock as Presidentand Elisa Miller-Out as COO, ...

 The Canadian company has never been afraid to take risks with the often-boring world of e-readers, and for that reason alone it is a welcoming presence. Without Kobo pushing the boundaries of sc...

 Uber is taking legal action to try to block forthcoming regulatory changes in London that could impact its ability to recruit drivers onto its platform — including a new requirement for dr...

 At the height of iPhone rumor season, Japanese site Mac Otokara (which has a relatively good track record with rumors like this) reports that there will only be two iPhones unveiled this fall, t...

 It’s still a ways from being a household name here in the States, but Huawei is starting to turn heads by offering some premium level specs for a (relative) song. The contrast is particula...

 The race for aftermarket smarts in your car is heating up, and Automatic is delivering an always-on 3G data connection as its move to race ahead of the competition. The Automatic Pro dongle, whi...

 “Ok VCs, CEOs, and company decision makers who follow me. Start planning now to make November 8 a day off. We need people to be able to vote,” Baker wrote, adding, “The fact th...

 Since launching five years ago, Culture Amp has focused on employee engagement and corporate culture. Now, Culture Amp is tackling the performance review space — something its CEO Didier E...

 Google has had another appeal against Android antitrust charges turned down by a Russian court. At issue is how the company requires handset makers using its Android OS to also pre-load Google a...

 Apollo Shield, which was originally incorporated as Airfence Inc.,has launched an anti-drone system that detects drones flying where they’re not authorized or wanted, and forces them to fl...

 Advertisers have plenty of options for running video ads — but they haven’t had a chance to run on one of the most engaging discovery-driven platforms on the Internet, Pinterest, qui...

 The news of theDNC emailhackhas put theissue of securing the US election systems against foreign attacksandboostingthe resilience of national critical infrastructurefrontandcenter.It hasalsorais...

 Ola, the company battling Uber in India, has confirmed today that it has shut down TaxiForSure, a rival it acquired for $200 million last year, after it integrated its services. Read More ...

 On-demand food delivery startup Deliveroo has stepped back from trying to force a new payment contract on its existing riders in London, after a group organized protests against a planned trial ...

Google’s new video calling app Duo launches today, India’s messaging app Hike raises $175 million, Google search now includes info on how to vote, Apple is building a super secret lab in C...

 Jonah Goodhart started his entrepreneurial journey while still in college at Cornell University. What started out a bit haphazardly with an email list turned into solid learning opportunities th...

 Chip maker Intel and British semiconductor IP company ARM announced an agreement that could help boost the chip giant’s custom foundry business. The deal, revealed today at the the Intel D...

 The arrival of new gaming products from HP is very infrequent. After all, HP isn’t a PC gamer’s first choice in hardware, at all. Wellif you’re Hewlett-Packard, what do you do?...

 Acquisitions starting with a “B” are not uncommon in the tech industry in Silicon Valley. Roughly two to four billion-dollar deals have gone down each quarter (on average) over the l...

 Univision has won the auction to acquire Gawker Media’s websites and business. Recode broke the news, reporting the acquisition price was$135 million and would cover all seven of Gawker...

 At the Intel Developer Forum on Tuesday, Intel unveiled a new, hardware product — a ready-to-fly drone; specifically, a quadcopter, aimed at software developers rather than casual hobbyist...

 Easy come, easy go in corporate bookseller land. Less than a year after starting his gig as company head, Ronald D. Boire has been unceremoniously let go from his CEO gig at Barnes & Noble. ...

 Live streaming video platform Twitch (a subsidiary of Amazon) is doubling down on video games with the acquisition of a significant player in the world of video game communities:Curse. The terms...

 While the US waits to get Super Cruise in Cadillacs next year, Toyota has already rolled out a pretty robust V2V, or vehicle-to-vehicle, system in three models available in Japan. The latest ver...

 Big purchases are scary to make online without anyone there to quell your fears and answer questions. Operator’s app wants to give you the same peace of mind, not with mechanical chat bot ...

 With more and more unguarded IoT devices becoming connected to the internet every day, malicious bot lords are having an easier time conscripting new recruits into their undyingly loyal armies o...

 We’ve all had crappy customer service calls. Primed by staticky elevator music and the ever-mysterious agitating echo, most of us come into calls with strained patience. On the line, custo...

 Silicon Valley’s gig economy isn’t known for being very supportive ofits core workers — the ones working on the ground, making deliveries and picking up and dropping off passen...

 Congratulations are in order for China: by launching the world’s first quantum communications satellite, the country has achieved an interesting — if somewhat difficult to explain &#...

 Eventually, we’ll never leave our VR-enabled domiciles. But until that happens, we occasionally need to go outside –and Nvidia’s GeForce GT 10-series notebooks mean that when y...

 Today marks the grand opening of Apple’s new retail store at One World Trade Center, located in the Oculus at the brand-spanking-new Westfield Mall. The space has two floors, a 6K video sc...

 Planning a wedding is right up there with moving and job hunting as one of the most stressful things you’ll do in life. I would know. I’m getting married in 10 days. So when Y Combin...

 Interested in a lactose-free, animal-free, nut-free nutritional bar made with soy protein, algal flour, and some sort of sugar made from beets? If that sounds delicious to you (???), then you...

 Ford outlined a few of the ways it’s aiming to ship driverless cars by 2021, and part of the plan involves acquisitions. CEO Mark Fields revealed at a press event in Palo Alto today that t...

 Ford says it’s going to deliver self-driving cars by 2021 – and these will ship in volume, and will also lack steering wheels, brake or gas pedals, offering full Level 4 self-driving...

 Looking to participate in the hackathon at Disrupt SF 2016, but missed out on the first round of tickets? You’re in luck!Today, we’re opening up the second round of hackathon tickets...

 Intel’s new Joule maker board is designed to provide a platform for makers to create powerful computer vision products, and “seamlessly transition from prototype to at-scale robotics...

 Hackers stole cyberweapons from the NSA. Here’s a step-by-step guide to what that means for the world. Read More ...

 Hackers allegedly stole cyberweapons from a group affiliated with the NSA. Here’s a step-by-step guide to what that means for the world. Read More ...

 Windows 10 users will be able to dive into mixed reality starting next year, with an update planned that can let any “mainstream” Windows 10 PC run the Windows Holographic shell the ...

 A startup called Simbi has raised $1.2 million in seed funding to popularize its marketplace where people can barter skills and services online. Greylock Discovery fund, Crunchfund and Ranch Ven...

 No big surprise here: Tsu, a social network that worked aroundthe App Store’s rules on pay-per-installs, incentivized its users to create content, rewarded people for signing up friends, a...

 All right, startup fans in the U.K. and across Europe. We’re thrilled to announce that TechCrunch Disrupt is once again headed across the pond for Disrupt London 2016, and you are cordiall...

 Likability, intuition, and a strong work ethic is a potent combination in any business, and many in Silicon Valley think seed-stage investors Pejman Nozad and Mar Hershenson have all three in sp...

 Intel moved full-throttle into the VR space with theannouncement of an all-in-one virtual reality headset alongside a newIntel Merged Reality platform atthe Intel Developers Forum.An announcer t...

 Apple CEO Tim Cook is currently visiting China. According to Reuters, he used this opportunity to announce that the company would build a new research & development center in China before th...

 Microsoft wants everyone to know the joy that is low latency wireless gaming peripheral connections. The company is making the Xbox Wireless connection tech it uses between Xbox One and official...

 Microsoft’s answer to Steam’s Early Access is coming to Windows 10. Xbox Game Preview will be available on Microsoft’s desktop OS beginning soon, staring with Rockfish’s ...

 Google is making a number of announcements around its Cloud Platform today. Most of these focus on its various cloud database services, but in addition, the company is also making a major update...

 Bugs be gone! That’s the philosophy behind Appknox, a mobile security startup from Singapore which has raised $640,000 in a pre-Series A funding round. Read More ...

 Anonymity has proven a dangerous path for startups like Secret, so Yik Yak is pushing a soft pivot towards connection with people close by. You can still share anonymous quips on the sagging col...

 Anonymity has proven a dangerous path for startups like Secret, so Yik Yak is pushing a soft pivot towards connection with people close by. You can still share anonymous quips on the sagging col...

 A startup called Polybit has introduced what it’s calling the Standard Library of the Internet in open beta, a resource to make back-end coding easy for developers, even beginners. The Sta...

 You asked for an extension on cheap tickets to Disrupt SF 2016, and we delivered. But the clock is still ticking. You now have just four days left to save $1,000 by purchasing early-bird tickets...

 In what Edward Snowden deems “not unprecedented” hackers calling themselves the Shadow Brokers have collected NSA-created malware from a staging server run by the Equation Group, an ...

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 Ultrathin laptops help you find information, but writing things down, on paper, in a notebook, helps you learn and remember. Wireless headphones make your music better and more portable, but ear...

 Google has rolled out an update to search aimed at helping U.S. users find out how they can vote in the upcoming November election. This includes information on what sort of ID you need to bring...

 The big risk of Facebook launching the Messenger platform was that spammy bots could drown out your friends. Now Facebook is formalizing rules to prevent that. Messenger API experiences may only...

 Vettery, a startup offering an alternative to the traditional recruiting process, has raised $9 million in Series A funding. On the Vettery website, the company pairs potential job-seekers with ...

 Your speech-recognizing friends at Nuance are back with a major update to their flagship app, Dragon. The popular productivity software is now in its 15th version, an update that promises some s...

 Amazon this morning announced that, for the first time ever, it will begin distributing its Original Series from Amazon Video to social media sites, including Facebook and YouTube. Pilot episode...

 DraftKings has been in the news a lot over the last 12 months. But almost everything you’ve read has probably been about their efforts in passing legislation to explicitly legalize daily f...

 The Third Industrial Revolution is already happening. We now have a choice: Do we take advantage of technology and create an incredibly better world for the entire human race, or do we let all o...

 Happy Gamescom week, everyone. The folks at Lenovo are celebrating Europe’s biggest gaming event with a pair of PCs aimed atembracing virtual reality, doing so with an almost sci-fi-like p...

Shoptiques has been making big moves of late, opening up business in Australia and the Netherlands and updating their app and website. But perhaps more interesting is that Shoptiques has revealed how ...

 While not quite a flagship (an honor that goes to its more mainstream sibling, the Galaxy S), Samsung’s Note line is undoubtedly one of the most iconic handsets around, with a strong enoug...

 It’s hard to believe, but the company unveiled the original Gear VR two years ago next month. At that point, the hardware was focused on bringing developers on board, with two early hardwa...

 Carmakers continue to look to the Valley for helping paving the way for the future of cars – Ford has teamed up with Baidu to jointly invest $150 million in Velodyne, a company making LiDA...

 Ida Tin, co-founder and CEO of digital female health company Clue, willspeak at Disrupt SF this fall. Clue’s app is known for itsuser-friendly menstrual cycle tracking abilities and its mi...

 China’s UnionPay is bringing its mobile payment system to North America, starting with a launch today in Canada. The UnionPay International subsidiary of China’s interbank network in...

 In a year where money is harder to come by, especially from conventional venture capital sources, Rubrik is a notable exception, announcing a $61 million Series C round from several brand-namedS...

 After getting on top of some teething problems with shipping to domestic buyers, Facebook-owned Oculus Rift has opened up pre-orders for its VR headset outside the U.S., announcing today that th...

 Apple has launched carrier billing in Switzerland and Taiwan in a move that will let customers purchase apps and content without using a credit card. Read More ...

 UK antivirus maker BullGuard is acquiring Israeli startup Dojo-Labs to expand its portfolio of security products to the Internet of Things. Read More ...

 European online glasses retailer MyOptique, which operates websites such as Glasses Direct and SunGlasses Shop in the UK and Lensbest in Germany, has been acquired by French lens maker Essilor I...

 India has a new tech unicorn. Hike, a four-year-old messaging app, today announced that it has closed $175 million in funding led by new investors Tencent and Foxconn. The Series D round values ...

 If you're reading this article and live in the U.S., you might not realize that Venmo, Square Cash, Facebook Messenger payments and other similar services only work in the U.S. In many coun...

 Samsung will introduce (yet) another smartwatch this month. The Korea-based giant teased a launch event at the IFA electronics show in Germany, the date to watch for is August 31 and, as the tea...

 Can Google spring back from its social failures with a bare-bones video calling app that unites iOS and Android users? Today it’s launching Duo, which lets you 1-on-1 video call people via...

 Can Google spring back from its social failures with a bare-bones video-calling app that unites iOS and Android users? Today it’s launching Duo, which lets you video call people one-on-one...

 Earlier today, we started seeing rumblings about a New York Times op-ed from famed entrepreneur and venture capitalist Peter Thiel — an op-ed where he’d lay out the case against Gawk...

 Pokemon Go issues lifetime bans for people who cheat, Spotify launches a category for kids, Audi is working with traffic technology services to know when a light is going to turn green, Google&#...

 Hyperloop One tells TechCrunch it might be building its crazy fast transportation system at the Jebel Ali port in Dubai if all goes according to plan. And it could be the first place t...

 Business analytics platform BeyondCore will be officially joining Salesforce, according to a blog post by BeyondCore CEO Arijit Sengupta.BeyondCore is an enterprise analytics tool that bolstersb...

 Like startups, most venture capital firms fail- at least in terms of returns. In our latest interview with Dave McClure, Founder @ 500 Startups, he argues that poor venture returns are the fault...

 Google announced today thatHangouts On Air will move from Google+ to YouTube Live on September 12; users will be asked to migrate to YouTube Live. In an email to TechCrunch, Google confirmed tha...

 We’re redefining how we interact with machines and how they interact with us. Advances in AI help make new human-to-machine and machine-to-human interaction possible. Traditional interface...

 Motorcycle makers Alta Motors have opened the doors to their brand new factory in Brisbane, California. And TechCrunch was on the scene for a first look. A quick trip from downtown San Francisco...

 Motorcycle makers Alta Motors have opened the doors to their new factory in Brisbane, California, and TechCrunch was on the scene for a first look. A quick trip from downtown San Francisco, the ...

 Snapchat could help you organize a night out with friends or get a digest of the day’s news thanks to its acquisition of mobile search startup Vurb. TechCrunch caught wind of the impending...

 DroneDeploy released a new study of the commercial and industrial drones market this week, revealing bad news for the makers of fixed-wing drones — quadcopters are far outpacing this type ...

 The New York Times reported yesterday that theTwitter app may be coming to Apple TV — and with it, Twitter’s live streaming content.If the two companies reach a deal by fall, Apple T...

 LinkedIn is trying to lock down its exclusive relationship with its users.The professional networking companyfiled suit against100unnamed individuals last week for using bots to harvest user pro...

 Picture this: you own a nice building in San Francisco and you want to rent to some good old-fashioned salt-of-the-earth folks for not much money. I realize this is a fantasy but play along. How...

 Everywhere you go on the web, trackers are working to reconstruct your every move. But who tracks the trackers? That’s just what researchers at the University of Washington are doing, with...

 Bumble’sbeen hinting for a while that they are getting ready to turn on monetization features in their girl-dominated dating app, and now they’ve finally done it. Starting today user...

 Barely a week after Apple released its fifth developer beta builds of its iOS, tvOS, watchOS and MacOS Sierra platforms, the sixth beta releases have now arrived in short order. Given the quick ...

 If you’re still playing Pokemon Go, then you’ve likely invested enough time and energy to care about this DIY Pokemon Go helmet. Before we go any further, this video is obviously for...

 Technology Crossover Ventures has become a major investing powerhouse over its 22-year-old history by fundingrelatively undiscovered but mature companies; buying sizable stakes in later-stage, v...

 Digital healthcare investing has gone through several waves: 2013 was the year of consumer wearables, 2014 of healthcare big data, 2015 of virtual care delivery and 2016, so far, has been about ...

 Imagine never having to stop for a red light again – Audi’s upcoming traffic light information system won’t get you all the way there, but it will help you stop with the guessw...

 Getting teens – and in particular, young women – interested in coding is a challengea number of companies and organizations today have been tackling in recent years. But a newer star...

 Minecraft is now ready for its virtual reality debut: The update for the Minecraft Windows 10 Beta that adds VR support is available today. It’s a free update for people who already own th...

 Metapacket, one of YC’s current batch of startups, is hoping to get its SaaS on corporates’ list of essential threat detection software with a technique to stop malware attacks by an...

 As we approach the coming mechanical watch apocalypse strange things will begin happening. Dogs and cats shall live together. Beloved watch brands shall buy each other for no good reason. And st...

 Fallout 4’s latest expansion, Nuka-World, is coming ton August 30, and puts you smack dab in the middle of a decrepit, low-rent Disney World snatched right from your nightmares. It does lo...

 Pokmon Go cheaters will now be permanently banned from playing the popular game, according to updated wording in the game’s terms of service. Niantic Labs, the game’s developer, writ...

 These are the sorts of perks you get when you produce the Official tablet of the NFL. Aside from a boatload of promotional videos and some serious sideline time at America’s most popularsp...

 Certainly, we need to ensure innovation and the room for start-ups to grow. But we also need to acknowledge legitimate traffic management, and the need for infrastructure investment. Read More ...

 Spotify this morning is announcing a change to its service designed to appeal to families with small children: it’s relaunching the app’sKids category to include new playlists focuse...

 The beta for PlayStation 4’s 4.00 operating system arrives tomorrow for those enrolled, and Sony wants to give everyone a preview of what it brings to the table. The most noteworthy featur...

 Those are words I never expected to write – certainly not in that order, at least. But the journey to reintroduce the once-mighty Nokia brand back into the ever-competitive mobile market h...

 Workday announced a 7-year cloud infrastructure deal with IBM Softlayer today to run their developmentand testing services on IBM’s cloud, handing IBM a huge win in the process.The Wall St...

 Mixing up precisely controlled, strobing LED lights and finely timed good vibrations, Slow Dance is aiming to bring a slice of science to a living room near you. Blending high-tech with organic ...

 Here’s something I asked myself a lot last weekend: Am I really a serious Star Trek fan? The obvious answer: Well, sure. I’ve watched hundreds of hours of Star Trek on TV, I’ve...

 On-demand restaurant food delivery startup Deliveroo is facing more protests in London this week over a new pay structure it’s trialling in the U.K. capital that seeks to switch drivers to...

 Google has a new operating system called Fuchsia in development, with the early results publicly available on Github (and you can even compile and run it yourself, should you feel daring. The ne...

 Nothing says “professional business document” quite like finger drawn scribbles. Sure, it’s not likely to become anyone’s default method of expressions for Microsoft̵...

 Just in time (fingers sweatily crossed) for it to start being a little less excruciatingly hot outside, Jabra will be offering up refreshes to its line of fitness-tracking wireless headphones. T...

 Salesforce’s efforts to turn its Inbox app into a central resource for salespeople has a new trick: An integrated calendar built from its acquisition of Tempo that pulls in contact data fr...

 An Oakland-based startup called MegaBots is making giant fighting robots a reality, and forming a league for them to fight each other under clear and fair rules, something akin to Formula 1 or U...

 Twitter made its stickers for photos available to everyone at the end of last month, and now the company has quickly followed that up with the launch of its first branded stickers. Read More ...

 Outfittery, a curated shopping service for men’s clothing, has raised $22 million in a new funding round led by London and New York-based VC firm Octopus Ventures. The so-called “U-S...

 HeavenHR, a cloud-based HR management platform for small and medium enterprises (SMEs), has closed 6 million in Series A funding. Leading the round in the Berlin-based startup are Target Global,...

 Marketing technology is in the midst of a worldwide boom. Given the expansion of the internet, social media and various other forms of digital technology, there are a growing number of ways to m...

 A confluence of factors puts China at the financial technology (“fintech”) forefront: economic advancement, investor behavior, mobile technology, big data, financial industry liberal...

 Winter came, and now it’s time for a season of shut downs, sell outs,and saving face. The circle of life includes the stage of death. Thatdoesn’t mean these founders did anything wro...

 In 2004, Google finally went public in a long-awaited offering that lit the public markets on fire. But Google’s S-1 filing was probably as unusual as anything the technology markets had e...

 Imagine a future where individuals can illustrate their progression of lifelong learning and training and its links to their real-world performance. In this version of the future, the once-ubiqu...

 Imagine a future where individuals can illustrate their progression of lifelong learning and training and its links to their real-world performance. In this version of the future, the once-ubiqu...

Livestreaming app Blab, which amassed 3.9 million users in just one year, shut down this weekend, its CEO Shaan Puri announced with a post on Medium late Friday. The app, which competed with Twitter&#...

Livestreaming app Blab, which amassed 3.9 million users in just one year, shut down this weekend, its CEO Shaan Puri announced with a post on Medium late Friday. The app, which competed with Twitter&#...

 As the Internet of Things becomes more widespread, consumers must demand better security and privacy protections that don’t leave them vulnerable to corporate surveillance and data breache...

 Niantic Labs, a small gaming company previously owned by Google, has gone from a somewhat obscure gaming shop to one of the most prominent developers overnight. The company launched Pokmon Go in...

 It’s time: We need a drone with automated follow features that not only includes a camera for cataloging your many feats, but alsohasan on-board voice assistant to and a cellular connectio...

 Clicks. Once upon a time they were the most powerful tool in assessing online ad performance. A humble beginning, but much has changed. The data-driven measurement and predictive analytics techn...

 At 1:26am ET, SpaceX launched their Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral and, once again, recovered the first stage of that rocket on adrone ship floating in the ocean.More importantly, SpaceX su...

 As the world tries to make sense of economic tremors from the Brexit fallout, upcoming U.S. elections and volatile European financial markets, it’s easy to see why investors are becoming l...

 Pokmon Go has changed the trajectory of the world on a scale just slightly smaller than Google Search and Facebook — but it will be felt through all industries in the coming years. It look...

 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, August 12, 2016. Why Twitter should call itself the Peacock Network, why many are flee...

 There are neural net machine learning approaches that are simply more than “deep.” Neural networks are popular for advancing voice technologies and AI, but it’s interesting tha...

 Need a tiny, $5 computer to build a robot that will bring you your slippers, initiate a massage chair session, and pour out your daily dose of bourbon? The Onion Omega2 can do all that and more....

If you’re a big fan of wine but still want to run a startup, there may not be that much innovation you can get away with on the product side. Wine, when all is said and done, is still wine. That...

 In the last year, writers, editors, producers and other content creators at “digital native” companies have won representation with the Writers Guild of America, East. These innovati...

 Frank Abagnale, Jr’s ignominious youth as a clever con artist was made famous in the 2002 movie, Catch Me If You Can, starring Leonardo DeCaprio as a young Frank, but Abagnale, as you migh...

 Dear executives of United Airlines, I have some advice for you. 1: Fire whoever is in charge of your online security. 2: Burn down the building in which they worked; it may be tainted. 3: Salt t...

Disrupt NY winner Beam gets acquired by Microsoft, study shows VR and exoskeletons can help paraplegics, soon even our tattoos will be smart, Facebook delivers the latest adblocker punch, and a new St...

 In the year 2000, the music business was still strong. Record companies produced albums and shipped these physical objects to the stores that sold them. The internet was slowly becoming a system...

 Don’t say we don’t ever give you anything, startup fans! While early-bird ticket sales were originally slated to end today, we’ve decided to give you one more week to save $1,0...

 A San Francisco judge has sentenced former RadiumOne and Gravity4 CEO Gurbaksh Chahal to 12 months in county jail. However, the judge also granted a stay on the sentencepending an appeal from Ch...

 Mobile app Triller isn’t just a simple way to make music videos anymore — it recently added social features that allow users to follow other users and explore their videos. I should ...

 Close partners GM and Lyft were apparently nearly even closer: The Information reportsand TechCrunch has separately confirmed that the carmaker expressed its interest in purchasing Lyft, going s...

 From onlinegamers solvinggenetic puzzles that have stumped the worlds greatest super computers to the mind-reading potential of the most refined MRIs, these are a few of the innovationsthat most...

 “Stop calling Pokmon Go AR,” say the purists. But who cares what you call something that is so successful? Just be glad it happened, and let’s figure out what it means for the ...

 Facebook can’t build everything. For a decade, its strategy has been to provide the canvas, then let developers paint it however they want. That’s because there’ll always be an...

 Growing up, I can remember spending a lot of time thinking about what it would be like to be frozen in carbonite, the way Han Solo was after being betrayed by Lando on Bespin in The Empire Strik...

 The Google Play Store will not require you to have a Google+ account to write reviews anymore.In an email to TechCrunch, Google confirmed the news that “a G+ profile is no longer needed to...

 This week, reports hinted at what could be the most impactful MacBook Pro update in years, Walmart leveled up in the ecommerce space with its $3 billion purchase of Jet.com, and the Facebook adb...

 Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a super low-power camera designed to never shut off. The system was designed specifically as a method for waking up devices, never t...

 Microsoft Flow, the company’s workflow management tool,has now arrived on Android. The app, a competitor of sorts of IFTTT and Zapier, offers an interface where you can mash up two or more...

 Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today, Friday August 12th.Our live chat stream during the show broadcastGillmor Gang̵...

 Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today.Our live chat stream during the show broadcastGillmor Gang’...

 With an incredibly important national election coming up, it’s more critical than ever that everyone who can vote does — and is able to. Election tech firm Free and Fair is hoping to...

 The Olympics are a testament to the human spirit, physical greatness, nation pride and, of course, swag. So, so much swag. Because let’s be real, if you train your entire life for a once-e...

 Bon Entendeur is Nicolas Boisseleau, Arnaud Bonet and Pierre Della Monica (left to right on the photo), three friends who started releasing a mxitape on SoundCloud every month. They quickly real...

 Your next tattoo could be functional as well as aesthetic. A new MIT Media Lab product called DuoSkin created in partnership with Microsoft Research turns temporary tattoos into connected interf...

 On the heels of a recent White House initiative announced after its first “Workshop on Drones and The Future of Aviation,” San Francisco based robotics startup Zipline will test dron...

 Pay attention, would-be Disrupt SF 2016 attendees. You’ve procrastinated long enough. Today is the final day to save $1,000 on tickets to Disrupt SF 2016. So if you’re planning to ch...

 Quick! What’s your gym locker combination? Your girlfriend’s favorite Starbucks order? The type of ink your printer uses? Can’t remember? Gotta look it up? There’s a lot ...

 Minecraft in virtual reality: It’s a dream for fans of the immersive crafting and world building sim, and it’s going to be a reality for Oculus Rift owners starting next week.The VR ...

 Happy birthday, you old rascal, you. Thirty-five years ago today you came into world with a compact design and a $1,565 price tag, at time when IBM’s entry-level “microcomputer”...

 Not many startups have spent a decade fine-tuning their tech platform prior to launch. But not many startups are trying to radically rethink the structure of the Internet… Read More ...

 We’ve already written extensively about “Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World“, the new Werner Herzog documentary/tone poem on the Internet. The new feature is less a...

 Artificial intelligence originally aspired to replace doctors. Researchers imagined robots that could ask you questions, run the answers through an algorithm that would learn with experience and...

 After twelve months, eight patients and 2,052 sessions spread over 1,958 hours, Duke University is publishing some promising results from a study seeking to demonstrate the ability for brain-mac...

 David Sacks has pulled off a number of impressive feats during his career. Part of the early team at PayPal, where he was COO for several years, Sacks went on to create a couple of other softwar...

 Everyone loves a good plant in their home, but few have the time and dedication to keep it healthy over the course of the year. Changing temperatures and humidity levels paired with vacations or...

 Music to game to – it’s a real thing. From the ambient, otherworldly soundtrack of No Man’s Sky, to the songs you most associate with playing a certain title (Busta Rhymes When...

 Hiring and training sales staff gets repetitive and, given the often high churn, it can be a real time suck. That’s why Saleswhale, a Singapore-based company that is part of Y Combinator&#...

 This incredible find from the Verge might just be the greatest GIF I’ve ever seen — it is certainly one of the funniest to land on the internet. We currently know nothing about where...

Arianna Huffington leaves the Huffington Post to start Thrive, Crave’s new app finds celeb fashions, BMW LeEco and Karma all want to give Tesla a run for its money in electric vehicles, Logitech...

 Whoaaa. While most new Star Wars trailers tend to drop in the wee hours of the morning, Disney just blasted one out right as most people on the east coast were prepping for bed. Thanks, Olympics...

 Pay-per-article journalism startup Blendle, which aggregates the written work of different publishers onto a single, ad-free platform where readers can pick and choose which stories to consume, ...

 Earlier thismonth the ride-sharing world faced its first major shakeupwhen Uber announced that it would sellits China business to primary competitor Didi for an ownership stake of 18% in the com...

 By using technology and finding the right collaborations, companies can disrupt new markets, solve customer pain points and distribute value across the chain. Here are the top four marketing pri...

 During everyU.S. presidential election season, at least one candidate vows to repeal carried interest deductions. Meanwhile, venture capitalists do their part and argue against it. The issue is ...

 I’ve gotten so much work done in the past 90 minutes or so that Reddit has been down. Like it’s almost hard to believe. I returned some calls, responded to a bunch of emails and work...

 The Perseid meteor shower, which comes around every year at this time, will peak tonight and early tomorrow. This year’s event is particularly special because astronomers are predicting an...

 We’ve come a long way since the days of selecting a CPU player for the other Pong paddle, tank, or hand-to-hand combatant. Now the computers are taking it to us, in meatspace, and seemingl...

 Today’s AdBlock Plus workaround to Facebook’s adblock bypass ham-handedly removes posts from friends and Pages, not just ads, according to a statement provided by Facebook to TechCru...

 Today’s Adblock Plus workaround to Facebook’s adblock bypass ham-handedly removes posts from friends and Pages, not just ads, according to a statement provided by Facebook to TechCru...

 The last decade-plus hasn’t been great for SGI. The company formerly known as Silicon Graphics declared Chapter 11 in 2009. That same year, it was sold to Rackable for a song, with that co...

 The spa industry is in need of a technology makeover and Zenoti thinks it can help. The Seattle-based startup is raising $15 million in a round led by Norwest Venture Partners to help salons run...

 If you’re not using Simplenote, you’re missing out. This… well, simple note app has been a standby and lifesaver for me for years, though occasionally I have worried about its ...

 If you’re not using Simplenote, you’re missing out. This… well, simple note app has been a standby and lifesaver for me for years, though occasionally I have worried about its ...

 Just days after Deliveroo, a popular on-demand restaurant food delivery startup in Europe, announced that it had raised another $275 million in funding, a number of the startup’s self-empl...

 Songster and perpetual master of subtlety Morrissey has teamed up with pals at PETA to produce This Beautiful Creature Must Die, a mobile and desktop browser-basedappthat turns saving cuddly 8-b...

 Songster and perpetual master of subtlety Morrissey has teamed up with pals at PETA to produce This Beautiful Creature Must Die, a mobile and desktop browser-basedappthat turns saving cuddly 8-b...

 The Kickstarter campaign for the Doohan EV3 iTank three-wheeled scooter began this week. It’s brought to you by Kartik Ram, the same guy behind the Zeitgeist electric bike that debuted thi...

 It’s not easy for the average user to determine whether or not the apps on his or her iPhone are trustworthy. Some apps scoop up contact lists, others unnecessarily harvest your location d...

 Snapchat has decided it’s time to make money. The company recently launched a massive expansion of its advertising, as well as an API that will make it easier for advertisers to buy ads. G...

 Tesla’s Autopilot is set to get a major update soon, according to multiple reports, and a new one from Electrek details some of the new hardware improvements that will pave the way for its...

 Please, please let me visit the room where new Pokmon are created. I want to know exactly what was going on when the team came up with Wishiwashi, a small, sad fish that becomes a group of sligh...

 140 Proof, a company that helps advertisers target their campaigns based on social data, has been acquired by AcuityAds for up to $20 million in cash.140 Proof co-founder and CEO Jon Elvekrog sa...

 Facebook recently incorporated a sneaky change to the way its ads are displayed that disguised them as ordinary content and circumvented ad blocking software in browsers. Ads crowded the streams...

 Silicon Valley is already knee-deep in flattery. Between 30-under-30 lists, award shows and yearly roundups, the startup scene is pretty good at giving praise where it is (or isn’t) due. E...

 The cloud services that Google uses to power its own services are second to none. But for the longest time, the company couldn’t get a foothold in the quickly growing cloud computing busin...

 TechCrunch Include Office Hours are happening on August 31st! Adam Valkin, Spencer Lazar and Peter Boyce from General Catalystin NYC,along with Pat Gallagher and Susan Hobbs from CrunchFundin SF...

 It’s no Pokemon Go, but it’s charming nonetheless, employing Google’s Cloud Vision to add a little bit of CGI dragon magic to your immediate vicinity. The “Dragon Spottin...

 Rumor has it that Rackspace is about to get acquired, but that isn’t stopping the company from hosting a major customer event in San Francisco today. At the event, the companyannounced bot...

 News outlets may get back some of their mojo stolen by a June Facebook feed algorithm change that preferred friends over publishers. Today Facebook will start predicting stories that are informa...

 Want to have a wardrobe like Tay-tay’s? You can now, thanks to Craves. The companyis today debuting amobilefashion applicationthat takes advantage of visual search technology to identify c...

 This apparently bears repeating: putting resources towardattracting and hiring diverse candidates is useless if you can’t retain them. I’m looking at you, Intel. Intel, which last ye...

 Amazon’s AWS cloud computing platform today launched Kinesis Analytics, a newservice that makes it easier to analyze real-time streaming data with the help of standard SQL queries. Kinesis...

 This morning at a customer event in New York City, AWS CTO Werner Vogels announced a new load balancing tool, which gives developers much more fine-grained control over how content gets distribu...

 Sports teams and live event venues will soon be able to sell their tickets directly through SeatGeek. The company has focused on resale tickets until now — first by aggregating resale opti...

 They’re more than just a big set of transitional lenses for buildings. For one thing, the new glass technology pioneered by a team of scientists at MIT is capable of changing shades much f...

 Microsoft has acquired Beam, a Seattle-based interactive game streaming service that lets viewers play along with streamers as they watch. Beam’s model takes the mostly passive interaction...

 Microsoft has acquired Beam, a Seattle-based interactive game streaming service that lets viewers play along with streamers as they watch. Beam’s model takes the mostly passive interaction...

 Marijuana use is a bit of a tricky subject in the United States. While public opinion on the matter may be shifting toward being more open to legalization — a YouGov poll released earlier ...

 It shouldn’t come as a surprise, really, that mobile phones are becoming an increasing concern among those tasked with policing prison populations. Smuggled in cellulars are being linked t...

 Disrupt SF 2016 is right around the corner. Soon, thousands of tech enthusiasts, investors and entrepreneurs will descend on San Francisco’s Pier 48 for an event best described as the best...

 Waze, which has been expanding steadilyinto the enterprise in recent months, is today unveiling a new program aimed at stadiums, marathons and other event organizers,that will allow partners to ...

 BMW isn’t letting off the gas on its electric vehicle program – the company plans replacements for the i3 and i8 by 2022, according to Automobile Magazine, and a new entrant dubbed P...

Yahoo has been beaten up in the press for so long that it’s hard to remember how untouchable it once appeared. We’d like to think that Yahoo’s failure has made us wiser, less likely ...

 LeEco’s not just messing around with this whole electric car deal. Back in April, the Chinese electronics company best known for its TVs and smartphone (once named LeTV, if that rings more...

 Microsoft looks to have inadvertently made some of its own orphaned devices useful again, after accidentally leaking a debug policy that could allow owners of Windows powered hardware such as ea...

 The first OSVR headset made its debut at last year’s CES. The wearable wasn’t aimed at Oculus or HTC – nor were its creators looking to take on Samsung’s low costGear VR....

 CVS Health today is launching its own mobile payments solution that will allow customers to pay for products, pick up prescriptions, earn ExtraCare loyaltyrewards, as well as pay – just by...

 The Fisker Karma is back, reborn as the Karma Revero, with a familiar look, along with a new name and some design tweaks and feature additions that mark a departure from its origins. Today marks...

 Don’t expect Spotify’s lackluster attempt at original video to help it defeat Apple Music or YouTube. The three-minute clips produced in partnership with new media company ATTN are n...

 Mondo, the U.K. mobile banking startup and probably the noisiest of the new breed of British challenger banks, is now officially, well, a bank. Read More ...

 Alibaba saw record revenue growth in Q2 2016 as the company’s Chinese retail marketplaces surged and revenue from its users on mobile overtook that of desktops for the first time. Read Mor...

 Arianna Huffington, the cofounder and Editor-in-Chief at the Huffington Post, is today stepping down from her role at the HuffPost to focus on a new startup called Thrive Global. Huffington anno...

 Another traditional media companyhas invested in an online property to expand its digital footprint andcapture the next generation of consumers. Refinery29 — the site that is, in its own w...

 Another traditional media companyhas invested in an online property to help expand its digital footprint andcapture the next generation of consumers. Refinery29 — the online publisherthat,...

 Jibo, a cutesy social robot pitched to crowdfunders in mid 2014 as ‘the world’s first social robot’ but since delayed and yet to arrive in the market some nine months after its...

 Jibo, a cutesy social robot pitched to crowdfunders in mid 2014 as ‘the world’s first social robot’ but since delayed and yet to arrive in the market some nine months after its...

 Logitech has a new device called the Pop Home Switch, and it’s a bit different from their usual offerings. A company known for Universal Remotes encrusted with physical keys, touchscreen d...

 The latest on-demand delivery startup to pick up backing is Barcelona-headquartered Glovo. The company operates a local on-demand delivery service similar to Postmates in the U.S. or the U.K....

 Nick Nash, President of Garena, discusses his company and its new focus on e-commerce and payments in Southeast Asia. Read More ...

Palantir acquires Silk, Abundant Robotics has built robots that pick apples, Adidas is building a robot factory to build shoes, and Berkeley Labs is building mini robots to map the galaxy, Macbook Pro...

 Bill Maris, who cofounded GV (formerly known as Google Ventures)in2009, is leaving the unit at the end of this week, according to a new report from Recode.Maris, a neuroscience student at Middle...

 The Brazilian on-demand food delivery company, iFood has picked up $30 million in new financing to expand regionally and solidify its grip over the online food delivery market outside of the US....

 Among other things, CareSkorewants to use machine learning to anticipate mortality. However, the newlyendowed platform is more than just a Facebook poll that tells youhow you’ll meet your ...

 Twilio recently exceeded expectations with an IPO that priced them at over $1 billion. For some, this proves that developers are the future of business. While they are certainly an indispensable...

 Twilio recently exceeded expectations with an IPO that priced them at over $1 billion. For some, this proves that developers are the future of business. While they are certainly an indispensable...

 Yelp and Nowait announced a partnership that will enable Yelp users to checknearby restaurants’ wait times and “get in line” remotely fromthe Yelp app.Yelp will be making an $8...

 Toyota Research Institute (TRI), a Toyota R&D organization headquarteredin Silicon Valley, isproviding $22 million over four years in an initial research grant with the University of Michiga...

 Hi, and welcome to my obligatory hot take on the nearly confirmed no-headphone-jack iPhones we’re about to see rolling out of Apple. I’m not an absolute fan of this idea, but we̵...

 Technology has made it simple to record and archive our digital memories through posts, snapshots, videos and more, but it can sometimes be astruggletosurface our past – our memories, acti...

 The space exploration game No Man’s Sky features biodiversity that would make Earth weep with envy, and players are incredibly avid taxonomers. Hello Games founder Sean Murray tweeted toda...

 NASA is serious about going to Mars, and not just for a quick visit, either. It just committed $65 million, spread over two years and six companies, for the purpose of developing and testing dee...

 Rugged is just kind of Kyocera’s thing, when it comes to handsets, and the new DuraForce Pro does its best to uphold that tradition with a Military Standard 810G grade rugged body and IP68...

 Rugged is just kind of Kyocera’s thing, when it comes to handsets, and the new DuraForce Pro does its best to uphold that tradition with a Military Standard 810G grade rugged body and IP68...

 Abhinav Shashank was working on an academic project at Harvard with his colleagues Kanav Hasija and Sandeep Gupta—figuring out how to pool together large data sets from hundreds of differe...

 Quizlet, the popular app that lets students create interactive study sets and prepare for tests in any subject, is unveiling a redesign today, including a new website, logo and redesigned mobile...

 Close your eyes. What do you see when you think about artificial intelligence? Hal 9000 defying human orders? Ava savagely murdering her maker? What aboutARIIA taking over the country from deep ...

 Pro-privacy organization Tor, which distributes anonymizing web browser tools, has published a social contract — promoting what it dubs its commitment to ‘advancing human rights̵...

 Facebook has to train people how to make great video if it wants it “at the heart” of its services like Mark Zuckerberg promised, so today it launched a slew of new video analytics. ...

 Silk‘s co-founder and CEO, Salar al Khafaji, announced today that private data analytics unicorn Palantir would be acquiring the company. The transaction appears to be an acqui-hire, with ...

 Service-level agreements (SLAs) are key when it comes to choosing a service that is going to play an important part for your own service. Cloud hosting services have an SLA, software-as-a-servic...

 The Flex Company, the makers of a disc-shaped tampon alternative, has raised $1 million from Y Combinator, Amplify.LA and several others and acquired menstrual disc competitor Softcup for an und...

 Listen up, would-be TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 attendees. Time is quickly running out to get your hands on tickets to the best startup show in the Bay Area at the deeply discounted, early-bird p...

 Since news broke of the fatal accident involving a Tesla Model S that was on “Autopilot,” the media and various experts have been locked in high-speed Socratic dialogs on the pros an...

 IFTTTmade a name for itself as a platformfor peopleto easily build (or pick up pre-built) scripts to automate tasks in and between various apps — say, to turn on the air conditionerusing y...

 It is, sadly, just for businesses, so slow your roll before you start daydreaming about what you’ll load onto yours. The company showed off a few new products at the Flash Memory Summit in...

 I’ll be in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, August 10, to hold a night of pitches and open mic shenanigans so bring your guitar and pitching shoes. The event will be at O’Toole’s ...

 BMW is working on an Alexa skill for its new BMW Connected app, which will arrive later this year and let car owners do things like check their remaining fuel levels and lock their car doors via...

 Sending a letterto the White House is getting a digital upgrade today.In addition to accepting hand-written missivesby postal mail and emails, the public can now send a note toPresident Obama vi...

 JD.com, Alibaba’s closest rival in China, is targeting profitability after reported its Q2 2016 earnings which, while on target with expectations, saw revenue growth continue to slow. Read...

 The Apple App Store shows no signs of slowing down, despite the fact that people seem to limit the number of apps they use regularly to just a small handful. But developers keep building, so the...

 Your next Adidas runners might be made in America – by a robot. The shoemaker revealed more details today about its coming ‘Speedfactory,’ which it previously announced would b...

Apples are the second most commonly consumed fruit in the U.S., according to data from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. But the way apples are harvested in the orchard hasn’t changed much in ...

 Apple’s iPhone SE strategy looks to be going as planned. The new four-inch iPhone looks gave Apple a welcome sales bump in key markets between April and June. Read More ...

 You don’t do things halfwaywhen it comes to tasks like mapping the light of millions of galaxies. That sort of job requires a fairly massive undertaking like, say, 5,000 ten-inch cylindric...

 Get ready for a massive MacBook Pro update. Apple is planning to unveil new 13-inch and 15-inch MacBook Pro laptops with retina displays soon. According to a new report from Bloomberg’s Ma...

 It was never really a question of whether GoPro would do the VR thing, it was more a question of how— or, rather, where —it would fit in. After all, it’s probably a little late...

 There’s no doubt that technology has drastically evolved since President Barack Obama took office in 2008. Obama acknowledged it himself during the Global Entrepreneurship Summit this year...

 As LinkedIn inches closer to completingits $26 billionacquisition by Microsoft, smaller rivalshave stepped up their game building viable alternatives for those who might wantmore independent pro...

 What if your entire roof was made up entirely of dedicated solar power cells? No, not adorned with the current kind of solar panels you’ve likely seen on the existing roofs of a few neighb...

 The used car industry is an interesting business. The market is huge – 45 million used cars are bought each year in the U.S. But the biggest player, CarMax,only controls about 2% of the ma...

 September 7 is going to be a busy day. Sony sent out invites for a press event in New York. The company will likely unveil the successor to the PlayStation 4. On the same day, Apple could also h...

 Netflix began helping its users test their internet connection for streaming speeds in May when it introduced Fast.com. Now it is bringing that service to mobile with the launch of apps for iOS ...

 As the world turns, customer service seems to evolve much more slowly than most all otherservices.The problems that induce more hair-pulling and teeth-gnashing than solutionsonly seeming to be f...

Coffiest — a mixture of coffee and caffeine — is the newest offering from Soylent, Facebook will bypass adblockers but give users an option to opt out of some advertising, NES classic edit...

 Much has been written about the ambitions of AltSchool, a San Francisco-based startup that’s aiming to change the way that school children learn. Its big idea, broadly, is that personalize...

 Hundreds of thousands of jobs that require both business and technical skills are open in the U.S., which means it’s likely your company is hiring for an important member of your team. But...

 Disrupt SF 2016 is right around the corner, and the time is running out to get tickets to the hottest startup show in the Bay Area for the lowest possible price.You have just four days left to s...

 Following the bell today, Yelp reported a strongsecond quarter 2016 financial performancethat made the stock soar almost 11 percent in after-hours trading.Yelp’s earnings release included ...

 This is the strategy behind Instagram Stories.Snapchat invented a brilliant format for sharing day-to-day life: photo and video slideshows jazzed up with commentary that disappear after 24 hours...

 Say you’ve got an experiment or prototype satellite that you want to expose to the ravages of space. Sure, you could launch it with a bunch of others, but what if you need it back afterwar...

 Small businesses have their pick of affordable DIY website-building platforms. But these “no coding skills required” platforms struggle to acquire and retain customers. While the UI ...

 The Walt Disney Company just announced that it’s paying $1 billion for a 33 percent stake in BAMTech, the video streaming company created by Major League Baseball. As a result of the deal,...

 TU-Automotive, which analyzes the future of the connected, autonomous car, recently hosted a webinar focused on the relationship between automotive manufacturers and startups. SK Kim, venture ca...

 Intel announced Tuesday that it is acquiring deep learning startup Nervana Systems in a move thatlooks to bolster the role of AI solutions within the company.Recode reports that the price tag of...

 Good news, Apple developers – Apple today has released its 5th version of the iOS 10 beta build along with new betas for watchOS 3, macOS, and tvOS. With this release, we’re getting ...

 The wait is over, hackathon fans. With Disrupt SF 2016 right around the corner, we thought it was high time we released the first wave of tickets to the Disrupt SF Hackathon. The hackathon takes...

 I crested a ledge and saw the ship I’d left a couple of hours ago sitting exactly where I’d left it, but from above, making it look small and almost insignificant among the colorful ...

 Like many of its old school watch brethren, Fossil wasn’t exactly in a hurry to embrace the world of connected wearables – after all, when you make watches, you think you’ve go...

 Kids suffering from cerebral palsy may soon have a powerful new physical therapy technique in the form of robotic assistance for their legs. A study is being conducted on the potential benefits ...

 Amsterdam-based TRVL is aiming to shake up the travel industry by turning you (and that guy, and the lady over there and that chap over there, too) into a travel agent. The platform is a sharing...

 Kids, let’s nerd out for a minute and look at the names in the ending credits of Stranger Things. If you’re like me, you’ve been watching the Netflix original series and obsess...

 Mirantis, which specializes in offering software, support and training for running OpenStack,today announced that it is partnering with Germany-basedSUSE,best known for its Linux distribution, t...

If your Instagrams are works of art that take more than a few moments to finesse, you’ll appreciate a new featurethat may soon be coming to Instagram: “Save Draft.” The option is som...

 Jon Miller is hoping lightning can strike twice in the marketing space. After the success of his previous marketing automation company, Marketo, Miller is returning to the world of targeted mark...

 In April, Adobe expanded its Document Cloud service to add support for Box and Microsoft OneDrive, to complement its existing support for Dropbox.This allowed users to work with documents stored...

 Chaos Monkeys, written by former Facebooker and current houseboater Antonio Garcia Martinez, is a book about the human side of the Valley. Rich in anecdote, detail, and memory, it tells the stor...

 The TechCrunch Video team is headed to LA. We’ve packed our cameras, grabbed our tripods and are heading to the City of Angels to talk to exciting startups about VR, entertainment and tran...

 For a while, Google, Amazon and Microsoft were constantly undercutting each other’s cloud computing prices, but lately, it’s been pretty quiet on that front. Today, however, Google i...

 It’s called Coffiest. Because, well, it’s more coffee than coffee, I guess. It’s the latest offering from our meal replacing, shipper container living friends at Soylent. It...

 TechCrunch is proud to announce that two-time NBA MVP and Golden State Warriors point guard, Stephen Curry, will be speaking onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF (Sept. 12-14). In addition to having...

 Over the past few years, BitTorrent has worked to move beyond its associations with online piracy by giving tools to musicians, filmmakers and other creators so they candistribute and market the...

 GIFs may be a popular way of communicating as the way we talk to each other increasingly shifts to mobile, but really it’s about communicating in some form of video. We’re seeing vid...

 Google is launching a small but interesting update for Inbox by Gmail today. Inbox, Google’s next-gen email client for Gmail users, recently launched a new feature that gives you a quick, ...

Pond5– a marketplace for stock photography, videos and other digital content– has appointed a new CEO and board director, former Web.com COO Jason Teichman, the company announced today. Po...

 Pond5– a marketplace for stock photography, videos and other digital content– has appointed a new CEO and board director, former Web.com COO Jason Teichman, the company announced tod...

 With the Olympics well underway, Google is rolling out a new Trends hub to give folks a bit more insight into what people are searching during the global athletics event. The Trends hub will let...

 Berlin-based online education platform iversity looks to have pulled back from the brink of bankruptcy after securing new investment from Holtzbrinck Digital, the Internet investment arm of the ...

 Rocket blast are loud, bright and, well, anything but subtle. That’s the whole point, really. It takes a heck of a lot of firepower to slip the surly bonds of earth and dance the skies on ...

 Entrepreneur First (EF), the London-based so-called “talent first” investor that targets technical graduates in Europe and beyond to put them through a six-month program where they f...

 Sharing-economy-powered car rental competitor Turo is taking its battle with the incumbents to places few have dared venture. The company used computer vision to determine the color of all the c...

 Memebox, an e-commerce company specializing in beauty products from Korea, has closed a significant $65.95 million Series C funding round to fuel further expansion. Read More ...

 Google Now, the intelligent personal assistant bundled into Android andGoogle’ssearch application, is already adept at bringing you the information you need at the right time, whether that...

 Today, Pingpad, which launched lastyear as a consumer mobile app, did an about-face, announcing it has built a collaboration tool on top of the popular Slack enterprise communications platform. ...

 On demand ride provider Lyft is getting physical – creating actual gift cards with $20 in ride credit that people can buy beginning next week at participating Starbucks stores across the U...

 On demand ride provider Lyft is getting physical – creating actual gift cards with $20 in ride credit that people can buy beginning todayat participating Starbucks stores across the U.S. T...

 Kepler Communications has raised $5 million in seed funding to create a network of small, easily replaced satellites to create a real-time network through with internet of things (IoT) devices c...

 Facebook is making the HTML of its web ads indistinguishable from organic content so it can slip by adblockers. But in exchange for taking away this option for controlling ads from people, its a...

 Our world looks very different from when Steve Jobs held aloft the first iPhone in 2007. Marketers didn’t use technology beyond their website analytics, email marketing and display ads. It...

 1,035 in all – taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been doing its thing for a decade now. Every month, the JPL-managed spacecraft dutifully sends back images of the red pla...

 Twilio’s co-founder and CEO Jeff Lawson will join us at Disrupt SF in September. We last talked to Lawson at Disrupt London last year, but since then, his company, which helps developers b...

 There is little in the world of video content as purely enjoyable to me as the work Marvel is doing with Netflix in their original shows. That’s why the above trailer for Luke Cage is so i...

 The useof Hadoop-based open source big-data technology continues to grow among enterprises, and today MapR Technologies, one of the bigger startups in the space, has announced another $50 millio...

 Virtual reality broadcasting startup NextVR has closed an $80 million Series B round of funding, WSJ reports.With this latest splash of cash, NextVR is looking to expand beyond US markets and ta...

 Twitter’s curated tweet slideshow Moments have failed to move the user growth needle. But the sagging public company hopes to make itself accessible and indispensable by allowing more than...

 Well, sure. If you’re Fender and you’re looking to join the mobile app race, of course you’re going to start with a tuner. The straightforwardly named Fender Tune marks the lat...

 For the past two years, Shyp has been ramping up its efforts to appeal to businesses as a go-to, more simplified shipping service. That started off with a big partnership with eBay to help selle...

 BloomReach has always been about helping online retailers maximize their revenue algorithmically by adjusting content in an automated fashion based on what it knows about the visitor and his or ...

 It’s 2016 and the physical world is slowly being uploaded to the cloud. Matterport, acompanycreating tools to allow 3D spaces to be scanned into virtual reality, is grabbing some more cash...

 Here’s a sentence you might not have expected to read: a service built around crowdfunding is building in a one-to-one payments option in what might be one of the most increasingly crowded...

 A startup called Farmers Business Network has raised $20 million in new venture funding to support the growth of its professional social network and data-sharing platform for agronomists. FBN co...

 Qualcomm’s busy year in China continues with news that it has agreed to patent licensing deals with two of the world’s fastest-growing smartphone companies: Oppo and Vivo. Read More ...

 UK robotics startup and TechCrunch Disrupt London 2015 battlefield alum Emotech has closed more than $10 million in Series A funding to continue working on its prototype robot assistant. It̵...

 Google is making its Maps app more accessible to users in emerging markets with two nifty features for the Android version of the service. Read More ...

 If you’ve seen the Cond Nast’s website recently, you’ve seen the Socius platform in action. The startup just raised $400k from 500 Startups’ Nordic Fund and Raa Invest to...

 Yet one more significant piece of M&A in the online recruitment industry. Today Randstad Holdings, an Amsterdam-based human resources and recruitment specialist, announced that it would acqu...

 A new tracking system rolled out to Pokemon Go players tonight, but most people outside of San Francisco don’t have it yet. Here’s what it looks like in action. Read More ...

 There was once a time when Uber’s big advantage over the competition was being integrated into Google Maps. That’s long passed now, however. Earlier this year, Google added a slew of...

Walmart buys Jet.com for $3 billion, the Wilson X Connected Football is a $200 Internet of things football, new rules for vaping are in effect today, Pokemon Go crosses $200 million revenue in one mon...

 It’s an open secret that the Internet of Things (if we must call it so) is pretty terrible, whether in standards, ineroperability, or security. Good security, though, you don’t reall...

 Sorry purists: New players of classic NES games on the upcoming micro NES Classic Edition system from Nintendo won’t have to rely on barbaric codes that recall progress, or single session ...

 To say there are a lot of molecules out there is kind of an understatement. So searching for one or two in particular is like looking for a needle in a galaxy-spanning haystack. Fortunately, the...

 Rumors have been flying for over a week that Rackspace was for sale, but today instead of the whole kit and kaboodle, thecompany announcedit was selling its Cloud Sites web hosting unit to Liqui...

 A year ago, startup valuations hit a 12-year peak as the numbers of companies joining the billion-dollar-plus club soared.Today, those numbers arelooking far more run of the mill.So suggests a n...

 Rumors have been flying for over a week that Rackspace was for sale, but today instead of the whole kit and kaboodle, thecompany announcedit was selling its Cloud Sites web hosting unit to Liqui...

 Ever since the acquisition of the first “Ag Unicorn,” a flood of new digital agriculture startups has been trying to turn investor interest into market traction. Bayer’s recent...

 The White House (led by United States Chief Information OfficerTony Scott) has been pretty vocal about using technology to improve how government operates. They want to make sure code helps, not...

 The White House (led by United States Chief Information OfficerTony Scott) has been pretty vocal about using technology to improve how government operates. They want to make sure code helps, not...

 Non-Profit groups and NGOs are now invited to apply for exhibit space in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco on Monday, September 12 or Tuesday, September 13.TechCrunch’s div...

 Nonprofit groups and NGOs are now invited to apply for exhibit space in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt SFon Monday, September 12 or Tuesday, September 13. TechCrunch’s diversity progr...

 GM’s putting its Cruise acquisition to good use in Arizona: The self-driving car startup acquired by the automaker in March is trialling its tech on public roads in Scottsdale. Cruise twee...

 Twilio, exceeded revenue expectations in Q2 earnings released today after the bell. Immediately share prices increasedin after-hours trading before falling back to the market closing price. The ...

 Seriously, go. Enjoy yourself. It’s Monday. We’ll still be here when you get back. It’s bound to be a long week. The world is coming apart at the seams. Your boss won’t n...

 We’re about to enter an era of true drone magic. With smarter systems, better materials and powerful cameras we’re gaining access to a world once only available to Estes rocketeers a...

 Come to TechCrunch’s Disrupt SF conference to hear how your company can win at and adapt to the Facebook News Feed. We’ll have Facebook’s VP of Product Management for News Feed...

 Or at least, in terms of my appreciation of the memories they represent, that’s what it feels like, which is why I was excited enough about the Fujifilm Share Instax SP-2 to go out and gra...

 French startup Whyd started off as a social network for music lovers. Going forward, the company is going to focus on releasing a connected speaker. For existing users, the social network isn...

 VR in the 90s? Computers with gears? TechCrunch brings you five of the coolest retro gadgets and gizmos from this weekend’sVintage Computer Festival West XI at the Computer History Museum ...

 After the conclusion of Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, I got a chance to talk to John Boyega, of Star Wars and Attack the Block fame — and erstwhile competition judge. We chatted about his...

 The media industry is changing rapidly, and publications are forced to adapt accordingly. That’s where Spectrm, a new Berlin-based startup, comes into play.Spectrm bets big on bots, delive...

 All right all you procrastinators out there, the time to act is now. Early-bird tickets to Disrupt SF 2016 are on sale now through Friday, August 12, and while you’ll still be able to buy ...

 Engineering problems can sometimes appear simple beside the amorphous challenges of regulating and managing cutting edge technology use within existing societal structures. But early stage start...

 Twitch has been expanding its video contentbeyond gaming for some time, thanks to classic shows featuring Bob Ross and Julia Child, as well as its own “Creative” channel where artist...

 FireChat, the messaging service from Disrupt Battlefield finalist Open Garden that allows you to chat with people around you even when there is no regular Internet connection, is getting a major...

 Lyft is giving riders a way to make a multi-stop trip, letting them use the Lyft app to add an extra destination for two stop trips. The logic is simple: With more users, especially city-dweller...

 Managing your finances can be tough, especially if no one has ever taken the time to sit down with you and explain how it all works. SmartPath, a Y-Combinator backed company, aims to help low-in...

 Late last week we reported that Bitfinex, a popular Hong Kong-based Bitcoin exchange was hacked, losing about $70M worth of customer’s bitcoin. The loss caused the price of Bitcoin to drop...

 About a month ago, Incipio acquired Skullcandy, and now Roland is getting in on the action with a headphone company purchase of its very own. The Japanese instrument manufacturer revealed plans ...

 The accelerating drive to get autonomous cars on the road is being accompanied by a parallel push to improve Lidar technology, aka the 3D laser-based sensors that can be used for real-time mappi...

 Google today announced another acquisition that will help the company improve how it competes against Amazon’s AWS, Salesforce and Microsoft in the area of enterprise services, and specifi...

 Google today announced another acquisition that will help the company improve how it competes against Amazon’s AWS, Salesforce and Microsoft in the area of enterprise services, and specifi...

 I’ll be in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, August 10, to hold a night of pitches and open mic shenanigans so bring your guitar and pitch deck. The event will be at O’Toole’s 4796...

 In an interview with Fast Company, Apple executives looked back at the launch of the Maps app and its current state. The company has been hard at work on improving the mapping app, and it’...

 New rules from the FDA that go into effect todayare set to make it a lot tougher for youngsters under 18 to get their hands on e-cigarettes and related paraphernalia. Among the regulations are r...

 Wanxiang Group, which acquired the assets of plug-in hybrid pioneer Fisker and renamed it Karma Automotive,is planning a large-scale $375 million electric car factory with an output capacity of ...

 NBCUniversal is expanding its relationship with social networking platform Snapchat, according to an announcement outthis morning detailinga new content and advertising partnership between the t...

 I feel the grouchy old man part of me (about 75-percent of me, at this point) starting to complaining about how in his day throwing the old football around was enough fun and we didn’t nee...

 A startup called Verifly is making insurance on-demand, and per-flight, available to drone users today with a new mobile app and service that’s been in the works since late 2014.The servic...

 Consumer debt remains one of the biggest challenges with the American economy. The average household has $130,922 in debt, and debt interest payments represent 9 percent of the average household...

 Yahoo this morning is making a play for cord cutters with the launch of a new TV watching site called Yahoo View, featuring Hulu’s free content. The site will now become one of the only wa...

 Yahoo this morning is making a play for cord cutters with the launch of a new TV-watching site called Yahoo View, featuring Hulu’s free content. The site will now become one of the only wa...

 Walmart today took its biggest step yet in its bid to compete against Amazon in the world of digital commerce: today the retail giant announced that it would be acquiring Jet.com — an onli...

 The Israeli government’s decision to reverse math and English learning requirements for the country’s ultra-Orthodox schools could deal a serious blow to Israel’s vital technol...

 There’s another notable funding round for a fintech startup in Southeast Asia, after Singapore-based Funding Societies raised a $7.5 million Series A round for its take on marketplace lend...

 People flying Delta may have woken up this morning to find out they aren’t flying at all – a massive networked service outage resulting from a power failure in Atlanta, the airline&#...

 If you’ve been following Apple for a few years, you know that the company loves to remove buttons, ports and everything that sticks out. According to a new report from Mark Gurman, Apple p...

 Privacy rights organization Privacy International has filed another legal challenge to the UK government’s use of bulk hacking against foreigners. The filing, with the European Court of Hu...

 AngelList, the online platform for venture capital, is making a huge impact in the early-stage funding scene in the U.S. — it helped raise over $160 million for startups last year, for one...

 European online charity auction platform CharityStars, which counts eBay as its main competitor (in addition to ChaityBuzz and IfOnly), has closed a modest 2 million in Series A funding. The rou...

 Uber drivers in Nairobi went on strike to protest the company’s July fare cuts. The move comes amidst greater competition in Kenya’s ride-hail market since local telecoms company Saf...

 Walmart Stores is buying Jet.com in a deal worth $3 billion dollars according to a source with direct knowledge of the deal, confirming reports that have been pouring in about the bidforJet.com ...

 Marketers in the high-tech world who use phrases such as “social media marketing,” “Facebook marketing” and “content marketing” do not understand the basic di...

The time has come to build a better Web. Read More ...

 The path for SaaS domination of a market segment has historically followed one of two routes: bringing previously offline workflows online, or moving on-premise software processes online. In sho...

 After an impromptu meetup in Prizren, Kosovo, where I met with local startups, I’m heading to Tirana, Albania where I’ll be holding an informal TechCrunch Meetup. Sign up here to get...

 The market for mergers and acquisitions, particularly in software, is red-hot: Big private-equity firms, flush with cash, did 170 software deals worth $27.22 billion in the first half of 2016 al...

 Two years ago when the international 3D printing industry was still a much-contended space a small Polish company called Zortrax made waves – and raised capital – on the news that it...

 While bugs and feature complaints are still causing a decent amount of negativity among users, Pokmon Go continues its upward trajectory in terms of overall revenue. App analytics platform Senso...

 A Missouri man might not have made it safely to the hospital without the aid of his Tesla Model X’s self-driving features (via Slate). Joshua Neally, the 37-year old Model X owner, was on ...

 How are UK startups coping with the unraveling of the old world order? In the immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote, TechCrunch spoke to several founders who expressed shock, disappointment and...

 One of the criticisms levelled against bootcamps is they don’t attract low-income students. The evidence seems to support this. According to bootcamp industry-watcher Course Report, 79 per...

 It took more than a week for remaining Skully execs to admit to themselves it was time to shut down. But late last night the company finally sent customers an email, which was obtained by TechCr...

 For all of the talk there is about content being the one thing that’s really missing in VR, it’s pretty difficult for consumers to dive into VR and really make anything. Visionary VR...

 We’re on the verge of another digital revolution. I’ve seen it before, when I was at DoubleClick in 1997, and I’m seeing it now as mobile begins to take over the hearts and min...

 Below is an excerpt from Neon Fever Dream by Eliot Peper. Neon Fever Dream is about a dark secret hidden in the swirling dust and exultant revelry of Burning Man. It’s a fast-paced thrille...

 I’ll be in Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday, August 10, to hold a night of pitches and open mic shenanigans so bring your guitar and pitch deck. The event will be at O’Toole’s 4796...

 The Gillmor Gang — Keith Teare, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, August 5, 2016. The Gang is polled on Google’s AMP attack on the Web, the percenta...

 Driverless cars and ridesharing are poised to bring about the next big tectonic movement that technology provides for the human experience. In much the same way that the mobile phone has transfo...

 It’s custom; it’s tradition; it’s dogma; it’s a cargo cult. It is well-intentioned, but all too often, ill-advised. It’s done because it is the thing one does. It w...

 Tech unicorn and sharing economy darling Airbnb has informedthe State of Delaware that it’s raising another heap of cash. TechCrunch independently verified thatAirbnb indicated ina 28 page...

 The wait is over for many Pokmon Go fans in Asia, after the smash hit game went live in 15 new countries in the continent. Read More ...

Spotify launches Release Radar, Deliveroo raises $275 million in a series E, Facebook tests opening camera at top of the news feed and MSQRD filters, Amazon launches Prime Air – its own cargo pl...

 There are new regulations that will lower the barriers to entry for the commercial operation of drones. The challenge for the Federal Aviation Administration has been to establish a framework of...

 The 2016 DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge has concluded, and the winning team — Carnegie Mellon University’s ForAllSecure — is taking home the $2 million grand prize. What’s t...

 The Washington Post announced today that it will use artificial intelligence to report key information aboutthe Olympics.The software will contribute The Post’s coverage of Rio 2016 by pos...

 Previously known as the starting point of the Pony Express and the place where Jesse James died and Eminem was born, St. Joseph, Missouri now has a new claim to fame, as the home the future of f...

 Google’s self-driving car project is losing Chris Urmson, who served as the unit’s CTO and lead technical resource after going the company from Carnegie Mellon. Urmson has considerab...

 One of these days we’re going to see aircraft go electric, just as cars are — but not for a while. In the meantime, we can’t slack off when it comes to the research that will m...

 I’ve never been a big motorcycle guy. I have the hand/eye coordination of a sleepy toddler, and I’m pretty sure I’d hurt myself within about two minutes of firing up the engine...

 Toronto-based B corporationKomodoOpenLab thought Pokmon Go using its Tecla product, an assistive hardware device designed to make it easier to use smartphones, tablets and users for people who m...

The team from a startup called Eyegroove, a “musical selfie” app, has joined Facebook. According to a message on the company’s website, most of the small team who worked on the app w...

 Incipio just keeps getting bigger and bigger. Shortly after after announcing that it had acquired up budget headphone maker Skullcandy, the Irvine-based accessories conglomerate has picked up Gr...

 Word just started going around the rumormill that Apple has acquired Turi, a company that describes itself as a “machine learning platform for developers and data scientists.” We rea...

 He’s won a couple of Oscars, he’s worked with some of the best directors in the biz, and he’s even played a Bond villain. So, where does Christop Waltz go from here? Phone comm...

 Tumbled glass has a definite appeal: It’s eye-catching, has a pleasant variety of colours, and feels nice in the hand. And making it just takes time, and repetitive motion – throw so...

   Amazon’s plucky little voice assistant already has a fairly broad skill set – but gaming has never really been Alexa’s strong suit. Granted, the AI is no Xbox, but that ...

 This week tech companies worked their angles for the Rio Olympics, Uber China gave into Didi Chuxing and Instagram cloned Snapchat with an ephemeral new feature. Here are this week’stop st...

 Playbuzz has been offering publishers tools to create interactive/social media-friendly content like galleries, lists and polls. Now it’s giving them new ways to track the effectiveness of...

 I recently spent $175 on a pair of Warby Parker sunglasses. I’m not proud of that, but my eyesight sucks now because I’m old and it’s sunny because it’s the summer. Suffi...

 Gillmor Gang – Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session today, Friday Aug 5.Our live chat stream during the show broadcastGillmor Gang’s Faceb...

 Gillmor Gang – Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session for today’s concluded.Our live chat stream during the show broadcastGillmor Gang’...

 If you’ve visited a business or brand’s Facebook Page in recent days, you may have noticed things look a little different. The company is now finalizing the rollout of a new, cleaner...

 If you’ve visited a business or brand’s Facebook Page in recent days, you may have noticed things look a little different. The company is now finalizing the rollout of a new, cleaner...

 f you’ve ever tried towrite in a language that isn’t your own, you are probablywell aware of at least two things: first, writing requires much more time than usual and, second, even ...

 heranos has had a long 10 months. The company, beset with regulation issues, has faceda Congressional inquiry, possible criminal charges, lawsuits, a recall of test results from the past two yea...

 Virtual reality headsets have largely been sold as gaming devices thus far, butthe industry soon expects their utility to expand far beyond that. Today at VRLA, HTC announced that they will be o...

 As the Vive becomes an increasingly essential part of HTC’s future, the company is making sure that no stone is left unturned when it comes to potential profit. What perhaps began as a sid...

 Early on in the Pokmon Go hype cycle, there were signs that players were driving a significant uptick in sales of backup batteries, like the Mophie units you may be familiar with that offer USB ...

 Early on in the Pokemon Go hype cycle, there were signs that players were driving a significant uptick in sales of backup batteries, like the Mophie units you may be familiar with that offer USB...

 Snapchat opens to the camera by default to spur content creation, and now Facebook is trying the same starting with an Olympics-themed test in Brazil and Canada. Instead of just the “What ...

 When a franchise that essentially died more than a decade ago comes back to life with such fervor, we need to ask ourselves how and why that happened. And if you’re able to stop playing Po...

 A number of businesses use Twitter to interact with their customers and offer support. But that often means responding to angry tweets directed at their account, then switching users over to pri...

 Apple has big plans to overhaul its App Store in the months ahead to better tailor the experience toits end users. But ahead of that, the company has introduced a more personalized version of it...

 Mercedes-Benz isn’t just planning one or two all-electric vehicle options to woo customers away from competitors including BMW and Tesla who are further along with their EV lineups –...

 Deliveroo, a popular on-demand restaurant food delivery startup in Europe, has raised another $275 million in funding, a Series E investment that we have heard from sources values the ...

 U.K. startup Network Locum, which has built a staffing platform and workplace management software targeting the U.K.’s National Health Service, has acquired a smaller locum GP-booking plat...

 The average seed round in the nascent cannabis industry in the U.S. hovers around $1 million, according to hemp and cannabis-focused investment research by Poseidon Asset Management.But Denver-b...

 Digital music may have brought the experience of listening to an artist to amore convenient platform than ever, but there’s never really been a way to replicate the social experience of se...

 Spotify is doubling down on its strategy to beat Apple Music with big data-driven personalized playlists like Discover Weekly — a huge hit that saw 40 million users in its first year. Toda...

 VR’s promise of boundless virtual worlds to explore is, in practice, rather more tethered to reality, given physical limits on play spaces meaning you can only walk so far in the correspon...

 Delivery by drone or self-driving trucks may not be here any time soon for Amazon.com.But the e-commerce juggernaut plans to launch its first ever branded cargo plane, the Amazon One, at Seattle...

The Olympic Committe prohibits GIFs, Vines and streaming apps, the average internet speed in the U.S. is over 50Mbps, OnePlus sales in Europe halted to meet demand, Grab is raising at a $2.3 billion v...

 The Olympics kick off this week and to celebrate, Google is featuringa new interactive doodlein the Google App for iOS and Android every day for the next seven days.So if you couldn’t make...

 Long before HP was known for PCs and laser printers, it built test equipment for electrical engineers. One reason its products succeeded was because they were designed by the very people who ult...

 Social game developer Zyngatumbled 9 percent in after-hours trading following the second quarter 2016 earnings announcement after the bell today. The company reported a net loss of $4.4 million,...

 For the millions upon millions of visually impaired people in India, it can be difficult getting hold of the audiobook they want in the language they need it in. A project from Carnegie Mellon U...

 Tomorrow marks the first day of the Olympic Games in Rio. And drone makers DJI have announced the establishment of temporary flight restrictions that will prevent their users from flying into ai...

 Tech companies hold the keys to some of our most personal information — payment details, health records, chat logs with our lovers and archives of family photos — and, as we hand ove...

 It’s difficult for tech workers and it’s even more difficult for those not touched by the modern gold rush.One mortgage originator, Opes Advisors, is incorporatingrestricted stock un...

 One of the most technically advanced features of the HTC Vive virtual reality system is the way it tracks a user’s motions inside their play space. Valve, which collaborated with HTC to bu...

 Here are four cybersecurity terms that will root many conversations, both on the expo floor and among experts and analysts in the briefing rooms at Black Hat. Read More ...

 Nissan is bringing a working version of the BladeGlider all-electric sport concept it first revealed in 2013 to Rio to ride the hype wave of the Olympics. The car is cool enough to merit hype in...

 One of the perils of text-based communication is the lack of cues that clearly signal irony being employed — no doubt we’ve all had our own mishaps behind this particular issue. Rese...

 What’s a good gift for a martian rover who’s just turning four? Water, obviously. Barring that, however, a fun little mobile game will do. NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory enli...

 About two days ago, Pokemon Go players noticed a change — and it wasn’t one they’d been hoping for. All of a sudden Pokemon were much, much harder to catch. They dodged more, h...

 For many people, the robot-populated future is a zero-sum game; it’s either going to be us or them running things. Headlines are rife with dire predictions: “Robots will take over mo...

 Mobile search company Quixey has raised an additional $30 million in debt funding.The company touts its ability to help users find content within their apps. More recently, it says it has develo...

 Facebook built its own version of Snapchat Stories called Quick Updates, but will not release it. Though Instagram Stories launched this week, Facebook isn’t going to follow suit. Quick Up...

 Facebook built its own version of Snapchat Stories, called Quick Updates, but will not release it. Though Instagram Stories launched this week, Facebook isn’t going to follow suit. Quick U...

 LinkedIn has likely ended itsrun as an independent company built upon a network of professionals with a bang, clearly beating out what Wall Street sought. Of course, this report islargely moot. ...

 Zeta Interactive,the marketing-focused big data and analytics firm that recently acquired the CRM division of eBay Enterprise, today announced it has bought Acxiom Impact, Acxiom‘s marketi...

 At the beginning of the year, Amazon flipped the switch on Dash Replenishment, a service aimed at bringing the instant reordering of its devoted product buttons directly to connected devices. Th...

 The Olympics Committee has always been restrictive in who can use what footage and when, but a couple new rules introduced for the 2016 games take things even further. The official social media ...

 The Olympics Committee has always been restrictive in who can use what footage and when, but a couple of new rules introduced for the 2016 games take things even further. The official social med...

 With plans for a new brewery and aggressive expansion in the biggest craft beer market in the world, Scottish brewery BrewDog* turned to BankRoll to raise investment to, er, bankroll itsU.S. exp...

 Googleannounced an interesting little tweakto its search results today that will highlight reviews from reputable critics and best-of list inclusions for bars and restaurants when you search in ...

 Connected bikes could behuge assets to the future of urban transit, especially as cities and cars grow more connected, too. But smart cyclescan be very expensive, and cyclists also tend to be ve...

 Insert is the new startup from the team behind app development company Worklight (which was acquired by IBM for $70 million). Today it’sannouncing that it has raised $10 million in Series ...

 It seems there’s no limit to the perils being faced by athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympics: not just their competitors, but toxic water, poor accommodations, and impressive mobile bills. Add...

 Disney today is wadinginto the mobile messaging market with a new chat application called Disney Mix, aimed at kids, tweens and families. While theapp will compete to some extent with popular me...

 Buying a couch sucks. Not unlike when buying a mattress, most people find themselves picking one of two* options: heading to a chain couch store and haggling with someone who needs to keep the p...

 Forget food delivery. Just the organic slice of the grocery delivery business remains competitive in the U.S. with giants from the brick and mortar world, tech titans and upstarts all muscling i...

 Regardless of whether you’ve seen Netflix’s original show Stranger Things (you should go start after you read this post if you haven’t), watching the video above with any kind ...

 Popular password manager 1Password is trying a new distribution model. Instead of letting you pay for the 1Password app on your Mac or PC and pay again to upgrade to a new major version, AgileBi...

 Popular password manager 1Password is trying a new distribution model. Instead of letting you pay for the 1Password app on your Mac or PC and pay again to upgrade to a new major version, AgileBi...

 Jim Prosser, Twitter’s head of corporate, revenue, and policy communications, is leaving the company.He’s headed over to SoFi to run communications and policy, he said on Twitter. It...

 Facebook Pages and websites that frequently withhold, exaggerate, or distort information in their link headlines will disappear from News Feed thanks to a new anti-clickbait algorithmthat’...

 Video has generally been available — and is often shared — on Pinterest, but it hasn’t quite received the same treatment that the company’s traditional content has seen.O...

 LinkedIn announced today that it isopen sourcing a tool called Test Butler,which wasdeveloped in-house to overcome limitations on Android app testemulators. As LinkedIn was developing its latest...

 Say what you will about OnePlus’ now-defunct invite system – it certainly helped the company control its supplies and gauge demand. The launch of the OnePlus 3 marked a brave new, in...

 Apple’s forthcoming reality TV show just scored itself some big-time Hollywood star power: according a report out this morning from Variety, actress and Goop founder Gwyneth Paltrow will s...

 In the 80s, there were dozens of 1-900 hotlines that anyone could call to chat about a certain topic. These ranged from phone sex lines to WWF chats to fan hotlines for stars like The New Kids O...

 In the 80s, there were dozens of 1-900 hotlines that anyone could call to chat about a certain topic. These ranged from phone sex lines to WWF chats to fan hotlines for stars like The New Kids O...

 Most of my analogies revolve around sports. The concept of “attribution” in business is similar to giving credit to a player for assisting another player in achieving an objective. T...

 Kyna and Conan Fong were at dinner trying to convince their father, who ran a medical practice, to try something different than just keeping paper records. There’s a good reason for that &...

 During what was likely the first presidential campaign fundraiser held at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas, campaigners made their case for Hillary Clinton as the cyber candidate.L...

 This might sound like inside baseball, but I’ve been using Ulysses for all my writing for a few months now. It’s a rock-solid, well-designed writing app for iOS and macOS. And now, t...

 Sling TV has long been a viable option for sports fans who want to cut the cord with traditional pay television, thanks to its streams of popular channels providingsports coverage, like ESPN, Fo...

 TechCrunch is going to be in Los Angeles next week and we want you to come hang out with us. We’ll be hosting a mini meet-up next Wednesday, August 10, from 6-8 p.m. at WeWork’s bran...

 Apple released a brand new ad just in time for the Olympics. The video is all about diversity and happiness. It features many different photos and short clips of human faces, smiling and enjoyin...

 Reputation management startup BrandYourself has raised another $2 million. It’s been two years since the company raised $3.3 million in Series A funding. Since then, co-founder and CEO Pat...

 In an attempt to better understand neuromuscular conditions like ALS, engineers at MIT have developed a quarter-sized chip housing a muscle strip and some motor neurons. The setup is designed to...

 There are signs that a growing number of Brits are feeling overwhelmed by the neverending demands of digital technology, with many web users attempting to reset the balance between their online ...

 Indonesia-based Go-Jek, the motorbike taxis on-demand company that competes with Uber and Grab, has confirmed that it has raised $550 million new funding and hinted that it may expand overseas. ...

 Twitter today is debuting a new advertising format that will encourageits users to tweet more often, while talking about an advertiser’s brand. With the new ads, businesses and brandswill ...

 Where were you in 1993 and 1994? I was probably playing Aladdin, and then The Lion King (yes for the entire two years), two surprisingly great 16-bit platformers created by Disney and Virgin Gam...

 Password management isone of the key defences — or key weaknesses — when it comes to protecting your data and identity online, and today Dashlane — the digital wallet and passw...

 Back in November 2015, Apple released its music streaming service for Android phones as a beta. 9 months later, the app is now official a version 1.0. And yet, it only has an average rating of 3...

 The thing that sticks out at you most about the second member of the Roomba 900 series is the robotic vacuum’s price. At $700, it’s not cheap, really, but it’s at least slightl...

 A new study by car maker Nissan predicts the UK will have more electric vehicle charging locations than gas stations by 2020. It’s a bold prediction to estimate that EV chargers will outnu...

 Formlabs is shaping up to be something of a rare bright spot in a world of desktop 3D printers. While plenty of other devices have come and gone, failing to live up to the promise of consumer el...

 In a beacon of hope for onlooking founders, Y Combinator reject and network analytics startup Kentik Technologies, locked down a $23 million Series B this morning. Let’s be honest — ...

 You could make a case that Minecraft is the professional network of 10-year olds, but you’d have to work pretty hard at it. That’s not what Satya Nadella means when heuses Minecraft ...

 I’m delighted to announce Andela co-founder and COO Christina Sass will be joining me on stage for a fireside chat at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco next month. Backed by Mark Zuckerb...

 Amazon’s friendly AI is continuing its brisk march across smart home services. A week after August announced Alexa functionality for its smart lock, Nucleus is doing the same for its home ...

 Grab, the company that rivals Uber in Southeast Asia, is in negotiations to close a new round of funding that could value it as high as $2.3 billion, multiple sources close to talks told TechCru...

From rising rents to online competitors, local stores and restaurants face enough challenges outside of their own doors that basic stuff like scheduling employees’ shifts and breaks should feel ...

 Xiaomi is broadening its already expansive range of products by venturing into virtual reality for the first time. Read More ...

 Drizly, the on-demand booze delivery startup, has today announced the close of a $15 million Series B funding round, led by Polaris Partners, with participation from existing investors.Drizly op...

 Walking around the neighborhood handing out CVs in the hopes of scoring shifts in a local cafe or restaurant has never been an efficient job search process. But workers in the service industry s...

 The official promo for Strava’s new beacon feature shows a runner attempting to outpace a giant boulder – something I suspect isn’t too common an occurrence if you’re Ind...

 Go-Jek, the motorbike taxi on-demand service that rivals Uber and Grab in Indonesia, has closed $550 million in new funding, a source close to the company told TechCrunch. The deal values Go-Jek...

 Back in June on the last day of the New York Assembly’s legislative session, the state passed a bill legalizing daily fantasy sports, paving the road for the return of incumbents DraftKing...

Moon Express is the first private company to get permission from the U.S. government to go to the moon, Facebook shows us its “Area 404” hardware lab, Tesla delivers 14,402 vehicles in Q2 ...

 Few things are more dreadful than dealing with airline customer service. Fortunately, there’s a startup that wants to make those calls for you. For hassle-free travel, AirHelp is raising $...

 Serial entrepreneur discusses his journey starting up and exiting two tech companies in Silicon Valley. Read More ...

 One by one, most software has succumbed to the cloud; Designers have Adobe, gamers have Steam, programmers have GitHub and now musicians have Splice. Splice is launching a rent-to-own pricing mo...

 The human microbiome — meaning all of our microbes’ genes — will reshape the consumerization of personalized medicine and diet. Following the human genome project, technologica...

 As interest and investment continue to pour into the online education market, startups building platforms with alot of traction are reaping the rewards. In the latest development, a companyout o...

An Intel engineer just tweeted out a photo of a new VR sensor prototype and suggested that VR would play a large role in the company’s developer conference late this month. In the since-deleted ...

 Speedtest has released its mid-year broadband speeds report, and there’s actually quite a bit of good news in there. Speeds are steadily increasing despite machinations within the industry...

 It’s been a rough couple of months for Amazon competitors. First Canada’s Shop.ca declares bankruptcy and essentially has a fire sale, then Jet.com, which accumulatedbig funding and ...

 In light of Dollar Shave Club’s recent sale, I started thinking about other industries that haven’t yet rethought the customer relationship by leveraging the cloud. A significant maj...

 Teslanews has been dominating Silicon Valley over the last few weeks and today’s earnings report released after the close of the markethasn’t shaken fundamental views about the compa...

 Jack Dorsey really needs a hit. After Twitter’s weak second-quarter showing, and both stocks not performing well in the past year, Dorsey — as the lead of both companies — need...

 Basis Peak, a fitness watchtracking your health and sleep habits, is now being recalled by the company after reports of overheating.The Intel subsidiary first sent a statement about the overheat...

 The field of artificial intelligence is so huge, and the potential applications so numerous, that it would be folly to try to explain it all in one — no, wait, IBM just did. Read More ...

 Lyft is seeing record ridership, including an all-time high of 13.9 million rides during July first reported by Recode and confirmed by TechCrunch via sources familiar with the matter. In additi...

 Owlchemy Labs wants you to reach out and grabVR content with your hands. The Austin-based VR studio just secured a $5 million Series A led by Qualcomm Ventures with participation in the round al...

 Many American Olympic athletes are using cutting-edge technology like motion tracking systems, wearable jump monitors and Doppler radar to help them jump higher and go farther before hitting Rio...

 After a relatively short beta, Microsoft today announced that the Excel API — a way for developers to programmatically use Excel for Office 365 for doing calculations, building dashboards ...

 Finding life beyond Earth means combing through an incredibly vast array of potential planetary candidates, but one new study from a team of researchers led by San Francisco State University ast...

 After launching in Seattle in April, BMW’s car sharing service ReachNow is expanding down the I-5 corridor to Portland, Oregon. In Seattle, more than 13,000 people signed up in the first m...

 YouTube Kids, thechild-friendly version of YouTube’s servicethat launched last year andfaced criticism for the way it handled advertisements, has today launched a version of the service th...

 Comma.ai, the startup that George Hotz (aka Geohotz) founded to show that making driverless vehicles could done relatively cheaply using off-the-shelf components and existing vehicles, has open-...

 This is going to be fun. I’ll be in Columbus, Ohio next week, Wednesday, August 10, and I’ll be holding a night of pitches and open mic shenanigans so bring your guitar. The event wi...

 This is going to be fun. I’ll be in Columbus, Ohio, next week, Wednesday, August 10, and I’ll be holding a night of pitches and open mic shenanigans so bring your guitar. The event w...

 Take a tour of Facebook’s new 22,000 square foot hardware lab where it’s building drones, satellites, lasers, VR headsets, and the machines that store the world’s biggest colle...

 There is much talk of “cloud native” these days, and people are taking liberties with the interpretation — as they do with everything else associated with the cloud. Cade Metz ...

 About one year ago, Apple unveiled a diversity site featuring its employee representation data and a letter from Apple CEO Tim Cook about the company’s commitment to diversity and inclusio...

 Car component supplier Lear is hoping to ride the wave of connectivity to new heights, with plans to develop and ship a unit for its car-maker customers that lets their vehicles communicate with...

 Following yesterday’s launch of a new version of the Skype Windows 10 application, Microsoft today announced an expanded collection of its “Skype bots,” the automated chat assi...

 After a few months of testing the waters,Kikis still bullish on chatbots andhasquite a fewreasons to be.Just last May atTechCrunch Disrupt NY, Kik CEO Ted Livingston divulged that developers had...

 Many executives and employees have need for a role that’s basically a “chief of staff” — someone who keeps track of all the details about everyone they encounter and are ...

 It’s an interesting time for Dropbox’s document-building tool, Paper. Quip, in a similar vein to Paper, was bought for a whopping $750 million by Salesforce earlier this week. This d...

 Ripple has acquired Hoodline, a deal that combines two different approaches to covering local news.Founded by former Viki CEO Razmig Hovaghimian, Ripple launched earlier this year and taps commu...

 In recent years, venture capital has poured into food companies, from meal kit and grocery delivery services to the makers of environmentally sustainable, or health-promoting food products.Now, ...

 It’s hard standing out in the smartphone market. Of late, ZTE’s primary focus has been on pricing – a strategy epitomized by the recent launch of the company’s $99 Androi...

 Google today released a new application designed to getkids to explore the world using maps and 3D imagery. The new app, which the company describes as “an experiment,” takes advanta...

 This is where Facebook will prototype its solar drones, Internet-beaming lasers, VR headsets, and next-gen servers. The problem with moving faster than most companies is that Facebook was plague...

 Pepper has been picking up retail work all over Asia, including a high profile gig working at Pizza Huts in Japan, but Softbank’s humanoid robot hasn’t had too much luck finding work...

 Polar goes back. Way, way back. Back to the early 80s, when the Finnish company launched its first portable heart rate monitor, the Sport Tester PE 2000. Back when wearable fitness devices weren...

 Not to be outdone by Twitter – who, yesterday introduced followable Moments and other means of tuning into Olympics news via its network – Facebook is rolling out a number of ways fo...

 While social games company Zynga’s push into real-money gambling may have had somehiccups, a group of alums who built a startup dedicated specifically to that have sold their company for u...

 An Altanta-based startup called Florence Healthcare has raised $1.7 million in seed funding to help drug companies and researchers at hospitals or other trial sites to exchange information about...

 Samsung wants to make cars. Or at least, make parts of cars, in a similar supply-side capacity to the position it currently occupies in the mobile device and television world. A new Bloomberg re...

 Hulu has become even more of a major media company mashup – Tim Warner is joining Disney, Fox and Comcast with a sizeable ownership stake of the streaming entity, picking up 10 percent (cu...

 MoonExpresshas officially become the first private company in the world to receive permission to travel beyond Earth’s orbit. After months of conversations with government officials, the c...

 Soon,hundreds of millions of mobile usersin China will have direct access to an augmented reality smartphone platform on their smartphones. Baidu, China’s largest search engine, unveiled a...

Panoply.io, a startup that wants to make settingup a data warehousing and analytics infrastructure as easy as spinningup an AWS server, today announced that it has raised a $7 million Series A round l...

 London-based City Pantry, which operates an office catering platform to make it easier to order in food for staff and company meetings, has raised 1.1 million in new funding. The investment come...

Gogoro’s electric smartscooter is pretty snazzy but unless you live in Taiwan, chances are you haven’t actually seen one in person. The scooters require a network of battery-swapping termi...

Gogoro’s electric smartscooter is pretty snazzy but unless you live in Taiwan, chances are you haven’t actually seen one in person. The scooters require a network of battery-swapping termi...

 Bitfinex, one of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges online, has suffered a major hack. The company has posted a note on their website detailing the security breach, and while it doesnR...

 People are very comfortable streaming movies, TV, music, video games and more. However, the idea of streaming apps on mobile devices, for better or worse, has lagged far behind. Increasingly, ho...

Instagram launches a stories feature to compete with Snapchat, Salesforce buys word-processing app Quip for $750 million, the NFL is the first sports league to get onto Snapchat Discover, threesome ap...

 500 Startups’ 17th round of its incubator is wrapping up, and a total of 42 companies presented at its demo day in Mountain View on Tuesday. It was quite an impressive batch. Companies tha...

 In reality, there are few reasons where you or I would want to have a Leica camera. After all, it’s not a necessity: fast-shooting, high megapixel and wide aperture touting cameras all exi...

 Elizabeth Holmes, thefounder and CEO of beset blood analysis startup Theranos, is no longer mentioned on thePresidential Ambassadors for Global Entrepreneurship (PAGE) website. Holmes announced ...

 I’m still trying to deal with losing Pokvision, too, but Niantic’s recent changes to the game don’t seem to be putting a damper on player appetite just yet— new data from...

 A vanpool is like a carpool, but a van can take more people to work in one trip. It is also significantly less cool-looking. But vanpoolers in Los Angeles need no longer worry about the potentia...

 If you’ve ever been surfing through random videos on Facebook or another social media site you’ve probably seen the concept video of that Chinese train/bus hybrid thing that can trav...

 Data analyticsproviderTableau Software reported second quarter earnings after the bell today. The Seattle-based companyposted a loss due to higher than expected expenses for the quarter, while s...

 Zype has raised another $2 million as it helps publishers deliver (and make money from) video across devices. Added to the $1.6 million that Zype announced last year, this brings the New York Ci...

 Normally, the notion of setting a pair of spiderbots free in your house would seem alarming. But if you knew that they were weaving you a strange and mathematical hammock while you were gone? Su...

 Strictly speaking, video isn’t an interactive medium, but a new research project from MIT aims to change that: The school’s CSAIL lab has come up with a technique through which viewe...

 Once upon a time the milkman delivered milk directly to your home. The Avon and Tupperware ladies had private parties in the comfort of a neighbor’s house. The Hoover salesperson demonstra...

 I’ve been rolling past videos on Facebook and Twitter for a while now, wondering why social media is so fascinated by puppies being saved from floods, babies hearing for the first time, an...

 If you’re an Etsy investor, you’re somewhere between ecstatic and off the rails after two days of gains totaling more than 23 percent. Fortunately for investors, the fun hasn’t...

 TechCrunch is pleased to bring you500 Startups Batch 17Demo Day today, August 2nd, starting at 1:00pm PT.500 Startups is a global seed fund and startup accelerator founded by Dave McClure and Ch...

 Medium announced today that it has acquired Embed.ly to support publishers with backend APIs for embedding content. Embed.ly supports writers by providing analytics on content and customized rec...

 Medium announced today that it has acquired Embed.ly to support publishers with backend APIs for embedding content. Embed.ly supports writers by providing analytics on content and customized rec...

 The NFL and Snapchat heart each other, and will continue to heart each other for multiple years to come: the two announced an extension to their “strategic partnership” today, which ...

 Amazonannounced the release of Elastic MapReduce (EMR) 5.0.0 today, which includes among other things support for 16 open source Hadoop projects. As AWS continues to hone its various tools to he...

 People.ai, a company bringing machine learning algorithms to sales operations,is emerging from stealth. The platformuses machine learning tech to give sales reps what it calls a predictive playb...

 Anyone interested in the history of personal computing will surely have heard of the Alto, but when’s the last time you got to play with one? It’s been a while even for Paul Allen &#...

 You can now buy Microsoft’s HoloLensDevelopment Edition, the company’s futuristic augmented reality helmet, without having to go through an application process. Until now, Microsoft ...

 Along with today’s rollout of the Windows 10 Anniversary Update, Microsoft is also debuting a new version of its Skype Windows application, which the company says has been redesigned from ...

 For those who think that Google Hangouts, Slack, or Skype aren’t enough to meet their business needs, please allow me to introduce you to Pluot. The company just raised $2.5 million from a...

 The one thing you never hear in Silicon Valley is an entrepreneur admit they copied someone else. Yet there in the headquarters of Facebook, the world’s most prolific product cloner, Insta...

 Chinese tech company Cheetah Mobile has acquired French startup News Republic for $57 million. News Republic is a news aggregator — think about it as a sort of Flipboard, Apple News or RSS...

 Chinese tech company Cheetah Mobile has acquired French startup News Republic for $57 million. News Republic is a news aggregator — think about it as a sort of Flipboard, Apple News or RSS...

 Six months after launching AMP for news stories in its mobile search results, Google today announced the next step for the project: moving AMP beyond news and bringingit to other mobile sites, t...

 Just over a year after it won the inaugural Make It In Brooklyn pitch competition (and the attendant $50,000 cash prize that went with it) the Brooklyn-based startup Happy has been acquired by P...

 Everyoneloves stickers. Snapchat must be onto us because the company just launched Geostickers, a new feature that lets users send city specific stickers in snapsand messages. There are 15 stick...

 San Francisco-based Attic Labs is launching Nomstoday, a new decentralized database that takes it cues from projects like Git, Camlistore, ipfs, bup and others. As the company also announced tod...

 Samsung’s Gear 360 has only been available in drips and drabs. The company first introduced the VR camera back at Mobile World Congress in February and has made it available outside of the...

 As the Internet of Things evolves into the Internet of Everything and expands its reach into virtually every domain, high-speed data processing, analytics and shorter response times are becoming...

 After Tinder’s lawyers found 3nder’s name just a tiny bit too close for comfort, the latter renames to Feeld and launches an Android app. The company is in the business of helping si...

 Mike Judge is no stranger to Disrupt. The first season of Silicon Valley, the HBO show where Judge is co-creator and showrunner, revolved around fictional startup Pied Piper’s attempt to w...

 The latest HTC results, for its Q2, confirm another loss making quarter for the smartphone and VR headset maker, with the Taiwanese company reporting revenue of NT$18.9 billion ($598M) for the q...

 Making good on plans announced earlier this year, HBO and Vice Media confirmed today that the cable network will begin airing a nightly newscast program, called “Vice News Tonight,” ...

 Lookout, Snapchat. Instagram just launched its own Stories feature for sharing everyday moments that disappear. Click the arrow to the right or scroll down to view our animated guide to how Inst...

 2016 is definitely the year of on-demand. Rideshare companies like Uber and Lyft have cemented their position as the future of transportation, and other on-demand services like Postmates have sh...

 Not quite worthy of the wow factor bestowed upon the new Note 7, but Samsung wasn’t going to get out of this morning’s Unpacked event with another big reveal. The hardware maker is r...

 Here it is: The new phone that was so exciting the company went ahead and skipped a full number upgrade (the Samsung Galaxy Note 6 lost to the annals of history alongside Ghostbusters III and Fr...

 A San Francisco startup called iBeat has raised $1.5 million in seed funding to make a smartwatch that constantly monitors a wearer’s heart and, in the event of cardiac arrest, checks in o...

 MikMak, the service that creates and distributes short-form ‘mini-mercials’ so users can shop via video, has today announced the close of a $3.2 million seed round, led by VaynerMedi...

 The $1,200 Staaker drone does away with the traditional remote control, replacing it with a wearable armband. Instead of controlling the drone like a remote-controlled plane, you put the Staaker...

 People only post the highlights of their life on Instagram, so today the app adds its own version of “Stories” to poach goofy, off-the-cuff, everyday content from Snapchat. It works ...

 Apptimize, a company that helps businesses optimize, test and rapidly iterate on their mobile apps, has just raised $12.4 million in a new round of Series B funding. Investor interest was strong...

 LinkedIn, the social platform for people to network and look for work that’sgetting acquired by Microsoftfor $26 billion, is taking the wraps off a newfeature that it hopes will get more o...

 Startups are constantly talking about feedback from their users — having meaningful conversations with real users to figure out what they want, and how they can give it to them. But where ...

 Pokmon Go creator Niantic has released a statement on its Facebook page explaining some of the recent changes. You may have noticed on Twitter, Facebook and Reddit that some of these changes hav...

 E-commerce startup Shoppable is announcing that it has raised $3.5 million in Series A funding. The New York City-based startup offers several products that allow publishers and consumers to tak...

 We’ll be live at today’s big Samsung reveal — and you can be, too, kind of, sort of. The electronics giant has offered up a few clues that today’s event will include a re...

 Twitter this morning announced a change to how its Moments feature will work for those who want to follow the Rio 2016 Olympic Games viaits platform. Previously, followable Moments were limited-...

 Whereas setting up the original Xbox One often felt like I was handlingsome sort of Medicare-provided DIY iron lung, the One S is a far tighter experiencethat’sluxurious and efficient in i...

 Ping Identity announced its first acquisition since being acquired by Vista Equity Partners in Junefor $600 million, grabbing Austin-based UnboundID for an undisclosed purchase price. The purcha...

 It would be a shame if we were able to build autonomous cars before we could simplify car buying. Today buying a used car means booking multiple weekends to test drive and examine every car at e...

 Sensay, the chatbot startup that lets people ask for advice from fellow users, has today announced the close of a $4.5 million seed round extension led by Norwest Venture Partners. Other partici...

 ShareACamper, the Germany-headquartered peer-to-peer rental platform for motorhomes and caravans, has raised 2 million in seed funding. The backing comes from mostly unnamed investors from the t...

 Distil Networks, a company that helps discover and eradicate bad bots, announced a $21 million Series C round today.Funders includenew investor Silicon Valley Bank along with previous participan...

 The latest move in the online takeout ordering space sees publicly-listed Just Eat sell its Benelux businesses (the Netherlands and Belgium) to rival Takeaway.com. The transaction consists of 22...

 UK startup truRating, which is aiming to offer restaurants and retailers an alternative feedback platform to the likes of Tripadvisor and Yelp by offering bricks-and-mortar outlets the ability t...

 Start-up fundraising is hard. Despite ubiquitous headlines about unicorn valuations and how it’s never been easier to raise money in Silicon Valley, the process of raising capital can be g...

 3D Hubs, an online marketplace for 3D printing services, is tapping into two recent trends enabled by industrial 3D printing: the rapid prototyping of new products, and the move to personalised ...

 3D Hubs, an online marketplace for 3D printing services, is tapping into two recent trends enabled by industrial 3D printing: the rapid prototyping of new products, and the move to personalised ...

 From the offices of venture capital firms to the financial services districts, it’s hard to escape the siren’s songof FinTech start-ups. Take a structural shift to mobile, an ever de...

 When I spoke with Jan Beckers, chairperson of fintech company builder FinLeap, earlier this year, he was particularly bullish about the insurance sector and the shake up he expects insurance bro...

 It’ll take some time before the smoke clears and we understand more about how this deal impacts the global ride-sharing economy, but right now it looks like Uber is sitting a lot prettier ...

 If you watch a lot of Facebook Live broadcasts, get ready to see some ads. The companyis nowtesting short video ads that will play during breaks in FacebookLive broadcasts, theyconfirmed to Adag...

Uber China is going to merge with Didi Chuxing, Consumer Reports finds some issues with Glow fertility apps security, new iOS 10 beta release comes out with some new emojis, Technology Crossover Ventu...

 Last year at this time, many publishers were wrestling with the question of what to make ofFacebookInstant Articles. Facebook’s audacious proposition was that it would host content from pu...

 Big data is more important than ever in just about every scientific discipline — and the data is bigger than ever, too. To help manage that data and get it into the hands of scientists and...

 Kids are the ultimate beta testers. As soon as they figure out what a new technology is for, they try to make it do something else. They push boundaries, break rules, play with possibilities and...

 We’re already halfway through the year, which means it’s time for another batch from 500 Startups to start rolling out. This year, 46 companies are going through 500 Startups’ ...

 No one wants to fight a land war in Asia, not even Uber. It could have burnt mountains of cash battling for market share with local ride app juggernaut Didi Chuxing, between marketing, discounts...

 Powerful sensors and software have made autonomous cars impressively aware of their surroundings — but it isn’t just obstacles, pedestrians, and other cars that a vehicle’s AI ...

 OmniVirt is promising to help publishers and advertisers tap into the potential of virtual reality. It’s not the only startup working on VR/360-degree ads (competitors include Immersive Me...

 Cybersecurity issues have plagued Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s campaign for months, from her long-running email controversy to the recent hacks of the Democratic National Committee...

 You can’t say you haven’t seen this coming. Apple CEO Tim Cook has said again and again that the iPad Pro is the company’s vision of the future of computing. And today, Apple i...

 Carousell, a four-year-old company in Singapore behind a listings app that enables peer-to-peer selling, has closed a $35 million Series B round to grow its reach into new countries and increase...

 Apple dropped a new iOS 10 beta today. I was expecting a bunch of bug fixes, and at best a couple of tweaks. But it became clear after just a few minutes that the iOS 10 developer beta 4 isnR...

 A little over a week ago, Glassdoor began emailing its users to let them know of an update to the site’s terms of service. But rather than BCC’ing its anonymous reviewers, Glassdoor ...

 When you think about it, the ability for someone to put a “lure” on a spot of their choosing and attract young Pokmon fans to their location is slightly disturbing — which is w...

 Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes is presenting her blood analysis technology to a room full of scientific experts for the first time ever today at the American Association for Clinical Chemistr...

 Salesforce is continuing its buying spree to expand the kinds of cloud-based apps and services that it offers to its customers beyond basic CRM. The company has just announced that it is acquiri...

 Of all the ways to make a 3-dimensional object, 3-D printing is still the freshest, whether what’s involved is plastic extrusion, milling away wood or metal, or the spinning of cells into ...

 Early this morning, Tesla announced that ithad cometo an agreement to acquire SolarCityin a $2.6 billion all stock transaction. Tesla first announced itwas interested in acquiring the solar powe...

 There has been an explosion of digital health startups in recent years. The market is expected to reach $233.3 billion by 2020, with the primary driver coming from the mobile health market. Read...

 Waiting in line at the grocery store is no fun — not for the customer nor for the store owner. Selfycart, a self-checkout startup participating in Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator, ...

 You’ve built an app and it’s blowing up but you have no clue how to scale or retain users. Who do you call? Binary Capital specializes in businesses with initial traction that need d...

 Pokmon Go users may be furious over the shutdown of the third-party trackers and the recentupdate that killedthe nearby tracking feature in the game, but neither of these issues have stopped the...

 HTC is rapidly mobilizing resources to build the broader ecosystem its own Vive virtual reality hardware will fit into. A big part of this strategy is its Vive X accelerator program which is aim...

 A team of researchers at MIT hasdeveloped a device designed to give home owners a better picture of how much power their individual appliances are eating up. The gadget, which was outlined in a ...

 According to a report in theFinancial Timesover the weekend, the ridesharing giant is adding half a billion dollars to a new mapping project to help free itself of Google Maps. Many ridesharing ...

 John Hanke, the CEO of Pokemon Go creator Niantic, has been hacked on Twitter by the hacker group OurMine. In the past 24 hours, the hacker collective took control of the account and posted a se...

 Earlier this year, Google launched a new section to its Transparency Report that highlighted the use of HTTPS to encrypt connections between its users’ devices and its servers. At the time...

 Google today rolled out a new feature for Android users designed to keep their accounts more secure: notifications about newly added devices. That is, when a new device is added to your Google a...

 Front end folks and back end folks just can’t get together. The back end folks are always like “Node.js” and the front end folks are like “Node what?” and then ther...

 Apple just released the fourth beta for the next iteration of iOS, tvOS, macOS and watchOS. In particular, there’s a groundbreaking addition in this release. The company has updated or red...

 Apple just released the fourth beta for the next iteration of iOS, tvOS, macOS and watchOS. In particular, there’s a groundbreaking addition in this release. The company has updated or red...

 Let’s be honest — Apple Maps has had a rough start. Four years later, the company is still working hard on improving its location app with more data and features. Many people still p...

 Samsung’s all set to steal the smartphone spotlight tomorrow at its big Unpacked event, but LG’s kicking August off with an important announcement of its own. The electronics giant w...

 Hot on the heels of Trump’s not officially sanctioned Reddit AMA, the GOP nominee’s chief rivals are taking a break from the campaign trail to answer some questions to Q&A site, ...

 Brave Software, the new web browser companyco-founded by former Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich, has raised $4.5 million in seed funding for the continued development of its open source browser that bl...

 Tech startups have become synonymous with urban areas that offer better access to talent, resources and infrastructure. But rural areas are also home to startups. This may surprise those who hav...

 Chariot, thecommuter shuttle company that can transport up to 14 people at a time, just launched a new service for peoplewho work in San Francisco’s residential neighborhoods and may need ...

 Pokvision, and other popular third-party tracking apps that helpedPokmon Go players discoverwhich Pokmon were nearby and see their location on a map, have been shut down. The move follows commen...

 A fortnight after offering news that it will be using Apple’s ReasearchKit to conduct arthritis research, drug giant GlaxoSmithKline has announced that it will be teaming with Verily, the ...

 Technology Crossover Ventures, the VC that hasbacked the likes of Facebook, Spotify, LinkedIn, WorldRemit and Zillow as well as more nascent investments, has closed a fund that will see the comp...

 Hard to believe, but the Olympics are less than a week away, and all of that training you’ve been doing, sitting on the couch watching various sporting events, is finally about to pay off....

 I get the chance to test out quite a bit of first-generation consumer gadgets. And while a few are great, the majority just aren’t able to meetthe high thresholdof quality that Apple has (...

 Panaray. Panaromic and array. Made by Bose, the $3,700 optional Panaray audio system puts 34 tiny speakers around the Cadillac CT6’s cabin with the goal of creating an immersive soundstage...

 Hot off the heels of its acquisition of Yahoo last week for $4.8 billion, today Verizon announced another huge purchase: it’s buying Fleetmatics, a telematics company based out of Dublin, ...

 U.S. companies needing to transfer personal data of European customers across the Atlantic can now sign up to a new framework to govern such data transfers, with the so-called EU-US Privacy Shie...

 The impacts of the U.K.’s Brexit vote to leave the European Union will undoubtedly be playing out for years and years to come. But here’s one short term effect: the HTC Vive VR heads...

 Video advertising platform Teads has raised a further $47 million in debt financing. Providing the capital are a bank syndicate made up of BNPP, Bank of China, HSBC, Banque Palatine, and BPI. Re...

 China’s Didi Chuxing has confirmed that it has agreed to buy Uber China in a deal that had been heavily speculated earlier today. Read More ...

 China’s Didi Chuxing has confirmed that it has agreed to buy Uber China in a deal that had been heavily speculated earlier today. Read More ...

 TechCrunch first caught wind of Lumo’ssmart pants with the running sensor last October. It was a breakout product from its posture trainer Lumo Lift and a first step into both connected ga...

 Even as a deal is imminent and its closest competitor Didi Chuxing in the immense Chinese market, competition continues to intensify around the globe. Africa is one region where entrants continu...

 Didi Chuxing’s proposed acquisition of Uber’s Chinese business hasn’t even been confirmed, but the gravity of the deal — Didi will hold stakes in all of the planet’...

 Huge news for China’s ride-sharing industry, it appears that Didi Chuxing will gobble up rival Uber China in a deal that will value the combined entity at $35 billion. Read More ...

 Philips is no stranger to health. In fact, Philips Healthcare (nee Philips Medical Systems) comprises a bit chunk of the multinational corporation, providing some serious industrial equipment fo...

 Pundits are painting a picture of doom and gloom for startups, saying it will be harder to raise money. What do you think? I think the next several months and possibly years will be challenging ...

 This week on Technotopia I talk to Rob Anderson, founder of Convergent Media Group and a former founding team member at MTV Russia. Anderson has some interesting ideas on education and the neces...

 The Israeli startup scene has dramatically changed within a couple of years because of the significant increase in investment prospects, events, meet-ups, competitions, lectures, academic progra...

So what will a Clinton presidency mean to Silicon Valley? And does she actually have a plan on innovation and technology? Read More ...

 In the mid-2000s, everyone was talking about 3D, the “next big thing” in video. It required people to buy expensive new gadgets and wear goofy eyewear, but we were told consumers wou...

 Consider BlackBerry. Think about the company, its products, its most iconic features. What comes to mind? Business apps? A QWERTY keyboard? BBM? The once-mighty Canadian smartphone maker is bank...

 The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, July 29, 2016. In 1972, the Firesign Theatre documented the National Surrealist Light ...

 In years to come, conversations will breathe new life into software — particularly the boring enterprise tools millions of knowledge workers begrudgingly use every day. Conversational user...

 Imagine being part of the BBC’s natural history unit, traveling the world to create some of the world’s most beautiful documentaries. Sounds like a dream job, right? I sat down with ...

 Chrisfino Kenyatta Leal never thought he would end up in prison, let alone the tech industry. What he did envision, he tells me, was dying before the age of 25 or 30. “I saw so many people...

 Millions who downloaded the new Pokmon Go app are living in a brave, new, augmented reality world. For the early adopters (meaning apparently everyone you know) on iOS devices, it meant unknowin...

 The current messaging hype is overstated. There are certainly some interesting and unique opportunities for messaging as an interface, but I contend the number of practical use cases is a fracti...