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Tuesday, July 31, 2018

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Here's how you can still get a free Windows 10 upgrade

Jul 30, 12:15PM

Microsoft's much-hyped free upgrade offer for Windows 10 ended in 2016, right? Not exactly. The GWX tool may be gone, but all the other upgrade tools still work. The end result is an apparently valid digital license, and there's no evidence that the free upgrades will end any time soon.

Microsoft's got a new plan for managing Windows 10 devices for a monthly fee

Jul 27, 1:03PM

Microsoft is putting together a service aiming to take the pain out of procuring, provisioning and managing Windows 10 devices that it's currently calling the 'Microsoft Managed Desktop.'

The 4 hottest tech trends that are transforming the world in 2018

Jul 30, 12:09PM

The revolution is happening right in front of our eyes, and it's not coming from politics, government, or world leaders. Here's where to look for it.

The 10 best smartphones of 2018

May 09, 12:23PM

A couple more phones have been launched since MWC and further use of others encouraged us to update the list of top smartphones.

The data center is dead: Here's what comes next

Jul 30, 1:14PM

Enterprise data centers will vanish over the next seven years. So where does all that data go?

Microsoft bangs the 'devices as a service' drum ahead of Windows 7's end-of-support deadline

Jul 27, 3:12PM

Windows Windows 7's January 2020 end-of-support date looming, Microsoft is advising partners to go after migration opportunities using the DaaS approach.

iOS 11.4.1 tips, tricks, and secrets everyone should know

Jul 18, 11:36AM

Get more done with your iPhone or iPad -- as well as impress your friends and family -- with these tips, tricks, and secrets.

Ockel Sirius A Pro review: A pocket-size Windows 10 PC

Jul 30, 2:23PM

Dell XPS 13 now ships with Ubuntu 18.04 Linux

Jul 29, 11:12PM

Want a top-flight laptop with a high-end Linux pre-installed? Then you'll want to check out Dell's latest XPS 13.

Microsoft acknowledges price increases coming for Office 2019 and Windows 10 Enterprise users

Jul 26, 4:33PM

Microsoft will be making some pricing and naming changes as of its October 2018 price list that will affect some Windows 10 and Office 2019 customers. Here's what's in store.

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Cult classic indie game La-Mulana finally gets a proper sequel

Jul 30, 10:44PM

The sequel to the legendary, and legendarily difficult, indie sleeper hit La-Mulana has finally been released, and all gamers with a penchant for retro-style platforming and a broad masochistic streak are encouraged to descend into its depths.

MoviePass could block more big movies from its subscription service

Jul 30, 10:04PM

During an all-hands meeting earlier today, MoviePass CEO Mitch Lowe reportedly informed staff that the service will bar additional big titles from its subscription service. According to a report from Business Insider, upcoming titles Christopher Robin and The Meg will be getting similar treatment as Mission: Impossible — Fallout. The service caused an uproar among […]

Gillmor Gang: Backflip

Jul 30, 8:44PM

The Gillmor Gang — Esteban Kolsky, Frank Radice, Michael Markman, and Steve Gillmor . Recorded live Sunday July 29, 2018. Social markets, what is notification media, the 20 percent solution. Produced and directed by Tina Chase Gillmor @tinagillmor Liner Notes Live chat stream The Gillmor Gang on Facebook

MoviePass is down again

Jul 30, 8:32PM

After the revelation that MoviePass borrowed $5 million to keep its service up and running last week, things aren’t looking good. MoviePass subscribers, myself included, were met on Monday with a blank screen where their choice of screening should be. Navigating around dozens of theaters only shows a message that “There are no more screenings […]

Uber's self-driving trucks division is dead, long live Uber self-driving cars

Jul 30, 8:20PM

Uber is shuttering its self-driving trucks unit, a beleaguered program borne out of the company’s controversial multi-million acquisition of Otto nearly two years ago. The company said Monday that Uber Advanced Technologies Group will stop development of self-driving trucks and instead focus its efforts on self-driving cars. "We recently took the important step of returning to […]

Optoro raises $75 million more to make it easier for brands to manage and resell returned and excess inventory

Jul 30, 8:04PM

As the economy has chugged along, so have retail sales, which last year capped their strongest year since 2014. Online sales have been especially brisk, growing 16 percent between 2016 and 2017 alone, according to the U.S. Commerce Department, which estimates that consumers spent $453.5 billion online last year. Of course, with every booming market comes supporting […]

Google gives Chrome the virtual reality treatment

Jul 30, 7:50PM

Google is injecting a little Chrome into its VR platform, bringing the web browser to Daydream headsets, the company announced today. It’s been a long time coming considering the depths of Google’s WebVR experimentation on desktop and mobile Chrome. The Mountain View tech giant announced it was working on this quite a while ago, back at […]

Google's lead lawyer moves into a global policy role

Jul 30, 7:38PM

Google is promoting its top lawyer, Kent Walker, into a global policy position, CNBC reports. Walker, Google SVP and general counsel, has already been a public voice in the company’s recent privacy tangles, but will move into a formal role as senior vice president of global affairs, overseeing Google’s policy, trust and safety, corporate philanthropy […]

OpenAI's robotic hand doesn't need humans to teach it human behaviors

Jul 30, 7:20PM

Gripping something with your hand is one of the first things you learn to do as an infant, but it's far from a simple task, and only gets more complex and variable as you grow up. This complexity makes it difficult for machines to teach themselves to do, but researchers at Elon Musk and Sam Altman-backed OpenAI have created a system that not only holds and manipulates objects much like a human does, but developed these behaviors all on its own.

One more thing re: "privacy concerns" raised by the DCMS fake new report…

Jul 30, 6:49PM

A meaty first report by the UK parliamentary committee that’s been running an inquiry into online disinformation since fall 2017, including scrutinizing how people’s personal information was harvested from social media services like Facebook and used for voter profiling and the targeting of campaign ads — and whose chair, Damian Collins — is a member […]

Drive.ai's self-driving vehicle service is now live in Texas

Jul 30, 6:42PM

The bedroom community of Frisco, Texas might seem like an unusual place to find a self-driving vehicle. But here in this city of nearly 175,000 people, there are seven. And as of Monday, they’re available for the public to use within a specific sector of the city that has a concentration of retail, entertainment venues […]

YouTube's dark theme has started gradually rolling out to Android

Jul 30, 6:35PM

A dark theme option for YouTube users on Android is in the early stages of rolling out to end users, Google confirmed to TechCrunch, following a number of reports and sightings of the dark mode showing up for users in the app’s settings. The feature has taken a bit longer to launch than expected – […]

Amazon is planning to give Prime Video a big makeover

Jul 30, 5:50PM

Could user profiles and better personalization features be coming to Amazon’s Prime Video app at long last? The company’s new Amazon Studios head Jennifer Salke just teased that a major upgrade to Amazon’s streaming video app is in the works – and she already has it running on a phone in her office, she said. The […]

A pickaxe for the AI gold rush, Labelbox sells training data software

Jul 30, 5:45PM

Every artificial intelligence startup or corporate R&D lab has to reinvent the wheel when it comes to how humans annotate training data to teach algorithms what to look for. Whether it’s doctors assessing the size of cancer from a scan or drivers circling street signs in self-driving car footage, all this labeling has to happen […]

Google Calendar makes rescheduling meetings easier

Jul 30, 5:28PM

Nobody really likes meetings — and the few people who do like them are the ones with whom you probably don’t want to have meetings. So when you’ve reached your fill and decide to reschedule some of those obligations, the usual process of trying to find a new meeting time begins. Thankfully, the Google Calendar […]

Venture capital's diversity disaster

Jul 30, 5:21PM

The lack of diversity issue in Silicon Valley touches all aspects of the industry — entrepreneurship, big tech company demographics and venture capital. While tech companies have been a bit more deliberate about fostering diversity and inclusion in the last few years — and have made a small bit of progress — the venture capital […]

Body scanning app 3DLOOK raises $1 million to measure your corpus

Jul 30, 5:20PM

3D body scanning systems have hit the big time after years of stops and starts. Hot on the heels of Original Stitch’s Bodygram, another 3D scanner, 3DLOOK, has entered into the fray with a $1 million investment to measure bodies around the world. The founders, Vadim Rogovskiy, Ivan Makeev, and Alex Arapovd, created 3DLOOK when […]

Amazon starts canceling free Echo Spot orders

Jul 30, 5:13PM

Update: Amazon has admitted the error here. No free Spots, sorry. The company provided TechCrunch the following note, which is going out to everyone who purchased a device during that window. Thanks for playing. We noticed an error in an order you recently placed and wanted to make you aware of the issue. Due to […]

72 hours left to buy early-bird tickets to Disrupt SF 2018

Jul 30, 5:00PM

Deadlines have a sneaky way of creeping up on you — as busy TechCrunch writers can readily attest. If you're planning to attend Disrupt San Francisco 2018 at Moscone Center West on September 5-7, you've got a major deadline snapping at your heels. Your chance to purchase passes at our early-bird rate disappears forever at midnight […]

Chinese "hackers" are sending malware via snail mail

Jul 30, 4:51PM

In what amounts to one of the simplest but most baffling forms of social engineering, hackers from China have taken to sending CDs full of malware to state officials, leading the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center, a government security outfit, to release a warning detailing the scam. The trick is simple: a package arrives […]

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Here's how you can still get a free Windows 10 upgrade

Jul 30, 12:15PM

The 4 hottest tech trends that are transforming the world in 2018

Jul 30, 12:09PM

The revolution is happening right in front of our eyes, and it's not coming from politics, government, or world leaders. Here's where to look for it.

The 10 best smartphones of 2018

May 09, 12:23PM

A couple more phones have been launched since MWC and further use of others encouraged us to update the list of top smartphones.

Microsoft acknowledges price increases coming for Office 2019 and Windows 10 Enterprise users

Jul 26, 4:33PM

Microsoft will be making some pricing and naming changes as of its October 2018 price list that will affect some Windows 10 and Office 2019 customers. Here's what's in store.

Surface by the numbers: How Microsoft reinvented the PC

Jul 26, 12:11PM

After a disastrous launch and a big writedown, analysts were ready to write off Microsoft's Surface division five years ago. But instead of disappearing, the Surface division has been a surprising success.

iOS 11.4.1 tips, tricks, and secrets everyone should know

Jul 18, 11:36AM

Get more done with your iPhone or iPad -- as well as impress your friends and family -- with these tips, tricks, and secrets.

Google Chrome tip: Use the built-in Task Manager to find out which tabs are eating your RAM

Jul 26, 2:28PM

Didn't know that the Google Chrome browser had a built-in Task Manager? Pull up a chair and let me show you some of the things it can do.

3 things Steve Jobs had wrong about the App Store

Jul 27, 5:31PM

A newly released 2008 interview with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs provides insight into the App Store just 30 days after it launched.

Windows 10: These two new builds deliver lots of bug fixes

Jul 25, 10:19AM

Updates for Windows 10 have arrived just a fortnight after Patch Tuesday.

These 12 laptops deliver the best battery life

Jun 26, 1:02PM

If you need a notebook that can last all day away from a power outlet, these dozen can handle it -- and then some. Your options include top-rated Windows, Mac and Chromebook systems.

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Branded Worlds: how technology recentralized entertainment

Jul 29, 9:24PM

I love Hollywood box-office numbers because they provide a hard statistical view of cultural currents. Did you know, for instance, that there had never been a weekend when 8 of the top 10 movies in America were sequels — until this month? Or that, while almost 400 movies were released in the first half of […]

Belle Haven & Friendly Acres Over 13s Youth Club Newsletter

Jul 29, 5:49PM

[Sponsor message] [Sponsor message] [Sponsor message] Hey KIDS! [Sponsor message] [Boztank pls insert ‘hey kids’ GIF here] [Sponsor message] Exciting News! First up: Exciting news! We’re going to be migrating the Club Newsletter to a new format from next month that will be delivered in person! In virtual reality! This means you’ll be able to […]

Early-bird prices for Disrupt SF 2018 end in just four days

Jul 29, 5:00PM

We extended our deadline for early-bird passes to Disrupt San Francisco 2018, which takes place on September 5-7, but your chance to save up to $1,200 is rapidly slipping away. In four days — that's August 1 at midnight PST — the early bird heads north, and so do the ticket prices. Don't miss out on the best […]

BMW's Alexa integration gets it right

Jul 29, 4:15PM

BMW will in a few days start rolling out to many of its drivers support for Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant. The fact that BWM is doing this doesn’t come as a surprise, given that it has long talked about its plans to bring Alexa — and potentially other personal assistants like Cortana and the Google […]

WeWork is just one facet of SoftBank's bet on real estate

Jul 29, 4:00PM

This week WeWork announced that its Chinese subsidiary — WeWork China — raised an additional $500 million in capital in a deal led by SoftBank, Temasek Holdings and others. The deal reportedly values the Chinese branch of the shared workspace and real estate management company at $5 billion, up from $1 billion (post-money) in the round WeWork China announced […]

Lyft gave DJ Khaled one of its electric scooters for his upcoming tour

Jul 29, 3:39PM

Electric scooters are all the rage right now in Silicon Valley and as of late, they’ve made their way into the entertainment industry. Musician DJ Khaled recently posted a video of him riding one of Lyft’s electric scooter while also promoting his participation in Jay-Z and Beyonce’s On The Run II tour. Word on the […]

Walmart reportedly recruits ex-Epix CEO in bid to build video service

Jul 29, 3:18PM

According to new reports, Walmart has enlisted the services of Mark Greenberg to help build a subscription video streaming service. Rumors have been floating around for some time now, that the retailer is looking to go head to head with the likes of Netflix and Amazon Prime video, and Greenberg — who left the role […]

Tesla is making a $1500… surfboard?

Jul 28, 11:31PM

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 miniature Teslas for kids and USB chargers shaped like the Superchargers that juice up their vehicles. And now they’ve got… surfboards? While it’s now gone for some reason, a […]

Tapping into the power grid could predict the morning traffic

Jul 28, 8:32PM

Why is there traffic? This eternal question haunts civic planners, fluid dynamics professors, and car manufacturers alike. But just counting the cars on the road won't give you a sufficient answer: you need to look at the data behind the data. In this case, CMU researchers show that electricity usage may be key to understanding movement around the city.

Verizon's new 'Safe Wi-Fi' is a VPN that blocks ad tracking for $3.99 a month

Jul 28, 7:34PM

Verizon has rolled out a new product called Safe Wi-Fi, a VPN that provides a security stop gap for its mobile customers logging onto a public network. It’s also being marketed as a way to block ads. So WTF is a VPN and why does it matter? A VPN is a virtual private network. It sits between a […]

The Not Company is looking to start a food revolution from Chile

Jul 28, 5:59PM

Technology investors, tasting an opportunity to capitalize on the triple threat of malnutrition, resource scarcity and pollution brought on by the increasing globalization and industrialization of food, are investing billions into startup companies pitching alternative sources of sustenance. In the past five years, venture capitalists and corporations have invested over $9.5 billion into 2,100 deals […]

Home run exits happen stealthily for biotech

Jul 28, 4:00PM

Joanna Glasner Contributor More posts by this contributor While tech waffles on going public, biotech IPOs boom Shoe startups aren't dragging their feet Startup exit tallies commonly underestimate biotech returns. Unlike most tech deals, the biggest profits in bio often come long after an IPO or acquisition. Take Juno Therapeutics, a publicly traded cancer immunology company […]

How I made my own WireGuard VPN server

Jul 28, 2:17PM

Some of you may have heard about VPN protocols that let you establish a connection between your device and a server, such as OpenVPN and IPsec. But there's a brand new shiny protocol that promises to be faster and more secure at the same time — WireGuard. But WTF is a VPN anyway? A VPN […]

Twitter will suspend repeat offenders posting abusive comments on Periscope live streams

Jul 28, 12:46AM

As part of Twitter’s attempted crackdown on abusive behavior across its network, the company announced on Friday afternoon a new policy facing those who repeatedly harass, threaten or otherwise make abusive comments during a Periscope broadcaster’s live stream. According to Twitter, the company will begin to more aggressively enforce its Periscope Community Guidelines by reviewing […]

Google Assistant can now do things automatically at a scheduled time

Jul 27, 9:38PM

Back at Google I/O, Google announced two new features for Google Assistant: custom routines and schedules — both focusing on automating things you do regularly, but in different ways. The first lets you trigger multiple commands with a single custom phrase — like saying “Hey Google, I’m awake” to unsilence your phone, turn on the […]

New York kicks Charter out of the state after failure to honor conditions of Time-Warner merger

Jul 27, 9:18PM

Broadband providers! They love to make noise about how dedicated they are to improving your service, rolling out new features, and generally adhering to both the law and their own code of ethics. So how can it be that Charter has so badly failed the terms imposed on its purchase of Time-Warner Cable in 2016 that the state of New York is showing them the door? Could all these promises be only so many words? Say it ain't so!

Star Wars: Episode IX will feature unseen footage of Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia

Jul 27, 9:03PM

Spoiler warning for anyone who hasn’t seen The Last Jedi, though, if you still haven’t at this point, what are you even doing reading casting announcements for the next one? No one ever really dies in the Star Wars universe. The official cast list for Star Wars: Episode IX has been posted, and it features […]

NASA's 3D-printed Mars Habitat competition doles out prizes to concept habs

Jul 27, 7:50PM

A multi-year NASA contest to design a 3D-printable Mars habitat using on-planet materials has just hit another milestone — and a handful of teams have taken home some cold hard cash. This more laid-back phase had contestants designing their proposed habitat using architectural tools, with the five winners set to build scale models next year.

Idaho inmates hacked prison-issued tablets for $225,000 in credits

Jul 27, 7:44PM

Inmates in Idaho successfully hacked the software of the prison-issued tablets to issue themselves nearly a quarter of a million dollars in credits on the devices that are often one of their only connections to the outside world. The tablets, made by prominent prison vendor JPay, give inmates the ability to use email, listen to […]

Check out this first of its kind, direct-to-consumer urine-testing app with FDA clearance

Jul 27, 7:24PM

Urinary tract infections are highly uncomfortable and distracting, and they are very common for women because of the female anatomy. In fact, according to the Mayo Clinic, many women experience more than one infection during their lifetimes. Many of the afflicted try resolving the infection on their own — using heating pads, drinking more water, […]

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Here's how you can still get a free Windows 10 upgrade

May 30, 1:01PM

Surface by the numbers: How Microsoft reinvented the PC

Jul 26, 12:11PM

Medicare hits My Health Record opt-out while Health complains about Parl Library

Jul 26, 2:35AM

My Health Record opt-out was down for less than two hours, while a complaint from the Department of Health has taken a Parliamentary Library piece critical of government assertions offline for much longer.

The 10 best smartphones of 2018

May 09, 12:23PM

A couple more phones have been launched since MWC and further use of others encouraged us to update the list of top smartphones.

Microsoft acknowledges price increases coming for Office 2019 and Windows 10 Enterprise users

Jul 26, 4:33PM

Microsoft will be making some pricing and naming changes as of its October 2018 price list that will affect some Windows 10 and Office 2019 customers. Here's what's in store.

iOS 11.4.1 tips, tricks, and secrets everyone should know

Jul 18, 11:36AM

Get more done with your iPhone or iPad -- as well as impress your friends and family -- with these tips, tricks, and secrets.

Windows 10: These two new builds deliver lots of bug fixes

Jul 25, 10:19AM

Updates for Windows 10 have arrived just a fortnight after Patch Tuesday.

Google Chrome tip: Use the built-in Task Manager to find out which tabs are eating your RAM

Jul 26, 2:28PM

Didn't know that the Google Chrome browser had a built-in Task Manager? Pull up a chair and let me show you some of the things it can do.

A short history of Microsoft's Surface: Missteps and successes

Jul 25, 11:20AM

Microsoft started working on the hybrid devices that now make up the Surface family back in 2009. The group has made some missteps along the way, but today its lineup of Windows 10 devices is genuinely impressive and widely imitated. Here's how the brand has evolved.

Windows 10: Microsoft reopens Skip Ahead program but you need to be quick

Jul 24, 10:09AM

If you're keen to stay in the Skip Ahead group of the Windows 10 Insider tester program, now is the time to act.

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Tesla is making a $1500… surfboard?

Jul 28, 11:31PM

Tapping into the power grid could predict the morning traffic

Jul 28, 8:32PM

Verizon's new 'Safe Wi-Fi' is a VPN that blocks ad tracking for $3.99 a month

Jul 28, 7:34PM

The Not Company is looking to start a food revolution from Chile

Jul 28, 5:59PM

Home run exits happen stealthily for biotech

Jul 28, 4:00PM

How I made my own WireGuard VPN server

Jul 28, 2:17PM

Twitter will suspend repeat offenders posting abusive comments on Periscope live streams

Jul 28, 12:46AM

Google Assistant can now do things automatically at a scheduled time

Jul 27, 9:38PM

New York kicks Charter out of the state after failure to honor conditions of Time-Warner merger

Jul 27, 9:18PM

Star Wars: Episode IX will feature unseen footage of Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia

Jul 27, 9:03PM

NASA's 3D-printed Mars Habitat competition doles out prizes to concept habs

Jul 27, 7:50PM

Idaho inmates hacked prison-issued tablets for $225,000 in credits

Jul 27, 7:44PM

Check out this first of its kind, direct-to-consumer urine-testing app with FDA clearance

Jul 27, 7:24PM

Why unskippable Stories ads could revive Facebook

Jul 27, 6:18PM

Prepare for the invasion of the unskippables. If the Stories social media slideshow format is the future of mobile TV, it’s going to end up with commercials. Users won’t love them. And done wrong they could pester people away from spending so much time watching what friends do day-to-day. But there’s no way Facebook and […]

Viacom acquires Gen Z digital media company AwesomenessTV

Jul 27, 6:14PM

Viacom today confirmed it’s acquiring digital media company AwesomenessTV, whose network reaches 158 million subscribers and approximately 300 million monthly views. The news follows a report from earlier this week that said the two were in talks about an acquisition, which priced the deal at “well below $300 million,” according to Variety. Viacom did not […]

Russian hackers already targeted a Missouri senator up for reelection in 2018

Jul 27, 5:50PM

A Democratic senator seeking reelection this fall appears to be the first identifiable target of Russian hacking in the 2018 midterm race. In a new story on the Daily Beast, Andrew Desiderio and Kevin Poulsen reported that Democratic Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill was targeted in a campaign-related phishing attack. That clears up one unspecified target […]

Amazon may soon let you collaborate with others on Wish Lists

Jul 27, 5:30PM

Amazon may soon be adding a feature consumers have wanted for years: collaborative wish lists. A number of people using Amazon.com and its mobile app recently spotted the option to “invite others” to their wish lists. This offers a URL that can be shared via text messages, email, social apps and more. Once clicked, the […]

Magic Leap details what its mixed reality OS will look like

Jul 27, 5:25PM

Magic Leap just updated its developer documentation and a host of new details and imagery are being spread around on Reddit and Twitter, sharing more specifics on how the company’s Lumin OS will look like on their upcoming Magic Leap One device. It’s mostly a large heaping of nitty-gritty details, but we also get a […]

Anchor opens a Manhattan studio where people can podcast for free

Jul 27, 5:11PM

One of the best things about podcasting is the low barrier of entry. Anyone with a computer, internet connection and a little know-how can launch one. It's a wonderfully democratized medium. The downside, of course, is that most of them sound terrible. Just really, really awful. Apps are overrun with tinny, Skype recordings. Anchor, the […]

1 week until the deadline for Disrupt SF 2018's Hackathon + new sponsor prizes

Jul 27, 5:00PM

Are you a hacking speed demon of incomparable skill? Then we want you to submit your best hack to the Virtual Hackathon going down at TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco 2018 on September 5-7. But you need to chug Red Bull like never before, because this is the last week you can submit your hack. The […]

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Jul 25, 3:16AM

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VirtualDJ 2018

Jul 02, 7:12AM

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Here's how you can still get a free Windows 10 upgrade

May 30, 1:01PM

Windows 10: These two new builds deliver lots of bug fixes

Jul 25, 10:19AM

Updates for Windows 10 have arrived just a fortnight after Patch Tuesday.

Windows 10: Microsoft reopens Skip Ahead program but you need to be quick

Jul 24, 10:09AM

If you're keen to stay in the Skip Ahead group of the Windows 10 Insider tester program, now is the time to act.

Medicare hits My Health Record opt-out while Health complains about Parl Library

Jul 26, 2:35AM

A short history of Microsoft's Surface: Missteps and successes

Jul 25, 11:20AM

Microsoft acknowledges price increases coming for Office 2019 and Windows 10 Enterprise users

Jul 26, 4:33PM

Microsoft will be making some pricing and naming changes as of its October 2018 price list that will affect some Windows 10 and Office 2019 customers. Here's what's in store.

The 10 best smartphones of 2018

May 09, 12:23PM

A couple more phones have been launched since MWC and further use of others encouraged us to update the list of top smartphones.

Google Chrome tip: Use the built-in Task Manager to find out which tabs are eating your RAM

Jul 26, 2:28PM

Didn't know that the Google Chrome browser had a built-in Task Manager? Pull up a chair and let me show you some of the things it can do.

Key takeaways from Singapore healthcare data breach

Jul 21, 9:16AM

No system is infallible and cybersecurity breaches are inevitable, but Singapore needs to do better in mitigating the risks and following through on its pledge to safeguard citizen data.

iOS 11.4.1 tips, tricks, and secrets everyone should know

Jul 18, 11:36AM

Get more done with your iPhone or iPad -- as well as impress your friends and family -- with these tips, tricks, and secrets.

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Google Assistant can now do things automatically at a scheduled time

Jul 27, 9:38PM

New York kicks Charter out of the state after failure to honor conditions of Time-Warner merger

Jul 27, 9:18PM

Star Wars: Episode IX will feature unseen footage of Carrie Fisher as Princess Leia

Jul 27, 9:03PM

NASA's 3D-printed Mars Habitat competition doles out prizes to concept habs

Jul 27, 7:50PM

Idaho inmates hacked prison-issued tablets for $225,000 in credits

Jul 27, 7:44PM

Check out this first of its kind, direct-to-consumer urine-testing app with FDA clearance

Jul 27, 7:24PM

Why unskippable Stories ads could revive Facebook

Jul 27, 6:18PM

Viacom acquires Gen Z digital media company AwesomenessTV

Jul 27, 6:14PM

Russian hackers already targeted a Missouri senator up for reelection in 2018

Jul 27, 5:50PM

Amazon may soon let you collaborate with others on Wish Lists

Jul 27, 5:30PM

Magic Leap details what its mixed reality OS will look like

Jul 27, 5:25PM

Anchor opens a Manhattan studio where people can podcast for free

Jul 27, 5:11PM

1 week until the deadline for Disrupt SF 2018's Hackathon + new sponsor prizes

Jul 27, 5:00PM

MoviePass borrowed $5M to end yesterday's outage

Jul 27, 4:48PM

More bad news for subscription movie ticket service MoviePass, which acknowledged yesterday that there was an unidentified issue preventing people from using their MoviePass credit cards to get tickets. A regulatory filing from parent company Helios & Matheson offers more insight about what happened. The filing (first spotted by Business Insider) announces a “demand note” […]

Disney and Fox shareholders give acquisition the green light

Jul 27, 4:27PM

With Comcast officially out of the way, Disney's buyout of 21st Century Fox assets just took another major step toward reality. Shareholders from both mega media companies have approved the $71.3 billion deal. In a lovely bit of classic media performance art, shareholders from both boards took separate meetings at the New York Hilton this […]

Discovery may launch its own streaming service, too

Jul 27, 3:34PM

Following Discovery Communications $14.6 billion acquisition of Scripps Networks Interactive in March, the company is now toying with the idea of launching its own direct-to-consumer service. According to remarks made by Discovery CEO David Zaslav at an industry event, AdWeek reports [paywalled], the company is considering a service with all of Discovery’s networks at a price […]

In Argentina, venture capital surges even as the broader economy stutters

Jul 27, 3:19PM

Even as the Argentine government was announcing the biggest slide in the country’s economic output in nearly a decade, technology investors in the nation’s capital are all gearing up for record fundraising years. Three of the country’s biggest firms (which are still small by international standards) are raising new, exponentially larger funds in a sign […]

The cloud continues to grow in leaps and bounds, but it's still AWS's world

Jul 27, 3:12PM

With the big cloud companies reporting recently, we can be sure of a couple of things: the market continues to expand rapidly and AWS is going to be hard to catch. Depending on whose numbers you look at, the market grew around 50 percent as it continues its unprecedented expansion. Let’s start with market leader, […]

Browser maker Opera successfully begins trading on NASDAQ

Jul 27, 3:00PM

Opera is now a public company. The Norway-based company priced its initial public offering at $12 a share — the company initially expected to price its share in the $10 to $12 price range. Trading opened at $14.34 per share, up 19.5 percent. The company raised over $115 million with this IPO. Opera Ltd. filed […]

LinkedIn adds voice messaging because we've definitely been clamoring for that

Jul 27, 2:38PM

In a truly bizarre move, LinkedIn is adding voice messages to the professional networking platform. The voice recording feature, which will roll out to all users over the coming weeks, is available via the iOS or Android app. Users can receive messages on both mobile and on the LinkedIn website. The voice messages can be […]

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May 30, 1:01PM

Microsoft acknowledges price increases coming for Office 2019 and Windows 10 Enterprise users

Jul 26, 4:33PM

Microsoft will be making some pricing and naming changes as of its October 2018 price list that will affect some Windows 10 and Office 2019 customers. Here's what's in store.

Windows 10: These two new builds deliver lots of bug fixes

Jul 25, 10:19AM

Updates for Windows 10 have arrived just a fortnight after Patch Tuesday.

Windows 10: Microsoft reopens Skip Ahead program but you need to be quick

Jul 24, 10:09AM

If you're keen to stay in the Skip Ahead group of the Windows 10 Insider tester program, now is the time to act.

Surface by the numbers: How Microsoft reinvented the PC

Jul 26, 12:11PM

A short history of Microsoft's Surface: Missteps and successes

Jul 25, 11:20AM

Windows tablets through the ages: The good, the bad and the ugly, in pictures

Jul 20, 3:10PM

Windows tablets existed long before the iPad was even dreamt of. Take a tour through some of most popular - and most unusual - devices of the last decade.

Medicare hits My Health Record opt-out while Health complains about Parl Library

Jul 26, 2:35AM

When the floppy disk was king

Jul 23, 1:54PM

A look back at the days before floppies went to that great recycling bin in the sky.

The 10 best smartphones of 2018

May 09, 12:23PM

A couple more phones have been launched since MWC and further use of others encouraged us to update the list of top smartphones.

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Slack forms key alliance as Atlassian throws in the towel on enterprise collaboration

Jul 26, 10:39PM

With today’s announcement from Atlassian that it was selling to Slack the IP assets of its two enterprise communications tools, HipChat and Stride, it closes the book on one of the earliest competitors in the modern enterprise collaboration space. It also was a clear signal that Slack is not afraid to take on its giant […]

You can buy the NES Classic and SNES Classic on Amazon now

Jul 26, 10:22PM

If you missed the first few rounds of excitement about Nintendo’s mini nostalgia machines, you’ve got another shot at paying a normal price. Nintendo’s NES and SNES Classic consoles aren’t always easy to find, but they’re now available from Amazon for $59.99 (NES Classic) and $79.99 (SNES Classic). You can place an order for either […]

This 3D-printed AI construct analyzes by bending light

Jul 26, 9:48PM

Machine learning is everywhere these days, but it's usually more or less invisible: it sits in the background, optimizing audio or picking out faces in images. But this new system is not only visible, but physical: it performs AI-type analysis not by crunching numbers, but by bending light. It's weird and unique, but counterintuitively, it's an excellent demonstration of how deceptively simple these "artificial intelligence" systems are.

Bird and Skip secure Portland e-scooter permits and there's already drama

Jul 26, 9:25PM

Electric scooter startups Bird and Skip have landed permits to operate in Portland under a new pilot program that aims to gauge how the controversial form of micro-transportation will fit in the city. And already there’s a bit of drama, or call it skeptical-scooter feelings, scuttling about. The permits issued by Portland Bureau of Transportation […]

Amazon's AWS continues to lead its performance highlights

Jul 26, 8:46PM

Amazon’s web services AWS continue to be the highlight of the company’s balance sheet, once again showing the kind of growth Amazon is looking for in a new business for the second quarter — especially one that has dramatically better margins than its core retail business. Despite now running a grocery chain, the company’s AWS […]

Slack is buying, and shutting down, HipChat and Stride

Jul 26, 8:33PM

HipChat, the workplace chat app that held the throne before Slack was Slack, is being discontinued. Also being discontinued is Atlassian’s own would-be HipChat replacement, Stride. News of the discontinuation comes first not from Atlassian, but instead from a somewhat surprising source: Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield. In a series of tweets, Butterfield says that Slack […]

Age restrictions proposed for drone use in UK

Jul 26, 8:28PM

The UK is currently mulling a lot of new regulations around drones, aimed at clamping down on consumer use ahead of a seemingly inevitable explosion. Among a deluge of proposal is age restriction, banning use of drones weighing more than 0.55 pounds by anyone under the age of 18. That proposed age limit would be […]

How (and how not) to fix AI

Jul 26, 8:00PM

While artificial intelligence was once heralded as the key to unlocking a new era of economic prosperity, policymakers today face a wave of calls to ensure AI is fair, ethical and safe.

Google revamps local events search to include personalized suggestions

Jul 26, 7:23PM

Last May, Google launched a new events feature designed to help web searchers more easily find things to do nearby, while also challenging Facebook’s dominance in the local events space. Today, Google is updating event search with personalized event suggestions, and well as a new design that puts more event information directly in the search […]

Virgin Galactic's third supersonic test flight hits Mach 2.4 and 170,000 feet

Jul 26, 7:18PM

Virgin Galactic is celebrating the third successful supersonic test flight of VSS Unity, the passenger spacecraft it intends to make available for space tourism in the near future. This flight took the craft higher and faster than ever, stressing the system and providing useful data for this rocket plane's engineers.

Extras for bringing the fun at summer festivals

Jul 26, 6:17PM

Summer festivals of all sorts come around every year, and they're even better with a few friends — plus some extras to make the experience more memorable.

Daimler's car2go car-sharing service adds its first US city in four years

Jul 26, 6:05PM

Car2go, the free-floating car-sharing service owned by Daimler, launched in Chicago this week — the company’s 25th market globally. The car-sharing company, which lets customers rent out vehicles on a short-term basis, has been steadily expanding in the past several years, adding to and changing up its fleet beyond the diminutive Smart cars that were […]

ProtonMail now supports PGP encryption with other clients

Jul 26, 6:02PM

ProtonMail is arguably the easiest way to send end-to-end encrypted emails. But encryption only works by default with other ProtonMail users. The company is adding full PGP support so that you can send and receive encrypted emails with people who use other apps and services. ProtonMail is pretty much like iMessage or WhatsApp, but for […]

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

Jul 26, 6:00PM

Tickets to the TechCrunch Summer Party at August Capital are on the verge of selling out. If you want to attend our 13th annual summer fete on July 27, there's no time to waste. Reserve your ticket right now. This event draws an incredible mix of Silicon Valley's startup community — a who's who of founders, investors, […]

24 IRS phone scammers sentenced

Jul 26, 5:25PM

Finally, a little justice for the scammers who prey on the unsuspecting. Twenty-four more phone scammers have received prison sentences of up to 20 years for fraud and money laundering. The extent of their efforts was truly staggering. One defendant, Miteshkumar Patel of Illinois, received 240 months in prison followed by three years of probation. […]

Hear about the challenges of using tech for good at Disrupt SF

Jul 26, 5:16PM

Ride-hailing, social interactions from behind tiny screens and fitness tracking are just a few of the things we've all become accustomed to thanks to innovative app-makers. It's not often that we think of tech serving society for good. But it's time we do. Promise, mRelief, Pigeon.ly and Concrn are four companies that, from the start, […]

Jeffrey Katzenberg's NewTV closes a billion-dollar round, says report

Jul 26, 5:13PM

Jeffrey Katzenberg’s new mobile video startup NewTV, which snagged Meg Whitman as CEO in January, has now closed on $1 billion in funding, according to a report out today in CNN. Investors in the round include Disney, 21st Century Fox, Warner Bros, Entertainment One and other media companies, with a combined $200 million investment, while institutional […]

Meet with Greylock Partners for TechCrunch Include Office Hours this September

Jul 26, 5:00PM

TechCrunch will partner with Greylock for Include Office Hours on September 4th from 2-4pm. The day before TechCrunch Disrupt San Francisco, Greylock investors Sarah Guo, Saam Motamedi, Matt Heiman, and Seth Rosenberg will meet with underrepresented and underserved entrepreneurs to provide key feedback and advice. Founders, apply here! Founded in 2014, TechCrunch launched the Include […]

GitHub and Google reaffirm partnership with Cloud Build CI/CD tool integration

Jul 26, 4:30PM

When Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion smackeroos in June, it sent some shock waves through the developer community as it is a key code repository. Google certainly took notice, but the two companies continue to work closely together. Today at Google Next, they announced an expansion of their partnership around Google’s new CI/CD tool, […]

Facebook finally hands over leave campaign Brexit ads

Jul 26, 4:29PM

The UK parliament has provided another telling glimpse behind the curtain of Facebook’s unregulated ad platform by publishing data on scores of pro-Brexit adverts which it distributed to UK voters during the 2016 referendum on European Union membership. The ads were run on behalf of several vote leave campaigns who paid a third company to […]

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Here's how you can still get a free Windows 10 upgrade

May 30, 1:01PM

Microsoft's much-hyped free upgrade offer for Windows 10 ended in 2016, right? Not exactly. The GWX tool may be gone, but all the other upgrade tools still work, and the end result is an apparently valid digital license. But those offers could end soon.

Windows 10: These two new builds deliver lots of bug fixes

Jul 25, 10:19AM

Updates for Windows 10 have arrived just a fortnight after Patch Tuesday.

Windows 10: Microsoft reopens Skip Ahead program but you need to be quick

Jul 24, 10:09AM

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Surface by the numbers: How Microsoft reinvented the PC

Jul 26, 12:11PM

A short history of Microsoft's Surface: Missteps and successes

Jul 25, 11:20AM

Windows tablets through the ages: The good, the bad and the ugly, in pictures

Jul 20, 3:10PM

Windows tablets existed long before the iPad was even dreamt of. Take a tour through some of most popular - and most unusual - devices of the last decade.

When the floppy disk was king

Jul 23, 1:54PM

A look back at the days before floppies went to that great recycling bin in the sky.

Key takeaways from Singapore healthcare data breach

Jul 21, 9:16AM

No system is infallible and cybersecurity breaches are inevitable, but Singapore needs to do better in mitigating the risks and following through on its pledge to safeguard citizen data.

The 10 best smartphones of 2018

May 09, 12:23PM

A couple more phones have been launched since MWC and further use of others encouraged us to update the list of top smartphones.

How Fortnite approaches analytics, cloud to analyze petabytes of game data

Jul 22, 10:00PM

Parent Epic Games has to process data from its flagship game, devices and micro services. Here's a look at Fortnite's AWS' powered architecture.

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Apple's Search Ads expand to six more markets in Europe and Asia

Jul 25, 11:00PM

In December, Apple introduced a new pay-per-install ad product called Search Ads Basic aimed at smaller developers, to complement the existing Search Ads product, which then became known as Search Ads Advanced. Today, the company is expanding Search Ads to more countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Spain, bringing the total number […]

Facebook loses $120 billion in market cap after awful Q2 earnings

Jul 25, 10:37PM

Facebook’s share price fell over 20 percent in after-hours trading today after the company announced its slowest-ever user growth rate and a scary warning that its revenue growth would rapidly decelerate. Before today’s brutal Q2 earnings, Facebook’s share price closed today at $217.50 – a record high — but fell to around $172 after the […]

FameGame wants to recreate reality TV for a mobile age

Jul 25, 10:33PM

The pre-social media phenomenon that was early 2000s American Idol might be a weird place to spend a lot of focus when it comes to thinking about the future. But it’s also worth noting how little these types of shows adapted to build themselves into the fabric of live social commentary. Twitter has offered a […]

SmartArm's AI-powered prosthesis takes the prize at Microsoft's Imagine Cup

Jul 25, 10:32PM

A pair of Canadian students making a simple, inexpensive prosthetic arm have taken home the grand prize at Microsoft's Imagine Cup, a global startup competition the company holds yearly. SmartArm will receive $85,000, a mentoring session with CEO Satya Nadella, and some other Microsoft goodies. But they were far from the only worthy team from the dozens that came to Redmond to compete.

Indian H-1B applicants face particular scrutiny in Trump's work visa crackdown

Jul 25, 10:06PM

Coming to the U.S. on a work visa is getting harder across the board, but workers from India in particular are feeling the effects of recent policy shifts from the Trump administration. A new report from the National Foundation for American Policy sheds light on how the “Buy American and Hire American” executive order from […]

2.5 billion people use at least one of Facebook's apps

Jul 25, 9:06PM

Facebook is hiding that users are leaving its main app but sticking with Instagram and WhatsApp by publicizing a new metric. Facebook today for the first time announced that in June, 2.5 billion people used at least one of its apps: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger. That’s a helpful number because it counts real people, […]

Qualcomm says it will drop its massive $44B offer to acquire NXP

Jul 25, 8:54PM

Qualcomm today said it wouldn’t extend its offer to buy NXP for $44 billion today as part of its release for its quarterly earnings, and instead be returning $30 billion to investors in the form of a share buy-back. So, barring any last-second changes in the approval process in China or “other material developments”, the […]

Zbiotics says it's bioengineered a hangover cure

Jul 25, 8:36PM

Y Combinator backed Zbiotics has spend two years developing what they’re billing as the world's first genetically engineered probiotic. The startup’s initial product isn’t exactly world-changing but it might just save your day — given they’ve invented an elixir of ‘next day’ life: Aka a hangover cure. Although you actually have to take it before — or, well, during […]

Facebook sees mixed Q2 earnings with slowest-ever growth, stock tanks

Jul 25, 8:11PM

Facebook has hit a wall. The social network succumbed to the public backlash over its handling of fake news, privacy, and digital wellbeing to miss some of Wall Street's estimates, showing mixed results in its Q2 2018 earnings. GDPR, Mark Zuckerberg's testimony before congress, and more scandals appear to have contributed to Facebook’s weak user […]

Nextdoor CEO is stepping down

Jul 25, 7:17PM

Nirav Tolia, CEO of Nextdoor, is stepping down from his role, Recode reports. For those unfamiliar with the company, Nextdoor is like a social network for your neighborhood. Though, over the years, there has been controversy around Nextdoor’s role in promoting racial profiling. Nextdoor later rolled out a new tool to address some of the […]

Daimler deepens ties with China's Baidu on automated driving

Jul 25, 7:13PM

Daimler, the owner of the Mercedes-Benz brand, and China’s Baidu are expanding their partnership with plans to cooperate more closely on automated driving and connectivity services in the German automaker’s vehicles. The two companies have signed an agreement to collaborate in these two areas, specifically with Baidu’s Apollo program, an open-source autonomous driving platform. Both companies said […]

Tommy Hilfiger has launched a ridiculous line of smart clothing that rewards you for wearing it

Jul 25, 6:50PM

Here comes more smart clothing nobody asked for. Fashion brand Tommy Hilfiger today announced the launch of a new line of men’s and women’s clothing, Tommy Jeans Xplore, which comes with smart-chip embedded technology. Unlike, say, Google’s Project Jacquard and its partnership with Levi’s, the goal is not to offer access to calls, texts, maps and […]

Android P's final beta preview is live

Jul 25, 6:06PM

Good news for people who like near-final previews of mobile operating systems. Android just dropped Beta 4 for Android P, marking the last preview milestone before the full version launches. That means the still unnamed OS is just around the corner — promised to arrive at some point later this summer. As all of the […]

Dropbox add-on makes it easier to manage Gmail attachments

Jul 25, 6:00PM

When Dropbox announced it was integrating its storage product with GSuite in March, it was more of a heads up that the two companies were working together. Today at Google Next, Dropbox announced a new add-on to manage Gmail attachments in Dropbox. Ketan Nayak, a product manager at Dropbox says this is the first concrete […]

Outvote hopes to flip elections by getting Democrats to text their friends

Jul 25, 5:56PM

Outvote, a new Y Combinator-backed startup, wants to make grassroots-style campaigning easier and more personal, with the launch of an app that allows people to text their friends with reminders to vote. The idea is to take advantage of people’s willingness to use social sharing to communicate about political issues, while also leveraging the simplicity […]

Apple touts iPhone gaming performance in new ad

Jul 25, 5:54PM

Many people have talked about the performances of the new MacBook Pro over the past few days. But Apple focuses on the A11 Bionic chip in its new TV ad. Named 'Unleash', this ad shows a young man walking down the streets of a Chinese city filled with Mobike and Ofo bikes. He's playing a […]

Dodged questions from Facebook's press call on misinformation

Jul 25, 5:30PM

Facebook avoided some of the toughest inquiries from reporters yesterday during a conference call about its efforts to fight election interference and fake news. The company did provide additional transparency on important topics by subjecting itself to intense questioning from a gaggle of its most vocal critics, and a few bits of interesting news did […]

The Traeger Timberline 850 turns BBQ from art to science

Jul 25, 5:01PM

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 than using an oven. With a little bit of planning, a person can simultaneously grill a flock of chickens, a couple of pork butts and a load […]

Virtru teams up with Google to bring its end-to-end encryption service to Google Drive

Jul 25, 5:00PM

Virtru, which is best known for its email encryption service for both enterprises and consumers, is announcing a partnership with Google today that will bring the company’s encryption technology to Google Drive. Only a few years ago, the company was still bolting its solution on top of Gmail without Google’s blessing, but these days, Google […]

Coinbase lets you convert your tokens into gift cards

Jul 25, 4:50PM

It's still quite hard to buy physical goods using bitcoins or ethers. Coinbase plans to (partially) solve that issue with a new partnership with WeGift. Coinbase customers in Europe and Australia can now convert their tokens on their Coinbase account into digital gift cards for popular stores. For instance, you'll be able to buy gift […]

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