A group of researchers at ETH Zurich have created an Ethereum smart contract scanner that will check your smart contracts for bugs, exploits or potential problems. The researchers, Dr. Petar Tsankov, Dr. Hubert Ritzdorf, Prof. Martin Vechev and Dr. Arthur…

Norway-based company Opera Ltd has filed for an initial public offering in the U.S. According to its F-1 document, the company plans to raise up to $115 million.

On Friday, we featured 25 founders and VCs who are having a notable 2018 — and who happen to be women. Herewith, 25 more who deserve some kudos for getting it done in the first half of this year. This list, meant to highlight the growing number of women with…

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If you block someone on Facebook, you probably want them to… you know, stay blocked. At least unless you say otherwise.

The high and low points of season 2

Thinner bezels, leaving space for a larger display.

Welcome back to CTRL+T, the TechCrunch podcast that connects the tech to the human. This week we talked about the beta release of Apple’s latest mobile operating system and some of the issues we ha…

Tesla made 5,000 cars last week. Ford can do that in a few hours.

This is a comeback story. Or at least the first chapter to one.

Protect the nudes

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 outward representations of our techie styles, and we put far too…

The bug affected 800,000 people and could have had serious safety implications.

The price increase goes into effect on July 24th, 2018

His new book, "Yes, We (Still) Can," is about his years as White House communications director and what’s next for the Democratic Party.

The DOJ, FBI, and SEC are expanding the investigation into the massive data privacy scandal

Former head of Mac hardware Doug Field is out

Facebook, the world’s largest social network with 2.2 billion users, is all about scale, and so today it announced that it would be sunsetting three apps in its stable that simply weren’t. Hello, Moves and tbh will all be depreciated in the coming weeks,…

It’s a common practice that’s gone largely unnoticed

An alphabet soup of federal agencies are now poring over Facebook’s disclosures and the company’s statements about its response to the improper use of its user information by the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica.