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Skycatch Raises $13.2M To Field Data-Gathering Drones Both High And Low
May 29, 7:19PM
Drones distract, drones deliver and drones do battle. But what else can drones do? That was the question facing entrepreneur Christian Sanz when he began building his own drones a few years back, and after exploring various possibilities, including delivery and also simply drawing together audiences of curious spectators, Sanz found a big need drones are perfect for that wasn’t being… Read MoreWatch Elon Musk Debut SpaceX's First Manned Spacecraft Tonight
May 29, 7:16PM
Back in May of 2012, SpaceX proved that they could launch a spacecraft filled with cargo, have it dock with the International Space Station, and return it to earth safely. Tonight, they’re unveiling the spacecraft that’ll help them take the next logical (if daunting) step: sending up a handful of astronauts. Called “Dragon V2″ (or sometimes “DragonRider”,… Read MoreRead The Email Snowden Sent To The NSA
May 29, 7:06PM
In an interview yesterday, former NSA contractor and now infamous leaker Edward Snowden indicated that the NSA had record of his internal complaints regarding government policy. Today the United States government released an email from Snowden asking several questions. Read MoreQeexo Raises $2.3 Million To Tell A Knuckle From A Nail
May 29, 6:50PM
Qeexo, an offshoot of Carnegie Mellon’s Human Computer Interaction lab, has raised $2.3 million led by Sierra Ventures. The technology allows smartphones to tell the difference between the tip of a finger and a knuckle when tapping or swiping, a feature that you probably didn’t know you wanted but now, that you think about it, sounds pretty cool. They are also announcing the… Read MoreLyft Strikes Back With "Be More Than A Number" Billboard Outside Uber's Office
May 29, 6:33PM
Lyft has had it up to here with Uber reps requesting rides from its drivers only to offer them cash and phones to switch to Uber. So yesterday Lyft went on the offensive, parking a giant driver recruitment billboard outside Uber’s San Francisco Driver’s office. It says “Be More Than A Number”, urging Uber pilots to join Lyft’s merry band rather than be some… Read MoreUnity Shows Off How Its Long Awaited GUI Editor Will Work
May 29, 6:24PM
Unity 3D, the increasingly popular WYSIWYG—ish engine for building video games, does a lot of things really well. Helping you build in-game user interfaces? That’s not one of them. At least, not yet. Unity has been promising to overhaul its UI creation system for months now, but has yet to actually ship it. When Unity officially announced that version 5.0 of the engine was in… Read MoreHouse Republicans Look To Curb FCC's Authority To Enforce Net Neutrality
May 29, 6:23PM
A bill introduced late yesterday in the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives would “limit” the Federal Communications Commission’s ability to regulate the Internet under Title II, according to its progenitor, Rep. Bob Latta. Title II, of course, refers to part of the Communications Act. If the FCC did push for such a regulatory structure, it would have more… Read MoreKiwi Calendar's New App Does More Than Organize Your Meetings, It Also Recommends Local Events
May 29, 6:16PM
Beijing-headquartered PapayaMobile is known best as a social gaming network and the operators of mobile ad network AppFlood, but today, it’s going in a new direction with the release of a mobile calendaring application. The idea with the newly launched Kiwi Calendar is not just to help you organize and track your meetings and activities, but to actually help you fill out your day… Read MoreThis Oculus Rift Project Brings You One Small Step Closer To That Hoverboard You've Always Wanted
May 29, 5:45PM
The bad news: Yeah, that cleary fake Hoverboard video from a few months ago is still, sadly, quite fake. The worse news: Unless we figure out a quick and easy way to defy a few laws of physics, we probably won’t see anything like that come to reality anytime soon. Reality? Pft. Who needs real reality when we’ve got virtual reality? Read MoreTwitter's Crashlytics Launches Cross-Platform App Beta Testing Service
May 29, 5:44PM
Back in February, Crashlytics announced its first product since being acquired by Twitter. That product was an app beta testing platform that would allow developers to distribute test apps to users to get feedback and suss out bugs. Read MoreMozilla Partners With TokBox To Bring Built-In Communications Service To Firefox Nightly
May 29, 5:27PM
Mozilla today announced that it has partnered with TokBox to experiment with building a WebRTC-based communications feature right into its browser. For now, these experiments will happen in the Nightly release channel, so most users on the browser’s regular release channels won’t see them anytime soon, but this is definitely an interesting move by the organizations. Read MoreSamsonite Scoops Up iPhone Case Maker Speck Products
May 29, 4:58PM
Making iPhone cases is big business. How big? Samsonite just announced its acquisition of Speck Products for $85 million in cash. Read MoreOur New Favorite Mad Scientist Builds A Terrifying Wrist-Mounted Flame Thrower In His Garage
May 29, 4:55PM
Insane garage mad scientist Colin Furze promised three absurd X-Men themed projects by the end of the month — and man, has he delivered. First came his ridiculous, automatically extendable Wolverine claws. Then came his Magneto boots, which let him walk upside down across the ceiling. His last project, though, might be the most dangerous of the lot: wrist-mounted flame throwers. Read MoreThese Tween Girls Created An Android App For The Blind
May 29, 4:53PM
A group of six grade school girls in Los Fresnos, Texas took it upon themselves to solve a problem for blind kids. They built an app for them. The app, Hello Navi, first came from the imagination of a particular girl in the group, Grecia Cano. She says her heart went out to the blind students in her school who had a hard time figuring out how to get around. The girls 6th grade… Read MoreBeijing Says "Ni Hao" To Bitcoin ATMs While Dish Teams Up With Coinbase
May 29, 4:26PM
Robocoin, makers of a bitcoin ATM, have announced the availability of the first BTC ATM in Beijing. Based at the 798 Art Zone, an old factory in Beijing’s Chaoyang District, the ATM can be accessed by members only and, in order to avoid the ire of Chinese authorities, is being billed as a system for the trading of virtual goods. The CEO of Robocoin Asia, Yao Lee and founder of the… Read MoreMind Candy Releases Teaser Of New World Of Warriors Game
May 29, 4:20PM
Mind Candy, the company that came up with the hugely successful Moshi Monsters kids game, began back in 2003 as a back-bedroom project by the colourful entrepreneur Michael Acton Smith. It’s now approaching 100 million registered users of its games aimed at young kids, and brings in healthy revenues from its franchise deals and spin-offs. But it has a problem. Kids have switched over… Read MoreNetflix CEO Reed Hastings Makes The Case (Again) For 'Strong Net Neutrality'
May 29, 4:11PM
Streaming video company Netflix is dependent on connecting with ISP networks like Comcast’s to reach their subscribers, and that has become an issue for the company as it has recently been forced to pay for interconnect fees. Today at Re/code’s inaugural CODE Conference, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings made the case for what it calls a free and open Internet. Read MoreGoogle Shames Slow U.S. ISPs With Its New YouTube Video Quality Report
May 29, 4:07PM
The relationship between ISPs and large content providers like Netflix, Hulu and YouTube has become pretty contentious lately. To bring some transparency into how well ISPs deliver video content, Netflix launched its ISP Speed Index a while ago and today, YouTube is bringing a somewhat similar report to the U.S. Read MoreFormer Gilt Groupe Exec Sean Foster Joins Brand Advocacy Startup Crowdtap As CEO
May 29, 4:03PM
Crowdtap, a startup that helps companies connect with fans for the creation of promotional social media content, is announcing that Sean Foster has joined as its new CEO. Foster isn’t scheduled to start until June, but he took a few minutes this morning to discuss his new role. He was most recently CEO at diabetes site (and former TV show) dLife. He previously served as online president… Read MoreTwitter's 'Zero' Service Lets Emerging Markets Tweet For Free
May 29, 3:59PM
Mobile carriers around the world are touting their involvement in a program called “Twitter Zero,” but that’s not its real name. In 2010, Facebook revealed an initiative designed to give it a foothold in emerging markets called Facebook Zero. The idea is that consumers in select markets could browse a stripped down version of Facebook on mobile phones via the URL… Read MoreIf 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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