Apple
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5 features I'd love to see come to every smartphone in 2019
Over the course of any given year, I have the…
Apple fixed my biggest complaint about the iPhone XR
In early November, just after the iPhone XR launched, I…
Apple's iPhone XR: Best single-lens phone yet, say tests
Camera benchmarking firm DxOMark has rated Apple’s iPhone XR single-lens…
Gaming
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Gift Guide: the 17 best board games for holiday family fun
Welcome to TechCrunch’s 2018 Holiday Gift Guide! Need more gift ideas? Check out our Gift… -
Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is good, clean, butt-kicking fun
After a few days with the game, I’m no expert. Hell, I’m not even entirely… -
Spotify for Xbox One now works with Cortana voice commands
Spotify arrived on the Xbox One back in August 2017 to give gamers the option…
App stores to pass $122B in 2019, with gaming and subscriptions driving growth
Fortnite-maker aims for Steam’s head with Epic Games Store
Pokémon GO is finally getting player-versus-player battles; here’s how they’ll work
Laptop & PC
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Barnes & Noble hopes book lovers give Nook another look with new $50 tablet
Barnes & Noble Nook 7-inch tablet With its Kindle Fire 7, Amazon has created a… -
Best Cyber Monday 2018 laptop deals: Apple, Dell, HP, and more
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Best Windows laptops Black Friday deals: Dell, HP, Lenovo, and more
remain a popular item, whether as a gift for someone else or yourself. The majority…
Mobile
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Google’s parental control software Family Link now supports Chromebooks
Since its public debut in fall 2017, Google’s parental control software dubbed Family Link, has… -
Facebook Watch is finally growing as payouts get spread thin
Both Facebook Watch and Instagram’s IGTV have yet to become superstar video platforms, leaving Facebook… -
Keepsafe launches My Number Lookup, so you can see the public data tied to your mobile number
Ever wonder how much of your personal information is accessible to marketers? Well, there’s a…
Robinhood launches no-fee checking/savings with Mastercard & the most ATMs
Glose raises $3.4 million for its collaborative reading app
Nielsen: the second screen is booming as 45% often or always use devices while watching TV
Gadgets
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OffGridBox raises $1.6M to charge and hydrate rural Africa with its all-in-one installations
The simplest needs are often the most vital: power and clean water will get you… -
Let’s talk hardware in Vegas
Hello, Las Vegas! We are all heading to LV for CES next month and instead… -
Lift Aircraft’s Hexa may be your first multirotor drone ride
We were promised jetpacks, but let’s be honest, they’re just plain unsafe. So a nice…
Move over notch, the hole-punch smartphone camera is coming
Krisp reduces noise on calls using machine learning, and it’s coming to Windows soon
Voyager 2 joins its twin in interstellar space
Android
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Soon after Google unveiled the top trends in what people searched for in 2018, Baidu…
Google Fit, Google’ s activity-tracking app for Android, is getting a small but meaningful update…
Google is increasing its efforts in India after it snapped up the team behind popular…
India finally has its answer to Spotify after Reliance Jio merged its music service with Saavn,…
Bringing Apple Music to Android tablets probably wasn’t Apple’s biggest priority, but three years after…
Google is making a major move to expand the availability of its Fi wireless service.…
Google Assistant, the voice-driven AI that sits inside Google Home (plus Android phones, newer Nest…
Google’s Project Fi wireless service is getting a major update today that introduces an optional…