Category: Tech news

Laura Hudson and I discuss the week in gaming, from the Amazon Fire TV to our impressions of Mario Kart 8 on Wii U, Monument Valley on iOS, Elder Scrolls Online on PC, et cetera.

On this week’s podcast (#206), Mat and Mike discuss Microsoft Build, Windows Phone and Cortana, Apple’s WWDC Lottery, and the debut of Amazon Fire TV.

eBay, owners of payment service PayPal, has quietly added a new Virtual Currency category to their sales site, allowing users to sell virtual currency like bitcoin, as well as miners, and mining contracts. Read More

Tiles by Cadigo is a 3D modeling program for kids that lets the wee tykes drop blocks, walls, and pixels into an environment and then output the object for 3D printing. Designed to be dead simple, you basically create a shape in 2D and then “extrude” it into 3D, adding features as you build. The software costs $25 for an early “Founders” edition with free updates, larger canvas and more block… Read More

At the AIIM Conference this week in Orlando, it struck me that companies are remarkably inflexible when it comes to adopting new technologies, but the crowd at AIIM wasn’t alone. Perhaps nothing exemplifies this better than the brouhaha over the Windows Start button, a feature which, by the way, dates back to Window 95 — as in 1995. Read More

Earlier this month, mobile ad attribution startup HasOffers spotted what seemed to be an important new feature in the latest iOS update — iAd attribution. Now it looks like the company was right, because it just announced it’s taken advantage of the new feature to support iAd attribution in its MobileAppTracking service. Basically, this means advertisers can see whether their iAd campaigns… Read More

It’s that time of the week for CrunchWeek, in which a few of us TechCrunch writers plop down in front of a massive white table to talk about the news du jour from the past week. In this week’s episode, Ryan Lawler, Alex Wilhelm and I chatted about the announcement of Amazon’s streaming box, Amazon Fire TV, the upcoming debut of Mike Judge’s new HBO show ‘Silicon… Read More

We’re two races into the Formula 1 season, and Mercedes-Benz has been killing it. Now we know the team’s secret (one of them, anyway), and it’s brilliantly simple.

You got meta this week, commenters (and inspired our headline).

Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session for today has concluded. Read More

Asthma sufferers use a tool called a peak flow meter to see how much air is passing out of their lungs. It is useful to assess when flare-ups are happening and what outside allergens or problems might be causing a bronchial flare-up. Until recently, all that was available to take this measurement was a very basic mechanical device. My Spiroo aims to fix that with a connected, ultraportable peak… Read More

From cocainey disco to acoustibeard strummings, we’ve got a little bit of everything for you.

Game of Thrones likes to kill off beloved characters in pretty gruesome ways. Watch this supercut of every death so far for a refresher before Sunday’s Season 4 premiere. (Spoilers, obviously.)

This week’s Apple rumors include EarPods with built-in voice recognition and new pressure-sensitive touch screens.

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST for short) is preparing a major report on the problem of antibiotic resistance. The report won’t be published for a few months, but today PCAST held one of its periodic meetings, and aired what it thinks the most important issues are going to be. For […]