Fight for both the Empire and New Republic from the cockpit of your customizable starfighter. Earlier this week EA, Lucasfilm, and Motive Studios announced Star Wars: Squadrons, an upcoming space combat game set after the events of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi. Yesterday, we received our first look at the high-stakes dogfighter via an
Month: June 2020
A cabin crew member wearing a protective face mask waits at the entrance of a Brussels Airlines plane, at Brussels Airport, in Zaventem, on June 15, 2020 as Brussels Airport reopens for travels within Europe and the Schengen zone, after a months-long closure aimed at stemming the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the
(Editor’s note: This article was originally published October 21, 2019, and has been republished now that the entire series is available to watch for free on HBO.com.) HBO’s Watchmen series premiered October 20, 2019, and the continuation of the groundbreaking graphic novel created by Alan Moore, Dave Gibbons, and John Higgins sparked quite a bit of
Early-stage founders, July 21 – 22 is coming up fast and that means it’s time get ready for TC Early Stage — the virtual startup conference designed with you in mind. We’ve packed this two-day event with more than 50 breakout sessions covering topics and issues early-stage startup founders need to succeed — even more
“Eventbrite is in the unique club that nobody wants to be in,” says CEO and co-founder Julia Hartz. “Which is the first affected and one of the most directly affected businesses of the COVID-19 era.” Hartz, who co-founded the company with her husband Kevin Hartz and Renaud Visage, joined ExtraCrunch Live recently to discuss moving
Matt Martin Contributor Matt Martin is CEO and co-founder of Clockwise, a San Francisco-based software company. More posts by this contributor Recession-proof your software engineering career It all started with an email from a customer: “Do you know why Bain Capital Ventures is reaching out to me about Clockwise?” That email would mark the beginning
Delali Dzirasa Contributor Delali Dzirasa is CEO and founder of Fearless, a full-stack digital services firm in Baltimore, MD with a mission to create software with a soul — tools that empower communities and make a difference. Building a business is hard; about 50% of businesses fail in the first five years. The early years
FP TrendingJun 19, 2020 19:11:09 IST Google has now confirmed that it is testing a new model which will allow consumers to purchase subscriptions outside of the app. The company confirmed to Tech Crunch that a select set of developers are testing the new feature that allows consumers to purchase an app’s subscription outside of
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Your humble Equity team is pretty tired but in good spirits, as there was a lot to talk about this week. But, first, three things to start us off: All that said, here’s what we talked about on
Ford is serious about making the 2021 Mustang Mach-E its most high-tech vehicle to date. The electric crossover will inaugurate a technology named Active Drive Assist that will allow drivers to safely and legally take both hands off the steering wheel when the right conditions are met. It won’t turn the Mach-E into an autonomous
Tesla is edging toward choosing Austin, Texas for the location of its Cybertruck Gigafactory, reports suggest. The electric-car company’s Model Y crossover will also be built at the facility. Tesla boss Elon Musk confirmed on Thursday that his company has an option to buy a 2,100-acre plot of land close to Austin, but said it’s
Twitter on Thursday flagged a video tweeted by President Donald Trump as “manipulated media,” once again appending a fact-check label to the president’s tweets. The caption-less tweet — that at the time of writing, was viewed by over 5 million times and liked by more than 200,000 users — features viral internet footage of a
This is a volatile time in America. As the country continues to reel from the death of George Floyd, protests and a heightened level of activism remain, with many speaking out against systemic racism, police brutality, and other longstanding forms of oppression. Thankfully, for those looking to learn and better contextualize the events at hand,
Photo: Getty Big Oil has spent decades perfecting the art of lying and pursuing a strategy to divide the public so it can continue its polluting ways. It’s been a successful model that has run into a brick wall that is the new climate movement. Advertisement An increasingly diverse, young, and angry coalition is done
Team up with friends and take on waves of colorful ghosts across a ghoulish haunted mansion. VR arcades and location-based entertainment venues have been hit hard by COVID-19 and the ensuing global lockdown. Vertigo Arcades (Arizona Sunshine LB VR, The Corsaire’s Curse), a spin-off of Vertigo Games (Arizona Sunshine, Until the Fall) dedicated to location-based
Plume, the Denver-based startup that provides hormone replacement therapies and medical consultations tailored to the trans community, could not be launching at a time when the company’s services are more needed. It’s no hyperbole to say that transgender citizens in the United States are under attack. Whether from government policies that are intended to defund
Mapillary, the Swedish startup that wants to take on Google and others in mapping the world via a crowdsourced database of street-level imagery, has been acquired by Facebook, according to the company’s blog. Terms of deal aren’t being disclosed. The Mapillary team and project will become part of Facebook’s broader open mapping efforts. Mapillary also
Keep a look out for virtual billboards advertising your favorite products. Thanks in large part to the growing demand for social and mobile gaming, in-game advertising is on a monumental rise. The ability to seamlessly integrate real-world promotional content into an interactive game experience—whether it be an in-game billboard, commercial, or cutscene—offers advertisers the chance
Over the past two decades, the venture capital industry has exploded beyond anyone’s wildest imaginations. What began as a sleepy industry in Boston and Menlo Park has now expanded to dozens of cities the world over. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that VCs deployed more than $130 billion in 2018 and 2019, and thousands
Even if you’re a veteran of FromSoftware’s other games like the Dark Souls series, Demon’s Souls, or Bloodborne, you’re still going to have quite a bit of learning to do when you fire up Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. The kicker is that it plays similarly to the aforementioned FromSoftware games, but different enough to throw
Sigma’s venture into lenses made solely for mirrorless fans just took a leap forward with the brand’s first full-frame, telephoto zoom for L-mount and E-mount cameras in Sigma’s Contemporary line. Announced during an online event on June 18, the Sigma 100-400mm F/5-6.3 DG DN OS brings optically stabilized, long-zoom performance to Sigma, Panasonic, Leica, and Sony
It’s been more than 25 years since the premiere of The X-Files, the award-winning series starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson that debuted in 1993 and made everyone believe “the truth is out there.” FBI Agents Fox Mulder (Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Anderson) returned to the spotlight in recent years for a successful revival of the hit
Roger Duncan Contributor Roger Duncan is a former Research Fellow at the Energy Institute at the University of Texas at Austin and the former General Manager of Austin Energy. He is the co-author of the upcoming book, “The Future of Buildings, Transportation and Power.” The economic lockdown resulting from the coronavirus pandemic has had an
FP StudioJun 18, 2020 19:15:58 IST If you’ve been starved of good news like us, then that wait ends today. The newly launched OPPO Find X2 Series is here, with the Find X2 Pro and Find X2, these two smartphones have given us the glimpse of the future and blew our socks off. Strap in
FP TrendingJun 18, 2020 15:14:00 IST Scientists have recently observed a pattern of fast radio bursts from an unknown source 500 million light-years away. The study was conducted by a team of astronomers, including researchers at MIT, and findings of which were published in the journal Nature. Phys.org explains fast radio bursts (FRBs) are short, intense flashes of
Bang & Olufsen has announced the Beoplay E8 Sport, a pair of luxury true wireless earbuds made for the fashion-conscious exercise fiend. The new E8 Sport follow up on B&O’s first tentative move into earbuds for active people, the E8 Motion, which launched in May 2019. For the E8 Sport, the company has switched up
DroneBase, a Los Angeles-based provider of drone pilots for industrial services companies, has raised $7.5 million during the pandemic to double down on its work with renewable energy companies. While chief executive Dan Burton acknowledged that the company was fundraising prior to the pandemic, the industrial lockdown actually accelerated demand for the company’s services. Even
Photo: Hannah McKay (Pool/Getty Images) Video chat service Zoom will finally add end-to-end encryption to calls placed by users on the free version of its service, weeks after announcing it would only be available to premium users who shelled out for the privilege. Advertisement In April, Zoom faced a shareholder lawsuit alleging that the service
The alchemy for a successful startup can be hard to parse. Sometimes, it’s who you know. Sometimes it’s where you go to school. And sometimes it’s what you do. In the case of La Haus, a startup that wants to bring U.S. tech-enabled real estate services to the Latin American real estate market, it’s all
Battle waves of forsaken souls across the procedurally generated levels of heaven and hell. Released back in 2018 for SteamVR headsets, Sólfar Studios‘ VR rogue-lite shooter In Death made a surprise appearance during yesterday’s UploadVR Summer Showcase in the form of In Death: Unchained. For those unfamiliar with the highly-addicting fantasy combat game, In Death
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