This is the Samsung Galaxy S8

Behold. The Samsung Galaxy S8 a month before you’re supposed to see it. This image comes from professional leaker, Evan Blass, who is responsible for a good chunk of the mobile phone leaks. The

Nearly one year after launch, Apple Pay finds limited traction in China

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on TechNode, an editorial partner of TechCrunch based in China. After a slow start, Apple Pay is now dominating its home country, the United States, but

China’s newest source of on-demand hype, rental bicycles, gets its first unicorn

There can be no hype without a unicorn. China’s newest startup money pit — bicycle rentals on-demand — now has its first billion-dollar valued company. The industry has sucked in m

China’s Qunar to delist from NASDAQ after completing sale to private equity firm

Chinese travel site Qunar is all set to delist from the NASDAQ after it completed its sale to private equity firm Ocean Management. The deal was first announced last October and today it went through

BeeHex cooks up $1 million for 3D food printers that make pizzas

The phrase “3-D printer” typically brings to mind devices that churn out plastic objects like jewelry, toys, hardware prototypes or even prosthetics. Now, a startup building a 3-D food printer, Be

Crunch Report | 1 Billion Hours of YouTube A Day

AWS outage is affecting a lot of websites, like Quora and Giphy, humans are watching about 1 billion hours a day of YouTube, Hyperloop could be coming to India and Lux Capital closes a $400 million fu

UK’s long-delayed digital strategy looks to AI but is locked to Brexit

The UK government is due to publish its long awaited Digital Strategy later today, about a year later than originally slated. Existing delays having been compounded by the shock of Brexit. Drafts of t

Travis Kalanick apologizes for blowing up at Uber driver who complained about drop in pay

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has penned an open letter of apology for a heated exchange he had with his Uber Black driver back in January about the impact of competitive pricing. Kalanick was shown in a

In video, Uber CEO speaks openly about impact of competitors on pricing

A newly published video clip of Uber CEO Travis Kalanick may offer the world's first glimpse into his thinking about businesses that compete with his ride-sharing juggernaut.

Tesla responds to harassment lawsuit filed by female engineer in 2016

The Guardian published a new interview with Tesla engineer and current employee AJ Vandermeyden on Tuesday, wherein Vandermeyden lays out what she sees as a history of discriminatory treatment in a ma

Google quietly launches Meet, an enterprise-friendly version of Hangouts

Google has quietly launched a new video conferencing application called Meet by Google Hangouts, which is designed for HD video meetings. The web and mobile application appears to be the latest additi

Hacked texts from family of former Trump campaign manager surface on the dark web

As questions around the Trump campaign's relationship with Russia build, at least one former member of the president's inner circle appears to have gotten the DNC treatment.

YouTube unveils YouTube TV, its live TV streaming service

After a year of rumors, YouTube is finally drawing back the curtain on its latest play for entertainment industry domination — a live TV service. At the company’s Playa Vista offices, a cr

TC Disrupt Startup Battlefield application deadline extended to Thursday

If you tried to apply to Disrupt NY’s Startup Battlefield today, you might have noticed you hit a wall. We’re having some technical difficulties right now with the website, and have decide

Snap: Rewriting ‘Art of War’ for social networking — by not documenting anything

Social networks may be the most valuable and durable types of businesses powered by “network effects,” the phenomenon of products or services becoming more powerful the more people use them. This

Gaming company Kabam’s roller coaster ride to an $800 million exit

We talked with Kevin Chou, co-founder and CEO of the gaming company Kabam, about his own both stressful and euphoric experience in running a gaming startup for roughly a decade before selling most of

Dyson to open a second R&D tech campus in the UK

Dyson will open a second campus focused on research and development in the U.K., close to its Malmesbury tech HQ in nearby Cotswolds. The planned expansion at home follows the recent announcement of a

Amazon AWS S3 outage is breaking things for a lot of websites and apps

Amazon’s S3 web-based storage service is experiencing widespread issues, leading to service that’s either partially or fully broken on websites, apps and devices upon which it relies. The

Glossier’s Emily Weiss and Outdoor Voices’ Tyler Haney to talk shop at TC Disrupt NY

Disrupt NY is fast approaching, and the agenda is shaping up to be a real doozy. Alongside speakers like Handy's Oisin Hanrahan, Managed By Q's Dan Teran, WayUp's Liz Wessel, Ford's Raj Nair and Angel

Volvo’s new XC60 will automatically steer as well as brake to avoid crashes

The new Volvo XC60 does more on behalf of the driver in order to prevent accidents, moving the SUV further along the continuum toward full autonomy. The new model of the car adds automated steering in
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