Over the next three years, Houssam Abbas will carefully send 80 modified Traxxas RC rally cars—the Ford Fiesta model—to research facilities around the country. Some will go to Arizona State University, others to Clemson University, the State University of New York at Stony Brook, UCLA, Vanderbilt University, or the University of Iowa. In each place,…

When he introduced the Libra cryptocurrency in June, Facebook executive David Marcus began by invoking a founding vision of PayPal, a company he used to run. PayPal’s founders imagined a system of digital money that would seamlessly cross borders, doing for money what digitization had already done for communications. Libra, he said, was the realization…

Greetings and salutations! Welcome to this week's Replay, where we endeavor to catch you up on some of the biggest headlines in the gaming world that we haven't already covered. Spend just a few minutes reading over some interesting stories, and feel a bit closer to videogames this week. They're your friends, they'll enjoy it.…

Watching Raising Dion, Netflix’s latest sci-fi series about a gifted 8-year-old with superpowers, there’s one feeling that’s hard to shake: This doesn’t belong here. That is maybe a curious thought to have, especially since Netflix, on aggregate, skirts a traditional network identity (its four-year Marvel experiment notwithstanding). But Raising Dion, which is adapted from the…

This story is part of a series on how we watch stuff—from the emotional tug of Facebook video series to crappy captions on YouTube.For me, Star Wars movies are a lot like dental appointments: I feel obligated to go at regular intervals, but I always get a little nervous as the date looms. The series…

Adam Neumann may be out of the daily flow of WeWork, but he seemingly remains top of mind to some of the company’s bankers. According to a new Business Insider…

At the very beginning, there were 20 startups. After two days of incredibly fierce competition, we now have a winner. Startups participating in the Startup Battlefield have all been hand-picked…

NASA issues a new formal request for info from industry specifically around spacesuits. The agency is hoping to gather information in order to help it figure out a future path…

Physical storage-turned-rentals startup Omni is dealing with layoffs today, two sources familiar with the situation tell TechCrunch. Omni just shed seven operations team members. The startup is in talks to…

Ahead of a Disrupt appearance, Yves Maitre talks mobile, VR and blockchain On September 17, HTC announced that cofounder Cher Wang would be stepping down as CEO. In her place,…