Ends of eras can be bittersweet. Back at the opening of 2010s, there was much optimism about new transportation technology—how it might, say, make it easier to abandon personal cars in favor of “sharing economy” solutions. This week, the Daimler- and BMW-owned service Share Now announced it would depart from the US, the latest sign…

There may only be nine days left in the year, but man, 2019 really is doing everything it can to cram a lot into its sunset. Like what? Well, a new Star Wars movie hit theaters and disappointed critics, Scotland asked for independence from the UK again, and Wakanda was finally removed from the US’s…

Kenneth Libbrecht is that rare person who, in the middle of winter, gleefully leaves Southern California for a place like Fairbanks, Alaska, where wintertime temperatures rarely rise above freezing. There, he dons a parka and sits in a field with a camera and a piece of foam board, waiting for snow.Specifically, he seeks the sparkliest,…

The only thing I dislike about the Beats Solo Pro—the company’s new noise-canceling on-ear headphones—is how they require a lightning cable to charge.That’s a big deal, not because this Android user keeps forgetting the proprietary cable, but because it’s a critique that would have been buried in most other Beats reviews I’ve ever written.Early Beats…

At first, you didn’t even need a pickax. The earliest prospectors of the California gold rush ventured into the Sierra foothills as solo travelers, sloshing through streams in search of nuggets dislodged by the current. That, at least, is the prevailing image: The individual renegade who headed west to strike it rich by his own…

Nik Milanovic Contributor Nik Milanovic is a fintech and financial inclusion enthusiast, with a decade of work across mobile payments, online lending, credit and microfinance. More posts by this contributor…

Even if you've been with Firefox since the very beginning—2002, to be precise—there are always new tricks and features to discover inside Mozilla's browser, which continues to grow and evolve.These are our favorite Firefox productivity tweaks and hacks to help you work faster and more efficiently. If you're heavy into Apple's ecosystem, try our guide…

The birth and growth of financial technology developed mostly over the last ten years. So as we look ahead, what does the next decade have in store? I believe we’re…

Comets are like the holidays, they come and they go, only their role in the universe is a bit more perplexing than the annual family get together. They might have killed the dinosaurs (bad for them, good for us?). They also might have helped bring water to Earth and other planets. For all the unknowns…

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.…