The loss of several big-name streamers is finally taking its toll on Twitch, according to a new report from StreamLabs and Newzoo out today. In August 2019, top streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins, announced his intention to leave Twitch for Microsoft Mixer. Several others have since defected as well, including competitive ...

Try as they might, even the most advanced roboticists on Earth struggle to recreate the effortless elegance and efficiency with which birds fly through the air. The “PigeonBot” from Stanford researchers takes a step toward changing that by investigating and demonstrating the unique qualities of feathered flight. On a superficial ...

The first cannabis startup to raise big money in Silicon Valley is in danger of burning out. TechCrunch has learned that pot delivery middleman Eaze has seen unannounced layoffs, and its depleted cash reserves threaten its ability to make payroll or settle its AWS bill. Eaze was forced to raise ...

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has launched a request for tender as it searches for a provider to deliver its Cisco data centre compute equipment and services for the next five years. According to the RBA, it’s part of larger upgrade plans to migrate most of its existing physical ...

Survey: 17.7% of Americans learned about encryption watching Mr. Robot The survey also offers fascinating insights into whether people think the FBI should have an encryption backdoor. Attorney General William Barr has called on Apple to help the FBI beat the password-protection system used on all iPhones to access data ...

We may have moved on from a nearly-daily cycle of news involving tech giants sparring in courts over intellectual property infringement, but patents continue to be a major cornerstone of how companies and people measure their progress and create moats around the work that they have done in hopes of ...

Zinier raises $90M to automate field service management – TechCrunch Zinier, a startup that is bringing automation to the field service management realm, announced today that it has raised $90 million in fresh funding as it looks to tackle new categories and court more clients. The San Francisco-based startup said ...

Cisco: DNS attacks will undermine trust in the internet Sophisticated hacking group taps wide set of vulnerabilities as part of their global hacking spree. It’s time to patch recently disclosed flaws in Cisco Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) software after a security researcher published proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for three ...

Image: Google Last April, Google announced that users could use the chips inside their Android smartphones as a de-facto security key for their Google accounts. Starting this week, Google has expanded this feature to iPhones. Google users will be to register their iPhone as a two-factor (2FA) method for their ...

The internet of things (IoT) market is expanding at a rate where distinguishing it as a separate category is beginning to seem a bit absurd. Increasingly, new products — and updates of existing ones — are smart and/or connected. One company is changing the fundamental calculus behind this shift by ...