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- Echo owns the holiday and heads to court: It’s The Daily Crunch
Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday our daily guided tour of the biggest tech stories from the past 24 hours will appear here on TechCrunch.com. To get The Daily Crunch in your inbox every day of the week, sign up here and be sure to take a look at the rest of our newsletters while you’re at it. Ech... - Oculus acquires eye-tracking startup The Eye Tribe
The direction you look could one day control your VR or mobile experience thanks to Facebook and Oculus’ latest buy, The Eye Tribe. Oculus confirms to me that this is an official acquisition. The startup has developed a $99 eye tracking device developer kits for computers, and software that can bri... - Facebook & Google dominate the list of 2016’s top apps
- Amazon tries to recreate Prime Day magic with the first-ever Digital Day sales event
- Ford’s newest self-driving test cars have more compute power and better vision
- FDA issues new security guidelines so that your pacemaker won’t get hacked
This week, the US Food and Drug Administration issued a set of recommendations for securing medical devices that could jeopardize the safety and privacy of their users. The report, titled “Postmarket Management of Cybersecurity in Medical Devices,” focuses on security throughout the lifecycle of a ... - Amazon patents show flying warehouses that send delivery drones to your door
We’ve known about Amazon’s drone delivery ambitions since 2013. But patent filings from Amazon, circulated today by CB Insights’ Zoe Leavitt, reveal more details about how the e-commerce titan could make drone deliveries work at scale, namely through “airborne fulfillment centers.” Yes, that’s a w... - TechCrunch 2016 year in review
- IoT redux… this time, it’s personal
- AppDynamics posts long-awaited IPO filing
- Twitter introduces 360-degree video live streaming
- TechCrunch’s top 10 hardware startup videos of 2016
- Four reasons you shouldn’t launch your crowdfunding campaign at CES
- The price of bitcoin is creeping back toward its 3-year high of $1,000
- How viral open-source startups can build themselves into enterprise-IT powerhouses
Hordes of new enterprise-IT upstarts have popped up in Silicon Valley, with some drawing lofty valuations from investors. They’re driven by new, more-advanced technologies in areas such as databases, software development, networking and cloud computing. And many are taking aim at incumbents like De... - NFL games are now live streaming on China’s Sina Weibo network
The NFL is hoping to expand its presence in China with a new deal that gives social media platform, Sina Weibo – often called China’s Twitter – the rights to live stream select games on its network, including the Super Bowl. The deal marks the first time a sports league will live stream games on t... - The new Microsoft under Satya Nadella is still looking good on Wall Street
- Duolingo gets social
- Here and Mobileye team up on self-driving mapping tech
- iPhone 7 was a top holiday gift, but Apple Watch is fading
- After arriving at 100th railway station in India, Google’s WiFi is set to hit another 100 in 2017
- You can now register to find out when Super Mario Run hits Android
- Volvo integrates Skype for Business in its 90 series vehicles
- 2016 and the year ahead
This past year was a big one for internet attacks, encryption, blackouts, speed and IoT, and 2017 is positioned to bring even more headlines for each of these. As Cloudflare prepares for the coming year, we made some predictions about what’s next for the future of the internet. But first, let’s rev... - Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and Serena Williams are getting married
Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian and tennis superstar Serena Williams are engaged! Williams announced the engagement today on none other than Reddit. Read More - Coca-Cola closes Founders startup incubator
- These are the 5 videos vying for Best Startup Video at the 10th Annual Crunchies
- Jawbone fires back after Fitbit ends patent case
- Obama announces sanctions for Russian election hacking
- In light of discrimination concerns, Uber and Lyft defend their policies to show rider names and photos
- SoftBank lets Trump brag about creating jobs (he didn’t) so that it can buy T-Mobile
- A Look Back
- Iran has banned Clash of Clans for promoting violence and tribal conflict
Earlier this week The Ministry of Justice in Iran blocked Clash of Clans because psychologists in the country believe the game promotes violence and what they are describing as ‘tribal conflict’. They also state that, among other findings, that the game negatively affects family life for youth, who... - LG’s Hub Robot sounds like a mobile Amazon Echo
LG and Samsung have really taken advantage of the calm before the CES storm by teasing out their product announcements, one by one. LG’s certainly ahead in terms of sheer strangeness here, having already announced a floating speaker and a wearable speaker collar. The Seoul-based electronics giant w... - SpaceX loads Iridium satellites for first Falcon 9 mission since explosion
- Blockchain technologies entered the trough of disillusionment in 2016, but 2017 will be brighter
- 2016 Africa roundup: drone delivery, VC, unicorns, exits and Zuck
- Few startups IPOed this year, but the ones that did soared
- Samsung’s new curved monitor coming to CES is somewhat tailored for gamers
- How fast is fast charging?
- Facebook stalls in lawsuit alleging its facial recognition tech violates Illinois law
- Weekly Roundup: Obama imposes sanctions on Russian intelligence, Snapchat and Oculus eat up startups
This year, Donald Trump’s U.S. election triumph sent Silicon Valley into a spiral of uncertainty, Facebook addressed its fake news problem, the IPO landscape saw little action and the UK separated form the EU. Snapchat rebranded to Snap Inc. and launched its Spectacles hardware product. Twitter is ... - 2017 will be a strong year for venture capital
What does my crystal ball say about the outlook for venture capital in 2017? The building blocks of a better year are in place. Many venture capital firms are flush with cash, startup valuations have become more reasonable, technology industry M&A is robust and the technology IPO market is impr... - Why you probably won’t invest in the next unicorn
- Meet the five startups vying for Best App at the 10th Annual Crunchies Awards
- The top 10 best of VR in 2016
- Uru finds the best places to introduce ads in online videos
- Fam lets you do group videochats directly within iMessage
- The real political divide is education
- Russia sanctioned and SpaceX looks back to the stars: It’s The Daily Crunch
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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.
- Trump: Putin 'Smart' for Not Retaliating Over U.S. Sanctions
Trump tweeted his approval after Putin rejected his foreign minister's proposal to give American diplomats the boot. - No, California Did Not Legalize Child Prostitution
- 7 Memorable Political Quotes From 2016
- Eight Good Things That Happened in 2016 (Yes, Really)
- Can Virtual Reality Make You a Better Person?
- Heisman Winner's Death Ruled Suicide; CTE Tests Refused
- In Memoriam: Some of the Famous Figures Who Died in 2016
- Nation's First Known Intersex Birth Certificate Issued in NYC
- Must Read: The Very Best of NBC News From 2016
- 50 Photos That Shaped 2016
- Court Reinstates Michael Skakel's Murder Conviction
The state Supreme Court narrowly rejected a lower court's ruling his lawyer didn't adequately represent him in the Martha Moxley murder trial. - Vermont Utility Finds Malware Linked to Russian Hackers
- Debbie Reynolds, Carrie Fisher to Have Joint Funeral
- Remembering the Famous Figures the World Lost in 2016
- Kellyanne Conway Husband on 'Short List' for Solicitor General
- Tyrus Wong, Pioneer 'Bambi' Artist, Dies at 106
- Judge Blocks N.C. Law Taking Power From Incoming Gov.
- Nor'easter Hammers New England, Drops 2 Feet of Snow on Some
- Soprano Won't Sing For Trump, Quits Mormon Tabernacle Choir
- What Went On In Those Not-So-Secret Russian Compounds?
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