Twitter’s video streaming app, Periscope, is cracking down on spam and, specifically, fake engagements. The company says it’s updating its policies around how it enforces its anti-spam rul
Some nice momentum for Barcelona based Red Points which has closed a $12M Series B, led by Northzone. Previous investors Mangrove and Sabadell Venture Capital also participated in the round.
Facebook has a fake news problem, Snapchat's Spectacles hype train continues into Tulsa, Oklahoma, Apple releases a coffee table book, Microsoft partners with OpenAI and we have our friend Justin Kan
A man in China bought a Samsung hard drive for about $35 on Taobao. He opened it up, plugged it in, and found that it wasn't showing the full storage capacity on his computer. A few minutes later, he
When we first introduced the Siri clone <a HREF="https://techcrunch.com/2011/10/17/iris-is-sort-of-siri-for-android/">Iris</a>, I figured that would be the last of the outright Siri-alikes. I was wron
<a HREF="http://micgadget.com/14520/kunming-fake-apple-store-changes-its-name-to-smart-store/">MICGadget</a> has some action shots of the Kunming "Apple" store that raised so much Internet ire and mir
Smart Cover Knockoff from M.I.C. Gadget on Vimeo. To continue our counterfeit morning we present to you a fake iPad Smart Cover from China that includes such features as “the cover breaks,”
Sure, it looks like a HTC Evo 4G. They got the buttons right, the camera on the back, and a 4.3 inch screen, which translates out to 800×480. And that’s where things start to go wrong. The
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/excerpt.jpg" />So you can't afford to pop for a real Leica MP camera. Not a problem! Some enterprising bloke has a cheapskate alternative
Wouldn’t it be great if this thing were real? You could do all kinds of great stuff on your iWatch like slide to unlock and tell the time. Presumably apps would be a pretty limited – 2 inc
How many Shanzai does it take to clone the new iPhone? Apparently one and he doesn’t need very long to do it, either. Hot on the heels of the iPhone leak Chinese cloners are already producing iP
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/77841.jpg" />So you want your neighbors to think that your house is an impenetrable fortress, but you don't really feel like shelling out
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/2-620x382.jpg">Gentlemen, start your Photoshopping! Here we have the first of the iSlate fakes, similar to the older iSlate fakes. What m
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/insdream.JPG" />Looks like 2010 is turning out to be the year of the e-book reader. I'm not sure at what point these are going to stop be
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/logo_1024x0768.jpg" />Despite the fact that Blizzard has warned us, there have been some fake beta invite emails starting to go out for t
Click to see it larger I’m not able to confirm or deny these shots are of anything out of Apple but our source tells us these are very early screens of something that “Steve wants,”
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/08/fake-linus.jpg" alt="fake-linus" title="fake-linus" />We all know and love Fake Steve Jobs, right? We all know that Linux users copy ever
Could this be the Macbook iPad Touch Tablet Notebook Edition e-Reader? Or could it be the work of a bored young man who should probably be playing WoW instead of trying to spread vile rumors using poo
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/papercut-660x449.jpg" alt="papercut-660x449" title="papercut-660x449" />So that fake USB Chainsaw <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2009
<img src="http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/crunchpad3.jpg" />Now this is a jolly little happenstance. A Chinese manufacturer is selling what he says is a prototype CrunchPad "inter
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