Matt Burns

Senior Editor, TechCrunch

Matt is a Managing Editor at TechCrunch.

He started at TechCrunch as a freelance writer in 2008 and moved up the ranks to become the Managing Editor in early 2017. Born and raised in the heart of the automotive world, he has a special place in his heart for mobility startups and gadgets.

At TechCrunch he manages the editorial side of the company’s events including TechCrunch Disrupt, TechCrunch Sessions and the company’s various worldwide events. Previously he was a freelance writer at Engadget and EngadgetHD where he hosted podcasts until he was removed from that role after saying a swear word. He’s very sorry and promises it won’t happen again.

His passions include emails, run-on sentences and following through with action items developed during a conference call. And woodwork.

Matt Burns

The maker of Shadowverse and Granblue Fantasy is teaming up with Nintendo for a new mobile RPG. Called Dragalia Lost, the Japanese-style action RPG will be a free-to-play game though…

Nintendo is releasing a mobile RPG this summer

Over coming years Ford intends to stop selling most of its cars in North America. This plan would leave just the Mustang and upcoming Focus Active as the only traditional…

Here’s when Ford will stop making most of its cars
Hardware

This is a real life Transformer

6:28 am PDT • April 26, 2018

The J-deite RIDE transformers from a vehicle to a robot just like the Megazord from Voltron. Specific information about the creation is a bit sketchy but the YouTube channel states…

This is a real life Transformer

The headphone jack could still have a future in an iPhone. These leaked pics show an iPhone SE 2 with a glass back and headphone jack. Like the current iPhone…

Leaked iPhone pics show glass back and headphone jack

Ford today announced it will phase out most cars it sells in North America. According to its latest financial release, the auto giant “will transition to two vehicles” — the…

Ford to stop selling every car in North America but the Mustang and Focus Active

Volkswagen is entering the yearly race up Pikes Peak with a lightweight custom racer. Called the I.D. R Pikes Peak, two electric engines are good for 680 hp and 479…

This is Volkswagen’s ludicrous electric Pikes Peak racer

GoPro is willing to take that old digital camera stuffed in your junk drawer even if it’s not a GoPro. Through a program called TradeUp, the camera company will discount…

GoPro launches TradeUp program to swap old cameras for discounts

Tesla is about to ramp up production of the Model 3 sedan according to an email obtained by Jalopnik. The company shut down the sedan’s production line this week, but…

Leaked Tesla email says Model 3 will go to 24/7 production

General Motors is spinning up its electrification plans and today announced the stunning, poorly named Buick Enspire concept at Auto China 2018. As a concepts go, this one looks great…

Buick unveils an all-electric SUV concept and it’s exactly what GM needs

Elon Musk, CEO of multiple companies and part of the PayPal mafia, is worth around $20 billion dollars. He doesn’t need a handout. But that didn’t stopped more than 72…

The internet just crowdfunded billionaire Elon Musk a new couch

Reports of Twitter being down are coming in from across the globe. The homepage and mobile app are currently down. The desktop API still works so users can connect to the…

Twitter is down [UPDATE: It’s back]

Carvana is already an innovative way to shop for a car, and it could get better thanks to Car360. The two companies share an interest in improving the car-buying experience through…

Carvana acquires Car360 for $22M to improve its car-buying platform

The mayor of Los Angeles confirmed earlier reports that SpaceX will build its largest rocket, the BFR, at the Port of Los Angeles. The company intends to build a manufacturing…

SpaceX to build its massive BFR in Los Angeles

Update: SpaceX has delayed the launch to address a last-minute issue with the guidance, navigation and control (GNC) systems: Standing down today to conduct additional GNC analysis, and teams are…

Watch SpaceX launch NASA’s latest exoplanet-hunting satellite

Porsche is planning a Supercharger-like network of fast-charging stations at dealerships and highway locations across the US. There will be at least 500 by the end of 2019 according to…

Porsche plans 500 fast-charging stations across US

A recent update is bringing an improved user interface to older Tesla vehicles. According to this report citing forum users, the v8.1 (2018.14) update improves the speed and capability in…

Tesla updates user interface, web browser in older Model S and Model X vehicles

The Russian state telecommunication regulator has started to block Telegram, as expected. This comes after the messaging company refused to give Russian security services encryption keys. The service is expected to…

Russia starts blocking Telegram for failing to turn over encryption keys

Elon Musk took to Twitter Sunday night to announce a new recovery method for an upper-stage SpaceX rocket. A balloon — a “giant party balloon” to quote him directly —…

Elon Musk’s latest SpaceX idea involves a party balloon and bounce house

Just like Nintendo before it, Sega is releasing a mini version of its iconic Mega Drive game system. The system is supposed to be available sometime in 2018; the company…

Sega to release Mega Drive Mini this year

Virgin Galactic took to the skies today for the first test of its rocket-powered spacecraft in over three years. The SpaceShipTwo launch platform deployed the VSS Unity at a set…

Virgin Galactic successfully tested its rocket-powered spacecraft today for the first time since 2014

Duo Security is opening a new office in Downtown Detroit, expanding from its headquarters in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The company will immediately relocate 30 team members to a shared space…

Hot security startup Duo Security opens office in Downtown Detroit

I recently received a review unit of the Embrace Smart Mirror. It’s essentially a 24-inch Android tablet mounted behind a roughly 40-inch mirror. It works well when third-party software is…

Here are the five things I learned installing a smart mirror

Tesla is now worth less than Ford

7:20 am PDT • April 2, 2018

Tesla’s stock price is falling and in doing so, has retreated on milestones it set last year. As of publication, the company’s value is less than Ford’s for the first…

Tesla is now worth less than Ford

The Model 3 now has a new way to control Autopilot. The company recently sent out an update that moved the controls from the center infotainment stack to the steering…

Tesla makes Autopilot easier to use in the Model 3

The latest update to macOS provides support for external graphics card. Apple announced this would hit the OS last June at WWDC and now it’s finally here. The update allows…

MacOS finally gains external GPU support

Hewlett Packard Enterprise is moving from Palo Alto to San Jose. The company will relocate 1,000 employees to a 220,000-square-foot space in late 2018. HPE was spun-off from Hewlett-Packard in…

Hewlett Packard Enterprise to move HQ to San Jose

Michigan saw a historic amount of snowfall in 2018. And it’s not done. It’s snowing as I write this and it snowed nearly every day since I took delivery of…

Review: 2018 Lincoln Navigator

Take a break from the dumpster fire that is 2018. This electric Mini will make you smile. Built as a show piece, the car features an electric powertrain in a…

This electric 1959 Mini Cooper is everything that’s right in the world

If this is the future of hybrids, I’m all in. Volkswagen just took the cover off its Atlas Cross Sport SUV, which features a plug-in hybrid drive powertrain that features…

VW Atlas Cross Sport concept shows hybrids have an exciting future

There’s currently a shortage of Nvidia GPUs and Nvidia’s CEO pointed to Ethereum distributed ledgers as the cause. Today at Nvidia’s GTC conference he spoke to a group of journalists…

Nvidia CEO comments on GPU shortage caused by Ethereum