T-Mobile pulled something of a “One More Thing!” this evening, with a bit of a surprise announcement tacked onto the end of their Uncarrier 5.0 event. T-Mobile will no longer count data us

This evening at Seattle’s Paramount Theater, T-Mobile announced another change in the way they’ll do things moving forward. Their latest move? Free trials, meant to convince potential subs

Say the government gets a warrant for some of your data. They come to your house, image your computers, and then hold that data -- even the data that isn't pertinent to their warrant -- for several ye

After today's Fire Phone announcement, we got the chance to go hands-on with Amazon's first foray into smartphone hardware.

A mysterious video released on Harley-Davidson's YouTube channel today shows a much quieter motorcycle zooming down Route 66, fueling speculation that this bike is electric.

Drake, Jay-Z, Kanye: Think you could name their songs in just a few seconds of audio? Twenty-one-year-old Danny Friday knows them by heart. He started coding when he was 12 and became obsessed with ra

As you probably know, Amazon launched its Fire Phone today. Sadly, the company didn't make a live stream available, so you had to make do with our live blog. But it really takes video to get a feel fo

In certain web-obsessed circles, the word of the day today was definitely “yo.” Yo is a ridiculously simple smartphone app that allows you to contact friends with one word messages that sa

Yo. It seems so simple. So mindless. It's only slightly less boring than "Hey" or "Hi", if only because of some perceived aggression or excitement attached to it. But Yo is anything but simple.

A bipartisan group of Congress members have proposed two amendments to the Fiscal Year 2015 Department of Defense Appropriations Act aimed at reining in government surveillance. The first amendment wo

In a magnificent show of technical ineptitude, today the U.S. Marshals revealed the identities of many anonymous bidders in its $18 million seized Silk Road Bitcoin auction by CC'ing them on an email

With the introduction of the Firefly and Dynamic Perspective SDKs, mobile app developers who have grown tired of iterating on activities like messaging, photo-sharing, socializing and more now have ne

Facebook Slingshot's core mechanic 'reply to unlock' makes sharing a fun game or an annoying chore depending on how you look at it. The new standalone photo and video mass-messaging app is delightfull

Today, Amazon introduced the long-rumored <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2014/06/18/amazon-announces-the-fire-phone/">Fire Phone</a>. It has the killer 3D effects that everyone anticipated. But it al

Amazon has just announced its head-tracking, shopping-focused $199 smartphone, the Fire Phone. And for those who might be wavering about shelling out top dollar (it's $649 off contract) for a newbie s

Shasta Ventures, a firm whose investments include Nest, Mint and Turn, announced today that it has raised a $300 million fourth fund. The firm has now raised more than $1 billion. Each Shasta fund

Today Facebook announced new modularized top-of-rack networking switch technology and a new Linux OS to control these switches. The company will eventually share this technology as part of its Open Co

Amazon has brought Mayday to the Fire Phone, it announced today. The Mayday service offers one-tap access to customer service agents who can talk to phone users via video chat, and take over the scree

Given that Amazon's newly announced Fire Phone is largely one gigantic portal for Amazon to sell things (there's a dedicated hardware button just for recognizing products!), some folks were betting on

We've been hearing about head-tracking technology on phones for a long time now. Some have ventured into this territory already, with Samsung releasing camera-based head tracking in earlier generation