We love Berlins electric, evolving, early-startup ecosystem. Lets be perfectly blunt: Whether youre a startup founder, investor, hacker or tech leader, you cant afford to miss Disrupt Berlin 2019, which…

In Congress, members of both parties have singled out Section 230 for attack, while remaining divided over what exactly the law's shortcomings are.Elena Lacey; Getty ImagesFew weeks have better encapsulated the whiplash-inducing discussions playing out around free speech online than the previous one. Last Monday the country was already knee-deep in questions about the internet’s…

Nigerian freight logistics startup Kobo360 has raised a $20 million Series A round led by Goldman Sachs and $10 million in working capital financing from Nigerian commercial banks. The company…

Nate Mitchell announced his departure from Facebook Tuesday.David Paul Morris/Getty ImagesSince virtual reality re-emerged in 2012, one word has arguably been synonymous with the futuristic technology: Oculus. That was the company that surprised the gaming world by showing off a prototype headset that managed to do something people had given up on. It was the…

Binks is a custom clothing startup created after co-founder and CEO Aamna Khan realized how frustrating it is to find well-fitting womens workwear in Indian cities. Currently participating in Y…

Brent Lewin/Bloomberg/Getty ImagesLast week, YouTuber Justin Ashford swapped the original battery in an iPhone XR with one he bought from an electronics market in Shenzhen. Ashford runs a channel called TheArtofRepair, which features videos about repairing electronics. This latest repair video wasn’t just an ordinary battery swap. It was a pointed message to Apple.The external…

As a magician, Penn Jillette has made a career out of always having something up his sleeve. But turning out tricks for a living has also given him a reservoir of something else fun to pull out at parties: stories.While answering questions from Twitter for WIRED's latest Magic Support video, the celebrity magician shared one…

Holy hardware, startup founders! You have only 24 hours left to apply to the Hardware Battlefield at TC Shenzhen on November 11-12. This hardware-only pitch competition, cousin to TechCrunchs world-renown Startup…

President Donald Trump and the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative have issued technology companies some temporary tariff relief. Citing an unwillingness to hit consumers with higher prices on things…

This weekend, something peculiar visited the Arctic, a mere 300 miles from the North Pole: lightning. It's peculiar because thunderstorms are typically a warm weather phenomenon, in which the Sun heats air, which rises and condenses into water droplets. At the same time, cooler air pulls downward in the “deep convective cloud,” and all that…