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Watching Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in Daydream VR is actually fun
Nov 24, 3:44PM
Livestreaming 360-degree video is rarely the right way to go if you’re thinking about doing live broadcast for an event – but Verizon’s (disclaimer: Verizon owns TechCrunch via AOL) use of it to show the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade actually makes sense. Especially if you happen to have a Daydream View headset, Google’s new first-party mobile VR hardware. The… Read MoreDyson's V8 cordless is your best bet for ditching your heavy plug-in vacuum
Nov 24, 3:20PM
Dyson’s V8 cordless vacuum is the latest in a long line of the company’s portable category, and it has a more powerful motor that drives more suction than ever before, as the name implies. It’s also a premium-priced device, but that suction combined with its battery life and lightweight design make for a pretty unbeatable combo in the vacuum world. Right-sized power The V8… Read MoreStrolling through the line at Snapchat's NYC Spectacle store
Nov 24, 3:00PM
Snap, the social media company formerly known as Snapchat, has launched a Spectacles pop-up shop in NYC. Inside the store, there is a Snap Bot (a vending machine full of Spectacles). Outside the store, there is a line — a long, winding line of people who stand out in the freezing cold to buy a pair of Snapchat-capable sunglasses. Personally, I have trouble justifying standing outside in… Read More
Anyone for quantifiable VR mindfulness?
Nov 24, 11:47AM
U.S. digital health company Provata is one of several hoping to harness virtual reality’s power as an escapist medium by using it as a backdrop for guided meditations. Read MoreAutonomous robots and game-playing A.I. — Incredible demos at Disrupt London, Dec 5-6
Nov 24, 10:21AM
TechCrunch Disrupt in London is on December 5-6. Grab tickets here. As well as speakers and panels, we’ll be featuring some demos by some amazing tech companies. The first will be by Boston Dynamics. Yes, folks, delegates to Disrupt London will get to see one of those amazing BD robots up close and personal, almost literally in the flesh (if they had any flesh, that is). Marc Raibert,… Read MoreHere's why you should attend the Disrupt London Hackathon, more tickets now available
Nov 24, 10:00AM
The Hackathon at Disrupt London 2016 is so close we can almost taste it. Soon, thousands of founders, investors and tech enthusiasts will storm London’s Copper Box Arena for the best startup show in Europe. Today, we’re thrilled to announce that the next wave of tickets to the hackathon is available now, and you can get your free hackathon ticket here. The hackathon kicks off at… Read MoreWynd grabs $31.7 million for its point-of-sale solution
Nov 24, 7:23AM
French startup Wynd has raised a $31.7 million Series B round (€30 million) from Sodexo Ventures and Orange Digital Ventures, with Bpifrance also participating. Orange Digital Ventures had already invested in the Series A round with Alven Capital. Wynd is working on a software-as-a-service solution to replace your existing point-of-sale service that you use in your restaurant or store.… Read MoreReddit CEO admits he secretly edited comments from Donald Trump supporters
Nov 24, 5:28AM
Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has admitted that he modified comments about him left on the site from supporters of Donald Trump. Read MoreCrunch Report | Facebook Builds a Censorship Tool
Nov 24, 4:10AM
Facebook builds a censorship tool so it could not be banned from China anymore, Twitter suspends Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account, your headphones can be hacked to listen to you, MIT creates artificial muscles and Ditto is now in Pokémon GO. All this on Crunch Report. Read More
China's Ctrip is buying flight search company SkyScanner for $1.74 billion
Nov 24, 3:32AM
Skyscanner, the Scotland-based flight search company, has been acquired by Chinese online travel giant Ctrip for £1.4 billion, or approximately $1.74 billion. Read MoreCare/of takes on the vitamin industry with customized nutrition packs
Nov 23, 11:25PM
There’s no end to the bottles, packs and pills of various nutritional supplements out there, but vitamin startup Care/of plans to stand out by tailoring the vitamins you pop to your specific needs. The startup joins a growing number of others in tech hoping to cash in on the lucrative vitamin industry. Elysium offers pills they say will boost longevity; Ritual makes vitamins for women;… Read MoreFacebook is unlikely to succeed in China, even if it compromises on free speech
Nov 23, 8:29PM
Facebook may have laid some of the early groundwork for a potential entry into China, but the U.S. social network’s chances of making a dent in the world’s most populous country are remote. Read MoreSherpa Foundry casts a wider net, hoping to catch customers abroad
Nov 23, 8:23PM
Sherpa Foundry — a three-year-old, San Francisco-based group that’s among a growing number of outfits to help older and non-tech companies better understand how tech startups might help them — is looking to fold in some new customers. It anticipates a growing number of them will come from overseas, too. While Sherpa Foundry launched with three corporate partners —… Read More21 gorgeous holiday gifts for your tech-savvy girlfriends
Nov 23, 8:08PM
We’re back again for the third year in a row with all the techie gadgets your lady friends could hope for. This year, the trend is towards gifts both beautiful and functional and we’ve got a few suggestions you may want to add to your holiday shopping list. Read MoreSony gives Bose a run for its money with the MDR-1000X
Nov 23, 7:58PM
Sony makes no bones about going after Bose. In fact, when the company first showed off its product in the lead up to IFA this summer, it said as much, acknowledging that the QuietComfort line is largely considered the gold standard for noise-cancelling travel headphones. It’s a bit like getting the old board together and deciding you’re going to make a better soft drink than… Read MoreGong says it's cracked news personalization
Nov 23, 7:28PM
If you’re a little skeptical about trying out another news aggregator, Gong CEO Itzik Ben-Bassat knows what you’re probably thinking — after all, he heard the same thing when he was pitching investors. “They all kind of looked at me and said, ‘Not again,'” he recalled. But it seems like Ben-Bassat (who was previously an executive at Blizzard Entertainment and… Read MoreA longtime VC on the virtues of not swinging for the fences
Nov 23, 7:23PM
There’s a winner-take-all mentality in Silicon Valley. Unfortunately, it has distorted the thinking of countless entrepreneurs who’d likely be better off running smaller companies — and giving up less ownership to investors in the process. While funding announcements are widely celebrated as milestones, the reality is that founders often wind up with far less than their… Read More13 awesome gifts for the geek guys and gals in your life
Nov 23, 7:17PM
We’re in the golden age of being a geek (“geek” herein, as always, used in the most loving way possible. We, at TechCrunch, are geeks.) Technology is rooted deep into the core of our lives. eSports are on major tv networks. Hell, half the damned world was running around playing Pokemon together a few weeks ago. But buying us geeks a gift can be… challenging, to say… Read MoreAmazon makes good on its promise to delete "incentivized" reviews
Nov 23, 7:17PM
Amazon is making good on its promise to ban “incentivized” reviews from its website, according to a new analysis of over 32,000 products and around 65 million reviews. The ban was meant to address the growing problem of less trustworthy reviews that had been plaguing the retailer’s site, leading to products with higher ratings than they would otherwise deserve.… Read MoreThe history behind a $5 billion eSports industry
Nov 23, 5:30PM
According to a Activate’s recent Tech & Media Outlook for 2017, annual revenue for eSports is projected to exceed $5 billion by 2020. For comparison, that’s more than the National Hockey League’s (NHL) $3.7 billion in average revenue and the $4.8 billion from the National Basketball Association (NBA). eSports events are filling existing sports stadiums, including KeyArena… Read MoreIf at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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