Hello and welcome back to Equity, TechCrunch’s venture capital-focused podcast, where we unpack the numbers behind the headlines. This week Kate was in SF, Alex was in Providence, and there was a mountain of news to shovel through. If you’re here because we mentioned linking to a certain story in the show notes, that’s here. For
Month: December 2019
MAD Event Management LLC — experienced host of diverse and inclusive pop culture conventions — is thrilled to announce the 2020 return of their annual comics-first show, Long Beach Comic Expo (#LBCE2020)! Packed to the brim with panels, activities, and special guests, LBCE 2020 is the #1 pop culture event where fans in the Greater Los Angeles area
If you thought the Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker frenzy would end after the holiday season, you clearly don’t understand how the Force works. As if Saturday Night Live would ever miss out on the opportunity to keep the galaxy’s buzziest new film front and center when it returns in the new year? The
36 minutes ago Warning: SPOILERS for Star Wars: The Rise Of Skywalker ahead! Although Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker answered many of the Skywalker Saga’s big questions, the film did leave a few loose ends for fans to speculate about. Among them is what Finn was going to tell Rey. Throughout the film, John
It’s the week of Christmas, which means new notable game releases are hard to come by. In fact, unless you’re on Nintendo Switch, there’s hardly anything to look forward to this week. In other words, it’s a great time to take a stab at that backlog. As always, if you’re looking for what games are
As someone familiar with FromSoftware’s prior works, I approached Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice with (what I believed to be) earned confidence. After all, surely those who’ve conquered the Souls series and acquired Bloodborne’s Platinum Trophy would be adequately prepared for a stealthy shinobi adventure through 15th Century Japan. For the first several enemy encounters, this
Eddy Travels, an AI-powered travel assistant bot which can understand text and voice messages, has closed a pre-seed round of around $500,000 led by Techstars Toronto, Practica Capital and Open Circle Capital VC funds from Lithuania, with angel investors from the US, Canada, UK. Launched a year ago in November 2018, Eddy Travels claims to
Ariana Grande has released a new live album from her 2019 Sweetener world tour. It’s called k bye for now (swt live)—give it a listen below. Grande announced the record earlier this month. The tour behind Sweetener, released in summer 2018, ended up spanning the campaign behind thank u, next, which arrived five months later.
Saying goodbye to Mr. Robot was not going to be easy. For four seasons, we’ve witnessed several hacks and moments that have shaped the hero at the wheel of the story for better or worse. The most surprising part of Mr. Robot Season 4 Episode 12 and Mr. Robot Season 4 Episode 13 was that the Elliot
While many know Academy Award-winning actor Tom Hanks for his work on movies like Big, Forrest Gump, and the Toy Story franchise, he first got his start in the 1980 slasher flick He Knows You’re Alone. Hanks has since played a number of iconic roles. From starring as the eponymous lead in thriller-drama Captain Phillips to
Only months buying LucasFilm, Disney announced a deal granting Electronic Arts (EA) a 10-year license to publish Star Wars games. Video game enthusiasts were understandably skeptical since the news was reported in 2013, the second year in a row EA was voted the Worst Company in America. EA lived up to that title with the
Though everyone has their HMD cameras trained on Half-Life: Alyx as VR’s killer app, I’ve been staring creepily at Boneworks’ gif-rammed Steam page and saying “soon” over and over. Having spent a few hours working my way through its meta game-within-a-game world, I’m not quite in the position to review it as a whole. It’s
The CDC has issued a set of reports showing that the lung disease associated with vaping seems to be declining from peak rates, and that Vitamin E acetate seems — as speculated early on — to be the prime suspect for the epidemic. The affliction has cost at least 54 lives and affected 2,506 people
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Pete Wentz gives the third in the ‘Star Wars’ trilogy his stamp of approval, but after a 42-year journey amassing millions of fans and billions of dollars … he doesn’t expect everyone to agree. The Fall Out Boy bassist was out in Studio City, and we got him shortly after
As we enter the holiday week, A24’s Uncut Gems starring Adam Sandler has a solid weekend in its second limited weekend on five screens in New York and Los Angeles. The Safdie Brothers crime thriller was the biggest per-screen average opening ever for A24 and, despite dropping from its limited opening last week, the film earned an
Saturday Night Live had quite the task on its hands this weekend as Eddie Murphy was on hand to host. Buckwheat is one of many characters the legendary comedian brought back for this holiday episode and the crowd absolutely loved it. The sketch ended up being a send-up of The Masked Singer. For those who
It’s Star Wars week, and there are a lot of reasons to be excited about our favorite space opera. One of those reasons is TT Games’ upcoming release of Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga. The new trailer doesn’t add much, but when we saw the game during E3, we were really hot on it. May
Facebook doesn’t want its hardware like Oculus and Portal to be at the mercy of Google because they rely on its Android operating system. That’s why Facebook has tasked a co-author of Microsoft’s Windows NT named Mark Lucovsky with building the social network an operating system from scratch, according the The Information’s Alex Heath. “We
From Jubilee and Boom Boom to Beast and Gambit, Hasbro fulfilled a record number of X-Men collectors’ dreams in 2019. And I’ve got one more left to talk about–of a figure I’ve been wanting for 27 years! The X-Men Arcade Game hit arcades in 1992, featuring five of the most iconic team members ever… and
Eddie Murphy hasn’t been on ‘SNL’ for 35 years, but his return Saturday night was worth waiting for … and hilarious! A bunch of celebs flocked to the show and the after-party … and the after-party went on for a long time … which included Dave Chappelle, Chris Rock, Larry David, John McEnroe, Usher, Questlove,
9 minutes ago Obviously, this piece is going to have Star Wars spoilers in it. Hopefully, you only clicked because you saw the movie and you already know which scene the headline is nodding at. If you haven’t caught Episode IX yet, now’s your last chance to skedaddle. You know the moment I’m talking about.
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker will top the box office in its opening weekend, though it falls short of the heights of its predecessors. The Rise of Skywalker will open to $175 million in its first weekend at the box office. That’s a big haul for any movie and the third-largest openign for a
There are newer games to play this holiday season, but none quite as cool. Whether you’re playing on PC, Xbox, or PlayStation, by now you’ve probably played by the rules in GTA: San Andreas a thousand times, so let’s mix it up with some cheat codes. These codes can spawn any weapon you want, any
Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool, but it’s not a magic wand. Applying the technology requires thought and dedication, especially with legacy industries like law and insurance, which are being taken on in this way by Luminance and Omnius respectively. The companies’ founders, Emily Foges and Sofie Quidenus-Wahlforss, spoke with great insight on this on
Lizzo was the musical guest on this week’s episode of Saturday Night Live, which was hosted by Eddie Murphy. She took to the SNL stage to perform “Truth Hurts” and a holiday-dressed “Good as Hell.” Watch it all go down below. Eddie Murphy hosted last night for the first time in 35 years. Prior to
With the world still reeling from the aftershocks of Marvel’s Avengers: Endgame, Diamond Select Toys has teamed up with the Disney Store to offer three new Marvel Select action figures! These exclusive figures are based on both Avengers: Endgame and Captain Marvel, and all are fan-demanded figures that are sure to round out any Avengers action figure collection! The
The fan theory that Tarzan is the brother to Anna and Elsa is officially disproved in Frozen 2. As Disney’s animated library has grown, filmmakers and animators have routinely worked in Easter eggs to other properties. Moments like Rapunzel walking through Arendelle in Frozen is a great example of this, but some fans also concocted the belief that
This site may earn affiliate commissions from the links on this page. Terms of use. Blizzard announced Warcraft III: Reforged just over a year ago, promising a 2019 release. Well, that’s not going to happen. However, we do have an official release date for the remastered game. It’s coming on January 28, 2020. It’s no
Now that the final technology IPOs of 2019 have touched down, it’s a good time to start looking back at what happened during the year. We’re hunting for trends as the clock winds down. Here’s one that’s obvious: Hardware startups are still struggling. It’s cliché to note in startupland that hardware is hard. Everyone knows
Play video content Exclusive TMZ.com Kanye West has a simple message on what people should take away from his journey in 2019 — but his son has an even louder one that might resonate more. We got the Kardashian-West family Saturday in NYC, where they left a restaurant and boarded a waiting SUV with two
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