Articles by Techcrunch from September 2016

 SoundCloud as a company is a disaster, but its the only streaming service with the DJ sets and remixes kids love. So it makes perfect sense that Spotify is in advanced talks to acquire SoundClou...

 It was a hot September night and we were being chased by a ghost. My two friends, Jon and Shane, were sweating. We’re older men, a little wide around the waist, and it was hot down in the ...

 If Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest had a big data eating contest brother, IBM would be a serious contender for first place. Today the techstalwart announced that it had come to an agreemen...

 A pair of glasses, once relegated to nearly blind and blurry-eyed nerds, could one day save your life. At least that’s the pitch from VSP Vision Care. The eye exam provider just launched a...

 Google-owned Waze is slowly increasing the scope of its Bay-area commute service trial, but now the service is available via the standard Waze app for anyone who wants to sign up to be a driver,...

 I live a pretty cosmopolitan futuristic life atop a glass skyscraper in New York City, but I’ve yet to get a pizza delivered by drone, order a taxi from Alexa or open a hotel door with my ...

 TechCrunch is pleased to bring youAlchemist Accelerator‘s Demo Day,today, September 29th, from 3-5pm PT. Alchemist is one of those rare programs that focuses on enterprise startups. But th...

 High-end vehicle, chauffeur included? You can see why it makes sense that Volvo would target the luxury end of the market with its upcoming self-driving car. Volvo announced plans to field a veh...

 HP was recently caught in the act using a “security update” to prevent its printers from operating with a number of recycled and third-party ink cartridges. After much outcry the com...

 MightyTV, an app that helps you figure out what to watch next, is now available on Android.The startup is led by AdMeld co-founder Brian Adams, and it presents users with a stack of movie and TV...

 Seems like we’ve been waiting forever for the big showdown between Team USA and Japan. We’re seemingly no closer at the moment, but at least the team at MegaBots can offer a bit of g...

 Akamai released its quarterly State of the Internet reports today, one detailing quality of access and the other attacks on companies and infrastructure. The slow march continues towards a bette...

 Online grocery service Instacart is facing a boycott from shoppers who are unhappy about the company’s decision to eliminate tips in favor of raising guaranteed delivery rates. Although In...

 VR filmmaking could usesome more big-name talent, and ILMxLAB‘s latest project does indeed offer that: The director attached is Alejandro G.Irritu, the visionary behind The Revenant and Bi...

 Home Chef just announced that it’s raised a new $40 million round of funding. This Series B comes on top of the $10 million round that Home Chef raised earlier this year. It was led by L C...

 In May, Ralph Pini was given the somewhat unenviable task of heading up BlackBerry’s device team. The announcement of his promotion to that role came roughly a month after the one-time sma...

 A startup called Dozr Inc. has raised CAN $2.5 million (or $1.9 million USD) in seed funding to help contractors rent heavy industrial equipment from other construction professionals who have it...

 Joining celebrity investors like Snoop Dogg, Ashton Kutcher, and Justin Bieber, Queen Bey is bringing her supreme business skills to the tech world.Beyonc and the management company she started ...

 Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm is looking to shrink the silicon space a bit further with a potential acquisition of Netherlands-based NXP Semiconductors, in a deal that could be worth over $30 billio...

 Yesterday, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen told lawmakers that she’s not ready to hold interest rates low for much longer, but she isn’t raising them right now. Afterward, wetalke...

 Avast, ye hearties! Prepare for your wrists to be boarded by these massive Bell & Ross mechanical watches. B&R is most famous for the aviation-themed pieces – all of them black and...

 Apple is releasing a new video advertisement for the iPhone and iOS. Like previous ads, this video shows a stark departure from previous Apple ads. You can feel Tor Myhren’s influence on t...

 Google announced a number of updates to its cloud computing services at a small event in San Francisco this morning.These updates touch Google’s machine learning services, as well as its d...

 Google announced today that its now ten-year old service Google Apps for Work (formerly Google Apps for Your Domain), is getting rebranded yet again. This time around, the company will call it &...

 Tesloop’s first vehicle, a Tesla Model S they put into service in July 2015, has reached a new milestone: 200,000 miles on the odometer. Tesloop, you’ll recall, ferries passengers be...

 Unconscious biases can play a role inwhat type of people get hired, promoted and fired in the workplace. Unfortunately, we all have unconscious biases. Though, some have more problematic (racist...

 If you need an Uber, Amazon Alexa has your back. Unfortunately if what you need is a conversation buddy, the personal assistantisn’t quite up to the task. In an effort to bolster AlexaR...

 For startup CEOs, tough economic periods are like stressful stretches in a marriage: They test your mettle while making ugly truths impossible to hide. These days, amid industry-wide belt-tighte...

 Google today launched the third developer preview of Android Wear 2.0, the next major version of its operating system for smartwatches. At the same time, though, the company also today said that...

 Google for Work, Google’s Cloud Platform and the rest of the company’s cloud-based services are getting a new name. They have now been combined under the“Google Cloud” mo...

 The accelerator and seed-stage fund for business to business startups, Alchemist Accelerator, and the curated co-working community called Rocketspace, have partnered up in a way that should help...

 Front has been around for three years, but the startup is only releasing a proper mobile app now. If you’re a Front user, it brings all the features from the desktop version to your phone ...

 The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs has been kicking around in one form or another since the late 50s, becoming fully official in 1962, when it was established under theDepartment ...

 Apple today announced the launch of “Enhanced Editions” forGeorge R. R. Martin’s series, “A Game of Thrones,” beginning with the author’s first title, “...

 Hello, the makers of the Sense sleep tracker, has hired Angela Chang, aformer marketing leadfor Nest and who was most-recently head of marketing at DoorDash, as its chief marketing officer. Her ...

 On the fence about whether your child is old enough for their own smartphone? A new app called Luna Launcher can help you warm to the idea, by offering a simple way to limit access to select app...

 Back in the old days hardware manufacturers felt safe in the knowledge that no mere hardware hacker could attempt to recreate their inventions. From Sony to Philips to LG to Samsung, the consume...

 Drizly, the service that lets you order alcohol online, has today announced a major transition of the company with the launch of its marketplace. The Drizly marketplace will let any retailer int...

 The AOL Alto team is today delivering a new version of the product that may make some of your biggest email woes disappear. Enter the Alto Dashboard. With the latest version of AOL Alto, users c...

 A Los Angeles startup called codeSpark has raised $4.1 million in seed funding for web and mobile games that teach kids how to code, even before they know how to read and write effectively. Code...

 Amid an increasing number robo-investors like Betterment, Stash, andRobinhood, a new San Francisco-based fintech startup calledGrowis entering the fray to compete based on investment type, not o...

 The one downside to using Hotel Tonight is that you have to forgo the loyalty points you’d normally earn from a hotel stay. That’s because almost all major hotel brands nowwon’...

 Line is ramping up incentives for third party developers to make chatbots, and thereby expand the utility of its platform, as the great scramble of messaging giants applying AI to keep users eng...

 Robinhood says it will never charge commissions to trade stocks, but the $66 million-funded startup is finally ramping up monetization with the launch of “Robinhood Gold” premium fea...

 Civilization is a game I’ve been playing for more or less 15 years, across multiple iterations of the series, and yet each new version always seems to feel fresh. After spending nearly 20 ...

 A day after announcing a new artificial intelligence partnership with IBM, Google, Facebook and Amazon, Microsoft is upping the ante within its own walls. It iscreating a new AI business unit, t...

 Mercedes-Benz is trying to play with your emotions with its new electric vehicle concept, debuted at the Paris Motor Show today. The “Generation EQ” it unveiled is a sporty SUV desig...

 It probably won’t be the last time most PlayStation VR purchasers ever pull themselves away from their console long enough to leave the house, but just in case, Best Buy is turning the hea...

 Online banking service Simple is today rolling out a new product: shared accounts. However, unlike joint checking accounts typically shared by spouses,Simple’s shared accounts work differe...

 Helping businesses better manage gig economy workers is turning out to be a pitch with serious pulling power for Lystable, the UK startup which closed an $11 million Series A this summer, led by...

 Some more details are coming through on Facebook at Work, the social network’s big effort to move into enterprise communication services with a business version of its popular platform. Fa...

 A cybersecurity startup based in Hod Hasharon, Israel, Karamba Security, has raised $2.5 million in new series A funding to protects internet-connect cars and self-driving vehicles from hackers....

 Chat app company Line is investing in international opportunities after it announced that it is backing two VC firms: DAG Ventures in the U.S. and France-based Korelya Capital. Read More ...

 Boston-basedLose It! (incorporated as FitNow Inc.) has released a new beta feature today called Snap It within its weight loss and calorie tracking app.As is easily guessed by the name, Snap It ...

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s surprise August/September trip to Nigeria and Kenya put the global spotlight on Africa’s emerging IT ecosystem. Unsurprisingly, when one of the world’s...

 Line, the messaging company that went public in the year’s highest IPO to date, is diversifying its business and focusing on social after it invested $45 million (50 billion KRW) in Snow, ...

 LocalGlobe, founded by former Index Partners investors Robin Klein and Saul Klein, has taken the lead in a GBP500,000 financing for the education technology startup, Lingumi. A member of the 5th...

 Are you interested in rolling up your sleeves and get to work helping the TechCrunch Disrupt team put on the best startup show in Europe? If so, you should definitely sign up to be a Work Exchan...

 Greyloft is a Singapore based startup running what it describes as an estate agency for the digital era. Read More ...

 French startup Lydia raised $7.8 million (7 million) from New Alpha AM and Oddo & Cie in order to expand to other European countries. The startup lets you easily pay back your friends withou...

 Volkswagen did indeed debut its first dedicated electric car at the Paris Motor Show, as heavily teased. The I.D. revealed at the show is still labeled a “concept,” but VW says it...

 Afters years of waiting, Spotify has finally launched its music streaming service in Japan. We reported earlier this month that the launch would happen before September is out, and the company j...

 Didi Chuxing, China’s largest ride-hailing company, has hired two distinguished security experts to lead a new U.S.-based research center as part of a major push to increase its data secur...

Uber’s self-driving trucks are coming in 2017, BlackBerry will stop making its own hardware, Facebook gives us a behind-the-scenes look at its server farm in Sweden, Nvidia researchers teach a c...

 Here Be Dragons is a term for describing dangerous or unexplored areas. It’s also the name of Chris Milk’s new VR creative studio that’s looking to explore the dangerous world ...

 Living in San Francisco for a few years, you learn a few things about the fall: First, the weather tends to be hotter and sunnier than the summer months. Second, you learn to avoid the area arou...

 The systems underlying our elections process are more important than ever this year, and the bad guys know it too. FBI director James Comey said at a House Judiciary Committee hearing today that...

 Latin America just might be the most overlooked emerging market on the planet. The venture dollars in Latin America can’t hold a candle to India or China (compare China’s $11.8 billi...

 Probably not the kind of thing Samsung was hoping it would be dealing with in the wake of a massive Galaxy Note 7 recall, but here we are. And here’s the statement from the company’s...

 The world’s largest technology companies hold the keys to some of the largest databases on our planet. Much like goods and coins before it, data is becoming an importantcurrency for the mo...

 The world’s largest technology companies hold the keys to some of the largest databases on our planet. Much like goods and coins before it, data is becoming an importantcurrency for the mo...

 Papa John’s has a catchy motto: “Better Ingredients. Better Pizza.” This analogy works in technology, as well. As better ingredient technologies arrive on the scene, they open ...

 Facebook couldn’t fit all the developers for its F8 conference into San Francisco’s Fort Mason any more, so F8 will take place at San Jose’s McEnery Convention Center on April ...

 Google today announced an expansion of its home delivery shopping service Google Express, which is now available across a large part of the East Coast. The service lets online shoppers order con...

 Aetna just threw in with Apple in a big way. The healthcare provider announced a number of different iOS-only apps aimed at quantifying wellness and streamlining the healthcare management proces...

 Today, Skymind, a company developing an open-sourcedeep-learning library for Java,along with tools for implementation, closed $3 million in financingfromTencent, SVAngel, GreatPoint Ventures, Ma...

 Humans are pretty good at ballparking distances, even with one eye closed — but it turns out computer vision systems have a hard time with it. Researchers hope to fix that, or at least mak...

 For those of you unawares, the Entrepreneur Roundtable Accelerator, like other accelerators, is a program that provides participating start-ups exposure to potential investors. Read More ...

 My first home-way-from-homewas a room in a house with an unrepeatable nickname on West College St. in Oberlin, OH. I lived with 8 other people in a two-story, rambling warren filled with rooms a...

 Meetup is giving users a new way to find the meetups that give the company its name. The New York City-based company is launching new smartphone apps and a (partially) redesigned website with ne...

 It’s definitely not the sexiest platform play in tech town but b2b startup Paddle thinks it’s found an underserved niche — selling a SaaS ecommerce service to scaling SaaS star...

 Last year, privately held online lenders like Prosper, SoFi and Avant looked all but certain to go public at same unicorn valuations their venture investors had assigned them, if not higher. It ...

 Last year, privately held online lenders like Prosper, SoFi and Avant looked all but certain to go public at same unicorn valuations their venture investors had assigned them, if not higher. It ...

 Why pay for air conditioning when you can just build a data center near the Arctic Circle and pump in the frosty winds? That’s why Facebook created these massive fans for its Lule, Sweden ...

 Nvidia’s work in reinventing itself as a leader in automated car technology continues with the launch of a new system-on-a-chip, called Xavier and launched today at the GPU Technology Conf...

 It’s a foregone conclusion that in the near future everything will be captured on camera. Unveiled at SXSW four years back, the Narrative Clip was part of a small contingent of hardware so...

 There are multiple approaches to tackling self-driving; one is to program algorithms or rules that will tell a car how to behave in specific situations. Nvidia is using a deep learning approach,...

 We’ve long extolled the virtues of Moore’s Law in terms of delivering faster, better processors to power our individual computers, but Kuffner says that the rapid, continuous evoluti...

 Finally, finally, Twitter has rolled out aversion of its storytelling feature called Moments that it should have released at launch. Today, the company says that it’s opening up the Moment...

 TechCrunch is headed to Seoul, South Korea and we can’t wait to see what kind of gadgets and services are coming out of one of the biggest technology hubs in the world. We’re bringin...

 Today, goTenna is taking pre-orders for their new product, a device called the goTenna Mesh that lets smartphone users text and share their GPS locations, off-grid and across miles of terrain. T...

 b8ta, the retail store that sells trendy tech gadgets,recently raised a $7 million Series A round led by TriplePoint Ventures with participation from Khosla Ventures, Fifth Wall Ventures, Maceri...

 Got iOS 10? Want tomesswith your friends? A hilarious new iMessage App called Phoneys lets you prank others by sending stickers that look exactly like iMessage text bubbles. And thanks to thenew...

 Apple is planning to consolidate its various London offices into a single campus, come 2021. Read More ...

 Back in June, Raymond Wu stopped by our New York office to show off what he had been working on. It was small and conical, with holes on all sides. It looked like a desktop speaker or maybe some...

 Consumer packaged goods are big business — valued at more than $2 trillion — with much of that market share dominated by CPG powerhouses like Unilever, P&G and Nestl. These CPG l...

 Uber today announced yet another rewards program for its drivers and riders, this time in partnership with retailer Sears and its “Shop Your Way” loyalty platform. The programoffers ...

 Looking to surf the mobile web privately, but generally prefer the Google Search app over standalone browsers like Safari or Chrome? Then you’ll appreciate the latest update to the Google ...

 On this week’s episode of TCBC, after a brief Disrupt-induced hiatus, longtime TechCruncher Greg Kumparak dishes on Pokmon Go – what made it so appealing at launch, what’s goin...

 Slowly but surely, Amazon is incorporating Alexa functionality into its numerous existing hardware lines. A few weeks ago, the company announced an update that would bring its friendly voice ass...

 Interface design collaboration tool Figma is launching its Multiplayer feature, which allows designers to collaborate in real time on the same projects. Read More ...

 Techstars has selected the first class for its New York-based internet of things accelerator. It’s the first program that Techstars has done with a consortium of industry partners instead ...

 Techstars has selected the first class for its New York-based internet of things accelerator. It’s the first program that Techstars has done with a consortium of industry partners instead ...

 Former smartphone giant Blackberry has said it will no longer manufacture its own devices. Instead it intends to outsource hardware making to development partners, although the core focus of its...

 Setting its sights on a public offering within thenext year, Druva, which sells software so businesses can manage all of the information they’re forced by law to hold onto, has raised $51 ...

 Tink Labs offers a free-to-use smartphone for hotel guests that lets them enjoy free services, and gives hotels a powerful channel to engage their guests. Read More ...

 Tink Labs offers a free-to-use smartphone for hotel guests that lets them enjoy free services, and gives hotels a powerful channel to engage their guests. Read More ...

 We’ve given you an extra week, but your time to save 400 on Disrupt London tickets is ending soon. You have until this Friday, September 30 to secure extra early-bird tickets to Disrupt Lo...

 Google looks to have launched its Play Music store in India today. Read More ...

 Uber acquired self-driving lorry startup Otto this summer in a deal worth up to $680 million and it plans to put the company to work next year. Read More ...

DJI releases its new drone, the Mavic Pro, Nissan builds a line-waiting chair that automatically moves you in line, the Department of Labor sues Palantir Technologies, Cogenra and Khosla Ventures are ...

 “The table stakes for [venture capitalists]has never been higher,” says Judith Elsea, co-founder of the fund-of-funds Weathergage Capital, in our latest interview. With the rise of s...

 Tyra Banks rang the closing bell at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center in San Francisco this afternoon. The supermodel turned entrepreneur and startup investor was there to celebrate the one-year...

 Elon Musk has a plan to colonize Mars, but he’s not rushing it. In a conference call following the SpaceX CEO’s presentation today at the International Astronautical Conference, Musk...

 At a company event today in San Francisco, Samsung President & Chief Strategy Officer Young Sohn detailed that the company is actively pursuing both smartphone-focused VR headsets and standa...

 Be honest: Have you ever spent an entire day working at a coffee shop, despite only buying a single cup of coffee? I’ve definitely been guilty of this, and I’ve also been to coffee s...

 “It is still incredibly important for startups to get their products in front of customers in stores,” explains Highway1 head Brady Forrest. “Startups traditionally face hurdle...

 Tinder is introducing a new premium feature called Tinder Boost. The feature will let users pay to have their profiles displayed first to other users on the app in the same locale for 30 minutes...

 If you had to crown an “App of the Summer,” Pokmon Go would undoubtedly be at the top of the list. The app became a household name within days of its July launch and was the most dow...

 LendUp was supposed to be different than the payday loan sharks that rip off the poor when they need emergency cash. But in its early days, LendUp charged customers illegal fees, miscalculated i...

 The Global Vehicle Trust has revealed its OX prototype, a truck that can be flat-packed into itself for transportation anywhere in the world. When it arrives at its destination, the OX can be un...

 All eyes were on Elon Musk today as he gave a keynote speech at the International Astronautical Conference in Mexico. Musk said he was going to detail SpaceX’s plans to colonize Mars and m...

 Translating from one language to another is hard, and creating a system that does it automatically is a major challenge, partly because there are just so many words, phrases and rules to deal wi...

 For iOS or Mac users interested in VR, there isn’t a lot you can do right now without migrating to the dark sides of Android or Windows. Occipital is aiming to get people on the iOS platfo...

 While the gears of research are turning fast developingnew methods ofmachine intelligence, another, perhaps more impactful, trend is brewing in the field. Open source frameworks likeApache Spark...

 Honeywell’s been doing its thing for well over a century now, with its thermostatic roots stretching back even further to the 19th century days of coal heating. The company’s connect...

 Airbnb may not be ready to unveil its new travel services app,Airbnb Trips, just yet, but in the meantime the company isgiving its flagship application a big makeover. The upcoming version of th...

 Solar company Cogenra is suingElon Musk’s SolarCity over the use of shingling technology the company alleges SolarCity took from Cogenra and used to create a world-record breaking solar pa...

 Classpass, the subscription service for fitness classes, became a household name because of one simple innovation. The business model. Combining the breadth of a marketplace with a subscription ...

 The startup world moves at breakneck speed — what’s hot one minute is old news the next, and it can feel like the rules of the game change every day. For successful startups, rapid g...

 Facebook is ready to make work as addictive as socializing. The company is ready to launch its enterprise communication and collaboration network Facebook @ Work in the next few weeks on a per s...

 SpaceX has released a new video showing a CG concept of its Interplanetary Transport System, the rocket and spacecraft combo it plans to use to colonize Mars. The video depicts a reusable rocket...

 Facebook has been ordered to stop harvesting the data of WhatsApp users in Germany. The move follows the latter’s shock announcement last month that it would start sharing user data from i...

 Nissan’s ProPILOT tech might mostly be used to help provide its cars with autonomous driving features, but a new project puts it into a chair. Yes, a chair. The chair propels itself, detec...

 Udacity – the online school started by Google X founder and self-driving car pioneer Sebastian Thrun— is offering a new “nanodegree” online to prepare students for jobs i...

 In the world of HR and payment software, things are heating up this fall. In the one corner: Zenefits, the high-flying software company that admitted to having an array of compliance issues and ...

 Twitter today is the latest tech company to join the push to get more Americans registered to vote. The company is rolling out a new feature that will allow you to direct message the companyR...

 Amazon’s delivery prowess is impressive; just today, it announced free Prime same-day delivery for my home city of Toronto, and the speed and consistency with which they hit their deadline...

 DJI’s little drone wasn’t its only big news from today’s Mavic Pro unveil event in New York City. The company also devoted a few moments of stage time to its new simply titled ...

 Slack — the popular enterprise chat app that now has 3 million users, 930,000 of them paying — is adding in another key integration as it continues toget more embedded with its custo...

 “I’m sitting in New York City,” Adam Lisberg tweeted last week, as GoPro CEO Nick Woodman, dropped to his knees, unzipped a backpack and unveiled the company’s long-await...

 “I’m sitting in New York City,” Adam Lisberg tweeted last week, as GoPro CEO Nick Woodman, dropped to his knees, unzipped a backpack and unveiled the company’s long-await...

 Although the iMessage App Store is currently dominated by sticker packs, there are a few clever apps breaking through. One such app is Momento, an iMessage-only app that automatically turns your...

Rumor is DJI is about to unveil a small, foldable drone and you can watch the event right here. Whatever it turns out to be, no doubt, it will draw comparisons to the just-announced GoPro Karma. Read ...

 ProsperWorks, a cross-platform customer relationship management (CRM) service that plugs into the Google for Work platform, today announced that it has raised a $24 million Series B funding roun...

 Long dedicated to space, spiders, and robots, MB&F has finally come back to earth with the Horological Machine 8, a new watch inspired by the silhouette of Can-Am race cars. This watch is pa...

 One of Israel’s most storied politicians, Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak, has thrown his significant personal and political capital behind an early stage emergency services app Reporty. ...

 A few months back Indiegogo and component provider Arrow announced a deal aimed at helping bring promising crowdfunding projects to market, providing hopeful campaigns with some much-needed tool...

 It’s been 16 months since Kano took to the stage at TC Disrupt New York 2015 to announce a $15M Series A, and to talk up its big ambition to build a creative computing brand. And 10 months...

 Remember ThingMaker? Mattel’s$300 3D printer that would let kids print out their own toys? Its ship date – which was supposed to be this month – just got pushed back another ye...

 It was only a matter of time before the same forces that brought competition to the taxi industry turned their attention to the bus business. And now, what Uber and Lyft have done for ride-shari...

 The Electronic Frontier Foundation has called on HP to restore customer’s ability to use third-party ink cartridges in its Office Jet printers. It is also urging consumers to sign a petiti...

 Bot Metrics, an San Francisco-based company that specializes in — you got it.. — metrics and analyze of chat bots has landed funding to help developers and early bot enthusiasts get ...

 The smart home has come a long way in the two-plus years since the original Wink Hub was launched as a spinoff of New York-based hardware crowdsourcer, Quirky. Among other things, a number of ma...

 A music industry veteran and the CEO of Translation, Steve Stoute, is joining the board of directors of Genius, which provides song lyrics and meanings, while also being an online knowledgeproje...

 Amazon continues to roll-out its free same-day delivery offering for Prime subscribers, adding Toronto and Vancouver to the list of cities where it’s available. The free same-day option ap...

 Elon Musk is giving a keynote speech at the International Astronautical Congress today, with an hour-long talk titled “Making Humans a Multiplanetary Species.” The talk kicks off at ...

 Othman Laraki and Elad Gil were sitting on Twitter’s roof deck after their previous company Mixer Labs had been acquired. Gil had brought a small hard drive with him — which happened...

 At a glance 157 degree wide angle f/2.4 aperture 1/1.8″ image sensor 1080p 30/60pfs, 720p 120/60fps Pros Camera design itself is top notch Built-in OLED touchscreen Cons Included mounting ...

 The need to contactcustomer support is the bane of many a modern consumer’s existence: not only is it likely that you are doing it because you have a problem that needs fixing, but you are...

 Blue Raspberry brings to mind Slurpees as much as anything. The name of Blue Microphone’s latest offering is seeming an homage to its longstanding Blueberry condenser mic, but then, betwee...

 Are you a Spotify user who has a listof favorite bands and songs,but do not have the motivation to find and organizeall of theminto useful playlists? Today, the streaming company is launching a ...

 Looking in the mirror or stepping on a scale can tell us much about our bodies and wellbeing, but not with the greatest precision.Now, a Sydney, Australia-based company called mPort is bringing ...

 When unmanned aerial vehicle makers and gimbal engineers get together they like to have a few beers and make something like the SMOVE. Designed to connect to a regular smartphone the SMOVE is ba...

 One would have been hard-pressed to dream up a worse beginning to the month for Samsung. As Apple was readying its next big iPhone reveal, the company was scrambling to do damage control for a p...

 Hinge, the dating app that uses Facebook to connect you with friends of friends, has today announced that it will be sunsetting its original app. In its place, Hinge will be launching an entirel...

 Pullstring — ne ToyTalk — today launched its eponymous product out of private beta and into the hands of creators of conversational interfaces everywhere. Out of the box, creators ca...

 At a glance Wireless, solar-powered design Dual HD cameras with 1/3″ CMOS sensors 175-degree field of view Pros Incredibly easy to set up Image quality, both day and night Cons Must be tur...

 Deepgram co-founders, 20-year-old wunderkind Noah Shutty and his University of Michigan lab supervisorScott Stephenson, definitely have faith in sound. The two left behind promising research in ...

 Alphabet, Apple and Ubermay be spending billions on exhaustive new mapping technologies to power the self-driving car revolution, but there’s a new generation of companies bettingthat a co...

 Google today announced a collection of updates that are aimed at helping get ‘the next billion’ internet users in India and emerging markets online. One of the more subtle yet intere...

 Google has introduced a new version of YouTube that is dedicated to users in emerging markets. Read More ...

 Spanish startup Red Points has closed a 2 million (~$2.2M) funding round to grow usage of its piracy detection and removal SaaS by expanding from Europe into new markets, including North America...

 Hot on the heels of the launch of the iPhone 7 Plus, Apple’s first smartphone with dual reverse-facing cameras, so China’s Xiaomi has joined the double camera club with Mi 5s Plus an...

 On Thursday 23 June 2016 the world changed. On that day a referendum was held to decide whether the UK should Leave or Remain in the European Union. Leave won by 52% to 48%. The referendum turno...

Snapchat gets into the hardware game with its first hardware foray — Spectacles, Senator Mark Warner wants to open an SEC investigation into Yahoo’s breach, Elon Musk gets one step closer ...

 In the opening moments of the presidential debate, some of the first flashpoints came overformer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’spush for clean energy and clean technology inher econom...

 Did you hear? Wireless audio is the future — at least to Apple. And to that end, Sonos, perhaps the best wireless speakers available, are now available in the Apple Store alongside speaker...

 I have used my free time this summer revisiting a childhood passion: fishing. My father loved to fish. He would take me to Central Park’s Ramble and Lake with a hook and lure. I would inev...

 In an exciting bit of pre-debate frisson, journalists covering the presidential debate at Hofstra University are now Tweet they have to pay $200 for Wi-Fi access on site and, more importantly, t...

 My first cell phone was a Sanyo. But only because I couldn’t afford a Motorola. I wanted a StarTAC. All the cool kids had a StarTAC. My Sanyo said loud and clear I was not a cool kid. Some...

 The U.S. Department of Labor is suing Palantir Technologies, the software and data analysis company contracted by the federal government, for alleged racial discrimination against Asian people i...

 The Philadelphia 76ers became the first American professional sports franchise to own an e-sports team with the purchase of pro gaming outfits Dignitas and Apex. If this isn’t proof positi...

 Late last year, Lenovo announced some massive layoffs following a quarter ofbad financial news. The company let 3,200 employees go, as decline in PC demand, increased smartphone competition and ...

 French startup Zenly has raised $22.5 million over the summer from Benchmark and a few other investors. Business Insider first reported the round and TechCrunch got an official confirmation. Her...

 French startup Zenly has raised $22.5 million over the summer from Benchmark and a few other investors. Business Insider first reported the round and TechCrunch got an official confirmation. Her...

 There’s a shortage of people from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer community in tech — not because they lack skill, but because they lack equal opportunity. Lesbians Who T...

 GM’s Maven has begun rolling out one-way car sharing for its members in Ann Arbor and Detroit, letting users pick up vehicles and use to them to get between Ann Arbor and the University of...

 Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella took the stage at his company’s massive Ignite conference to lay out his vision for how deep learning and artificial intelligence will transform the company. &#...

 TechCrunch first reported on Cognovi Labs back in June when the Dayton, Ohio-based analytics startup correctly predicted the Brexit outcome hours ahead of the final vote. Tonight, the company ha...

 If youcombined the fastest and slowest types of social media, the result could be both must-see and never-forgotten. YouTube lacks short-form, frequently updated content, but is synonymous with ...

AirServer, makers of software that essentially turns anything into an AirPlay sever, has announced the availability of AirServer for the Xbox One. That means you can transmit your AirPlay screens to y...

 Big media companies are backing newsletter startup theSkimm. Following an $8 million round led by 21st Century Fox that was announced in June, theSkimm announced today that it has raised an addi...

 Plex is a pirate’s best friend. It’s by far the best way to get movies downloaded illegally from the computer to TV. Sure, Plex has a handful of useful, legal features, but let’...

 If you’ve been waiting for a Chromecast with 4K video support, good news: it’s looking more and more real with each passing day. Rumors have been floating around for a few weeks now ...

 Microsoft today announced a first preview ofProject Springfield at its Ignite conference in Atlanta. The cloud-based tool aims to help developers find bugs in their applications by combining fuz...

 Much anticipation has been built around the future of the automotive and aerospace industries in the wake of recent advancements in 3D-printing technologies. But what’s often overlooked is...

 Signal, the encrypted chat app powered by Open Whisper Systems, is finally available as a desktop app.The free app, which has earned praise from Edward Snowden and security experts like Matt Gre...

 Chatbots and SMS are becoming the preferred method of how people and businesses communicate with one another, and it’s time that search engines follow suit. Read More ...

 Disney has had talks about a potential acquisition of Twitter, we’ve confirmed. They’re working with bankers now to determine whether the deal makes sense, multiple sources have info...

 Freight forwarding is a multi-trillion industry, but most people don’t even know what those words mean. It’s the business of moving boats, trucks, and planes full of stuff across the...

 Mobile ad startup AppLovin announced today it has agreed to sell a majority stake of the company to Chinese private equity firm Orient Hontai Capital for $1.4 billion.We first reported that AppL...

 Short-haul flights in airborne taxis: It’s next-level alright, but is it next-level hype, or something city-dwellers can actually look forward to? Uber is betting it’s the latter, ac...

 The adoption of IoT technology can provide companies with unprecedented opportunities to reduce operating costs, increase productivity and tap into new markets previously inaccessible. But that ...

 Now that the dust has settled from Foursquare’s big split, the company is pushing forward with a few new executives and a brand new office in Los Angeles. The company has recently brought ...

 Yahoo’s announcement last week that data from 500 million user accounts had been stolen in 2014 by what it called a “state-sponsored actor” certainly alarmed Yahoo’s user...

 Inverse, a new-ish digital media startup founded by Bleacher Report’s Dave Nemetz, is announcing that it has raised $6 million in Series A funding. The Inverse site launched in August 2015...

 With just 42 days left until the election, it’s crunch time for anyone who hasn’tregistered to vote. The deadlines to register in most states fall throughout October, with only a few...

 In the wake of the 2014 Snowden revelations about mass surveillance programs some startups with concerns about overreaching government requests for user data settled on Switzerland as a base for...

 In May of last year, Ifty Ahmed was accused by federal regulators of conning his former employer — the venture capital firm, Oak Investment Partners — out of $65 million. Now, Ahmed ...

 Google is planning hybrid devices that run both Android and Chrome OS, including one convertible laptop, and one Huawei Nexus-branded tablet, according to a new report from 9to5Google. The repor...

 Drake’s new short film “Please Forgive Me” launched today ahead of schedule as an Apple Music exclusive. The 23-minute long film begins with a plot similar to “Indecent P...

 Back in July, Microsoft tempered its Windows 10 expectations a touch, noting that its initial projection of mid-2018 for one billion active devices was probably a bit over ambitious. That pronou...

 Perhaps you’re still among those few, proud and generally indecisive undecided. Or, more than likely, you’re just tuning in for the fireworks show. Whatever the case, tonight’s...

 Google is continuing its push to get more Americans registered to vote ahead of the upcoming presidential elections, by expanding its voter information guides in Google Search to Spanish. While ...

 You’ve likely seen the headlines about consumer frustration with the transition to EMV payment cards in the U.S., most of which centers around how long the payments take vs. good old-fashi...

 If you’re at all interested in retro gaming, you’ve probably come across 8bitdo, the company that makes throwback Bluetooth controllers inspired by classics like the SNES and NES. No...

 Microsoft has already expressed some interest on bringing Office to the car, and it sounds like it’ll continue to do that work with Renault-Nissan via a new tie-up between the two companie...

 Uber is adding its own gift cards to the list of ways you can pay for the service. The ride hailing startup has debuted physical cards that will go on sale in 35,000 retail locations across the ...

 Uber is adding its own gift cards to the list of ways you can pay for the service. The ride-hailing startup has debuted physical cards that will go on sale in 35,000 retail locations across the ...

 You no longer need an always-on PC or any other network-attached hardware in order to use Plex’smedia player. The popular service, which allows you to watch TV and movies from your own col...

 Lego’s Star Wars series is actually everywhere in my office, so I’m happy new sets from Rogue One: A Star Wars story are set to launch on September 30. I got the chance to check out ...

 At its Ignite conference today, Microsoft announced that it is making itsEdge browser more secure in enterprise environments.As Microsoft explained during a press conference ahead of the event, ...

 Crowdsourcing live traffic data has been one of Waze’s key competitive advantages in navigation software for a while, but Germany’s HERE might give it a run for its money with new se...

 Microsoft’s Ignite conferenceis bringing 23,000 IT professionals to Atlanta, Georgia this week and the companyis using this opportunity to talk about how it plans to bring more intelligenc...

 Confirming earlier leaks, Roku this morning unveiled a refreshed and rebranded line of streaming media players, with the intent of plugging every hole in the market. Instead of numbering the Rok...

 Estify, a company that’s developed a new tool for auto repair businesses to better gauge the cost of its services for insurance claims, has raised $6.3 million in new financing.It’s ...

 Microsoftand Adobe today announced a major partnership that will see Adobe deliver its cloud services on Microsoft Azure and that will make Adobe the preferred marketing service for Microsoft...

 Microsoft loves to talk about how we are now living in a “cloud first, mobile first” world, but in this world, there is still plenty of room left for Windows Server. Today, at its Ig...

 ColorTV is an SDK for marketers and developers to analyze the shows you watch and provide content recommendations within the same vein. Raising $1.5 million in seed funding from Foxconn earlier ...

 SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is set to deliver a keynote address at the 67th annual International Astronautical Congress tomorrow, where he’ll outline his plan for interplanetary colonization begi...

 Canvas Ventures, a Portola Valley, Ca.-based early-stage venture firm, is this morning announcing that it has closed a second fund with $300 million. That’sa meaningful step up from the $1...

 FreshDirect, a popular online grocery service on the East Coast, is arming itself with $189 million in additional funding. The round was led by J.P. Morgan Asset Management, with W Capital and A...

 Google has been focusingfor years now on finding better ways to track and measure adsas weswitch from one device to another to consume media like TV, music or written articles like this one. And...

 Didi Chuxing, China’s largest ride-hailing company, may be about to get into bicycles. Bike sharing, to be precise. The company, which is in the process of finalizing its acquisition of Ub...

 Is Facebook having —A) An existential crisisB) An attack of conscienceC) A mid-life crisisD) None of the above? Read More ...

 Procrastination is easy, but it can cost you. And if you wait until this weekend to purchase tickets to Disrupt London 2016, it will definitely cost you some hard-earned pounds — 400 of th...

 The company behind iconic music magazine Rolling Stone has sold a 49 percent share in the business to a startup from Singapore in a bid to grow its international reach. Read More ...

 Let’s settle this, once and for all: Clickbaitingis the intentional act of over-promising or otherwise misrepresenting — in a headline, on social media, in an image, or some combinat...

 Having read the European Commission’s original ruling, some prior rulings, the Treasury’s white paper about the European Commission’s actions and a lot of analysis in the tax c...

 Fresh from raising $275 million this August at around a $1 billion valuation, Deliveroo is now taking the next step in itsbid to corner the market in Europe and other markets for high-end, high-...

 The coffee wars of San Francisco are back on! We’re now hearing from sources that Blue Bottle is raising a big round of financing a little more thana year after it raised a whopping $75 mi...

 Unless you plan on bumping into stuff, don’t expect to record after-dark concerts and parties on your Snap Inc Spectacles. The company formerly known as Snapchat (they really should have j...

 Work/life balance in startup culture is total BS. And you are probably part of the problem. Until you say “enough” — and fight back, stand up and resist — you’re pe...

 The Twittersphere was just a little bit quieter this morning after Marc Andreessen, father of the Tweetstorm, vacated the platform last night. While there’s no clear answer from him or oth...

 As of June 22, 2016, there were 492 published patent families directed to the theme of blockchain and 192 relating to bitcoin. Patent applications filed over the last 18 months are not in these ...

 I happened to spend much of this week in Abu Dhabi, from whence came, conveniently, the most important news of this week, month, year, and arguably decade. Yes, bigger than the American election...

 It’s difficult to predict how artificial intelligence technology will change over the next 10 to 20 years, but there are plenty of gains to be made. By 2018, robots will supervise more tha...

 As TechCrunch has previously reported, there’s been an exodus of talent from the Rothenberg “ecosystem,” amid claims of a significant breach of fiduciary responsibilities and o...

 The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, September 23, 2016. With two days until the First Debate, the waiting̵...

 A bully is a bully and a troll is a troll, no matter where you go online. For as long as online mass communication has existed, online bullying has existed. To effectively address the issue of c...

 Snapchat is the only company cool enough to possibly dismantle the Google Glass stigma. Awkward, useless, and a threat to privacy are how many think of computers you wear on your face. Can Snapc...

 The art of the lip sync has had a profound impact on the state of our…ok no, but dammit is lip synching fun. For those of you locked in a Faraday cage, pretending to singhas become all the...

 With what looks to be an eye on Snapchat’s selfie-loving fanbase, messaging platform Telegram has beefed up its in-app photo editor in what it dubs an “entertainment-heavy updateR...

 It hasn’t been a great couple of days for Facebook PR. For one thing, the company admitted that, due to an error, it has been significantly inflating its reports on average video view time...

 This week I got the chance to talk to a private hero of mine, Brian Solis. Solis is a digital analyst and speaker who talks about the future and how big brands – Coke, IBM – will int...

 It hasn’t been a great couple of days for Facebook PR. For one thing, the company admitted that, due to an error, it has been significantly inflating its reports on average video view time...

 Detroit doesn’t place burdensome regulations on automobile manufacturers, Idaho doesn’t put undue restrictions and hurdles in front of potato farmers and California takes steps to pr...

 Spotted at Photokina, the world’s largest photography trade show: A professional photographer, taking a photo, then taking a picture off the back of their camera to share the photograph on...

 There’s no denying that your smartphone’s camera is getting better and better for every generation, but what’s a poor photography nerd to do about controllability? Miggo’...

 Rumors wereflyingall day yesterday that Twitter is up for sale, and Salesforce.com could be a chief suitor. At this point, with so many possible bidders being reported, it’s hard to know w...

 You may know Yi Technologies from its action cameras or its fancy, carbon-fiber drones, but at Photokina, the company launched its first mirrorless Micro Four Thirds camera, the Yi M1. Sporting ...

 A Google self-driving Lexus RX 450h was involved in a crash with a van in Mountain View, Calif. on Friday afternoon, according to local police. Thankfully, nobody was injured in the accident. Te...

 A Google self-driving Lexus RX 450h was involved in a crash with a van in Mountain View, Calif. on Friday afternoon, according to local police. Another driver ran a red light and crashed into th...

 A Google self-driving Lexus RX 450h was involved in a crash with a van in Mountain View, Calif. on Friday afternoon, according to local police. Another driver ran a red light and crashed into th...

 Online furniture retailer Dot & Bo has closed its doors today. The San Francisco-based company said in an announcement that it had been in “deep discussions to be acquired by a promine...

 A day after a Daily Beast story revealed that he had donated money to an organization supporting Donald Trump’s President run, Oculus founder (and Facebook employee) Palmer Luckey has come...

 Snapchat’s long-rumored camera glasses are actually real. The startup’s first foray into hardware will be a pair of glasses called “Spectacles” and will go on sale this f...

 Snapchat’s long-rumored camera glasses are actually real. The startup’s first foray into hardware will be a pair of glasses called “Spectacles” and will go on sale this f...

Four companies are rumored to be wanting to acquire Twitter, UPS is testing a drone delivery service, a helium leak could have caused the Falcon 9 explosion, Airbnb files a $555 million round with the...

 Ephemeral media app Snapchat appears to be doing a little disappearing itself. A leaked video and domain records suggest that the company (though probably not the app) is preparing to rebrand as...

 With the start of the new NFL season, fans across the U.S. — indeed, the world — are turning their attention to who the winners and losers will be, and who’ll be making their w...

 We’re approaching a level of social unrest that we haven’t seen since the days of the Civil Rights movement. That means law enforcement agencies are trying to figure out how to manag...

 Google will build uponits OnHub strategy with a new simple Wi-Fi router for the home, according to a new report from Android Police. Dubbed simply Google WiFi, It will cost $129, the site report...

 What’s a media company doing making stuffed animals that can read your emotions? Figuring out the future, apparently. Received wisdom in business is that young companies innovate so natura...

 If you preferlistening to the news over reading the news, you’ll soon have a new way to do so, via iTunes. In the near future, you’ll be able to browse through a variety of podcasts ...

 HP, it seems, will always be a printer company. It’s an inescapable part of the company’s DNA.Precisely what shape that takes moving ahead, however, is another question entirely. Aft...

 Seattle-based Apptio went public on the Nasdaq today, seeing its shares rise nearly 41 percent on its first day of trading. The cloud software company, which targets CIOs, went public during a s...

 Before the iPhone 7 made dual lenses cool… no, scratch that, Huawei and Leica made it cool first (and plenty others made it dorky). The result of their collaboration, the P9, has sold well...

 Cities have always been hubs of technological experimentation, shaped by the people who inhabit them and the tools they use. We can still see the marks, both charming and garish, from technologi...

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

 “The issue is being hugely overblown. Marketers do not care about it, and it has zero impact on spend.” That’s the response of Jason Stein, founder and CEO of 250-employee soci...

 Maluuba launched its first Siri-like personal assistant at TC Disrupt San Francisco four years ago. Since then, the company hasraised $11 million and has licensed its technology to a number of h...

 This week, Yahoo came clean about a 2014 hack, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan announced a huge investment to cure disease, rumors swirled around possible car tech acquisitions for Apple and ...

 Snapchat’s current geofilter product is a nightmare for event managers, brands, and any commercial business because anyone can coat-tail or hijack the space. Let’s say you’re h...

 Skateboarders make great startup investors, according to Rob Dyrdek and Tony Hawk. The legendary skaters spoke to us about a mindset that helps them be on the lookout for the next big thing.R...

 Uber is rolling out a new selfie security measure which will eventually cover the entire U.S. It’s a selfie system for drivers designed to help prevent driver fraud,so that you can more re...

 Meet Henri, the middle malshi (a maltese/shih-tzu mix, apparently) who shares a Manhattan apartment with our Senior Video Producer, Veanne. Being the urbane, city dwelling sort, Henri agreed to ...

 Screening for language disorders is best done early and often, but it’s not always easy to get the equipment and staff to every kid in a timely fashion. At least a basic level of screening...

 SpaceX has a few answers about what might have caused the explosion of one of its Falcon 9 explosion on September 1. The rocket blew up while going through pre-launch prep on a landing pad, and ...

 Cuff, the smart jewelry maker that promised a line of fashion wearables capable of sending emergency alerts to trusted family and friends, shut down earlier this year leaving a number of custome...

 As we romp further into this silly and messy political season it’s come to light that Palmer Luckey, creator of the Oculus Rift and the boy who was last seen floating in a tropical paradis...

 Drones might one day blanket cities dropping off Amazon goods, but in the short-term, there’s plenty of opportunity for them to help out in limited engagements, where delivery via other me...

Bing, the search engine Microsoft pays you to use, is jumping on the AMP bandwagon. The open source AMP format is essentially Google’s version of Facebook’sInstantArticles and its stripped...

 With iOS 10, Apple firmly planted its flag in the smart home world. After a few years of laying the groundwork with Homekit functionality for third-party products, the company finally offered up...

 In just over a week, Apple’siMessage App Store has grown to over 1,650 applications and sticker packs – more than the original iPhone had at launch as well as the 1,000 total that we...

 Don’t say we never gave you anything, startup fans. We wanted to give you one more week to get deeply-discounted tickets to Disrupt London 2016, so you now have until next Friday, Septembe...

 When racing cars have only hundredths of seconds between them, in a race where the time to change a tire means the difference between winning and losing (and the impact on millions of dollars in...

 At some point, it’ll probably be commonplace, but as of its 2017 model year, Smart will be the only big car brand that can truthfully claim to offer both an electric drive and a gas-powere...

 At its minimalist worst, the Balldur is a cool looking lamp. Smooth wood and ceramic with a bulb that would make Thomas Edison proud, the Balldur (whatever that means) feels like an artifact fro...

 Twitter continues to inch its way toa sale process, and the latest developments come in the form of reports of alleged bids. Today CNBC is reporting that both Google and Salesforce are intereste...

 Twitter continues to inch its way toa sale process, and the latest developments come in the form of alleged bids from potentialbuyers. Today CNBC is reporting, and we have also independently hea...

 We love the internet. We love apps. We love the Internet of Things. But most importantly, we love ideas. The accessibility that the internet provides, however, is also what makes it unbelievably...

 Rumors are swirling about potential acquirers for Twitter right now, but meanwhile the company is still seeing departures in some key staffing areas. Twitter’s head of TV Andrew Adashek, a...

 iHeartRadio could be getting more competitive with on-demand music services like Apple Music and Spotify next year. Launched by the radio and media company Clear Channel (which has since rebrand...

 When you hail a cab via an on-demand app there’s more to consider than how much it’s going to cost you. How much the driver is getting paid is something you might want to think about...

 Although self-driving vehicles feel like a near future reality, people still need driver’s licenses to get around independently in cars today. Now, an Austin, Texas startup called Aceable ...

 Welcome to the future, where you can face search for a live sex webcam performer and be served real-life humans to your telescreen who vaguely resemble the object of your desire within, well, ho...

 Oh graphene, you wonderful, miracle substance. The one atom-thick latticed carbon material has been proposed as a way of revolutionizing everything from upload speeds to sports equipment. And if...

 Okay ladies and gents, you’ve procrastinated long enough. Disrupt London 2016 is only a few months away, and today is the final day to get extra early-bird tickets to Disrupt for the super...

 After a smash-hit success crowdfunding campaign last year, Podo is back to do it all over again with the sequel to its Cruel Intentions-inspired camera. Turning any surface into an impromptu tri...

Yahoo confirms a huge data breach from 2014, Amazon launches Amazon Prints, Apple Buys Tuplejump, a machine learning startup, Fidelity Investments has the most investments in startup unicorns than any...

 Facebook has come clean on a slight error in how it presented video view time on its platform. A mismatch in how average video view time is calculated and how it is defined — resulting in ...

 Mobile gaming company SGN announced today that it has a new name, Jam City.This isn’t the first time the company has rebranded — it was called MindJolt before acquiring SGN and then ...

 Animation Throwdown is a new game from Fox Entertainment that pits the company’s popular adult cartoons Bob’s Burgers, Family Guy, King of the Hill, American Dad and Futurama against...

 In case you were wondering when you’ll stop receiving those “please turn off your Samsung Galaxy Note 7” warnings before takeoff, well, we’re halfway there. Samsung annou...

 We’re still in the early days of the hardware renaissance. Driven by decreased development costs, shorter times to market and a shift in hardware business models away from commoditized con...

 Pretty much 100 percent of my generation is obsessed with Instagram. Unfortunately, I left the platform (sorry all) back in 2015.Simple reason, I am way too indecisive about which photos to post...

 One of the first consumer genetic testing companies,23andMe says it aims to be at the forefront in gathering genetically diverse data throughout the world. The company just launched a standalone...

 It’s hip to be square — well, cubical, really. That’s the feeling I got from the amount of voxel-based offerings on the show floor at PAX West — and these 3D pixels fit t...

 Airbnbformally filed a Form D with the Securities and Exchange Commission this afternoon announcing that it had raised$555,462,180 in an equity deal. Last month TechCrunch independently verified...

 Rolling robots will soon be making U.S. house calls, beginning with a trial run in Washington, D.C. this fall. Municipal regulators have approved use of Starship Technologies’ rolling deli...

 In a particularly clever if destructive hack, a maker named Zach cleared out the guts of an NES cartridge and stuck in a Raspberry Pi Zero and an Amazon USB hub to create the ultimate retro NES ...

 A startup called Gfycat (which is pronounced “Jiffy Cat”) has raised a mammoth $10 million seed round to turn its already popular user-generated content platform into a revenue gener...

 As indicated by an earlierreport, Yahoo todayconfirmed it’s working with law enforcement to investigate a data breach which affected the account information of “at least” 500 m...

 Instacart COO Ravi Gupta will say that a bad day working in the on-demand economy can be plenty demoralizing even if offset by good well-paid days, and Instacart is going to be making some chang...

 Google’s VR platform Daydream is now ready for developers’ full attention, thanks to the release of the new Google VR SDK, which exitedfrom beta today. The kit will allow developers ...

 AutoMobility LA, the new name for the press days before the public LA Auto Show in November, has announced the ten startups competing for visibility and mentoring opportunities. The board that c...

 YouTube might be one of the only communities on earth more eccentric than Silicon Valley. You can find videos of cats pretending to be people, people pretending to be cats, and whatever the hell...

 Intuit’s TurboTaxstores highly detailed financial data for millions of users who importtheir W2s, their banking data, info about their mortgages and more. Right now, all of this data is lo...

 Apple is on a machine learning company buying spree. After buying Perceptio at the end of 2015 and Turi just a few months ago, Apple has now acquired an India/US-based machine learning team, Tup...

 As the number of cord cutters in the U.S. continues to grow, The CW isdoubling down on its own, subscription-free, over-the-top streaming service, which willnow become theonly way to watchin-sea...

 Elon Musk is pumping up our expectations again: The Tesla CEO and founder said that he’s planning an October 28, Bay area unveiling of Tesla and SolarCity’s new solar roof product, w...

 After failing to get their startup Udemy off the ground in their native Turkey, Eren Bali and Oktay Calar headed to the U.S. in 2009. Both knew that in the U.S., specifically Silicon Valley, the...

 Facebook sees 30 million updates to profiles each day, but it can’t build every tool to keep your photos and videos interesting. So today it’s globally rolling out its Profile Expres...

 LinkedIn, the social network for the working worldthat now has some 450 million members and is in the process of being acquired by Microsoft for $26.2 billion, today took the wraps off its newes...

 More White House staffer emails have been leaked, Politico reports, this time from the compromised private Gmail account of an employee who seemed to handle travel and other day-to-day schedulin...

 Deathand taxes may be the only two certainties in life (according to Ben Franklin), but tax compliance software provider Avalara has raised $96 million with a pitch to make one a lot less painfu...

 As we hurtle noiselessly into a dystopian future, headphone makers have already started offering Lightning-only earbuds, something that should give early adopters some solace but might be a hard...

 If you reside in the Sates, it’s probably best not to get your hopes up when it comes to Sony handsets. Availability has been, at best, spotty. That’s one of the reasons the two new ...

 Taxi startup Flywheel is officially making its move into New York City, with the aim to better equip old-school taxis to take on Uber andLyft. Flywheel recently received approval from the NYC Ta...

 Facebook’s chat app wants to help you and your friends decide where to go for dinner or what movie to see, then use machine learning to remind you to pay them back. Today Messenger users o...

 A company called Flybrix is putting legos on the wing. The San Francisco startup today began selling build-a-drone kits for kids age 14 and up comprised of: LEGO bricks, boom arms and motors tha...

 Fresh from raising $750 million in new financing this week, Uber rival in Southeast Asia Grab is now making a move into the self-driving car space after it agreed to a partnership with NuTonomy,...

 Tesla has filed suit with the Western District Court of Michigan over its ability to sell its cars directly to consumers in the state, Electrek reports, as well as its ability to service vehicle...

 A new report may have mutual fund investors beaming right now — and traditional venture investors sniggering.According to new research from the data company Pitchbook, Fidelity Investments...

 The full version of Minecraft: Education Edition is finally arriving on November 1, following an extended testing and free trial period that began this summer. The version of Minecraft aimed at ...

 It’s worth noting right off the bat that this is all still in the very early stages. Apple scouts plenty of locations for its stores, and plenty never come to fruition. But the fact that C...

 All we knew was that BART had received 66 complaints, with excessive use of force being the primary allegation, according to a 2010 audit. In 2015, when a homeless man was shot and killedonSkid ...

 Watch out, Shutterfly. Amazon has quietlylaunched a new service called Amazon Prints, which allows consumers to print photos and custom photo books, and soon, other photo products like stationer...

 Europe continues to test the waters of shared vehicle ownership models, and the Amber One is a car designed to help eliminate the huge amount of time our own vehiclescurrently spend idle. The al...

 When was the last time you printed a photo? Well, Fotr is a new iPhone app that wants to turn that trend on its head, by automatically printing every photo you take. The idea is to bring back an...

 Signia Venture Partners has closed its second fund at $85 million to lead early-stage deals in emerging tech startups mostly in and around San Francisco. For the unfamiliar, Signia is typically ...

 The Voyager Golden Record wasn’t made for you. It was made for aliens. But if buying stuff that wasn’t originally intended for you isn’t what Kickstarter is for, I honestly don...

 Game streaming is something that everyone working in streamed video wants a part of, and now Facebook Live can stream Android games (and other apps) via the BlueStacks desktop emulator for PC an...

 Scale Model, the betaworks-backed marketing platform for better audience targeting, has today announced the launch of its fully-baked V2.Scale Model hooks into the Twitter Ads API to help brands...

 For some reason certain people feel the need to create a dating profile using someone else’s pictures. Whether it’s done toimpersonatesomeone else, bully someone or even just pull a ...

 For those of you following Instagram’s ad business, myheadline might seem a bit familiar — yes, the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service announced another advertiser milestone back i...

 Tinder, the dating app to rule them all, has today announced that it participated as an investor in Vina’s latest funding round. Vina, a social network where girls can meet and nurture new...

 Pax Labs, makers of some of the world’s most popular loose-leaf flower and nicotine vaporizers, has today announced a new flagship vaporizer in the form of the Pax 3. Not only is Pax 3 the...

 These days, it’s not uncommon to see folks using oil pens instead of lighting up a good old-fashioned joint. PAX Labs, the makers of the Pax vaporizer line and the JUUL e-cig, are today an...

 Polaroid’s shiny new camera with a built-in Nink printer, the Snap Touch, is available on pre-sale today, although if my experiences with it at Photokina are anything to go by, it’s ...

 With a little personal shopping assistance, Operator thinks Chinese citizens will pounce on American products sold through its conversational shopping app. The promise of becoming the guided com...

 At Disrupt London, this coming December, it will be easier than ever for investors to find companies that fit their investment strategy. For the first time TechCrunch is bringing its CrunchMatch...

Pay attention, European startup fans. TechCrunch Disrupt London 2016 is fast approaching, and soon thousands of entrepreneurs, investors and tech enthusiasts will make their way to London’s Copp...

 Amazon continues to try to turn the screws on its competition through its scale, and nowit’s the turn of Handmade, the e-commerce giant’s marketplace for arts and crafts that compete...

 TechCrunch Disrupt London is coming! From December 5 to 6 in the Olympic Village’s Copper Box Arena, you see see incredible speakers and visit the enormous Startup Alley, as well as the fa...

 PicsArt today launched a brand new pair of apps for iOS, adding Prisma-like effects for photographs and videos to the visually stimulating toolbox that lives inside your phone. The company also ...

 Not one for the self-conscious, Ghostdrone 2.0 VR from Ehang adds a new twist to flying an UAV around. Rather than using a traditional controller, to fly the Ghostdrone VR, the user dons a heads...

 “I want to be the global leader. I don’t want to build the non-relevant European or French player.” That’s why Emmanuel de Maistre just sold Redbird, his drone-powered an...

 I spent aweek in Tokyo last month as a speaker at the CEDEC gaming conference. Had you asked 10 year old me about Japan, I would have conjured up images of Godzilla, Dragon Ball Z, and ninjas. F...

Apple might buy McLaren, YouTube implements a new site moderation platform, Netflix to triple the amount of original content that it produces, Lemonade wants to change the way people get renters and h...

 Adoption of digital finance could add $3.7 trillion dollars to the GDP of emerging markets economies, including $1.1 trillion in China alone, according to a new McKinsey & Company report. Th...

 Weebly launched a new version of its platform today. While the company started out as an easy-to-use website creator and editor (I used it to build my own website), CEO David Rusenko said that w...

 There’s always been an ongoing conversation amongst successful tech entrepreneurs about how to “give back.” Not everyone can afford to found an entire hospital, and yet many fe...

 Two years ago Flickr rolled out Marketplace, a photo licensing service that was meant to help Flickr users get paid by big websites and media properties who wanted to use that user’s photo...

 Aria Systems is bringing together the chocolate of usage- and subscription-based revenue opportunities with the peanut butter of increasingly connected automotive systems. The resulting candy (t...

 You know how sometimes you look at a piece of research and think, “I suppose it’s an interesting technical problem, but isn’t teaching an AI to hunt and kill humans a pursuit f...

 Whenever you see wide shots of a TV audience, you see huge contraptions with cameras on them, enabling TV folks to create fantastic swooping shots. If you want some of that in your life, Joby ca...

 The sparsely populated Spratly Islands are quickly becoming the center of one of the most contentious international disputes between world powers since the fall of the Soviet Union. Alarmingly, ...

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 Whether you’re a high school student or an NFL team owner, everybody texts.ReplyBuy, a finalistin the1st and Future competition, wants to use the text message to get you tickets for sporti...

 Things are looking up for adtech companies on Wall Street — or at least for one of them. The Trade Desk debuted on NASDAQ today at a price of $28.75 per share, up nearly 60 percent from it...

 It’s common practice these days for companies that hold significant amounts of user data to publish transparency reports. Google, Facebook, Dropbox and Slack all put out their numbers on a...

 A few weeks ago,True Venturesclosed its newest, early-stage fund with $310 million, which is just a slight step up from its last, $295 million fund, despite some enormous wins like the wearable ...

 A few weeks ago,True Venturesclosed its newest, early-stage fund with $310 million, which is just a slight step up from its last, $295 million fund, despite some enormous wins like Fitbit, whose...

 Bots are a useful tool on Wikipedia: they identify and undo vandalism, add links, and perform other tedious tasks set by their human masters. But even these automated helpers come into conflict,...

 Waze’s engaged community is definitely its most powerful asset, and now the company wants to broaden its community to include tunnel operators who want to fill in the current gaps in wirel...

 Virtual reality needs content if it’s ever going to take off in a meaningful way. And while thus far that’s largely been focused on gaming, we’re finallystarting to see studios...

 Apple is rumored to be in talks to acquire McLaren, but that’s not all. While the New York Times was digging on the McLaren story, they also found out that Apple is also talking with Lit M...

 The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative just announced a new program to help cure disease. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative was first announced in December alongside the birth of the couple’s daughte...

 The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative just announced a new program informally called Chan Zuckerberg Science to invest $3 billion over the next decade to help cure, prevent, or manage all disease. The ...

 Disrupt SF had an amazing lineup of speakers from Marc Andereessen to Steph Curry. Weren’t able to catch every second? The TechCrunch social team has compiled the 25 best quotes from the e...

 If you go by the latest headlines, the data scientist is the most coveted and scarce enterprise commodity on the employment market. But you could just as easily argue that it’s a trendy ti...

 Yahoo View, the company’s recently launched gambit to go after cord cutters by offering free video content from Hulu, is now available on mobile. Yahoo has justdebutedan iOS version of the...

 Several folks started noticing self-driving Uber cars in downtown San Francisco yesterday, fueling speculation the ridesharing company could soon be deploying autonomous vehicles for commercial ...

 At a glance 6-12 month battery (without solar panel) Two-way audio Infrared LEDs for night vision Pros Easy to install, with most tools included Wireless design means more mountingoptions Cons N...

 When Google first announced Allo, its newest chat app, there was some controversy around why the service didn’t use end-to-end encryption by default and only in its Incognito mode. The rea...

 Another school year is now in full swing, which for many kids meansreconnecting with friendsand learning.Italso means a start of another data collection cycle that is neither visible nortrulyopt...

 Surprise! You thought you were done with iOS 10 beta for a while? Apple already released the iOS 10.1 beta 1 for developers. This beta has one new feature in particular — the portrait mode...

 Tinder today is launching a new application for social polling. The company announced the debut of “Tinder Stacks,” an app for iMessage users that will let you use the “swipe t...

 It’s a software feature that used the two lenses of the iPhone 7 Plus to create the look and feel of an image shot with portrait settings on a camera with a telephoto lens. Simply put: a p...

 As any Etsy seller will tell you, photography is up there with the top most important parts of your sales listing. And yet, there’s a load of sellers who are great at making doo-dahs, but ...

 As the debate over kids and screen time rages on, Amazon offers up a happy medium of sorts. The online retail giant is sellinga bundled version of its Kindle focused specifically onyoung readers...

 Agriculture tech startup BrightFarms has raised $30.1 million in Series C funding to bring its high-tech greenhouses, and fresh produce, across the U.S. The company is on a mission to make all f...

 Whether in the once-sizzling pages of Valleywag or on the screen of HBO,most of SV can, at the very least, tolerate a good roast.Either way, we’d better all be ready.The next roast is comi...

 The EpiPen, a spring-loaded device full epinephrine, of has entered the pantheon of modern pharmaceutical chicanery of late after its maker raised its price to $600 a unit. Now, however, you can...

 Developers call it “growth hacking.” Recipientscall it spam. The latest app to engage in the less-than-wholesome practice of asking users to textinvite links to your entire contact l...

 There’s a new digital team at the American of Society of Composers, Authors, and Performers. ASCAP is a nonprofit organization that helps songwriters track and get paid for performances of...

 The shoes you’ve been waiting for since roughly 1989 finally have a release date. After months of teasing the HyperAdapt 1.0, Nike is finally ready to bring its self-lacing shoes to the ma...

 Earlier this month, YouTube launched its own social network of sorts with the debut of YouTube Community; now it’s enlisting help from viewers to help moderate it, along with other content...

 Apple, the tech company, is negotiating with McLaren, the car manufacturer, according to the Financial Times. Yes, you’ve read that correctly. These negotiations have been ongoing for mont...

Here is an audio version of the below article as how it should be read. (Play it while you read for an extra special experience) The spot was Magic Mountain, California. It was a hot summer day —...

 You could go in for the full-throated nostalgia of an instant printer like the Fujifilm Instax or that new dealie from Leica, or you can pick up one of these thingsand let your smartphone do all...

 Z Cam just launched its S1 camera. Aimed at the VR crowd, it captures four perfectly synchronized 4K streams for high-end 360 video recording. The company is gunning for GoPro’s $15k Odyss...

 Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk just revealed that the 8.0 update which includes big Autopilot improvementswill begin going live for Model S and Model X owners later tonight. The over-the-air up...

 Facebook is live streaming the presidential debates with help from ABC News, and Twitter this morning announced it will host its own live streams, courtesy of a Bloomberg partnership. NBC, howev...

 Slowly but surely Michael Kors is becoming a technology brand. The company recently lent its name to an Android smartwatch. I tried it out. It was, I don’t know, fine I guess. But mostly i...

 If you spotted the iPhone 7 Plus launch and hung your head in sadness because the dual lenses weren’t for 3D photography, Kla’s new Bebe might be the solution you’re looking fo...

 Twitter will be live streaming all of the U.S. Presidential and Vice Presidential debates, beginning Monday, September 26. The streams will come from Bloomberg TV’s live broadcast, and are...

 Imagine for a moment thatyou’re riding in one of John Zimmer’s proposed autonomous sleeper cars and you’re fast asleep on a road trip across the state. All of the sensors on th...

 Online furniture and home furnishings retailer Pepperfry has raised $31 million to expand its business across India. Read More ...

 Group messaging continues to be a problem that large organizations have trouble solving. And its an area where venture investors have spent millions. While many people use Slack, orcommunication...

 Netflix is looking to shift its content mix even further towards original TV and movies, with a goal of achieving a 50 percent mix between its own programming and stuff licensed for its use by o...

 Congressional Republicans have recently taken a new hostage in their never-ending stream of threats to shut down the government. This time, their target is the transfer of control of usually uns...

 Gametime has raised $20 million in venture funding for an app that allows people to find and buy tickets to a nearby concert or sporting event at the last minute, and even up to a half-hour afte...

 It’s a sales world these days. CRM rules everything aroundme (and my colleagues) seemingly every day; with a new financing, launch, or app that’s designed to make the life of the bus...

 Theautomotiveindustry is in fluxwith the rise of self-driving and electric cars, and the concept of car ownership altogether being thrown into question. With this, the car insurance industry is ...

 DailyRounds, a service for doctors that combines elements of a social network and a medical journal, has landed undisclosed funding led by venture capital giant Accel. Beenos, Powerhouse Venture...

 Does a stellar SAT score and a perfect GPA mean that you’re the right candidate for the job? Not necessarily, according to Rebecca Kantar, founder of Imbellus. She believes her team has a ...

 The new insurance company, Lemonade, is finally able to take the covers off of its radical (and pretty freaking cool)insurance plans. The company has received its initial license in New York as ...

 Fourteen years is a long time to be a startup, but long-time travel social network WAYN has finally cashed in its chips and sold to (almost equally old) online travel pioneer Lastminute.com Grou...

 Learning any new subject can be challenging — for many students, that subject is math. Fortunately, Photomath is here to help. Photomath, a finalist in the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt E...

 The development of mobile payment platforms, increasing options for providing debt, and cheaper and better off-grid solar power systems are presenting countries around the world with a chance to...

 TechCrunch Disrupt London is coming this December. The two-day conference runs December 5 to 6 in the Olympic Village’s Copper Box Arena and features Startup Alley and Startup Battlefield ...

 Nucleus, the home intercom system which started shipping in August, has closed $5.6M in Series A Funding. The round was led by Amazon’s Alexa fund, which invests in promising startups that...

 OurCrowd, the crowdfunding platform that gives backers equity in the companies they support, today announced that it hasraised $72 million in a Series C round of funding, and expects the final f...

 With Unleashed, Foolography is launching the smartest SLR camera remote control yet. Instead of using the camera’s remote control port or trying to futz about with Wi-Fi, the company chose...

 “We’re not a bunch of startup dudes saying we’re disrupting insurance… we’re not a bunch of arrogant pricks,” FinanceFox co-founder and CEO Julian Teicke told...

 Google firstannouncedAllo and Duo, its new messaging and video chat apps, at its I/O developer conference earlier this year. Duo launched about a month ago and today it’s Allo’s turn...

Etsy buys machine learning company Blackbird, Ludela is launching a smart candle, The new MacOS Sierra is out, LeEco closed a billion-dollar round for an electric car and Uber rival Grab raises $750 M...

 Asteroid mining is coming soon to a planet near you: this planet, and in 2021, to be specific. But NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission has lots of work to do before that point. Today the spac...

 But the tech-filled vehicles will become data goldmines for governments, manufacturers, and hackers — and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is making sure it gets access t...

 Oculus is just months away from releasing theTouch controllers and we now have a better idea of just how much they’ll hurt your wallet.A GAME store display revealed that the launch price o...

 North Korea is famously secretive and restrictive — the regime goes to great lengths to both prevent the outside world from learning what goes on there and prevent its citizens from learni...

 “Demand for GoPro is better than it’s ever been,” Nick Woodman explained to a rapt audience at GoPro’s mountain press conference yesterday. “Demand is kicking tail,...

 I’m writing this from a plane. As we boarded, the flight attended asked that we not use or charge our “Samsung 7” phones on the plane. The wording was a little awkward, but the...

 As we first reported last month, Mike Rothenberg, the beleaguered founder of the San Francisco-based venture firm Rothenberg Ventures, has been involved in an ongoing SEC inquiry intopossiblydec...

 Mark your Google calendars because from today ‘Don’t be evil’ rides again, via the DeepMind AI division of the Alphabet ad giant, as a hippocratic assurance to ‘Do no har...

 Tumblr today is bringing Live Photos to the web version of its service, while also rolling out tools that will allow other web developers to do the same. The company has released an open source ...

 Last week we wrote about Timeular, a nifty little box that makes the dreaded chore of tracking your time at work easy, and now it is available on Kickstarter. Read More ...

 Cancer is like a computer virus and can be ‘solved’ by cracking the code, according to Microsoft. The computer software company says its researchers are using artificial intelligence...

 Just over four years ago, I sat through what still is the most viscerally disturbing information security talk I’ve ever seen. The late Barnaby Jack, a brilliant security researcher, had j...

 The promise of premium home 3D printing hasn’t panned out. Hobbyist printers are common and cheap these days – there are plenty of models at around $500, the price of a really good l...

 While it’s easy to point to products like the Pebble Smart Watch as a sign that crowdfunding sites like Kickstarter are gaining ground against traditional institutional financiers and ange...

 Probably the first time I saw Clive Owen, it was in a “film” commissioned by BMW to advertise its cars. At the time, I didn’t really care all that much about cars (I had one, a...

 Tesla moved quickly to patch a vulnerability discovered by Tencent security research team Keen Security Lab that rendered the Model S susceptible to remote attacks, provided the Tesla Model S wa...

 Facebook just announced some new features for its dynamic ads, aimed at making the format more appealing to businesses with brick-and-mortar stores. Facebook’s dynamic ads show you differe...

 When someone has lost a hand, particularly the dominant one, it can be a real challenge to do the simple clicks and drags that all of us take for granted on our desktops and laptops. A German de...

 Leica, the company best known for its soul-fryingly expensive, lovingly hand-crafted high-end rangefinder cameras, recently launched the Sofort. It’s a $300 Polaroid-style instant camera t...

 A new update means that many smart writers are publishing reviews showing the many new features of macOS Sierra. I’ll leave the hyper technical reviews to them. Based on three months of te...

 Following tests earlier this year, Instagram today confirmed it’s rolling out a“Save Draft” feature to all users. Thisaddition means you’re now able to begin working on a...

 If you’re curious to learn about the latest investment out of San Francisco-based True Ventures, you’ll have tobe patient. Though the firm is disclosing that it has led a whopping $1...

 The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus launched last week, and one of the most hyped features has been the camera(s). This is especially true with the 7 Plus, which now hastwo cameras — one wide angle an...

 Facebook says 53,000 people are talking about Terrence Crutcher’s death by police, but instead it’s showing me Trends about Xbox, a Game Of Thrones actor, and New Jersey’s gove...

 When Google launched its AMP project for making mobile websites load faster, it was mostly about news sites and you’d only see AMP links in the Top Stories section of the company’s s...

 A big annoying experience of living in a city is checking a site like Nextbus for your bus or rail’s arrival time, and then getting there only to find that you’ve missed it by a spli...

 While there’s plenty of talent in the San Francisco Bay Area — where Pinterest’s main office is over at 5th and Brannan in San Francisco — it can be very costly to find a...

 After a summer of beta versions, Apple has just released the final version of macOS Sierra. macOS Sierra is the major update of OS X El Capitan — yes, OS X is dead, long live macOS. Other ...

 The search box in Google Drive is getting an upgrade that will make it function more like Google Search, Google announced this morning. The improvements include a new autocorrect feature which w...

 The other week, I spoke with the new CEO of 3D Systems. He told me that he believes the consumer 3D printing business “is not real.”That’s not exactly the vote of confidence on...

 It looks like Google, which yesterday acquired API.ai, a company that helps developers build conversational interfaces, isn’t the only major tech company hoovering up chat bot talent. Tech...

 The U.S. Federal Government noted yesterday that it would be releasing an autonomous vehicle policy designed to help guide the safe development of driverless tech, while also allowing flexibilit...

 You don’t have to spend a long time in tech journalism before you get pitched a whole stack of companies that make you scratch your head and ask yourself “why?” LuDela is one e...

 Stitch Fix can’t figure out how to take my money, but they’re expanding to include men’s clothing now. Good luck with that! Oh, am I going to write a blog post on TechCrunch ab...

 The new Pokmon Sun and Moon games are still a couple of months away, with a release date set for November 18, but the news keeps trickling out about its new Pokmon and features. The new Pokmon r...

 Users, subscribers, growth, global expansion, minimal marginal costs, the promise of future success; this all sounds a bit like the verbiage of a tech company — and that’s because th...

 The Chinese market for electric vehicles is hot, and the latest indicator is a $1.08 billion raise from China’s LeEco, a Beijing-based web video company (which now dabbles in everything fr...

 Once again, a bigretailer in the UK is pulling away from its ambitions to move into digital media. Supermarket giant Sainsbury’s preparing to exit the digital entertainment business. As pa...

 No TV? No problem – you can still catch the debates. This morning, ABC News and Facebook announced they areagain teaming up to bring live coverage of the U.S. 2016 Presidential election to...

 Danish startup Spiri revealed their on-demand carpooling service in late August, and is now ready to show off its first prototype vehicle. The company decided to build its own all-electric car f...

 Photographic cues have helped systems like Microsoft’s Emotion API detect human feewith decent accuracy, but a new research project from MIT’s Computers Science and Artificial Intell...

 Surprising no one, The Pokmon Company’s CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara told the WSJ in an interview that Pokmon games will appear on Pokmon’s upcoming console, which is codenamed the “...

 Progressly, a new platform for supporting growth within large enterprises, just got a big boost in both money and staffing. Ruslan Belkin, a former top exec from Twitter and Linkedinwill be join...

 Higher resolution is making for larger video and images, but luckily, flash memory capacity seems to be keeping pace. A new SDXC card from SanDisk unveiled today has 1TB of space available, whic...

 CloudFlare is encrypting its corner of the internet. The company announced today that it has rolled outnew encryption features for all the websites it protects: TLS 1.3, automatic HTTPS rewrites...

 Tinder is teaming up with Spotify to give users a new way to judge each other.Just as Tinder allowed folks to connect their Instagram accounts to their Tinder profile, the same is now true for S...

Back in 2013, Runnable launched with the mission to become the “YouTube of code” that allowed its users to find and run code snippets on its site. Times have changed, though, and the well-...

 I’m a bit surprised Canary didn’t just go ahead and make the Flex its flagship. For starters, the camera is just a heck of a lot nicer looking than its predecessor, a white (or black...

 I didn’t expect that a career in tech journalism would one day leave me crowded in my bathroom with tech execs hiding from a high-powered, depth-sensing VR camera, but here we are.Earlier ...

 When you see or hear something happen, you can instantly describe it: “a girl in a blue shirt caught a ball thrown by a baseball player,” or “a dog runs along the beach.”...

 Anyone interested in the intersection of travel and technology knows that Hotel Tonightbasically revolutionize the same-day hotel booking industry. Launched in 2011, Hotel Tonight’s app le...

 Gunning to become the top seller of used cars online, Vroom Inc. has raised $50 million in a Series E round of equity funding, bringing its total capital raised to $218 million to-date.The marke...

 Reports may beswirlingabout Twitter exploring a sale of all or a partof its company, but in the meantime, thesocial media platform is trimming down internationally. Twitter is shutting down its ...

 Reports may beswirlingabout Twitter exploring a sale of all or a partof its company, but in the meantime, thesocial media platform is trimming down internationally. Twitter is shutting down its ...

 Healthtech, Fintech and AI dominated Techstars London Demo day today in London. At a packed venue (the famous Royal Institution, no less) the teams demo’d their products in short pitches. ...

 Healthtech, Fintech and AI dominated Techstars London Demo day today in London. At a packed venue (the famous Royal Institution, no less) the teams demo’d their products in short pitches. ...

 When we last saw Robo Wunderkind, the company was on stage as part of the Startup Battlefield competition at Disrupt SF 2015. This week it is announcing that it has closed an additional $500,00...

 Desire is, of course, a relative thing*. For some, it’s the impulse that compels us to work hard or create. It’s about love and about lust, a passion that keeps us pushing ever forwa...

 Twilio, which is currently hosting the European version of its Signal conference in London, today announced its first acquisition after its successful IPO in June. This one is a bit complicated,...

 Opera has become the first browser maker to ship a desktop internet browser that includes an unlimited VPN service baked-in. Read More ...

 French food delivery startup FoodChri, which operates an online only restaurant along the lines of EatFirst in the UK or Munchery’s original model in the US, has raised 6 million in Series...

 French startup StarOfService just raised another $10 million for its European Thumbtack alternative. Andrea Piccioni and Silvio Pagliani, ENERN Investments and Point Nine Capital participated in...

 Chevrolet’s new Bolt EV is a vehicle that Wired has dubbed “Tesla-walloping,” and its pricing seems like a direct shot at Tesla’s lineup, including the forthcoming Model ...

Gopro, Drone, Karma, Nikon, Camera, Twiter, Hero5, session, Nick Woodman, keymission, nikon, 360, 170, 80, users, increase, lyft, autonomous, driving, Foundry, Group, Sixth, Fund, fitbit, Gnip, Datahe...

 At the Photokina trade show, Sony launched a long-awaited followup to its aging flagship SLR camera. The Sony A99 II sports high-resolution sensors, 5-axis image stabilization, a raft of high-en...

 AdStage announced today that it has raised an additional $2 million from Verizon Ventures. The company offers tools for businesses to manage their ad campaigns across Facebook, Google, Bing and ...

 Grab, the largest company rivaling Uber in Southeast Asia, has confirmed that it has raised $750 million in fresh capital. This is the company’s Series F round, and it was led by existing ...

 Grab, the largest company rivaling Uber in Southeast Asia, has confirmed that it has raised $750 million in fresh capital. This is the company’s Series F round, and it was led by existing ...

 Since its advent in 2009, bitcoin’s decentralized, broker-less and secure mechanism to send money across the world has steadily risen in popularity and adoption. Of equal — if not gr...

 The U.S. government revealed its much-anticipatedFederal Automated Vehicles policy on Monday evening, detailing its 15-point Safety Assessment to be rolled out fully on Tuesday, which is designe...

 Google just sent out invites for an event in San Francisco on October 4th.Rumor has it that the company will reveal its next smartphones at the event. While the invite itself only features Googl...

Insider, a unified online marketing platform out of Turkey, has secured a $2.2 million Series A round of financing, bringing its total funding since launching in 2012 to $3.3 million. That may not sou...

 Airbnb is facing a further squeeze on its activities in Barcelona, the Catalonian capital that’s hugely popular with tourists — ramping up tension with local communities dealing with...

 Investors are valuing seed-stage startups at the highest levels ever, according new report published by the private deals database Pitchbook. According to its analysis, the pre-money valuation f...

 Investors are valuing seed-stage startups at the highest levels ever, according to a new report published by the private deals database Pitchbook. According to its analysis, the pre-money valuat...

 When Apple launched its iBeacon protocol at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in 2013 it laid the foundation for an entire new industry — the proximity industry. Three years later,...

 It was announced on the second day of the month, and, well, here it is: The wireless version of Bower & Wilkins’ P7 headphones. Well, how are they? As great as I’d hoped, but the...

 Google has just disclosed that it has snatched up the team behind API.AI. API.AI provides tools to developers to help them build conversational, Siri-esque bots. As humans, we’re pretty go...

 It’s not just gigantic search engines that are looking toacquire tech and talentaround emerging areas like speech recognition. Even design and craft marketplaces can usea little machine le...

 It’s not just gigantic search engines that are looking toacquire tech and talentaround emerging areas like speech recognition. Even design and craft marketplaces can usea little machine le...

 Chat bots were meh. Sure, they’ll get better. But the upcoming innovation in chat is about being more human, not less. With the proliferation of adequate speech recognition, AI assistants,...

 Of all the products I’ve seen this year, none are more worthy of our time and attention than the Ripple Rug. Created by Fred and Natasha Ruckel, the Ripple Rug is a rug with holes and lump...

 I’d like to tip my imaginary hat off to Jessica O. Matthews, the black female founder and CEO of renewable energy tech startup Uncharted Play. Her company just closed a $7 million Series A...

There’s something intriguing about low-fi solutions to high-tech problems and the Glance Clock is no exception. In today’s world, a missed Uber can be the difference between a confidence-i...

 For those of us in the mobile advertising technology business, China is one of the most exciting markets in the world in 2016. To say that the mobile ad economy in China is a few years behind th...

 Cloud Foundry, the Pivotal- and VMware-incubated open source platform-as-a-service project, is going all in on its new Diego container management system. For a while now, the project used what i...

 All children benefit from new experiences which expand their mental map of the world, but the need is especially acute for children from low-income families. Read More ...

 Elio Motors has raised funds for manufacturing its forthcoming three-wheeled commuter vehicle in a fewinnovative ways, including Regulation A+ stock offerings. Itslatest creative funding is thro...

 Fujifilm is riding high on its strategy of taking camera classics and reinventing them for the modern era, and now it has a new mirrorless medium format camera system that’s likely to win ...

 Mondays, as we all know, are the worst. That’s why it’s important to keep an eye out for heart-warming videos like puppies sliding on hardwood floors, otters holding hands, or energe...

 Facebook has acquired Nascent Objects, a small California startup founded in 2014 that focuses on creating a modular electronics system that consumers could use to build their gadgets, using rec...

 Canaan Partners, the multi-stage venture capital firm, is beefing up its enterprise software investment team andlooking to spend more time in San Francisco in addition to its longtime home on Sa...

 In case you missed it, Aircall announced last week that it had raised another $8 million dollars in funding for its call center software-as-a-service. New York-based VC firm FJLabs as well as ex...

 Did you hear?Twitterwouldlike you to know that its service is now easier to use, thanks to a series of rule revisions announced in May, which have just gone live. Starting today, Twitter is cutt...

 It was only a few years ago that streaming services were included in the Primetime Emmy awards, when Netflix scored its first winforits drama series “House of Cards.” Today,streaming...

 You can scratch what you heard just a few months ago about the end of SpoonRocket because its new owner, Brazil-based iFood, is bringing it back. Well, sort of. SpoonRocket, the on-demand mealde...

 Stripe, the startup that competes against the likes of PayPal’s Braintree and WePay to provide payment services to digitalbusinesses, is taking the wraps off its newest product to set it a...

 One of Google Photos‘ standout features has long been its ability to automatically create short movies whenever it recognizes you went on a trip. Until now, though, the system that built t...

 Google today is launching a new feature for Google Books which aims to offer abetter challenge to Amazon’s Kindle app when it comes to helping you find new things to read. Called “Di...

 Payment enabler Stripe has kicked off its expansion into Asia after its service went live in Singapore today. Read More ...

 Foundry Group, the 10-year-old, Boulder, Colorado-based early-stage venture firm, announced this morning that it as closed its sixth fund, Foundry Group Next, with $500 million. It comes hot on ...

 GoPro is revealing many new goodies today, including a few new accessories with run the risk of getting the lost in the noise. They’re actually pretty interesting, though – thereR...

 GoPro would have been hard-pressed to find a more scenic locale with which to launch its latest offers. Some 2,800 feet above sea level, couched at the feet of the Sierra Nevada mountains that s...

 GoPro needs a win. The company’s name may be synonymous with action cameras, but the market it helped pioneer nearly 15 years has long since become overcrowded by cheaper and more speciali...

 The future of GoPro is not hardware. It’s services. Editing video is hard but GoPro is moving it to the cloud in a bid to make it a bit easier. The service, called GoPro Plus, is a subscri...

 Swiggy, one of India’s top food delivery services, has refueled its tanks after raising $15 million led by Bessemer Venture Partners. The company said a number of existing investors also p...

 Uber VP Sherif Marakby told attendees at the SAE Convergence conference in Novi, Michigan today that it will open a new facility in the metro Detroit area in the “coming months,” in ...

 Google today is launching a new mobile application, aimed at helping you better plan your vacations and other travels. Called Google Trips, the iOS and Android app pulls in a combination of data...

 Google’s further expansion into travel services isn’t limited to trip planning via the launch of its new Google Trips mobile app– the company has also quietly launched its R...

 GoPro needs a hero. And then some. The action camera company hasn’t issued a major release to the flagship device that bears its name in a couple of years. Of late, it’s been making ...

 In launching its Keymission series of cameras, Nikon is bringing the fight to the doorstep of action cameras and VR camera makers. The cameras range from chest-wearable cams, borderline GoPro cl...

 Anyong Haseyo! TechCrunch is South Korea-bound and we’re going to do some Seoul searching for the greatest tech in the East. We’re bringing the legendary TechCrunch Meetup + Pitch-of...

 Tesla has said that its acquisition of SolarCity could be delayed because of shareholder lawsuits which have been filed to challenge the merger, according to an amended regulatory filingpublishe...

 Company founder James Dyson created the first vacuum cleaner without a bag, and he also created the ball-based design that made it easier to negotiate complicated room layouts. A couple of years...

 In the ‘old days’ there were plenty of messaging apps and aggregators, but they survived in an open source world. Today, business models dictate that platforms like Slack must keep t...

 Airbnb has bought a Barcelona-based travel startup it was advising and partnering with: Trip4real offers a marketplace of experiences for tourists to browse and book ahead of time to lend their ...

 Waterloo’s Thalmic Labs has raised a new $120 million (U.S.) Series B round from investors including Intel Capital, The Amazon Alexa Fund and Fidelity Investments Canada. The fresh funding...

 DueCourse, a cloud-based invoice financing service for SMEs, has raised 6.25 million in new funding. Read More ...

 As I began my career in higher education in the late 1990s, technology seemed poised to upend the entire academic enterprise. The zeitgeist was that a star system was about to be born, with mill...

 As Barack Obama’s second term comes to an end, an increasingly loud chorus of voices are calling for a dramatic final presidential act: the pardoning of Edward Snowden. Authoritarians are ...

 New technologies have constantly changed the way we’ve worked. And continued investments have come as corporate demand for worker productivity drives tech spending. We should expect augmen...

 Say what you will about Salesforce, the company is always looking ahead. This afternoon, it announced Salesforce Einstein, its artificial intelligence (AI) initiative. The timing, which comes ju...

 Oracle is kicking off a big customer confab in San Francisco this week, and to mark the event, it’s announced an acquisition. Oracle is acquiring Palerra, a cloud security startup founded ...

 Crisis has a history of dictating government technology disruption. But innovators don’t wait for crises. They imagine a different path, whether it’s a new approach to solving an old...

 The Adblock Plus crowdsourced hackermilitiacan’t keep up with Facebook’s disciplined army of engineers. When Facebook first announced it would circumvent ad blocking software, Adbloc...

 Lyft’s response may not be autonomous cars in active duty, butit is a lengthy, detailed treatise on how Lyft sees the future of transportation over the next ten years, as penned by Lyft co...

 Apple just released not one, not two but three new ads for its new devices — the iPhone 7 and the Apple Watch Series 2. They all tout new features, such as water resistance, low light came...

 On August 24th, a warm summer night, all of Europe was shaken when an earthquake measuring 6.2 on the moment magnitude scale, hit central Italy.“The town [Amatrice] doesn’t exist any...

 Over the past few years, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been the white-hot center of a flurry of activity. The IoT may well be The Next Big Thing, but maybe the attention around sensors is mis...

 Brazil showed off its cultural brilliance, spirit and national pride during the recent Olympic Games in Rio. Despite a prolonged macroeconomic crisis, the world’s ninth largest economy is ...

 I walked into a store and bought two today (there were plenty more around) so chances are you won’t have to resort to overpaying on eBay for a pre-order slot. After only a few hours playin...

 Elon Musk just teased that one of SpaceX’s more future-focused projects might be more ambitious than previously thought. On Twitter, the SpaceX CEO revealed that the company’s Mars C...

 The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Frank Radice, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, September 16, 2016. It’s multiple streaming networks and the Third...

 Are tech IPOs coming back? That is an ever-present question in Silicon Valley during any lull in the flow of shining private companies that get anointed as public companies. And we certainly hav...

 Are tech IPOs coming back? That is an ever-present question in Silicon Valley during any lull in the flow of shining private companies that get anointed as public companies. And we certainly hav...

 20th Century Fox is looking to get an injunction against Netflix to prevent it from luring away employees under contract, according to a new lawsuit filed with an LA court. Recent Netflix hires ...

 Microsoft is going to closeSkype’s London office, in a move that could impact the jobs of the nearly 400 people employed there. The company told the Financial Times that is will “uni...

 Like most small products with a cult following, SCiO has its fans and detractors. Those detractors took to the Internet recently to complain that the handheld molecular scanner, which raised $2....

 There’s no denying that app fatigue is posing a challenge not just for new app discovery, but for new behavior discovery. So why don’t the most popular apps just enable the latest, g...

 As robotics begins to leave controlled environments and navigate the real world alongside humans, the question remains: How will this affect the way we interact, work and talk to not only robots...

 What do you call an innovative person who builds a product out of nothing and launches something that will change people’s lives? Everywhere besides Cuba, you’d call this person an e...

 There’s plenty to like about iOS 10 — assuming that it didn’t brick your iPhone or iPad, of course — but you probably don’t know that Apple has quietly killed off o...

 Cheap and accessible capital has advantages: More founders get to pursue big dreams and previously “unfundable companies” not only raise huge amounts of money, but some achieve unico...

 A day after the Consumer Product Safety Commission formally issued a recall of Samsung’s occasional explosion-making Galaxy Note 7, the FAA is offering a more strictly worded warning again...

 The NFL just released numbers on last night’s debut of NFL’s Thursday Night Football on Twitter, and they are pretty damn good. More than 2M people watched the game on Twitter, compa...

 This is a LIVE recording session of The Gillmor Gang on September 16th starting at 2pmPT/5pm/ET – with: John Borthwick, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. TodayR...

 Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people make up nearly 40% of the 1.6 million youth who experience homelessness every year. Meanwhile, trans people are almost fourtimes more likely ...

 The doors to TechCrunch Disrupt SF2016 opened September 12at Pier 48 in San Francisco. Thethree-day conferencehosted over 5,000attendees, with hundreds of thousands more tuning in online. In fac...

Back in March Microsoft CEO Nadella announced “Bots are the new apps” while The Economist calls chat bots “the next frontier”. So that’s the hype taken care of but what d...

 This isn’t so much an acquisition as a welcoming back into the fold. Urban Engines was formed in 2014 by a bunch of former Google employees, with backing from Google Ventures and Eric Schm...

 Tulip, a cute little gumdrop-shaped baby monitor from Snugb is outfitted with a versatile camera that gathers data on room temperature, humidity and air quality around your baby’s crib. Th...

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 Bots are becoming a part of our life. I wake up in the morning and tell Alexa to play my Brazilian samba, I let Amy set my meetings and I check stats and reports in Slack. Bot builders and users...

Withside-hustles being all the rage these days, the new Shaper Origin makes it easier than ever tostartbuilding and selling cool gadgets in your free time.While you might notbe able to build yourself ...

 While the rest of the iPhone obsessed world was getting ready to stand in line or just impatiently waiting for their pre-order to arrive, the teams at iFixit and Chipworks were sharpening their ...

 The Associated Press, Vice Media and Gannett, the parent company of USA Today, sued the FBI today in an attempt to uncover information about how the law enforcement agency was able to unlock an ...

 TechCrunch Include Office Hours are happening in NYC on September 27! Albert Wenger and Andy Weissman of Union Square Ventureswill join TechCrunch to provide valuable advice and feedback to star...

 In the world of MAME cabinetry – essentially a subculture of arcade lovers who build amazing cabinets for their emulators – the goal is usually to either recreate the arcade games of...

 Traveling the globe used to be relegated to gap years and retirement fantasies, but thanks to tech innovation and some forward-thinking startups, you can now see the world while you take the pro...

 Many of the largest companies in the world — like Facebook with FBLearner — have built an edge for themselves by making the process of studying their users and data science ongoing, ...

 We were all pretty excited when Consumer Physics showed us their hand-held molecular scanner at TechCrunch Disrupt two years ago. They garnered much praise here and all over the web for creating...

 According to a 2014 report fromComplete College America, a nonprofit group based in Indianapolis,just19 percent of full-time students earn a bachelor’s degree in four years at public unive...

 We enjoy “diversion” in our pastimes, prefer “biodiversity” in our ecosystems and strive for “diversified” holdings in our portfolios, yet we unconsciously re...

 The last time you had a key cut, you probably experienced a retro service, which included speaking to a real human (ugh!). KeyMe puts the kibosh on the old-fashioned key copying user experience ...

 According to one estimate, there are roughly 900 tech companies working in the AI field, covering everything from business intelligence to finance and security. The AI gold rush started in 2014 ...

 Over the next 10 years, the differentiating source of supply and value in the automotive industry will not be car parts or engines. Instead, it will be a network of software developers. Read Mor...

 The U.S. apparel industry is currently valued at $12 billion, and with the high number of dollars pouring into the retail economy, brands are looking to technology to foster deeper connections w...

 Canon’s already got a handful of mirrorless cameras under its belt, but the company hasn’t quite committed itself to the format in the same way we’ve seen from likes of Sony, O...

 The past few years have been exciting for drones; they’ve gained the attention of consumers, enterprises and governments. Their ability to shoot photography and capture data, and potential...

 The Sofort is a strange duck. It’s a $300 instant camera by premium manufacturer Leica that looks a bit like a real world version of the Instagram logo. The price puts it well over Fujifil...

 The first consumer VR headset to integrate eye-tracking is about ready for primetime. Fove will begin taking pre-orders for the eye-tracking headset, now officially called the Fove 0, at 8am PST...

 We’re hearing from our sources Unilever has been in serious talks with the Honest Company, and may very well win the bid for the e-commerce startup, though our sources stressed that the de...

 After more than a year of hinting, Spotify is finally coming to Japan this month. The Swedish music streaming service will go live in the country before the end of September, a source at the com...

 Boston-based Rize Inc has developed a new type of 3D printing which eliminates the need for lengthy post-printing clean-up processes. Its printers are able to imbue plastics with features they d...

 After a failed stint in the 1990s, virtual reality made its reappearance last year with headsets such as Samsung Gear VR, Google Cardboard and Oculus Rift. But this time, it’s here to stay...

 Optimizely has helped to popularize A/B testing — the idea of tryingout different versions of a website or mobile app to see which one performs better.However, co-founder and CEO Dan Sirok...

 I’ve spent the last couple of days at a Northwest Automotive Press Association driving event, and the last car of the two dozen or so I drove was the 2017 Volvo S90 with the latest version...

 Twitter’s big day is finally here. Tonight is the first night of NFL’s Thursday Night Football, which will be streamed all season on Twitter (as well as CBS and NFL Network as cable ...

 We all suspected the Echo’s purpose was – at least in part – to drive more Amazon sales. And that’s exactly what’s happening, according to a new study by NPD Group....

 There’s another round for an artificial intelligence startup in Asia that’s focused on e-commerce. Fresh from a Sequoia-led investment in Mad Street Den, Singapore-based ViSenze has ...

 The flaming train wreck that is the Galaxy Note 7 recall finally has its official stamp of approval from the Consumer Product Safety Commission, and there’s now a hard date for when you ca...

 This year’s electoral process has been unconventional, to say the least. As this volatile election approaches, citizens are skeptical about whether our electoral system — particularl...

 Maybe don’t go upgrading to iOS 10 just yet, T-Mobile customers. The magenta-drenched uncarrier has taken to social media to warn owners of the Phone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, and iPhone SE agains...

 Some might say that technology is killing the music industry. But if you look around, there’s a beautiful marriage there — the music industry is evolving every day, and artists are e...

 500px, the photo-sharing service aimed at professional photographers, is today launching a new mobile app aimed at serving the needs of this audience by offering editing tools along with a way t...

 500px, the photo-sharing service aimed at professional photographers, is today launching a new mobile app aimed at serving the needs of this audience by offering editing tools along with a way t...

 Twitter today is rolling out a series of new features designed to help users better connect with businesses offering customer support through their official Twitter accounts. Now, those business...

 As autumn quickly approaches, so does the launch of numerous video game titles. A trend that usually goes straight through to the holiday season, so naturally a PC gamer needs to be ready. For w...

 As autumn quickly approaches, so does the launch of numerous video game titles. A trend that usually goes straight through to the holiday season, so naturally a PC gamer needs to be ready. For w...

 Asana — the enterprise SaaS businesses startedby Facebook co-founderDustin Moskovitzand early FB employeeJustin Rosenstein— has made a name for itself as a workflow and taskmanagemen...

 Large manufacturers of high-tech products, from luxury vehicles to elastomers and resins, have lined up to invest in and partner with Carbon(formerly known as Carbon 3D) the Redwood City, Calif....

 Large manufacturers of high-tech products, from luxury vehicles to elastomers and resins, have lined up to invest in and partner with Carbon(formerly known as Carbon 3D) the Redwood City, Calif....

 Tony Prophet, a longtime tech executive who’d previously worked at Microsoft and HP, has been named as Salesforce’s first Chief Equality Officer. Before joining Salesforce, Prophet w...

 Some advisers tell founders, “Don’t worry about defensibility. Focus on doing something to delight customers and do it better.” That’s okay. But, if I have a choice, I...

 Once upon a time, browsers were all about getting faster and scoring better on JavaScript benchmarks than their competitors. While speed still matters, many developers have recently focused more...

 The online learning market is becoming as crowded as the app stores. Ranku offers the equivalent of SEO assistance to make sure colleges with electronic courses convert visitors into students. N...

 Confirming earlier reports, Pandora today announced the launch of a new paid music servicecalled “Pandora Plus.” While this service doesn’t offer a true alternative to Spotify,...

 The success of high-tech accelerators has ignited the creation of similar models around the country hoping to replicate their accomplishments. But their achievements have not come without critic...

 Indiegogo is going a long way towards making crowdfunding sexy again. Whether you like sticking your private parts in things, or sticking things in your private parts, Indiegogo’s got your...

 While Europe’s technology ecosystem is growing, there’s sometimes a view that it lags behind the U.S. for HealthTech or Health 2.0, or whatever you want to call it. But that’s ...

 Apple has issued a statement tonight that is essentially setting expectations for those who hoped they’d be able to walk into an Apple store on Friday and pick themselves up an iPhone. The...

Uber starts self-driving car pickups in Pittsburgh, a coalition of people want to get Edward Snowden a presidential pardon, we talk to Startup Battlefield company Wazer, New Yorkers are watching porn ...

 AfterGoogle launched the first version of its Angular web application framework in 2010, it quickly became one of the hottest web technologies. Since then, the web has changed, though, and when ...

 We have been using the computer mouse for decades to interact with our technology. Touchscreens brought us a new way to input commands to our gadgets, but they rely on the same fundamental idea ...

 Shervin Pishevar, well-known venture capitalist and co-founder in the two-year-old L.A.-based futuristic transportation company Hyperloop One came to TechCrunch Disrupt today to chat about shoot...

 Startups participating in the Startup Battlefield have all been hand-picked to participate in our highly competitive startup competition. They all presented in front of multiple groups of VCs an...

 Anyone who has ever worked with clients will know the pain of tracking your time. Yes, it’s important to know how long you spent so that you can bill correctly, but it is tedious, hellish ...

 In shadow of AT&T Park, two Bay Area-based engineers took to the stage at TechCrunch Disrupt to showcase their plans for a new kind of sports league. Dressed like a matching pair of flamboya...

 The European Commission’s proposals to reform the region’s copyright rules, published in draft form today, have been criticized by tech companies and digital rights groups as regress...

 The audience at Disrupt got a surprise visit from Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot. While the company’s YouTube channel is quite popular, it’s even more impressive to see one of Bos...

 AsAirbnb, the $30 billion private accommodationrenting portal, continues to mature and very slowly inch its way to an IPO, it is adding more ways to bringin more properties and hosts to its plat...

 Imagine walking into a store, picking up a pair of shoes, and seeing specs for the kicks appear on a TV next to the display. Or imagine standing in front of an airport departures screen and seei...

 Sapphire Ventures, a Palo Alto, Ca.-based venture firm that is funded solely by the German software giantSAP, has secured a whopping billion dollars to invest across two new funds: a $700 millio...

It can take a lot to build a positive habit — whether that’s stretching every morning, drinking enough water or remembering to go on a run.Kayla Matheus and Laura Day hope to make that a l...

 Fabrice Mishiki wanted to create a social media tool to help connect influencers, fans, and friends together in a way that hadn’t been done before. He created Tuurnt. The app starts with y...

 Smartphone accessory brand Anker is mostly known for its battery packs, chargers and other popular gizmos for gadget fans. In addition to its tech-on-the-go brand, it todayannounces the launch o...

 Looks like that was fast.According to a report published this afternoon by CNBC, former Google GV CEO Bill Maris is talking with investors about raising his own fund, with “preliminary pla...

 Things are starting to get a bit crowded in the world of automated home brewing, with startups like PicoBrew, Brewie and BrewBot all more or less vying for the same small sliver of space. And wh...

 I’m a big fan of massages, so I stopped dead in my tracks when I came across a companyin the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 Startup Alley earlier today. Taiwan-based U-Gym is a deep layer musc...

 Andela,a company working to bring the top 1% of African tech talent to engineering teams in need of capable, skilled developers, will eventually invest in the startups from those who complete it...

 New York City’s transit authority is understandably jumpy about the Galaxy Note 7. A week or so after the FAA issued a strongly worded warning asking travelers not to check or fly with Sam...

 The days of startups being able to hit the ignition and, Uber-like, accelerate away from the law are done. The regulation disruption party is over. That was the loud-and-clear message coming out...

 $29 will get you a Stilla if you act fast. The startup’s simple security system hit Indiegogo about a week ago, and it’s already managed to pull in around $44k, courtesy of more than...

 Connected car startup Vinli has accumulated a lot of traction since it started shipping 10 months ago, following a launch at TechCrunch Disrupt in 2014. The company began by offering a hardware ...

 For a brief moment, the sleaze and smut of old school sleaze and smut returned to the streets of Manhattan, albeit in a decidedly 21st century form. Since launching earlier this year to much fan...

 Following the controversial firing of the editorial team who managed the Trending Topics that appear next to Facebook’s News Feed, the company is now actively working on technology that wi...

 Instacart is one of the most well-known companies in what can be an extremely difficult on-demand delivery economy. It’s known for being one of the pioneers of a new age of online grocery ...

 GitHub is hosting its Universe developer conference in San Francisco today. Unsurprisingly, the company used this event to announce a number of new features for its Git-based code hosting servic...

 General Motors snapped up Silicon Valley-based Cruise Automation for more than $1 billion earlier this year with plans to plant its self-driving tech inside its own car brands. It was a fine mov...

   Twitch’s co-founderwantsthe siteto reach beyond gaming as it seeks to capture the market on all live-streamed online media. Onstage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, Twitch co-founder Emmet...

 The News Feedis the heart and soul of Facebook, yet remains a pretty big mystery both in terms of how it works and how people use it. So at TechCrunchDisrupt SF writer Josh Constine sat down wit...

 Cruise’s Kyle Vogt was on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016, and the CEO of the self-driving car startup that GM acquired earlier this year shared some updates about the company’s ...

 Despite reaching its funding goal, Amadas will cancel its Kickstarter campaign on Monday, as it wasn’t as successful as the company hoped, the company’s CEO tells me. The challenge i...

 The autonomous driving company on which both Ford and Baidu are betting $150 million has a new version of its LiDAR sensor. The new Puck Hi-Res has a name that reflects both its shape and what d...

 Hundreds of millions of dollars of investment have been put into commerce startups in the fast-growing market of India, from marketplaces like Flipkart and Snapdeal through to payment startups l...

 Cloud-based collaboration tool Frame.io has raised $10M in Series A funding led by Accel, with participation fromSignalFire, FirstMark Capital, and Shasta Ventures. Actor Jared Leto, who was a s...

 In its press material, LeEco refers to as a “global internet company,” a phrase that doesn’t really mean that much on the face of it – but when you’re LeEco, itR...

The final day of Disrupt is upon us. Which means that I don’t have the energy for enthusiasm. That said, today’s lineup is absolutely killer. Alongside some amazing speakers, including Twi...

 Luma, an Atlanta-based company that makes a sleek router with a wide variety of bells and whistles, has added $9.5 million to a previously closed Series A round. The capital comes from Andreesse...

 Luma, an Atlanta-based company that makes a sleek router with a wide variety of bells and whistles, has added $7 million to a previously closed Series A round. The capital comes from Andreessen ...

 Uber is now dispatching self-driving cars to a select group of users in Pittsburgh, and invited us along for the ride. I hailed a car from Uber’s Advanced Technologies Campus Tuesday and t...

 Canva, a design platform for web and mobile that givesanyone the ability to make professional graphics, without needing an advanced skill set, today announced a new infusion of $15 million in fu...

 There’s probably a law against launching a new headphone line without the proper celebrity endorsement. Right out of the gate, Muzik’s got ‘em in spades. The hardware start up ...

 Activists and lawyers from a host of human rights organizations launched a campaign today asking President Obama to issue a pardon to whistleblower Edward Snowden before Obama leaves office in J...

 Thanks to its vast repository of beautiful photos, home remodeling platform Houzz can easily give you a major case of home envy. But if you want to bring your home up to the standard of those ho...

 We already knew it was coming –thanks to an accidental tweet Amazon posted earlier this week – but now it’s official: Amazon’s connected speaker Echo Dot is back in stock...

 Twitter needs to figure out a way to continue to grow — and it certainly seems open to looking into a lot of new places outside your phone to figure out how to do that. Today, the company ...

 We suspected it was happening and now Amazon has confirmed that the Amazon Echo and smaller Echo Dot is coming to the UK (and Germany), the first release outside of the U.S. for the e-commerce g...

 Google is announcing a couple of upgrades to its ad capabilities today as part of the DMEXCO digital media conference in Germany. First up are its Universal App Campaigns, where developers can p...

 The Apple Watch Series 2 is the first real Apple Watch. It delivers on the promise of a mostly passive device that can accomplish simple tasks in 1-3 seconds. There is now built-in GPS which all...

 Beginning today, a select group of Pittsburgh Uber users will get a surprise the next time they request a pickup: the option to ride in a self driving car. The announcement comes 1.5 years after...

 Applications are now open for the Startup Battlefield at Disrupt London this December 5-6th. The Battlefield is TechCrunch’s premiere startup competition. Three times a year, the Battlefie...

 Just Eat’s new range of branded illuminated scooters feature backlit boxes carrying the new Just Eat logo and will soon be lighting up the streets of London. Read More ...

 Wait for others to take the first steps, let things mature a bit, then swoop in with a simpler, more unified solution. It’s the first entry on the first page of the Apple playbook. And it ...

 Over the last two days, over 5,000 attendees (along with hundreds of thousands of people tuning in online) have watched 25 companies duke it out for the right to call themselves the Startup Batt...

It’s the second day of Disrupt SF 2016. We interview Startup Battlefield company EverlyWell, iOS 10 is available today, YC MOOCs are on the way, Alexa App store hits 3,000 skills, and co-working...

 Video analytics platform Valossa just launched Val.ai, a platform to help video creators, advertisers and other video boffins figure out what’s going on in video. In addition to computer-v...

 Two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry closed out the second day of Disrupt San Francisco by discussing his recent forays into technology investments and charitable organizations, kicking things off by ...

 At TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 today, I had a chance to chat with DJ Patil, the nation’s deputy chief technology officer for data policy and chief data scientist. We talked about what he...

 Giving his first public speech as CEO of the NCSC, at the Billington Cyber Security Summit in Washington today, Ciaran Martin warned that far too many unsophisticated cyber attacks are succeedin...

 Nvidia revealed a new configuration of its DRIVE PX 2 in-car autonomous driving computing platform today, which vastly improves power efficiency and drops physical size compared to the original ...

 Keeping close, quantified track of personal progress is absolutely imperative for one group of people: recovering alcoholics and drug addicts. And it’s this often isolated segment of socie...

 Everything is getting hacked to the point that it’s getting kind of ridiculous — and everyone needs to have secure passwords. The trouble, however, is making them tough to crack and ...

 Sensay, one contestant at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF Battlefield, is aiming to be the first breakout cross-platform chatbot — but, unlike most that provide services and information at a con...

 Giftbit, a company that operates a digital gift card marketplace for online retailers, is launching a new product today at TechCrunch Disrupt SF that will enable merchants to easily create their...

 Your phone doesn’t know how you’re feeling — but you may want it to if that capability came with a few fringe benefits. Affectiva makes emotion-detection software, and CEO Rana...

 Today has been a massive Apple update day. The company released iOS 10, tvOS 10 and also watchOS 3. After announcing it at WWDC, it’s finally here — and it’s a huge update. I w...

 VR content is really in the hands of the early adopters at the moment. For most consumers there’s just not much accessibility in creating VR moments.Launching today out of TechCrunch Disru...

 The ability to read and record genes sits at the base (base pair, if you will) of biotech companies worldwide. So improvements to that ability are kind of like upgrading the specs of the industr...

 French startup Sqreen protects your web apps and services with little effort from your side. If you don’t want to deal with security yourself, Sqreen is a software-as-a-service product tha...

 Diane Greene, executive vice president of Google Cloud Enterprise, appeared on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco with TechCrunch editor Matt Burns today, and talked about her role runnin...

 Meetings are probably never going to die — and, along with that, neither are presentations. But the traditional route for making presentations is getting a little outdated, with tools like...

 For all the high-tech advances in healthcare when it comes to drugs and devices, doctors, their back offices, pharmacies, labs that conduct health tests and insurance providers aren’t exac...

 Zenefits at one point was one of the fastest growing software companies in the world, rocketing to a $4.5 billion valuation in 18 months. It was on track to generate tens of millions of dollars ...

 Pokmon Go will come to Android Wear, it seems. At TechCrunch Disrupt SF this afternoon, John Hanke, CEO of Niantic Labs – the company behind the most viral and profitable mobile game of al...

 Light painting photos and videos are really cool, but complicated to make. That’s the idea behind PABLO (no, not that Pablo), a new app launching today for iOS. Typically light painting (o...

 At TechCrunch Disrupt SF this year, famed iPhone and PlayStation hacker George Hotz unveiled the first official product of his automotive AI startup, Comma.ai. The Comma One is a $999 add-on shi...

 Entrepreneurs building tech products for women spoke at TechCrunch Disrupt SF today, and called on their peers in the industry to set a high ethical bar when it comes to using or sharing women&#...

 Some interesting consolidation afoot in the travel industry: Concur, the travel and expense platform that was acquired by SAP in 2014 for $8.3 billion, is today making its own acquisition: it is...

 Neal Stephenson, who inspired much of the current VR industry with his novel Snow Crash, explained why he’s excited about virtual reality and augmented reality — and it’s for l...

 DropIn, an LA-based startup wants to change the way the insurance companies process claims with two-way video claims processing and drone-based appraisals.The company, which launched in 2015, pr...

 Reuters is the latest major news agency to embrace content automation. Reuters isn’t replacing human reporters and editors with software and self-flying cameras quite yet.But the news orga...

 Affectiva CEO Rana el Kaliouby made a pair of announcements at TechCrunch Disrupt today that should bring the company’s emotion-detecting systems to quite a few new people. First, the Affd...

 U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter argued the case for splitting up the leadership of the National Security Agency and U.S. Cyber Command on stage at Disrupt SF, while stressing, “Weh...

 Earlier this year, Andreessen Horowitz investor Chris Dixon noted that how challenging it’s become for investors to help groom promising AI startups, given how quicklyFacebook, Google, and...

 Apple is having a rough day with the rollout of its new software platforms: in addition to the bug that was bricking users’ iPhones when upgrading to iOS 10, the new version of iTunes R...

 It was a full house with hundreds of apps and products on display Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco this week. One of the teams that caught our eye was Chatscene, an app for m...

 Email was the original killer app for the internet, but Easythingy shows that the decades-old standard still has some life in it. Launched at TechCrunch Disrupt Startup Alley today, the company&...

 Swarm, Foursquare’s app to let you check into locations, today launched a new feature that makes it possible to finally spend those coins you’ve been amassing. Starting today, you ca...

 Update:It seems this error is fixed, according to Apple. The company provided the following statement to TechCrunch. “We experienced a brief issue with the software update process, affecti...

 Reiterating its intention to “piggyback” on the work that the intelligence community has done with In-Q-Tel, the Defense Department will start making venture investments, Secretary o...

 Melonee Wise of Fetch Robotics gave her insights on robotics and how robots are going to enhance our future. Fetch Robotics specialized in warehouse robots so that humans don’t have to wal...

 At Disrupt in San Francisco this morning, in front of a packed audience, Greylock investors Reid Hoffman and Josh Elman talked about some of the trends that they’re tracking in the startup...

 Ride hailing services aimed at women drivers and passengers are a small but growing niche. See Jane Go is officially up and running today; drivers and passengers can download the app on iOS or A...

 Facebook Messenger has built an unreleased feature called Rooms that lets groups publicly chat about different subjects and events. Buried in Messenger’s iOS app’s source code are mu...

 Foursquare has today unveiled Foursquare 10, a redesigned version of the app that puts search front and center. J Crowley, head of product at Foursquare, told TechCrunch that most people get on ...

 Confirming earlier reports that YouTube was planning to introduce more social networking features to its service, the company announced this morning the launch of YouTube Community, which allows...

 Salesforce has taken a leading role on LGBT issues and now it is taking that one step further. The company next week will be announcing its first chief equality officer, who will report directly...

 The Apple TV is receiving an update today — tvOS 10. Apple announced the update at WWDC and it’s now available to download. Head over to the Settings app on your Apple TV to download...

 Confide, the confidential messaging app that launched back in 2013, has today announced an integration with iMessage in iOS 10. As part of iOS 10’s new iMessage features, which incorporate...

 Y Combinator, which has been expanding rapidly in recent years, is making broad, organizational changes– for the second time this year.Most dramatically, Y Combinator will be winding down ...

 After months and months of beta, iOS 10 is finally here — and it’s a huge update. In particular, Apple has tucked away many little features that you won’t see right away. If yo...

 I’ve installed iOS 10 on my main iPhone back in June and I’ve been using iOS 10 all summer. It’s a free update, it’s available now, and it features a ton of new emojis. E...

 Apple has just released iOS 10, the final version. If you want to get the latest iOS features and put a fresh coat of paint on your device, it’s time to update your iPhone or iPad. The upd...

 Following Microsoft’s acquisition and today’sshutdown of the beloved mobile calendaring application Sunrise, the company announced this morning an upgraded Outlook application which ...

 Orion Labs alternately refers to the Onyx as a “smart walkie-talkie” and a “real-life Star Trek communicator.” Really, the device is a wearable push-to-talk device with a...

 Sebastian Thrun’s online education startup Udacity recently created a self-driving car engineering nanodegree, and on stage at Disrupt today Thrun revealed that the company intends to buil...

 One of the startups that caught my eye at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Alley was MobileIrisID, a company that combines the convenience of the mobile phone with the power of the cloud. Aimi...

 Sebastian Thrun is taking a drive down memory lane with the latest initiative from his online learning juggernaut, Udacity. The company is partnering with Mercedes-Benz Research & Developmen...

 Evernote — the popular note taking and productivity startupwith 200 million users —has built its reputation around an app that lets you record and trackall your life’s details ...

 Microsoft’s CTO for Azure (and occasional novelist) Mark Russinovich is extremely bullish about microservices. In his view, the vast majority of apps — including enterprise apps R...

 Yesterday went off without a hitch, but today’s lineup will blow your mind: Reid Hoffman. Marc Benioff. Ash Carter. Steph Curry.And that’s just the tip of the iceberg. Plus, we have ...

 Watches like the Omega Ploprof and, now, the bulbous-looking Robusto, are designed for rough and ready wear. The watch, created by a Dutch company called Time22 features a titanium case and auto...

 As publishers of dead-tree newspapers continue to look for ways to pivot and profit from the massive consumer shift to digital platforms, one of the more storied of them is putting some money in...

 Following its accidental reveal of a newer, cheaper version of its Alexa-powered Echo Dot speaker on Monday, Amazon this morning announced new numbers detailing the rapid growth of its Alexa ...

 Industrious, a WeWork competitor that offers workspace to entrepreneurs, has today announced the close of a $37 million Series B round. Riverwood Capital led the round, with participation from O...

 No, Auto-Trash does not meanwrappers and french fries lingering on the floor of your car. Auto-Trash is a Raspberry Pi-powered trashcan that can automatically sort items placed in itbased on wha...

 It’s pretty difficult to make digital marketing sexy, but crystal is going at it with both barrels. Launched in public beta today at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Startup Alley, the product f...

 GGV Capital, the nearly 20-year-old cross-border venture firm, with offices on both Sand Hill Road and in Beijing and Shanghai, has brought somenew,interesting people into its orbit: Jason Costa...

 Amazon this morning rolled out another perk for subscribers to its Amazon Prime membership program: free access to Audible’s short-form digital programming called Audible Channels, as well...

 Amazon this morning rolled out another perk for subscribers to its Amazon Prime membership program: free access to Audible’s short-form digital programming called Audible Channels, as well...

 Native mobile advertising startup Avocarrot — which, interestingly, was in the first cohort of company builder Entrepreneur First — has been acquired by adtech company Glispa Global ...

 Sourcery Technologies Inc. has raised $5 million in venture funding for software that helps restaurateurs and corporate kitchens order from vendors, keep track of their inventory and expenses, a...

 GitLab, the code collaboration platform for developers based on the open source Git tool, announced a$20 million Series B round today led by August Capital. Existing investors Khosla Ventures an...

 Ontame.io, a relatively new startup from the former CTO and CEO of Graduateland (which recently acquired Tyba), is building a product to bring better analytics to recruitment. Read More ...

 Instead of taking on debt to buy a house, Point provides equity funding. The startup can find the capital needed to finance your home and in return they get partial ownership. And now Point is g...

 After only a few days with Apple’s wireless AirPod headphones, it’s clear that there will be a huge platform business based on the reliable, persistent availability of a contextual a...

 With the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, Apple is going through a splitting-atoms phase with the iPhone. The company knows that the future is a camera that can see the world in 3D. It knows that the future...

It’s the first day of TechCrunch Disrupt SF. We highlight one of the compnaies from Startup Battlefield, Tesla upgrades its autopilot to Version 8, Microsoft has a major CRM win, HP is buying Sa...

 Email? IM? IM? Email? The rise of mobile messaging apps has challenged email as the primary communications channel for all things, including work — what happens when you blend them togethe...

In this world, there are dogs. And also there are PCs. But dog PCs? “Ridiculous,” you say. But ladies and gentleman, I have seen the future of dog computing, and it is Dog PC. The PC for d...

 Life is strange sometimes. Like, sometimes you buy a $160 pair of wireless headphones, and all you want to is find a way to add another wire to the thing. $10 might be a small price to pay, if i...

 Lucy, a Bay Area startup, which was founded this January and launched its beta today, reckons it’s found an underserved not-so-niche market to target: expectant parents. The team presented...

 If there’s one industry that’s consistently blowing past expectations, it’s competitive gaming.The e-sports market is expected to reach nearly a half-billion dollars this year,...

 “Today it takes two to five years to get a factory to produce a car,” begins John Dogru. “A product’s timing to market is everything, and there’s a lot of latency. ...

 A startup called Rex Animal Health wants to protect livestock from illnesses that can quickly turn into epidemics, and help farmers breed animals with the healthiest and most attractive traits. ...

 A well-kept lawn is one of the most common mixed blessings with which homeowners can treat/afflict themselves. Robin is a startup looking to take as much pain out of the process as possible, bot...

 After scouring through almost 1,000 applications, two dozen startups were selected to launch on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco. They are presenting before an audience and a panel o...

 Gathering petabytes of data about your customers is cool, but how can you take advantage of this data? BlazingDB lets you run high-performance SQL on a database using a ton of GPUs. The company ...

 Lyft has creative control over that iconic van that sits on top of a pole next to the U.S. 101 freeway in San Francisco.“Notice a little more pink during your drive on the 101? The newly-p...

 ProductBoardtoday is launching aservice for digital product managers that helps them better organize user research and determine which features deserve priority. Making its public debut at TechC...

 TVTY, a startup that enables online ad campaigns to sync with offline events to make online marketing more timely and relevant, has raised $6.7 million in further funding. Read More ...

 Think of the last time you shopped online. You probably navigated to a home page that featured a dozen or so items, only one or two of which you may have actually been interested in. And while r...

 When they wanted to stash the Ark of the Covenant away at the end of the first Indiana Jones film, the government did what any self-respecting bureaucratic institution would, filing it away in a...

 Custom computer vision is the promise of bootstrapping Barcelona-based b2b startup Restb.ai. The team is pitching its machine learning algorithms at businesses wanting to fix a pain-point or aim...

 The old-fashioned password gets little respect from hackers these days. In fact, it’s barely a speed bump for them to get past. The hacker can find your password or even the answers to you...

 Just2 percent of applicants got accepted to appear in the Startup Battlefield at TechCrunch Disrupt SF;Pundit was one of the teams to make the cut. The company debuted their audio social media p...

 Hi Tim and Marni. As the bosses of my boss’ boss, I just want to say that y’all did a really really great job on stage today. Glad to know that things are going well with our new fam...

 Is anyone actually watching videos in Verizon’s go90 mobile streaming application? That question was posed to the audience this morning at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, and lessthan ten people ra...

 Most GPS navigation apps use one of two methods to route you to your destination. The first methodis called “detect and react,” and is when a navigation algorithm detects whenyou hav...

 Now your sweaty body can power your phone. Like Neo in the Matrix, a new system created by researchers at North Carolina State University lets you generate electricity with a wearable device. Pr...

 An Austin startup called EverlyWell wants to make lab testing accessible to anybody who wants to know more about their own body and health. Rather than develop the clinical tests, or panels, on ...

 On the TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield stage today, Wazer showed off its $6,000 desktop water cutter for the first time. Competing against huge industrial units costing upwards of $100,000, the c...

 Early this morning, Jeff Bezos revealed plans for thenext Blue Origin rocket,the New Glenn. Unlike their New Shepard rocket, which is only capable of up-and-down suborbital launches, New Glenn w...

 Studio Neat has a pretty good track record when it comes to making accessories for your Apple devices, as well as cocktail tools. And yet, the company had yet to make good docks for your iPhone ...

 Before Mike Judge took the stage at Disrupt SF today, the crowd was treated with 4 minutes of deleted scenes from the most recent season of HBO’s Silicon Valley.There are some funextra cut...

 Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said today that the company faced “difficult decisions” when it deleted a post by a Norwegian journalist containing an iconic photograph of a girl fleein...

 Another day, another drone that can perch on fences like a bird and carry deck chairs around in its scary claws. Officially called the PD6B-AW-ARM, this drone is made by Prodrone in Japan and fe...

 It seems counterintuitive to call a service Waitlist. No one wants to be put on a wait list; we want to just do the thing we came to do. But ChargePoint has, ahem, a point in creating this new f...

 I’ll admit that when ZTE first launched Project CSX, I was a bit underwhelmed, believing that the initiative was simply focused on handsets. Limited the crowdsourcing competition to those ...

 Major deal alert –iTunes is offering six different $10 bundles of 10 movies to celebrate 10 years of iTunes movies.Proud of @iTunesMovies and 10 years of celebrating docs, indies, blockbus...

 Eight years is a long time in the tech industry — not so much in politics, though. At Disrupt SF today, U.S. CTO Megan Smith and Deputy CTO Alexander Macgillivray reflected on the hard roa...

 What’s the buzz all about at TechCrunch Disrupt? LoveNuts, that’s what. It’s a vibrator, designed to look like a funky nut — and adds the glistening sheen of plausible de...

 French edtech startup OpenClassrooms has raised 6 million in new funding. Backing comes from Banque Publique d’Investissements (BPI), Citizen Capital, Xavier Niel (NJJ Capital), and existi...

 We were pleased to have “Silicon Valley” executive producer Mike Judge join us on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco on Monday. The HBO show has managed to both portray and...

 Silicon Valley has a huge diversity problem, but a blunt instrumenthiring quotas for diverse candidates still isn’t the answer, according to Slack head of engineering Leslie Miley. Instead...

 Razer’s not your average startup. For one thing, there’s the fact that the company has roots dating back to 1998, making it enough to vote or buy a lottery ticket here in the US (exc...

 Twitter is increasing its focus on live streaming today with the launch of a new Notificationbuttonon its app that lets you subscribeto be alerted when someone you follow starts live-streaming. ...

 Tesla topping the 300 mile per charge rating with its new 100 kWh battery was a big deal, but a new zero emission bus debuted today by Proterra has actually managed 600 miles out of a full batte...

 While not every movie can be Mr. Lovejoy, robots can now help producers find great films by sorting and scoring scripts based on actors, plot, and endings. Think of it as a robotic replacement f...

 In a wide-ranging interview with TechCrunch reporter Frederic Lardinois today at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, Twilio co-founder and CEO Jeff Lawson talked about the trials of going public, ...

 Razer originally startedas a hardware company making mice, keyboards and other peripherals optimised for dedicated computer gaming, with its mantra being“For Gamers, ByGamers.” Now,1...

 eBay today is launching a new program that aims to capitalize on the large number of older iPhones and other mobile devices poised to hit the resale market, thanks to the launch of the new iPhon...

 Europe’s top court, the CJEU, has been asked to rule on whether a privacy-related legal action brought against Facebook can be treated as a class action or not. Read More ...

 Blavity, the new media and lifestyle site for the young and black in America, takes on meaningful subjects like the Black Lives Matter movement, NFL player protests and discrimination from Airbn...

 Today at Disrupt SF 2016, DraftKings CEO Jason Robins sat down with TechCrunch’s Fitz Tepper to talk about the future of the Fantasy sports site, launching a whole new mobile app from the ...

 Google today launched a new application for iOS users called “Cardboard Camera,” which allows you to create 3D, 360-degree photos using your mobile device’s camera. The app was...

 After a several month CEO search, Jaunt has announced that they’ve poached Hearst exec George Kliavkoff to take over at the VR studio. Kliavkoff served as co-president ofHearst’s Ent...

 Earlier this summer, Facebook began todisable messaging in its mobile web app in order to push people to use its mobile Messenger app. However, this morning at TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016, Messen...

 Today, live on theTechCrunch Disrupt stage, CrunchBase announcedCrunchBase Pro, a major update to itsheavily used startup database. CrunchBase will still offer the same free features to longtime...

 Facebook today filled the biggest hole in its chatbot platform. Messenger bots can accept payments natively without sending users to an external website, Facebook’s head of Messenger David...

 Phase 1: Kill SMS. Phase 2: Kill Skype, FaceTime, and your phone. Phase 3: Profit? Facebook is making strides towards becoming a multi-media communication juggernaut, its head of Messenger David...

The 3D printing industry has had a rough go of it, of late. In a few short years, it’s gone from technology darling to victim of its own industry hype, a move that has had serious implications f...

 TechCrunch is pleased to announce the 23 startups selected to participate in the Disrupt SF 2016Startup Battlefield. Over the next three days, these companies will compete on tech’s bigges...

Disrupt is a place where dreams come true. Over the course of a year or two, folks can go from sitting in the audience or hosting a booth in the Startup Alley to launching a new company on the Battlef...

 Given all of the trouble, tech companies are beginning to marshall their resources and fight back against trolls and misinformation campaigns. Read More ...

 The whole VR backpack bit made the shift from one-off oddity to small scale (if still decidedly odd) movement a few months back, as a handful of notables piled onto the heap. HP and MSI were the...

 Instagram today is rolling out a feature to all its users that will allow everyone to decide for themselves how they want to moderate comments on the photo-sharing service. First launched for bu...

 In what has to be characterized as huge win for Microsoft, it announced this morning it had secured a 6-year deal with HP, Inc to run Microsoft Dynamicscustomer relationship management (CRM) and...

 TiVo this morning announced the launch of a new product in its BOLT family of DVRs, the BOLT+. While the 4K-ready BOLT, which debutedlast fall, featured a white chassis and unique, curved shape,...

 Over the next 10 years, startups ability to operationalize their data will be the key determinant to their ultimate success. So what are the most data driven companies doing today to operational...

 A San Diego startup called Portfolium has raised $6.6 million to help college students get jobs where they are likely to succeed. Portfolium CEO Adam Markowitz said he was inspired to build what...

 Paying for college sucks. And, unfortunately, college is getting more expensive just as having that degree is only increasing in importance as one of the keys to the kingdom of American success....

 Woah, crikey, mate! AirTree Ventures just announced it has raised the largest venture fund Australia has seen to date. The fund will be split down the middle, half for an early-stage fund and ha...

 As LinkedIn continues to wait for the close of its $26.2 billion acquisition by Microsoft, it continues to build out its business, with the latest developments on the international front. Last w...

 A startup based in North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park, Phononic, wants to make refrigeration and temperature controlfar more efficient, and steadier, than is possible with traditional...

 Twilio, the developer-centric communications platform that successfully IPOed earlier this year, published a new studytoday about how consumers want to use tech to talk to businesses and brands....

 While Verizon continues to work towards closing its acquisition of Yahoo to boost its media and consumer Internet business (which also includes ownership of AOL, which owns TechCrunch), the comp...

 Teads, the video ad company that last month raised $47 million in debt financing in order to go on a buying spree of other adtech startups, is staying true to its word. Today it’s announci...

 Great tech talent, an excellent regulatory environment and a world-class city has turned London into the FinTech capital of the world. And there’s a boom on. UK fintech firms secured $5.4 ...

 HP is buying Samsung’s printer business for $1.05 billion in a move aimed at “disrupting” the dusty and stale printing industry. Read More ...

 Samsung has made a significant move among its leadership ranks after Jay Y. Lee, son of company chairman Kun-Hee Lee and its expected future leader, was nominated to the company’s board. R...

Are you looking to attend the hottest startup show in the UK for the cheapest possible price? You’re in luck.Extra early-bird tickets to Disrupt London 2016 are on sale now through Friday, Septe...

 Southeast Asia-based shopping site iPrice has introduced a major update that bring direct price comparison to its e-commerce aggregation service. Read More ...

 GenieBelt, a European startup co-founded by Klaus Nyengaard, the former CEO of Just Eat, has built a project management and communications platform for the somewhat antiquated construction indus...

 TechCrunch Disrupt in London is beginning to appear over the horizon. We’ve already announced that Accel’s Sonali De Rycker and Atomico’s Niklas Zennstrom will be on our stage....

 The AI field lacks diversity — even more spectacularly than most of our software industry. When an AI practitioner builds a data set on which to train his or her algorithm, it is likely th...

 The team hailed from Lagos, New York, and suburban New Jersey and had been up for nearly 24-hours working on imprompt.io, a new collaboration tool for meetings on-the-fly for the TechCrunch Disr...

 Toyota’s Prius Prime is an updated take on the company’s popular hybrid, with more emphasis on the EV aspects of the vehicle, including a battery with double the driving capacity, an...

 How do you convince a potential car buyer your vehicle is a future-focused choice? One way is to get one of the most iconic creators of cinematic futurescapes to help you build a virtual world t...

 Worldwide, there are 62 million girls without access to traditional education due to a lack of resources, safety and general attitudes about girls and women.In order to address this issue, First...

 U.S. companies have a massively greater appetite for startups than their European counterparts. Over the past five years, U.S. companies have purchased about four times as many startups as Europ...

 Application development has long been fraught with peril: Projects become bloated, expensive and never ship. The “micro” trend in application development is focused on delivering bot...

 Q: You’ve been incredibly successful as a VC—you’ve had numerous major exits and been named to the Forbes Midas list several times. To what do you attribute your success? I thi...

 No one person can take sole credit for Star Trek’s success, not even creator Gene Roddenberry. But Leonard Nimoy could take a pretty good claim to being the franchise’s heart, or at ...

 A clever hack by Alexander Crosson and Naveen Kulandaivelu at today’s TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon may be giving us tech journalists early warning signs of our forthcoming replacement b...

I’m not a morning person and the snooze button on my alarm clock regularly gets a workout.If you suffer from the same issue (and own an Amazon Echo or similar Alex-enabled device), then maybe Do...

 Do you own a dog or a cat and also hold down a job that takes you out of your house? Chances are that if you do, you’ve bemoaned acommonchallenge: how do youmake sure your pet doesn’...

 Nearly 1,000 eager participants converged upon Pier 48 yesterday for an all-night Hackathon, helping kick off Disrupt with a cold and foggy view of the San Francisco Bay Bridge (as though there ...

 At the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2016 hackathon, a team demonstrated a new ride-sharing app called Last Mile Club, which aims to help travelers with the final leg of their trip – getting from ...

 Crappy photos in restaurant menus be gone! Robots and augmented reality are here and ready to kill you off. That’s the plan for the future, at least, as PeppAR Waiter — an ambitious ...

 The five person crew that developed Safe Zone wanted to do something more meaningful than creating just another geo-based social app. So on this, the 15th anniversary of the September 11th terro...

 When friends Eli Byers, Chad Fegley, Amrita Chawla, and Mari Lliguicota fly they’re usually bored. They spend a lot of time in the air and they wanted something that would make the miles g...

 With one out of every 64 American children being affected by Autism Spectrum Disorder, it’s a huge problem worth working on. Shriya Sreeju (aged 6) agrees. She presented the Pepper Robot-p...

 As if the risingpopularity of daily fantasy sports sites aren’t givingESPN enough to worry about this season, the fantasy sports provider’s platform has been down all day. Today arou...

 Another hack presented on stage here at the TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2016 hackathon uses AR to contextualize gadgets with the aim of helping consumers better understand what they’r...

 Machine vision technology will let any smartphone or tablet recognize objects so we don’t have to rely on humans or barcode scanners. TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon project PepperPay brin...

 Some people are simply the worst. For reasons that are my own fault, I’ve recently been involved inseries of conversations that I’d really rather not be having. EnterPhoney.club, a m...

 “Doing something for children was our first thought,” Camilo F. Buscaron explains, fresh of the Disrupt Hackathon stage. “We wanted to do something in education.” At some...

 Malaria is treatable and preventable. And yet, the World Health Organization reports that almost half the world’s population —3.2 billion people —are still at risk of contracti...

 BMW plans to accelerate its electric vehicle plans, in the wake of an executive shake-up and leading into a vote planned for the end of this month. The new BMW expanded electric lineup will kind...

 Everyone knows waiting on hold for a representative sucks, and only a few companies have systems that will call you back when a representative is ready. The result is hours wasted and veryoften ...

 Every company needs to understand their customers better, and it’s difficult to get a grip without a body of knowledge, especially when the customer is new to you. Imagine being able to ac...

 Possibly my favorite hack to come out of the TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon is solving a so very San Francisco problem. Meter Maid Monitor uses high tech cloud magic to automate the game of dodgin...

 LoveBot is the thoughtfulhusband or wife that you aren’t.Presenting at the 2016 TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon,Guru Ranganathan was sure to specify once he got onstage that his LoveBot do...

 TechCrunch kicked off the annual Disrupt event in San Francisco with a hackathon, where teams had just 24 hours to put together a project before presenting it in front of a live audience and jud...

 You’re organizing a get-together, but getting input from your friends about where to go and when to meet feels like an exercise in herding cats. Enter Full Circle, an app built off a Twili...

 You’re organizing a get-together, but getting input from your friends about where to go and when to meet feels like an exercise in herding cats. Enter Full Circle, an app built off a Twili...

The anti-muslim, anti-hispanic and increasingly xenophobic tenor of the debate – especially on the Republican side — is bound to scare smart entrepreneurs from coming to America. Innovatio...

 Pepper, the humanoid robot, is coming up with all sorts of ways to serve its human overlords, including in eldercare. The little rolling robot took to the stage at the Disrupt SF Hackathon today...

 There’s plenty of information online to help people figure out whether their plants are healthy and what they need to do to make them better. But they can be distributed far across the Int...

 At the TechCrunch Hackathon today in San Francisco, Torrey Nommesen showed off Fake Number Club, the easiest way to someone down if they ask you for your number. If you call or text a particular...

 Today, Tesla revealed Version 8 of its Autopilot software, going live in one to two weeks. Version 8.0 includes updates to the signal processing tech used to interpret images received from the o...

 At the Disrupt SF Hackathon today in San Francisco, a team of seasoned software engineers unveiled Pepper the Inflight Service Bot, a robot flight attendant that doesn’t hate picking up ba...

 Each Saturday during the college football season ESPN hostsCollege GameDay, an pre-game show with a bunch of football experts and hundreds of screaming college kids in the background. Today one ...

 This year’s U.S. presidential election is confusing for everyone. The popularity contest that has become the election is diluting our time, attention and ability to think critically. Which...

 With Congress’ approval ratings in the single digits, and in the midst of an ugly political season, our legislature might not appear as a hopeful place to start putting U.S. democracy back...

 Many have interpreted Facebook’s move to “block the blockers” as a sign that Facebook is prioritizing its relationship to advertisers over users. It’s actually far more s...

 There’s all manner of advice and guidance on the web for online publishers looking to optimize their social media efforts: CoSchedule, Fast Company, HubSpot, ShortStack, Forbes, Hootsuite,...

 Box CEO Aaron Levie has been at it for more than a decade. For a guy barely past 30, that means it’s all he’s done professionally for his entire adult life. You could forgive him if ...

 Kinetise, an app building platform and Disrupt hackathon favorite, aims to democratize the the the process of creating native mobile apps for iOS and Android in the enterprise. Using a drag-and-...

 When Amazon CTO Werner Vogels talks about his company’s philosophy around innovation, it’s probably a good idea to listen. Amazon CEO and founder Jeff Bezos has always found a way to...

 The Enterprise Gang — Paul Greenberg, Esteban Kolsky, Brent Leary, Denis Pombriant, and Steve Gillmor. This enterprise-focused show features leading independent analysts discussing the cha...

 While the Camorama promo video is a bit, shall we say, racy I think the product is pretty solid. It’s basically a 4K action cam that doubles as a 360-degree camera. This means you can reco...

 The most provocative book I’ve read this year is The End Of Protest, by Micah White, one of the two initiators of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Remember Occupy? Those crazy days when, g...

 Ask any Silicon Valley CEO what some of their biggest challenges are and you likely will hear “finding and retaining great people.” Tech is booming, yet it remains incredibly hard to...

Raspberry Pi is offering a starter kit, Ford acquires rides commuting company Chariot, The Honest Company is rumored to be in conversation with bankers about a potential sale, Snapchat just secured a ...

 Fundraising is something all of us as entrepreneurs worry about constantly and discuss pretty much whenever we meet.A lot of people think you should meet for the first time with a VC or a potent...

 Audiences around the globe enjoyed all the action of the 2016 Summer Olympic Games thanks in large part to the drones hovering above the events (or below them), capturing every movement, from ev...

 Roku, the streaming media company, has netted its first deal with an operator in Asia after it announced an agreement with Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PLDT). Read More ...

 We’ve seen 3D printed cameras before, but they always include some prefabricated part: a hinge, a spring, or more complicated bits like shutters and iris mechanisms. But designer Amos Dudl...

 Some people might be wondering why a hashtag to do with Paypal has been blowing up on twitter in the last two days. The #PayPal4Palestine hashtag has been making waves on social media after 43 c...

 What do you do if you want to peek inside a book, but you’re pretty sure it’ll crumble into dust if you even crack the cover a little bit? Well, nothing: Opening a book is a critical...

 It appears some establishment voices have picked up on a way of opposing the idea of the monthly citizen dividend of about $1,000 per month, known as universal basic income (UBI), in a way that ...

 This weekend, hundreds of developers and engineerswill pack into the Disrupt SF conference space for our Hackathon, a 24-hour race to build a brand-new product. Competitors will present their in...

 Young has been running Intel’sSecurity Group for quite some time now as senior vice president and general manager. While he will officially be given a CEO title in his new role, the positi...

 Hard to believe that Disrupt SFis just around the corner!Check out this guide for helpful event info. Logistics We want you to have a successful experience at Disrupt. Check out these tips to ha...

 It has been a slow year for tech IPOs, but cloud software maker Coupa has publicly filed. This is generally an indication that the company will debut on the stock market in a matter of weeks. Th...

 Here come the fashbots, and this time they might actually be useful. Facebook’s seemingly half-baked chatbot platform soured many on the potential of conversation user interfaces. The firs...

 Dropbox has responded to concerns about how it implements the desktop client of its cloud storage service on Apple’s macOS platform, conceding it needs to do more to communicate how the in...

 The Consumer Product Safety Commission has finally weighed in on the Galaxy Note 7 debacle, issuing its own statement urging users not just to be careful, as the FAA did, but to “power the...

 The dawn of the space age was, in many ways, a direct response to heightened competitive political and military rhetoric from major global superpowers in the latter part of the previous century....

 Generating speech from a piece of text is a common and important task undertaken by computers, but it’s pretty rare that the result could be mistaken for ordinary speech. A new technique f...

 The LIVE recording session of The Gillmor Gang – today with: Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Has been cancelled. We will reschedule ASAP.Our live...

 The LIVE recording session of The Gillmor Gang – today with: Robert Scoble, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Has been cancelled. We will reschedule ASAP.Our live...

 Too lazy to read your tweets? Now, Amazon Alexa can just read them to you instead. Yes, that’s right: Twitter today has launched an app for Amazon’s voice platform Alexa, which means...

 Not only is augmented reality helping us capture all the Pokemon, it’s also made it’s way to Rebecca Minkoff’s fall preview show at Fashion Week this Saturday.About 350 fashion...

 At a press conference in San Francisco today, Ford Motor Co. President and CEO Mark Fields announced that the company had both acquired a rideshare startup called Chariot, and made a significant...

 At a press conference in San Francisco today, Ford Motor Co.president and CEO Mark Fields announced that the company had both acquired a rideshare startup called Chariotand made a significant in...

 The Honest Company, the consumerproducts startup that has largely operated in the limelight thanks to its famous cofounder, actress Jessica Alba, is talking with larger, more traditional consume...

 Facebook has backtracked on its decision to censor a Norwegian journalist and newspaper’s posts, reinstating the nude photo of a child fleeing napalm during the Vietnam war. Facebook had o...

 Seattle-based Rover is in the process of closing a $40 million round of funding, according to sources with knowledge of the deal. The Series E round would value Rover at nearly $300 million, and...

 Here’s a cool feature from Square Cash – the company launched a virtual card product yesterday, which gives every user a virtual Visa debit card number that they can use to spend the...

 Editor’s note: This post was done in partnership with Wirecutter, a buyer’s guide to the best technology. This is a condensed version of several Wirecutter guides; you can find links...

 Ford Smart Mobility, the company founded by Ford Motor Company to help provide alternate means of transportation, justmade its first acquisition: Chariot, the San Francisco-based commuter ride-s...

 Facebook Moments, the company’s private photo-sharing application which took the place of mobile photo sync late last year,is now expanding beyond the confines of your mobile phone and you...

 Online tools like Office 365 have changed the way we work and collaborate with our colleagues, but often projects involve people outside of your organization, whether partners, consultants or ve...

DisruptSFis right around the corner. The event starts on September 12and we’re delighted to reveal the agenda.The lineup is stacked and we are excited to return to Pier 48 in San Francisco to ho...

 Instead of cheering a reduction of needless government involvement, some—including a few members of Congress—are arguing that the U.S. needs to insert itself in a clerical role for c...

 Instead of cheering a reduction of needless government involvement, some — including a few members of Congress — are arguing that the U.S. needs to insert itself in a clerical role f...

 The Google Photos iOS app can now do more with your Live Photos, thanks to the addition of rendering and advanced stabilization technology it previously rolled out in a photo editing app called ...

 Tumblr announcedon Thursdayit intends to roll out affiliate codes across its site – meaningallusers’ blogs – as a means of generating additional revenue. The Yahoo-owned bloggi...

 Beeswax, a startup founded by a trio of former Google ad executives, has raised $11 million in Series A funding. The company offers what it calls a bidder-as-a-service — a set of customiza...

 On September 1, one of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rockets exploded during pre-launch prep, and now Elon Musk has taken to Twitter to seek clues about the cause from any third-party footage of the i...

 The Raspberry Pi Foundation has finally put out an official starter kit for its low cost microcomputer — offering what it dubs an “unashamedly premium” bundle for the Raspberry...

 Africa’s artists have a new online stage to showcase their talent. Nigeria based digital entertainment startup Iroko has launched IrokoX, a multi-platform Pan-African network for filmmaker...

 There are justabout 1,000 Fisker Karma luxury cars on the road today.The vehicle was a hit amongst design-obsessed luxury car owners when it was introduced in 2012, but the average person’...

 When Apple announced the iPhone 7 and Apple Watch Series 2 earlier this weekthe companysaid pre-orders would startFriday September 9th, which in recent years has meant as early as 12:01am Pacifi...

 It’s no secret that Hillary Clinton is well ahead of her presidential opponent Donald Trump when it comes to fundraising from Silicon Valley — but the second-largest donation of the ...

 It’s no secret that Hillary Clinton is well ahead of her presidential opponent Donald Trump when it comes to fundraising from Silicon Valley — but the second-largest donation of the ...

 It’s no secret that Hillary Clinton is well ahead of her presidential opponent Donald Trump when it comes to fundraising from Silicon Valley — but the second-largest donation of the ...

Airbnb fights discrimination on its platform with policy changes, Oculus short movie ‘Henry’ wins an Emmy, Twitter adds Read Receipts for Direct Messages, Google buys Apigee for $625 milli...

 There was one slide in Tim Cook’s keynote that probably made the watch industry potentates choke on their oysters St Jacques. It was a simply a clear comparison between Apple Watch sales a...

 The way we thought of apps in 2008 is how we’ll view artificial intelligence five years from now; 2016 will look like the AI stone age. Although apps have created completely new behaviors,...

 An exploding phone is by no means a good thing, but if it has to explode, it’s hard to think of a worse place for it to do so than on a plane. Well, not that hard, but it’s definitel...

 Most startups toil away in stealth mode on new products with an Apple-esque fear of news leaking before its time. Peak Design decided to go to the other extreme, building a company in full view ...

 NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully launched from Cape Canaveral with the help of 1.2 million pounds of thrust provided by an Atlas V rocket. The spacecraft will journey to a nea...

 NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft has successfully launched from Cape Canaveral with the help of 1.2 million pounds of thrust provided by an Atlas V rocket. The spacecraft will journey to a nea...

 A former Air Force general and Department of Homeland Security official has been appointed as the first federal chief information security officer, the White House announced today.Gregory Touhil...

 Eightymillion people in the US struggle with bad breath—many of themdon’t even know that they do, but the people around them are likely all too aware. Last year at CES, Breathometer ...

 Eightymillion people in the U.S. struggle with bad breath — many of themdon’t even know that they do, but the people around them are likely all too aware.Last year at CES, Breathomet...

 It may not seem it, but coming up with an idea for your startup is probably the easiest part of launching your own company. As one industry insider told me, there are a million ways to screw up ...

 It may not seem it, but coming up with an idea for your startup is probably the easiest part of launching your own company. As one industry insider told me, there are a million ways to screw up ...

 Reports claimthat point of sale startup Revel Systems is in early acquisition negotiations with IBM, and while both Revel and IBM declined to comment when we asked about it, a deal that the star...

 A Google Solve for X team focused on drones, Project Wing, today announced a plan to commence aerial burrito delivery, in partnership with Chipotle, on the campus of Virgina Tech next week.Proje...

 Buying cool is the best way for big companies to stay cool. Snapchat rightly believes in itself, and now it’s getting bankers to bet on that vision without selling its precious equity. Sna...

 Everyone has a different preference for how to watch Disrupt, so we’re giving you tonsof options. Here’s what’s on deck for the show. How to live stream Disrupt SF 2016 TechCru...

 The inflation-busting deals being secured by sports rights owners around the world demonstrate the unwavering value of live sports. Amid concerns over cord-cutting, the rise of time-shifted view...

 This year’s TechCrunch Disrupt SF Hackathon is set to be the best yet. We’re a few days away from the main event and are giddy with excitement. Check out the sponsor prizes and agend...

 Salido, a startup that describes itself as “the restaurant operating system,” is announcing that it has raised $2 million in additional funding. This round from strategic investors d...

 Actev Motors, a young, Mountain View, Ca.-based company, is gearing up to ship its eagerly anticipated all-electric smart go-karts beginning this fall. The vehicles, for kids ages 5 to 9, cost r...

 Actev Motors, a young, Mountain View, Ca.-based company, is gearing up to ship its eagerly anticipated all-electric smart go-karts beginning this fall. The vehicles, for kids ages 5 to 9, cost r...

 Walmart latest earnings report wasn’t pretty. Overall revenue growth came in at a tepid o.7% for the first half of the fiscal year. Their e-commerce sales grew 11.8%, but the total e-comme...

 SpotHero is not new to the on-demand parking game. It raised $2.5 million in 2012, and another $20 million in Series B funding in 2015. This for a service that allows drivers to prepay for a par...

 Following yesterday’siPhone 7 announcement, Apple is announcing that new AppleCare+ members will be able to get their cracked screens fixed for $29.This is big news for everyone who uses a...

 Managing the App Store can be one of the most difficult experiences for new developers. Getting noticed is hard, the experience isn’t that great, and now Apple is allowing search ads. And ...

 Whether you’re working out of a dorm room or running a billion dollar company, a little pivot can go a long way. At their worst, pivotscan derail a company’s success, but at their be...

 Online merchants spend a lot of money on chargebacks, which are demands by credit card providers to reimburse for fraudulent charges. That’s why Signifyd created technology that assesses a...

 There is a new generation of companies exerting such great influence on society that they’re essentially becoming utilities. Google, Amazon, Facebook and Uber are near monopolies that prov...

 Pokmon Go has achieveda number of records since its debut – the most downloaded app in its first week everandthe fastest to reach 50 million installs on Google Play, for example – bu...

 2016 might be the year that HTTP finally dies. Chrome’s security team announced today that the browser will start marking websites that use insecure HTTP connections to transmit passwords ...

 Do you have to keep your hands busy to think straight? Fidget Cube is a little device that lets you click, flip, roll, and slide its different buttons so you can stay calm. You can nab one for $...

 Twitter rolled out an update to its service this morning that aims to make the social app more competitive with mobile messaging clients, including the recently upgraded iMessage arriving in iOS...

 Need to post content to multiple social networks at the same time? A new chatbot called Yalawants tohelp. The bot, live now on Slack with Facebook Messenger support coming soon, not only does th...

 In what is certainly the first of many pieces of VR original content to receive a prestigious award, “Henry,” a short film by Oculus, has just received an Emmy forOutstanding Origina...

 Earlier this year,Glassdoorraised $40 million at a $1 billion valuation; and now itis putting some of thatinvestment to use to growinternationally. The employee review and job-search platform ha...

 Pre-orders for the two new iPhones start on Friday, with store availability from September 16. But, unlike in previous new iPhone release cycles, come Monday Apple won’t be saying how many...

 The youngBay Area accelerator NFX Guildhosted its third Demo Day yesterday at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, andthe attendees wereaveritable who’s who of venture and angel i...

 it’s the 50th anniversary of Star Trek, counting from the airing of the first episode of the original 1966 Star Trek series starringWilliam Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. Facebook is marking t...

 Artificial intelligence is changing the way we interact with our devices, friends and data. It promises to revolutionize how we work, shop, socialize, date, bank, heal, navigate how we live. Yet...

 Dish Network’sstreaming service for cord cutters, Sling TV, has made its way to Windows 10. The company announced todaythe launch of its on-demand TV service for Windows 10 PCs and tablets...

 In just 30 seconds, you can enjoyably consume a viralvideo or a few Facebook stories. But until now, theshortest thing you could typically listen to was a three minute song, especially when you ...

 The speaker that speaks might soon speak without you speaking to ask it to speak. Amazon’s Echo is set to get push notifications, according to The Information, which would allow it to give...

 Europe’s top court has ruled that knowingly posting links to copyrighted material can be an infringement of rights holders’ rights — even though the copyrighted material in que...

 Airbnb has been under fire lately for instances of racism and discrimination exhibited by some hosts on the home-sharing platform. In order to combat that, Airbnb is making several positive chan...

 The 2016 National Football League season is set to kick off tonight. Thousands of fans will be navigating parking, food and bathroom lines, finding their seats and attempting to meet up with fri...

 Uber this morning announced an expanded relationship with Pandora, which will see the music service integrated into the Uber rider mobile application, along with Spotify. Uber customers in the U...

 Google announced today that it intends to purchase Apigee, an API management platform that went public last year, for $625 million or $17.40 a share. The company, which helps customersbuild digi...

 If I were Amazon, I would definitely lead with the whole $90 bit. Granted, there are a few key upgrades to talk about here, but price point has always been a major selling point for Amazon devic...

 IBM today announced the launch of the aptly-named IBM Power Systems S822LC for High Performance Computing. Itsunwieldy name betrays the fact that this is a really interesting product. Together w...

 Google has been given another extension to respond to European Union charges its Android mobile operating system is in breach of the region’s competition law. Read More ...

 It’s like Craigslist, but with auctions. OfferUp is an app that makes it easy to buy and sell your goods.The fast-growing Seattle-based company is raising $119 million to continue its glob...

 Five months after its March 2016launch, Ousta, Egypt’s first local ride sharing app,has received a bridge investment of $1.25 million as it looks to challenge established industry stalwart...

 Nextail, a Spanish startup that has developed technology to help retailers better manage inventory levels and, ultimately, sell at higher margins, has closed $1.6 million in new funding. The rou...

 Serial entrepreneur Kevin Hartz has joined the San Francisco-based early-stage venture fund Founders Fund as a partner, he revealed earlier today in a post on Medium. Hartz was most recently the...

Apple held its special event in San Francisco to announce the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, the Watch Series 2 and AirPods. It also announced that Pokemon Go will be coming to the Apple Watch and Ninten...

 This has been my Summer of Video — several months when it became clear to me that we’ve reached an inflection point in the transition from linear TV to online video. Read More ...

 Intel announced today that it has plans to spin off its security unit into a new company that will be owned in-part by private equity firm TPG. Intel will retain a 49 percent ownership stake of ...

 Apple held its annual September press conference in San Francisco on Wednesday, unveiling the iPhone 7 at long last. CEO Tim Cook took the stage (after a charming bout of Carpool Karaoke) to int...

 The new iPhone 7+ is equipped with a pair of cameras where there once was only one. But while Apple’s implementation is, of course, special and unique, it’s not the first dual-camera...

 Maybe there’s a theme emerging here — behind-the-scenes tweaks while maintaining aesthetic consistency with past generations. Like the new iPhone, the Apple Watch Series 2 is pretty ...

 VideoBlocks, the stock media company that gives subscribers unlimited access to its catalog of images, videos and audio clips for an annual subscription,wants stock media to look less whitewashe...

 As if Twitter’s deal to stream NFL Thursday Night Football didn’t convince you that the social network was going all-in on the NFL, maybe this will.Twitter announced today (a day bef...

 The AirPods were as close as we got to an honest-to-goodness hardware surprise at today’s big Apple event in San Francisco – though anyone who heard tell of the untimely demise of th...

 In an $8.8 billion transaction, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, also known as HPE, will be spinning off its non-core software assets, according to a statement from company CEO Meg Whitman. The asset...

 In an $8.8 billion transaction, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, also known as HPE, will be spinning off its non-core software assets, according to a statement from company CEO Meg Whitman. The asset...

 Here we are in a post-headphone jack world. I don’t know about you, but I expected thing to feel different, like that part in the Wizard of Oz when Dorothy sees color for the first time. B...

 Apple hasn’t mentioned the iPad during its press conference, but it doesn’t mean that the company has no news for the device. The iPhone 7 finally starts with 32GB of storage, and th...

 During the last year there has been considerable discussion regarding the current state of the venture capital industry: Are we in a bubble? Did that bubble pop? Why has there been a dearth of m...

 Apple has some wireless earbuds! They’re $159, and they aren’t connected by a cable to anything. They go right into your ear when they aren’t in a case that’s charging th...

 Apple Pay will arrive in three more countries this fall: Japan, New Zealand and Russia, and will hit the web alongside the launch of iOS 10 on September 13th. The web version of Apple’s pa...

 Apple Pay will arrive in three more countries this fall: Japan, New Zealand and Russia, and will hit the web alongside the launch of iOS 10 on September 13th. The web version of Apple’s pa...

 If $159 sounds like a lot of money for 8 grams, it’s because it is. Shortly after introducing the iPhone 7, Apple unveiled the AirPods. If you’re familiar with the existing EarPods, ...

 Apple continues to dance a sexy dance for photographers all over the world, launching better cameras with more features and higher quality. But when Phil Schiller, VP of marketing at Apple stand...

 Let’s get this straight: Tim Cook doesn’t read your Tweets. He doesn’t care about your thoughts on iPhone vs. Samsung and he definitely doesn’t care about your headphones...

 If you’re note familiar with the Mass Effect series of sci-fi role-playing games, then you’re missing out. The new PS4 Pro that Sony unveiled today can handle 4K, and Bethesda used t...

 Box has always been known as the irritant in the content management industry, that plucky cloud upstart ready to take on the staid and conservative on-prem competition, but after more than a dec...

 Apple’s method of unveiling new products is methodical, but effective. With each new release comes a beautifully shot, usually narrated introduction video. If you’re looking for a qu...

 Sony is revealing the details of an upgraded version of the PlayStation 4. Sony Interactive Entertainment President Andrew House said the new version of the console — dubbed the Pro —...

 Phil Schiller today caused the largest collective eyeroll in the history of the world with his explanation of why Apple was leaving the 3.5mm analog audio jack behind. “It comes down to on...

 Sony unveiled a new, sleeker version of its PlayStation 4 today as promised. The PS4 Slimis basically the same as its predecessor inside, but in a smaller shell and with a new price tag at $299 ...

 Sony is holding a PlayStation Meeting in New York to unveil the PlayStation 4 ‘Neo’, and maybe also a PS4 Slim because why not. In case you don’t care about Apple’s iPhon...

 Now that Apple introduced the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, it’s time to look at this year’s iPhone lineup. The iPhone 7 and 7 Plus will be available to pre-order on September 9 and will ship...

 Apple’s new mobile operating system, iOS 10, along with the new release of watchOS, will be arriving on September 13, the company confirmedtoday at its iPhone 7 press event. The updated iO...

 The iPhone’s base-level storage — starting at 16GB — has been a sticking point for quite a while. More and more content has become available over time in the form of video, app...

 Apple introduced the iPhone 7 today. It’s 40 percent faster than last year’s A9, and twice as fast as the A8. It’s 240 times faster than the first iPhone. More interestingly, i...

 The iPhone 7’s powerful new camera features will be getting the spotlight in an upcoming version of Instagram. Ian Spalter, Instagram’s head of design, appeared on-stage at the iPhon...

 Apple unveiled a Nike+ edition of the Apple Series 2 Watch today at its annual Fall event.The Nike+ version of the Watch will roll out late October for $369 and is, of course, built for runners....

 With the newest iPhone 7, Apple is saying buh-bye to a technology that’s been going strong for almost 140 years. It has served us well, but the Cupertino-based maven today announced it dec...

 Apple today announced that the newest generation iPhone will do away with the headphone jack. Obviously sad if you just bought an expensive new pair of headphones, but the interface is used for ...

 As long rumored, the new iPhone — one of them, anyway — has a dual-camera setup on the back. What’s the benefit of this crazy contraption? Read More ...

 Sure there’s some kind of fruit-related event going on right now, but this week is also BoxWorks, the annual conference for the enterprise content cloud platform provider. At that event, B...

 Remember those $17,000 Apple Watches?Well it looks like the gold Apple Watch Edition is not part of the new collection.When the company unveiled the new Apple Watch Series 2 on Wednesday, they a...

 We already know that it’s water resistant, has stereo speakers, and has a brand new camera (because Apple accidentally tweeted about it earlier today). But Apple is finally unveiling the n...

 There has been quite some buzz around Facebook’s Messenger platform lately. And, almost daily, you can read new articles about chatbots, conversational interfaces, digital assistants, AI a...

 Apple just took a big step to helping with that crackdown after it unveiled its CallKit Extension for iOS 10 which gives third-party apps increased access to its system. Read More ...

 Ever since Steve Jobs brought the Apple II to the classroom, Apple has created and distributed tech to winover young users where they first learn about computers and coding, their schools. The c...

 In the introduction video, Apple insisted on the water resistant feature. The Sport version comes in silver, space gray, rose gold and gold. And it looks just like the original Apple Watch ̵...

 Apple surprised everyone this morning at its iPhone press event with itsannouncement that Nintendo’s iconic character Mario was finally arriving on the App Store in a brand-new game,but an...

 Oh boy, here we go — John Hinke, CEO of Niantic Labs, just told the world that Pokmon Go is coming to the Apple Watch on stage at Apple’s iPhone 7 event.The game has become one of th...

 Announced at Apple’s event today, the company takes on Google Documents with real-time collaboration on iWorks documents. The long-awaited feature makes it easier to cooperate on creating ...

 Apple just announced that it is working with Nintendo to deliver a new game on the App Store called Super Mario Run.As the name implies, Super Mario Run is a runner game (think Temple Run) that ...

 Apple CEO Tim Cook gave a brief update on the App Store this morning at the kickoff of the iPhone press event, noting that Apple’s application marketplace has now seen 140 billion apps dow...

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 Apple just leaked the iPhone 7 on Twitter. iPhone 7. The best iPhone ever, in every way that matters. Pre-order now. Available 9/16. apple.co/iPhone7preorder https://t.co/jK5y3cpzpr—  ...

 Already the news is rolling in at today’s Apple iPhone 7 event: Apple Music has hit 17 million paying subscribers. The company’s streaming service continues to keep rolling on despit...

 The Disrupt SF Hackathon kicks off this Saturday, September 9th at noon and you still have a chanceto snag a ticket. Also,we’re excited to announce the hackmasters, judges and API workshop...

 It’s become something of a ritual: September comes around, and Apple sends out its ever-mysterious invite to a few dozen outlets. We all head for San Francisco, and a new iPhone is unveile...

 Apple is holding a press conference today at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, and the company is expected to unveil the new iPhone as well as the Apple Watch 2. At 10 AM PT (1 PM in New York, 6...

 A Santa Monica-based startup called AirMap today launched a feature that gives drone operators real time traffic alerts whenever manned aircraft such as helicopters, crop dusters or low-flying p...

 HashiCorp, which offers a number of tools that help developers write and deploy their applications (including the popular open-source Vagrant tool for setting up development environments), today...

The typical investment in a U.S. seed-stage company rose in the first half of 2016, with many startups and their backers looking to shore up a longer runway before seeking Series A funding, according ...

 While the Apple press conference is supposed to start in 30 minutes, it looks like it’s amateur hour or epic fail time at Amazon as the company just released a special page listing all iPh...

 Parrot, the French company thatis probably best known for its AR.Drone and Bebop drones, today announced the Parrot S.L.A.M.dunk, a new development kit for helping drones and robots navigate ind...

 A new application, Callblock, coming to the iTunes App Store, claims to block phone calls from over 2 million telemarketers by type, including things like robocallers, debt collectors, political...

 Choosing this year’s Disrupt SF Startup Battlefield winners will be a tough job. There is an exceptionally strong and unique group of young companies competing in Startup Battlefield next ...

 If you’ve walked around San Francisco, you’ve probably seen them. An eco-friendly and comfortable wool shoe, Allbirds has already developed a cult following in the tech world. Ventur...

 It’s become something of a ritual: September comes around, and Apple sends out its ever-mysterious invite to a few dozen outlets. We all head for San Francisco, and a new iPhone is unveile...

 Today, Starbucksis becoming a media company. The company this morning debuted its first-ever originalcontent series called “Upstanders” which aims to inspire Americans with stories o...

 China is looking at electric vehicles as akey way to lower emissions and improve the country’s general environmental sustainability, and Volkswagen is teaming up with China state-owned car...

 Tesla may have a range of vehicle showrooms across North America, but those can’t cover everyone, and it’s even more difficult for the average potential Tesla buyer to get to the com...

 Consumers in the U.S. today are getting anotheropportunity to lighten their wallets a little more: Chase Visa credit and debit cardholders can nowload up and use their accounts via Android Pay.T...

 Consumers in the U.S. (and UK) today are getting anotheropportunity to lighten their wallets a little more. In the U.S., Chase Visa credit and debit cardholders can nowload up and use their acco...

 The online financing giantKlarna is continuing its rollout in the U.S. with a host of new partnerships and a new productso online shoppers in the U.S. and Europe can actually take out loans from...

 A study (conveniently co-written by Facebook) has found that “personal interactions on Facebook can have a major impact on a person’s feelings of well-being and satisfaction with lif...

 If you work in any kind of storage facility or warehouse, there’s a better chance every day that you’re going to be working alongside robots. Magazino’s TORU is a good example ...

 Land Rover’s new Discovery, which it teased yesterday via our first ever look at the SUV’s front end, also has a “world-first” smart seat feature, which lets owners recon...

 Tesla continues to try to up-end the dealership system in the U.S., which generally requires that franchise-onwned dealers sell cars, vs. automakers selling directly via their own wholly owned d...

 Remember Path? Even though targeting early tech adopters was potentially the wrong ‘path’ for that company, the idea of a close-friends-only social network isn’t a bad one at a...

 Doorkeys is a new startup in India that wants to bring the process of buying a home online. Founded by real estate veteran Subhash Bedi, chairman and MD of Rising Straits Capital, an entrepreneu...

 Mercedes-Benz Vans and drone tech startupMatternethavecreated a concept car, or as they’re calling it a Vision Van, that could change the way small packages are delivered across short dist...

 Mercedes-Benz Vans and drone tech startupMatternethavecreated a concept car, or as they’re calling it a Vision Van, that could change the way small packages are delivered across short dist...

 Last Fall, rumors began circulating that Dell was interested in acquiring EMC. On October 12th, the rumors proved true when Dell announcedit was buying EMC for an astonishing $67 billion, a reco...

 Sony is holding a PlayStation Meeting in New York to unveil the PlayStation 4 ‘Neo’, and maybe also a PS4 Slim because why not. In case you don’t care about Apple’s iPhon...

 French startup Oui Open, also known as PopupImmo, is merging with its American competitor Storefront for an undisclosed amount of money. The two entities will soon provide a global marketplace o...

 Ah, supply invoicing. As a lad my dear old father used to dandle me on his knee and speak of the great supply invoice systems of yore. He came from an era when supply managers were giants, men a...

 Back in July we reported that Amazon was set to launch a restaurant delivery service in London for its Amazon Prime customers and now the e-commerce giant has done just that. Read More ...

 Apple is holding a press conference today at the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, and the company is expected to unveil the new iPhone as well as the Apple Watch 2. At 10 AM PT (1 PM in New York, 6...

 Microsoft today announced thatits U.K. data center region isnow online. The new region, which the company announced last November, currently offers support for Microsoft’s Azure cloud serv...

 It’s become something of a ritual: September comes around, and Apple sends out its ever-mysterious invite to a few dozen outlets. We all head for San Francisco, and a new iPhone is unveile...

Google switches on new undersea cable in Asia, photos of DJI’s new drone gets leaked, things get worse for Rothenberg Ventures, SolarCity is planning to install 5 million solar roofs, and accord...

 If you’ve ever been lost in the midst of all the 3D printing technologies, you know how hard it is to get a grip on the different machinery, applications and companies involved. Many ̶...

 A day after IFA and Labor Day and mere hours before Apple takes the stage in the same city — LG really doesn’t have a knack for timing. It’s unfortunate to say the least. Here ...

 While Square continues to take small steps into Europe, a would-be homegrown rival has made its first acquisition to expand from mobile payments into a wider set of commerce solutions. iZettle &...

 Following a major milestone for the domestic drone industry last week, industry insiders are expecting a big uptick in dollars invested in U.S. drone tech companies— just maybe not an imme...

 DriveTribe, the vertical online community for motoring fans to be launched by former Top Gear presenters Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May, has now secured $6.5 million (4.9 million...

 Buddha believed in data. Every time he tried something new, he paid attention. He collected evidence. He figured out what worked and what didn’t. And if something didn’t work, he rej...

 While cycling apps are thick on the ground, a full gadget ecosystem is hard to come by. Seattle startup Coros is looking to change that with the Linx, a helmet-app combo (with handlebar controll...

 Squire, a company that launched last week at Y Combinator’s Summer ’16 Demo Day, makes software for barbershops. Not salons or beauty parlors or wherever else you get your hair cut&#...

 The first question you might have when learning that Jaguar Land Rover has its technology headquarters in Portland, OR, is, “Why?” There’s an easy answer for that question, sai...

 The rapid growth of streaming is taking the globe by storm, but no country seems to have the market potential for OTT video streaming quite like China. While the United States OTT market is begi...

 Pinterest said it has hired Li Fan, the former head of image search at Google, as the company’s new head of engineering. Much of Pinterest’s most promising technology involves search...

 Pinterest said it has hired Li Fan, the former head of image search at Google, as the company’s new head of engineering. Much of Pinterest’s most promising technology involves search...

 President Barack Obama told reporters at the G-20 summit in China that he has been in discussions with other world leaders, including Russian president Vladimir Putin, about creating a set of st...

 Facebook and Apple recently declared that there’s no wage gap between men and women at their respective companies. That’s cool, I guess, but that type of men-versus-women analysis is...

 We’re hearing from sources that Postmates, which is among a few companies that are seen as operating in the difficult on-demand space, is raising at least $100 million in a round led by Fo...

 WebRTC, a relatively new web standard that allows you to make audio and video calls from your browser without plugins, is becoming increasingly popular. But as more companies and products adopt ...

 With the sale of marijuana either for recreational or medicinal purposes becoming legal in more and more states, new and existing retailers are struggling to find ways to keep track of inventory...

 This is the ultimate guide to how Facebook chooses what to show in your News Feed, and how you can get your content seen by more people.Understanding how the News Feed works is tough because the...

 Sony is having a PlayStation event tomorrow in New York, where it plans to provide an update on its PlayStation business and PS4. Most people agree that means it’s going to show us a coupl...

 The European on-demand delivery fall out continues. This time it’s the turn of France’s Tok Tok Tok, a Postmates-styled same-hour delivery company, which sent an email to customers e...

 Amazon announced an update toFire TV and its smaller companion, the Fire TV Stick, which will bring expanded Alexa-powered voice search to both devices, as well as a way to receive personalized ...

 Earlier this year, Trainline acquired Captain Train for quite a bit of money. Now, Trainline is trying to unify its train ticket booking system. First, Captain Train is now called Trainline, jus...

 The battle over noncompetes is a modern-day rendition of an age-old trope: the big corporation versus the little employee; Goliath versus David. The only difference? In the fable, Goliath was br...

 DJI’s next drone looks like it will probably be the foldable DJI Mavic, according to new image leaks that build on a previous trademark application DJI filed for the product name. The leak...

 If there is onethreat to Google Search, it’s that the majority of content created today lives inside social apps like Instagram and Snapchat and can’t easily be indexed to show in se...

 I’ve just finished watching Entrepreneur First‘s sixth cohort’s Demo Day Demo in London. The event, held at Facebook’s UK HQ, saw 21 newly outed startups pitch their ware...

 Apple’s recently announced promise to clean up its App Store by removingold, outdated and non-compliantapplications could see hundreds of thousands of apps getting booted from the mobile a...

 There’s much anticipation about Chinese smartphone company Xiaomi’s long-awaited entry into the U.S. market. And we don’t have long to wait. Kinda. TechCrunch understands that ...

 At their heart, most smartwatches really aren’t all that far removed from those calculator watches from the 80s. The height of geek chic. Big and bulky pronouncements to world that the wea...

 When Box praised its partnership with IBM at its earnings call last week, it was holding one card close the vest. The two companieshad been working on a new workflow tool, and today theyannounce...

 Hackers, start your engines. Yelp launched a public bug bounty program today, inviting the world’s hackers to pick apart its websites and mobile app in search of vulnerabilities that could...

 Let’s start with the elephant in the room. For the past three years, Apple has introduced new iPhones at a press event in early September. Based on multiple leaks, this year shouldn’...

 A new report out this morning from analysts at eMarketer is forecasting explosive growth for Snapchat’s ad revenue by next year. The firm estimates the mobile social application will gener...

 Entrepreneur First, the company builder program for technical graduates, has just kicked off its sixth cohort’s Demo Day Demo at Facebook’s London-based UK HQ where 21 newly formed s...

 The price tag on Samsung’s comprehensive recall of all Note 7 devices shipped to date could be very expensive – Bloomberg reports an estimated total cost of around $1 billion for rep...

 PayPal this morning announced an expanded partnership with MasterCard aimed at helping the payments service become a more universally accepted checkout method at stores. The partnership, which f...

 What hath science wrought: First it created the brooding Mewtwo, whose tale of experimentation and weaponization is the dramatic underpinning for the original Pokmon movie; now, it’s respo...

 In a quest to dismantle itself and become more relevant in the 21st Century, IAC-owned About.com is launching another standalone vertical in the form of The Balance, a personal finance website t...

 Yet another partnership has been forged to help usher in the era of self-driving software: This time, it’s Volvo, which announced (via Reuters) a joint venture with Swedish-American car sa...

 Adobe has a host of new features for its Creative Cloud video tools it’s debuting at IBC 2016 this week. The improvements include new team collaboration features, as well as new improvemen...

 Hong Kong is making a move to challenge Singapore and others as the dominant location for fintech in Asia after the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) unveiled a digital hub and new allowances ...

 How do you make a dent in the energy market? SolarCity is likely one of the few companies that has a good idea of how to answer that question, and one part of its plan includes replacing the roo...

 In the world of tech and investing FOMO isa dominant theme that drives much of investment decision-making at the early stage. Ben Lerer, Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures, goes as far a...

 Google is speeding up its internet services in Asia once again. Fresh from expanding its data centers in the region — which are located in Singapore and Taiwan — last year, the compa...

 French startup Lydia is launching a card so that you can spend your Lydia balance in every retailer that accepts MasterCard. You can trigger a lot of features in the app. In other words, you rem...

 The UK’s Divido is one of a number of startups and tech companies operating in the point of sale consumer finance sector. Its alternative payment option lets customers spread the cost of a...

 Podcasts blew up in 2016. Ever since Serial’s successtwo years ago, the medium has gained devotees among celebrities and… apparently everyone else. The new, new thing in the podcast ...

 Podcasts blew up in 2016. Ever since Serial’s successtwo years ago, the medium has gained devotees among celebrities and… apparently everyone else. The new, new thing in the podcast ...

 VizEat, a European startup that operates a “social dining platform” to enable travellers to dine in a local’s home, has raised 3.8 million in new funding. The round was led by ...

 Zilingo may not be a name known to many prior to today, but the under-the-radar e-commerce company has closed a impressive $8 million Series A round to scale its fashion-focused marketplace in S...

 Intel’s RealSense platform was the star of its Intel Developer’s Forum conference in San Francisco last month and it seems the company is only looking to grow the scale and capabilit...

 Intel’s RealSense platform was the star of its Intel Developer’s Forum conference in San Francisco last month and it seems the company is only looking to grow the scale and capabilit...

 Like most VCs, we see dozens of deals each week. We’ve developed a funnel that enables us to quickly eliminate those that don’t fit our general investment criteria. The deals that su...

 On this week’s episode of TCBC, the podcast where TechCrunch’s writers go in-depth about the beats they love and obsess over, we talk to Emily Calandrelli, our resident space reporte...

 As a necessary function of a product launch, startups are myopic — they’re frenzied, they’re broke and they’re not remotely cognizant of the serious public policy hurdles...

 Disrupt SF starts a week from today. There’s still time to get on board, and here are a few reasons why you might be sad if you don’t. You can still get a ticket here. #1 Marc Andree...

 The $6.7 billion telepresence and video communication category hasn’t evolved much since we were introduced to Cisco and Polycom. At the same time Smart TVs are making video conferencing e...

 The advertising industry is wringing its hands and shaking its fist at the use and growth of ad-block technology, but I am not above temptation. I installed it. I love it and probably won’...

 Ahead of Apple’s iPhone event on September 7th, the company has begunrolling out new, personalized music playlists to Apple Music subscribers, who are beta testing the soon-to-be-released ...

 Snapchat has given observers another reason to suspect it might be working on hardware – the social network company joined the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) according to the Finan...

 Snapchat has given observers another reason to suspect it might be working on hardware – the social network company joined the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) according to the Finan...

 Garena, Southeast Asia’s most valuable technology startup, has closed additional funding three new investors: SeaTown Holdings International, an affiliate of Singaporean sovereign wealth f...

 Northzone, a 20 year veteran of the European VC industry, has closed its 8th fund, capped at 300 million, which it will deploy to “early-stage” startups in the region. Specifically, ...

 One of the biggest tech deals this year — and the biggest ever in the UK — has now closed. Today, Softbank announced that it has completed its acquisition of ARM Holdings, the semico...

 TechCrunch Disrupt London is happening once again this December and we have some of the most iconic entrepreneurs and thought leaders in the tech industry lined up to speak. The two-day conferen...

 Much has been made about the business implications of recent, rapid advancements in cognitive computing — that is, the possibility of advanced analytics tools to help human knowledge worke...

 Q: If you were to pick one and only one single biggest factor that determines a startup’s success, what would it be? Why? Some say it is product-market fit (Marc Andreesen), others hold th...

 You can’t swing a lightly inebriated jaguar by its tail without hitting half a dozen crowdfunding campaigns these days. Looking at some campaigns, it seems like it could be the ultimate ge...

 David Haase, a former employee of the beleaguered San Francisco-based firm Rothenberg Ventures Management Co. (RVM), is suing the firmand itsfounder, Mike Rothenberg, saying he was asked to run ...

 The real estate rental market is a highly localized, relationship-based industry driven largely by individuals living and working in their own cities, causing many to acknowledge the longstandin...

 When you think about crowdsourced work, you probably think about Mechanical Turk and, maybe, Uber. On the one hand, an anonymous platform where people feel like mechanical parts. On the other ha...

 Todayconcludes my fourth IFA. Or maybe my fifth. These tech conferences tend to blend together after a while. The first time I attended the show, I hadn’t really heard of the thing, to be ...

 In Berlin, it means “world.” There’s probably something to be read into that, but I’ve been here covering IFA for several days now and quite frankly, I’m coming up ...

 The most exciting part of Samsung’s IFA booth is also its most understated. Somewhere toward the middle of the huge, brightly lit hall are a series of tables, showing off non-Samsung produ...

 As drones increasingly fly through our cities in the coming years — delivering our latest order from Amazon or other on-demand retailers — the regulation of our airspace and the envi...

 Washing machines have always felt like a sort of necessary evil. I’m wouldn’t go so far as suggesting that no one enjoys washing clothes – heck, I find doing the dishes kind of...

 What if I told you that you could hide the shame of carrying around a selfie stick, protect your smartphone and have a free kickstand all in one go? How much would you pay for such a luxury? $10...

 It doesn’t take much. For all the bluster around the conversation about Skynet and robotic overlords, we still melt when a diminutive robot flashes the slightest hint of humanity through a...

 They fall off. A lot. And nothing rips you from theescapism of VR faster than having a pair of glasses constantly fall off the bridge of your nose. No sudden movement and you should be fine. I&#...

 Little by little, next thing you know you’re sitting in a massage chair, wearing an Oculus Rift, acting like you’re not in the middle of a crowded German trade show floor. You can le...

Faced with myriad regulatory hurdles and a changing landscape dominated by “too big to fail” banks, investors and entrepreneurs alike have traditionally shied away from Fintech. But that d...

 As biotechnologygains prominenceamong investors, two hubs have emerged as hotbeds of innovation for the resurgent industry.While the two-square-mile patch of South San Francisco bustles with ove...

 The EU’s efforts to regulate financial markets has opened new opportunities for global fintech operators looking for universal standards to tap into the lucrative 28-country marketplace. W...

 The cloud has become the default for practically every industry, from storage to transportation to communication to retail. But there’s one fundamental space out of which it has yet to tak...

 The Gillmor Gang — John Taschek, Keith Teare, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, September 2, 2016. Waiting for latency can be a lonely thing, but the medi...

 I was linked to Revel Systems CTO Chris Ciabarra’s recent TechCrunch piece “IoT’s Killer App is Home Security” by a friend and found myself a bit taken aback by what I wa...

 Imagine a five-year-old watching Mum talking to Siri, and Dad talking to Alexa, on a daily basis — what must she think of such interactions? Children nowadays witness computers that seem l...

 After a surprise Nigeria visit to meet with techies in Lagos, Mark Zuckerberg took his Africa tour to Kenyathis Thursday. There the Facebook CEO visited the iHub innovation space, reviewed the B...

 It’s been a long day away from outlets, so I reach into my pocket and fish around for a battery module. The zoom camera pack clips out easy, making room for the added battery capacity, whi...

 Poor Qualcomm. Always the reference design, never the retail unit. It’s like being the guy behind the guy, the comedian’s comedian, the power behind the product that doesn’t ge...

 Virtually all companies are doing digital transformation wrong. We’re placing it around the edge, keeping it at arm’s length, like it’s a problem and not an opportunity. If com...

 Turkey has been having an annus horribilis. For the past year the country has incurred bombings, the rise of extremists, growing authoritarianism and censorship, and, this past July 15, an attem...

 Esports betting has boomedin the last five years, attracting investments from celebrities, investors and entrepreneurs likeMark Cuban and Ashton Kutcher — even the former NBA Commissioner,...

 Let’s talk box office! Because it’s one of my pet obsessions; I’ve long been curious how the rise of new entertainment tech (Netflix, Amazon, YouTube, Pokmon Go) will impact mo...

 Fossil’s not messing around here. Back in November, the company announced plans to pick up fitness tracking company Misfit for $260 million, and all the while, it’s been announcing c...

 Like Garmin, TomTom’s been getting pretty aggressive with its wearable strategy. No wonder, really – it’s a space that’s seen exponential growth over the past few years, ...

 We all knew in our hearts that, if we just waited long enough, the internet of things would come around to self-playing piano. That surely the cloud would incorporate that last vestige of ole ti...

 This could actually go a ways toward easing my obsessive dial checking on the way out the door in the morning. Drop, they of connected kitchen scale fame, is partnering with Bosch to bring an ad...

We take a look at Sanbot’s robot, which serves and protects, Hyperloop test track has been spotted being built in LA, Mercedes-Benz is working on an ‘in-car office,’ Google sets out ...

 Here’s a silly thing because it is the ass end of a Friday. Apple just started using the Twitter account — @apple — that they’ve had since 2011. And they’re using i...

He’s a U.S. Olympian, NFL alum, startup CEO and now a TV host. Jeremy Bloom sat down with TechCrunch to tell us about his new show “Adventure Capitalists,” which he characterizes as ...

 If you’ve got a Galaxy Note 7, you’ve probably already heard about the recall. But the specifics differ for each region, and Samsung just now released the details for what your optio...

 The first cybersecurity unicorn kernel popped in late 2013 with the announcement of CloudFlare’s $50 million Series C investment. Today, 10 privately held companies hold membership in the ...

 Earlier this summer I wrote about Mozilla’s efforts to rollout a multi-process architecture, codename Electrolysis, for Firefox.In the months since, Mozilla has completed itsinitial tests ...

 Airbnb received 188 requests for users’ data from governments around the world in the first six months of this year, according to the company’s first-ever transparency report. The ho...

 Chris Moore is an increasingly rare breed. At the founding of Redpoint Ventures 17 years ago, Moore joined as an associate and— unlike today’s associates who often are cycled in and ...

 In the movie Moonraker James Bond has to fight a madman with his own fleet of Space Shuttles. The movie was made in 1979, a golden age for government-subsidized spaceflight. Back then the though...

 We’re thrilled to announce that you can catch a glimpse of all the Disrupt SF 2016 Startup Alley companies on our Startup Alley hub. In addition to being a great resource for investors, th...

 Every Star Wars fan’s dream is to be there – to inhabit the rich world created by Lucasfilm and the creative minds behind the epic films and their surrounding media universe. ILMxLAB...

 Microsoft is working with Liebherr’s appliance division to rebuild the refrigerator and make it smarter, faster, strong; well, maybe just smarter. The new collaboration between the two wil...

 This week, what would have been Facebook’s first satellite was destroyed in a Falcon 9 explosion, Facebook changed its Trending Topics layout and new information about the Dropbox password...

 It’s pretty oddthat even while people are chattingabout producing the VR video’s crazy theoretical future with8K resolution per eye, stereoscopic rendering and light field ready foot...

 When I arrived at Qihan’s IFA booth, a rainbow-colored trio of Sanbots were performing choreographed moves to some unrecognizable pop song. Because, well, when you want to get people to st...

 The world of edtech is strange and full of apparent contradictions. Venture capital investment has exploded since 2010, hitting an all-time high of $3.1 billion in 2015, with private equity and ...

 When I first covered Fleex, it was a neat little video player that let you learn English using your favorite movies or TV shows. Since then, Reverso has acqu-hired the team behind Fleex and now ...

 Google’s A.I. technology may be capable of putting on a trippy art show, thanks to itsneural network-powered DeepDreamcomputer vision program. Butwhen Google turned itsmachine learning tec...

 Google’s AI technology may be capable of putting on a trippy art show — thanks to its neural network-powered DeepDream computer vision program — but when Google turned its mach...

 To the thousands, nay, millions who were holding out for a Windows 10 fridge before upgrading, we’ve got some pretty great news straight from the IFA show floor. Granted, it’s still ...

 This is a LIVE recording session of The Gillmor Gang – today with: John Taschek, Frank Radice, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Today’s LIVE recording starts at 9:45am.Ou...

 Earlier this week, Amazon debuted its Dash buttons in the UK, Germany and Austria for instant product reorders, and now it is gearing up for yet another new launch in Europe — one thatcoul...

 Packages delivered to the trunk of your car isn’t an entirely new concept; last April, Amazon started testing a service to do just that in partnership with Audi and DHL in Munich. Now, Dai...

 With the forthcoming arrival of iOS 10, iMessage is finally getting a much-needed revampthat will see it incorporatingthird-party apps, as well as more engaging and interactive features like mes...

 At IFA 2016 in Berlin, Mercedes-Benz announced a new project called ‘In Car Office’ to incorporate more smart productivity features into your ride. The features are going to go live ...

 At this point I think the world knows that stickers and emoji aren’t frivolous. There are certainly plenty of examples to suggest that this new kinda of media type is being taken more seri...

 If you’re going to do yet another VR headset, the least you can do is bring something new to table. For Alcatel, that means an all-in-on solution, doing away with the need for a tethered c...

 When you hear “startup,” you probably think of Facebook, Airbnb or Uber before Casper or Blue Bottle Coffee. But while companies that produce tangible goods like food and clothing re...

 At $1,500, the 38UC99 works out to around $39 per inch of curved gaming monitor. And it’s a pretty lovely thing to behold – particularly when lined up alongside two other 38-inch gam...

 Google’s making it easier for Google Analytics users to find the important trends in their data. The change is already live in the Google Analytics app for iOS and Android, where, in the A...

 Wacom’s IFA announcements thus far have centered around the company’s consumer-facing Bamboo line. Earlier this week, the tablet maker showed off two new versions of its sketchpad di...

 Fall tends to bring new hardware from Google, which mainlyinvolves new Nexus smartphones built in tandem with OEM partners. This year, things could be quite different since Google has a number o...

 Here’s a stat that’s sure to worry Google: smartphone applications now account for half the time that U.S. users spend online, up from 41 percent back in July 2014, according to a ne...

 British media company Sky just disclosed an investment of $4.5 million (4 million) in French startup Molotov. I’ve reached out to Molotov co-founder and CEO Jean-David Blanc who confirmed ...

 British media company Sky just disclosed an investment of $4.5 million (4 million) in French startup Molotov. From what we’ve heard and according to Sky’s statement, this is just a f...

 Where to start? There’s the weight: 17 pounds. The screen: 21 inches, 2560 x 108, curved. The power supply: two. The fans: five. Rear ports: 21. Or how about the gaming pad that flips over...

 Sony has issued a notice that YouTube will no longer work on some 2012-era smart TVs. But it’s not Sony’s fault, guys! It’s YouTube and the dastardly engineers who pushed the Y...

 While Elon Musk isn’t building a Hyperloop transportation system himself (he clearly has a lot on his plate already), SpaceX is building a test track for Hyperloop pods from others. SpaceX...

 Razer is doing some housecleaning witha fall refresh of itslaptops, just in time for the Penny Arcade Expo. This includes a crucialtweak for their Blade Stealth ultrabook: a larger 53.4WH batter...

 Robots are friends! Or at least, at Haneda Airport if you see one of the little buddies above, you can feel confident approaching it and ask it it for help. The Hitachi EMIEW3 humanoid robot beg...

 After raising $4.5 billion at a $60 billion valuation earlier this year, Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial — which operates the Alipay payments service — is hungry to putsome of that m...

 Nintendowants to harken back to its heydays with the new, unreleased Nintendo NX console in more ways than one: A new WSJ report says it’ll use cartridges in place of discs, which have bee...

 Bower & Wilkins, a British audio company started in 1966, is releasing a Bluetooth version (that means wireless, friends) of their well-received P7 headphones. I had the chance to review the...

 LG’s SmartThinQ Hub looks a lot like the Amazon Echo. It’s the first that occurred to me when it was announced right around CES of this year, and it was probably the first thing that...

 I mean, yeah, it sounds good. It’s a $3,200 Walkman. It had better sound good. And hey, it sounds even better when paired with a $2,300 pair of Sony headphones (MDR-Z1R) and that new $2,20...

 Rocket Internet is gearing up for its upcoming results day on September 22 with a warning: its financials aren’t going to be pretty. Read More ...

 At the end of this month, the US government will finally give up “control” of the internet. In a quiet blogpost, Larry Strickling, the US government’s assistant secretary for c...

 Samsung has confirmed that it is recalling the Galaxy Note 7, its newest smartphone, following reports that some devices exploded. Read More ...

 China has opened an investigation to deter whether Didi’s Chuxing’s impending acquisition of Uber China violates national anti-trust laws. Read More ...

 Apple is increasing its Twitter game after it activated a new @Apple account on the microblogging service. Read More ...

 After three years of development, starting at Motorola thentransferred to Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects group, Project Ara is being “suspended” and ultimately, is c...

SpaceX rocket explodes at Cape Canaveral, DraftKings raises $150 million, Periscope adds a new way to monetize, Facebook launches Instant Video, and Apple is set to clean its abandoned apps from the A...

 Tech innovators tend to operate with an ethos that they consider diametrically opposed to that of government, frequently leading to friction. Given the current regulatory, legal and political cl...

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 The apparently government-sponsored hackery aimed at activist Ahmed Mansoor last week prompted a quick response from Apple, with a patch for iOS arriving the day of the news. Turns out the three...

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV5Jjd0ww5QAs Regulations governing the commercial use of small drones in the U.S. went into effect this week,companies immediately began obtaining exemptions fro...

 Gurbaksh Chahal is back as CEO of Gravity4, the adtech startup he founded and was forced to relinquish control of after his probation was revoked in a domestic violence case, according to a post...

 Today more than ever, technology is transforming how enterprises do business. The IT profession has evolved from being reactionary to proactive, and CIOs now have a seat at the table to drive co...

 Have you ever been in a VR conference call and thought, well, I know what everyone looks like from the front, but what about the other sides? The Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications has ...

 Crikey: 43,570,999 user accounts were breached in a hack of Last.fm that occurred in March of 2012,according to a report from LeakedSource.Three months after the breach,in June of 2012, Last.fm ...

 A report in The New York Times on a culture clash taking place in Palo Alto set off a bit of speculation as to the possibility of “a ban on coding,” as the article put it. Well, don&...

 Today, in a world of bacon-wrapped crust and custom-modified Chevys with pizza warmers, being excited about pizza is just not as easy as it used to be. Zume Pizza founder Julia Collins and her E...

 Most of us techies agree that optimal travel is teleportation or apparition. The dream is instantaneous point-to-point transport. All business transportation should be evaluated based on how clo...

 Samsung is looking into reports from multiple users that the recently released Galaxy Note 7 has issues wherein a few phones have exploded during charging. A Samsung spokesperson told TechCrunch...

 Today in part 23 of our series entitled Goofy Rich Person Gadgetry, we present the MB&F Balthazar, a posable robot that tells the time and has a “dark side.” First, a little cont...

 Farm egg. It may seem as simple as just that. An egg. The food that Atkins and Paleo diets made popular once again. The food that draws one of many dividing lines between vegetarians and vegans....

 Yesterday, as dozens ofTeslas bakedin the sprawling Palo Alto parking lot of a local law firm, 100 top investors packed into a high-ceilinged meeting room. There, theywatched 13 startups deliver...

 It’s a question every major startup has to answer eventually: What do you do when the regulators come knocking? The answer varies depending on who you ask — for Uber, the solution us...

 It’s a question every major startup must answer eventually: What do you do when the regulators come knocking?The answer varies depending on who you ask — for Uber, the solution used ...

 That’s what we call a teeny tiny fuckup. Beats sent a press release to iGen.fr and other French media outlets saying that they should expect new Beats products on September 7 during Apple&...

 Didn’t see this coming. The big trend at this year’s IFA (once you factor out the eight billion fitness bands and Bluetooth headphones, at least) is apparently drawing pads. Wacom, L...

 The Anniversary Update for Windows 10 brought a lot of nice features, including OS-level Ink features for stylus devices –but it also brought some nasty bugs along for the ride. Including,...

 This morning around 9:07 am ET, SpaceX experienced a devastating explosion while completing a routine static test-fire in preparation for a launch on Saturday. Luckily, no injuries were reported...

 Sennheiser’s always got a fair amount of stuff to show off at IFA. After all, the show is kind of, sort of in the audio company’s backyard (well, only a three hour drive away). This ...

 Rumor has it that Apple is about to introduce an Apple Watch 2 on September 7, alongside a new iPhone. While many leaks indicate that the Apple Watch will have more or less a similar design as t...

 If you’re going to shell out some serious cash on a set of Bluetooth speakers, you might as well find a pair that matches the upholstery right? It’s a philosophy that has dominated a...

 It’s cleaning time in the App Store. Apple sent an email to its developer community indicating that there will be some upcoming changes in the App Store. If an app no longer works or is ou...

 Fancy pens are fancy. They’re nice to own, really great to write with, and awful pretty. But what happens when you mash up fancy pen manufacturer Montblanc with some digital paper? Baby, y...

 Earlier today, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket exploded on the launch pad for no apparent reason. While we’re still trying to learn more about what happened, we already know that the company was ...

 I’ve always considered Blue’s USB microphones a podcasting tool – and I suspect Blue has, as well. They’re easy to use, they sound good and they’re affordable. Heck...

 ROLI, which makes the Seaboard (new type of keyboard musical instrument) has acquired FXpansion, a maker of software instruments, for an undisclosed sum. London-based FXpansion already makes sou...

 GoPro’s drone dayz are finally upon us: The action camera maker is going to reveal its Karma aerial photography drone on September 19, via its website. There’s lots of early speculat...

 Google is today expanding to more developers access to its “Early Access” beta testing program. This program, launched earlier this spring, gave Androiddevelopers the ability to bett...

 Niantic, the makers of Pokmon Go, responded today to a letter from Sen. Al Franken that questioned the wildly popular game’s privacy features. Niantic defended the game’s use of play...

 There may be a debate about whether we’ve reached peak Pokmon Go for gamers, but the hit title is just getting started with brands. That’s because Japanese mobile operator is the lat...

 Desktop 3D printers have long had a tough road to legitimacy. For as long as the space has existed, critics have questioned their purpose beyond the creation of simple, plastic ephemera. It̵...

 Sense isa strange company. Take, for example, the fact that its About section begins with a treatise titled “the meaning of life.” Or the fact that its smart sensor product is called...

 Sen.se is a strange company. Take, for example, the fact that its website’sAbout section begins with a treatise titled “the meaning of life.” Or the fact that its smart sensor ...

 Propeller CRMlaunchedtoday after two years in development with a CRM tool its founders sayputs sales people at the center of the workflow. One of the founders, Eric Bouk, says he has seen his fa...

 Jabra’s still probably best known for its headsets/teleconferencing devices, but the company’s been making a fairly aggressive push into consumer headphones of late. Of particular in...

 The ad-blocking web browser Brave co-founded by Mozilla’s former CEOBrendan Eich is today rolling out its grand experiment “Brave Payments,” which will encourage web users to r...

 Twitter announced a new monetization option today, adding livePeriscope content to its Amplify Publisher Program, which lets approved creators and brands earn a share of ad revenue on their medi...

 Twitter announced a new monetization option today, adding livePeriscope content to its monetization options, which lets approved creators and brands earn a share of ad revenue on their media pos...

 There’s really only so much you do with your analog fitness watch before it turns into something else. Withings already has one of the nicer offerings in the space in the form of the Steel...

 There’s really only so much you can do with your analog fitness watch before it turns into something else. Withings already has one of the nicer offerings in the space in the form of the S...

 Granted, it’s not a desktop that looks like a piece of Ikea furniture, but at least HP is trying something moderately interesting – or is it “modularly interesting?” Sorr...

 Amazon’s latest perk – discounted student loans, aimed at Amazon Prime Student customers – is no more, according a report from Bloomberg, and confirmed by bothcompanies. The pa...

 Turning your good old radiator into a connected, smart radiator could be a dream of yours. Imagine being able to control the temperature of each radiator individually without having to move fro...

 Pokmon Sun and Moon are closer than ever to their November 18 launch, and Nintendo revealed a few new details about the game today. The most significant, especially for rabid fans, is that early...

 Facebook can’t stop copying Snapchat, it seems. Remember how Instagram shamelessly injected Snapchat Stories into its service last month? Well now Messenger is getting a very Snapchat-like...

 DraftKings has closed $150M in new funding this morning, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The round was led by Washington D.C-basedRevolution Capital,the venture firm helmedby AOL founder St...

 French startup Molotov has been available in France for a couple of months already, and it is rolling out new platforms. After launching on the iPad, the Apple TV and computers, the company is l...

 Crowdfunding site Kickstarter has officially opened its doors to projects in Asia after it announced its availability in Hong Kong and Singapore this week. The service is available in 18 countri...

 As far as smartphone gimmicks go, CSX is a pretty fun one. The project takes the sort of community driven creation brought to space courtesy of startups like OnePlus and takes it to the next lev...

 We apparently live in a world now where a company can get away with calling a 5.2-inch phone a “mini.” Keep in mind that when the first Galaxy Note was introduced at IFA five years b...

 Another day, another VR headset that you will never be able to buy.Today at the IFA conference in Berlin, Qualcomm unveiled a reference design for anall-in-oneheadset built on the company’...

 Nintendo’s more portable version of its Super Mario Maker game-building game (that’s not a typo) is available on December 2, the company announced today. The scaled down game offers ...

 If you used to make in-car navigation devices, odds are pretty good you make wearables now. That’s just the way things are. Now that everyone has turn-by-turn driving directions on their p...

 Lego has pulled back the curtain on the official Rogue One: A Star Wars Story sets we all new had to be coming, and as usual, details of the sets reveal some very minor imaginary tech spoilers f...

 Today, Apple is previewing of some of the first apps that will integratewith Siri in the upcomingrelease of iOS 10. Announced at WWDC earlier this year, one of the biggest changes inApple’...

 Chinese smartphone firm Xiaomi has announced its own mobile payment service today. Read More ...

 Huawei wasn’t wrong. The Nova Plus feels like a premium phone, in spite of its mid-tier price point. The brushed metal back and glossy display meet at rounded sides, alongside front glass ...

 Global mobile paymentscompany Boku announceda $13.75 million funding round today led by a consortium of UK investors. The company had previously raised approximately $77.25 million fromKhosla Ve...

 According to numerous eyewitness reports, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just exploded during a test on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral. This rocket was set to launch on Saturday, September 3 on a miss...

 BMW buyers will now have the option to get CarPlay installed in their new rides. But for a cost. BMW is charging $300 to add the service to new vehicles making the German auto maker the first to...

 Move over Cortana – another voice-powered smart assistant might be on its way to Windows PCs. That’s according to a new report from CNET, which cites confirmation of talks between Am...

Neato, the other company that produces robot vacuums (no, the other, other company), is back with two new entries in its floor cleaning robo-servant line. The latest additions, debuting at IFA this we...

 Multitenancy was the single-biggest technology breakthrough in SaaS. It not only allowed for higher gross margins, it made it viable to serve small and medium businesses with world-class softwar...

 Plex, apopular personal media player system that lets you stream from your own library, including music, photos, TV and movies, across devices, is today rolling out DVR functionality. The softwa...

 Salesforce may have missed out on buying LinkedIn, but it has had a whopper of an acquisitions spree so far this year anyway. The enterprise cloud and CRM services companyput down over$4 billion...

 What is the Pavilion Wave? It’s a question as old as time, dating at least as far back as the early hours of this morning when HP showed off its strange new cloth-covered bit of hardware. ...

 Smartphone sales have peaked, but if you’re looking for places in the world where the trend is still upwards and the surface is just being scratched, then Southeast Asia is one place to ke...

 I am admittedly the jumpy sort, so maybe the bar was low, but this AI-created trailer for upcoming sci-fi thriller Morgan definitely sent chills up my spine. And this is the ultimate troll becau...

 DJI hopes you’re tired of shaky and embarrassing smartphone videos. The Osmo Mobile is a handheld 3-axis stabilizer gimbal for smartphones. Just strap a phone to the top and a similar gimb...

 When Salesforce introduced its Wave analytics product back in October, 2014, it was mostly framed as a tool for managers to get a grip on the sales pipeline in a visual way. In a series of annou...

 Not notebooks – smart notepads. Or, “smartpads” for those looking to save a little time and precious syllables. At IFA this week, the pro tablet manufacturer is issuing two upd...

 Salesforce.org, the philanthropic arm of the San Francisco-based cloud computing company, is expanding its education funding from its home city to Oakland. The foundation will invest $2.5 millio...

 Less than a month after raising $35 million in new financing, social commerce and classifieds startup Carousell has made its first acquihire. The Singapore-based company has picked up most of th...

 Sony knows from phone cameras. After all, it’s the company’s companentsthat fuels the competition’s hardware. As such, it makes sense that it’sopted to focus on the featu...

 Not every product briefing involves a large hidden speaker trucked in to reproduce plane noise. But Sony clearly very psyched about the noise canceling capabilities of its new wireless headset. ...

 License on Transfer (LOT) Networkis looking to make it even easier for smaller startupsto sign up for its cross-licensing patent “immunization” organization, which includes members l...

 Renoviso thinks it can take the hassle out of home redecorating. Instead of searching for the right contractor, Renoviso determines which local partner can help you on projects like replacing yo...

 A bunch of new products out of Huawei this morning, as the company kicked the second day of IFA press conferences. In addition to two new entries in the company’s mid-tier Nova line, it al...

 Huawei kicked off its IFA keynote this morning by debuting Nova, a new mid-tier line of handset line offering up solid specs on a budget. The line kicksoff with two devices, the simply named Nov...

 “Inspired by nature, created for life” is HTC’s customarily grandiose tagline for the admittedly awkwardly named One A9s. All that hyperbole means, essentially, that this is a ...

 Only the tightly-lipped teamin Cupertino can say for certain, but it sure appears as if Apple is ready to declare war on the headphone jack as we know it. Danish high-end speaker company Librato...

 Sphero’s BB-8 was arguably the compelling bit of merchandizing, which is, naturally, saying a lot. The latest Star Wars film was, as anticipated, a merch juggernaut, but there was no bette...

Steve Jobs’ turtleneck is up for auction, you can now zoom in on Instagram photos, Bill Nye is getting his own talk show on Netflix, Tile has a new slimmer Tile, and you can finally rent Erlich ...

 Nvidia co-founder and CEO Jen-Hsun Huan revealed a new partnership on stage at Baidu’s annual Baidu World conference today. This partnership with Baidu will see Nvidia and the Chinese tech...

 Baidu received an Autonomous Vehicle Testing Permit from the California DMV, the company revealed today. This paves the way for Baidu USA to begin testing its self-driving car technologies on pu...

 More than four years later, Kim Dotcom’s legal battles (at least in New Zealand) may beclose to an end. Hisfinal appeal to avoid extradition to face charges in the U.S started yesterday in...

 Advanced technologies and the rapid adoption of electronic health records are enabling the physical world to merge with the digital, leading to explosive growth in the volume and quality of clin...

 The Galaxy Note 7 seems like a pretty decent phone if you like phones literally the size of the galaxy (Brian does) — but be aware that Samsung’s curvy-screened flagship device may b...

 Q: Gil Penchina (the top-ranked angel on AngelList) said one of the things he has learned about investing is how little control he has on the outcome. Do you feel the same way?Absolutely. Most i...

Instacart, the grocery-ordering app, is getting creative about picking, packing and delivering food on-demand. TechCrunch got an aisle-side view of how the company’s people and technology come t...

 James Currier focuses on building businesses with network effects, and he builds those businesses by choosing the right people first. Currier started as a schoolboy entrepreneur, selling worms t...

 Oh yes, young feller, that there Yoga Book sure is something. But why don’t you just set a while an’ listen to the stories of an old blogger. ‘Twas back in the old days —...

 Samsung knows how to through a party. A really, really weird party. The electronics giant has put on some of the more bizarre events over the past decade, including, memorably, one at IFA 2012 t...

 Last week, Facebook fired all the humans who used to run its trending news, and replaced them with an algorithm meant to capture the most popular stories the web had to offer—in one to two...

 IoT is most well-known as a quirky way of automating your home, like some fancy clapper or talking fridge. By and large, IoT has yet to have its “killer app” moment and become a main...

 HSN is looking for the next big American consumer product. Today, 100 makers and entrepreneurs from around the U.S. will pitch their products for a chance to win airtime on HSN, a listing on HSN...

 If you’re a founder who’s feeling hot after getting some new seed funding and want to treat yourself, may I recommend purchasing the entire wardrobe of Silicon Valley’s greates...

 Salesforce earnings came out today! They’re not great, either, and it looks like a weak outlook for the company’s third quarter is doing some damage to its shares, which were down as...

 Box reported its second quarter fiscal 2017 earnings after the bell on Wednesday. The company beat estimates, posting an adjusted loss of 14 cents, compared to the 19 cents expected by analysts....

 The poor Yoga 910 never really had a chance. Moments after Lenovo announced the laptop, the spotlight was completely absorbed by the strange new Yoga Book. It’s a shame really, because thi...

 Redwood City-based Glint has raised $27 million in a Series C round of venture funding for software that helps companies figure out how their teams are experiencing problems, or why and when sol...

 If nothing else, Bang & Olufsen knows how to make an impression. The Danish audio company announced a pair of new wireless speakers – or rather, one speaker in two different sizes R...

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 CBS’s streaming TV service for cord cutters, CBS All Access – and soon to behome to the new “Star Trek” series – is today rolling out the option of a commercial-fre...

 The Yoga Book is nothing if not compelling – but, then, compelling has never really been an issue for the company. Each year, like clockwork, Lenovo tries to push the boundaries of what a ...

 Hello, fellow young people! I, like you, love vinyl. It offers richer, more realistic (pet) sounds and it is great for lugging from squat house to squat house and for sharing on a portable recor...

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 The US Department of Energy has awarded $8 million in Small Business Vouchers to 43 businesses, including ten projects aimed at making hydrogen fuel cells cheaper and more efficient, and six pro...

 If nothing else, Lenovo has certainly demonstrated that it’s not afraid to experiment with form factor. The company’s Yoga line has offered some of the most interesting takes we̵...

 The latest add-on Motorola’s Moto Z line brings some serious photo taking gravitas to the compelling modular offering. The Hasselblad True Zoom essentially turns the handset into a skinny ...

 On the heels of large investments made in Flipkart and Snapdeal, another e-commerce juggernautin India is closing in onan outsized round of funding to tap into India’s fast-growing, smartp...

 With new 360 video cameras hitting the shelves alongsidematching headsets in time for the holiday season, millions of new users will be looking to consumeVR content.Facebook recognizes that one ...

 With new 360 video cameras hitting the shelves — alongsidematching headsets — in time for the holiday season, millions of new users will be looking to consumeVR content.Facebook reco...

 Today, Facebook is releasing its Zstandard compression algorithm into the wild as open source. The lossless compression technology is aimed at replacing existing libraries like zlib that are pow...

 I’ve been looking for a good replacement for a few months. While there are many mobile calendar apps out there, none of them come close to Sunrise as they’re not as polished and well...

 Bill Nye is getting a new TV show, thanks to Netflix.The streaming video service announced that it will be launching a talk show with Nye next year, called Bill Nye Saves The World.Nye, of cours...

 Every day, some tech startups are surpassing their numbers while others are struggling to keep going. Washio, an on-demand laundry service that abruptlyshut down yesterday, is just the latest st...

 Last year’s Gear S2 was, without question, one of the best looking smartwatches around. After a few generations of unwieldy wearables, the company took it down a few notches with a device ...

 Mad Street Den, an India-U.S. startup focused on artificial intelligence that was founded by ex-Silicon Valley veterans, has pulled in an undisclosed Series A round of funding from Sequoia. Read...

 Back in July, a group of Faroe Islanders launched their own version of Street View, cheekily called “Sheep View 360,” by outfitting sheep on the island with 360-degree camera and usi...

 It’s possibly one of the few remaining near-universal experiences for mobile users: the frustration of trying to zoom in on an Instragram image and remembering that you can’t. That&#...

 Coursera, the education tech platformthat offers online courses from prestigiouscolleges and universities, is branching into corporate learning and development and has officially launched Course...

 HTC is continuing to invest heavily in building up the virtual reality ecosystemthat it hopes to one day dominate.Steel Wool Studios, an Oakland-based gaming studiomade up of Pixar veterans with...

 Mike Judge’s Silicon Valley faces a serious challenge in that it has to keep outdoing itself to properly satirize the real Silicon Valley, where crazy pants crap happens all the time. So i...

 A startup from Columbus called BYLINED is aiming to make it a bit easier for brands and people to come together in a win/win situation resulting in more unique photography. Through their free ap...

 The popular, Bluetooth-connected lost item finder Tile is today introducing a new product dubbed “Tile Slim” that’s designed to be kept in your wallet, so you can find it if it...

 Apple is about to announce the next iPhone on September 7, and the plot thickens. A new leak spotted by Nowhere Else shows the hypothetic packaging of the iPhone 7 Plus. This cardboard leak show...

 A group of five engineers and product people get together, raise some angel funding, build a startup, make little to no money and sell for $10 million. What just happened? Common narratives asse...

 For all the advances in smartphone photography, you sill don’t really have a DSLR-quality camera in your pocket when you’re carrying one (not yet anyway). DxO’s One, a tiny lit...

 More of the content we’re looking for is saved in mobile applications, which is why Google has been working to bring that information to the surface by indexing apps in search. Now, it wil...

 Amazon’s growing shipping operation is profiled at length in a new Bloomberg feature, and the article paints a picture of the e-commerce giant putting together the pieces to build one of t...

 The ZenScreen is a strange, but intriguing duck. It’s not a tablet or a convertible notebook, it’s a 15.6-inch portable screen. That mean it’s not a standalone device so much a...

 Netflix has made Stranger Things season two official, with a teaser including a lot of references from 1984, which is the setting for the sequel to the popular original series. The show’s ...

 Garmin has stopped trying. Meet the company’s new action camera: A clone of a GoPro.The company that innovated in the personal navigator space just announced the second generation of its a...

 This year’s IFA is certain to be another giant event for wearable launches, but only one company can be the first. Keep in mind, we’re still a few days out from the official kickoff ...

 New York-based real estate startup Compass is raising yet another round of funding, this time at a valuation above $1 billion. The new financing was led by Wellington Management Capital and brin...

 The day when you pull up next to a car in traffic and find no onesitting at the steering wheel is probably closer than you think. As TechCrunch’s Lora Kolodny noted yesterday, California h...

 This past week,theU.S. Food and Drug Administration mandatedtesting for the Zika virus atall U.S. blood centers. That juices demandforZika-testing technology, but one company that isn’t we...

 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is in Nigeria. News of his unannounced trip broke Tuesday withsocial media photosof him visiting the Co-Creation Hub (Cchub) innovation center in Lagos. Zuckerberg t...

 The race for who will take the leadin the next generation of automotivetechnology is on, and today Uber is kicking off a program that it hopes will help put it in pole position. Today, the trans...

 The race for who will take the leadin the next generation of automotivetechnology is on, and today Uber is kicking off a program that it hopes will help put it in pole position. Today, the trans...

 With a cursory glance of Garmin’s current offerings, it’s pretty clear the company has pretty fully made the transition into fitness devices. It still offers in-car navigation system...

 StarVR made a small splash at last year’s E3 when it demoed its new high-end headset. Just ahead of this year’s gaming show, the company announced that it would be joining forces wit...

 Online freight marketplace Freightos has acquired Spain’s WebCargoNet to help expand its database of air, ocean, and land freight rates. Read More ...

 More news out of Acer land in this early lead up to IFA. The company’s offering up yet another 13.3-inch laptop, in addition to its newly unveiled Chromebook. The Swift 7 is a ridiculously...

San Francisco may be up next, but we at TechCrunch are already getting ready for Europe. Disrupt London 2016 is only a few short months away, and one deadline you definitely won’t want to miss i...

 Still a few days out from the official kickoff of this year’s IFA conference in Berlin, but Acer’s kicking things off with a glut of product announcements. The company’s news l...

 One peripheral to control them all – or three things, at least. It’s a start. Logitech’s latest mouse is designed to pair with up to three devices. The somewhat verbosely named...

 Dropbox disclosed earlier this week that a large chunk of its users’ credentials obtained in 2012was floating around on the dark web. But that number may have been much higher than we orig...

 On a recent podcast called “The Watch,” one of the hosts made a joke about “grabbing the aux cord” in a friend’s car to play new music. When self-driving cars could...

 iCloud users can now access up to 2TB of storage, as Apple just added a new tier that provides 2TB for $19.99 per month. As a refresher, iCloud storage can be used by Mac and iOS users to store ...

 Nonagenarian cover girl, designer and fashion icon Iris Apfel turned 95 yesterday, and spent part of her birthday sharingwith TechCrunch her thoughts about creativity and technology. If you thin...

 Cozy, a platform to streamline interactions between property managers and renters, closed an $8.5 million Series B today led byAmerican Family Ventures, with participation fromSocial Capital, Ge...