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With Popular Times, Google introduced a nifty feature for its search engine last year that lets you know how busy a restaurant or bar typically is at any given time…

Google can now tell you how busy a place is before you arrive

Life’s two great certainties are death and taxes. UK startup Farewill is hoping to combine the two: this week’s it’s officially launching a subscription will-writing service.

UK startup Farewill wants to give will-writing a web-based makeover

Excited about forthcoming Windows 10 VR support? You should be, since it’s going to open up who gets access to virtual reality considerably, thanks to third-party headsets from established OEM…

Here’s what you’ll need to run Windows 10 VR headsets next year

Google is opening up applications to businesses interested in testing its new file-sharing product called Team Drives. Announced earlier this fall, the focus of Team Drives is to offer companies an…

Google opens up its new product for business file sharing “Team Drives” to early adopters

You just know that file or email exists, but you can’t find it. This is a problem all of us have every day — especially those of us who work…

AI-driven Findo secures $7M to be your human-like smart search assistant

Chariot, the Ford-owned collaborative carpooling service currently operating in the Bay area, has launched advance reservations, letting riders book a seat on a Chariot up to seven days ahead of…

Chariot launches advance ride reservations for commuters

The fourth quarter is always the busiest for e-commerce businesses, with the biggest sales and more consumers than the year prior turning to the web and mobile devices to complete their…

More people than ever will shop online over the holidays, spending to rise by 18%

“Does it run Doom?” has long been the gold standard of getting stuff to play on other stuff that it probably shouldn’t be played on. The answer is almost invariably…

Just because you can play Doom on the MacBook Pro Touch Bar doesn’t mean you should

Every year, Apple releases a holiday ad just in time for Thanksgiving. These ads are a bit more interesting than your average product advertising as the company uses this opportunity…

Apple’s holiday ad is all about inclusion

Amazon is expanding its investment in esports, with the announcement of its first-ever esports tournament focused on casual gaming to be hosted on its Amazon Appstore. Called the “Champions of Fire…

Amazon will host its first esports event for casual games on the Appstore next month

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It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Today, we announce the finalists in each category for the 10th Annual Crunchies Awards show. The Crunchies is a long-standing tradition in…

Announcing the finalists for the 10th Annual Crunchies Awards

Instagram is combining the best of Snapchat and Periscope to help you get comfortable on camera. Rather than overlap with Facebook Live and Messenger, Instagram is putting an ephemeral spin…

Instagram launches disappearing Live video and messages

CES is a horrible, god-awful experience that will shave years off your life. The casinos, the food, the people, the germs. Horrible. All of it. But we love it! And…

Attending CES? TechCrunch Wants To See Your Company

Tesla’s acquisition of SolarCity officially closed Monday morning, bringing together Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company with the solar energy company founded by his cousins Lyndon and Peter Rive. The deal…

Tesla officially acquires SolarCity

Pokémon Go’s second big in-game event is timed for U.S. Thanksgiving, running between November 23 and November 30, during which time players can get double the standard XP and Stardust…

Pokémon Go’s Thanksgiving event gives players double XP and Stardust

Apple has been releasing new WiFi routers every now and then since 1999. While the AirPort Express and AirPort Extreme could use an update, don’t hold your breath for it.…

Apple reportedly won’t make AirPort WiFi routers anymore

Tis the season for spec upgrades. It’s the next best thing to issuing a full-on product refresh in the lead up to the holidays. Unlike the recently issued OnePlus 3T,…

ZTE’s Axon 7 gets a variant with improved specs and Force Touch

Uber has a new product feature going live across its app today, called ‘Compliments.’ The new systems will prompt riders to give a specific, additional piece of positive feedback in…

Uber debuts Compliments, letting riders give drivers specific positive feedback

When I last took Anki’s Cozmo for a spin, I introduced him to my rabbit, Lucy. Both parties seemed fairly uninterested by the whole interaction. And while I’m bummed that…

Cozmo can now recognize pets and see in the dark

Alibaba continues to put its chips into the cloud after it announced the opening of four new data centers across the world. A new facility in the Middle East (Dubai)…

Alibaba gives its fast-growing cloud computing business another global push