Welcome to the final episode of Inside Startup Battlefield. Thank you so much for listening to our miniseries all about TechCrunch’s pitch competition. Now, it’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for — the winner is announced! In this episode, we get to know the winner of the 2022 Startup Battlefield competition. We’ll hear what’s
Month: March 2023
There are a lot of tough jerks in Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. I’m talking warriors like the infamous Lu Bu (Dynasty Warriors fans know), demons such as the four-horned cow monstrosity Aoye, electric dragons, fiendish porcupines, and so many more you’ll probably want to dig your own grave instead of engaging in the game’s many
/ Plus deals on the Acer Chromebook Spin 514, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, JBL Bluetooth speakers, and more. If you travel and want to drown out the droning of your surroundings, meet your buds.Image: Chris Welch / The Verge There are lots of excellent wireless earbuds available these days, but one shines above the rest
Last month, Flutterwave, Africa’s largest startup by private valuation, was involved in a hack that resulted in over ₦2.9 billion (~$4.2 million) missing from its accounts, according to local tech publication Techpoint Africa. According to the documents seen by the publication and reviewed by TechCrunch, unknown actors transferred the funds across 28 accounts in 63 transactions
Last year we said a sad goodbye to Zachtronics, developers of some of the most interesting independent video games of the past decade. And this year we say hello to The Lucky Seven, a new card game—from some of the very same people—that looks extremely cool. CC Off English A “tactical solitaire” game, it’s being
Last month the niche city-builder Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic had one hell of a time, after a fan went rogue and got the game’s website and Steam store page taken down. CC Off English As we wrote on February 16 the fan, reportedly a lawyer, pulled every legal lever he could to damage the
I’m not ashamed to admit that T.J. Maxx is one of my favorite stores and that I shop there far too much. Odds are you’ve shopped there before as well, but what would you say if I told you that you were probably making some mistakes? Seems silly that you could be shopping at a
From killer TVs to amazing gaming headsets, there’s a lot of technology console gamers can invest in to optimize their gaming experience. However, perhaps the most critical piece of technology for gamers is a comfortable, capable controller if you’re a Microsoft Xbox enthusiast who enjoys playing multiplayer games with friends and family, you’re probably already on the
It’s a brand-new season for F1 racing and superstar Max Verstappen. After an unprecedented run to the 2022 F1 Drivers’ Championship, all eyes are on Verstappen and his Red Bull team. Charles Leclerc and Ferrari are looking to close the gap this season, while Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes are hoping to rebound after a difficult
To be successful, a business needs to have a plan for revenue in the short term and profitability in the long. Early-stage founders might be tempted to come up with half a dozen ways the company could make money. Don’t fall into temptation: Five unproven solutions don’t make one actual solution. Having said that, sometimes
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If you haven’t been on a PlayStation in a while, the PlayStation subscription services might not look exactly how you remember them. Sony altered its gaming subscriptions last June, making some big changes and bundling its two previous memberships — PS Plus and PS Now — into a single multitiered service. If you’ve been trying
Sun exposure and ultraviolet rays are the leading causes of skin cancer, but using the best sunscreens available can greatly reduce your chances of harm. You’ll want sunscreen that’s powerful enough to protect your skin for hours and can withstand water if you’re going swimming at the beach or in your pool. On top of
TGIF, my TechCrunch homies. It’s that time of week again — the time for Week in Review, where we recap the past five days in tech news. As always, lots happened, so let’s dig in sans delay. Well, perhaps with a slight delay. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that TechCrunch Early Stage, TechCrunch’s
Just like movies and television, gaming streaming services have taken over. Every gaming platform has at least one, with Xbox, PlayStation and Nintendo building their gaming subscription services around multiplayer and a library of playable titles. That’s right, even if you aren’t interested in a digital gaming library, it might be more cost-effective to subscribe
Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. One of the quieter conversations in venture capital has only grown louder, in my DMs and interviews, over the past few months: The known bias
March is a big month for PlayStation Plus. Minecraft Dungeons is a great game for fans of Diablo, and Code Vein will give any Dark Souls a real challenge. Other major games on PS Plus include Resident Evil 7, horror adventure game The Quarry and Borderlands 3. For those into retro games, PS Plus Premium subscribers (as opposed
Investing in an e-bike doesn’t come cheap, especially if you want one with premium features, but they can make zipping around the city or across campus a breeze, and they’re also an environmentally-conscious option for personal mobility. If you’ve been considering getting one, now is a great time to shop. Juiced Bikes has marked down
/ Alphabet has been labeled a joint employer, which may have some big ramifications for workers if they decide to unionize. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge The National Labor Relations Board has ruled that Alphabet, Google’s parent company, should be considered a joint employer for a group of YouTube Music contractors. The workers
For 10 years, we’ve watched the giants in Attack on Titan chew people up and not really spit them out, and we’ve seen Eren go from a sweet, traumatized kid to a menacing titan that devoured his own father. The brutality and destruction in the anime series is undeniable, but it’s also been filled with grief,
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Recently, “AI” machine-learning technologies have been creeping their way into artistic fields in both entertaining and harmful ways. While some AI content creators are just making videos for harmless fun, others, like the creators of a recent AI-generated anime short, wrongfully believe they’ve democratized the animation industry when they’ve really just come up with a
Northampton, Massachusets officials have greenlit a plan to create and install four Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle-themed manhole covers to celebrate the fact that the massive franchise was originally created there. And to pay for it, the town is using funds intended to help rebuild towns and businesses affected by the Covid-19 pandemic. CC Off English
“Fashion experiences itself as a right, the natural right of the present over the past,” critic Roland Barthes said in his 1967 book The Fashion System. Likewise, I’m saying that an outfit change can completely usurp a video game, pushing itself to the front of the crowd, making all previous outfits and vibes null. That’s
The original Dead Space may not look as fancy as that new remake released earlier this year, but thanks to a new fan-created mod, you can play the original game in first person. Not only does this seem scarier, but it actually looks really good, too. CC Off English First released back in 2008, the
Neo-noir comedy Pokémon: Detective Pikachu came out in 2019, and it was surprisingly good. In the era of risk-averse studios rebooting and remaking everything under the sun, a sequel seemed inevitable. Sure enough, one was already in development when the first debuted. No one’s heard about it since. Until today. CC Off English Deadline reports
Between games, art, and even journalism, a lot of industries are dealing with the rise of artificial intelligence removing the human element of creative works. As people have begun using AI and algorithms to create art rather than hiring workers to do it, companies are making hard stances about whether or not they’ll allow work
Are you a digital nomad? Are you rage farming today’s hellscape? Then congratulations, you deadass helped induct those new terms into Dictionary.com’s latest update. The COVID-19 pandemic made us more familiar with folks fortunate enough to telecommute while living the digital nomad life on the road, and you’ve certainly seen people rage farming (defined as
Welcome back to the TechCrunch Podcast, where I’m standing in for Darrell while he’s honeymooning with his lady love. This week, I sat down with Amanda Silberling and Mary Ann Azevedo to talk through some of their interesting stories. You can listen below or subscribe in iTunes or Spotify to get new episodes delivered weekly
Honda bailed on the Clarity — its only hydrogen-powered car in the U.S. — but the automaker hasn’t quit on fuel cells. That’s the message Honda sent with a peculiar announcement today: It’s putting some old Clarity fuel cells back to work, combining them into a backup power system for its data center just south