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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...