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How To Opt Out Of Google's Weird New Ads That Use Your Face And Name
Oct 12, 7:19AM
Angry that Google is planning on using your face and name for the sake of advertisements? Here's how to make them not.ION Glasses Are The Unobtrusive Notifications System You Wear On Your Face
Oct 12, 4:00AM
Google Glass, Google schmass. What you really want on your face are these puppies. ION Glasses are sunglass or prescription glasses frames with a built in LED, Bluetooth stack, and tiny button controller. What do they do? Well the LED lights up to notify you of new messages - you can set different people to different colors - and you can use the glasses to control the music on your phone, a presentation, or almost any thing else controlled via Bluetooth.Yahoo Acquires Bread, Will Shut Down The URL Shortener That Earned You Money
Oct 12, 1:29AM
Yahoo has just acquired Bread, a 2.5 year old startup that had raised $3.5 million [Update: and we hear was low on cash and shopping itself around to several companies]. Bread let people make money or generate donations by designing interstitial ads. These ads could promote a product or cause and would be shown to people who click links the designer shared through Bread's URL shortener.Memo From AOL Mgmt Re: Use Of TechCrunch Editorial Branding For Personal Pranks
Oct 11, 11:37PM
Dear [Name Unknown, possibly Chris Smith?], It has come to our attention that you recently used a fake, mocked-up version of our technology editorial "blog" property TechCrunch in a personal prank. Furthermore, it has come to our attention that your friend, a Mr. "Olivier M," was in fact fooled by the aforementioned prank — or so it seems, based on the email entitled "Personal information in your website", which was sent to TechCrunch Editorial "Tips" earlier this week (please see Attachments A, B, and C).Marc Andreessen: Series A Investments Are Still The Bread And Butter Of A16Z
Oct 11, 11:30PM
This week, the Wall Street Journal published a brief interview with Andreessen Horowitz Partner Scott Weiss in which he seemed to indicate that the firm is moving away from Series A investments in consumer startups. He also compared many consumer companies to "fruit fly experiments." It was unclear what Weiss meant by this, but A16Z founder Marc Andreessen jumped into this Hacker News thread over the topic to clarify the firm's stance on Series A investments.Rappers Are Rapping About Being Verified (Or Not) On Twitter
Oct 11, 10:43PM
Here's a question: Are rappers rapping about being verified on Twitter? As it turns out, a number have, both in the positive (verified) and the negative (not verified). And, it also turns out, I am way, way behind.Brian Chesky Talks About Why Airbnb Didn't Acquire European Clone Wimdu, Global Growth And More
Oct 11, 10:30PM
Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky and Sequoia Capital partner, Airbnb board member, and former Zappos COO Alfred Lin joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio for a special three-part series on how Chesky and Lin work together on retaining culture, expanding internationally, and maintaining customer service.
Ask A VC: Redpoint's Ryan Sarver On Why He Joined Venture Capital And More
Oct 11, 9:30PM
In this week's Ask A VC, we hosted Redpoint Ventures' newest partner Ryan Sarver in the studio to talk about his jump to the VC world from Twitter and moreAussie App Omny Is Heading To The U.S. To Be An All-Purpose, Personalized Radio
Oct 11, 9:21PM
After delivering audio versions of blog articles to the busy masses through SoundGecko, Australian startup 121cast is back with a new service that creates personalized radio stations for users. It's called Omny, and after a soft launch in the land down under this week, the team is shooting to bring it to the States in the next few months.Here Is Apple's Mailer Asking Cupertino Residents To Support Its New Campus Ahead Of City Council Vote
Oct 11, 8:51PM
If you live in Cupertino, you might have received a little gift from Apple in the mail: a brochure asking for support for its new headquarters, which the company calls "Apple Campus 2." The circular building has become famous even before becoming real, due mostly to its striking design and massive size. The complex, when complete, will house around 13,000 of Apple's employees.GitHub For Windows Makes Layout Changes, Abstracts Time Zones To Simplify Updates
Oct 11, 8:37PM
GitHub for Windows has received some updates to make for what the company calls a "lighter and brighter" user experience for the popular version of the code collaboration platform. The changes to the layout are part of a number of other minor changes that GitHub has made.The Comical Irony That iOS 7 Users Are Suffering From Blue Screens Of Death
Oct 11, 8:28PM
So, Windows sometimes does this thing when your computer freaks the heck out, displays a blue screen, and then reboots or fails in some other way. Called the Blue Screen of Death, it's long been a cultural meme among nerds about the shortcomings of Windows. Blue Screens are more past than present, as they are, at least in my experience, more the provenance of Windows XP than Windows 7 or 8.Gillmor Gang Live 10-11-13 (TCTV)
Oct 11, 8:22PM
Gillmor Gang - Kevin Marks, Roberts Scoble, Keith Teare, John Taschek, and Steve Gillmor. Live recording session for today has concluded. like the Gillmor Gang on Facebook at Facebook.com/gillmorgangYou're Not Just The Product, You're The Ads (And Your Friends Should Thank You)
Oct 11, 7:33PM
Word of mouth, sponsored. Trusted recommendations, promoted. Reviews from friends, endorsed. This is the new lexicon of advertising. As the world learns to ignore traditional advertising online, tech giants have found a way to grab people's attention: using your name, face, and words. Are we okay with that? Maybe we should be.This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: BlackBerry, FitBit Force, The New iMac, And Pokemon?
Oct 11, 7:00PM
Is BlackBerry co-founder really mulling over buying back the company he founded, now called BlackBerry instead of RIM, a company which has recently lost most of its design team and talent and... well, dignity? Is the new iMac the most amazingly awesome thing Apple has ever done in the history of Apple? What's the deal with that new FitBit Force smartwatch, fitness tracker thing? Do we care? And, in news that doesn't belong on TechCrunch, what's our excitement level on a scale of one to ten now that new Pokemon is coming out?Following Its Revamp, Yahoo Email Forwarding Bug Leaves Users' Inboxes Empty
Oct 11, 6:19PM
Yahoo Mail has been experiencing a major bug following its revamp earlier this week. According to a number of reports, the service has been automatically forwarding emails to users' "alternate," external email addresses -- a setting that was switched on without users' permission. Yahoo has replied to some help request via its Twitter account @YahooCare, but has not replied to help requests on its UserVoice forum, nor has its Customer Care site offered a solution to this problem.Pinterest Acquires Coding Challenge Site Hackermeter Right Out Of The Gate, Will Shut It Down
Oct 11, 6:03PM
If you were looking forward to boasting about your Hackermeter score as a means of getting your next coding gig, you're gonna have to make new plans: the two-month old startup has been acquired by Pinterest, and will be shut down.ICANN, W3C Call For End Of US Internet Ascendancy Following NSA Revelations
Oct 11, 5:52PM
Key Internet stakeholders, including the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) have released a statement condemning pervasive government surveillance and calling for an internationalization of the Internet's underlying framework.Google's New Plan To Highlight Android Tablet Apps Starts On November 21
Oct 11, 5:31PM
Android plays host to some impressive tablet apps -- I'm partial to IMDb and Flipboard to name just a few -- but I've all too often downloaded an app only to discover that it's a regular phone app scaled to fit a larger display. Needless to say, the experience was less than ideal. Now Google is pushing to shine more light on Android apps that are optimized for tablets with a pair of modifications that will go live starting on November 21.Today In Dystopian War Robots That Will Harvest Us For Our Organs
Oct 11, 5:24PM
Welcome to another rousing edition of TIDWRTWHUFOO! Today we feature three exciting robots that will change our lives as we know them by eventually threatening us with violence if we don't "Move along, citizen, or else!" First we present iStruct, a robot from German firm Das Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH. iStruct is special in that he can move from quadraped motion like Big Dog into bipedal motion with the flick of an internal switch. This allows him to menace you in two ways!If at any time you'd like to stop receiving these messages, just send an email to feeds_feedburner_com_techcrunch+unsubscribe-hmdtechnology=gmail.com@mail.feed2email.net.
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