A Technology Crossroads
It was the best of years, it was the worst of years, it was the wokest of years, it was the most problematic of years, it was the year of AI, it was the year of scooters, it was the year of Big Tech triumph, it was the year of Big Tech scandals, it was […]
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TechCrunch’s 2018 Year In Tech Quiz Square off against TechCrunch’s reporters and editors in this year’s annual quiz, covering the major stories of the past twelve months. Have you got what it takes? Which big tech company didn’t get called to Congress this year? How many rockets did SpaceX launch this year? Which company has […]
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Both Facebook and cryptocurrencies have had a bad year. Could they do better, together, in 2019? Facebook apparently thinks so. The company discreetly early this year dedicated to exploring blockchain technology — led by David Marcus, former president of . Then this month we learned the company is , a cryptocurrency tethered to the U.S. […]
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Writing is hard. Whether you’re drafting an email to your boss or trying to pen the next great American novel, ensuring that everything from your punctuation to your overall sentence structures is error-free is no easy task. But most spell-checking apps and grammar aids only live up to their names when it comes to overall […]
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It can take 15 years or more for research to transfer from academia to full industrial deployment. For the founders of Majicke, an automated software testing startup created out of University College London (UCL), it took not much over a year. In September 2016, a trio of UCL researchers founded Majicke with the idea of […]
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once again took first place for the most-seen gaming industry commercials, . Meanwhile, of TV ad impressions for gaming brands, while chart newcomer Oculus VR made an appearance at No. 4. GamesBeat has partnered with iSpot.tv, the real-time TV ad measurement company with attention and conversion analytics from more than eight million smart TVs, to […]
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Motion sickness: It’s far from the flashiest aspect of VR, but it’s a real problem for some people when they put on a headset and enter a virtual world. happens when your eyes tell your brain you’re moving around in a VR environment, but your body feels like it’s sitting in a chair or standing still. If […]
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Chinese internet giant Tencent has been excluded from the first batch of video game license approvals issued by the state-run government since March. China regulators approved Saturday the released of 80 online video games after a months-long freeze, Reuters first reported. None of the approved titles listed on the approval list were from Tencent Holdings, the […]
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Citi Research has joined a growing list of analysts to lower first-quarter production estimates for Apple’s iPhones amid weakening demand for the smartphones. Citi Research analyst William Yang cut the overall iPhone shipment forecast by 5 million to 45 million for the quarter, reported Reuters. That’s a sting that falls in line with others such […]
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FlixBus, the low-cost tech-forward bus service out of Europe that launched in U.S. this year, has added a VR experience to some long-distance routes to and from Las Vegas. For now, the FlixBus VR feature, which includes about 50 virtual reality games and travel experiences, is limited to routes from Tucson, Phoenix, Los Angeles and San […]
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