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This extra-large handheld Nintendo works (and feels) like the real thing
10 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Handheld retro gaming machines come and go, but few go so simply and effectively to the point as My Arcade’s Retro Champ. You stick in your NES cart...
This strange cedar egg wants to help you breathe deep and calm down
09 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In moments of stress and anxiety, there are those of us who find it difficult to breathe — and paradoxically, many reach for a cigarette or vape as ...
Daily Crunch: AR Startups face an uneasy future in 2019
09 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at...
Marc Andreessen: audio will be “titanically important” and VR will be “1,000” times bigger than AR
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In a new a16z podcast with the venture firm’s founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, there’s a lot to enjoy, from Andreessen’s TV show recom...
PSA: File your US tax return before scammers steal your refund
08 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
It’s tax season! You know what that means? It’s scamming season, too. You might have heard this story before. Learn more about your ad choices. Vi...
Disney’s Star Wars Land could open in June, says CEO Bob Iger
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
We know Disney’s Star Wars Land (or “Galaxy’s Edge”, if we’re being formal) is opening sometime in summer 2019. But thats about as exact as ...
Zelda has a minus world
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Listen, everyone. It’s not every day that a new fact comes to light regarding a game that came out more than 30 years ago. And I happen to love it w...
Samsung’s Space Monitor is practical and minimal
04 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Samsung always has a huge presence at CES, but it isn’t the giant TVs and flashy next-generation gadgets that have my attention this year; it’s th...
Hey look, it’s the Samsung Galaxy S10
04 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Well, what have we here? If it isn’t the Samsung Galaxy S10, courtesy of perennial smartphone outer, EVLeaks. This marks one the first good looks we...
Soulja Boy’s game consoles pulled from store weeks after launch
03 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
As anyone from the Gizmondo to the Virtual Boy can tell you, it’s tough to launch a console. Of course, it’s helps when your device apparently com...
Shine brings its female-focused self-care app to Android
03 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Shine, one of the many apps capitalizing on the growing self-care trend, has now brought its app used by 3 million people to Android devices. Origina...
What to expect from CES 2019
02 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
The timing is… less than ideal. Just as the industry is recovering from a holiday-induced hangover, we’re thrust into the country’s largest cons...
Netflix stops paying the ‘Apple tax’ on its $853M in annual iOS revenue
02 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier this year, Netflix was seen testing a bypass of iTunes billing across dozens of markets worldwide. As 2018 draws to a close, Netflix – the A...
Polite Fortnite Society
02 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
My parents are approaching 60. When they were young, they hung out at diners, or drove around in their cars. My generation hung out in the parking lot...
Test your tech knowledge in TechCrunch’s 2018 Year In Tech Quiz
31 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Think you know tech? Square off against TechCrunch editors with 2018’s year in tech quiz. TechCrunch’s 2018 Year In Tech Quiz Square off against T...
Gfycat’s ‘GIFs’ can now keep the sound on
31 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Gfycat, a home for GIF-making tools and an online community, is rolling out a new way to create GIFs — it will now let you keep the sound on. With “...
Nyca Partners’ Hans Morris hunts for great fintech investments amid volatility
28 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hans Morris is a name to know in fintech, and as finance and tech sectors prepare for tougher time next year, he has some incisive thoughts to share a...
Fortnite players report queue issues as Epic experiences a ‘minor service outage’
28 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Epic Games is having its own Christmas hangover. On Wednesday, a number of Fortnite players reported long queues that time out and problems logging ...
UK airport restarts some flights after drone shutdown chaos
27 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The UK’s second busiest airport, Gatwick, reopened its runway early this morning after a day of shutdown triggered after drones were repeatedly spot...
You can now connect to WireGuard VPN servers on your iPhone
26 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
WireGuard is a new VPN protocol that promises to be faster and more secure at the same time. And you can now connect to a WireGuard server on iOS than...
French data protection watchdog fines Uber $460,000 for data breach
25 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
One by one, European countries are slapping Uber with a penalty for the way it handled its 2016 data breach. Today, France’s data protection watchd...
Alexa gets access to Wolfram Alpha’s knowledge engine
24 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Knowledge base is one of the departments where Alexa has lagged Assistant. After all, it’s pretty tough to compete with Google when comes to a sheer...
A startup’s guide to CES
24 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Consumer Electronics Show, like Burning Man, is a massive event in the middle of the desert. Also like Burning Man it is populated by some of the...
Some iPad Pros could come bent out of the box
21 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Some iPad Pros could come bent out of the box Apple has confirmed to The Verge that some iPad Pro models come slightly bent out of the box due to a ma...
The 5G wars have entered the petty stage
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re reading this the year it was written, you’re almost certainly not getting it over 5G. If you’re reading this in the future, congrats, ...
Help TechCrunch find the best lawyers for startups
20 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
TechCrunch is working on a new project to help you build a better company. We’re looking for the great service providers in the startup world: the l...
Five rockets are set to launch within 24 hours starting later today
19 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Today was supposed to be a historic day with four rocket launches by four different companies. But that’s not going to happen. As of publication, th...
This fake package covers porch thieves in glitter and fart spray
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Having a package stolen off your front porch sucks. No matter what’s inside the box, it just feels… violating. Someone came into your space and to...
Ten pieces of friendly VC advice for when someone wants to buy your company
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
David Frankel Contributor David Frankel is a managing partner at Founder Collective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.c...
HQ Trivia and Vine co-founder Colin Kroll found dead of suspected overdose
17 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Colin Kroll, the 34-year-old co-founder and CEO of the HQ Trivia app, has been found dead of an apparent drug overdose in his apartment, TechCrunch ha...
Ridesharing IPOs and $850M for Luckin, Plaid and Zymergen
17 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had th...
Buy your tickets to the 2nd Annual TechCrunch Winter Party
14 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We love parties almost as much as we love startups, but we go absolutely bonkers for a hot startup-party mashup. That’s why we’re returning to hos...
Puma reissues its nerdiest shoe ever, the RS-Computer
14 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
No one has any trouble tracking their steps today. But how can you make sure people know you’re doing it? Ostentatiously checking your phone or watc...
Pokémon GO trainer battles are now live (for some players)
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Last week we did a deep dive on how Pokémon GO’s new (and long overdue) player-versus-player battle system would work. The only thing we didn’t k...
Wellness giant Life Time targets co-working, shopping malls for next act
13 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Founded in 1990 by CEO Bahram Akradi, Minnesota-based Life Time used to be known as a premier health club that operated large gyms mainly in affluent ...
Gift Guide: the 16 best board games for holiday family fun
12 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Ah, holiday board gaming. A roaring fire. A glass of nog. And a raging debate over whether the blue guy was next to the red square or vice versa. Buyi...
Doom is 25 and co-creator John Romero is putting out a giant expansion for it
11 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
25 years ago, anyone old enough to navigate DOS was likely playing Doom every spare minute, assuming their parents weren’t around. A quarter century...
Pew: Social media for the first time tops newspapers as a news source for US adults
11 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s not true that everyone gets their news from Facebook and Twitter. But it is now true that more U.S. adults get their news from social media tha...
TransferWise keeps growing money transfers despite global turbulence
10 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You don’t have to follow the financial technology industry or work with developers in faraway lands to know TransferWise, arguably the world’s lea...
Join TechCrunch for our 2nd Annual Winter Party
07 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After last year’s stellar turn out of almost 1,000 Silicon Valley shakers and movers at our inaugural Winter Party, TechCrunch is returning with the...
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is good, clean, butt-kicking fun
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is good, clean, butt-kicking fun The Switch game is fan service in the best possible sense of the term After a few days wit...
You can now once again flip the camera during FaceTime calls with just one tap
06 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You can now once again flip the camera during FaceTime calls with just one tap With the release of iOS 12, Apple hid the button that lets you jump fro...
Don’t miss out on free tickets to Startup Battlefield Africa 2018
05 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sorry folks. If you wanted to buy a ticket to Startup Battlefield Africa 2018you’re out of luck. We’re sold out. However, you could be one of the ...
AWS wants to rule the world
04 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
AWS, once a nice little side hustle for Amazon’s eCommerce business, has grown over the years into a behemoth that’s on a $27 billion run rate, on...
The battle over the driving experience is heating up and will be won in software
04 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Lou Shipley Contributor More posts by this contributor Why The Future Of Digital Security Is Open Sirius XM’s recent all-stock $3.5-bi...
Asana raises $50M, Airbnb gets a new CFO, and a 2019 IPO preview
03 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week as TechCr...
Rolling, hopping robots explore Earthly analogs of distant planets
30 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Before we send any planet-trotting robot to explore the landscape of Mars or Venus, we need to test it here on Earth. Two such robotic platforms being...
Users Guide to Disrupt Berin 2018
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Disrupt Berlin approaches with just a few days until things kick things off. We have an all-star lineup that only TechCrunch can assemble, and we’re...
Audi’s e-tron GT concept is an all-electric sedan with some Porsche DNA
29 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Audi is making room in its electric future for more than SUVs or crossovers. After a string of teasers, the German automaker finally unveiled the Aud...
Thanksgiving e-commerce spend to top $3.5B, mobile accounting for one-third of sales
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The 2018 holiday season is predicted to be a bumper year for e-commerce, helped by economic forces like lower unemployment and underlying trends like ...
Bitcoin sinks below $4,000 as the crypto market takes another hefty beating
27 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As we hang out with family and friends this holiday season, it’s interesting to look back on the Bitcoin mania that we endured one Thanksgiving ago...
They’re making a real HAL 9000, and it’s called CASE
26 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Don’t panic! Life imitates art, to be sure, but hopefully the researchers in charge of the Cognitive Architecture for Space Exploration, or CASE, ha...
Be a Thanksgiving security hero with these family-friendly tips
23 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re reading this, chances are you’re: Pretty good at tech stuff Spending time with your family for Thanksgiving Bored because you’re readi...
Internal Facebook memo sees outgoing VP of comms Schrage take blame for hiring Definers
22 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
TechCrunch has obtained an internal memo published by Facebook’s outgoing head of public policy Elliot Schrage in which he blames himself for hiri...
Thanksgiving travel nightmare projected to hit these US cities the worst
22 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The latest data from Inrix paints a dismal picture for folks traveling Wednesday (that’s today!) ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday. Drivers in Bosto...
Kindred’s robots help retailers handle fulfillment centers — and take on Amazon
21 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Since taking the reins as chief executive of Kindred at the beginning of the year, Jim Liefer has been focused on commercializing his company’s auto...
Walmart passes Apple to become No. 3 online retailer in U.S.
20 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Walmart passes Apple to become No. 3 online retailer in U.S. Walmart has overtaken Apple to become the No. 3 online retailer in the U.S., according to...
MailChimp teams up with Square to launch shoppable landing pages
20 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
MailChimp, the popular email newsletter service and marketing platform, today announced a partnership with Square that will allow its users to create...
Lyft launches default tipping, rating protections and more to keep drivers happy
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Until autonomous vehicles are here, ride-hailing companies like Lyft and Uber have to attract and retain human drivers if they hope to sustain their ...
Uber’s financials, Qualtric’s $8B exit and what’s going on at WeWork
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we had th...
Wonder Ventures aims to dazzle L.A. startups with its new seed-stage fund
16 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dustin Rosen thinks L.A. has a problem, aside from its famously car-choked highways. There aren’t enough investors willing to write small checks. Wh...
48-hours only: Early-bird prices for Disrupt Berlin 2018
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Das ist super geil — this is awesome! Early-bird prices for Disrupt Berlin 2018 passes have returned to the roost. But you need to act fast, because...
We tried Amazon’s bizarre Alexa microwave and weren’t convinced
15 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I’m a fan of Alexa and of voice computing in general. But when Amazon said it was putting Alexa into a microwave, I wasn’t so sure. The value in v...
This $199 PS4 and ‘Spider-Man’ Black Friday bundle has my bargain-sense tingling
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I’m calling it — this is the best deal of this year’s Black Friday season, for gamers anyway. It’s amazing. It’s spectacular. Sony is selli...
Former Beats Music CEO is back with an electric scooter startup
14 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
About a year ago, David Hyman, former Beats Music CEO and co-founder of music startup Mog that eventually sold to Beats Music, did something that was...
Chinese WeWork rival Ucommune raises $200M to go after international growth
13 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
China’s Ucommune, the country’s largest rival to WeWork, has been on a busy acquisition spree to build out its domestic business and now it is loo...
The top 10 cities for $100M VC rounds in 2018 so far
13 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Rowley Contributor Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor ...
Cloudflare rolls out its 1.1.1.1 privacy service to iOS, Android
12 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Months after announcing its privacy-focused DNS service, Cloudflare is bringing 1.1.1.1 to mobile users. Granted, nothing ever stopped anyone from usi...
Rocket Lab’s big ‘It’s Business Time’ launch targets this weekend for takeoff
12 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Upstart launch provider Rocket Lab aims to finally launch its first fully commercial payload to orbit this weekend after months of delays. The small E...
So I sent my mom that newfangled Facebook Portal
09 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
“Who am I going to be worried about? Oh Facebook seeing? No, I’m not worried about Facebook seeing. They’re going to look at my great art colle...
Vine co-founder plans to launch successor Byte in Spring 2019
09 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Vine — the much loved and mourned short video hosting platform — will return, kind of, sort of. Co-creator Dom Hofmann announced on Twitter today ...
Sling TV’s growth further slows in Q3, but still leads rivals in terms of subscribers
08 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sling TV’s growth further slows in Q3, but still leads rivals in terms of subscribers It appears Dish’s live TV streaming service, Sling TV, has b...
Jaquet Droz’s “Sports Watch” is a high-end, heavy-duty chrono
07 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Watchmaker Jaquet Droz makes luxury watches that cost more than some San Francisco apartments. Now, however, they’ve decided to go “downmarket”...
Folding screens are here, and they look crappy
06 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I dunno, man. Maybe it’s 2018 getting me down. Maybe I’ve just been at this for too long. Maybe it’s the flu shot I just got. Whatever the case,...
Thomas Reardon and CTRL-Labs are building an API for the brain
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Alice Lloyd George Contributor Alice Lloyd George is an investor at RRE Ventures and the host of Flux, a series of podcast conversations with ...
Elon Musk says Tesla won’t make e-scooters, but might consider electric bikes
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Elon Musk says Tesla won’t make e-scooters, but might consider electric bikes Tesla won’t be joining the scooter wars. But electric bikes? Yeah, m...
The Autoblow A.I. brings machine learning to your lap
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Dearest Martha, I write to you from the cold wastes of Earth on the first day of the New Year, 2023, the third year of war, and so close to your own c...
How to build STEM toys
02 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
On chilly Saturday mornings my father would fire up the kerosene heater and get the back of our garage warm. He’d turn on the old radio, constantly ...
Three days left to save big on Disrupt Berlin 2018 tickets
01 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The early-bird clock is winding down, and you have just three days left to save up to €500 on passes toDisrupt Berlin 2018.You’d be cuckoo to miss...
The Tissot Seastar 1000 is a low-cost and high-quality Swiss diver
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the pantheon of watches there are a few that stand out. Looking for your first automatic watch? Pick up a Seiko Orange Monster. Looking for a piec...
The Venture Twins
31 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Justine and Olivia Moore like to introduce themselves together, otherwise, it can be a little confusing. They live together in an apartment in Menlo P...
Xiaomi opts for sliding camera and no notch for new bezel-less Mi Mix phone
30 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Xiaomi has announced the newest version of its bezel-less Mi Mix family, and it doesn’t sport a notch like its Mi 8 flagship.Indeed, unlike the Mi ...
Google rolls out ‘.new’ links for instantly creating new Docs, Slides, Sheets and Forms
30 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Google Docs just rolled out a time-saving trick that’s sure to be welcomed by heavy users of Docs, or any of Google’s other productivity tools li...
The SaaS VC gap: China & other markets trail the US
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Rowley Contributor Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor ...
Market turmoil, billion dollar funds, and the Qualtrics IPO
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week the norma...
Ex-GoPro exec launches clothing startup that does away with sizes
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Finding clothes that are the right fit can be a laborious, psychologically challenging experience. RedThread, a custom clothing startup founded by for...
Red Dead Redemption 2 sets the bar high for the next generation of open world games
26 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been nearly a decade since Rockstar Games introduced Red Dead Redemption, a massive open world game with a story about as reflective of America...
Oracle’s Larry Ellison keeps poking AWS because he has no choice
25 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Larry Ellison gave his Oracle Openworld keynote on Monday and of course he took several shots sat AWS. In his view, his company’s cloud products we...
Google just upgraded a bunch of movies to 4K for free
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
If you’ve ever bought a movie on Google Play and decided to save a few bucks by buying it in standard definition, you might’ve just lucked out. G...
Simone Giertz, the “Queen of Shitty Robots”, just launched a Kickstarter
24 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Maybe it was her lipstick applying robot. Or her terrifying vegetable-chopping death machine. Or the robot that tried its best (and failed wonderfully...
Early-stage SaaS VC slip snaps recovery as public software stocks soar
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Jason Rowley Contributor Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor ...
Gearing up to step into virtual reality
23 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Makula Dunbar Contributor Makula Dunbar is a writer with Wirecutter. More posts by this contributor The best gear for starting a sma...
Convene uses landlord partnership model to outclass WeWork
22 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Recent reports that Softbank may take a majority stake in WeWork has added fuel to the already hot market for start-ups in the workspace and property ...
The 7 great features that will hopefully return to the MacBook Pro
22 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I miss the old MacBook Pro. Remember when the MacBook Pro had a good keyboard? Or an SD Card slot? Or an escape key? I miss the time when the MacBook ...
Discord’s new game store rolls out to the rest of the world today
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When Discord first launched its new built-in game store just a few weeks back, there was one big caveat: it was available to only a tiny, tiny slice o...
The new Kindle Paperwhite is thinner and waterproof
19 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Voyage may be dead, but the Kindle line still has some life left in it. This time last year, Amazon upgraded the high-end Oasis model, and now the...
How to download your data from Apple
18 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Good news! Apple now allows U.S. customers to download a copy of their data, months after rolling out the feature to EU customers. But don’t be dis...
No, your Twitter was not hacked
17 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Twitter users on iOS were hit with a strange bug today. Instead of receiving notifications that included the tweet itself, they received a string of a...
Winamp returns in 2019 to whip the llama’s ass harder than ever
16 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The charmingly outdated media player Winamp is being reinvented as a platform-agnostic mobile audio app that brings together all your music, podcasts ...
Snapchat now has cat lenses. (Yes, for your cat.)
15 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It’s 8:00 PM on Friday night and you’re home alone and already drunk. Oh, is that just me? Well no matter. Snapchat has made lenses for your cat n...