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. Google is acquiring Fitbit for $2.1 billion Google will pay $7.35 per share for the wearables company — an all-cash deal
Exclusive TMZ.com Kanye West and his Sunday Service team were wrongly accused of charging $55 for a lousy brunch plate … and now the catering company behind it is taking responsibility. Kanye and crew performed in Baton Rouge Friday night at the annual “Brunchella” fundraising event at Bethany Church. Guests were charged $55 per plate
[Warning: The following contains spoilers for Season 3 of Atypical. Read at your own risk!] After a slow-burn reveal that Casey (Brigette Lundy-Paine) and Izzie (Fivel Stewart) had feelings for each other during Season 2 of Atypical, the writers did not feel any pressure to press the gas pedal on having the two track stars
Paramount/Skydance Media/Fox’s Terminator: Dark Fate drew $2.35M from 7 p.m. shows on Halloween night. Last night we were hearing early estimates between $1.5M-$1.7M, so this definitely is an improvement on that. That’s on par with the Tuesday night previews of its previous chapter, Terminator: Genisys which made $2.3M back on June 30, 2015. In fact it is pretty
Credit: Sony Pictures Entertainment In addition to the plethora of comic book-based superhero movies in the next few years, there are a variety of other films such as science fiction, fantasy and action under the umbrella description of ‘genre.’ There are no hard lines, but if a film as robots, giant monsters, or aliens, then
In the not-too-distant past of 2009, before we were treated to political intrigue and some “bow chicka wow wow” moments in the first season of Game of Thrones. Before we embarked on an epic quest to slay humongous dragons across the snow-laden lands of Skyrim. And before BioWare fell from grace because of Anthem, the
Sometimes it feels as if Internet platforms are turning everything upside down, from politics to publishing, culture to commerce, and of course swapping truth for lies. This week’s bizarro reversal was the vista of Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, a tech CEO famed for being entirely behind the moral curve of understanding what his product is platforming
Some Sweet New Reveals & Re-Releases! The Hasbro Star Wars team was in attendance at the Lucca Comics and Games Italian convention earlier today and shared out new reveals for both Star Wars Black Series and The Vintage Collection. All are scheduled for a Spring 2020 release. Included were – Black Series Plo Koon– Black
You will get into the holiday spirit, darn it! You will. It’s a Wonderful Lifetime continues with another delightful holiday movie that had you curling up with a cup of hot cocoa and escaping into a world where love and Christmas abounded. There’s no reservation about the pure cuteness of Christmas Reservations. Gabrielle Solis’ husband
11 minutes ago Yeah, maybe they were asking for trouble with that title. Terminator: Dark Fate appears to be losing the battle this weekend. The initial forecast was for $35-$45 million, which is a wide enough gap, but it looks like the domestic opening will actually be closer to $27 million. Terminator Genisys only opened
Author and creator of The Witcher, Andrjez Sapkowski, hasn’t seen a single second of Netflix’s upcoming adaptation of the series he created, but he did see the show’s new trailer, and it clearly left an impression. During a new interview at the Lucca Comics & Games festival, Sapkowski revealed that he turned down the opportunity
We know you’re busy and might miss out on all the exciting things we’re talking about on Xbox Wire every week. If you’ve got a few minutes, we can help remedy that. We’ve pared down the past week’s news into one easy-to-digest article for all things Xbox! Or, if you’d rather watch than read, you
Motorcycle racing series Supercross isn’t quite ready to add an EV class. The sport — where riders race high-performance machines on jump-filled stadium tracks — currently fields only gas-powered two-wheelers. Supercross was poised to launch an all electric class this month, by converting its junior program to a new e-moto manufactured by KTM — Supercross
Lorde has penned a lengthy note to subscribers of her newsletter about the status of her next album and the passing of her beloved dog Pearl. The singer-songwriter opens with an explanation of her relative radio silence, writing, “When we first met I would write little notes for you online, and they would form a
Another week, another pair of international conventions with major Hasbro Marvel Legends news! This weekend at the 2019 Lucca Convention and Manga Barcelona events, Hasbro made their presence felt with a whopping five more figures being revealed for the 2020 Marvel Legends X-Men Age of Apocalypse wave and an as-yet untitled (Black Widow) wave going
Robert Pattinson has begun training for his role as the Caped Crusader in Matt Reeves’ The Batman. Pattinson was named as the newest Batman back in May, taking over for Justice League star Ben Affleck, and fan reaction was mixed to the say the least (but that’s of course nothing new when it comes to
In addition to everything else already revealed at its BlizzCon event, Blizzard unveiled the next major expansion for its World of Warcraft MMO. Shadowlands takes players into an afterlife just as deadly as the living world. It did so with another jaw-dropping cinematic trailer. The visuals are absolutely stunning. [embedded content] Blizzard also shared a video that
Verdict Overall, the campaign is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare’s strength. Its well-designed missions make for excellent weapon testing grounds and feature a slew of interesting mechanics that wouldn’t work anywhere else. Some of its best parts come about because of the secretive nature of this war, and that includes some heavy moments that are
As we move from a world dominated by virtual machines to one of serverless, it changes the nature of monitoring, and vendors like New Relic certainly recognize that. This morning the company announced it was acquiring IOpipe, an early-stage Seattle serverless monitoring startup to help beef up its serverless monitoring chops. Terms of the deal
TMZ.com Chrissy Teigen says John Legend got tipsy and then belted out one of his most famous tunes to a theme park crowd … leaving him sounding quite different than his usual self. The model posted a video Saturday of her hubby on stage at Universal Studios from the night before, saying JL had a
A weekend of Hasbro reveals is continuing with Hasbro introducing a new addition to the fourth wave of Power Rangers Lightning figures – the Zeo Blue Ranger. Check him out below and look for him in Spring 2020. POWER RANGERS LIGHTNING COLLECTION 6” ZEO BLUE RANGER Figure (Ages 4 years & up/Approx. Retail Price: $21.49/Available:
Exclusive Getty Louis C.K. should start his 14-city international tour by doing one thing right off the bat — apologize for mocking Parkland shooting victims … so says survivor Aalayah Eastmond. Aalayah tells TMZ … a simple apology from the comedian would go a long way nearly a year after he denigrated survivors of the
Sony said Friday that the sequel to its Oscar-winning animated pic Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse will hit theaters on April 8, 2022. The studio also said that another Sony Pictures Animation project, the musical adventure tale Vivo with original songs from Lin-Manuel Miranda, is being pushed back five months to April 2021. The original Marvel/Columbia
Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is beginning to take shape, with fans knowing exactly how many blockbuster movies and television shows the franchise has in store for the next few years. The new “Phase” will include several original series on the Disney+ streaming service — and it looks like the inaugural one, The
Death Stranding is in line to grace the cover of next week’s issue of Famitsu. It should come as no surprise, then, that the cover art for the upcoming magazine issue has already hit the web. And it’s quite the sight to behold. Legendary Metal Gear Solid artist Yōji Shinkawa, who also worked on Death Stranding,
WASHINGTON — Top officials with the European Space Agency remain confident that they will be able to resolve the parachute problems that threaten to delay next summer’s launch of the ExoMars 2020 rover mission. In two high-altitude tests earlier this year, parachutes intended to slow down the ExoMars 2020 lander suffered tears in their canopies.
Imagine a hypersonic passenger aircraft that would cut the journey time between London and New York to around two hours. At Mach 5, or five times the speed of sound, the aircraft would complete a trip across the Atlantic in around 120 minutes. Mach 5 is more than twice as fast as the cruising speed of Concorde
6 minutes ago Not too long ago, we gave you an update regarding actor and all-around good guy Tom Holland, and how he’d shaved his head for a role in the upcoming crime drama Cherry. Naturally, the internet went absolutely nuts about it, and in some corners, we’re sure people haven’t recovered over the Spider-Man
Casting is well underway for Disney Plus’ Ms. Marvel and one surprising tidbit from the news is the inclusion of casting director Krista Husar. Husar’s name is prominent on a casting grid making its rounds online as one of the casting directors alongside long-time Marvel Studios casting boss Sarah Finn. If the name sounds familiar,
America stands fractured, broken by an event known as the Death Stranding. Step into the well-worn shoes of courier Sam Porter Bridges as he embarks on a cross-country quest to reunite the nation and unravel the mysteries surrounding the cataclysm that tore us apart. The first release from Kojima Productions launches Friday on PS4. PS