“We are eroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food security, health and quality of life worldwide.” That’s the word from Sir Robert Watson, the chair of a massive multinational research effort to survey the impact of human development on the natural world. In the most comprehensive effort undertaken to date, some 145 expert…
Apple may be bringing an Android favorite to iOS at its software developers conference next month. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman has published a big list of little software tweaks his sources say are coming to iOS at WWDC. One of the more interesting notes is that Apple is reportedly going to be releasing its own swipe-to-text…
Bill Roberson/Digital Trends Bill Roberson/Digital Trends If you’re not poking around behind your appliance, you might not know what’s going on inside. What type of dryer do you have? Is it gas or electric? But if you’re going to purchase a new dryer, you need to know what to look for. Just because you have…
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. The EU will reportedly investigate Apple following anti-competition complaint from Spotify The European Commission plans to investigate Spotify’s claim that Apple…
Behind all those on-demand shuttles, ride-hailing vehicles, dockless scooters, bikes and someday even autonomous cars is data. A lot of data. Numerous startups have popped up and several large, established companies have rolled out products all aimed at capturing and making sense of that data. One such company is Populus AI, a startup that has…
We’re inviting hundreds of think-outside-the-boxers — coders, devs, engineers and tech makers — to compete onsite at the TechCrunch Hackathon, which takes place during Disrupt San Francisco 2019 on October 2-4. Are you up for the adventure? Participating in the hackathon is free, and all competitors receive Expo Only passes for days one and two,…
Android Auto — the in-car platform that brings the look and functions of a smartphone to the vehicle’s central screen — is getting a new look and improved navigation and communication features that will roll out this summer. The improvements and new look were revealed Monday during Google I/O 2019, the annual developer conference. The…
Most of the strategy discussions and news coverage in the media and entertainment industry is concerned with the unfolding corporate mega-mergers and the political implications of social media platforms. These are important conversations, but they’re largely a story of twentieth-century media (and broader society) finally responding to the dominance Web 2.0 companies have achieved. To…
It’s 2019, and playing a video game is no longer limited to popping a disc in your console and pressing the power button. Instead, we now have digital downloads and more recently, game-streaming services that allow you to instantly begin playing the latest titles without having to install anything or make an a la carte…
Creative Commons has officially launched a search engine allowing for the easy exploration of more than 300 million images that are free to use within certain conditions. The database comprises images from 19 collections, among them Flickr, Rawpixel, and a number of museums including New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the U.K.’s Science…
