You can buy the AirPods Max for around $479 instead of $549. | Photo by Becca Farsace / The Verge With more people working from home than they used to, owning a good pair of noise-canceling headphones has become more appealing than ever. However, they can be expensive and difficult to shop for due to…
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This week in Other Barks & Bites: the European General Court reverses part of a ruling by the European Union Intellectual Property Office, restoring some trademark rights for the “BALLON D’OR” mark; Senator Chuck Grassley urges the U.S. Department of Justice to enforce against counterfeit drug sellers; the European Patent Office publishes its decision rejecting…
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Microsoft has stunned core parts of the security community with a decision to quietly reverse course and allow untrusted macros to be opened by default in Word and other Office applications. In February, the software maker announced a major change it said it enacted to combat the growing scourge of ransomware…
MIT’s smart textiles can sense how you move. Irmandy Wicaksono / MIT The clothes you wear are not smart—the cotton and synthetic thread blends lack any kind of sensors in them. But scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have a different kind of material in mind. MIT researchers used a uniquely designed plastic yarn…
AngelList Venture is launching Stack Equity Management, a way for startups to organize and manage their cap tables natively within the platform. Stack Equity is a suite of products that companies use to set up, update and purchase founder, employee and investor equity. It is available, starting today, to U.S.-based C Corporations. It may sound…
NFL fans — especially cord-cutters — will be happy to know that The National Football League has confirmed it is launching its own direct-to-consumer (DTC) streaming service (NFL+) and that its new Sunday Ticket partner will be a streaming service. The news was confirmed today by NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell in an interview with CNBC’s…
TechCrunch is more than just a site with words. We’re also building a growing stable of podcasts focused on the most critical topics relating to the startup and venture capital worlds. To help you find the right show for your interests, we’ve compiled our audio output from the week. Embedded below is the latest from Chain…
A pro-democracy demonstrator pulls a Soviet soldier from his tank in front of Moscow’s White House on Aug. 19, 1991, as a coup attempted to install a hardline right-wing dictatorship. Credit: DIMA TANIN / AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES No headline I’ve ever written, no headline I’ve ever read, has brought me greater joy than the…
There were times I’d be sitting in my college classes frantically scribbling away in my notebook, hand cramping, making sure I had every note from the lecture recorded for when I’d have to study for the inevitable exam. Every now and again I’d look around the lecture hall and notice one or two people just…
A new Linux malware has been discovered that is capable of avoiding detection by antivirus programs, steals sensitive data from compromised endpoints and infects all processes running on a device. Cybersecurity researchers from Intezer Labs say the malware, dubbed OrBit, modifies the LD_PRELOAD environment variable, allowing it to hijack shared libraries and, consequently, intercept function…