It all started, as most things do today, on the Internet. Mere hours after The Mandalorian — the first ever live-action Star Wars series — premiered November 12 on the fledgling streaming service Disney+, the phrase “Baby Yoda” entered our collective lexicon. It was coined to refer to the 50-year-old ...

TechCrunch occasionally reviews cars. Why? Vehicles are some of the most complex, technical consumer electronics available. It’s always been that way. Vehicles, especially those available for the consumer, are the culmination of bleeding-edge advancements in computing, manufacturing, and material sciences. And some can go fast — zoom zoom. Over the ...

Image: Chris Duckett/ZDNet The New Zealand Commerce Commission (ComCom) has released the December edition of its Measuring Broadband NZ report, which shows the nation’s Fibre 100 plans are hitting advertised speeds 99% of the time. Including upload, the Fibre 100 plan is delivering 98.6/21.2Mbps in peak times, with Fibre Max ...

10 of the biggest cybersecurity disasters and hacks in 2019 ZDNet’s Beth Mauder looks back on 2019 and the worst incidents that happened in cybersecurity. Read more: https://zd.net/2r6yvfT In Forrester’s “Predictions 2020: Cybersecurity” report, we projected that the anti-surveillance economy would grow by 15%. At the time, we didn’t know ...

Apple iPad Pro family is rumoured to receive updated 11-inch and 12.9-inch models with an iPhone 11 Pro style triple-lens cameras. Some alleged renders of the new iPad Pro models have surfaced online to suggest what the Cupertino company would have for iPad fans in 2020. The renders hint that ...

If the 2000s was the decade where modern technology really started showing its usefulness to the regular consumers, it won’t be an exaggeration to say that the 2010s can be described as the one where technology not just turned omnipresent, but the consumers really became dependent on it. It is ...

MSI Creator 17 laptop While not as radical an improvement as MicroLED technology, mini-LED is a definite step up from the current LED implementation, as tinier LEDs can be crammed into the display backlighting to improve viewing brightness and contrast. As you might guess, mini-LEDs are making their first mark ...

The Daily Crunch is TechCrunch’s roundup of our biggest and most important stories. If you’d like to get this delivered to your inbox every day at around 9am Pacific, you can subscribe here. 1. Remembering the startups we lost in 2019 This year’s batch doesn’t include any story quite as ...

Huawei Technologies has lashed out at a US Media report that suggests the tech giant’s success is fuelled by billions of dollars in financial support from the Chinese government, arguing that its ties are no different from any other private company that operates in China. The vendor adds that it ...

Image: Fox-IT Security researchers say they found evidence that a Chinese government-linked hacking group has been bypassing two-factor authentication (2FA) in a recent wave of attacks. The attacks have been attributed to a group the cyber-security industry is tracking as APT20, believed to operate on the behest of the Beijing ...