Virtual reality porn company VR Bangers has partnered with headset manufacturer AuraVisor to offer a headset preloaded with adult content in hotel rooms. The headset will combine AuraVisor’s wireless VR headset technology with VR Banger’s “immersive porn.” It will initially be av … | Continue reading
A team of Kwik Fit technicians have unveiled a giant portrait of the Queen, to commemorate her 90th birthday this Thursday (21 April). | Continue reading
Apple has launched Apple Pay in Singapore today, making it the second country in Asia after China to get the digital payment service. Read More | Continue reading
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – The founder of China’s Tencent, Pony Ma, said he plans to donate 100 million company shares worth more than $2 billion to the firm’s charity foundation. Ma, one of China’s richest with an estimated fortune of $18.8 billion, said the donation would go towards … | Continue reading
An April 2016 report found that there were 97.4 million pay TV subscriptions in 2015, a figure set to rise to 104.3 million in 2021. Household penetration is also going up. | Continue reading
Nearly a third of senior advertisers in North America are familiar with people-based targeting and know the concept well, according to February 2016 research. A further 39% said they have a general idea of what it is. | Continue reading
Programmatic advertising is on the rise in China, and eMarketer projects nearly $10 billion in spending this year. Getting a data management platform (DMP) in place has become critical for marketers in the country, according to 2015 research. | Continue reading
Consumers across all generations say they would likely use in-store Wi-Fi if they gained instant access to a gift or daily deal, according to February 2016 research. Millennials and Gen Xers, however, are more likely to leverage in-store Wi-Fi than baby boomers. | Continue reading
IFPI estimated that there were 68 million streaming music service subscribers in 2015, a growth rate of 45.2% from 2014’s 41 million. | Continue reading
Elstree 1976, the documentary that tells the story of the unknown actors who played the original Star Wars' bit-part characters, now has a release date. The movie will be showing at US theaters from May 6th, two years after director Jon Spira wrapped up a successful Kickstarter t … | Continue reading
Bitcoin Price Key Highlights Bitcoin price has been gradually trending higher but it seems that bulls are running out of steam. Price has been stuck inside a rising wedge consolidation pattern for quite some time and a breakout might take place soon. Bitcoin price got rejected on … | Continue reading
There are over 1.5 billion people on Facebook alone. With such a number, you can find your target audience and build a brand name around them. It might, however, not be as simple as that. You have to do more than just connecting with your customers on social media. It takes a uni … | Continue reading
My solid-state hard drive is 99-percent full, and it’s all because of virtual reality. Oculus VR, the Facebook subsidiary responsible for the Rift virtual reality headset, has updated the device’s software today and added a key feature that users the option to install their games … | Continue reading
The dream of charging your Apple Watch with a battery-powered band is officially dead, for nowThis time last year, a third-party accessory maker discovered a hidden port on the Apple Watch and decided to create a product around the feature — a wristband that would power up your A … | Continue reading
It was the best day of their lives ... it was the worst day of their lives.SEE ALSO: A Lamborghini driving into floodwaters just taught us all an important lessonA British groom — with his bride riding shotgun — crashed a rented $342,000 Ferrari 458 Spider into his friend's home … | Continue reading
Android users may soon get their own version of Apple's 3D Touch. When Google rolled out its second preview of Android N to developers, we noted the new home screen shortcuts feature offered a nice counterpoint to Apple's 3D Touch. Now we know the feature is a lot more like 3D To … | Continue reading
OAKLAND — Stephen Curry will miss Game 2 against the Rockets on Monday night because of the sprained right ankle suffered two days earlier in the playoff opener, the Warriors announced about 70 minutes before tipoff. Curry’s on-court workout, the final attempt at playing, sealed … | Continue reading
Apple Pay is now available in Singapore, marking the mobile payment service's expansion into its sixth country and its second in Asia. Singapore residents are only able to use American Express cards right now, but Apple says support for credit and debit cards from Visa and banks … | Continue reading
The way people consume television is changing. Shows are now streaming online, and developer Remedy even embedded one inside of its new Xbox One adventure, Quantum Break (read our review). But all of that change only works because the end product looks — and sounds — so familiar. … | Continue reading
The Australian government's controversial site blocking bill is about to get another workout.On Monday, some of the country's largest record companies, including Universal Music Australia, Warner Music Australia and SonyMusic Entertainment Australia, announced they would be seeki … | Continue reading
Sleep deprivation is the undoing of startup founders, according to Arianna Huffington. “There is this kind of founder myth that if you are a founder you can’t afford to get enough sleep,” she told me over the phone while catching a plane back to New York. “The truth is three-quar … | Continue reading
If you’ve got desktop notifications enabled for Google’s Gmail email service, in the past few days you may have been seeing not one but two alerts come up every time a new email arrives in your inbox, with the second one popping up a few seconds after the first one disappears. Tu … | Continue reading
There have been numerous speculations on what retailers should do in an omni-channel world. How do they compete in a world where Amazon is undercutting them in prices and offering free delivery through Prime? How should they respond when brands are increasingly ignoring channel c … | Continue reading
We're streaming live on Mobcrush right now. There's a couple different ways you can watch the stream, and they all work equally well and it's really just a matter of personal preference as to which method you prefer. The easiest way to watch is just watching the embedded player r … | Continue reading
Apple today is unveiling an overhaul to its App Store developer website, a resource available to the 11 million registered developers worldwide who have helped grow the App Store to now more than 1.5 million applications. The updated site will include new articles and videos aime … | Continue reading
Last summer's Demon's Rise - Conquest of the Deep [$2.99] was a surprisingly fun turn-based strategy title from a teensy tiny developer called Wave Light Games. Given its huge number of playable classes, large scale battles, and insane amount of loot it's fair to say that Demon's … | Continue reading
We aren’t done yet. We’ve got some more new faces for you here at TechCrunch, and they’re good ones. First up, Brian Heater has worked at a number of tech pubs, including PCMag, Laptop and Engadget, where he served as the Director of Media. Most recently, he was as the Managing E … | Continue reading
Facebook 86’ed The Shade Room from its platform today for unknown reasons. The celebrity gossip and news publisher attracted about 4.2 million followers on Facebook. We reached out to The Shade Room and to Facebook to learn why its page disappeared. Facebook did not yet reply to … | Continue reading
WASHINGTON (By Dustin Volz and David Shepardson for Reuters) — Bill Gates said on Monday that no one was an “absolutist” on either side of the digital privacy debate, but the cofounder of Microsoft Corp said he supports his company’s lawsuit against the U.S. government seeking th … | Continue reading
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If the reports are true, the Apple Car will speak German, too.SEE ALSO: Tesla Easter egg lets you drive on Mario Kart's Rainbow RoadApple has a secret German research and development arm for the long-rumored Apple Car, according to a report filed Monday morning by German publicat … | Continue reading
Federal agencies are investigating whether Theranos made misleading statements about the effectiveness of its medical tests, according to The Wall Street Journal. The US Attorney's Office has reportedly begun issuing subpoenas to Theranos partners, like Walgreens, to learn how th … | Continue reading
Siri leaked the dates for Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference earlier in today, but the company has now confirmed it— this's WWDC will start on June 13th, and will run until June 17th in San Francisco. Details of the week-long event, including specific locations, schedule, and … | Continue reading
Codename Entertainment's web game Crusaders of the Lost Idols launched on Kongregate.com in July of last year, and has gone on to become quite popular since. The biggest thing to set it apart from other clicker/idle RPGs was its party formation system, which sees you deciding the … | Continue reading
BlackBerry CEO John Chen responded today to reports claiming the company cooperated with Canadian police to intercept and decrypt more than 1 million secure messages sent using BlackBerry devices. Although he did not confirm or deny having handed over a global encryption key, Che … | Continue reading
Just in time for spring planting season, Harvest Moon: Seeds of Memories has arrived. | Continue reading
Apple has updated its developer site with a new section aimed at discussing best practices and business growth via the App Store. Several new articles and videos will provide best practices for discovery, using a freemium model for generating revenue and engaging users with updat … | Continue reading
I have to wear a lot of different hats as a car reviewer.I mean that figuratively, of course. Due to my abnormally large cranium, I look rather stupid in actual, physical hats.Instead, I mean I have to assume the outlook of all kinds of car buyers, from eco-friendly EV enthusiast … | Continue reading
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Netflix is quietly updating some of its original series to support high dynamic range streaming, which, alongside 4K, is one of the more exciting display technologies driving current TV hardware advancements. The company has already added HDR support for Marco Polo's first season … | Continue reading
Supercell ran their first Clash Royale [Free] tournament on April 16th, and if you missed the live, almost 4-hour broadcast, then Supercell's got you covered with a highlight recap of the debut Helsinki Tournament 2016. Their video focuses a lot on the festivities and setup that … | Continue reading
Many of the world’s legendary tech companies got started just as the public markets were cooling off; Microsoft, Apple, HP, IBM, Oracle, FedEx, etc. The most recent case in point is the startup class of 2008 – 2009: Dropbox, Airbnb, Pinterest, Uber and Tiny Speck (Slack) all got … | Continue reading
As the New York Police Department is finding out, using a hashtag for a controversial campaign isn’t a great idea.On Monday, Manhattan Attorney General Cyrus R. Valance was joined by crime victims and representatives from the NYPD to form a coalition focused on “highlight[ing] th … | Continue reading
Ratchet & Clank and Sunset Overdrive developer Insomniac is releasing its aquatic 2D metroidvania Song of the Deep on 12th July for PS4, Xbox One and PC.Song of the Deep is the first game to be published by GameStop, and so its physical release will remain exclusive to the retail … | Continue reading
Scarlett Johansson is starring in next year’s Ghost in the Shell live-action adaptation, and fans of the original animated film are up in arms. When Johansson was officially cast to play a character known as the Major in the movie, the news sparked a wave of criticism aimed at Pa … | Continue reading
Mike Vernal, a Facebook VP who has spent the last eight-plus years at the company, most recently leading its search, profile, local, and developer platform product groups, is leaving the company to become a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital. Before joining Facebook, Vernal sp … | Continue reading
IMAXShift blends the SoulCycle craze with the popular movie theater format that costs more than normal theaters, even though the screens aren't always that large. At $325 a month, or $31 a ride, IMAXShift is prohibitively expensive for many people. Plus, the studio is located in … | Continue reading
Verizon and Hearst are nearing a deal to acquire Complex Media, according to a report today from The Wall Street Journal. Complex Media is the publisher of the eponymous culture magazine and website, as well as a slew of other, smaller sites like music-focused Collider and food-f … | Continue reading