Translation earbuds might eliminate some utilitarian reasons to know a language, but if you want to understand jokes, read poetry, or fall in love in a foreign tongue, you’ll have to actually learn it. Unfortunately, products like Rosetta Stone leave people feeling burned after claiming the process should be easy while never helping you practice talking with a real native speaker. You… Read More
As Facebook finds itself publicly on the hook for enabling Russian agents to spread divisive propaganda via its platform, be it in the form of fake news, ‘dark ads’, issue pushing Facebook pages, and even political rallies organized using its Event tools, there’s another side to the story of how tech tools are impacting the democratic process currently playing out in… Read More
Translation earbuds might eliminate some utilitarian reasons to know a language, but if you want to understand jokes, read poetry, or fall in love in a foreign tongue, you’ll have to actually learn it. Unfortunately, products like Rosetta Stone leave people feeling burned after claiming the process should be easy while never helping you practice talking with a real native speaker. You… Read More
Over the last two years we have been working hard to improve the experience of TechCrunch products for our readers. Our tiny-but-mighty product team launched the brand new TechCrunch mobile app earlier this month and we couldn’t be more excited. It has been completely redesigned with the goal of giving you easy access to the news you care about most, no matter where you are. Read More
You know that you can read the news in a paper, listen to it on the radio, or watch it on TV. But not many know that you can also see what’s happening around the world as photos or slideshows. Journalistic photo essays have been around for some time now. Life magazine revolutionized this new style of consuming news and information. But now that Life has stopped, where should you go to see the news in an interesting new way? 1. Time’s LightBox for News, Life for Archives Before we go further, you should know that all the archives of...
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Children feeling sick after eating too many sweets? Cable television showing endless reruns of Blair Witch Project? Local supermarket shelves packed high with pumpkins? It must be Halloween! Halloween has grown to become one of the most popular American parties in recent years. While those in Europe view it mainly as an event for the kids, in the US, it’s now an excuse for adults to get themselves dressed up in some outrageous fancy costumes. To help you get into the spirit of things, we’ve put together a list of the 13 best Android Halloween apps. After all, 13 is the spookiest...
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Apple has been working with AT&T to extend and activate cell service for users in Puerto Rico. To improve what is a terrible connectivity situation there, it’s going to enable a provisional band of LTE that has been recently approved, but not activated in the US and Puerto Rico, where it has not been licensed. Because LTE is not licensed on Band 8, many phones have not yet been… Read More
Halloween is approaching fast, are you ready? Maybe you’ve already made some spooky Arduino-powered scares. (More of a Raspberry Pi person? Don’t worry, we’ve got you covered.) There are many ways the tech savvy can prepare for the creepiest of seasons, but why not add some final flair to your Halloween with some last minute creations? In this article we will cover 10 projects you can create without using a soldering iron. From simple and crafty to crazy levels of creepy complexity — let’s get started! 1. Pumpkin Palace We’re all familiar with the grinning pumpkin sat on every porch...
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Apple has big plans for the Mac Mini, at least according to Apple CEO Tim Cook. While the company isn’t ready to share those plans with the world, things are happening behind the scenes. And we know all of this because Cook casually revealed all to a nosey Apple fan. It has now been over three years since Apple updated the Mac Mini. This lengthy gap between releases has caused frustration amongst the Apple faithful, and led to us recommending other mini PCs over the Mac Mini. However, you can rest assured that the Mac Mini isn’t dead after all…...
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There are plenty of reasons why some people are choosing to cut the Google cord. Maybe you prefer to go the open source route or have privacy concerns that are pushing you to find Google alternatives. No matter what your reason, the first step to walking away from all things Google is to delete your Google or Gmail account. Google gives users two easy options for deleting accounts. The first option is to delete just your Gmail account. If you choose to do this, you will need to have another email address handy in order to continue with Google services...
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