Everyone is excited about the Nintendo Switch, but the company continues to be cagey about critical details like the resolution, the presence or absence of a touchscreen and so on. Well, speculation will certainly heat up with the appearance of a... Nintendo Switch patents tantalize gamers with possibilities of VR, touchscreen, ...This entry was posted in Gadgets Gaming Nintendo TC Virtual reality on December 15, 2016 by Devin Coldewey
A Taiwan-based startup called Next Entertainment has raised $25 million in an outsized Series A round of funding for apps that make it possible to livestream for a living. The company’s founder and CEO, Andy Zhong, is no stranger to tech and new media. He previously started FunPlus, a social gaming company acquired by a Chinese conglomerate, Zhongji, in 2014 for $960 million. In fact… Read More Next Entertainment wants to make it possible to livestream for ...This entry was posted in Apps livestreaming Mobile Social Startups Venture Capital on December 15, 2016 by Lora Kolodny
If you are one of the lucky few who either managed to get a NES Classic Edition already, or who will likely be getting one this holiday as a gift, then you’ll notice right away that the controller included is barely usable, thanks to a short cord. That’s where 8bitdo’s new NES Classic wireless control kit comes in. The cord on the included is so short that there’s already… Read More 8Bitdo’s NES30 and Retro Receiver for NES Classic is the ...This entry was posted in Gadgets Gaming Reviews TC on December 15, 2016 by Darrell Etherington
Welcome to the 2016 TechCrunch Holiday Gift Guide! We’ll be rolling out a bunch of guides leading up to Christmas, hopefully making your holiday shopping a little easier. Looking for gifts for others on your list? Check out our full 2016 Gift Guide Hub. Have a furry friend and want to spoil them with tech treats? This is the list for you! From cat cams to apps to occupy them while you… Read More 10 high-tech holiday gifts for your furry friendsThis entry was posted in Gadgets gift guide TC on December 15, 2016 by Sarah Buhr
The phenomenal mobile hit Pokémon Go has peaked, just as the anticipated Nintendo title Super Mario Run hits the App Store, vying for mobile users’ attention and the chance to best Pokémon’s record-breaking numbers. According to new data from App Annie, Pokémon Go has seen declines in both downloads and revenue over the past several months, though it’s still highly… Read More Mario arrives as Pokemon Go peaks, with declining downloads, falling ...This entry was posted in App Annie Apps games Gaming Mobile Niantic Labs on December 15, 2016 by Sarah Perez
Plug and Play, the international corporate innovation and venture capital firm, is holding its Winter Summit Demo Day this week in Silicon Valley. At the two-day event, dozens of startups that have come through one of Plug and Play’s many accelerator programs will pitch their products and services to executives at corporations and early-stage investors who may be interested in working… Read More Watch Plug and Play’s winter summit demo days hereThis entry was posted in Apps demo day hardware Health IoT Mobile Startups TC Venture Capital on December 15, 2016 by Lora Kolodny
Plug and Play, the international corporate innovation and venture capital firm, is holding its Winter Summit Demo Day this week in Silicon Valley. At the two-day event, dozens of startups that have come through one of Plug and Play’s many accelerator programs will pitch their products and services to executives at corporations and early-stage investors who may be interested in working… Read More Watch Plug and Play’s winter summit demo days hereThis entry was posted in Apps demo day hardware Health IoT Mobile Startups TC Venture Capital on December 15, 2016 by Lora Kolodny
Snopes, FactCheck.org, Politifact, and ABC News will help Facebook make good on four of the six promises Mark Zuckerberg made about fighting fake news without it becoming “the arbiter of truth”. It will make fake news posts less visible, append warnings from fact checkers to fake news in the feed, make reporting hoaxes easier, and disrupt the financial incentives of fake news… Read More Facebook now flags and down-ranks fake news with help from ...This entry was posted in Apps Mobile Social TC on December 15, 2016 by Josh Constine
What do you buy for someone who has everything? Either a pink fairy armadillo or an Arduino MKRZero. I’d recommend going with the Arduino. The MKRZero is basically a really, really small microcomputer with a number of outputs and headers as well as a battery management system and USB control. It’s great for learning or building 32-bit applications and it’s small enough to… Read More The Arduino MKRZero is a teenier, tinier DIY board for ...This entry was posted in arduino Europe Gadgets Internet of Things Startups TC on December 15, 2016 by John Biggs
A new Skype application dubbed “Skype Mingo” has been spotted in the wild, offering Android users the ability to use Skype as the native calling app and contacts manager for their smartphone, while still being able to take advantage of Skype features like chat, file and photo sharing, video calls, and its new bots. The app, still in alpha testing according to Google Play, was… Read More Skype begins testing an all-in-one app on Android offering native ...This entry was posted in Android apps Apps Microsoft Mobile Skype TC on December 15, 2016 by Sarah Perez