We all have that family member who seems impossible to buy for. But here's a tip: There's a good chance that they drink.From products that ensure your alcoholic beverages stay fresh to those that help you actually create them, there are many ways to improve anyone's liquid happiness for the coming decade. There are also…

So, a lot happened last week. Not only did Facebook rebrand by putting its name in all caps, the "OK boomer" meme somehow went mainstream. (Arson Frog took off, too.) Also, the news site Bustle laid off some of its staff, and the editorial director who told writers at Deadspin to "stick to sports" resigned.…

Mistakes do happen. But this week, when the National Transportation Safety Board released more than 40 documents related to the 2018 crash in which a self-driving Uber killed a pedestrian, it quickly became apparent that the term “mistake” might be generous. According to investigators, Uber’s organizational structure wasn’t built to catch safety errors, and its…

In 2007, Kenneth Stanley, a computer scientist at the University of Central Florida, was playing with Picbreeder, a website he and his students had created, when an alien became a race car and changed his life. On Picbreeder, users would see an array of 15 similar images, composed of geometric shapes or swirly patterns, all…

My MacBook Pro is three years old, and for the first time in my life, a three-year-old primary computer doesn’t feel like a crisis which must be resolved immediately. True,…

Like most parents, I try to limit my kid’s screen time. But screens are so ubiquitous that it’s sometimes hard for me to grasp how thoroughly they’ve infiltrated my kids’ lives.My almost 5-year-old now uses a Portal to call her grandparents. She watches Wishenpoof! on a Fire tablet for kids at the doctor’s office and…

Voi Technology, the “micro-mobility” startup that operates an e-scooter service in a 38 cities across 10 European countries, has raised an $85 million in Series B funding. Backing the round…

A week ago today, hackers unleashed the first known attack using the vulnerability known as BlueKeep, a long-feared development that in practice turned out to be relatively benign. For now, anyway! But don't worry, plenty of other things still went wrong. Like, say, the revelation that you can hack Alexa, Google Assistant, and Siri with…

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.…

Eero ProBest for: Networking newbiesThe Eero Pro is a solid router on its own, but its superpower is in serving as a base station to bring mesh networking into your home. Start by connecting it to your modem, then plug signal-boosting Beacons ($149, not included) into AC outlets around the house. This multipoint approach distributes…