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TechCrunch: Hey Portal, dial Mark Portal: Do you mean Mark Zuckerberg? TC: Yes Portal: Dialling Mark… TC: Hi Mark! Nice choice of grey t-shirt. MZ: Uh, new phone who dis? — oh, hi, er, TechCrunch… TC: Thanks for agreeing to this entirely fictional interview, Mark! MZ: Sure — anytime. But ...

Intel is still reeling from the fallout of the Spectre and Meltdown CPU vulnerabilities, which affected the entire PC industry, including competitors like AMD and ARM. While most companies were able to deal with Meltdown through software patches, they could slow down PC performance. And we’ll have to wait for ...

For a company like Audi, the R8 RWS is a really big deal. RWS means Rear Wheel Series; in layman’s terms, a rear-wheel-drive R8. That’s a drastic departure for a brand that built its image around the greatness of Quattro all-wheel drive. You know, the same brand that actually used ...

Nintendo has set a strange new precedent with the release of Legend of Zelda SP on the Switch: it’s essentially the original NES game but with Link starts loaded up with good gear and cash. In a way it’s no different from a cheat code, but the way it’s executed ...

So what the hell happened? 2011 was the year Steve Jobs died, Sony PlayStation suffered its epic hack (70 million; offline for weeks), Siri launched, Egypt shut off its internet, and Silicon Valley’s racism problem exploded into the public sphere. As I said, people were already fed up with Facebook. ...

Razer Phone 2 wants to make gamers green with envy. Josh Miller/CNET Looking down at the glowing black box on the conference table in Razer’s San Francisco offices one thing is already clear: The Razer Phone 2 is a better device than the gaming phone the company debuted a year ago. Mostly, ...

This clever – if expensive – product is called the BoxLock and it is a keyless padlock that lets your package delivery person scan and drop off your packages into a locked box. The system essentially watches for a shipping event and then waits for the right barcode before opening. ...

Everybody awake?Soyuz spacecraft launch fails, astronauts land safely A booster rocket failed soon after the launch of Expedition 57 to the ISS, initiating a “ballistic descent” for the Soyuz module and both crew members inside. As of this writing, search-and-rescue teams have reached Alexei Ovchinin and Nick Haig, who are ...

The Pixel 3 XL, left, has a notch. The Pixel 3, right, does not. Sarah Tew/CNET The Pixel 3 and 3 XL got Google’s star treatment on Tuesday at a launch event in New York, and we got straight to work checking them out. Already, these two buck major smartphone ...

Accion Systems, the startup aiming to reinvent satellite propulsion with an innovative and tiny new thruster, has attracted significant investment from Boeing’s HorizonX Ventures. The $3 million round should give the company a bit of breathing room while it continues to prove and improve its technology. “Investing in startups with ...