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Apple's Two Factor Authentication Doesn't Protect iCloud Backups Or Photo Streams

Sep 03, 12:16AM

iphone-5s-5c One of the common bits of advice you’ll see people giving you around this celebrity picture hack is to enable two-factor authentication on your accounts — including Apple’s. That’s good advice, but it wouldn’t have protected any of these celebrities and it doesn’t protect the other accounts that are compromised by hackers that are able to obtain an Apple… Read More



TechCrunch Disrupt SF Starts With Uber CEO Travis Kalanick

Sep 02, 11:18PM

7979997874_98fda264a4_o TechCrunch Disrupt, a thrice-yearly event where they drag me, the founder of TechCrunch, out like Lenin’s embalmed body to show I’m still around, is but a week away. And if anything will shock me back to life, it’ll be Travis Kalanick, the controversial CEO of the controversial startup (if a company can still be called a startup after raising $1.5 billion in venture… Read More



Associated Content Founder Luke Beatty Is Now In Charge Of AOL's Tech Blogs (Including This One)

Sep 02, 11:04PM

Luke Beatty So I guess TechCrunch has a new boss. As first reported by Re/code’s Kara Swisher, and confirmed by AOL, Susan Lyne is stepping down from her role as CEO of AOL’s brand group, which includes sites like Engadget, Joystiq, and, yes, TechCrunch. Read More



Less Than 1% Of Comments Sent To The FCC Opposed Net Neutrality

Sep 02, 10:40PM

Screen Shot 2014-09-02 at 3.06.14 PM A newly released study executed by the Sunlight Foundation of hundreds of thousands of comments submitted to the FCC by the public found that the vast majority spoke in favor of net neutrality. The group estimates that “less than 1 percent of comments were clearly opposed to net neutrality.” There is wiggle room in the data, given that some people are not clear writers, and could… Read More



The Road To Disrupt: Bitcovery And Hammer & Chisel

Sep 02, 9:15PM

On this week’s Road To Disrupt, we’re back with Bitcovery and Hammer & Chisel and revisit their on-stage Startup Battlefield presentation at Disrupt SF 2013. Read More



3DHubs Raises $4.5 Million To Make Local 3D Printing Global

Sep 02, 9:05PM

3DHubs, a 3D printer matching service, has raised a $4.5 million Series A to help bring their local 3D printing system to the world. The service, which allows you to find and order 3D prints from printers in your area, is similar to other services like MakeXYZ and 3DLt but is already available overseas. Founded by former 3D Systems employees Brian Garret and Bram de Zwart, the site was one of… Read More



Google Partners With UCSB To Build Quantum Processors For Artificial Intelligence

Sep 02, 7:58PM

QuAIL_G_Banner_2 Google today announced that it is expanding its research around quantum computing and that it has hired UC Santa Barbara’s (UCSB) John Martinis and his team — one of the most prolific research groups in this area — to work on new quantum processors based on superconducting electronics. Researchers in Martinis’ lab were among the first to use this technique back in 2008. Read More



Announcing The Disrupt SF Hackathon Judges And API Workshops

Sep 02, 7:32PM

We’re less than a week away from this year’s Disrupt Hackathon, and are delighted to announce the judges & API workshops. I, along with TechCrunch Startup Battlefield Editor, Sam O’Keefe, will be your Hackmaster and host for the weekend. Judges In years past, our judges have served as combination of part-bloodhound, part-iron curtain, separating the wheat from the… Read More



Microsoft Partners Said To Test Windows 9 Ahead Of Public Release

Sep 02, 7:13PM

bkpejahigaa7ts2-1 Microsoft is expected to release a technical preview of Windows 9 on September 30. So if you were looking forward to getting your paws on the code, you have only four weeks left to wait. That is, if you are not a key Microsoft partner. According to NeoWin’s Brad Sams, Microsoft is currently providing some partners with access to the operating system ahead of the public. That’s not… Read More



Home Depot Investigating Potentially Massive Credit Card Breach

Sep 02, 6:49PM

Screen Shot 2014-09-02 at 11.40.39 AM Did you just get your credit card replaced after the Great Target Fiasco of 2013? Don’t get too used to that new card. It’s starting to look like it’s that time again. Home Depot has confirmed that it’s investigating some “unusual activity” with regards to its customer data, and the consistently spot-on Brian Krebs is saying that it’s a credit card breach. Read More



Apple Denies Any Breach Of Its Systems In Celebrity Photo Leak

Sep 02, 6:44PM

Jennifer_Lawrence_at_the_83rd_Academy_Awards Apple has released an official statement in response to accusations that its iCloud storage system might be somehow behind the recent leak of a large number of nude or otherwise private celebrity photos, whose victims included Jennifer Lawrence. In the statement Apple denies any breach within its systems, but does concede that celebrity accounts were compromised by attackers using standard… Read More



Go To TechCrunch Disrupt For Free #TCDisrupt

Sep 02, 6:37PM

Techcrunch Disrupt SF 2013. Photo by Max Morse for Techrunch. Every day this week we are giving away a ticket to Disrupt San Francisco. We’ll announce the giveaways in various locations, so make sure you follow our social accounts for tips. You can earn extra entries to the contest by sharing the giveaway link with friends and following our social accounts. Today’s contest ends on 9/3 at noon PST (24 hours from now), but we’ll… Read More



The Case For Intelligent Failure To Invent The Future

Sep 02, 6:30PM

vetruvian-split The world is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. In the past, experts with spreadsheets and econometric models or social scientists with subscale studies and linear models may have been useful. These so-called experts extrapolated from what came before, but as the rate of change has increased, looking to the past is often no longer meaningful — especially in a world driven by new… Read More



Sonos Kills The Bridge And Goes Almost Totally Wireless

Sep 02, 6:25PM

IMG_2216 Wireless speaker company Sonos has updated its entire streaming system to allow for nearly wireless speaker connectivity. Until today, the only way to connect an entire home to the same speaker network was to use something called a Bridge, a $50 box that connected directly to your router via Ethernet. Now, however, the system can connect directly to your wireless router, bypassing the… Read More



Samsung Level Headphone Series Review: Galaxy Owners Only Need Apply

Sep 02, 6:10PM

IMG_9161 Samsung is trying to add some additional cachet to its brand with a self-produced line of high-end audio accessories, dubbed “Level” by the Korean electronics giant. The Level series includes three different types of headphones, including an in-ear model, an on-ear version and an over-ear variety. The Level In, Level On and Level Over each offer a different experience, but they… Read More



T-Shirt Design App Snaptee Raises $750,000 In Additional Funding

Sep 02, 6:00PM

Snaptee Snaptee, an app that lets users turn their smartphone photos into T-shirt designs, has raised an additional $750,000 from new investors SXE Ventures, Nest, Groupon Hong Kong co-founder Danny Yeung, and Joel Neoh, the CEO of Groupon Taiwan and Groupon Malaysia. The latest funding brings the total Snaptee has raised so far to $1.95 million. Read More



Google Doubles Down On Productivity With 'Google For Work' Rebrand

Sep 02, 6:00PM

google-for-work This morning at its San Francisco offices, Google announced a rebrand of its enterprise products, renaming the set of tools and productivity services ‘Google for Work.’ The new nomenclature will stretch across the company’s various business tools, with each service picking up a ‘for Work’ appendage — Google now vends Drive for Work, Search for Work, and… Read More



An Interview With The Potato Salad King Of Ohio, Zack Danger Brown

Sep 02, 5:59PM

ZackBrown3 It’s rare to meet a comedy genius at a Tee Jaye’s Country Place in Columbus, Ohio, but that’s just what I did when I sat down for breakfast with Zack Danger Brown, the guy who blew up the Internet a few weeks ago with his exciting potato salad Kickstarter. Brown has rocketed to fortune and glory thanks to his gag and is now (potentially) going to give a talk at SXSW and is… Read More



Google Forms Now Less Ugly Thanks To Addition Of Themes

Sep 02, 5:26PM

3 Google Forms, the service in Google’s online office suite that helps users collaboratively create web-based forms which can be shared with others, is finally getting a professional makeover thanks to the addition of themes. The company announced the new, custom themes today, which users are able to further edit by selecting their own fonts and colors, choosing a background, as well as… Read More



Real Estate Startup Zumper Launches Zapp, So Renters Can Apply For Apartments In-App

Sep 02, 4:30PM

angellist - homepage Apartment listing startup Zumper has spent the last several years building apps to help connect brokers and property managers with prospective tenants and vice versa. Today it’s launching a new application called Zapp that will simplify the process of not just finding, but also applying for, their next apartment. Read More




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