To unclog the busy streets of Paris, two entrepreneurs are building an egg-shaped river shuttle that will essentially fly above the Seine, the next iteration of...
Facebook has the same number of users now as there were people alive just a century ago, which is a pretty impressive number of users for...
Apple has announced financial results for its fiscal 2016 second quarter ended March 26, 2016. The Company posted quarterly revenue of $50.6 billion and quarterly net...
At a cognitive architectures conference in New York last week, Alexei Samsonovich, a professor in the Cybernetics Department at the Moscow Engineering Physics Institute, proposed a...
The secretive Project Titan, generally assumed to be the Apple Car, has been rumored to launch something in 2020. But new rumors, or rumors of rumors,...
After a months-long bidding process and many layoffs, Yahoo has finally found a buyer. Verizon (which owns AOL, which owns TechCrunch) is officially acquiring Yahoo’s core...
The protracted question of who is buying beleaguered Yahoo may finally have an answer. According to three reports published today, and our own sources, Verizon (which...
Are there really tech nerds in Nigeria? Things in the country seem so fast-paced and with the difficult economy, it appears everyone is on the hustle....
Facebook is announcing their first test flight of its first Aquila drone. It flew for 96 minutes, more than three times longer than Facebook engineers planned....
Using your phone while crossing the street can be a dangerous venture, particularly if you are someone who pays no attention whatsoever to your surroundings when...
Currently seeking crowdfunding on Indiego, the Nico360 claims to be the world’s smallest 360-degree camera, standing just 46 millimeters tall and weighing 96 grams. The tiny,...
The future of wireless connection will soon become bright, and based in bulbs. Whenever you use Wi-Fi to text or download a Serial podcast, the data travels...
Astronomers have located water clouds around the coldest-known object outside the solar system, a brown dwarf 7.2 light-years from Earth. Brown dwarves are stars that never...
Facebook has started to introduce a setting to its “Messenger” app that provides users with end-to-end encryption, meaning messages can only be read on the device...
There’s a new way to watch Wimbledon without cable: Twitter. The parent company of Periscope is taking its live streams to a more professional arena, starting...
Five years, $180 million, and 500 meters after starting, the Chinese Academy of Sciences put the final panel into place on its massive radio telescope this...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft has begun to orbit Jupiter to probe the origin of the solar system, the US space agency has said. The $1.1bn mission launched...
Scientists at MIT and elsewhere have identified the “first fingerprints of healing” of the Antarctic ozone layer, published in the journal Science. The team found that...
Apple is being sued by a subsidiary of China’s broadcasting regulator over a propaganda film more than 20 years old, in the latest legal wrangling for...
Blackberry is set to release three android phones called Neon, Argon, and Mercury this year. CEO John Chen seems to have finally kicked BlackBerry OS to...
The selfie stick’s simple, stone age functions have finally been bested. Now there’s something far more attention grabbing: Roam-e, the hovering selfie camera. For about $400...
A group of researchers at the Mayo Clinic recently discovered that text messaging elicits a change in the regular rhythm of brain waves, completely different from...
A Florida man named Thomas Ross claims he and not Steve Jobs created the iPhone and the iPad, and wants Apple to pay him $10 billion...
A “tadpole galaxy” has wiggled into view of the Hubble space telescope. Released today, these images show an outstretched galaxy that’s rare for our neighbourhood of...
Google has designed a system for teaching kids to play with code, called Project Bloks. The system simplifies lines of code into physical blocks. String a...
Dutch scientists have managed to grow crops, including four vegetables and cereals, in soil “similar to that on Mars,” and have deemed it safe to eat....
Finally, Twitter will let you see when tweets are from a specific place, like a business, sports stadium, or music festival. Twitter confirmed to TechCrunch it’s...
Computers are man’s new best friend. Almost everyone owns a computer system or computerized gadget in Nigeria today, and with good reason: they make life easier....
Bots can be useful little pieces of technology to help you work smarter, and in Slack they can help make the communications tool a kind of...
India has successfully sent 20 satellites into space in a single mission, a record-breaking event for the country’s space agency that received its premier’s warm praise....
Most of us don’t have much use for the capabilities of a supercomputer — but that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t keep a handle on how...
The world’s first drone capable of autonomously carrying a person may test-fly in Nevada later this year, the United States, Chinese Aerial Technology Company EHang Holdings...
The Solar Impulse 2 aircraft has set off from New York to cross the Atlantic, one of the toughest stages of its attempt to fly around...
Rolls-Royce today debuted its vision for the next generation of luxury vehicles. The aptly-named Vision Next 100 (codenamed the 103EX) is complete with a seemingly endless...
The National Science Foundation, which runs the research station, has been convinced to send an emergency plane to rescue an unnamed scientist who needs to be...
A Russian robot escaped the prying eyes of laboratory technicians recently escaping a demonstration about independent locomotion. The runaway Russian robot escaped into the streets, wandering...
A team of astronomers from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and San Diego State University has discovered a new exoplanet that orbits around two stars. What’s...
Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers reveal that the universe is expanding 5 percent to 9 percent faster than expected. “This surprising finding may be an...
Google has unwrapped two significant announcements for its enterprise customers, the most notable of which is the rollout of Springboard, a new digital assistant to help...
Microsoft is buying social-networking site LinkedIn in an all-cash transaction for $26.2 billion, company officials announced June 13. The move fits in with Microsoft’s increasing push...
You don’t need to spend hundreds of pounds on an Oculus Rift or HTC Vive headset to give virtual reality a try. The Android or iPhone...
Germans are speeding toward a future of driver-less trains. At least, that’s what Deutsche Bahn chairman, Rudiger Grube has been telling German newspapers. He says that...
Researchers at Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), are helping librarians to get some robotic help in keeping books in their proper place. A*STAR...
Getting a gift for any male no matter the occasion can be a stressful undertaking. Brothers and boyfriends are tricky enough, but dads are the hardest...
Ahead of releasing their highly-Kickstarted, health-oriented smartwatches, Pebble is looking to get a head start on its ecosystem of health and fitness apps. The wearables company...
Smartphone giants HTC have hired a new Chief Financial Officer; do you fancy taking over the finances at an Android smartphone maker that is bleeding money,...
Nigeria is planning to invest in a space program with the aim of sending Africa’s first astronaut to space by the year 2030. The ambitious project...
Facebook is removing the messaging capability from its mobile web application, according to a notice being served to users: “Your conversations are moving to Messenger,” it...
Tech giant, Google is considering employing the services of its big red button in a bid to stop a dangerous artificial intelligence. As far as we...
A “very positive step” has been taken by scientists towards creating a universal vaccine against cancer that makes the body’s immune system attack tumours as if...
