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Final Cut Pro X Or Really iMovie Pro? | Jon Orlin | 2,011 | 6 | 23 | Final Cut Pro X earlier this week with the tag line “Everything just changed in post.” I guess it depends on what you mean by the word ‘changed’. Apple said they showed the pre-release version to professional editors and their jaws dropped. One Academy Award-winning editor said he was “blown away” by the modern an... |
D-Dalus Aircraft May Actually Be Revolutionary In Flight Technology | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 23 |
It’s not often that you see technologies that can legitimately be described as revolutionary, though seemingly every press release describes every gadget as such. But this D-Dalus flying vehicle, presented at the Paris Air Show, appears to be an actually revolutionary technology within aviation, as it uses a completel... |
TechCrunch Disrupt Winner Soluto Raises $10.2 Million In B Round | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 23 | has raised $10.2 million in Series B funding. Index Ventures led the round, with Saul Klein taking a board seat. Previous investors including Bessemer, Giza Venture Capital, and Proxima Ventures also participated. This brings the company’s total funding to Soluto helps from printing problems, annoying add-ons, ap... |
Hell Yes, Mayor Bloomberg. I'm With You. | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 6 | 15 | New York City Mayor Bloomberg : The Mayor proposed green cards for graduates with advanced degrees in essential fields; a new visa for entrepreneurs with investors ready to invest capital in their job-creating idea; more temporary and permanent visas for highly skilled workers…The Mayor also announced the results of a... |
Yahoo Tries Its Hand At Mobile App Search | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 15 | If apps replace the mobile web, and along with it, traditional search, then the search engines need to figure out how to adapt. Yahoo is taking a tiny step towards embracing mobile apps with a few new products for searching apps. It is launching both iPhone and Android apps for app discovery, as well as desktop . Th... |
Apple's Back To School Promo: $100 Gift Card For Apps And Media | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 15 | I remember the days, young whippersnapper, when the back to school promotion was an actual iPod touch. Not some namby-pamby coupon for Twitters and Angry Birds Neo or whatever it is you kids are buying! But that was long ago. Apple has no need to seed its hardware via giveaways like that now; so just be happy with yo... |
YuMe Acquires UK Mobile Video Ad Company Appealing Media | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 15 | Video ad network has acquired fellow video advertising company and competitor, . YuMe, which declined to reveal financial terms of the deal, will open up its first office in Europe (in London) with the acquisition. Appealing Media offers one of the largest mobile video advertising platforms in Europe. Appealing Med... |
Sony S1 And S2 Tablets Get Release Date Clarified: "Fall" Is Now "September" | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 15 |
Amid the abundance of nearly indistinguishable Android tablets out there right now, we’re actually excited for Sony’s , which have interesting form factors and a Playstation pedigree. we heard they’d be getting a global release “this fall,” and that appears to be true, as that the tablets would be available for... |
Attn Sports Fans, Journalists, And Parents Of Young Athletes: GameChanger Is On Line Two | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 15 | Now, you may have to bear with me, because this may initially sound obscure. And it is a little — but there are also some interesting macro implications herein you’ll want to see. For starters, baseball is one of the oldest, and most beloved games in the U.S. After all, it’s our national sport. (Though I still haven’t... |
The Best-Dressed Nerds Are Wearing These Open-Source iCufflinks | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 15 | [vimeo http://www.vimeo.com/25108667 w=629&h=354] from on . The nerds at , our favorite open source hardware makers, have just released the , handsome, battery powered glowing cufflinks that pulse at the same speed as the Macbook’s “sleep” light. The circuitry inside is entirely open source (you can grab the sour... |
Uber Out-Maths Google on NYC ETAs | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 6 | 15 | Most of the big social media and app companies are pretty light on hard-core technology. Happy to stand on the shoulders of the tech giants that came before, many focus instead on features, design and UI. This enrages the kind of hardcore math nerds that used to rule the Valley. Well, they have a new geeky mascot: . U... |
This Lark Has Flown 30,000 Miles (So Far) To Find Its Owner | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 15 |
No, it’s not an actual bird. The is a sleeping aid device meant for couples that at Disrupt and made just last month, and reader Graham decided to pick one up after hearing about it. And while normally a package might go from a warehouse to a regional center, and then onward to its destination, this particular o... |
Mr. Atari Wants To Bring The Video Arcade Into The Classroom (TCTV) | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 15 | Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari and Chuck E Cheese, wants to bring the video arcade into the classroom. His latest startup is called Speed To Learn, and is known about it. But he was just on a panel I moderated at the in New York City, where he revealed a little more of his game plan. I caught him on video ... |
China Convicts, Imprisons iPad Counterfeiters | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 15 | While China isn’t exactly the massive black market it is occasionally portrayed as, being the does make it home to some . And while it’s nominally illegal, it’s rare that you actually see a publicized crackdown. Today we hear that three distributors of a counterfeit to between 12 and 24 months in jail and fined ... |
Project Spartan: Facebook's Hush-Hush Plan To Take On Apple On Their Own Turf: iOS | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 15 | Given the that has about Facebook, you’re probably thinking there is no way that anything else leaks out today. They’re probably on lockdown (real lockdown, not the crazed coding “lockdown”), right? Wrong. We’ve learned about the existence of yet another secret project within Facebook. And while it’s not quite as... |
"How The Royal Wedding Was Shot" – No Really, It's Interesting | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 15 | I’m no fan of the whole royal wedding nonsense, but I can’t deny that it was a huge media event and one that demanded photography that was both creative and technically impeccable. has about the techniques used by Getty photographers to capture some of the images from the wedding, not technical (not technical enou... |
Pinger's Textfree Surges On Android: User Growth Now Matches iPhone | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 15 | Textfree, the app that lets users send and receive free text messages and phone calls using real phone numbers, has a new best friend: the big green Android robot. We’ve been Textfree’s staggering growth for some time now — CEO Greg Woock says that Textfree users now exchange 1.5 messages and 45 million voice minu... |
Investors Flock To Boston To See TechStars’ 12 Cool New Startups (Here’s A Peek) | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 15 | Today, seed fund and accelerator, , put on its “Demo Day” in Boston to debut 12 new companies to the world. Investors came in from far and wide to vet these young startups and to potentially take out their checkbooks. TechStars estimates that more than 350 VC and angel investors were on hand for what General Partner ... |
Want A USB Port On Your Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1? That Will Be $20, Sir | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 15 | Android 3.x natively supports USB hosts, which, as in the case of the Acer Iconia Tab allows users to plug in cameras, input devices and flash drives without any hassle. But a full size USB port isn’t including on the brand new Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 (or the Xoom, for that matter) Samsung instead went the Apple Dock C... |
PopBooth: A *Real* Photo Booth For iPhone/iPad From The Postagram Guys | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 15 | When it comes to photo apps, some of the first to hit involved recreating old school photo booths. It was (and remains) an awesome, if not obvious, idea. The proliferation of front-facing cameras on smartphones only accelerated this trend. But those apps tend to come up short in one very important way: you don’t get th... |
EA Begins To Pull Steam Availability, Push Origin Exclusives | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 15 |
If you were hoping to pick up a copy of on Steam, you’re out of luck. The game is on Valve’s download service, though it was not (strictly speaking) pulled by EA. While EA has that the title is simply incompatible with “a set of business terms” “imposed” by Steam, the language and context suggest that it was act... |
Myspace Stops Believin', Shutters Myspace Karaoke | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 15 | Sad news for some karaoke fans out there: MySpace Karaoke — a feature that in 2008 — is no more. A message now appears on the feature’s former that states, “Karaoke has been discontinued…If you have any questions, please contact us by clicking the “Contact Myspace” link on Myspace help at http://www.myspace.com/hel... |
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ThingLink takes the fight back to Stipple with rich media image tagging | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 15 | , which in allowing people to tag images with Twitter names, has some new competition on the block. which also lets you tag any image, is now launching Rich Media Tags, allowing anyone to interact with an image tag which might be embedded music, video, words, pictures and tags for people. Publishers simply connect ... |
If Something On Twitter Seems Too Bad To Be True, It Probably Is | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 12 | Anyone else seeing an influx of blog headlines that go “Updated: [Thing That We Just Wrote About] Is A Hoax”? While Internet hoaxes have been around since the (remember ?), we’ve had quite a few doozies this week, from the woman who got a of 152 of her Facebook friends on her arm, to the eHarmony user over her l... |
Social Network For Kids Everloop Lands $3.1 Million In New Funding | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 12 | , a social network for children under 13 years of age, has raised $3.1 million in funding from vFormation, Band of Angels, Envoi Ventures, Richard Chino, Wayne Goodrich, Deena Burnett-Bailey and additional investors. Everloop wants to be the Facebook for kids under the age of 13. The site offers a private social networ... |
The Little Red Dot. | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 12 | I see it right there, staring me in the face. It’s like a laser beam burning a hole in my retinas. I can’t help but click. That damn iOS notification red dot gets me every time. And things are about to get much worse. I’ve been addicted to Push Notifications since their inception with iOS 3 — and that’s in spite of the... |
Game, Set, iMatch | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 6 | 12 | Usually Apple launches are all about new product, and the WWDC keynote by Steve Jobs and crew was no exception. IOS 5, OS/X Lion, and iCloud were the tech version of a triple play, mainlining the iPad into the Mac and virtualizing the two product lines via the Cloud. What this means for Apple’s competitors is being de... |
Why Japan’s GREE Overpaid For Mobile Social Gaming Startup OpenFeint | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 12 | Over the past year, there’s been an apparent trend taking place of Japanese gaming companies acquiring U.S. social game developers. DeNa bought social gaming company last October, adding to an acquisition of in September. A little over a month ago, Japanese mobile gaming company GREE on OpenFeint, a plug and play ... |
(Founder Stories) How Mike McCue Came Up With Flipboard: "What If We Accidentally Deleted The Web" | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 12 | How did come up with the idea for , the iPad reader that’s seeing more than ? In these final two video clips from his interview with , McCue says that he had no intention of starting another company after selling TellMe to Microsoft (which he talks about in and of this interview). He was tired after ten ... |
Yawn: How Did Big Tech Companies Turn into Big Boring Banks? | Sarah Lacy | 2,011 | 6 | 13 | If you are reading TechCrunch you probably already realize this fact: Flavor-of-the-month consumer Internet companies have a way of hogging the spotlight. If you didn’t, we conveniently published of it yesterday. But that reality predates us by at least a decade. In 1999 when the world talked about Silicon Valley, th... |
And Now For Some Unexpectedly Good News | Jon Evans | 2,011 | 6 | 13 | Don’t look now, but sub-Saharan Africa is . its growth has been , and, to quote none other than , “today the rate of return on foreign investment in Africa is higher than in any other developing region.” There are several reasons: commodity prices, Chinese investment, diaspora remittances… and, I would argue, the ... |
Review: Kobo eReader Touch Edition | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 13 |
: Superficially similar to the new , but the Kobo is perhaps even simpler, and the form factor is slightly more book-like. If you don’t need 3G or the other perks of the Kindle ecosystem, and just want a straightforward e-book reading device, this Kobo could be a good match.
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Microsoft Fighting To Ensure Google Does Not Gain Patent Leverage, Deterrence | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 13 | A week and a half ago, a report said that while the U.S. Department of Justice was over the Nortel wirelesspatents, they were unlikely to object to Google winning the rights to them. But a new opponent to Google’s bid has arisen. And it’s a familiar foe: Microsoft. Specifically, Microsoft is objecting to Google being... |
Signs Of What Could Have Been: iOS Hooked Up With Facebook Before Marrying Twitter | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 13 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gSqtubjTis#t=1m03s &w=630] It’s easy to take Twitter’s deep integration on iOS 5 and go nuts with speculation surrounding its symbolism; whatever that means! Well as this video of a test build of iOS 4 from this April brings to light, perhaps the choice wasn’t necessarily Ap... |
Smarterer Raises $1.25M To Prove You're Good At Anything In 60 Seconds Or Less | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 13 | Ever wished you had an easy way to tell the world (and potential future employers) just how great you are at using Microsoft Office, Salesforce, and.. err.. Facebook? Your chance is coming. Today a new company called has raised $1.25 million from True Ventures and Google Ventures, with participation from angels inclu... |
RescueTime Launches Introductions, A Carfax Report For Top Job Candidates | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 13 | Y Combinator-backed is a web-based time management tool that lets users monitor the time they spend on the Web, like what applications and websites they’re visiting most frequently, all in an effort to help heavy web users cut down on inefficient uses of their time. (Maybe those three hours in Chrome Angry Birds wer... |
Rebecca Black's 'Friday' For Rent On YouTube!? Well Not At The Moment | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 13 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD2LRROpph0#cdpframe=x5EqJKNvNw0QRHsU48QSUddvjjk&w=630] So I’ve been sitting here for the past 30 minutes writing a blog opus about how Rebecca Black’s is now a , heralding a new era for YouTube’s content monetization strategy and the idea of a meme as premium content … but gu... |
Video: A Massive OLED Globe Fit For, Well, A Museum | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 13 |
The next time you’re in Toyko’s Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, it’s going to be hard to miss the updated Geo-Cosmos. This 20 foot globe was recently revamped and and thousands of LCD panels were ditched in favor of 10,362 OLED panels, which feature a resolution 10x greater than the older screens. The Mitsu... |
Panasonic Goes Light And Basic With The New GF3 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 13 |
Panasonic’s compact micro four-thirds GF series has received an update, and yes, it’s . The GF3 is lighter, smaller, and simpler than its predecessor. It also forgoes a hot shoe in favor of a pop-up flash, something which may anger serious photographers but makes sense given the direction in which they’ve taken the c... |
Swype 3.0 Beta To Launch Today, Now Tablet-friendly | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 6 | 13 | Swype. It’s just one of those things where you know if you love it or hate it within about 30 seconds of your first touch. Some people just can’t wrap their heads around dragging their finger from letter to letter rather than poking around; others pick it up immediately, and then can’t imagine typing on a phone without... |
iOS 5's Fancy New Camera Trick? Microsoft Has A Patent On It | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 13 | At Apple’s last week, we finally got a sneak peek into . Amongst other things, Apple revealed that its would be getting quite the makeover. Pretty much immediately after the new camera tricks were demonstrated, people began noting similarities between iOS 5’s new focal features and some of those found in Windows P... |
AMA: A Peek Into The Future Of Google Docs | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 13 | Earlier today, a handful of members of the Google Docs team announced that they were doing something fairly unusual for employees at a large company: they’re giving members of the popular link-sharing site a chance to ask them anything (you can find the thread ). The team has now responded to plenty of questions, of... |
U.S. Cellular To Pick Up The HTC Wildfire S, Desire S? | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 6 | 13 | U.S. Cellular picks up another pair of slightly obscure phones — or, at least, it looks like they’re about to. After picking up the and the (months after Sprint launched it as the “Arrive”), two more handsets have just been spotted lurking in U.S. Cellular’s inventory: the HTC Desire S and Wildfire S — two Android... |
Meet The Most Dangerous Device In The Air: Your iPad | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 13 | I’ll be honest, I’m probably the first one on a flight to ignore the flight attendant’s announcement that “all portable electronic devices must now be switched to the ‘off’ position.” My reason? I simply don’t believe that one phone could cause an issue, especially since mine has been on during almost every flight I’ve... |
The Opena iPhone 4 Case Hides/Showcases Your Drinking Habit | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 13 |
Cool kids carry bottle openers on their key chain. But who has a key chain anymore? Furthermore, why do they need to drink and drive. Enter Opena, the Kickstarter funded bottle opener iPhone 4 case. Yep, jump on the bandwagon now, save $10 off the retail cost in the process and reserve your spot as a cool kid from the... |
At 5 Million Users, It's Hard Not To View Instagram Through A Rose-Colored Filter | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 13 | When we first , most of the initial comments predicted it would be dead on arrival. To say those people were wrong is a vast understatement. And now has five million ways to prove it. Yes, Instagram now has five million users. That’s 625,000 users for every month they’ve been in existence — with the growth accelerat... |
Blinklearning secures €350k of R&D funding to personalise education | Steve O'Hear | 2,011 | 6 | 13 | , the e-tutoring platform, has raised €350k of public money from the Spanish CDTI NEOTEC program for further R&D into how Artificial Intelligence can be leveraged to offer a more personalised education for learners. Based on the premise that education must be adapted to the needs of each individual student who may lear... |
Samsung To End Nokia's 15-Year Market Reign? | Jordan Crook | 2,011 | 6 | 13 | It looks as though ’s 15-year reign is coming to a close: according to Nomura Research Institute, is expected to usurp the world’s largest phone maker this quarter. And if losing the top spot isn’t tough enough, Nokia likely won’t even take the second place position this quarter either; Nomura sees sliding past Fi... |
U.S. Cellular Nabs The HTC 7 Pro As Their First Windows Phone 7 Handset | Greg Kumparak | 2,011 | 6 | 13 | If you’re one of U.S. Cellular’s 6.1 million customers and you’ve been just for a Windows Phone handset, your only option so far has been… erm… deal with it. Deal no longer! This morning, U.S. Cellular added their first WP7 handset, the HTC 7 Pro, to their arsenal.
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Could Efficiency 2.0 Eclipse Solar? CEO Tom Scarmellino Thinks So (TCTV) | Lora Kolodny | 2,011 | 6 | 14 | The founder of Efficiency 2.0, Tom Scarmellino, sat down with this week to talk about how his company motivates consumers to curb their power-hogging behavior at home, and what kind of impact that makes from an environmental perspective. A New York City cleantech company, runs loyalty rewards programs on behalf o... |
Crytek Developer: New Xbox Coming At E3 2012 | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 14 | Despite industry sources and commentators suggesting that , would be the timing for a new generation of consoles, one insider claims Microsoft is planning on revealing it in the next 12 months, also known as “in the next year.” The anonymous source at Crytek told that the company is already developing a new game ( ... |
Must-Have For Minecraft Fans: Grass Block Mousepad | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 14 | If you’re deeply into , as I know many of you are, you might find fulfilling (there’s a one as well). Etsy seller has a ton more of iconic game graphics, if blocks and building aren’t your thing. That is all. [via ] |
Meet The Robostir, A Robotic Soup Stirrer | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 14 | You like soup, but you don’t want to stir it? What to do? Buy a robostirrer, of course! The Robostir robot stirrer is a stirrer that is a robot. It costs $11 and runs on 4 AA batteries and stirs your soup or polenta or whatever like a freaking champ. Soup? Check. Minestrone? Damn right. Italian Wedding Soup? Umm, yeah?... |
Engineer Has Been Helping Paraplegic Gamers Play Using Modified Controllers For 30 Years | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 14 |
Here’s a story to warm the cockles of your hearts, dear readers. Since 1981, Ken Yankelevitz has been designing modified controllers for gaming systems that allow people with no use of their arms or legs to play games. Using variations on the sip/puff mechanic, operating buttons with the nose or lips, and other tools ... |
Discovr Launches Awesome Tool To Find New Apps For iOS (Think Interactive Graphs) | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 14 | At , Apple announced that there are now more than 400K apps in its app store (and that more than 500K have been approved). The Android Marketplace has around 300K apps and is growing fast. The point is: There are a lot apps out there already, and more hit app stores every day. They’re going like hotcakes. But finding... |
Troubled Startup Color Loses Cofounder Peter Pham | Michael Arrington | 2,011 | 6 | 14 | , the president and a cofounder of mobile social startup , is no longer with the company, we’ve heard from multiple sources. The company less than three months ago. Color has been controversial because it raised so much venture capital – – and had such a launch reception. The service creates proximity based socia... |
This Can't Possibly Work: "Hoverbike"-Style Dual-Rotor Flying Machine | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 14 |
I can’t be the only one who has doubts about the safety of . The creator, an Australian (naturally) by the name of Chris Malloy, claims it’ll be able to fly at 173 MPH at 3000 feet. Yeah, I can see that — if you can get to that height without flipping over or falling off the thing after hitting a pocket of turbulent ... |
Another 2048×1536 Asset Suggests Upcoming Retina Display On iPad | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 14 | Back before the iPad 2 was announced, there was some speculation that it at a doubled (horizontal and vertical) resolution of 2048×1536, based on some extra-large assets found deep in the OS. That turned out not to be the case, but I still strongly believe it’s in the future for Apple’s tablet, and now a mega-sized T... |
Zaarly Crosses $1M In Jobs Posted, In Just Under A Month | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 14 | In less than a month after its on May 14th, peer to peer marketplace has crossed $1 million in posted transactions, and commemorated them with a colorful infographic depicting the break down of the early days of Zaarly. Zaarly, which has raised more than $1 million in seed funding, boasts an impressive list of inve... |
First Silicon Valley Consumer Internet Company Joins The Wall Street Single Letter Club | Jon Orlin | 2,011 | 6 | 14 | As we , will start trading tomorrow on the New York Stock Exchange under the single letter symbol “P”. By doing so, it becomes the first Silicon Valley consumer Internet company to join the exclusive one-letter stock ticker symbol club. That club was once reserved for the big blue-chip industrial companies: Chrysle... |
Sindelantal gets a €1m boost for online food delivery | marinando | 2,011 | 6 | 14 |
(meaning: without an apron), which launched a year and a half ago to tackle online restaurant take out and delivery in Spain, is announcing a €1m round from Michael Kleindl, VitaminaK and earlier investors. It follows initial funding of €300k in 2010 from well known angels Alberto Knapp, Iñaki Arrola, Rafael Garrido... |
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Airbus Shows Off Concepts For 2050 Air Travel | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 14 |
What do you think planes will be like in 2050? You’re probably wrong. I’d definitely be wrong. And Airbus is probably wrong too, but they’re in the business, so they might be a little closer to the mark. At the very least it’s a sneak peek at what the aviation giant is thinking about for its next generation of airlin... |
"$35" "Indian" Tablet To Ship This Month (For $50) | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 14 | While neither the cost nor the design origin of the talked up by Indian officials is exactly as advertised, the device may in fact be getting a release this month at the price advertised, despite earlier this year. The low-cost tablet, rather an made possible by globalized creation tools than an country-specifi... |
This Robot Can Beat Ms. Pac-Man Faster Than You Can | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 14 | [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyjnB0NDA24&w=640&h=510] Three students at the University of Essex, Philipp Rohlfshagen, David Robles, and Simon Lucas, built an AI that can play Ms. Pac-Man like a champeen, hitting 70,000 points in a few minutes thanks to forward-thinking algortithms. It’s actually quite fascin... |
Rez Creator Mizuguchi: Bring On The 3D And Crazy Control Methods | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 14 |
At , while checking out both the and the , I was struck by the creative possibilities these novel control methods provided. Developers can be immensely creative people, and with the right one, something like a rear touch surface can become a truly powerful gameplay device. Tetsuya Mizuguchi, creator of Rez and Lum... |
Pandora Prices IPO At $16 Per Share, Now Valued At $2.6 Billion | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 14 | Music streaming service has priced its IPO at e, valuing the company at $2.6 billion. The company originally set the range of its IPO at $7 to $9 per share, at a market cap of $1.3 billion; but upped the range last week to $10 to $12 per share, giving the company a valuation of $1.9 billion. Pandora’s stock will beg... |
Thunderbolt Gear And Final Cut Pro X To Arrive Next Week? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 14 | Back at NAB in April, Apple took over the Final Cut Pro to announce the . Powerful new functionality was demoed, as well as some (to me) disturbing concessions to iMovie, but the $299 price impressed. June was the target for release, and if you’ll check your calendar, you’ll find that is . claims to have heard that... |
Despite Expanded AmEx Deal, Foursquare Is Still A Revenue-Free Zone | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 22 | Foursquare is its relationship with American Express to provide local deals to people who sync their cards to their Foursquare accounts. AmEx did a , and that went well enough that it is rolling out the deals more broadly. The discounts, such as $20 off a $50 purchase at Sports Authority, are automatically applied ... |
Sources: PopCap In Late Stage Acquisition Discussions With EA For $1 Billion+ | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 22 | Following up on our story earlier this evening that PopCap Games is in late stage for a sum of over $1 billion — we’ve now heard from two sources that the buyer is Electronic Arts. The high price of the deal ($1+ billion) means that this would be a huge bet for EA — we’re talking over 13% of the company’s . But we’r... |
Vita To Ship December 31st? | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 22 | Some -pre-ordering mofos are getting word from Amazon that their shiny new handheld will not, in fact, be arriving “this holiday season” (which implies November and early December), but may rather be shipping on the last day of the year, and . I know, first world problems, right? But it does mean that Sony will miss ... |
Pentax Q Compact Interchangeable Lens Camera Leaked | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 22 | It seems someone hit the “go” button a little early over at , as for a few brief minutes , with pictures and specs. It’s an interchangeable lens system with a rather small sensor (1/2.3″, which is what’s in many point and shoots), though unfortunately no information on the new lens mount (called Q as well) other than... |
Peruse Nearby Groupons In Your Pulse Reader | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 22 | Pulse is not just for news feeds and Facebook links. Now you can also get nearby daily deals. With the latest update to both the iPhone and Android apps, when you enable location sharing, Pulse will pull . Pulse lets you subscribe to different deals by city. You can see them as a stream in your Pulse reader, along w... |
Happy 15th Birthday, Quake | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 22 | On June 22nd, 1996, id Software released , the true successor to the franchise and among the first games (certainly the most well-known) to be presented entirely in 3D. That is, with polygons. Those of us old enough to do so will remember the first set of levels (that is to say, the demo) with perfect clarity, and re... |
Hands On With The Creative Tactic 3D Omega | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 22 | This console headset, announced at CES this year, is finally available for purchase. It offers 3D sound in a pair of high-end headphones along with a wireless dongle that sits behind the console and is nearly invisible. We had a few seconds with the headset today and they looked pretty solid, an important consideration... |
Robotic Hug-Jacket Is Somewhere Between Depressing And Therapeutic | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 22 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdwLplAl93I&w=640&h=390]
Now, I’m going to be honest here, the way this thing is pitched (“Sense-Roid provides you a passionate tactile communication with ‘YOURSELF'”) isn’t really the right way to go about it. People don’t hug themselves, not because they can’t (you can, kind o... |
GameAnalytics.com: The Name Says It All | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 22 | It’s no secret that game companies like Zynga have many of their mechanics — be it the initial walkthrough or payment process — down to a science. But for the so-called “long tail” of developers, finding or building the requisite tools is far from trivial. is a startup that’s looking to level the playing field, by giv... |
Quick Bike Hack: Put A Seatbelt Inside Your Tires To Resist Punctures | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 22 |
If you ride a bike in the city, you’ve probably had a few flats in your time. Here’s a quick homebrew method to strengthen your tire against the occasional glass shard or rusty nail. (obtainable at a junkyard or online) rolled inside your tire before the tube. It won’t protect against gunshots, but hey. [via and ... |
Tests Put iPad 2 Display Quality Above Xoom, Transformer | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 22 | The most important hardware aspect of a tablet is arguably the screen, which is the main object you interact with, and the item through which you receive most of the tablet’s content. Therefore, the quality of that hardware is paramount. And it seems Apple has made sure that its screen is of the highest quality. Motoro... |
Hands-On With The Creative ZEN Style M300 | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 22 |
The ZEN Style M300 is a tiny MP3 player with a few tricks up its sleeve. Starting at a mere $40, these tiny, colored devices feature Bluetooth connectivity, a MicroSD slot, and a small color screen. A different device the M100, has all the features of the M300 except the FM radio. The 4GB 300M costs $49 while the 100M... |
Valve Warms Toward Nintendo With Wii U | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 22 | Don’t expect Episode 3 to come to your New Controller any time soon, but Valve’s Gabe Newell has made some noises about Nintendo What he means is that there was no way they were downsizing a game to fit on the Wii, but the might have the chops to make it worth porting games to. For a long time Nintendo has been the ... |
A New Mobile Social Games King In The U.S.? Former Facebookers Take Storm8 To 210 Million Downloads | Rip Empson | 2,011 | 6 | 22 | On the heels of comes some interesting news from the social games front: Game developer is today announcing a few impressive stats. Among other things, the company is claiming that it has become the “largest mobile social games developer in the U.S.”, boasting over 210 million downloads across iOS and Android. Whi... |
Want a 90% drop in your site visitors? Yes folks, you too can implement EU cookie law! | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 22 | Fancy a 90% drop in enthusiasm from your site visitors? This amazing offer could be yours thanks to a wonderful new law about cookies from EU regulators. Yes folks, the people who brought you regulations about the bend in a banana are back! The new law applies to all EU websites and requires website owners to get a us... |
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Zero Punctuation On Duke Nukem Forever | Devin Coldewey | 2,011 | 6 | 22 |
You probably know what to expect out of this one. Since the critics have been almost uniform in their judgement of this storied and unfortunate title, and was likely to be even one step further. Actually, he has some sympathy for the game, and while it’s not a good game, its failures are comprehensible in a way some... |
The Pioneer AppRadio Gets Official Video Demos, $399 Retail MSRP | Matt Burns | 2,011 | 6 | 22 | [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pufes02UlYw&w=640&h=390] A month after , Pioneer finally found it fit to release a pair of official demo videos of the . However, both are clearly meant for marketing purposes rather than actually showing what it does. Check out the second after the jump. The radio is also now ... |
Songkick hits 100,000 downloads of its iPhone app inside two weeks | Mike Butcher | 2,011 | 6 | 22 | So, one normally judges high growth in consumer apps by traction early on. Instagram, which is it lately, had 100,000 downloads in one week. has the same . Adding to this roster is , which is telling us they’ve had 100,000 downloads of their new iPhone app – which lets you find gigs around you – in the first 2 we... |
The Verizon iPhone Halted Android's Surge. The iPhone 5 Could Reverse It. | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 22 | Nearly a year ago, I wrote a post titled “ “. Not surprisingly, it fired people up. About 1,000 comments later, there was a full-on fanboy war between the Apple and Google sides. But the point was actually something we can look back on. Was Android surging ahead of the iPhone in the United States because Apple only had... |
Fly Or Die: How Color Became The Ishtar Of iPhone Apps | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 6 | 25 | Ever since launched its photo sharing app, the startup has been having a rough time. John Biggs and I reviewed it on back in March, when CEO Bill Nguyen joined us to defend the app ( you can watch that episode below, we both gave it a “die”). The company continues to struggle, so we decided to revisit our ass... |
After Seven Years, The Winklevosses Drop Battle With Facebook [Update: They’re Back] | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 6 | 22 | After seven years of lawsuits! … After reaching a $65 million dollar settlement with Facebook in 2008 which they then tried to rescind on the argument that Facebook gave them misleading information! … After vowing that they would challenge an April 2011 ruling by the 9th Circuit Court and take their case all the way to... |
After 50 Days Of Attacks, Hacker Group LulzSec Calls It Quits | Leena Rao | 2,011 | 6 | 25 | Hacker group has announced that after of hacking companies and organizations, it is . Check out the message from LulzSec below, which was Check out the video as well (embedded below). LulzSec released a torrent of data from Arizona law enforcement which included hundreds of classified documents including perso... |
Card Designer: The Inspiration For Zuckerberg's "I'm CEO, Bitch"? Steve Jobs. | MG Siegler | 2,011 | 6 | 25 | “I’m CEO, Bitch.” While the story of this title appearing on Mark Zuckerberg’s early Facebook business cards has been around outside the company since at least 2009, when Ben Mezrich’s was released, it really exploded into legendary status last year. That’s when the Acadmey Award-winning film, (based on Mezrich’s b... |
Facebook's Ban Bot Leaves Some Developers Baffled (And Angry) | Jason Kincaid | 2,011 | 6 | 25 | Over the last few days the TechCrunch tips box has seen a surge in complaints from Facebook developers who have had their applications disabled without warning. Facebook’s developer is filled with as developers cry foul, saying that Facebook is killing their businesses without warning or just cause. And developers ... |
Now You Can Download My Head! | John Biggs | 2,011 | 6 | 25 | Good news, everybody! My head, scanned at Industries by artist with a high-resolution laser scanner, is now a Thing, available for everyone to own, covet, and place into terrible places. That’s right: I’m now 3D-printable. This is all you need to download and print my head on your own rapid prototyping machine. W... |
Gillmor Gang 6.25.11 | Steve Gillmor | 2,011 | 6 | 25 | The Gillmor Gang — Robert Scoble, Phil Windley, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor — celebrated the news that apps are moving past web sites as the default architecture of the planet. I say celebrate because I think the trend is one that will continue, and even accelerate, as iOS notifications make interoperation between... |
Stop The Hate: Daily Deals Aren't All Bad, And Here's Why | guest posts | 2,011 | 6 | 25 | There’s a lot of out there these days from the press when it comes to the daily deals industry. I’m , TechCrunch. Sure, Groupon has become the whale in this industry, but that doesn’t mean Groupon constitutes the entire industry. Sure, while Groupon may sometimes structure lousy deals for merchants, it doesn’t mean ... |
Tonchidot CEO Talks 3M Downloads, Augmented Reality, And New App | Erick Schonfeld | 2,011 | 12 | 3 | When I was in Japan earlier this week, I ran into CEO Takahito Iguchi at the TechCrunch Tokyo conference and dragged him back to my makeshift studio for an impromptu interview about the state of augmented reality and mobile apps. Tonchidot launched its app at TechCrunch50 in 2008 before anyone really believed tha... |
A List Of Startups Goldman Sachs Thinks Will Most Likely IPO | Alexia Tsotsis | 2,011 | 12 | 3 | Very very quietly (there is almost ), investment bank and securities firm held its ” this week in Las Vegas. During the two-day conference, which lasted from November 29-30th, a gaggle of companies presented their business models to an elite audience composed of bankers, investors and peers. Attendees listened to t... |
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