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The Traeger Timberline 850 turns BBQ from art to science
26 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This review took a lot of pork. Over the last few months, I’ve used the Traeger Timberline 850 several times a week. Cooking on this grill is easier...
SpaceX lands Falcon 9 booster on Just Read The Instructions drone ship
25 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
SpaceX confirmed on Twitter this morning that it recovered the booster from the latest Falcon 9 launch. Shortly after launchingfrom Vandenberg Air F...
Xiaomi goes after global markets with two new Android One phones
25 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Xiaomi gave Google’s well-intentioned but somewhat-stalled Android One project a major boost last year when it unveiled its first device under the...
Pokémon GO gets ‘Lucky’ Pokémon obtainable only by trading
24 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Pokémon GO just got a little surprise update, complete with a curious new feature: “Lucky” Pokémon. Most things in Pokémon GO are adapted from ...
Peak Design goes back to Kickstarter to launch $299 travel backpack
24 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Meet the Travel Backpack 45L. It’s Peak Design’s latest creation and the company just launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring it to life. This p...
Niantic explains how and why it bans players in Pokémon GO
23 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Niantic explains how and why it bans players in Pokémon GO Getting banned for cheating is nothing new in Pokémon GO. There’ve been big ol’ ban w...
Now this… this is an ultra-wide monitor
23 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I’ve been working with an ugly but functional lopsided two-monitor setup for years, and while it has served me well, I can’t say the new generatio...
Last call for tickets to TechCrunch Summer Party at August Capital
20 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
TheTechCrunch Summer Party at August Capitalis the stuff of Silicon Valley legend. We’re celebrating 13 years of libations and convivial conversatio...
The Galaxy Note 9 is leaking out all over the place
20 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Galaxy Note 9 won’t be announced until August. You wouldn’t know it by reading the internet, however. Every nook and cranny of the upcoming ph...
Worried about a slowdown? It already happened in 2016, says one new venture study
19 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Worried about a slowdown? It already happened in 2016, says one new venture study In today’s market, it’s hard to make sense of what’s what. Dea...
Apple releases third iOS 12 beta to everyone
19 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Apple just released the third version of the iOS 12 beta as part of the public beta program. It means that everyone can now install a development bui...
Bitcoin price passes $7K bringing all 100 top coins up with it
18 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Bitcoin is moving up, and it’s taking 99 of its best friends along for the ride. In the last 24 hours, every one of the top 100 coins by market cap ...
Founder and investor Elad Gil has a new book that aims to help startups with their later-stage challenges — before they get to that point
18 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Founder and investor Elad Gil has a new book that aims to help startups with their later-stage challenges — before they get to that point Serial ent...
Amazon puts its own devices on sale early for Prime Day
17 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon is kicking off today’s Prime Day a bit early. Although its annual sale technically begins at 12 PM PT / 3 PM ET this afternoon, it put its o...
Living with the new 15-inch MacBook Pro
17 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When reviewing hardware, it’s important to integrate it into your life as much as possible. If you can, swap it in for your existing devices for a f...
How much quieter are the new MacBook Pro keyboards? Hear for yourself
16 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Specs? We’ll talk specs later. Right now we’re focused on something far more important: keyboard noise. It’s been a common complaint among MacBo...
YouTube TV subscribers get a free week after World Cup meltdown
16 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
When one of the main selling points for your service is the ability to stream live sports, the last thing you want is a full-on service meltdown durin...
For the first time, Netflix tops HBO for most Emmy nominations
13 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
For the first time, Netflix tops HBO for most Emmy nominations Netflix has broken HBO’s 17-year streak as the most nominated network at the Emmy Awa...
Catch the next wave of tickets to the TechCrunch Summer Party at August Capital
13 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Our 13th annual TechCrunch Summer Party at August Capital takes place on July 27, and we’re happy to announce we’ve just released a fourth batch o...
YouTube TV goes down during the World Cup
12 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Croatia scored and the score is now 1-1 against England. If you’re a YouTube TV subscriber, you might not know that because YouTube TV has been dow...
With Lockbox and Notes, Mozilla launches its first set of mobile Test Pilot experiments
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Mozilla’s Test Pilot program for Firefox has long been the organization’s way to trial some of its more experimental ideas for new browser featur...
My favorite summer toy is the GDP XD emulator
11 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
People ask me all the time about my favorite gadgets and I rarely have any answers. I’ve been playing with stuff since 2004 and I’m pretty gadget-...
‘Spider-Man,’ ‘Dr. Strange’ co-creator Steve Ditko has died
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Toward the end of his life, it became somewhat common practice to post a picture of his door. It was an otherwise unremarkable thing, with a mail slot...
New Microsoft Surface hardware is probably arriving tomorrow
10 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Microsoft all but announced as much via the official Surface account. The company tweeted out the leading question “Where will Surface go next?” a...
MoviePass offers ticket refund after Friday Night outage
09 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After a rapid ascent, it’s been a rough couple of months for MoviePass. And while last night’s outage isn’t exactly the end of the world for the...
Lyft goes biking, Airbnb is going public (eventually), big money for software robots, and Juul
09 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
 Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week we...
Deliveroo opens its first shared kitchen in Paris
05 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Food delivery startup Deliveroo opened its first shared kitchen in Paris earlier today. Deliveroo first launched this concept of shared kitchens call...
The five best reasons you don’t want to miss Disrupt SF this September
04 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
TechCrunch’s Disrupt SF (Sept. 5-7) is our most ambitious event ever. And if we’re sure of one thing, it’s that people in the startup scene will...
Airwallex raises $80M for its international payment service for businesses
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Airwallex, a three-year-old fintech startup focused on international payments for SMEs and businesses, is putting itself on the map after it raised an...
Twitter gets a re-org and new product head
03 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Twitter has a new product manager, the wake of a large re-org of the company announced this week. The changes will see Twitter dividing its business i...
Bird and Lyft raise $900M, a16z launches a crytpo fund, and $6B more for Sequoia
02 Jul 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 Connie Loi...
Questions about Apple’s new Maps, answered
02 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Earlier today we revealed that Apple was re-building maps from the ground up. These are some questions from readers that came up when we went live. Yo...
The Sonos Beam is the soundbar evolved
29 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Sonos has always gone its own way. The speaker manufacturer dedicated itself to network-connected speakers before there were home networks and they ...
The Rock and Under Armour teamed up for some ridiculous headphones
29 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The Rock and Under Armour teamed up for some ridiculous headphones Five years ago, you weren’t a proper celebrity unless you had your own line of br...
Oh BiBi raises $21 million for its mobile gaming studio
28 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
French startup Oh BiBi raised $21 million from Atomico with Korelya Capital also participating. Oh BiBi is a team of mobile gaming veterans trying to ...
Andreessen Horowitz has a new crypto fund — and its first female general partner is running it with Chris Dixon
28 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Andreessen Horowitz has a new crypto fund — and its first female general partner is running it with Chris Dixon Silicon Valley powerhouse Andreessen...
Apple just released the first iOS 12 beta to everyone
27 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This is your opportunity to get a glimpse of the future of iOS. Apple just released the very first public beta of iOS 12, the next major version of t...
iOS 12 is all about making your phone work better
27 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The pace of iOS innovation has been so intense that even Apple couldn’t keep up. In some ways, iOS 11’s main feature was that it was packed with ...
Oh, the things I would do to get this cardboard-style Nintendo Switch
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Oh, the things I would do to get this cardboard-style Nintendo Switch Nintendo is building on its strange but wonderful cardboard Labo platform with s...
Fortnite Battle Royale is getting a Playground mode, and other Week 9 rumors…
26 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Whether it’s through changes in the map itself or the introduction of new weapons like the Stink Bomb and the Thermal-Scoped AR, Fortnite Battle Roy...
Bag Week 2018: Mission Workshop’s Radian rolltop starts simple but grows piece by piece
22 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to Bag Week 2018. Every year your faithful friends at TechCrunch spend an entire week looking at bags. Why? Because bags — often ignored but...
A Tesla telenovela
22 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tesla’s lawsuit against a former employee was filed just 24 hours ago and it’s already ripe fodder for Hollywood. As CEO Elon Musk has noted in th...
Official near-earth object plan will look into nuking asteroids and other ‘planetary defense missions’
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Space is a big place, and mostly empty — but there’s no shortage of objects which, should they float our direction, could end life as we know it. ...
AMC’s MoviePass competitor arrives June 26
21 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
It was just a matter of time before AMC went head to head withMoviePass. After all, the two companies have been at odds for some time. Back in January...
You aren’t alone; U.S. adults broadly think around 40 percent of the news is misinformation
20 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
You aren’t alone; U.S. adults broadly think around 40 percent of the news is misinformation A new survey underscores what you already know. People d...
Using tech and $100m, Dr Consulta transforms healthcare for the poorest
20 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Healthcare delivery is an incredibly complex topic, but one that has a simple truth: health security is key to living a good life, and ultimately, for...
Bet money on yourself with Proveit, the 1-vs-1 trivia app
19 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Pick a category, wager a few dollars, and double your money in 60 seconds if you’re smarter and faster than your opponent. Proveitoffers a fresh tak...
Gmail proves that some people hate smart suggestions
18 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Gmail has recently introduced a brand new redesign. While you can disable or ignore most of the new features, Gmail has started resurfacing old unansw...
Scooters go mad, Opendoor wants to buy your house, and Meituan’s IPO
18 Jun 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 someth...
Get your ticket to the TechCrunch Summer Party at August Capital
15 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
We’re sentimental softies when it comes to tradition, and one of our favorites is the TechCrunch Summer Party at August Capital. This marks the thir...
Reflections on E3 2018
15 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
After taking a year off, I returned to E3 this week. It’s always a fun show, in spite of the fact that the show floor has come to rival Comic-Con i...
After botched IPO, Asian streaming startup M17 gets a $35M lifeline from investors
14 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Asian tech company M17, which operates a live-streaming platform and data app business, has confirmed that it has canceled its proposed U.S. public l...
Democrats introduce an election security bill that proposes paper trails and mandatory audits
14 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
As primaries ramp up in states across the U.S., concerns about election cybersecurity are mounting too. This week, a group of Democratic senators intr...
The messy, musical process behind the web’s new security standard
13 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
The web is a big place, and changing the way it works isn’t a simple process. But it has to happen somehow or we’d all still be using Mosaic and t...
Tesla lays off roughly nine percent of workforce
13 Jun 2018
Contributed by Lukas
Tesla has laid off about nine percent of its employees, Electrek first reported. This is part of the reorganization Musk talked about in May on the c...