Did Chris Hemsworth just tease Avengers 5?
Chris Hemsworth will appear in his fourth standalone Marvel movie once Thor: Love and Thunder hits theaters next month. That’s a first for an Avenger. Spider-Man had eight movies, but starring three different actors. For Captain America, we’ll ge.....»»
Weights & Biases raises $45M for its machine learning tools
Weights & Biases, a startup building tools for machine learning practitioners, is announcing that it’s raised $45 million in Series B funding. The company was founded by Lukas Biewald, Chris Van Pelt and Shawn Lewis — Biewald and Van Pelt pre.....»»
Stocks explained: What"s going on with GameStop?
Chris Fox explains stocks, short-selling and what has been happening with GameStop shares......»»
Capcom hopes you"ll pay $1,500 for Chris Redfield"s coat
The unremarkable wool coat is priced at 159,731 yen on Capcom’s Japanese website. That’s just over $1,500—quite a lot for something that doesn’t even have buttons. But it does look like the one Chris Redfield wears in Resident Evil Village, c.....»»
Club Feast raises $3.5M to help restaurants deliver meals that only cost $5.99
Club Feast, a startup with a more affordable approach to meal delivery, is announcing that it has raised $3.5 million in seed funding led by General Catalyst. The company was founded by Atallah Atallah, Ghazi Atallah and Chris Miao. The basic concept.....»»
Facebook will pay more than $300 each to 1.6M Illinois users in settlement
It's a far cry from the maximum $35B Facebook might have owed, but not nothing. Enlarge / You see Facebook, Facebook sees you... (credit: Chris Jackson | Getty Images) Millions of Facebook users in Illinois will be receiving about $340 each as.....»»
Samsung S21 Ultra: First look at the new device
Chris Fox takes a first look at the Samsung S21 Ultra, which works with the S Pen stylus......»»
Bethesda, Lucasfilm tease new Indiana Jones video game
First Indy game in over a decade coming from Wolfenstein: The New Order devs. Enlarge / Artist's conception of the gaming public eyeing the prospect of another movie-licensed game with suspicion... Bethesda will be publishing a new Indiana Jo.....»»
Two ex-Sequoia VCs: the most ‘compelling emerging market’ may be America, outside of Silicon Valley
Roughly eight years ago, investors Mark Kvamme and Chris Olsen left Silicon Valley to open a venture firm, Drive Capital, in Columbus, Ohio. It wasn’t an easy decision. Leaving California wasn’t exactly fashionable at the time. In fact, W.....»»
Chris Krebs and Alex Stamos have started a cyber consulting firm
Former U.S. cybersecurity official Chris Krebs and former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos have founded a new cybersecurity consultancy firm, which already has its first client: SolarWinds . The two have been hired as consultants to help t.....»»
Synchronized violin players reveal uniqueness of human networks
It's relevant to economics, epidemiology, traffic, and the spread of misinformation. There's rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we're once again running a special Twelve Days of Chris.....»»
Five VCs discuss what surprised them the most in 2020
Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture-capital-focused podcast (now on Twitter!), where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. Today is our holiday look-back at the year, bringing not only our own Danny and Natasha and Chris a.....»»
Despite economic downturn, space startup funding defies gravity
"We don't shy away from taking risks," said Spacefund's Meagan Crawford. The COVID-19 pandemic might have upended the global economy, but according to Meagan Crawford at Spacefund and Chris Moran with Lockheed Martin Ventures, it didn̵.....»»
Successful IT Workers Applaud Non-Traditional Paths to Tech
Tech columnist Chris Matyszczyk describes what happened after Microsoft's senior cloud advocate tweeted "Hire folks with non-traditional paths to tech." Thomas Zeman, whose Twitter bio declared he's "scaling pods at daytime, working on a docker based.....»»
Budget smartphones: What do you get for £100?
BBC Click's Chris Fox puts eight new budget smartphones to the test to see how they stack up......»»
Virgin Orbit, Relativity Space and Astra dish on the economics and efficiencies of space launches
Relativity Space CEO Tim Ellis, Astra CEO Chris Kemp, and VOX Space (Virgin Orbit’s national security-focused subsidiary) President Mandy Vaughn all joined us at TC Sessions: Space to jointly discuss their varied approaches to the small spacecr.....»»
Three different space launch companies – three very different approaches to solving for cost and efficiency
Launch startup Astra had a monumental week, achieving their first spaceflight with a rocket test on Tuesday. Astra CEO Chris Kemp joined Relativity CEO Tim Ellis, and VOX Space President Mandy Vaughn at our TC Sessions: Space event on Wednesday, and.....»»
Twenty years later, Dungeons & Dragons gets another movie adaptation
Co-director clinches a Freaks & Geeks full-circle conclusion. Enlarge / Here's to hoping Wizards of the Coast leans into Chris Pine's casting in the upcoming Dungeons & Dragons film and slaps him into an official rulebook. (credit: Aurich Lawson.....»»
Almost Avengers: Marvel movies that never happened - CNET
Tom Cruise as Iron Man? Leonardo DiCaprio as Spider-Man? We salute the comic book adaptations that almost came before the Marvel Cinematic Universe......»»