Sarah Perez 2022-04-07 09:52:45 techcrunch.com Spotify’s $90 in-car entertainment system “Car Thing,” which went on sale to the general public in February, is gaining a number of new features. The company announced today it would add one of users’…
Rita Liao 2022-03-29 19:30:33 techcrunch.com China’s augmented reality startup Nreal is on a roll. The company, which hopes to bring AR to the masses by making bright-color, lightweight smart glasses, has just received $60 million in a Series C extension…
Brian Heater 2022-03-21 09:30:40 techcrunch.com The first DJI Mavic turned the world of consumer drones on its head when it was released back in late-2016. The compact, foldable design launched a million copy cats around the world — including…
Alex Wilhelm 2022-03-08 18:08:52 techcrunch.com It is TechCrunch tradition to look at Apple’s stock price during, and after its major events. Why? Because we enjoy it, and we’re always curious what impact the company’s news has on its actual…
Romain Dillet 2022-03-08 13:42:49 techcrunch.com Apple announced a handful of new products in a pre-recorded online event. And the company announced a brand new desktop computer called the Mac Studio. It’s a small tower computer that looks a bit…
Emma Betuel 2022-02-28 14:29:32 techcrunch.com In that past year, there’s been a lot hype around biomanufacturing — from growing cell-based meat to microbe-powered medicine manufacturing. But none of synthetic biology’s darlings without one key piece of equipment: a bioreactor.…
Sarah Perez 2022-02-10 13:00:36 techcrunch.com Apple today is announcing a series of coming updates for AirTag and the Find My network aimed at addressing the problem of AirTag accessories being used to stalk individuals or people’s property without their…
Devin Coldewey 2022-02-03 14:55:49 techcrunch.com A huge amount of energy use on our planet goes toward creating heat, and not only that, but a large amount of that energy is wasted and byproducts like CO2 blasted into the atmosphere.…
Devin Coldewey 2022-01-29 11:02:20 techcrunch.com Today’s cars are dumb where they should be smart, and smart where they should be dumb. Enough already. Make a car that’s pretty much all dumb and watch it sell — because what automakers…
Darrell Etherington 2022-01-26 14:15:55 techcrunch.com Following a two-month delay, Valve’s Steam Deck will launch on February 25th. In a blog post the company published on Wednesday, Valve said it would open orders to the first batch of reservation holders…
Romain Dillet 2022-01-17 00:01:13 techcrunch.com French startup Exotec has raised a $335 million Series D round in a new round of funding led by Goldman Sachs’ Growth Equity business. Following today’s investment, the company has reached a valuation of…
Frederic Lardinois 2022-01-05 14:00:25 techcrunch.com After fitting some of its cars with comfy lounge chairs at CES 2020, BMW today unveiled the next step in its in-car entertainment story: a 31-inch 8K smart TV with support for Amazon’s Fire…
Haje Jan Kamps 2022-01-05 07:41:56 techcrunch.com As a longtime photographer/videographer/audio nerd, charging all the devices at home is often a chaotic nightmare, and if you’re taking your equipment on the road, it gets worse. It doesn’t speak highly of…
Devin Coldewey 2022-01-04 20:44:01 techcrunch.com Sony has announced some basic information about its much-anticipated next-generation VR hardware for the PS5, which it calls — predictably — PSVR2. Very little was revealed about the device but it did confirm some…
Devin Coldewey 2022-01-04 18:44:33 techcrunch.com No one wants to be the maintenance worker who has to hike through half a mile of damp hallways just to check the pressure gauge on a valve somewhere. LiLz makes it possible to…
Devin Coldewey 2021-11-24 15:44:15 techcrunch.com Architecture and construction have always been, rather quietly, at the bleeding edge of tech and materials trends. It’s no surprise, then, especially at a renowned technical university like ETH Zurich, to find a project…
Rita Liao 2021-12-14 09:20:48 techcrunch.com Chinese smartphone giant Oppo revealed its first in-house chipset at its annual innovation event hosted in Shenzhen on Tuesday. The MariSilicon X chip announced — named after the Mariana Trench — is a neural processing…
Devin Coldewey 2021-11-01 13:27:22 techcrunch.com According to Facebook AI Research, the next generation of robots should be much better at feeling — not emotions, of course, but using the sense of touch. And to advance the ball in this…
Haje Jan Kamps 2021-11-01 17:12:38 techcrunch.com Switzerland-based Mictic has created a pair of wearables that turns thin air into your concert hall. Imagine a theremin without the theremin, hooked up to a clever loop station, and you’ve got the…
Darrell Etherington 2021-09-16 09:00:55 techcrunch.com GoPro today announced a new flagship action camera for its lineup, the HERO10 Black. The main update for the camera is a brand new processor inside, called the GP2, which enables big improvements to…
Romain Dillet 2021-09-14 13:15:47 techcrunch.com Apple is launching a new iPad model. This is the most affordable iPad model in the lineup — it’s cheaper than the iPad Air and iPad Pro. Today’s new iPad replaces the existing $329…
Romain Dillet 2021-09-14 14:21:04 techcrunch.com Shortly after today’s virtual conference, Apple announced that the next major version of iOS will be ready for prime time very soon: iPhone users will be able to update to iOS 15 on September…
Alex Wilhelm 2021-09-14 14:47:28 techcrunch.com The TechCrunch crew is hard at work writing up the latest from Apple’s iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch event. They have good notes on the megacorp’s hardware updates. But what are the markets saying…
Darrell Etherington 2021-09-14 09:23:40 techcrunch.com Xiaomi is challenging Facebook in the wearables arena by launching its own smart glasses. The device won’t only be capable of taking photos, but also of displaying messages and notifications, making calls, providing navigation…
Kate Park 2021-09-14 04:00:26 techcrunch.com The Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) said on Tuesday it fined Google $177 million for abusing its market dominance in the Android operating system (OS) market. The U.S. tech company has restricted market competition…
Romain Dillet 2021-09-14 03:01:26 techcrunch.com Apple is set to announce new iPhone models today. The company is holding a (virtual) keynote at 10 AM PT (1 PM in New York, 6 PM in London, 7 PM in Paris). And…
Matt Burns 2021-09-09 12:00:57 techcrunch.com Image Credits: Storz & Bickel Storz & Bickel finally updated the Mighty vaporizer. The original hit the market in October 2014 and quickly became a fan favorite despite its unwieldy form factor and market-topping…
Brian Heater 2021-08-11 10:00:40 techcrunch.com Behold, Samsung’s latest flagship. With the Galaxy Note out of the way — for this year, at least — the company used today’s Unpacked event to breathe added legitimacy into its foldable line. The…
Brian Heater 2021-08-03 09:00:55 techcrunch.com Founded in 2017, Arizona-based Aira didn’t waste any time proving out its technology. We’ve written about the company’s wireless charging a few times over the years, including the “FreePower” technology it has baked into…
Devin Coldewey 2021-06-30 10:31:46 techcrunch.com To train a robot to navigate a house, you either need to give it a lot of real time in a lot of real houses, or a lot of virtual time in a lot…
Devin Coldewey 2021-06-24 17:41:34 techcrunch.com Regularly testing waterways and reservoirs is a never-ending responsibility for utility companies and municipal safety authorities, and generally — as you might expect — involves either a boat or at least a pair of…
Devin Coldewey 2021-06-08 15:16:42 techcrunch.com Playdate, app and game designer Panic’s first shot at hardware, finally has a firm price and ship date, as well as a bunch of surprise features cooked up since its announcement in 2019. The…
Romain Dillet 2021-06-07 14:09:06 techcrunch.com Apple is rolling out some updates to iCloud under the name iCloud+. The company is announcing those features at its developer conference. Existing paid iCloud users are going to get those iCloud+ features for…