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French startup Devialet has done it again. The new Phantom Reactor is a smaller, more effective speaker that packs in everything that made Devialet speakers good in the first place. Devialets first speaker, the Phantom, attracted rave reviews a few years ago. The egg-shaped speaker promised no background noise, no saturation and no distortion in […]
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. Amazon is buying home mesh router startup, Eero Its a pretty clear fit for Amazon as it pushes to make Alexa […]
Ive been podcasting in various forms for about a dozen years now. Sometimes it has been within the corporate confines of the various publications Ive worked for and sometimes it has just been for myself. Thats the beauty of podcasting — theres no overhead. It can be recorded on a terrible Skype line or meticulously […]
One of China’s top smartphone brands Vivo appears to have joined its fellows Oppo, Huawei and Xiaomi in setting up a new sub-brand as a softening market and heightened competition at home drive players to venture upon their original reach. A new smartphone brand called iQoo made its debut on Weibo, China’s answer to Twitter, on […]
Over the last 20 years, smart home gadgets have evolved from fantasy to commodity. Walk into Best Buy and there are dozens of products that take just a few minutes to set up. Its wonderful. Even better, its easy. There are lights and locks and screens from big and small companies alike. And therein lies […]
Amazon’s acquisition of mesh router company Eero is a smart play that adds a number of cards to its hand in the rapidly evolving smart home market. Why shouldn’t every router be an Echo, and every Echo be a router? Consolidating the two makes for powerful synergies and significant leverage against stubborn competition. It’s no […]
I think most of us have had this experience, especially when you’re in a big city: you step off of public transit, take a peek at Google Maps to figure out which way you’re supposed to go… and then somehow proceed to walk two blocks in the wrong direction. Maybe the little blue dot wasn’t […]
The ability to quickly and automatically translate anything you see using a web service is a powerful one, yet few expect much from it other than a tolerable version of a foreign article, menu, or street sign. Shouldn’t this amazing tool be put to better use? It can be, and a company called Lilt is quietly doing so but crucially, it isn’t even trying to leave the human element behind.
Google is giving Gmail a new right-click menu. And it’s about time. While you’ve long been able to right-click on any email in your inbox, your options were always limited. You could archive an email, mark it as read/unread and delete it, but that was about it. Now, as the company announced today, that’s changing […]
Ask me in a couple of months what I think about the Moft. Right now, Im actually digging it. Granted, I didnt have particularly high hopes for a $19 (for Kickstarter early-birds) fiberglass and faux leather gizmo you slap on the bottom of the laptop, but Im into it. The invisible stand is pretty silly […]
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. SoftBanks next bet: $940M into autonomous delivery startup Nuro Nuro has raised $940 million in financing from the SoftBank Vision Fund, […]
Samsungs not telling us anything we dont already know with its latest teaser. But before I hop on yet another flight to San Francisco, its good to know Im getting a little more bang for my (well, Verizons) buck. In addition to the Galaxy S10, Samsung will also be offering a much better glimpse of […]
You might not think of self-driving technologies and politics having much in common, but at least in one way, they overlap meaningfully: yesterdays enemy can be tomorrows ally. Such was the message we gleaned Thursday night, at a small industry event in San Francisco, where we had the chance to sit down with Chris Urmson, the cofounder […]
For years, decades even, startup names have been getting weirder. This isnt a scientific verdict, but it is how things have seemed to someone who spends a lot of hours perusing this stuff.
If you’re craving a truly different sound with which to slay the crew this weekend, look no further than System Beeps, a new album by shiru8bit though you may have to drag your old 486 out of storage to play it. Yes, this album runs in MS-DOS and its music is produced entirely through the PC speaker you know, the one that can only beep.
If you’ve ever seen a lamp or chair that you liked and wished you could just take a picture and find it online, well, GrokStyle let you do that and now the company has been snatched up by Facebook to augment its own growing computer vision department.
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. Jeff Bezos accuses National Enquirer of blackmailing him and publishes the details himself Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he is […]
While its true that its going to take some time before most of us will actually be able to enjoy the benefits of 5G, that doesnt mean you cant sit back and enjoy the fireworks right now. AT&Ts adoption of the 5G Evolution label has already been controversial among industry followers and fellow carriers alike, […]
LGs never been much on waiting for a big show to announce its latest offering. Mobile World Congress is still weeks away, and the company just dropped whats likely to be the biggest new feature of its upcoming flagship, the G8 ThinQ. Clunky naming conventions aside, the handset once again finds LG focusing its efforts […]
The Raspberry Pi Foundation just unveiled a brand new project an actual store. If you live in Cambridge in the U.K., you can now buy a bunch of sweet Raspberry Pis to tinker and develop some cool stuff. The Raspberry Pi has always been about making coding more accessible. And a physical retail space […]