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How Long Do We Have Before Arctic Ice Melts Away?

SHANNON HALL

With the frozen top of the world melting to liquid, an expedition set out to untangle the physics and help forecast its future.

Electric Delivery Vans, Tesla Stock, and Other Car News

AARIAN MARSHALL

Home delivery is where the action is for real estate developers and EV startups.

Sanders and Warren's Big Debate Dust-Up Tops This Week's Internet News Roundup

GRAEME MCMILLAN

Last week, news of the Democratic debate was all over social media.

Did Neanderthals in Italy go diving for clamshells?

KIONA N. SMITH

Clams were useful as both food and tools.

TechCrunch’s Top 10 investigative reports from 2019

JOSH CONSTINE

Facebook spying on teens, Twitter accounts hijacked by terrorists, and sexual abuse imagery found on Bing and Giphy were amongst the ugly truths revealed by TechCrunch's investigating reporting in 2019. The tech industry needs more watchdogs than ever as its size enlargens the impact of safety failures and the abuse of power. Whether through malice, […]

These Photos Bend Time and Space. Literally

MICHAEL HARDY

A special panoramic camera allows artist Jay Mark Johnson to distort reality.

Apple TV+: Can it be saved before everyone’s free trials run out?

ARS STAFF

Apple's salvo launched months ahead of other upstarts. Why does it already seem behind?

SpaceX successfully completes key test of its Crew Dragon human spacecraft

DARRELL ETHERINGTON

SpaceX completed a crucial test of a key safety system of its Crew Dragon spacecraft today. The test involved launching its Crew Dragon using a Falcon 9, though without any actual crew on board. The launch was then intentionally cut short, with the In-Flight Abort (IFA) system triggered to separate the Crew Dragon from the […]

SpaceX successfully completes its Dragon abort test

JOHN TIMMER

The capsule successfully separated and splashed down gently into the Atlantic.

Shadows’ Dylan Flinn and Kombo’s Kevin Gould on the business of ‘virtual influencers’

ERIC PECKHAM

In films, TV shows and books — and even in video games where characters are designed to respond to user behavior — we don’t perceive characters as beings with whom we can establish two-way relationships. But that's poised to change, at least in some use cases. Interactive characters — fictional, virtual personas capable of personalized […]

First crewed SpaceX Dragon spacecraft launch could happen in Q2 this year

DARRELL ETHERINGTON

SpaceX and NASA hosted a press conference following their successful test of the Crew Dragon's in-flight abort system on Sunday to discuss the mission and next steps. The first question asked by media in attendance was about what this means for the timeline for a mission with actual crew on board, and SpaceX CEO Elon […]

SpaceX could catch future Crew Dragons with astronauts onboard using ships at sea

DARRELL ETHERINGTON

SpaceX demonstrated a safety system that will protect astronauts in the case of any unfortunate unforeseen accidents in future Crew Dragon flights, which included the spacecraft splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean, but during a post-mission press conference SpaceX CEO Elon Musk suggested future return trips for the human-rated spacecraft could look very different. Musk […]

Tremors turns 30, the most perfect B movie creature feature ever made

JENNIFER OUELLETTE

The film faltered at the box office but amassed a huge cult following over the years

China Roundup: Tencent’s new US gaming studio and WeChat’s new paywall

RITA LIAO

Hello and welcome back to TechCrunch’s China Roundup, a digest of recent events shaping the Chinese tech landscape and what they mean to people in the rest of the world. The spotlight this week is back on Tencent, which has made some interesting moves in gaming and content publishing. There will be no roundup next […]

In Los Angeles, the Women’s March embraces technology to organize and inspire

JONATHAN SHIEBER

The roughly 300,000 marchers that filled the streets of downtown Los Angeles for the third annual Women's March received more than just an opportunity to hear from some of the state's high powered politicians, they were also part of a new experiment from local March organizers in bringing technology into the movement. Using an organizational […]