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Hands-On With The Amazon Fire Phone | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | null |
Harley-Davidson Might Be Making An Electric Motorcycle | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | A mysterious video released on YouTube channel today shows a much quieter motorcycle zooming down Route 66, fueling speculation that this bike is electric. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7u9DTfE14M&w=560&h=315] Harley fans were already suspicious after the folks at leaked of one of the possible bikes on t... |
This 21-Year-Old Dropped Out Of College To Test Our Knowledge Of Rap | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | Drake, Jay-Z, Kanye: Think you could name their songs in just a few seconds of audio? Twenty-one-year-old Danny Friday knows them by heart. He started coding when he was 12 and became obsessed with rap at the age of 14. He’s now dropped out of college and come to Silicon Valley to crowdsource the world’s biggest rap fa... |
Here Is The Full Video Of Amazon’s Fire Phone Launch Event | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95kwXy_MOY As you probably know, Amazon . Sadly, the company didn’t make a live stream available, so you had to make do with our . But it really takes video to get a feel for the phone’s main feature — — but as promised, Amazon has now posted the full video of the event on YouTube a... |
Yo | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | It seems so simple. So mindless. It’s only slightly less boring than “Hey” or “Hi,” if only because of some perceived aggression or excitement attached to it. But Yo is anything but simple. If you haven’t been following along on Twitter, is the hottest new app that will leave you scratching your head. The entire prem... |
Hands On With Yo, The Absurdly Simple Messaging App | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | In certain web-obsessed circles, the word of the day today was definitely “yo.” is a ridiculously simple smartphone app that allows you to contact friends with one word messages that say, you guessed it, yo. The app launched on April 1st (no joke) but only really started to pick up viral steam in recent days — culm... |
Funding Amendment To Curtail Warrantless Surveillance Proposed In House | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | A bipartisan group of Congress members have proposed an amendment to the aimed at reining in government surveillance. The amendment would ban the funding of government to either demand or request a “backdoor” into products built by technology companies. It would also ban the funding of searches of the data of US perso... |
US Marshals Accidentally Replies All To Anonymous Bitcoin Auction Bidders In Email Fiasco | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | In a magnificent show of technical ineptitude, today the U.S. Marshals revealed the identities of many anonymous bidders in its $18 million seized Silk Road Bitcoin auction by CC’ing them on an email thread. When one asked a question, the response was sent to 40 of the bidders, many whose names were attached or easily ... |
With Firefly & Dynamic Perspective, Amazon Just Opened Up All New Categories For App Developers | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | With the introduction of the Firefly and Dynamic Perspective SDKs, mobile app developers who have grown tired of iterating on activities like messaging, photo-sharing, socializing and more now have new ways to differentiate themselves from a growing number of app store competitors. With Amazon’s newly opened up visual ... |
Facebook Slingshot Review: Crazy? Or Crazy Like A Fox? | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | ‘s core mechanic “reply to unlock” makes sharing a fun game or an annoying chore depending on how you look at it. The new standalone photo and video mass-messaging app is delightfully designed, but much of it still feels like Snapchat with a layer of polish — years late. The question is whether Slingshot holding conten... |
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The Best Amazon Fire Phone Features You Won’t Get In Any Other Phone | Romain Dillet | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | Today, Amazon introduced the long-rumored . It has the killer 3D effects that everyone anticipated. But it also has a few neat features that you won’t see in any other phone out there… |
Amazon’s Shopping Phone Comes With Free Prime Membership For A Year | Natasha Lomas | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | Amazon has just announced its head-tracking, shopping-focused $199 smartphone, the . And for those who might be wavering about shelling out top dollar (it’s $649 off contract) for a newbie smartphone, the company is currently throwing in a free year of its Amazon Prime membership service to sweeten the deal. A stateme... |
Shasta Ventures Raises $300M Fourth Fund | Anthony Ha | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | Shasta Ventures, a firm whose investments include , and , announced today that it has raised a $300 million fourth fund. The firm has now raised more than $1 billion. Each Shasta fund has been larger than the one before it, and Shasta Ventures IV was no exception — back in 2011. In , managing director Tod Franci... |
Facebook’s New Open-Source Data Switch Technology Is Designed For Flexibility And Greater Control | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | Today announced new modularized top-of-rack networking switch technology and a new Linux OS to control these switches. The company will eventually share this technology as part of its Open Compute Project. Jay Parikh, Facebook’s VP of Infrastructure Engineering, made the announcement at GigaOm’s in an interview wit... |
AT&T Will Sell Amazon’s Fire Phone For $199 On A 2 Year Contract | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | Given that Amazon’s newly announced Fire Phone is largely one gigantic portal for Amazon to sell things (there’s a dedicated hardware button just for recognizing products!), some folks were betting on the device itself being free — or at least really, cheap. Alas, no such luck. Based on product pages that have just g... |
Amazon’s Mayday Service On Fire Phone Means It Might Be Able To Sell Its Unique New Features | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | Amazon has brought Mayday to the , it announced today. The Mayday service offers one-tap access to customer service agents who can talk to phone users via video chat, and take over the screen on their devices to show them exactly how to do something, complete with annotations. The service is available 24 hours, and se... |
VCs Don’t Think We’re In A Tech Bubble — Yet | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | At the in San Francisco this morning, managing partner argued that there doesn’t seem to be a bubble in tech. In a presentation that lasted a bit over 10 minutes, Kupor laid out a series of trends that indicate things aren’t quite as exuberant as some fear. Kupor argues that a lot of value creation today takes pl... |
Amazon’s Fire Phone Uses Depth And 3D Effects To Stand Out | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 18 | We’ve been hearing about head-tracking technology on phones for a long time now. Some have ventured into this territory already, with Samsung releasing camera-based head tracking in earlier generations of the Galaxy S phones. Today, Amazon is trying out its own version of the gimmick with new 3D effects enabled by four... |
Watch This Film About Why Aaron Swartz Matters More Than Ever | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | was a young, bright genius who believed in the open Internet. A self-made millionaire by the age of 19, he co-founded Reddit, was part of the creation of RSS and became a political organizer and Internet hacktivist who was instrumental in the fight against . , a film first released at Sundance and now opening to the ... |
Gov Oversight Board Will Weigh In On The Legality Of PRISM | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | On July 2nd, the (PCLOB) will release a report on the government’s use of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to execute surveillance. The NSA’s PRISM program, for example, is legally grounded in Section 702. The independent oversight group is part of the Executive Branch, and is notable for its ... |
Android Wear Wars: The Moto 360, LG G Watch And Samsung Gear Live Compared | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | The first smartwatches aren’t yet available to consumers (though two start shipping July 7), but already we’ve managed to enjoy some time with each of the new devices, and while we can’t speak to things like battery life and durability over time, we can share impressions on the relative merits of each so far. Is th... |
NSA Transparency Report Offers More Questions Than Answers | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | The Director of National Intelligence on Friday on about its NSA surveillance programs, releasing its . The problem is the transparency report wasn’t all that transparent. When reading the report, I was immediately struck by the revelation that under the bulk telephony metadata collection program, there were as fe... |
Greenpeace And The EFF Flew A Protest Blimp Around The NSA’s Massive Utah Data Center | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | The cheek. The cheek! When the government is out building a massive data center so that it can store more of the data that it hoovers up from around the world, what do you do? Well you probably can’t get much in the way of a day pass, . And so Greenpeace along with the EFF and Tenth Amendment Center flew a blimp aroun... |
Be A Mashup DJ With Turntable Founder’s Crossfader App | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | No Pro Tools, no record players, no DJ skills required. With , you just swipe between songs, pick two you like, and tilt back and forth to mix them into a mashup. This is Turntable.FM co-founder Seth Goldstein’s plot to turn legions of young ravers into creators. The was built by Goldstein’s team, which is pivotin... |
Svpply’s Founder Is Building A New And Improved Social Shopping Site Called Very Goods | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | The news earlier this week about the , the social shopping and personal product curation site acquired by eBay nearly two years ago, was met with a fair amount of sadness. Svpply’s been known from the start for its clever design, user experience, and functionality, and many of its dedicated fans that there’s nothing... |
Google Hangouts Will No Longer Require A Plugin For Chrome Users | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | Has your distaste for one-off browser plugins kept you from using Google+’s group video chat service, Hangouts? That’s okay. I feel you. Plugins are the worst. What is this, 1999? Want me to install Shockwave, too? Hell, give me a couple sketchy browser toolbars while we’re at it. BONZAI BUDDIES FOR EVERYONE!!! What wa... |
Woot Founder’s Next Project Is A New Daily Deals Site Called ‘Meh.’ | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | You can’t keep down. At least not for long. And goddammit, if he wants to sell you one item a day at an unbelievably discounted price, and to accompany that item with irreverent and sometimes nonsensical marketing copy that will make you decide to buy it (or maybe not), then he’s going to do that. Rutledge, who foun... |
Jeff Clavier’s SoftTech VC Raises $85 Million Fourth Fund | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | Last week, I went to a party celebrating the 10th anniversary of Jeff Clavier’s . What I didn’t know was that the partners were also likely celebrating the close of the firm’s $85 million fourth fund for investing in startups. Clavier began investing as an angel back in 2004, but was catapulted to so-called “ ” status... |
CrunchWeek: Aereo Slammed By Supreme Court, GoPro’s IPO Win, Google I/O | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | Case in point is this past week, in which the Supreme Court ruled that Internet streaming startup , personal video camera company GoPro held a initial public offering, and Google touted a bunch of new things at its , including a ridiculous but apparently actually functional . Of course, this all gave Alex Wilhe... |
Less Than 1/4 Of Android Phones Work With Google’s New Smartwatches | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | Looking to pick up one of those fancy new Android Wear smartwatches? You’re not crazy. Even in this ultra early form, Android Wear is surprisingly slick. But you should know: as it currently sits, there’s a pretty good chance the watches won’t actually work with your phone. The problem is one as old as Android itself: ... |
GoPro’s 14.6% Day 2 Rise Puts It Up 50% From Its IPO Price | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | GoPro of $24 to $31.34 yesterday in its first day of trading. Today the company built on that success, adding nearly $5 more to its share price, ending the day at $35.92, up 14.60 percent during regular trading. All told, GoPro is now up a total of 49.67 percent from its IPO price, making it more than a successful IP... |
Tech’s Toughest Battle Is Regulatory | Kim-Mai Cutler | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | For about a decade from Facebook’s founding in February 2004 to Twitter’s IPO last November, the tech industry’s most visible successes were in social networking, or purely web or mobile-based software products.” But today, the most interesting late-stage companies intersect with real-life services that have historical... |
Gillmor Gang Live 06.27.14 | Steve Gillmor | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | Gillmor Gang – Robert Scoble, Benedict Evans, Dan Farber, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session has concluded for today. . . |
SF Parking App Warned By SF City Attorney Open-Sources Its Code | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | Parking app has open-sourced its code this morning in an effort to solve the parking crisis in San Francisco. The free, open-source project, called is open to any developer willing to work on solving parking problems for the city. City Attorney Dennis Herrera called out Sweetch in a cease-and-desist letter it sen... |
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New Website Captures World Cup History | Cat Zakrzewski | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | If watching the 2014 World Cup just isn’t enough for you, a company based in Germany that allows users to experience the history of the game back to the 1930s. The “visual journey” through the World Cup allows users to select any competition from the past 84 years. Users can then watch video from the games, view pictu... |
Apple Updates Final Cut Pro X, Motion, Compressor And MainStage Pro Apps | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | In what is surely a release timed (at least partially) to reassure pro users that Apple is still paying attention to them, the company has released updates to its , , and MainStage apps. Earlier today, Apple , its pro photo editing app, in favor of the Photos app in the upcoming OS X Yosemite release. As a part of... |
Amazon Turns On Prime Music Streaming, Sans Current Hits | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | There have been a of that Amazon would turn on a new music-streaming service this week, and it looks like that’s just what it quietly did a little while ago. A link to , if you are an Amazon Prime subscriber that is, now takes you to a page heavy on playlists, promising over 1 million songs ready for your streamin... |
TechCrunch Tokyo 2012 Winner Whill Launches Kickstarter Campaign For Its Personal Mobility Device | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 11 |
, the mobility device maker that , has that will raise funds needed to fine-tune the final version of its flagship product, the Whill Type-A, and develop its companion app. Though the Type-A was , the startup, which was founded by former Sony, Olympus and Toyota engineers, does not refer to it as a wheelchai... |
Learning Platform Declara Raises $9M, Sets Sights On Asia | Catherine Shu | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | , a startup that focuses on building tech for personalized learning tools, has raised $9 million from Linden Venture Fund and Singapore-based EDBI. This brings its total Series A funding to $25 million. The company first secured $16 million, led by GSV Capital, in April, and it plans to open an office in Singapore as p... |
This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Google I/O, GoPro IPO, And Aereo | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 27 | It was a big week for gadgets, with , , and . We discuss all this and more on this week’s episode of the featuring , , , and . Have a good Friday, everybody!
We invite you to enjoy our every Friday at 3 p.m. Eastern and noon Pacific. And feel free to check out the TechCrunch Gadgets Flipboard magazin... |
Google Makes Glass Play Better With Your Smartphone | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | The most interesting thing Google announced as part of its software update for Google Glass was an update to the MyGlass app for Android. Photos taken on Glass now instantly sync to your device, where you can apply filters and share via whatever photo-sharing services are available on your phone — not just the option... |
500K Women Gave Up Their Boob Data To Build This Bra | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | , the e-commerce startup that aims to bring us the perfect fitting bra, took data from a million boobs to build its own line of intimates — in an effort to truly support your bust. The company, which formally launched and received an extra chunk of just this last year, upped the ante this week with the promise to pe... |
Google Updates Flight Search With New Search Options, “I’m Feeling Lucky” Button | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | Google is updating its with a number of new tools. Most of them center around finding potential trips within a given budget and even include the return of Google’s iconic “I’m feeling lucky” button. About a year ago, Google launched an experimental feature that highlighted fares to destinations in a given region on a... |
This Is Dave Goldblatt, A Facebook Employee And The Newest Valyrian In Westeros | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | Remember when I told you that you could , replete with your own name, a station in life, and a grisly death? If you don’t, here’s a quick refresher: To benefit a wolf sanctuary in his home city of Santa Fe, as well as a local Food Depot, series author George R.R. Martin promised to name a character after the first man... |
Fly Or Die: Swarm | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | is foursquare’s latest iteration of the check-in based location service, with a whole lot more social baked in. The idea of Swarm is to give you a sense of who’s near you, who be near you, and some ideas for things to do. It’s , which is a lot coming from me, as I’ve never even dabbled at the original foursquare... |
The Seattle Pitch-Off Is Tomorrow, So Hurry Up And Grab Tickets! | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | What up, Seattle? TechCrunch has officially arrived to rock the socks off of the Seattle tech scene, and more importantly, to be rocked ourselves by the startups blossoming out of the Northwest. We’ll be hitting up , during which time we’ll have an always-fun, rapid fire pitch-off competition where a few early-stage s... |
Facebook 11.0 For iOS Peddles Location Sharing With Nearby Friends Search And Invites | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | Facebook slid some new location sharing features in its today, despite saying “What’s New” was only reliabity and speed improvements. I dug through the app and found Facebook is trying to get more people opting into and using its new tool by adding a search box and invite button atop the screen. Facebook may be a... |
Uber Accelerates In Europe As Incumbent Powers Stamp Their Feet | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | As many European countries see protests of scale against the popular, and controversial-to-some, ride-share service Uber, the company is seeing massive interest in its offerings. Media coverage of the strike indicated that Uber wasn’t being punished in the least: , and Uber . What’s causing that? Likely a combination... |
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New Ride-Sharing App Hitch Tries To Pair You With A Driver… And Other Passengers | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | There’s no shortage of ways to get around San Francisco: Uber, Lyft, SideCar, taxis and Muni; and if you’re like me, you’ve used all of them and also bike around town a lot. And now there’s , a new on-demand ride-sharing app that hopes to compete on price by using a smart logistics engine to maximize the number of pas... |
Amazon Launching Streaming Music Service As Soon As This Week, Says NYT | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | E-commerce giant Amazon is planning a streaming music service of its own in order to join the ranks of virtually every other tech company in existence, according to the . The streaming feature would give Amazon Prime subscribers free access to a library of thousands of songs, sans any advertising. It won’t include new... |
Audibly Turns Multiple iOS Devices Into A Wireless Surround-Sound System | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | A team of three young coders has come up with a way to turn your iPhone’s speakers into a wireless surround-sound system, thanks to a mobile app called . The app, which is perfect for parties or for blasting music when decent speakers aren’t readily available, uses technology found on newer devices (running iOS 7 or h... |
Poll Indicates Broad Support For Email Privacy Overhaul | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | While we argue about how to best curtail the NSA, and precisely what constitutes meaningful reform, a gaping privacy hole remains open regarding our email: of 1986 allows for email that has been stored by a user for more than 180 days to be accessed without a warrant. No, this issue still isn’t resolved. A shows br... |
Beats Solo 2 Review: Great Looks, Now With Better Sound | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | Dr. Dre’s headphone company is now Apple’s headphone company, but the Beats Solo 2 were unveiled just after the acquisition and clearly developed long before . Still, the sequel to Beats’ flagship product is more than just a footnote to the acquisition story – they’re a huge improvement on the originals and a good rea... |
Investment Outlook Is Sunny In The Cloud Capital | Christine Magee | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | Tomorrow in the cloud capital to showcase some local talent in Seattle’s startup scene, where venture capital deals are on the rise. In the last quarter, Seattle-based companies raised over $500 million in venture funding — the highest amount raised in a single quarter to date — . In the past year, the region has se... |
TweetDeck Taken Down To Assess XSS Vulnerability | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | , a popular tool for Twitter power users, has announced that it has that took place this morning and that users should log out and log back in to complete the fix on their end. A security issue that affected TweetDeck this morning has been fixed. Please log out of TweetDeck and log back in to fully apply the fix. — T... |
Expedia Now Accepts Bitcoin For Your Crypto-Vacations | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | Another day, another company accepting in an attempt to cash in on the craze. This time it’s the travel booking site that’s accepting the virtual currency for hotel bookings. They’re working directly with to accept and then convert the BTC into dollars as soon as they hit the travel agent’s coffers. “While they h... |
New 3D Print Head Makes It Easier To Print Nutella | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 11 | As a man who loves things that come out of tubes, I am excited about the Discov3ry Extruder. Designed as an add-on to popular 3D printers, the system is essentially a plunger connected to a nozzle that squirts out pastes of various types including icing, Nutella, spackle, and silicone. The product just launched on an... |
Globo Buys Sourcebits In Push For U.S. Mobile App Development Market | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 6 | 29 | , an enterprise mobile messaging and device management and application development software developer traded on the London Stock Exchange’s small-cap AIM Market, has bought the mobile application development service . Founded in 1997 as a content management company, went public on the AIM in 2008 as it transitioned ... |
The Numinous Veil Of Ignorance | Tadhg Kelly | 2,014 | 6 | 29 | I seem to be on the wrong side of the Facebook experiment issue. I’m referring to the news which broke recently that Mark Zuckerberg himself (no, not really) conducted an experiment in 2012 to test whether influencing what a user sees in turn affects what they post. If they were shown more negative material, for exampl... |
Sidecar Tests Out Shareable Rides, So Passengers Going In The Same Direction Can Split The Fare | Ryan Lawler | 2,014 | 6 | 29 | Since launch, has always been about . Now the startup is taking sharing one step further, with a new feature that is designed to match users not just with drivers willing to take them where they want to go, but with other passengers heading in the same direction. Sidecar’s new “shareable rides” feature is another wa... |
Mobile-Only Bank Osper Raises $10M To Aim At UK Youth Market | Mike Butcher | 2,014 | 6 | 29 | , a new UK startup, has come up with an innovative way to create a banking service than can be used by children, combining prepaid debit cards and smartphone apps controlled by both them and their parents. The approach could potentially reach a market underserved by most banks, but which may also be embraced by parents... |
Microsoft’s Top Lawyer Calls Supreme Court Cellphone-Warrant Case “Seminal” | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 29 | It’s been a busy week in the realm of policy and technology, with the Supreme court on a several issues impacting the industry, and the government releasing regarding a portion of the NSA’s surveillance practices. The unanimous Supreme Court caused a stir because it set new precedent regarding digital privacy: To... |
The Morality Of A/B Testing | Josh Constine | 2,014 | 6 | 29 | We don’t use the “real” Facebook. Or Twitter. Or Google, Yahoo, or LinkedIn. We are almost all part of experiments they quietly run to see if different versions with little changes make us use more, visit more, click more, or buy more. By signing up for these services, we technically give consent to be treated like gui... |
Apple’s New iPhone Pitch To Parents | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 6 | 29 | In my line of work I’m often called on to think critically about the usability of both hardware and software, especially smartphones. One of my big touchstones, and one that’s ignored by a surprising amount of designers — is that stuff doesn’t exist in a vacuum. If your goal is to have thousands, or millions, of peopl... |
Facebook And The Ethics Of User Manipulation [Updated] | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 29 | [This post has been updated to include comments from Adam Kramer, the Facebook employee who coauthored the study, and new information from Cornell indicating that the study was funded internally. ] A recent conscripted Facebook users as . The study set out to discover if the emotional tone of a users’ News Feed cont... |
Google’s Principal Designer For Search And Maps Explains Material Design | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 29 | was center stage at I/O this year, from the keynote through sessions and things being demoed on the show floor. The changes run across Google’s range of devices and platforms, and embrace a new set of design principals grouped under the central concept of ‘Material Design.’ I spoke to Jon Wiley, Principal Designer of ... |
Extortionists Are Using Bitcoin To Steal Cash From Business Owners | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 29 | Extortionists are going completely anonymous thanks to social media and bitcoin. just posted on a number of pizzerias that received anonymous letters asking for one bitcoin in order to keep the owners from receiving bad ratings on Yelp, the Better Business Bureau and the like as well as to keep the extortionists from... |
#Love: Pride | Jordan Crook | 2,014 | 6 | 29 | since I was… well, born. At seven years old, I knew something was different when I felt an overwhelming affection for my 19-year-old basketball coach, Cathy. By the time I figured out how sex worked, I had also learned that my Southern Baptist private school and religious community weren’t cool with the whole “gay” th... |
Nest Brings Back The Protect At $99, But Waving Is Still Disabled | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | The Nest Protect is now available following its two-month hiatus after it was pulled for safety concerns. The smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector is now only $99, down from its $129 launch price. The Nest Protect is available store starting tonight. However, one of its key features is still disabled. Nest orig... |
Google’s Dart Programming Language Is Coming To The Server | Frederic Lardinois | 2,014 | 6 | 29 | A few days ago at its I/O developer conference, Google quietly announced that it is working on bringing its to App Engine soon. This implementation will use the company’s recently launched managed virtual machines and the service’s custom runtime support. Because custom runtime support is still in private beta, howev... |
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Startups And The Un-Banking Of America | Rebecca Lynn | 2,014 | 6 | 29 | Historically, when looking for opportunity in the financial industry where technology can have the greatest impact — for investors and entrepreneurs — the best place to start has been with one of our oldest institutions: banks. However, while critical to our economy, banks are generally inefficient, have high fixed c... |
RapidMiner Scoops Up Radoop For Hadoop Analytics Processing | Ron Miller | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | , a big data analytics startup, purchased former partner giving it Hadoop processing and access to the Radoop team’s Hadoop expertise. They did not share the purchase price. RapidMiner enables customers to create a data-analytics workflow and grab data from a variety of sources without scripting using built-in connec... |
@WalmartLabs Grabs Its First “Silicon Alley” Startup With Acquisition Of Fashion App Stylr | Sarah Perez | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | , the retailer’s Silicon Valley-based R&D and innovation center, is today announcing its 13th acquisition — and its first from New York’s “ ” — with the acquisition of fashion app . The app, which helps consumers find clothes they love in nearby stores, will be shut down. It will be pulled from the iTunes App Store by... |
A Drone Map That Delivers You Anywhere In The World | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | Drones deliver to our hotels and to our bellies, and promise to follow our . Now a new site delivers us via drone to over 1,500 destinations using an interactive map. Switzerland-based developer Jan Hiersemenzel launched in April to give us a bird’s-eye view of the world using drones. The site is basically a dat... |
Rendor Turns Your Single-Camera Smartphone Into A Real 3D Scanner | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | Using a piece of paper with a specially printed grid and a regular smartphone, Rendor may have just cracked the 3D scanning code. The system allows you to create a 3D scan of almost any object simply by taking video of it from every angle. The program interpolates the shape of the object based on how it is positioned o... |
Congress Set To Permanently Ban Taxation Of Internet Access | Alex Wilhelm | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | What has 214 co-sponsors in the House and is probably going to become law? More popular than ice cream, the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act would forever ban taxation of Internet access and “discriminatory” taxes on “electronic commerce.” You’ll note that the bill is called the Permanent Internet Tax Freedom Act, an... |
Swatch’s Sistem51 Rethinks The Mechanical Watch | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | I have a soft spot for mechanical watches, which is why the so-called Sistem51 (Swatch calls it the shouty ) is so near and dear to my heart. It is, in short, one of the most interesting developments in mass-market micro mechanics since the invention of the quartz Timex. It is a mix of cool high-tech and ridiculous, T... |
The Middle Finger, Coming Soon To An Emoji Keyboard Near You | Greg Kumparak | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | You can say a whole lot with just a few emoji. Want to ask a friend if they want to go for a bike ride? Bam. Want to ask what you should bring home for dinner? Bam. Want to say that you and Jack are taking the bus to see Prince perform Purple Rain, and you’ll be home by 9:30? Bam. If you have 400 hours to dig through a... |
Microsoft Brings Penny Arcade Artist To An Engineering Team To Work Out Surface Pro 3 Issues | Darrell Etherington | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | Microsoft is gearing up to begin shipping its Surface Pro 3 tablet, and many have already had a chance to test out the latest in tablet/laptop hybrids. One early tester is Penny Arcade’s Mike Krahulik (aka Gabe) who was a huge fan of the Surface Pro 2, because with the stylus, it was an awesome digital artist tool for ... |
iBeacons Usher In The Contextual Shopping Era | Matthew Panzarino | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | If the writing was not on the wall already that the use of proximity-aware beacons was the future of retail, now we have some data to back it up. According to a study by , the use of beacons ( , and has already shipped millions of capable devices) in retail stores caused a 19x increase in interactions with advertised ... |
Motorola’s Amazing Budget Smartphone Is Now Available With 4G | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | The Motorola G is , and it just got better. The budget phone is now available in the U.S. with 4G for just $219. Unlocked and not tied to a carrier contract. And that’s awesome. You should buy five. The Motorola G is the firm’s budget handset that will not break any benchmark records or win design awards. Yet it packs... |
Inside Jobs: How Alice Lee Blends Art And Tech As An Illustrator At Dropbox | Colleen Taylor | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | It might not seem like artistic pursuits have much of a place in multi-billion dollar software businesses. But as you can see in this week’s episode of , creating art is a full-time job for Dropbox’s . As an illustrator and product designer, Lee spends her days designing, doodling, and drawing, helping create the vis... |
Job Hunting Bags Millennials New HR Apps | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | With an overwhelming number of millennials still out of work despite a slowly recovering U.S. economy, venture capital firms are rushing in to back new recruiting and human resources tools to make the job hunt a bit easier. The unemployment rate in the U.S. is , according to a June 6 report from the Bureau of Labor St... |
As Teacher Tenure Degrades, New Opportunities Emerge For Startups To Remake Education | Danny Crichton | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | One of the most notable court cases of the year for startups was officially revealed last week, and there was . Last week, , arguing that tenure disproportionately harms the education of students from poor and minority school districts, and is thus unconstitutional. The case was brought by , which was financed by a ... |
The Tesla Model X SUV Is Coming In Early 2015 With Gull-Wing Doors | Matt Burns | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | Reservation holders for the Tesla Model X today that the electric SUV will hit the production lines early next year. Best of all, Tesla confirms in this email that the gull-wing doors will make the production model and all models will feature all-wheel drive and there will be an option for a third row of seating. The... |
Bannerman Delivers Bouncers On Demand | Kyle Russell | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | It looks like this is going to be the year of the “Uber for things that aren’t rides” in Silicon Valley. While the market for similar services — like or — is already starting to develop, the concept is starting to move onto totally unrelated markets. , for instance, is a startup in the Y Combinator Summer 2014 cla... |
This Chocolate Drone Will Fly Directly Into Your Distended Belly | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6lRbiHswho] Look: you and I both know what’s going on here. This is either a viral ad for Milka or a riff on Üter Zörker at the Springfield Chocolate Factory but let’s retract our marketing antennae for a moment and just revel in the idea: this is video of a quadcopter made of ... |
MakerBot Now Shipping Massive Z18 3D Printer | John Biggs | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | When announced the Z18 printer last January at CES, there wasn’t much of a shipping date. Now, however, the company has begun shipping the massive 3D printer to customers who have pre-ordered thus far and expect to ship from their Brooklyn factory in six to eight weeks for new orders. The is most notable for its 18... |
Secret Finally Lets All Your Freaky Friends Have Their Own Feeds | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | No more “I love my wife” or “I love my husband” posts from Montana for those of us using Secret on iOS. iPhone users can finally separate the hum-drum secrets of Midwestern life from their freaky friends involved in the Silicon Valley tech scene. The update, which happened this morning, allows iPhone users to separate ... |
Dropbox Has Quietly Acquired Parastructure, A Big Data Startup In Stealth | Ingrid Lunden | 2,014 | 6 | 16 | has been to help it expand the services that it can offer to consumers and enterprises beyond cloud storage. But the company — which has and is among the larger tech startups — is also making strategic acquisitions to help keep its own house in order. We have found out that Dropbox has quietly acquired a company... |
The Supreme Court And Your Software Patents | Michael Gulliford | 2,014 | 6 | 28 | The Supreme Court recently issued its long-awaited opinion in , known more affectionately in many circles as the Supreme Court case deciding whether software is patentable. Although the Supreme Court did not tackle that broader question in its June 19 opinion, it did address whether CLS Corp. should be allowed to pa... |
Unscaling The Healthcare Economy | Hemant Taneja | 2,014 | 6 | 28 | Healthcare delivery has always been among the top targets for founders seeking to dramatically improve our lives while building great businesses. Yet, with very few exceptions, most founders find it difficult to build scalable software-defined businesses for providing high-quality care. It is obvious that we are hittin... |
The Most San Francisco Wedding Happened, Thanks To Uber | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 28 | Friends and family gathered to witness CTO marry his sweetheart of three years this afternoon. Only this was no ordinary wedding. Begbie and his bride-to-be, Lacey Shaw, sent a message and earlier today, asking all their friends to meet them in Alamo Square Park to see them get hitched on . Begbie and Shaw had... |
Yo! Hackathon Attempts To Show How Yo Can Grow | Jonathan Shieber | 2,014 | 6 | 28 | The something-like-a-phenomenon app of the moment, , held a hackathon today in San Francisco in an attempt to prove that there can be more to Yo than just the Yo, yo. One hack that’s already climbed the charts to the number one spot on is YoServerIsDown — created by programmers and . The app, which will send a yo... |
IAC Putting A Ring On Dating Site HowAboutWe | Sarah Buhr | 2,014 | 6 | 28 | Looks like is adding Brooklyn-based as another notch in its dating site acquisition belt. It already owns , and a majority stake in . According to obtained by Business Insider, founder Brian Schechter addressed employees about the acquisition, confirming that many HowAboutWe employees would be losing their jo... |
The Rise Of The “Social Professional” Networks | Jon Bischke | 2,014 | 6 | 28 | Back in the mid-2000s, many espoused a theory that there would emerge social networks for different types of people. It sounds a little preposterous now in the age of Facebook dominance, but at the time you had smart people like Marc Andreessen founding companies like that followed this thesis. I was the co-founder... |
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