Amazon Fire TV owners will now be able to control more video apps using Alexa and their voice, the company announced today. This feature lets you ask Alexa to “watch,” “play,” “pause,” “rewind,” “fast forward,” and more. It can also take you to an individual show, network, or specific genre of programming. Before, Alexa could… Read More
Here's our take on the best cars of show, which runs through Sunday, Dec. 10, at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
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There are now two Dianes running the show at Google Cloud. The company announced that Diane Bryant has been hired as the COO of the division. She joins Diane Greene, who came on board as Senior VP of Google Cloud in November 2015. Greene appeared to be excited about the prospect of her joining the team. “I can’t think of a person with more relevant experience and talents. She is… Read More
The Raindrop Cake kit was created by Darren Wong of Brooklyn Smogasborg fame. According to the website, "Based on jelly desserts popular in Asia, it offers a vegan and vegetarian alternative to gelatine and Jell-O products."
Although most people agree the cake tastes pretty much like water, it's a fun cooking experience for anyone who loves pretty food. Read more...
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The best way to spread Christmas cheer is by wearing the loudest holiday sweater you can find. Ugly sweater parties are now a ubiquitous part of the holiday season, and finding the perfect thing to wear can be a daunting task.
We've scoured the web to find the best (worst?) Christmas sweaters to take your Holiday Party game to the next level. When doing your own search, these are all good places to start:
In 1947, a group of Marine Reservists lead by Major Bill Hendricks collected around 5,000 toys and handed them out to underprivileged children in Los Angeles. This charitable act was inspired in part by Hendricks’ wife, Diane, who felt frustration after being unable to find an organization that would accept and donate her homemade doll.
Thus began Toys for Tots, a program now run by the United States Marine Corps Reserve that has given out roughly 512 million toys to hundreds of millions of needy children.
On December 3, the organization is taking up temporary residency in an unlikely spot: The parking lot of Wisconsin’s Lambeau Field. Capitalizing on the love of Wisconsin's love of football, The Green Bay Packers’ Toys for Tots collection will take place at the historic stadium prior to the Green Bay Packers-Tampa Bay Buccaneers game. Read more...
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Having a full-time job can be exhausting, tack on a 4 hour drag transformation followed by a 3 hour performance and it sounds almost impossible, but for many performing drag queens this is standard procedurePetra Fried, a favorite among NYC's drag scene, gave us a peak inside the life of a drag queen with a 9-5 and what it takes to do both. Read more...
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Don't believe everything you read.
As many Harry Potter fans know, for the series' 20th anniversary this year Bloomsbury released new editions of the first book. These new editions come in four different designs, one for each of the four Hogwarts Houses, with extra features and fun facts tailored to each.
Though these new editions hit shelves this past summer, eagle eyed readers are now noticing some pretty blatant errors in the books.
First reported on the fan site The Rowling Library, the Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw editions have a facts page in the back about the professors who head those Houses, Sprout and Flitwick respectively. The books list those two as having once dated. As adorable and odd-coupled as that would have been, it's also completely made up. Read more...
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Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is getting into the holiday spirit starting today with festive new furniture and outfits to get your campsite geared up for the festivities.
As the seasons change and snow starts to appear in the delightful little world of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, players can decorate their camp sites with new limited-time decorations and clothing, which are purchased with candy canes. What a wholesome world.
The holiday furniture you can craft are primarily colored red and green, like the jingle checked sofa and jingle fence. On top of regular furniture, you can create a Christmas tree, a stack of presents, a decorated fireplace, and a snowman. Read more...
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The last time Mario had a breakfast cereal, he had to split the billing with Link. I bet that’s what it felt like being in the Beatles at the end. Flying high from a recent string of high profile titles — including Mario Run and Odyssey — the cartoon plumber is finally getting a cereal box to call his own, joining the elite ranks of Steve Urkel and Gizmo from Gremlins.… Read More
The end-of-year holiday season can be an overwhelming time filled with pressure, family drama, and seemingly endless to-do lists, but Kesha wants everyone who struggles with mental illness to know: "It’s not selfish to take time for yourself."
As part of TIME's partnership with OptionB.Org — Sheryl Sandberg’s nonprofit initiative focused on helping people facing challenges in life — the Grammy-nominated singer penned an op-ed focused on the difficulties of maintaining one's mental health during the holidays.
In the piece, Kesha shared her own personal holiday experiences along with self care tips for the upcoming weeks. Read more...
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We can always count on Jason Momoa's enthusiasm to get us through the day, whether he's brightening up Justice League with his bro-speak or geeking out about Game of Thrones, the show that killed him off back in Season 1 but still retains his eternal loyalty.
During a recent visit to Belfast to see his buddies — but not to reprise his role as Khal Drogo ("He’s dead! He can’t come back, it wouldn’t work," Momoa insists) — the Aquaman star apparently found out a lot more than he wanted to about Game of Thrones' final season.
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GoFundMe, the popular fundraising juggernaut that now has 50 million users and has raised over $5 billion in funding for causes to date, is making an interesting change today that could see those numbers getting a boost — or at least help it fend off competition from other fundraising platforms like Facebook’s. GoFundMe is dropping the five percent Platform Fee that it charges… Read More
If President wants to move out of the White House and onto one of his golf courses, there would be millions of Americans who'd be thrilled to say, "Bye, Felicia."
Sadly, it wouldn't be cheap. The Secret Service reportedly spent close to $7,500 on golf carts alone this Thanksgiving so they could protect the president while at his private golf course in Mar-a-Lago, according to a new report by USA Today.
Keep in mind, this taxpayer money is going straight to the club that he owns, now under the ownership of his children.
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You can now buy the right to stake a land claim in Star Citizen, but the base-building and land claim systems RSI is promising literally don't exist yet.
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Back in 2015, then-Commissioner of the FCC Ajit Pai submitted a lengthy paper detailing his reasons for voting against the incoming net neutrality rules. He made a lot of predictions about harm those rules would cause — predictions that, as fellow Commissioner Clyburn points out today, pretty much all failed to come true. Read More
Google Assistant is about to get a bit more home-savvy. The voice assistant will be gaining local discovery skills that will help you locate home services nearby. The company specifically detailed that Assistant would be gaining insights to help users locate “nearby services like an electrician, plumber, house cleaner and more.” Saying something like, “Hey Google, I need… Read More
Facebook has been under fire for its practices and policies that enable advertisers to exclude “multicultural affinity” groups from the audiences they reach via the social network. Now, in light of a ProPublica investigation and pressure from the Congressional Black Caucus, Facebook says it’s committed to taking a closer look at its advertising policies, its COO Sheryl… Read More
Welcome to the 2017 TechCrunch Holiday Gift Guide! We check out a lot of really cool stuff here at TechCrunch, so we figured we ought to put that experience to good use and help you get your holiday shopping done quickly. Need help with some other ideas? Check out the full Gift Guide here! It’s hard to build a smart home. It’s even harder to buy smart home gifts for someone else. Read More
The team behind Verst is joining Dropbox, in an acquisition that marks the end of the Verst publishing platform. The startup actually started life as DWNLD, a platform that transformed websites into mobile apps. It raised a $12 million Series A led by Grelock Partners before shifting focus to Verst, which launched earlier this year as a blogging platform that has traffic and revenue… Read More
Google might fold Nest back into the Google, well, fold. The company is considering integrating Nest, which is a separate company under mutual parent Alphabet at the moment, back into Google’s hardware business. The re-integration, first reported by Wall Street Journal, is a move that Google is considering as a way to help it build out its smart home capabilities vs. Amazon, which is… Read More
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If you grew up watching the original Power Rangers show, then you've definitely pretended that your old wristwatch could help you talk to Zordon. This Kickstarter project brings that fantasy a bit closer to reality.
The mVoice G2 on Kickstarter is a hybrid project that combines the convenience of a smartwatch with the aesthetic of an old analog timepiece. It features a sleek and traditional watch face with ticking hands and numbers to tell the time. Read more...
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GM and Cruise have articulated more specifically when they want to put their self-driving service on the roads, at today’s investor call for the company from San Francisco. GM said that they can make it happen within two years, with a fleet ready to go to work by 2019 based on the company’s current rate of progress. The commercial launch was previously revealed to happen within… Read More
