Apple announces it will discontinue Thunderbolt Display amid speculation that it will soon launch a 4K or 5K version
Apple today announced that it is discontinuing its Thunderbolt Display, the large external display many use to connect to MacBooks or other Macs for extra screen real estate.
Uber starts showing upfront fares for uberX instead of multipliers but keeps dynamic pricing
Surge pricing has long been Uber's Achilles' heel: during periods of excessive demand, when there are more riders than drivers, Uber increases its normal prices to encourage drivers to flood the zone.
Twilio stock closes at $28.53, jumping more than 90% in first day of trading
Twilio (TWLO) ended its first day as a public company with a bang. Shares in the cloud communication company rose more than 90 percent to close at $28.53, a feat that beat analyst expectations and co...
YouTube announces live streaming is coming to its mobile app, available now for select creators, rolling out more broadly soon
YouTube announced that it is adding the capability to broadcast live video right from its mobile app. This capability is said to be rolling out to select creators first …
Comcast, Alarm.com acquire and split up IoT firm Icontrol; Alarm.com to pay $140M for Connect and Piper interactive security and home automation business units
The main business Comcast is acquiring is Icontrol's Converge software platform, which currently powers the Xfinity Home touch-screen panel and back-end servers.
Inside Google's “ML Ninja” program for teaching its coders AI techniques as it looks to apply machine learning across the company's products
Carson Holgate is training to become a ninja. — Not in the martial arts—she's already done that. Holgate, 26, holds a second degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do.
Google's RankBrain machine learning system is now used to process every search query, up from processing less than 15% of the queries last year
Google is now using its RankBrain machine learning system to process every query that the search engine handles, and the system is changing the rankings of lots of queries.
Twitter starts rolling-out Foursquare-powered location-tagged tweet feeds on iOS
Finally Twitter will let you see tweets from a specific place, like a business, sports stadium, or music festival. After a reader tipped us off, Twitter confirmed to TechCrunch it's now rolling out t...
Instagram will start recommending video channels in Explore section
Next time you're looking for something to watch on Instagram, you might have better luck: Instagram is rolling out an update to its Explore section so that it'll start recommending video collections i...
Facebook announces future updates to Live at VidCon: ability to go live with face filters from MSQRD, add a friend's stream to a broadcast, and schedule streams
Today at VidCon Facebook pre-announced three new big product updates for Facebook Live, their live-streaming platform built into Facebook.
Wikimedia Foundation appoints Katherine Maher, earlier its Chief Communications Officer, as Executive Director
It is our great pleasure to share that during the Board meeting at Wikimania 2016 in Esino Lario, we unanimously voted to appoint Katherine Maher as Executive Director of the Wikimedia Foundation.
Researchers find Chrome vulnerability that may allow hackers to download videos from streaming sites like Netflix or Amazon Prime
For years Hollywood has waged a war on piracy, using digital rights management technologies to fight bootleggers who illegally copy movies and distribute them.
BitTorrent Now ad-supported music and video streaming service launches on Android, with iOS and Apple TV apps coming soon
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French startup Sevenhugs raises $14.6M Series A for its sleep tracker and universal smart-remote that work with connected home devices
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Google and Udacity launch an Android Basics course for novice coders, which costs $199/month and features input from Google experts
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Nest starts selling select Works With Nest products like Philips Hue in its Nest Store
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Cadre raised $68M over the past year and a half from Peter Thiel, Jack Ma, Yuri Milner, others for its real estate trading platform for high-wealth individuals
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