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Elon Musk Compares Building Artificial Intelligence To "Summoning The Demon"
Oct 27, 2:51AM
This past week, Tesla CEO/Living-Breathing-Tony-Stark/Space X Founder Elon Musk was interviewed at the MIT AeroAstro Centennial Symposium. While the whole interview is worth watching (and is embedded above), one answer to a question from the audience takes a particularly… intense turn. Asked about his thoughts on AI, Musk starts by noting that we ought to take care in closely regulating… Read MorePhotoSpotLand Wants To Help You Take Better Photos
Oct 27, 1:00AM
Our smartphones now all us to take more photos than ever before, but even as those cameras get better, they still don’t allow you to take DSLR-quality images. For that, you still need big sensors and the right kind of lens for the right kind of situation. PhotoSpotLand is a new service for those of us who still like to travel with “real” cameras in order to take images that… Read MoreAbout That Microsoft Quarterly Report
Oct 27, 1:00AM
Microsoft’s first quarter of its fiscal 2015 was big. The fiscal quarter, corresponding to the calendar third of 2014, brought stronger than expected revenue and profit. The company’s cloud business continued to grow, Windows Phone put points on the board, Surface took off and Office 365 picked up a grip of new paying users. Read More
This Scientist Is Using Open Sourced Software Techniques To Turn Bugs Into Patent-Free Drugs
Oct 26, 11:37PM
Both chemist and “semi-recreational” codemonkey, Isaac Yonemoto is running a crowdfunding campaign called Project Marilyn to create open sourced, patent-free cancer drugs. Yonemoto proposes a $75,000 stretch goal to fund an experiment he hopes will prove we can use a compound sequenced from microscopic bug cultures to treat cancer. It’s a plan that could liberate… Read MoreWhisper Suspends Editorial Team Involved In Guardian Visit
Oct 26, 9:02PM
Anonymous messaging app Whisper has suspended its editor-in-chief Neetzan Zimmerman and other staff members after Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller wrote a letter summoning Whisper execs to an in-person meeting to discuss the apps privacy practices. “While Whisper provides users a unique social experience, the allegations in recent media accounts are serious and users… Read MoreFab And Mind Candy Founders Talk About Their Companies' Struggles And New Directions
Oct 26, 8:50PM
I’m finally getting over my post-Disrupt Europe jet lag, and I guess that means the conference is old news. But before we leave it completely in the rearview, I wanted to highlight a couple of backstage interviews that you might have missed if you weren’t watching the livestream — specifically, my conversations with Fab’s Jason Goldberg and Mind Candy’s Michael… Read MoreThe ChronodeVFD Resurrects Old Displays For A Cool New Watch
Oct 26, 12:42PM
I am, as you may know, a sucker for watches that use older display technologies (see also Nixie tubes). For example, this cool watch by freelance engineer John De Cristofaro uses a vacuum fluorescent display tube, an early form of digital display that cast a bright blue light and was first used in 1980s-era electronics. They will be familiar to folks who owned Subarus with digital displays… Read MoreMyriam Joire AKA tnkgrl Is Out At Pebble
Oct 26, 8:35AM
Myriam Joire, evangelist for the wearables company Pebble, has been fired from her position. She was Tech Evangelist at the company and spoke at a number of events, including an event in Amsterdam and another in London this week. “Wow! I just found out that I’m no longer with Pebble,” she said in a tweet. Read MoreSecurity Will Need Big Insight, Not Just Big Data
Oct 26, 3:00AM
In looking for new opportunities in security, and many sectors, we look for the echoes of the current IT mega-trends: cloud, mobile, big data. These trends, and especially the interactions between them, are dramatically changing security needs. Add to that the changing profile of would-be hackers—now a frightening mix of international organized crime and employees of enemy… Read MoreCurrentC Is The Big Retailers' Clunky Attempt To Kill Apple Pay And Credit Card Fees
Oct 25, 11:18PM
Long before Apple Pay, big brick-and-mortar retail chains were conspiring to sidestep the typical 2% to 3% fees they’re charged by credit card companies when consumers pay with credit. A company called MCX (Merchant Customer Exchange), spearheaded by Walmart, was started to build a mobile payment solution that would become an app called CurrentC that’s preparing to launch, but… Read MoreTwitpic Data Will Stay Alive "For Now" Thanks To An Agreement With Twitter
Oct 25, 7:33PM
And in a somewhat happy turn of events, Twitpic has announced that it has reached an agreement with Twitter to keep Twitpic photos and links alive, giving Twitter control over the domain and the full photo archive. However, the agreement also states that Twitpic will no longer be taking any new photos or data and will only exist in a read-only mode. Apps on the App Store and Google Play have… Read MoreTop The Charts With Your Mobile Game App This Holiday Season
Oct 25, 7:00PM
The holiday season is fast approaching, and for mobile gaming studios it’s make or break time. How can you earn one of the coveted spots in Apple Store’s Top 10 list without exhausting your marketing budget? Below are five steps to help you develop an effective strategy for getting your mobile game apps noticed by consumers this holiday season. Read MoreGillmor Gang: Room to Grow
Oct 25, 5:00PM
The Gillmor Gang — John Borthwick, Robert Scoble, Dan Farber, John Taschek, Keith Teare, and Steve Gillmor. Facebook’s Rooms iOS app, Twitter’s Fabric platform , Google’s InBox, a big Microsoft quarter, and the refactoring of TV. An @borthwick tweet turned into viral on boarding turned us into believers — of what we’re not sure: Instagram for Adults… Read More11 TechCrunch Stories You Don't Want To Miss This Week
Oct 25, 4:55PM
As we return from Disrupt London, we give you the stories you won’t want to miss from the past week (10/18-10/24). 1. Josh Constine wrote a long form piece called “Inside The Spotify – Echo Nest Skunkworks” about the future of Spotify and what it will take for them to win the music streaming race. 2. Columnist Jon Evans explored the concept of Developaralysis:… Read MoreGoogle's New Skybox For Good Program Gives Real-Time Satellite Imagery To Nonprofits
Oct 25, 4:02PM
On the heels of acquiring satellite startup Skybox in August, Google and Skybox have announced the Skybox for Good program, which will provide real-time satellite imagery to organizations and programs that save lives, protect the environment, promote education and positively impact humanity, according to the official blog post. Read MoreU.K. Startup Swytch Is Building An App To Open Up The 'Burner' Phone Number Market
Oct 25, 3:00PM
U.K. startup Swytch — founded in April this year — is bootstrapping a cloud based mobile network and dialer app that will let you use multiple phone numbers on a single SIM, so doing away with the hassle of juggling multiple physical SIM cards. Read MoreBitcoin 2.0: Sidechains And Ethereum And Zerocash, Oh My!
Oct 25, 1:00PM
Strange, interesting, and wildly ambitious things are afoot in the world of Bitcoin and blockchains. I give you Zerocash, a completely anonymous currency; Ethereum, a blockchain platform designed to decentralize much of the Internet; and Sidechains, a proposal to accelerate the evolution of Bitcoin itself. Any one of these could conceivably become a very big deal. All three? Prick up your ears. Read MoreSundar Pichai's Ascension At Google Could Herald New Platform Unification
Oct 24, 11:58PM
In a sweeping transfer of power, Google CEO Larry Page will bequeath operational leadership of a host of core products to his lieutenant Sundar Pichai. Pichai, a well-known Google executive, will add control of Google+, search, maps, infrastructure and ads to his portfolio, which already includes Chrome’s browser and operating system efforts, Google Apps and Android. Read MoreSidecar Tests A New "Commute" Service, With Discounts When You Pay For A Week Of Morning Rides
Oct 24, 10:23PM
Ridesharing service SideCar invited me today to beta test a new feature called Sidecar Commute. Here’s how it works, as explained on the tester signup page: You pay $35 for a one-week SideCar Commute Pack, then you can request a ride every morning that week, and you’ll get a $15 credit for that ride. Read MoreYou Can Now Build Oculus Rift Projects In The Free Version Of Unity
Oct 24, 8:28PM
Hey, you! Yeah, you! The one with the awesome idea for something that needs to be built in virtual reality! Remember a few weeks back, when Oculus mentioned that their development tools would soon work with the free version of the Unity game engine, rather than just the $1,500 Pro Version? It’s done. 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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