Apple is overtly teasing the start of "a new era" and the ability to "code new worlds" at WWDC this year, building anticipation around the widely expected announcement of its mixed-reality headset. <...
Tourism and travel have come roaring back into business post-pandemic, and today a startup called Hostaway that's building technology for one segment of that market -- those owning and/or managing vac...
There's a macabre adage in journalism: If it bleeds, it leads. That means, in essence, that the more violence or conflict a story contains, the more prominent it will appear, whether in print or on t...
It's been clear to me over the last week or so that my hands are just too old for fighting games. Contorting my fingers into a claw to pull off a special move or combo has been a painful reminder of m...
Welcome to Edition 5.40 of the Rocket Report! I would like to congratulate Virgin Galactic on its successful return to space on Thursday morning above the state of New Mexico. It has been a long perio...
London has been named the world's most high-tech city, according to Z/Yen Group's seventh edition of the Smart Centres Index, published today. The British capital secured the top spot for its world-l...
Follow me on Twitter @Jacqmelinek for breaking crypto news, memes and more.Welcome back to Chain Reaction.Got coin? No? Well, Worldcoin did.Tools for Humanity, the team building World...
Merely months have passed since Microsoft and OpenAI unveiled ChatGPT to the world, sparking a fervor among tech enthusiasts and industry titans. Now, the technology that underpins this generative AI ...
Not only is Monday, May 29 Memorial Day--widely considered the unofficial start of summer--but Sunday, May 28 is National Hamburger Day. And whether you're traveling over the long weekend or staying l...
Welcome back to Chain Reaction, a podcast that interviews newsmakers in crypto to better understand the tech behind the hype and the people working to build a decentralized future.For this week's epis...
[photo1]"Aren't you sharp as a tack?
You some type of lawyer or something?
Somebody important or something?
Well, I ain't passed the bar, but I know a little bit." -- J...
We saw it before with HBO Max and others, but Disney has now joined the content-cutting party. More than two dozen series and movies will be removed from Disney-owned streaming channels Disney+ and Hu...
Universal's Fast & Furious movies began as high-stakes action thrillers about people doing spectacularly batshit things with sexy cars, but the franchise's transition into telling big, bombastic, fami...
This week's 40,000-foot-view of youth features some new slang (which is probably already outdated because I know about it), bad behavior in Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom, and a pop icon coming...
First and most importantly: I finally hit Delta Silver Medallion for 2024, courtesy of last week's trip back to the Bay. Like most of you, I came down with a bad case of wanderlust during the lockdown...
A consulting firm founded and run by two well-known cybersecurity veterans laid off six people last week, TechCrunch has learned.Krebs Stamos Group was founded in 2021 by former Facebook chief securit...
We used to say the internet was written in ink: Anything you did online would stay online forever. These days, however, it's obvious how wrong that is. Links all over the web no longer go anywhere, Yo...
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom has only been out in the wild for a few days at this point, marking a mere sliver of the time players will spend unfolding Hyrule's fresh secrets in the comin...
Compared to a year ago, startup valuations have dipped across the board, no matter if you're a startup raising a seed round or a Series E.But there's good news if you're a growth-stage startup: Valuat...
[photo1]In the early days of the 21st century, the emerging power of digital technologies upended huge swaths of the global economy. For the first time, we could buy just about anything we wanted, and...