Month: December 2019

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Uber founder Travis Kalanick is leaving the company’s board of directors Uber founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick will officially resign
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More than 45.2 million livestreams displayed the real-time action from The Game Awards earlier this month. The figure marks a 73 percent increase for the annual awards show, and demonstrates the continuing rise in interest around the world of video games. Viewership of livestreams is calculated differently than TV ratings, with the former counted by the
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Apple has a secret team working on satellites and related wireless technology, striving to find new ways to beam data such as Internet connectivity directly to its devices, according to people familiar with the work. The Cupertino, California-based iPhone maker has about a dozen engineers from the aerospace, satellite and antenna design industries working on the
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Advertisement While Facebook and Twitter are quite random in what gets posted, Instagram feels more focused. Most funny Instagram accounts are dedicated to making you laugh, with a stream of funny photos. If you’re looking for a good laugh, from awesome old ladies to crazy ex-boyfriends, here are the funniest Instagram accounts of 2019. There’s
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Most of us grew up in a time when anecdotal evidence was enough to prove a myth right or wrong. We didn’t need quantitative research or double-blind studies to tell us that the word of a trusted friend or family member was indeed true or false. Nowadays, things are different. We’re a generation of skeptics—yet
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Xiaomi has launched the eponymous Xiaomi Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Set in China. As the name clearly suggests, it is a keyboard and mouse kit that is targeted at office-centric productivity tasks, and thus, has a no-frills, no-fuss design. The utilitarian design of the new Xiaomi keyboard and mouse set also trickles down when it
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If you’ve watched a crime TV show before, you’ve probably seen analysts extracting data from a phone. How realistic are these procedures, and can the police recover deleted photos, texts, and files from a phone? Let’s look into what a forensic analyst can do with a phone. Why Mobile Forensic Investigations Happen A mobile forensic
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A year from now, this is likely to have all blown over. A year from now, the Samsung Galaxy Fold’s turbulent takeoff may well be a footnote in the largest story of foldables. For now, however, it’s an important caveat that will come up in every conversation about the nascent product category. How history remembers
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  Drug lord’s brother plans to sue Apple, ex-Apple engineer had missile documents, and more from the world of Apple-related crime. The Bridgeport Village Apple Store in Oregon The latest in an occasional AppleInsider series, looking at the world of crime involving Apple products. Over $100,000 in iPhones stolen from car Police in Oregon say
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Every year we see a set of emerging trends in technology, promising to make our lives better. Major technology companies around the world work super hard to deliver life-changing apps and services that users would love and spend their money on. 2019 was no different as we saw a set of useful apps and software
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