Facebook is waging a war on many fronts today. It is misleading users into thinking their information is more secure than it is. It is using powerful political lobbies to influence government policies. And you can’t be anywhere on the internet without being tracked by Facebook. If you don’t know how bad the situation is,
Month: August 2019
Netflix is working on curation from real, honest-to-goodness humans, taking a break from algorithms for all of its show suggestions, as seen by testing by the streaming giant. “If you’re involved in the A/B test, you’ll see a pop-up the next time you open Netflix. It takes the place of the ‘My List’ queue at
Mi A3 will go on sale in India next on August 27, Xiaomi has revealed. The smartphone went on sale for the first time on Friday, August 23. It had two flash sales on Friday – at 12pm IST and 8pm IST. The Mi A3 is an Android One smartphone that apart from the promise
Among countless stands of car manufacturers, software developers and engineering universities at Cologne’s video games convention, the sight of fatigue-clad soldiers manning the German military’s brightly-lit stall draws in the curious. With a stand boasting a helicopter simulator and ultra-fast games, the Bundeswehr, Germany’s army, has turned to the Gamescom fair in its bid to
It’s nearing the end of Bag Week 2019, where we highlight the best receptacles for the tech we cover daily, and we’ve got a few more winners for you. Earlier this week I collected a few excellent waxed canvas laptop bags together, a sequel to last year’s round-up, but these messenger style bags stood out.
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. Apple reportedly launching new iPhone Pro and iPads with better cameras, 16-inch MacBook Pro and new AirPods Here come the leaks
Urging fans to plunge into a virtual high-res surround sound universe of extraordinary games, Google hopes its cloud-based Stadia platform will take the world by storm on its November launch. The US digital behemoth unveiled details of its nascent streaming video platform at this week’s Gamescom trade fair in Cologne in the hope it can
The Mandalorian trailer is here. At Disney’s D23 Expo in California on Friday, Lucasfilm released the first trailer for the first live-action Star Wars series — The Mandalorian — which gives us our first proper look at what the Jon Favreau-created show will look like. The one-and-a-half minute Mandalorian trailer is largely silent, instead aiming
It’s finally Bag Week again! The most wonderful week of the year at TechCrunch. Just in time for back to school, we’re bringing you reviews of bags of all varieties: from backpacks to rollers to messengers to… The fanny pack. Or hip pack, waist bag, belt bag, sling, crossbody and sometimes bum bag, because where you’re
Twelve cell carriers, including the four largest — AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, and Verizon — have promised to make efforts to prevent spoofed and automated robocalls. Announced Thursday, the pledge comes after 51 U.S. attorneys general brokered a deal that would see the telecom giants roll out anti-robocalling technologies, including a way of cryptographically signing callers
Chinese technology giant Huawei on Friday launched what it is calling world’s most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) processor — the Ascend 910 — along with an all-scenario AI computing framework called MindSpore. The Ascend 910 is a new AI processor that belongs to the company’s series of Ascend-Max chipsets. The telecom giant had announced that
Valve recently attracted a lot of criticism from the cyber-security community after turning away a researcher who discovered a couple of zero-day vulnerabilities in Steam, and eventually blocked him from its bug bounty platform. Valve has now taken cognisance of the whole incident, and after patching the two potentially serious Local Privilege Escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities,
Bose has added a new product to its portfolio of smart home devices – the Bose Portable Home Speaker. The new Bose device boasts of Alexa and Google Assistant support, and promises 360-degree sound dispersion with deep bass output. The Bose Portable Home Speaker weighs just over 1kg and comes in two colour options –
A person has died from what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention speculate is a vaping-related condition. Nearly 200 other cases of varying severeness have been reported nationwide, described by the CDC as “severe unexplained respiratory systems after reported vaping or e-cigarette use.” No information was provided about the deceased other than that they
Samsung’s settled into a nice little twice-yearly schedule for releasing flagships. That’s allowed the company double the opportunity to introduce some nice upgrades to their high-end Android handsets. Nearly six months after the release of the S10, the company just dropped the new Note line. Here’s a whole bunch of words I wrote about the
OnePlus TV is all set to launch in September, and India is the first market where the product will debut. The company has been teasing the arrival of its new product line bit by bit, and in a tweet, OnePlus confirms that the OnePlus TV will offer a 55-inch QLED display. While the 55-inch display
Researchers worry that a new feature giving Instagram users the power to flag false news on the platform won’t do much to head off efforts to use disinformation to sow political discord in 2020. The role of Instagram in spreading political disinformation took centre stage in a pair of Senate reports in December, which highlighted
Live streaming has become a part of nearly every social platform these days. This feature makes it easy to broadcast whatever you’re doing to friends and followers in real-time. But perhaps you don’t care about watching your friends make breakfast on Facebook and wondering how to turn off Facebook Live notifications. In this article we
Apple believes some of its zealous customers will treasure its new titanium credit card so much that they will spend time polishing its white finish. That’s why Apple has posted instructions on how to clean the card properly and warned that some materials might leave blemishes that are difficult to remove. The list of potential
Samsung on Thursday announced the new Galaxy A50s and Galaxy A30s smartphones, however the company was quiet on the pricing and availability front. Thanks to Samsung’s Germany unit, we finally have some idea about the pricing of at least one of the two phones – the Galaxy A30s. This cousin of Samsung Galaxy A30 comes
Android Q is now Android 10. Breaking the 10-year history of naming Android releases after desserts, Google on Thursday announced it had officially named the next version as just Android 10. In the official blog, Google noted that it is changing the way it names the Android releases to make it clear and relatable for
Earlier this year, EA Dice teased a 5v5 competitive mode in Battlefield V. Well, if you have been waiting to engage in some five-on-five action, there is some bad news. EA Dice has revealed that Battlefield V’s 5v5 combat mode has been cancelled, with the studio citing more focus on bug crushing and content creation as the
Samsung Galaxy Note 10 and Galaxy Note 10+ sale offers have been revealed in India just after both models went on sale through various offline and online channels earlier on Friday. The South Korean company has announced that it had tied up with Airtel, Reliance Jio, and Vodafone to offer data benefits to customers purchasing
Apple is getting ready for its usual fall iPhone launch event, which is rumored to be happening September 10, though the event hasn’t been officially confirmed this year. A new report from Bloomberg offers a preview of the lineup of hardware products it’s looking to debut this year. There are new iPhones, of course, including
Omer Kaplan Contributor More posts by this contributor Mobile gaming is a $68.5 billion global business, and investors are buying in By the end of 2019, the global gaming market is estimated to be worth $152 billion, with 45% of that, $68.5 billion, coming directly from mobile games. With this tremendous growth (10.2% YoY to be
Fortnite recently introduced Junk Rifts with the v10.10 content update to level the battlefield against the B.R.U.T.E. mechs. But it appears that Epic Games has another strategy to quell the outrage against the B.R.U.T.E. mechs, and it involves increasing their health. Not only that, the Junk Rift has also been temporarily removed citing an audio
Amazon Prime Video has set an August 30 release date for its next Indian original, Skulls & Roses, a youth-centric reality series — created and hosted by Raghu Ram and Rajiv Lakshman (MTV Roadies) — which claims to “blur the lines between romance and adventure reality shows to take contestants through a truly audacious and
TechCrunch has learned of a safety issue and a number of product reliability questions being raised about a modular computer made by a London edtech startup that’s intended for children to learn coding and electronics. The product, called the pi-top 3, is a Raspberry Pi-powered laptop with a keyboard that slides out to access a
The latest study from Pew Research Center takes a look at the impact mobile technology, including the use of smartphones and social media, is having on the diversity of people’s social network in emerging markets. For the purpose of the study, Pew surveyed mobile users in eleven key markets: Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, South Africa, Kenya,
The latest preview build of Windows 10, available to Windows Insider beta testers on the fast update ring, shows off some improvements that could make life better for early adopters and help Microsoft track bugs with each update it releases. Build 18965 is part of what will become the final Windows 10 20H1 release, set to
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