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There’s a 5G version of Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10+ headed for Verizon
09 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The 5G iPhone isn’t expected until roughly this time next year. But when it comes to the next-gen cellular technology, Samsung has already been ther...
This is Samsung’s Galaxy Note 10 and 10+
09 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Eight years later, the Galaxy Note is undeniable. The original device, unveiled at IFA 2011, seemed unfathomably massive for a handset — all 5.3 inc...
The Note’s most impressive new feature is only available on the 10+
08 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The new Note’s 3D scanning feature got what may well have been the loudest applause line of today’s big Samsung event. It’s an impressive featur...
The headphone jack dies not with a bang, but a Note
08 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Next month marks three years since Apple unceremoniously murdered the headphone jack. Courage. The company was roundly mocked for the its own hype, an...
Disney will bundle Hulu, ESPN+ and Disney+ for a monthly price of $12.99
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Disney’s upcoming streaming service Disney+ will be available as a $12.99 monthly bundle withESPN+ and ad-supported Hulu. That means the full Disney...
Bird, Uber and Lyft get another chance to apply for electric scooter permit in SF
07 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In light of a so-far successful electric scooter pilot program in San Francisco, the city has opened up the application process for service providers ...
Ethical fashion is on the rise
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Kateman Contributor Share on Twitter Brian Kateman is President and Cofounder of the Reducetarian Foundation. More posts by this co...
The galaxy is not flat, researchers show in new 3D model of the Milky Way
06 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The galaxy is not flat, researchers show in new 3D model of the Milky Way Six years of tracking a special class of star have yielded a new and improve...
StockX was hacked, exposing millions of customers’ data
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It wasn’t “system updates” as it claimed. StockX was mopping up after a data breach, TechCrunch can confirm. The fashion and sneaker trading pla...
What to expect from Samsung’s Galaxy Note event
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Samsung’s never been particularly good at keeping things under wraps. That’s no doubt, at least in part, by design. The company loves priming the ...
A Q&A with Multiple, the quiet agency behind many a startup’s success story
02 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When Multiple first started in 2015 the concept of an agency specifically geared to the strategic branding and culture of startups was definitely not ...
The Samsung Galaxy Dongle
02 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This, friends, is the Samsung Galaxy Dongle. The NSFW photo arrives courtesy of SamMobile. The story isn’t the image itself, so much as what it repr...
Fitbit lowers guidance after Versa Lite disappoints
01 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Fitbit continued solid device growth for Q2, up 31%, year over year, representing a 5% bump in revenue. From that angle, the company’s long-term tu...
Google’s Titan security keys come to Japan, Canada, France and the UK
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Google today announced that its Titan Security Key kits are now available in Canada, France, Japan and the UK. Until now, these keys, which come in a ...
AWS’ new text-to-speech engine sounds like a newscaster
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to modern machine learning techniques, text-to-speech engines have made massive strides over the last few years. It used to be incredibly easy ...
SpaceX launches ISS mission using twice-flown Dragon for the first time
31 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
SpaceX has launched CRS-18, the 18th commercial resupply mission its flown for NASA to deliver experiment, research and supply materials to the Inte...
Marcus Hutchins, malware researcher and ‘WannaCry hero’, sentenced to supervised release
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
MILWAUKEE, WI. — Marcus Hutchins, the malware researcher who became known as an “accidental hero” for stopping the WannaCry ransomware attack in...
Tesla starts rolling out Chess to ‘Tesla Arcade’ in-car gaming app
30 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tesla is making a new game available to its vehicle owners, with a roll-out starting today. The company started pushing out a new ‘Arcade’ app fo...
Trump threatens Apple with tariffs, Google with investigation on Twitter
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The president of the United States called out two of the nation’s largest tech firms in a pair of tweets this morning. Google was the first target....
Old-school Doom and its sequels come to Switch, Xbox One, and PS4
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Thinking about what to do this weekend? Think no more. Doom, Doom II, and Doom 3 have all just appeared on the Switch, Xbox One, and PS4, giving you n...
Google says it doubled Pixel sales year-over-year
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It looks like the mid-range Pixel 3a is the hit Google surely hoped it would be. Alphabet reported some pretty good earnings today, but the company...
Stackery lets AWS Lambda developers debug their serverless programs locally on a laptop
26 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Serverless developers have always faced a steep challenge when it comes to writing code on their laptops, and debugging said code on cloud services. I...
Samsung readies Galaxy Fold for September launch
25 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
When it was unveiled on stage, the Galaxy Fold was heralded as the next big thing. Samsung seeded units to reviews and prepared for launch. And then a...
LG says smart TVs will gain AirPlay 2 and HomeKit support next week
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In addition to Samsung and Vizio, LG announced earlier this year that it would be adding support for Apple’s ecosystem to its TV operating system. ...
The PureCam Connected Car Security System is a dashcam with extras
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Thanks to a rash of YouTube videos of traffic stops, wild crashes, and wacky antics, dashcams are becoming more and more popular with drivers. But doe...
Sony WF-1000XM3 wireless earbuds review
23 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I would have had a review of the WF-1000XM3s up sooner, but they arrived while I was traveling. That was a bummer for two reasons. First and most obvi...
Moon bricks could keep the lights on and the heat up in Lunar colonies
23 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Moon bricks could keep the lights on and the heat up in Lunar colonies There may be no “dark side” of the Moon, but when and where it is dark, it’...
Don’t hold your breath for the moon
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In the house in which I grew up, a single framed newspaper front page loomed over us. “MAN ON MOON“, it declared jubilantly, in an enormous, suita...
After Baidu tie-up, BMW taps Tencent for autonomous driving in China
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
China is BMW’s largest market, and the German automaker knows in order to capture the country’s demanding consumers, its future models must suppor...
WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has reportedly cashed out of over $700 million ahead of its IPO
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has reportedly cashed out of over $700 million ahead of its IPO Adam Neumann, the co-founder and chief executive of the intern...
Slack resets user passwords after 2015 data breach
19 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Slack will reset the passwords of users it believes are affected by a historical data breach that affected the company more than four years ago. In 2...
Instagram will now hide likes in 6 more countries
18 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Would the internet be a better place if we all paid a little less attention to fake internet points? Instagram is still trying to figure it out. Just...
FaceApp responds to privacy concerns
18 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
FaceApp, the AI-powered selfie-editing app that’s been having another viral moment of late, has now responded to a privacy controversy that we cove...
With help from ‘Game of Thrones,’ HBO conquers Netflix in Emmy nominations
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
With help from ‘Game of Thrones,’ HBO conquers Netflix in Emmy nominations When the Emmy nominations were announced last year, Netflix had a big w...
Elon Musk is raising the price of Tesla’s “full self-driving” feature by another $1,000
17 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The price of a Tesla vehicle equipped with “full self-driving” is about to get more expensive, the second time in the past several months the com...
Steam Labs lets you peek into Valve’s experimental projects
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Like most companies, much of what Valve tinkers with behind the scenes never sees the light of day. Concepts are born, torn apart and rebuilt, and som...
Hayabusa2 lands on an asteroid and sends back amazing pictures to prove it
16 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission to the asteroid Ryugu is an ambitious one to begin with, and the team recently made the decision to up the stakes with a s...
Behold, the mid-engine 2020 C8 Corvette’s steering wheel
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The new 2020 C8 Corvette won’t be revealed for six more days. But to hold us over, Chevrolet is showing off the steering wheel of the eighth genera...
Boosted’s electric scooter is fast, durable, fun and…really heavy
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Boosted, the startup that got its beginnings with electric skateboards, has officially taken its first stab at electric scooters with the launch of t...
There’s a tennis game hidden in Google right now. Here’s how to find it
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Google loves a good Easter egg. From cutesie Douglas Adams references to the search results for “askew” being just a liiiiittle bit crooked, ther...
‘World’s first Bluetooth hair straighteners’ can be easily hacked
12 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Here’s a thing that should have never been a thing: Bluetooth-connected hair straighteners. Glamoriser, a U.K. firm that bills itself as the maker o...
Tesla will not “refresh” its Model S or Model X electric vehicles
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tesla owners and customers hoping for a refreshed Model S or Model X are going to be waiting indefinitely. Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted Monday night t...
BMW 2019 i8 Review: Driving yesterday’s car of tomorrow, today
11 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The BMW i8 is a lovely vehicle to drive even though it’s lacking. It hugs the road and commands attention. It’s thrilling in a way that few cars c...
Digital health is growing fast — but at what cost?
10 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Hogg Contributor Share on Twitter Chris Hogg is a digital health advocate interested in how new forms of health data are changing the ...
Cloosiv gives local coffee shops a mobile ordering experience on par with the mega chains
10 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Starbucks’ mobile ordering app has proven wildly popular for the company, with reports indicating that it had more users than the likes of Apple Pay...
HQ Trivia has paid out $6M, but winners complain of delays
09 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
HQ Trivia’s troubles continue after a failed mutiny to oust the CEO, a 92% decline in downloads since versus a year ago, and layoffs of 20% of its s...
The sinkhole that saved the internet
09 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It was late afternoon on May 12, 2017. Two exhausted security researchers could barely unpack the events of what had just happened. Marcus Hutchins an...
Fish replacement may be the next big wave in alternative protein development
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brian Kateman Contributor Share on Twitter Brian Kateman is President and Cofounder of the Reducetarian Foundation. Fish make up 16% of ani...
It was a really bad month for the internet
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If these past few weeks felt like the sky was falling, you weren’t alone. In the past month there were several major internet outages affecting mill...
GPS on the Moon? NASA’s working on it
05 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re driving your car from Portland to Merced, you probably rely on GPS to see where you are. But what if you’re driving your Moon rover from...
Apple reveals App Store takedown demands by governments
05 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For the first time, Apple has published the number of requests it’s received from governments to take down apps from its app store. In its latest tr...
Samsung’s Galaxy Fold problems are reportedly fixed — so now what?
04 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In a recent interview, Samsung CEO DJ Koh noted that the company was hard at work on Galaxy Fold fixes (he also said people won’t be using smartphon...
Uber Eats invades restaurants with Dine-In option
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Tired of cleaning up after take-out or getting hangry waiting at your table in restaurants? Well Uber Eats is barging into the dine-in business. A ne...
With a single wiretap, prosecutors collected 9.2 million text messages
03 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
For four months in 2018, U.S. prosecutors in Texas collected more than 9.2 million messages under a single court-authorized wiretap order, newly relea...
Nielsen reports a record half a trillion on-demand music streams in U.S. so far this year
02 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Nielsen reports a record half a trillion on-demand music streams in U.S. so far this year Music streaming services have already delivered a new high o...
Apple tries out the ‘choose-your-own adventure’ Twitter thread format that recently went viral
01 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It looks like choose-your-own-adventure Twitter games won’t be a one-hit wonder, now that Apple’s social team has adopted the format. A new tweet...
Synergy Research finds enterprise SaaS revenue hits $100B run rate, led by Microsoft, Salesforce
28 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In its most recent report, Synergy Research, a company that monitors cloud marketshare, found that enterprise SaaS revenue passed the $100 billion run...
AT&T’s 5G network hits (parts of) Las Vegas
28 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Hey, so remember earlier today when I said that new 5G cities still qualify as news, for a little while longer, at least? AT&T is making it under the ...
The Office is leaving Netflix in 2021 because NBC wants it back
27 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Well, it’s official: The Office is leaving Netflix . Michael Scott and the rest of Dunder Mifflin will be heading for another streaming service come...
Twitter’s underrated Lists feature finally gets some attention
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Twitter Lists have never gotten the attention they deserve. A feature largely adopted by Twitter power users, lists allow you to create custom timeli...
Huawei says two-thirds of 5G networks outside China now use its gear
26 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As 5G networks begin rolling out and commercializing around the world, telecoms vendors are rushing to get a headstart. Huawei equipment is now behind...
Drone Racing League is raising $50 million
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The enterprise drone space has been heating up over the past couple years, but a startup in the entertainment drone space is raising the big cash now....
A Netflix hack lets you feel the action in a scene by vibrating your phone
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A Netflix hack lets you feel the action in a scene by vibrating your phone Netflix Hack Day, the company’s internal hackathon, has a habit of produc...
Hasselblad’s new medium format camera is a tiny, beautiful nod to history
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
While mirrorless cameras accelerate into the future, medium format models are hearkening unto the past — and Hasselblad chief among them. Its new d...
Crowdfunded spacecraft LightSail 2 prepares to go sailing on sunlight
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Among the many spacecraft and satellites ascending to space on Monday’s Falcon Heavy launch, the Planetary Society’s LightSail 2 may be the most i...
Google says it’s not making any more tablets
21 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The writing has been on the slate for some time now. Roughly this time last year, we reported that Google had wiped all tablet sales off its site. Tur...
Samsung’s Galaxy S10 5G arrives on Sprint tomorrow
21 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
You surely know the whole deal about carts and horses by now. When Samsung’s first 5G handset, the Galaxy S10 5G, arrives on Sprint tomorrow, users...
Announcing Hardware Battlefield 2019 in Shenzhen, China
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Startup Battlefield is known around the world as TechCrunch’s premier startup competition, and today we’re proud to announce that on November 11-1...
NASA’s X-59 supersonic jet will have a 4K TV instead of a forward window
20 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
NASA’s X-59 QueSST experimental quiet supersonic aircraft will have a cockpit like no other — featuring a big 4K screen where you’d normally ha...
Apple Watch’s own built-in apps can be deleted in watchOS 6
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Good news for Apple Watch owners who don’t want to clutter up their Watch with unused apps. With the release of the new watchOS 6 operating system ...
The Geesaa automates (but overcomplicates) pourover coffee
19 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Making pourover coffee is a cherished ritual of mine on most mornings. But there are times I wish I could have a single cup of pourover without fussin...
ThinkGeek.com to close, replaced as a section of GameStop
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sad news for anyone who loves geeky goods and top-notch April Fools’ jokes: ThinkGeek.com, the 20 year old online retailer known for selling more ge...
Fiverr shares climb 90% in first day of trading
18 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Freelance marketplace Fiverr had a good first day on the New York Stock Exchange. The company priced its IPO at $21 per share last night, raising arou...
Walmart Grocery is now offering a $98 per year ‘Delivery Unlimited’ subscription
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Walmart is taking aim at Instacart, Target’s Shipt, and Amazon Prime Now/Whole Foods with a new grocery delivery subscription service called simply...
Millions of Venmo transactions scraped in warning over privacy settings
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A computer science student has scraped seven million Venmo transactions to prove that users’ public activity can still be easily obtained, a year a...
Lightspeed Venture Partners doubles its growth practice
14 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Lightspeed Venture Partners, a firm behind the likes of BetterUp, Aurora, Goop and dozens of others, will allocate more capital to mature companies wi...
Chewy founder Ryan Cohen on its fast-approaching IPO: “It’s like seeing my baby graduate”
13 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ask any venture capitalist about the most important ingredient to success in startups, and they’ll tell you it centers on founders who can persuade ...
Google leaks its own phone
13 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Details of the Pixel 4 have been swirling around this week, so Google has decided to just leak the design of its next phone via its official Twitter ...
Elon Musk: There is not a demand problem for the Tesla Model 3
12 Jun 2019
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Elon Musk: There is not a demand problem for the Tesla Model 3 Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s opening comments at the annual shareholder’s meeting went str...
Everyone loves pizza, including VCs
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Which public US universities graduate the most funded founders? Big reve...
Vive Pro Eye launches in US, costs four times as much as Rift S
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Vive Pro Eye launches in US, costs four times as much as Rift S HTC had the hottest VR headset out of the gate in 2016, but the thinning margins on co...
Answers to your burning questions about how ‘Sign In with Apple’ works
11 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
One of the bigger security announcements from Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference this week is Apple’s new requirement that app developers mus...
Xiaomi recalls some of its popular M365 scooter model
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Xiamoi recently discovered a safety issue with the M365 electric scooter where a screw could become loose in the folding apparatus. That would then ca...
Uber’s COO and chief marketing officer are out
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Uber’s chief operating officer Barney Harford and chief marketing officer Rebecca Messina are stepping down as part of an organizational shakeup p...
What to expect from E3 2019
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
E3 2019 is shaping up to be a bit of an in-between year. Nintendo Switch sales have finally started slowing, but the company’s a ways off from its ...
Destiny 2 goes free to play and gains cross-saving on all platforms
07 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Bungie aims to fortify the popular but flagging Destiny 2 with an expanded free-to-play plan and universal cross-platform saving, the company announc...
YouTube’s bully problems prove that community doesn’t scale
06 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Drew Olanoff Contributor Editor’s note: Drew is a geek who first worked at AOL when he was 16 years old and went on to become a senior writer ...
Grow Mobility, the micromobility startup formerly known as Grin, merges with payment system Flinto
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Grow Mobility, the entity that consists of electric scooter startup Grin, and bike and scooter-share startup Yellow, has merged with payments startup ...
Security stays hot as Imperva grabs Distil Networks
05 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Last week four security companies changed hands. The shopping spree continued this week with CDN company Imperva announcing it was buying bot mitigati...
Brooklyn and Queens are now flush with 1,000 of Revel’s shared electric mopeds
04 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Brooklyn and Queens are now flush with 1,000 of Revel’s shared electric mopeds Revel Transit has released 1,000 of its shared electric mopeds onto t...
Teams autonomously mapping the depths take home millions in Ocean Discovery Xprize
04 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
There’s a whole lot of ocean on this planet, and we don’t have much of an idea what’s at the bottom of most of it. That could change with the cr...
‘Gato Roboto’ and ‘Dig Dog’ put pixelated pets to work in gleeful gaming homages
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Drawing inspiration from games of yore but with dog and cat protagonists that signal light adventures rather than grim, dark ones, Gato Roboto and Dig...
Microsoft warns users to patch as exploits for ‘wormable’ BlueKeep bug appear
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft has issued its second advisory this month urging users to update their systems to prevent a re-run of attacks similar to WannaCry. The softw...
What to expect from Apple’s WWDC 2019
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Last year’s WWDC was a rare step away from hardware for the company, without a single device announcement. In fact, Apple’s gadget lines have lar...
LEGO celebrates Apollo 11 with a lovely, bricky Lunar Lander
31 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The 50th anniversary of Apollo 11 and the first lunar landing is approaching, and there will be no shortage of fanfare — so why shouldn’t LEGO get...
The Crunchbase Unicorn Leaderboard is back, now with a record herd of 452 unicorns
30 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We are very pleased to announce that the new and improved Crunchbase Unicorn Leaderboardre-launched today after nearly a year’s absence from TechCru...
Go chat yourself with Facebook’s new Portal companion app
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Ignoring calls that it’s creepy, Facebook is forging onward with its Portal smart display. Today Facebook quietly launched iOS and Android Portal a...
Zero raises $20 million from NEA and others for a credit card that works like debit
29 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Zero raises $20 million from NEA and others for a credit card that works like debit Just ahead of the launch of the Apple Card, a startup that has its...
Using full-body MRIs, Ezra can now detect 11 cancers in men and 13 in women
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Using full-body MRIs, Ezra can now detect 11 cancers in men and 13 in women When Ezra first launched about six months ago, the company was using magne...
Instagram’s vertical IGTV surrenders to landscape status quo
28 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
A year ago Instagram made a bold bet with the launch of IGTV: That it could invent and popularize a new medium of long-form vertical videos. Landscap...