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- Weekly Roundup: Tim Cook explains why he met with Trump, Uber stops self-driving pilot in SF
Uber took its self-driving vehicle fleet to Arizona after being kicked out of San Francisco, Tim Cook cleared up why he met with Trump, and executive level shakeups occurred at Twitter this week. These are the top tech stories all in one place. Read More - After Super Mario Run, Nintendo plans 2 or 3 new mobile games per year
Super Mario Run may have its detractors, but it’s also managed to rack up nearly 10 million downloads per day in its App Store debut, officially topping 50 million downloads as of Friday. Those numbers, combined with its early revenue generating power, have Nintendo still keen on exploring more in ... - Now Snapchat has “Filter Games”
- Glu Mobile acquires QuizUp in deal valued at $7.5 million
- Our self-flying car future
- Withings products disappear from Apple stores following Nokia patent kerfuffle
As most of us were gearing up for a relatively quiet holiday season, Apple and Nokia were getting ready to go to battle, reigniting a war that had seemingly gone cold in 2011 with a reported $720 million settlement for the use of a number of patents. Earlier this week, Apple filed suit in Californi... - Here’s how to track Santa on Christmas Eve
As per tradition, Google’s Santa Tracker is live today across Android, Google Maps and Google.com, helping parents and children alike track Santa’s journey from the North Pole as he begins to deliver Christmas presents all over the world. iOS users can also keep an eye on Santa using the Google Map... - Count down the end of 2016 with 12 Days of Doug
- Cyanogen failed to kill Android, now it is shuttering its services and OS as part of a pivot
- Phil Schiller says Apple is working with Consumer Reports in wake of MacBook Pro battery issues
- TechCrunch’s Favorite Things of 2016
- Responding to disaster with IoT and SDN mesh
- Automile raises $7.5 million for fleet vehicle management software
- Tesla’s latest Easter Eggs include a holiday light show and a trip to Mars
- Dear Air Canada: a systems analysis of a comically colossal cascading failure
I’ll be blunt; I’m here to vent my fury. On your behalf, dear reader! Honest. When a corporation gets things terribly wrong, those of us with platforms need to turn our wrath upon them. It’s the only feedback that actually matters. But there’s a larger issue here: the way that poisonously rigid cor... - Italian incubator H-Farm prepares for a new crop with a campus slated to open in 2018
There’s a farm outside of Venice, Italy, that cultivates tech talent the way other farms grow crops. Read More - Technology and today’s vast and immensely underserved mental health population
- After having its infrastructure shuttered, CyanogenMod will live on as Lineage
- The broken edtech ecosystem investors once avoided is changing
- Tim Curry will read you ‘A Christmas Carol’ from your Amazon Echo
- Fitbit ends one Jawbone patent case seeking to block device import
- The reality of VR/AR trial
- Dutch regulators order T-Mobile to stop offering free music streaming over net neutrality concerns
- Watch this smartphone-assisted robot beat the pants off of humans in air hockey
It’s the holidays and that means it’s time to watch robots cream humans in bouts of skill. The latest example of robotics winning over a meatbag? This amazing air-hockey robot powered by a smartphone, Arduino board and a plotter-like robotic arm. The system works by watching the puck on the surface... - Oculus engineer Dov Katz arrested in sting after allegedly soliciting sex from a 15-year-old girl
Seattle police arrested Oculus’ Head of Computer Vision Dov Katz on December 23rd in a sting operation in which a police officer posed as a 15-year-old girl. Katz allegedly arrived at an Embassy Suites in Tukwila, Washington with $600 after agreeing in texts messages to pay $300 for sex without a c... - 40 female founders who crushed it in 2016
- How to grow your app
- WTF is a liquidation preference?
- Privacy is still alive and kicking in the digital age
- The drought is over… a torrent of tech IPOs is expected in 2017
- Will technology prevent the next food shortage crisis?
- Snapchat has quietly acquired an Israeli startup for a reported $30 million to $40 million
- Fitbit gets another holiday bump and much-needed breathing room
The holidays have come and gone and — as usual — Fitbit got a bit of a lifeline. Once again, everyone is buying Fitbits for gifts. We won’t know exactly how many, but if you just take a quick look at the download charts, Fitbit hit the top of the App Store (even in the presence of the gargantuan pr... - The Apple Watch rolls out a new challenge for the New Year
Making excuses for breaking New Year’s resolutions used to be a hell of a lot simpler. Now that we’ve got social media for every life choice and are wearing our fitness levels on our wrists, there’s really no reason not to keep up. Which isn’t to say, of course, that we all couldn’t use an extra jo... - Cujo adds parental controls to its home firewall device
- LG is bringing a little floating speaker to CES
- Samsung’s CES C-Lab startups are focused on skincare and kids
- How blockchain can create the world’s biggest supercomputer
- 2016’s top programming trends
- Apple leaps into AI research with improved simulated + unsupervised learning
- No Signal: Egypt blocks the encrypted messaging app as it continues its cyber crackdown
- 11 trends that will shape Southeast Asian eCommerce in 2017
The Lazada-Alibaba deal, Alibaba’s largest overseas acquisition to date, is a pivotal event for Southeast Asia and its implications span the entire commerce value chain from digital advertising, logistics, finance, insurance to even healthcare. Read More - The carrot and stick of data breaches
Data breaches are on the rise. Just recently we saw new reports confirming Yahoo! suffered another breach back in 2013. It seems like putting personal information in a website today feels a bit like getting into a car 50 years ago — with minimal seatbelts, no airbags and no testing, you just had to... - Rent the Runway raises $60 million
- An Amazon Echo may be the key to solving a murder case
- Sylvania’s new smart bulb connects to Apple’s HomeKit without a hub
- How startups outside the Bay Area can fundraise in a big way
- The top 10 TechCrunch news videos of 2016
- Amazon sold nine times as many Amazon Echo devices this holiday
- Hey, Alexa, are things going to get weird?
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- Deadly Weekend in Chicago: 5 Killed, 57 Injured
The number surpasses the number of people shot during last year's Memorial Day weekend.
- Fusion May Pave the Way to Safer Nuclear Power
As tremendous increases in energy demand are expected this century, our society has a strong need for clean unlimited energy and the best hope for a clean, renewable energy source is likely fusion. - Massive Sinkhole Prompts Evacuations, State of Emergency
- Kim Jong Un's Nuclear Ambitions to Challenge Trump
- Israel Curbs Relations With 10 Countries Over U.N. Vote
- George Michael Secretly Gave Millions to Good Causes
- How George Michael's Legacy Extends Far Beyond His Music
- Damage Control? McCain Says U.S. Won't Ditch NATO
- Comedian-in-Chief: Obama's Funniest Moments
- Must Read: The Very Best of NBC News From 2016
- 50 Photos That Shaped 2016
- Alexa, Is He Guilty? Amazon Echo Data Sought in Murder Case
Authorities in Arkansas demand private information from Amazon, hoping one of its popular home assistant devices holds clues to a murder. - 'Our Princess Has Passed Away': Stars Mourn 'Leia'
- Carrie Fisher Was a Feminist Force to Be Reckoned With
- 'Star Wars' Actress Carrie Fisher Dies at 60
- PM Abe and Pres. Obama Reaffirm Ties at Pearl Harbor
- Carrie Fisher: Actress, Author and 'Princess'
- Trump Tower Lobby Evacuated Over Suspicious Bag, Deemed Safe
- Hatchimals, Barbie Disappoint Parents and Kids on Christmas
- After Richard Marx Episode, Airline Says More Men Will Help 'Beef Up' Security
- Do This Now to End the Year on a Positive Financial Note
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