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EV charging startup VOOL bags EUR2.9M to scale production, optimise grid usage

Estonian startup VOOL has secured a fresh capital injection of EUR2.92mn to boost production and development of its EV charging solutions. Specifically, the company closed an additional seed round of ...

8BitDo's NES-themed mechanical keyboard comes with truly large A and B 'super buttons'

It can be difficult to differentiate oneself in the crowded mechanical keyboard market. The variety of providers and customization options means there's something for everybody. But retro gaming contr...

When to Use a 'Functional' Resume Instead of a Traditional One

When you pull up a resume template, it's pretty straightforward: Your past jobs are listed in reverse chronological order near the top, dating back about 10 years or so. But you may need a "functional...

15 Video Games With Incredible Art Styles

Video games have never looked better than they do now. While AAA studios push graphical fidelity ever further, other developers realize their imaginative worlds with expressive art styles like pixel a...

Let's Make a Deal--With Python!

[photo1]Rhett AllainSometimes when dealing with probabilities, things don't always work out the way you might expect. My favorite example of this is the Monty Hall problem. The name comes from th...

Dealmaster: Discounts on games, toys, laptops, and more

With school out and longer days ahead, summer is the perfect season to relax, recharge, and refresh. We've got discounts on DJI's Mini 3 drone, some video games for Switch and PS5, and maybe a laptop ...

Playing Tears of the Kingdom is rewiring my brain

Anyone who has managed to clock in hundreds of hours on The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild since its 2017 release will understand well how, over time, you can't help but develop a constellation o...

Tame Your Tab Jungle With Vivaldi 6 Workspaces

[photo1]Scott GilbertsonAbout eight years ago I got an email from an old contact at Opera who said some ex-Opera designers and developers, including Opera's cofounder, Jon von Tetzchner, were lau...

FDA advisers vote unanimously in favor of OTC birth control pills

A panel of independent medical experts for the Food and Drug Administration voted unanimously on Wednesday in favor of allowing the hormonal birth control pill Opill (norgestrel) to be sold over the c...

Nintendo, ticked by Zelda leaks, does a DMCA run on Switch emulation tools

Perhaps woken by news of its next premier first-party title already looking really impressive on emulators, Nintendo has moved to take down key tools for emulating and unlocking Switch consoles, inclu...

Your Switch Probably Doesn't Have Enough Space for 'Tears of the Kingdom'

The Nintendo Switch is a fantastic little device that can run a huge library of first and third-party games both at home and on the go. Sure, the thing is showing its age a little in 2023, but then, m...

UK government says the Nintendo Switch can't handle Call of Duty

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Xiaomi's "Ultra" camera phone has a grip accessory, screw-on lens filters

Xiaomi's newest flagship smartphone is the 13 Ultra, and it wants to be the ultimate smartphone camera. There's a big 1-inch sensor, a dual-aperture lens, and even a camera grip shutter button accesso...

The best mechanical keyboards for gaming

Technically, any keyboard you use for gaming is a gaming keyboard. But a keyboard built for gaming often has features mainstream boards can't match, like ultra-fast polling rates, per-game macro profi...

New buckling spring keyboards re-create IBM's iconic Model F for modern computers

IBM's Model F keyboards are prized among keyboard enthusiasts. Introducing buckling spring switches over a capacitive printed circuit board (PCB) in the early 80s, they're considered the grandfather o...

This Week in Apps: TikTok goes to Congress, apps connect to ChatGPT, Microsoft's mobile games store plan

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy.The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as co...

Buy These Nintendo 3DS Games Before They Disappear Forever

The Switch may have succeeded the 3DS and Wii U, but that doesn't mean the former systems are useless. Both Nintendo's handheld and console have plenty of reasons to exist in 2023, whether it's the ex...

The Daylight Saving Time Mess Just Won't Go Away

[photo1]Amanda HooverOn March 12, most of the US and Canada will wake up to an hour stolen. Europe will suffer the same loss two weeks later--a victim of the persistent and unpopular practice of switc...

Microsoft's Bing hits 100 million active users thanks to AI chat, Edge browser

Microsoft's Bing has never been in any danger of overtaking Google as the Internet's most popular search engine. But the headline-grabbing AI-powered features from the "new Bing" preview that the comp...

TechCrunch+ roundup: Ocean tech investor survey, AI and PR, L-1 visa options

Last week, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, which protects consumers from deceptive business practices, issued an advisory titled "Keep your AI claims in check."When it comes to marketing, "false or...