One Lap: The Orange Chef Preps At Full Speed

Every industry is ripe for disruption, and food preparation is no exception. Traditional recipes are static and driven by standard portion s...

Ghost Hunters Kinect With Spirits

Microsoft's Kinect motion controller may have been intended to keep gamers moving while in the throes of play, but some intrepid explo...

Security-Minded Qubes OS Will Satisfy Your Yen for Xen

Qubes OS is a hybrid computing technology that raises the bar for security. It takes locking down computers to a new level. It has advance...

Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo Has Crashed

This morning, Virgin Galactic tweeted that their SpaceShipTwo spaceplane had experienced an “in-flight anomaly” We have now confirmed that S...

Gadget Ogling: Logged Jogs, Manual Music, Smart Weapons and Skinny Phones

Welcome to another installment of Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, a weekly look at the treats and horrors revealed as manufacturers pull bac...

Microsoft May Have Launched a Band of Gold

Microsoft on Wednesday made another foray into the mobile health market with the introduction of the Microsoft Band, powered by its new Mi...

HP May Sprout New Manufacturing Techniques

HP on Wednesday announced its Blended Reality ecosystem, consisting of HP Multi Jet Fusion, an advanced 3D printer; and Sprout by HP -- a ...

Apple Pay vs. CurrentC: Prelude to the Beacon Wars

The current dustup between Apple Pay and CurrentC is a stark, bleak mess. That's not because Apple promises an easier, more secure way...

GoCardless Launches Enterprise Direct Debits, Secures The Guardian

GoCardless is a Y-Combinator alum which created a simple way for online businesses to set up and accept direct debit payments. Why is this i...

With Ampy, You'll Get a Charge Out of Exercising

While some people are vaguely aware that movement can be converted into electrical energy -- think wrist watches or emergency crank flashl...

The Long and Winding Road to Shellshock Recovery

Four days after the Shellshock vulnerability was disclosed, Incapsula's Web application firewall deflected more than 217,000 attempted...

HP May Sprout New Manufacturing Techniques

HP on Wednesday announced its Blended Reality ecosystem, consisting of HP Multi Jet Fusion, an advanced 3D printer; and Sprout by HP -- a ...

With Ampy, You'll Get a Charge Out of Exercising

While some people are vaguely aware that movement can be converted into electrical energy -- think wrist watches or emergency crank flashl...

Elon Musk Calls for Preventive AI Demon Wrangling

Elon Musk, CEO of both SpaceX and Tesla Motors, among his many roles, this week warned about the threat humans face from artificial intell...

Mobile Malware Takes Victims by Surprise

Malware writers behind Koler, a bad app that attacks Android devices, have upped their game with a new variant of the pernicious program. ...

Debian's Civil War: Has It Really Come to This?

Well it seems no matter how loudly we here in the Linux blogosphere try to hum a happy tune or discuss cheerful FOSS matters, we just can...

Fitbit Tosses 3 More Bands Into the Activity-Tracking Melee

Fitbit on Monday announced three new fitness and activity-tracking wearables: the Fitbit Charge, Charge HR and Surge. The Charge HR and Su...

Matomy Media Acquires Austrian Mobile Ad Platform MobFox For $17.6M

In a move to increase its mobile capabilities, Israel’s Matomy Media Group is to acquire Austrian mobile-advertising specialist MobFox for $...

Hybrid IKEA Desk Could Get You Off Your Duff

IKEA last week introduced a new desk that can be raised and lowered with the push of a button to accommodate both sitting and standing pos...

Debian's Civil War: Has It Really Come to This?

Well it seems no matter how loudly we here in the Linux blogosphere try to hum a happy tune or discuss cheerful FOSS matters, we just can...

Twitter Has No Short-Term Plans To Monetize Vine

Twitter has no short-term plans to monetize Vine, a social product that it purchased in its infancy. The information was shared during the c...

Fitbit Tosses 3 More Bands Into the Activity-Tracking Melee

Fitbit on Monday announced three new fitness and activity-tracking wearables: the Fitbit Charge, Charge HR and Surge. The Charge HR and Su...

Amazon Sticks It to Google Chromecast

Amazon on Monday introduced the Fire TV Stick, a new streaming-media device that can connect to an HDTV's HDMI port and deliver video ...

Robots Gearing Up to Join Ebola Front Lines

The White House and roboticists have set Nov. 7 to get together in a workshop to explore ways of using robots to help in the battle agains...

Detroit's Stupid Plan to Kill Tesla

In watching the illicit attempts of dealers and U.S. auto companies to try to kill Tesla, I have to think they are all wrongheaded. I don...

About That Microsoft Quarterly Report

Microsoft’s first quarter of its fiscal 2015 was big. The fiscal quarter, corresponding to the calendar third of 2014, brought stronger than...

Gadget Ogling: Up In The Air, Big Reads and Ghastly Wearables

This week in Gadget Dreams and Nightmares, a peek at newly announced gadgets that caught my eye, we're going back to the future. Yes, ...

Android Wear Gets Its First Big Update

Google's Android Wear on Thursday got its first major update, bringing GPS support and offline music capabilities to the wearables pla...

Robots Gearing Up to Join Ebola Front Lines

The White House and roboticists have set Nov. 7 to get together in a workshop to explore ways of using robots to help in the battle agains...

Terminal’s Containers Pioneer A New Way Of Developing Apps From The Cloud

Terminal, a San Francisco-based startup founded by some ex-Facebook and Google technical talent, is trying to transform the way we do softwa...

Google's Inbox: Beginning of the End of Email as We Know It?

Google on Wednesday introduced Inbox, a free mobile app that aims to separate the email wheat from the chaff. It's currently available...

Calculate Linux Provides Consistency by Design

Calculate Linux 14 is a distribution designed with home and SMB users in mind. It is optimized for rapid deployment in corporate environme...

Space Explorers Hole Up in Hawaii to Simulate Life on Mars

The third in a series of four simulated missions to Mars planned by NASA kicked off last week at a remote site on the Hawaiian island of M...

Slack Is Raising Another Round At Up To A $1B Valuation

Slack, the enterprise collaboration platform co-founded by Stewart Butterfield of Flickr fame, continues to defy its namesake: we have heard...

Apple Is Confusing Tablet Leadership With Awesomeness

The new super thin iPad Air 2 is starting to get tepid reviews, most of which begrudgingly call it the "best tablet" in the mark...

Reading and Writing and Open Source

Digital textbooks with open-licensed content -- and sometimes even complete open source textbooks -- are two publishing models that are st...

When Should Startups Hire A CFO?

Many founders and CEOs of start-ups don’t spend a lot of time thinking about CFOs. When it comes to finance for a start-up, founders focus o...

Smart Nightlight Calls Your iPhone When Smoke, CO Alarms Start Wailing

Leeo on Tuesday introduced the Smart Alert Nightlight, a $99 gadget that can detect when the alarm sounds from a smoke or carbon monoxide ...

Twitter Introduces Fabric, A Toolkit For Developers To Build Apps On Its Platform

At Twitter’s Flight conference this morning, Dick Costolo’s introduced Fabric, a set of APIs aimed at developers to encourage them to build ...

The Next-Gen TV Cable Dilemma

Television manufacturers are moving toward ultra high definition -- also known as "4K" -- which offers four times the resolution...

Google Takes a Flyer on Magic Leap

Magic Leap on Tuesday announced that Google was the lead investor in a $542 million round of funding for its secret endeavors. Also partic...

Kickstarter Puts Kibosh on Tor-Based Router Funding

Kickstarter on Friday suspended a crowdfunding campaign for Anonabox, a portable networking device designed specifically to run Tor. The c...

Black Box Keeps Cybersnoops in Dark

Following Edward Snowden's revelations about indiscriminate government snooping on U.S. citizens, many Net surfers would like to find ...

Watch The Disrupt London Live Stream Right Here!

Today is, sadly, the final day of Disrupt. But though we’re heartbroken that our London conference is coming to an end, we’re thrilled about...

Tablet Wars: The iPad Drifts Toward Mediocrity

There have been a lot of interesting tablets launched over the last month, but Apple -- the primary driver in this market -- didn't la...

FOSS and the Fear Factor

In a world that's been dominated for far too long by the Systemd Inferno, Linux fans will have to be forgiven if they seize perhaps a ...

FBI's Comey Argues Against Encryption: Trust Us

FBI director James Comey, in a speech last week at the Brookings Institute, reiterated his concerns about encryption built into iOS 8 and ...

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella Dishes On The Cloud, Gender Inequality In Tech And Piracy-As-Freemium

After recently managing to stuff two feet into his mouth at the same time, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella stopped by CNBC for a wide-ranging in...

Tablet Wars: The iPad Drifts Toward Mediocrity

There have been a lot of interesting tablets launched over the last month, but Apple -- the primary driver in this market -- didn't la...

Gadget Ogling: Apple vs. Google, a Bossy Activity Tracker, and Feeling Your Path

Just a month after bumping up the iPhone's size, Apple is back at the table with updated versions of its tablets. There was plenty of ...

BBC to Preserve Memory of Its 'Forgotten' Articles

The BBC will publish and continually update a list of its published articles that were removed from Google searches under Europe's ...

The iPad Air 2 Reveals Chink in Apple's Armor

The launch of the faster, thinner, goldier iPad Air 2, revealed a gap in Apple's shiny armor. This gap is the place where competitors ...

Introducing The 14 Companies Participating In Disrupt London: Startup Battlefield

We’re thrilled to introduce the impressive group of companies participating in this year’s Startup Battlefield. The Battlefield serves to sh...

Watch The Disrupt Europe Live Stream Right Here!

TechCrunch has crossed the pond and has set up shop in London for the second annual Disrupt Europe conference. This year, we’re in London at...

A User’s Guide To Disrupt London 2014

Hard to believe that Disrupt London opens tomorrow! As always, TechCrunch has partnered with an amazing array of folks who promise to make y...

Watch The Disrupt: London Hackathon Judging Live Stream Right Here!

I’m tired and I didn’t do anything. After coding for 24 hours, the participants of the first TechCrunch Disrupt: London hackathon will now p...

Andrei Cherny’s ‘Aspiration’ Brings The Investment Tools Of The 1% To The Other 99%

At 39 years old, Andrey Cherny has advised presidents, consulted with Fortune 100 companies, worked as a state prosecutor, served as a Naval...

Gadget Ogling: Apple vs. Google, a Bossy Activity Tracker, and Feeling Your Path

Just a month after bumping up the iPhone's size, Apple is back at the table with updated versions of its tablets. There was plenty of ...

One Year In, Keepy Reaches 500K Users And Introduces Video To Its Family Timelines

One year since launch, Keepy is announcing that more than 500,000 users sharing content with their families on its service. Read More

BBC to Preserve Memory of Its 'Forgotten' Articles

The BBC will publish and continually update a list of its published articles that were removed from Google searches under Europe's ...

The iPad Air 2 Reveals Chink in Apple's Armor

The launch of the faster, thinner, goldier iPad Air 2, revealed a gap in Apple's shiny armor. This gap is the place where competitors ...

Microsoft Patch Blocks Sandworm Tunnels

iSight Partners this week revealed that a cybergang it dubbed "Sandworm" has been exploiting a zero-day vulnerability that impac...

Tide Starts to Turn Against Gamergate's Women-Hating Campaign

Backlash against the #Gamergate movement escalated several notches this week, thanks to high-profile newspaper reports and a public statem...

Find My iPhone? Find Me! Lost Phone Feature Helps Rescuers Locate Crashed Car

A woman whose car rolled 500 feet down an embankment near San Jose, California, was located through the Find My iPhone feature on her smar...

For Gentoo Linux Initiates, Iron Penguin May Be Too Heavy

Gentoo Linux can be either an experienced Linux user's ideal desktop choice or a new user's worst computing nightmare. I am not ta...

Enter the Nexus Dragon

Google on Wednesday announced three new devices in its Nexus line: a tablet, a phablet, and a streaming media game player-cum-Android TV d...

Samsung Galaxy Note 4 Edges Out iPhone 6 Plus: Reviewers

The first reviews are out on the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, unveiled last month in Berlin, and they're generally positive. "The best ...

Skype Qik Video Chat: Shoot, Send, Vaporize

Microsoft on Tuesday released Skype Qik, a new mobile chat app that features short, self-destructing video messages that automatically sel...