It's time for another big Apple event.Ahead of Monday's Apple event, we share our predictions and run through all the rumors, particularly those of a 4-inch iPhone and a new iPadSee also: Apple vs. the FBI: This is digital security on trialWe also analyze the news that Instagram … | Continue reading
Virtual reality gives people the chance to enter incredible make-believe worlds … but the results of that are often unsettling instead of wondrous. Playful, the studio behind the working on the 3D platformer Lucky’s Tale for the Oculus Rift headset, revealed that even the cutest … | Continue reading
Last year Gears of War designer Cliff Bleszinski revealed his new studio's debut project, a free-to-play multiplayer shooter called LawBreakers. But today he announced a big change: LawBreakers is no longer free. A price wasn't revealed, but the developer says that it will be les … | Continue reading
When Netflix first started making its own television shows it may have seemed like a lark, but the company has nearly single-handedly changed the way we watch television. People started binge-watching with DVDs, sure, but releasing an entire season of an original show at one time … | Continue reading
Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the RPG Reload, the weekly feature where we kill a lot of big bees. Each week, we take a look at an RPG from the hazy mists of App Store time to see how it's doing in the here and now. As the guy with the spikiest hair, I | Continue reading
Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs and phones with a big focus on Microsoft Edge. The company’s new browser has finally received extension support, pinned tabs, and other improvements. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep dive on how Microsoft i … | Continue reading
Beyond the tech, music, and brands, South by Southwest is one of the year's biggest film festivals.139 movies are screening in Austin this year, including a whole host world premieres. Along for the ride is a whole host of TV premieres, documentaries, and even a few unfinished sh … | Continue reading
Spoiler warning: This essay goes deep into the plot specifics of 10 Cloverfield Lane, including some of its big reveals, and the film’s final moments. Continue reading… | Continue reading
It's been over a year since parent company Fossil Group teased a smart Michael Kors watch was in development, and now we finally have a peek of what's coming later this year.Michael Kors is making a big entrance into the wearables space with two sleek and beautiful Android Wear s … | Continue reading
Sega's big free-to-play, cross-platform, raiding-strategy take on the Total War series, Total War Battles: Kingdom, will be going worldwide next week on March 24th. Technically, you could already be playing it if you had the Canadian soft launch (and we have a guide on how to get … | Continue reading
The latest weapon in the War on Terror uses corporate-style analytics to direct the unseen hand of government propaganda. | Continue reading
Is your startup looking to take that next big leap forward? Many companies have gotten their start by displaying in Startup Alley at TechCrunch Disrupt, and we want your company to be our next success story. Read More | Continue reading
Discover How to Blog for Money. Learn the winning strategy to monetize your blog effectively for a high income, plus ten top bloggers share how they do... | Continue reading
China’s Tencent Holdings said today that it saw a big surge in revenue for the fourth quarter but missed profit estimates as its investment in video and other content ate into the bottom line. Most notably, however, Tencent’s chief executive Ma Huateng told reporters that the com … | Continue reading
Learn how to use data to make better informed marketing decisions with this new book from Russell Glass & Sean Callahan of LinkedIn. | Continue reading
Micro ads deliver macro results, according to a new study by IPG Media Lab . When viewed on smartphones, micro ads—videos 5 to 15 secon... | Continue reading
I watched the Millennium Falcon land inches away from my face, and it was one of the coolest things that's ever happened.Star Wars: Trials On Tatooine is ILMxLab's first big showing of what you can expect to see when virtual reality carries you to a galaxy far, far away. With the … | Continue reading
In its bid to raise its name in cloud computing services, Google nabbed a big-name customer: Apple. The iPhone-maker recently started storing portions of its iCloud and services data with Google’s cloud platform, according to sources familiar with the deal.It’s a win for Google, … | Continue reading
Tesla Motors is expanding to New York City — not with a flashy showroom in Manhattan, but with a brick-and-mortar sales and service center in Brooklyn.The new Tesla location opening Friday in Red Hook is not the kind of place where you can leave with the keys to your new Model S … | Continue reading
Hidden away on the exhibition floor at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco today, I found a short line next to the big booth for Amazon Lumberyard, that cross-platform 3D game engine that public cloud infrastructure provide Amazon Web Services (AWS) unveiled last mont … | Continue reading
At the tail end of Pete Lake's GDC panel on rapid idea visualization in a video game studio, the Producer from Criterion Games — the studio responsible for Black and the Burnout series — shared a small glimpse at the next big project, Beyond Cars. The extreme sports game was rev … | Continue reading
For years, ride-sharing companies like Uber and Lyft have claimed that one of their primary goals was to reduce the number of cars on the road. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has gone a step further, saying he wants to "make car ownership a thing of the past." This week, new research f … | Continue reading
High-performance Camaros have always been enlivening, raucous and fast. That's just the nature of the best. However, they've never really been techie machines. More often than not, they've supplanted modernity and creature comforts with a Big Gulp-size of American muscle performa … | Continue reading
The Game Developers Choice Awards is the closest event the games industry has to the Oscars or the BAFTAs. Held annually at the Game Developers Conference, the ceremony celebrates the previous year's best video games and the artists, musicians, programmers, designers, and produce … | Continue reading
While South by Southwest is a festival that examines a lot of things — new technology, up-and-coming trends, and big questions about the future of film, music and technology — rarely do attendees get the opportunity to see a battle that was sparked and largely fought online play … | Continue reading
When it comes to tech, Ireland is primed for success and expansion. Both parts of the island are fostering a tech startup scene with pro-business initiatives and an environment ripe for collaboration between industry, academia and state agencies. It’s not simply policy either. Ir … | Continue reading
Two industry veterans have started a $50 million venture capital fund to invest in early-stage virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality startups. Marco DeMiroz, former chief executive of PlayFirst, and Tipatat Chennavasin, former head of mobile game maker Big Head Mo … | Continue reading
The newly announced Movidius Myriad 2 VPU that powers the DJI Phantom 4 drone might just be a big deal for smartphones too. | Continue reading
Ford’s new 2017 Super Duty (the big F-250 and F-350 pickups) includes something called Trailer Reverse Guidance, an interesting new software and hardware setup that uses a whole bunch of cameras and some clever software to make backing a trailer a lot easier.Ninety percent of Sup … | Continue reading
Online advertising is one of those subjects that we can rely on to get almost everyone to roll their eyes. And lately, it seems that investors have become skeptical, too.Still, you can’t understand the business of many big, consumer Internet companies without understanding advert … | Continue reading
Trust in the way health data is used needs to be established if the potential of big data analytics is to be realised in the health sector and across … | Continue reading
Google’s making big efforts to offer secure products, as well as nudging the companies that use its infrastructure, so that you can use the Web without having to worry. But it’s revealed that it, and some of the world’s biggest websites, are failing to encrypt. According to its n … | Continue reading
IMDb is great if you want to quickly find out who the stars are in your favorite movies or TV shows, but there’s been a big gap in another entertainment area: podcasts. Last year we saw Makerbase pop up, which is like IMDb for people who make things in tech, but now we’ve got Pod … | Continue reading
Apple’s News app, which is installed on all iOS devices, is now open to all publishers. When it launched in fall 2015, News app’s publishing tools were only available to Apple’s partners, including big media players like Conde Nast, The New York Times, and CNN. Now anyone, includ … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: Even with all the talk these days of investors having short arms and thin wallets, money from limited partners continues to flow into venture capital funds. Accel Partners earlier today announced the closing of a pair of U.S. funds totaling $2 billion. Accel is creating … | Continue reading
Noodlecake was teasing Super Stickman Golf 3, and today we got a brief look at the future of the Super Stickman Golf-iverse. Two big things that were revealed today includes a new card system for power-ups, and the ability to put spin on the ball. Subscribe to the TouchArcade You … | Continue reading
Instagram users, you might want to sit downInstagram may soon be messing with your timeline, showing photos not based on chronological order, but based on popularity and other social signals.In other words, your Instagram could soon be curated in a way similar to Facebook's News … | Continue reading
Medium is giving curation a shot. A new feature for iOS and Android named ‘Collections’ will see Medium staff and “trusted testers” push content to the forefront. The home screen will now feature popular topics like politics or technology in a menu along the top. Medium’s current … | Continue reading
Sony game chief Andrew House said today that Sony is partnering with Electronic Arts and Lucasfilm to create a exclusive virtual reality version of Star Wars Battlefront for the PlayStation 4’s PlayStation VR headset. House said that Sony will launch the PlayStation VR headset fo … | Continue reading
Sony game chief Andrew House announced today that the PlayStation VR virtual reality headset will launch for $399 in October. It’s going to be a big year for VR, and the crowds at the VR sessions at the Game Developers Conference reflect that. VR is expected to be a $30 billion m … | Continue reading
An ad here and there may not seem like a big deal when you can get an awesome application for $0, but a new study shows that this model is affecting our mobile experiences much more than we think. | Continue reading
Google is known for paying big bucks to hackers that can crack its security, but this time its doubling its $50,000 bug bounty. Anyone who can create a recurring hack for a Chromebook or Chromebox that’s working on guest mode – meaning it comes back even after the machine’s been … | Continue reading
The modern Web is often lauded for the way it has democratized communications and provided a platform through which individuals can influence and reach a mass audience, without gatekeepers like the traditional media. The reality, however, may be somewhat different, according to D … | Continue reading
Kanye West made his first update to The Life of Pablo today, a change reflected only on Tidal, where Kanye says the album will live forever. As Reddit user JayElect points out, the album track "Famous" has gotten a few new lyrics and some minor production changes. It's not a big … | Continue reading
A surprisingly smart tyrannosaur has been uncovered — and this dinosaur may have hunted smarter, not harder, evidence suggests. Once thought to have grown large while acquiring intelligence, this new specimen suggests something new: tyrannosaurs didn't have to be big to be smart. … | Continue reading
The topic you hear all the time around mobile games is trying to create the first big mobile gaming eSport. Vainglory [Free] is really trying at it, throwing events all the time including one this past weekend in Santa Monica. And you see things like Super Senso aiming towards co … | Continue reading
Microsoft is announcing a big new feature for Xbox owners today: cross-network play. It's something the software giant has hinted at for years, and now it seems the reality of PS4, Xbox One, and PC players playing the same game together might finally happen. Developers building g … | Continue reading
Sony's internet TV service, PlayStation Vue, has been a bit slow to roll out since launching a year ago. Before today, it was only available in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, San Francisco, and Miami. A big part of why Vue has been expanding so slowly is be … | Continue reading