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The Pixel 3’s best new features

15 Oct 2018

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Google unveiled a number of new products Tuesday at its big hardware event, including the Google Home Hub and Google Pixel Slate. But the Pixel 3, th...

Dyson’s got a $500 air-powered curling iron

12 Oct 2018

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Moving air — that’s the through line across most of Dyson’s products. The vacuums, fans, hand dryers, hair driers — at their heart, they all t...

Tech stocks (and the stock market) are tanking thanks to rising interest rates

12 Oct 2018

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Tech stocks tanked today amid a broader stock market slide as nervous investors worried that the ten year bull run in public stocks may be coming to a...

Apple needs a feature like Google’s Call Screen

11 Oct 2018

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Google just one-upped Apple in a significant way by addressing a problem that’s plaguing U.S. cellphone owners: spam calls. The company’s new Pixe...

Google’s latest hardware innovation: Price

10 Oct 2018

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With its latest consumer hardware products, Google’s prices are undercutting Apple, Samsung, and Amazon. The search giant just unveiled its latest...

Google’s Pixel phones will soon get mobile Smart Compose in Gmail

10 Oct 2018

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Google today announced that its Pixel phones will soon get support for Smart Compose in Gmail. Smart Compose automatically finishes your sentences fo...

Someone recreated Apple’s new campus with 85,000 LEGO bricks and it’s excellent

09 Oct 2018

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2018 has been a good year for ridiculous, gargantuan LEGO builds. Just weeks ago, there was that life size, driveable LEGO Bugatti. Now someone has g...

Most iOS devices now run iOS 12 according to Mixpanel’s data

09 Oct 2018

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Analytics company Mixpanel is currently tracking the install base of iOS 12. And the latest version of iOS is quite popular as it’s already installe...

Banksy piece immediately shreds itself after being sold for $1.25M

08 Oct 2018

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In what might be the most ridiculous stunt ever pulled in the art world, a Banksy piece has, in a sense, self-destructed. Right in front of an audienc...

Elon’s sick burn, Coinbase funding rumors, and VC hiring trends

08 Oct 2018

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Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week was a tre...

Elon Musk is trolling the SEC on Twitter

05 Oct 2018

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk trolled the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in a tweet Thursday afternoon, poking the bear that just days before had agre...

Jon Favreau’s new Star Wars streaming series will be called “The Mandalorian”

05 Oct 2018

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We’ve known for a few months now that Jon Favreau was working on a live-action Star Wars series for Disney’s upcoming (but as of yet unnamed) str...

MasterClass, the education platform featuring all-star instructors, will soon teach you how to run for office, too

04 Oct 2018

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In 2015, the San Francisco-based education platform MasterClass was founded with an express mission to provide everyone access to “genius,” whethe...

Here are the newest additions to Microsoft’s Surface line

03 Oct 2018

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Want excitement? Here’s something approaching that. Today’s Microsoft October event wasn’t exactly a blockbuster, but product lead Panos Panay d...

The 2019 BMW i3 now has 153 miles of range thanks to a bigger battery

03 Oct 2018

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The 2019 BMW i3 now has 153 miles of range thanks to a bigger battery The BMW i3 is getting an upgraded battery — plus a bunch of other improvements...

Best Buy stocked an unannounced Chromecast ahead of Google’s hardware event

02 Oct 2018

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Google’s big hardware event, scheduled for October 9, is expected to feature the newPixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL phones. But now we know that Google wil...

SoftBank pays big, SurveyMonkey goes public and JUUL’s next step

02 Oct 2018

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Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week on Equity,...

Betterment keeps growing as fintech competitors rise

01 Oct 2018

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Betterment, which Barron’s recently declared the largest independent online financial adviser, is betting that the future of online investing inclu...

This is the Razer Phone 2

01 Oct 2018

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Remember phone reveals? Once upon a time, companies were able to save a little for the event. These days, however, we nearly always know exactly what ...

Juul, the popular e-cig startup under growing FDA scrutiny, says removing flavors is “on the table” among other things

28 Sep 2018

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Juul has been on an incredible, and in some ways, nightmarish, ride this year. The three-year-old, San Francisco-based company has handily won 75 perc...

Coinbase now lets users buy ‘bundles’ and launches its own index for the top 50 coins

28 Sep 2018

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Coinbase is shaking things up quite a bit lately and its latest tools are geared toward cryptocurrency traders just getting their toes wet. On Thursd...

Star Wars: Vader Immortal is a virtual reality game coming in 2019

27 Sep 2018

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Few properties seem better suited to tap VR than Star Wars, if only because… you know, lightsabers. And Lucasfilm knows it. They’ve just announced...

Product Hunt Radio: Finding the world’s lost Einsteins and putting an end to aging

27 Sep 2018

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In this episode of Product Hunt Radio I’m joined by two incredible people, Laura Deming and Daniel Gross, that have accomplished more before the age...

Google launches its group planning feature for Maps

26 Sep 2018

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Earlier this year, Google announced its revamped Google Maps, which puts a stronger emphasis on discovery. Some of the features the company announced...

GoPro shakes up its entire camera line

26 Sep 2018

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GoPro delivered a big refresh of its cameras today with a lot of new product names but not quite as many hardware updates as we’ve seen in past upd...

Amazon’s Fire TV Recast will let you record live TV, stream it anywhere

25 Sep 2018

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Amazon’s Fire TV Recast will let you record live TV, stream it anywhere Amazon this morning introduced a new device called the Fire TV Recast that w...

Mithril Capital Management, cofounded by Ajay Royan and Peter Thiel, is leaving the Bay Area

25 Sep 2018

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From its glass-lined offices in San Francisco’s leafy Presidio national park, six-year-old Mithril Capital Management has happily flown under the r...

Eventbrite goes public, and everyone else is raising hella money

24 Sep 2018

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Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we worked ...

Jamie Burke to explain why you should still bet on the blockchain at Disrupt Berlin

21 Sep 2018

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Jamie Burke to explain why you should still bet on the blockchain at Disrupt Berlin Now that your cousin doesn’t ask you questions about bitcoin any...

Nintendo is offering an exclusive Fortnite bundle with the Switch

21 Sep 2018

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Fortnite has taken the world by storm. In fact, the game is so popular that Epic has released versions for PC, Xbox, PS4, iOS, Android and the Nintend...

The Punkt MP02 inches closer to what a minimalist phone ought to be

20 Sep 2018

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There’s an empty space in my heart for a minimalist phone with only the most basic functions. Bad for my heart, but good for a handful of companies ...

Solving the mystery of sleep

20 Sep 2018

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Alice Lloyd George Contributor Alice Lloyd George is an investor at RRE Ventures and the host of Flux, a series of podcast conversations with ...

Kayak’s new AR feature will tell you if your carry-on bag fits the overhead bin

19 Sep 2018

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Kayak’s new AR feature will tell you if your carry-on bag fits the overhead bin Popular travel app Kayak has put augmented reality to clever use wit...

How the Audi e-tron compares to the Tesla Model X and Jaguar I-Pace

18 Sep 2018

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Audi just announced its first production electric vehicle. Called the e-tron, the EV is a mid-size SUV loaded with technology with an unofficial rang...

In VC fund creation, have we passed the peak?

18 Sep 2018

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Jason Rowley Contributor Jason Rowley is a venture capital and technology reporter for Crunchbase News. More posts by this contributor ...

The new iPhone’s here, so Google wants to talk Pixel 3

17 Sep 2018

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The new iPhone’s here, so Google wants to talk Pixel 3 In the off-chance you haven’t already had your fill of phone news for the week, Google just...

Former Uber exec alleges ex-PR chief ‘destroyed his reputation’

14 Sep 2018

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A nasty legal battle is set to play out between two former Uber executives. Eric Alexander, the ride-hailing company’s formerpresident of business...

iPhone XS Max up close and hands-on

14 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The most remarkable thing about the iPhone XS Max is that it doesn’t feel huge. It’s all relative, of course. And surely Apple’s old guard would...

Apple is releasing iOS 12 on September 17th

13 Sep 2018

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Even if you don’t plan on buying a new iPhone, you’ll be able to get a bunch of new features next week. Apple plans on releasing iOS 12, the next...

Here are the prices of the iPhone XS, XS Max and XR

13 Sep 2018

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Apple just unveiled brand new phones. The iPhone XS and XS Max are the two new flagship devices, replacing the iPhone X. The iPhone XR is replacing t...

A top-tier app in Apple’s Mac App Store will steal your browser history

12 Sep 2018

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A popular top-tier app in Apple’s Mac App Store was found pilfering browser histories from anyone who downloads it. Yet still, at the time of writin...

High-lights from Elon Musk’s interview with Joe Rogan

12 Sep 2018

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Elon Musk made an appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, a podcast hosted by the eponymous comedian, where the pair smoked a blunt and pondered the ...

Unbound makes pleasure fashionable

11 Sep 2018

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Unboundfounders Polly Rodriguez and Sarah Jayne Kinney have long and varied careers. Rodriguez worked for U.S. Senator Claire McCaskill on Capitol Hil...

What to expect from next week’s big iPhone event

11 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

It’s been a slow year for Apple hardware. The company has traditionally done a good job spreading announcements throughout the calendar, but aside ...

Slack is having connection issues again (Update: It’s back)

10 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

This is officially a trend. This afternoon, Slack reported connectivity issues through its official status channel. We can confirm. Roughly half of ou...

Eventbrite sets IPO range of $19 to $21, valuing it at $1.8B

10 Sep 2018

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Eventbrite sets IPO range of $19 to $21, valuing it at $1.8B Eventbrite has taken its final step toward becoming a publicly traded company. In an upda...

Twitter brings Bookmarks to the web with a new design, now in testing

07 Sep 2018

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Twitter is testing a new experience for web users, the company announced in a tweet on Thursday. A small number of Twitter users will see the updated...

The JBL Eon One Pro is a powered sound system for speakers and performers

07 Sep 2018

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As a speaker I often find myself mumbling into a microphone with little thought about the sound system powering it. While most PAs are massive affairs...

Girlboss’ and Nasty Gal’s Sophia Amoruso on picking yourself up after failure

06 Sep 2018

Contributed by Lukas

At Disrupt SF 2018, Girlboss CEO Sophia Amoruso sat down with former TechCrunch co-editor Alexia Bonatsos to talk about the success of Girlboss and t...

Skype rolls back its redesign by ditching stories, squiggles and over-the-top color

06 Sep 2018

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Just over a year after Skype introduced a colorful, Snapchat-inspired makeover which included its own version of “stories,” the company says it’...

Mercedes-Benz unveils the EQC to kick off $12 billion electric offensive

05 Sep 2018

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Mercedes-Benz unveiled Tuesday the EQC, an all-electric crossover that kicks off the German automaker’s plans to invest more than $12 billion to pro...

DJI Mavic 2 review

05 Sep 2018

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The Mavic Pro was a revelation. It wasn’t a perfect product, to be sure, but it represented a new paradigm for DJI and the consumer drone industry ...

User’s Guide to Disrupt SF 2018

04 Sep 2018

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Disrupt SF (Sept 5-7) approaches with just a few days until things kick off. We have an all-star lineup that only TechCrunch can assemble, and we’re...

Box builds a digital hub to help fight content fragmentation

03 Sep 2018

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The interconnectedness of the cloud has allowed us to share content widely with people inside and outside the organization and across different applic...

This is Google’s Titan security key

31 Aug 2018

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Googleisn’t one to shy away from bold claims. “We have had no reported or confirmed account takeovers since implementing security keys at Google,”...

SurveyMonkey files for NASDAQ IPO

30 Aug 2018

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SurveyMonkey, which helps businesses gather feedback through its survey platform, has submitted paperwork to the SEC for its upcoming NASDAQ public of...

WeTransfer is getting weird…

30 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

What do you do if you’re a European startup competing against the likes of Box and Dropbox, and are looking to make a splash in international market...

Nest’s door lock will soon play nice with Google Home

29 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Back in March, Nest and Yale teamed up to release a smart door lock to complement Nest’s then brand-new video doorbell. It’s a solid piece of har...

Yes, Slack is having connectivity issues again (Update: It’s back)

29 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

No, it’s not just you. Yes, Slack is having connectivity issues yet again. Though this time, they seem a bit less pronounced. I know we’re having...

The filmmakers behind ‘Searching’ know why you’re skeptical about computer screen movies

28 Aug 2018

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If you’re not sure about watching a whole movie where your point-of-view is limited to computer and smartphone screens, you’re not alone — “Se...

Mass shooting at Madden Championship Series event in Florida leaves several dead

27 Aug 2018

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At least eleven people have been shot and four people were killed in a mass shooting attack at a livestream event debuting the new “Madden NFL 19”...

Zoox loses its CEO, Eventbrite is going public, and megarounds for Slack, One Medical, and Getaround

27 Aug 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 a f...

AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers

24 Aug 2018

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AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers AWS Lightsail, which launched in 2016, is Amazon’s answer to the rise of...

Zoox CEO and co-founder Tim Kentley-Klay is out

24 Aug 2018

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Tim Kentley-Klay, the co-founder and CEO of secretive self-driving vehicle company Zoox, was fired suddenly Wednesday by the company’s board. Kentle...

The Palette 2 lets any 3D printer output color

23 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

The Mosaic Manufacturing Palette 2 – an upgrade the original Palette – is a self-contained system for full color 3D printing. It works by cutting ...

HI, TECHCRUNCH HERE WITH AN AMAZING NEW PRODUCT, BRIZZLY

22 Aug 2018

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Are you trying to stay off social media, but just can’t seem to stop yourself from posting? When random thoughts pop into your head, do you find you...

Streaming TV services now reach 5% of U.S. Wi-Fi households, up 58% since last year

22 Aug 2018

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Streaming TV services now reach 5% of U.S. Wi-Fi households, up 58% since last year The number of U.S. households watching streaming TV services – t...

Global unicorn exits hit multi-year high in 2018

21 Aug 2018

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Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor Boston-area startups are on pace to overtake NYC venture totals While te...

6 million users had installed third-party Twitter clients

21 Aug 2018

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Twitter tried to downplay the impact deactivating its legacy APIs would have on its community and the third-party Twitter clients preferred by many p...

Kiiroo launches an adventure in bi-directional teledildonics

20 Aug 2018

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In the future everyone will be naked for fifteen minutes. It’s with this novel thought in mind that I connect with a model named Nazanin who will wa...

Taking Tesla private, WeWork and Uber earnings, and what happened to crypto

20 Aug 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 was a cork...

What AR/VR/XR needs to go big

17 Aug 2018

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Tim Merel Contributor Tim Merel is managing director of Digi-Capital. More posts by this contributor China could beat America in AR/V...

Twitter company email addresses why it’s #BreakingMyTwitter

17 Aug 2018

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It’s hard to be a fan of Twitter right now. The company is sticking up for conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, when nearly all other platforms have give...

Y Combinator is launching a startup program in China

16 Aug 2018

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U.S. accelerator Y Combinator is expandingto China after it announced the hiring of former Microsoft and Baidu executive Qi Lu who will develop a sta...

Black Ops 4 Battle Royale beta to go live on September 10

16 Aug 2018

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As summer comes to a close and the leaves begin to brown, the gaming world goes through its own sort of transition. A handful of new titles prep for l...

Gaming star Ninja sparks outrage by refusing to stream with women

15 Aug 2018

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At a Samsung event last week, Tyler “Ninja” Blevins explained why he doesn’t stream with female gamers. “If I have one conversation with one f...

Trulia crowdsources neighborhood reviews so you won’t regret your move

15 Aug 2018

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Trulia, the online real estate site owned by its former rival Zillow, wants to give you a better idea of what a certain neighborhood feels like before...

Voatz: a tale of a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad idea

14 Aug 2018

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Let’s get the fish in the barrel out of the way. Voatz are a tech startup whose bright idea was to disrupt democracy by having people vote on their ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launches tonight to “touch the sun”

14 Aug 2018

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NASA’s Parker Solar Probe launches tonight to “touch the sun” If you think it's hot on Earth right now... NASA’s ambitious mission to go close...

Grand Seiko is an homage to watchmaking’s past

13 Aug 2018

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The 1960s were a beautiful time for watches. Horlogy was in its prime and the great names we know and love today – Rolex, Omega, Cartier – were ju...

Slack raises, Dropbox and Snap report earnings, and Magic Leap is real

13 Aug 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 Matthew Ly...

Sony’s 10″ Digital Paper Tablet is an ultra-light reading companion that needs to do more

10 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Last year I had a good time comparing Sony’s DPT-RP1 with the home-grown reMarkable. They both had their strengths and weaknesses, and one of the So...

Samsung’s 512GB Galaxy Note 9 costs $1,250

10 Aug 2018

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Remember those rumors that Samsung would be working to keep costs of its new flagships at reasonable levels? Yeah, no such luck, bucko. The Samsung Ga...

Elon Musk tweets he’s thinking about taking Tesla private

09 Aug 2018

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk is thinking about taking the company private, he said in a Tweet this morning. More specifically, he said he may buy back the com...

Samsung Galaxy Tab S4 review

09 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

IDC’s latest tablet numbers tell a familiar story. Shipments are down yet again, a trend that shows no sign of abating. There is, however, one clear...

Edifier’s S350DB speakers: modern sound with an old-school style

08 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Let’s be honest, if you use a receiver as the hub of your home entertainment system, you probably only use about a quarter of the buttons, dials and...

Clear for beer: Biometrics provider now enables alcohol purchases at Seahawks and Mariners games

07 Aug 2018

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Clear, the biometrics company you’ve probably seen at airports and at a few other prominent queues, is rolling out the capability to simultaneously ...

15 names that would have been better than Android Pie

07 Aug 2018

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15 names that would have been better than Android Pie Let’s say, hypothetically, that you make a mobile operating system, and somewhere along the li...

The greedy ways Apple got to $1 trillion

06 Aug 2018

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For being the richest company ever with $243 billion in cash, Apple sure cuts corners in the stingiest ways. The hardware giant became the first tril...

Cisco buys Duo, Brandless raises $240M, and Apple broaches $1T

06 Aug 2018

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Hello and welcome back toEquity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week TechCrunch...

Tim Cook to Apple staff: $1TR in shareholder value isn’t what drives us

03 Aug 2018

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How should you feel to know your employer is far, far richer than Croesus? As Apple CEO Tim Cook tells it — in a memo to staff, obtained by BuzzFe...

Can Electronauts help make VR more social?

02 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Virtual reality is an isolating experience. You power it up, strap the headset on and just sort of drift off into your own world. But maybe that doesn...

iOS beta hints at dual SIM iPhone

02 Aug 2018

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Apple released the fifth beta of iOS 12 a few days ago. 9to5mac discovered strings in configuration files that reference dual SIM devices. You should...

Sorry guys, even Elon Musk can’t fix MoviePass…

01 Aug 2018

Contributed by Lukas

Well, Elon Musk sure had a good run at fixing the world’s pressing problems. Stuff like climate change — with those fancy electric sports cars, b...

Google’s Clock app can now wake you up with music from Spotify

01 Aug 2018

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You probably never think about the Google Clock app on your Android phone. And unless you are one of those happy early risers, it’s not exactly an a...

This is what the next iPhone could look like

31 Jul 2018

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Several dummy units of future iPhone models have leaked over the weekend. It gives a good idea of what you should expect to see in September when Appl...

Google Assistant can now do things automatically at a scheduled time

31 Jul 2018

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Back at Google I/O, Google announced two new features for Google Assistant: custom routines, and schedules. Both focusing on automating things you do ...

Tesla is making a $1500… surfboard?

30 Jul 2018

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Tesla is no stranger to branded merch. Its got the standard company swag — the hats, the shirts, and the mugs. It’s got quirkier stuff, like mini...

Almost sold out — buy a ticket to TechCrunch Summer Party at August Capital

30 Jul 2018

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Tickets to theTechCrunch Summer Party at August Capitalare on the verge of selling out. If you want to attend our 13th annual summer fete on July 27, ...

Facebook officially loses $123 billion in value

27 Jul 2018

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In what could be the biggest one-day drop of all time, Facebook shares opened at $174.89, down 19.6 percent compared to yesterday’s closing price of...