Google suspends Trump 2020 app from Play Store for non-functionality

Google suspends Trump 2020 app from Play Store for non-functionality

Google has suspended the Trump 2020 campaign app from the Google Play Store for policy violations, the company confirmed, following a report from Android Police which noted the app was unable to load any content and appeared to have been taken down. Both the Android version of the app and its iOS counterpart have been […]

Panasonic Unveils Lumix S 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 Macro O.I.S. Lens

Panasonic Unveils Lumix S 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 Macro O.I.S. Lens

Panasonic has announced the Lumix S 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 Macro O.I.S. lens for L-mount. The company says it boasts both high performance throughout the zoom range as well as close focusing capabilities which combine into a well-rounded package. Despite the relatively slow and variable aperture, Panasonic seems confident in the lens’s performance, citing its excellent sharpness […]

Indian trader group calls for ban on Amazon following damning report

Indian trader group calls for ban on Amazon following damning report

An influential India trader group that represents tens of millions of brick-and-mortar retailers called New Delhi to ban Amazon in the country after a report claimed that the American e-commerce group had given preferential treatment to a small group of sellers in India, publicly misrepresented its ties with those sellers and used them to circumvent […]

Reducing the spread of misinformation on social media: What would a do-over look like?

Reducing the spread of misinformation on social media: What would a do-over look like?

Evelyn Gosnell Contributor Evelyn Gosnell is a managing director at Irrational Labs, a behavioral research and design consultancy. Richard Mathera Contributor Richard Mathera is a managing director at Irrational Labs, a behavioral research and design consultancy. The news is awash with stories of platforms clamping down on misinformation and the angst involved in banning prominent […]

Microsoft offers new accessibility testing service for PC and Xbox games

Microsoft offers new accessibility testing service for PC and Xbox games

As gaming has grown from niche to mainstream over the past decades, it has also become both much more, and much less, accessible to people with disabilities or other considerations. Microsoft aims to make the PC and Xbox more inclusive with a new in-house testing service that compares games to the newly expanded Xbox Accessibility […]

Daily Crunch: Facebook cuts off news-sharing in Australia

Daily Crunch: Facebook cuts off news-sharing in Australia

Facebook plays hardball in Australia, Epic Games expands its fight against Apple and New York’s attorney general sues Amazon. This is your Daily Crunch for February 17, 2021. The big story: Facebook cuts off news-sharing in Australia In response to a proposed law forcing internet platforms to pay news publishers directly, Facebook announced today that […]

Artie raises $10M for app-less mobile games

Artie raises $10M for app-less mobile games

Artie, a startup looking to rethink the distribution of mobile games, announced today that it has raised $10 million in funding. There are some big names backing the company — its latest investors include Zynga founder Mark Pincus, Kevin Durant and Rich Kleiman’s Thirty Five Ventures, Scooter Braun’s Raised In Space, Shutterstock founder Jon Oringer, […]

Photographer Shoots Direct-to-Paper Photos in a Giant Camera Obscura

Photographer Shoots Direct-to-Paper Photos in a Giant Camera Obscura

Photographer Brendan Barry has been shooting 20×24-inch color still-life images directly onto photo paper via a camera obscura using a color reversal process. In this short 3-minute video, you can watch how he does it. Barry explains that the origins of this process started with a walk he would take with his daughter every day […]

Tata Group reaches agreement to buy majority stake in BigBasket

Tata Group reaches agreement to buy majority stake in BigBasket

Indian conglomerate Tata Group has reached an agreement to acquire a majority stake in grocery delivery startup BigBasket, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch. The salt-to-software giant is buying over 60% stake in BigBasket in a deal that values the Indian startup between $1.8 billion to $2 billion, sources said, requesting anonymity as […]