Pulumi, a Seattle-based startup that’s coming out of stealth mode today, wants to make it easier for developers and ops team to define their infrastructure by writing code. Instead of using a…

A lot has been said about the coming future of wearables, but, it turned out, not a heck of a lot took off. It seemed most of us were happy with ‘wearing’ a smartwatch and leaving it at…

Welcome to Bag Week 2018. Every year your faithful friends at TechCrunch spend an entire week looking at bags. Why? Because bags — often ignored but full of our important electronics — are the outw…

"We wanted to make sure we got this right."

A YouTube reaction video platform for students is now free to use for schools

The majestic sound is undermined by a stupidly heavy design

Just shy of two years after launch, Pokémon GO is finally about to roll out one of its most notably absent features: Pokémon trading. A staple of the series, trading lets players swap their Pokémon…

Microsoft has acquired Flipgrid, a social education app that utilizes short video clips to create collaborative lesson plans. The Minneapolis-based startup, which began life as Vidku, has had stron…

Fellas, you’re gonna want that cowbell. And what better way to get that cowbell than with an automatic cowbell-playing robot that uses simple components to create a musical experience like no…

iOS lost the feature last summer

The largest payment app in South Korea, Toss, has pulled in $40 million in fresh investment from Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC and Sequoia China. The deal for Viva Republica, Toss’s par…

Apple this morning announced a new feature in iOS 12 which will automatically share your location with first responders when U.S. users dial 911 using their iPhone. The move is meant to address the…

Thoughts on the future

You don’t need to subscribe to Tidal, Jay-Z’s streaming service, to listen. That’s a change.

In November, Google introduced Datally, a data-saving app largely aimed at emerging markets where users often rely on prepaid SIM cards, and don’t have access to all-you-can-eat unlimited dat…

Is Apple’s walled garden a monopoly?

Plus, here’s how serious Apple is about original TV content — it signed Oprah; what will "Disney as a service" look like? Team Mexico makes the earth move.

The symbol isn’t meant to be there

On Friday, the US announced the extradition of Roger Clark (also known as Variety Jones) to the United States to face newly unsealed charges for his role in Silk Road’s operation.

I’ve been wanting to write about Cocky-gate for some time now but the story – a row between self-published authors that degenerated into ridiculousness – seems finally over and pe…