Over the past decade, the dynamic between Chinese and United States tech companies has undergone dramatic shifts. Once seen as a promising market for American companies, that narrative flipped as Chin
Facebook is officially killing off the Rift.The company showed off its latest headset at its newly renamed Facebook Connect online event today, but they also revealed that they would be ending sales o
Facebook’s virtual reality dreams have been a headache for the company.At CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s prodding, the company has spent billions on Oculus and dealt with huge added complexities t
At Facebook’s first big event since moving away from the Oculus brand and rebranding its AR and VR efforts as “Facebook Reality Labs,” the company kicked off with some big news.At t
Stars including Katy Perry, Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence also showed their support for the #StopHateForProfit campaign.
Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the TechCrunch series that recaps the latest OS news, the applications they support and the money that flows through it all.The app industry is as hot as ever, with
With the election looming and a pandemic still raging through the U.S., a shortage of poll workers is just one of many threats to voting this November — but it’s a big one.In a Facebook post Fri
The prize was awarded for work on stochastic analysis, used to predict the seemingly fluid dynamics at play when stirring a cuppa.
The Breakthrough Prize Foundation announced $21.75 million in awards today for a variety of scientific achievements. One in particular is a tech/science crossover: A $3M award to David Baker, whose w
Last week, Unity Software Inc. filed to go public on the New York Stock Exchange, but the 16-year-old tech company is universally known within the gaming industry and largely unknown outside of it.Uni
The plans were announced hours after President Trump again claimed that postal votes were increasing the risk of electoral fraud.
It’s never easy, deciding which of the 20 companies that make it into the Disrupt Battlefield Competition will be anointed its winner. There’s just so much at stake each year and this year
TikTok, the popular short video sharing app, has joined the European Union’s Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech.In a statement on joining the code, TikTok’s head of trust a
/AP Social media companies are taking steps to curb online disinformation and fake news on their platforms ahead of the U.S. elections in November when the stakes couldn't be higher.Last week,
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A few days ago I wrote down a few notes making a bullish case for Palantir, searching to find good news amidst the company’s huge historical deficits.Heading into the next phase of Palantir̵
We’re now 61 days away from the US Presidential election, and Facebook is once more ramping up its efforts to level the playing field and attempt to keep its platform from being manipulated to i
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