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Mental well-being took center stage at CES 2019
Jan 12, 2:17AM
This week, the Las Vegas Convention Center was packed with many of the year's biggest new devices. But over the last several years, The Sands has become the place where the real magic happens. The segment of the show known as Eureka Park is where the startups and accelerators congregate, often times showing off products […]
Anker's PowerPort Atom is my permanent new travel companion
Jan 12, 12:55AM
I had to fight a couple of coworkers for this thing. It's a strange thing to fight over, I realize, but we are strange people with a strange job. And more importantly, I won. I'm plugged into the PowerPort Atom as I write this. It's keeping my 13-inch MacBook Pro alive via the plane power […]
SpaceX will lay off hundreds to 'become a leaner company'
Jan 12, 12:45AM
SpaceX plans to lay off approximately 10 percent of its workforce in order to manage its costs, the company confirmed to TechCrunch today. The news comes as the company embarks on an ambitious plan to develop and test an interplanetary spacecraft while simultaneously performing frequent orbital launches.
Scooter startup Bird tried to silence a journalist. It did not go well.
Jan 11, 11:59PM
Cory Doctorow doesn’t like censorship. He especially doesn’t like his own work being censored. Anyone who knows Doctorow knows his popular tech and culture blog, Boing Boing, and anyone who reads Boing Boing knows Doctorow and his cohort of bloggers. The part-blogger, part special advisor at the online rights group Electronic Frontier Foundation has written […]
Sensel's pressure-sensitive display tech works underwater
Jan 11, 11:48PM
The Morph is a fun little computer peripheral. The small trackpad uses a series of silicone covers to recreate different interfaces, from a QWERTY keyboard to a drum pad. Ultimately, however, it's the tech that drives the product — rather than the product itself — that may prove the most useful. Sensel was on-hand at […]
WeWork gets into the food business, backing the superfood startup of big wave surfer Laird Hamilton
Jan 11, 10:39PM
WeWork CEO Adam Neumann has been described as an avid surfer, one who has been known to grab his board and go, both in the Hamptons in Long Island, where he reportedly owns a home, as well as in Hawaii. Maybe it’s no surprise, then, that WeWork is now also investing in a so-called superfood […]
That GoFundMe to build a border wall is issuing $20 million in refunds
Jan 11, 10:00PM
A Trump-inspired GoFundMe campaign that raised $20 million ostensibly to build a wall on the southern U.S. border will refund every cent. Run by Brian Kolfage, a veteran with a track record of questionable business practices, the project defied all logistical considerations with its proposal for a “simple and straightforward” plan to build the wall. That […]
GM is transforming Cadillac into an electric brand
Jan 11, 9:58PM
General Motors is turning Cadillac into its lead electric vehicle brand in a bid to compete against Tesla as well as a host of other automakers bringing EVs onto the market. Plans are already underway to introduce the first model from the company’s new battery electric vehicle architecture, GM said Friday during an investor meeting. […]
Improbable urges Unity to unsuspend their license, rectify 'farcical' situation for developers
Jan 11, 7:54PM
Improbable may be pissed at Unity, but they still want them back. In a blog post titled “A final statement on SpatialOS and Unity,” the team at the cloud gaming startup aimed to tell their side of the story and implored Unity to “clarify their terms or unsuspend our licenses.” Unity is a game engine […]
The NYT gets into voice with 5 new Alexa skills, including a daily briefing, quiz and more
Jan 11, 7:49PM
The New York Times is expanding its efforts around audio programming and voice assistants, the company announced today. The NYT says it’s launching a daily flash briefing for Alexa devices, as well as an interactive news quiz, and — in an interesting twist — it will be introducing “enhanced coverage” in its Sunday paper that […]
Google cans the Chromecast Audio
Jan 11, 7:24PM
The Chromecast Audio is no more. Google has decided to stop manufacturing the audio dongle that allowed you to add any “dumb” speaker to your Google Cast setup. If you still want one, you’ll have to hurry — and to entice you to buy a discontinued product, Google is now selling its remaining inventory for $15 […]
Netflix faces $25 million lawsuit over 'Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'
Jan 11, 6:34PM
If you watched Netflix’s latest “Black Mirror” production, there’s no doubt it reminded you of the “Choose Your Own Adventure” books. Now, the publisher that owns the trademark to “Choose Your Own Adventure,” Chooseco, LLC, is suing Netflix. The publisher is alleging trademark infringement, The Hollywood Reporter first reported. In the complaint, Chooseco says Netflix […]
Square loses another key executive as Mary Kay Bowman joins Visa
Jan 11, 6:05PM
The news comes shortly after Jack Dorsey's merchant services and mobile payments company lost long-time CFO Sarah Friar to Nextdoor.
Gartner finds PC sales doldrums continued in 2018
Jan 11, 5:56PM
Gartner has released its quarterly PC sales survey for the fourth quarter of 2018, and it was the same old story. PC sales plunged in the fourth quarter and were down 1.3 percent for the year. The three top players — HP, Dell and Lenovo — accounted for 63 percent of sales worldwide in the […]
Elon Musk shows off the assembled Starship test rocket
Jan 11, 5:37PM
After weeks of teasing renderings and production photos, Elon Musk finally showed off the finished Starship test rocket last night. Starship test flight rocket just finished assembly at the @SpaceX Texas launch site. This is an actual picture, not a rendering. pic.twitter.com/k1HkueoXaz — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 11, 2019 As you can well see, the Starship […]
The US continues to hammer Chinese tech
Jan 11, 5:16PM
It's another week, and another bevy of hits on Chinese tech by the U.S. government. Let's get up to speed, plus a request for startup lawyer recommendations. TechCrunch is experimenting with new content forms. This is a rough draft of something new — provide your feedback directly to the author (Danny at danny@techcrunch.com) if you […]
Daily Crunch: Bing has a child porn problem
Jan 11, 5:10PM
The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here: 1. Microsoft Bing not only shows child pornography, it suggests it A TechCrunch-commissioned report has found damning evidence on Microsoft’s search engine. […]
Tor pulls in record donations as it lessens reliance on US government grants
Jan 11, 5:09PM
Tor, the open-source initiative that provides a more secure way to access the internet, is continuing to diversify its funding away from its long-standing reliance on U.S. government grants. The Tor Project — the organization behind the service which stands for “The Onion Router” — announced this week that it brought in a record $460,000 […]
Some US government websites won't load after HTTPS certificates expire during shutdown
Jan 11, 4:50PM
In a government shutdown, everything deemed non-essential stops. As we found out, renewing the certificates on its websites is considered non-essential. Several government sites are currently inaccessible or blocked by most browsers after their HTTPS certificate expired. With nobody available to renew them during the government shutdown, these sites are kicking back warning errors. According […]
Xiaomi's five-year plan is a $1.5 billion bet on smart homes
Jan 11, 3:57PM
Xiaomi, the Chinese company best known for budget phones, is betting big on a future of connected homes. It plans to plough at least 100 billion yuan, or $1.48 billion, into the so-called “AIoT” sector over the next five years, founder and chief operating officer Lei Jun announced on Friday. AIoT, short for “AI + […]
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