Luna co-founder Matteo Franceschetti presents a pretty appealing vision of what it can be like to go to bed: As you lie down, the lights, temperature (of both the bed and the room), and the music all adjust to a setting of your choice. Then as you fall asleep, they adjust again, perhaps turning off completely. Luna makes this possible through a smart mattress cover that’s now available… Read More

 Twitter has added the ability to Direct Message with more than one person at a time, meaning you can now have private group conversations on the service. They’re also rolling out the ability to both shoot video, as well as edit and share it directly from the mobile Twitter app. Both of these represent Twitter moving to build into its product engagement opportunities previously left on… Read More

 The Gillmor Gang — Benedict Evans, Robert Scoble, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Topics include the future of sunglasses, why iWatch is the hub of the Notification OS, and the battle for the next 5 years is already over. And then, of course, what the Gang thinks. Plus, David Sifry joins the ladies of G3 to launch the new Handle priority mail/todo/scheduling app. Read More

 We’re at the end of another big week for the tech industry, so Alex Wilhelm, Kyle Russell and I gathered ’round the big white table for CrunchWeek, the TechCrunch TV show in which we roundup the biggest and most interesting news stories of the past seven days. In this episode, we talk about Box’s spectacularly popular initial public offering, Microsoft’s venture into… Read More

 Gillmor Gang – Benedict Evans, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session today at 1:00pmET/4:00pm ET. Read More

  The new design and branding are intended to be more appealing to traditional homeowners looking for something more appropriate for their existing decor, and less sci-fi – and there have been functional improvements to the product to boot. All told, the Ring has proven itself a terrific addition to my connected home setup, and one that proves its worth at a basic level more often than… Read More

 A startup building a live broadcasting service for mobile users, previously known as Yevvo, has raised close to $4 million in Series A funding, an SEC filing shows and the company confirms. Launched in mid-2013, Yevvo’s first app was designed to offer users a way to tweet a link to their live video stream that was push-button simple to use. The company has since pulled the Yevvo app from… Read More

 In this special episode of Cribs we headed across the pond to London, England to check out ticketing and events behemoth Ticketmaster’s U.K. outpost. To do this Cribs in true English fashion, we sent our UK-born and bred editor at large Mike Butcher to conduct the tour. Watch the video embedded above to see what it’s like at Ticketmaster’s crib in the startup-friendly… Read More

 Latin Everywhere, the Spanish-language digital media company that was formed by the merger of Latin Anywhere and YouTube success GoTV last year, is launching a new streaming video service and acquisition that it hopes will help it drive more traffic to its own property. Pongalo, as the service is called, describes itself as a “Hulu for Hispanics.” By that, the company is referring… Read More

 The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, John Taschek, Kevin Marks, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Topics include the Nesting of Google Glass, Neil Young’s Pono and mixing to the car radio, why Selma got shortchange in the Oscar nominations, Facebook @ Work or not, and some tough notification talk to wind it up. If you miss Scobleizer, watch him join our sister show G3. Read More

It’s Friday and that means CrunchWeek. This week Colleen Taylor, Kyle Russell and myself sat around the Small White Table to discuss Facebook’s new corporate communication product, Box’s IPO price and Google’s big changes to its Glass hardware program. Read More

 There are few figures in the tech industry today who are more compelling than Marissa Mayer. So it’s not surprising that she makes for a very compelling subject in Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo, the new book written by Business Insider’s Chief Correspondent Nicholas Carlson. So we asked Carlson to swing by TechCrunch HQ while he was in town this week to chat a bit about… Read More