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Jet Is The New Trendy E-commerce Site

Jan 10, 9:03PM

jet If your wallet is still a little light after holiday shopping, Diapers.com founder Marc Lore has got you covered with the launch of Jet.com, a new site that’s managing to get people hyped up about spending money on the Internet (what year is it?). According to Re/code’s Jason Del Ray, prices on the site will typically be ~5% less than on other online stores, including Amazon.… Read More



The Four Horsemen Of The Cyber Apocalypse

Jan 10, 8:00PM

durer-horsemen If 2014 did anything good for cybersecurity, it showed us just how exposed major corporations, governments and militaries are to cyber attacks. From vulnerabilities in our power grids to our cash registers, cyber attacks have become the $400 billion problem. And while the attacks differ in motive and method, there are four consistent perpetrators charging at us at full speed – and we need… Read More



Canary Launches To Bring The Uber Experience To Medicinal Marijuana

Jan 10, 7:34PM

pot Pot is great. Having pot delivered to you, Uber-style, legally, is even better. Canary (not to be confused with the home security system) has launched in Seattle to do just that. Read More



13 Stories You Don't Want To Miss This Week

Jan 10, 6:56PM

TC-weekly-roundup1 So far, 2015 has given us one monster of a week in the tech world. Most of our staff has been in the middle of CES 2015 covering some of the best – and not so great – startups and hardware the market has to offer. But that doesn’t mean the news cycle stops turning. We give you our best stories of the week (1/3-1/9). 1. The winner of the CES Hardware Battlefield is Voltera,… Read More



We Attempted To Control These Cars With Our Minds, And It Kind Of Worked

Jan 10, 6:04PM

It’s not like EEG is breakthrough technology. We’ve been able to read the electrical activity of the brain for quite some time, but the clever folks at IEEE are thinking up new and creative ways to leverage those read-outs into something a bit more fun. Read More



Gillmor Gang: Kind of Clue

Jan 10, 6:00PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — David Weinberger, Doc Searls, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. The first show of 2015 marks the return of New Clues, a dynamic updating of the famed Cluetrain Manifesto by two of the four, Doc Searls and David Weinberger. Read More



Getting More Cash Out Of SaaS: Timing Is Everything

Jan 10, 4:00PM

timing Much has been learned and written about the significant cash consumption associated with high-growth SaaS companies. But just how does one achieve rapid growth in a SaaS business while maintaining capital efficiency? The answer: by focusing on the timing of cash collection, not just cash spend. Read More



Decentralize All The Things!

Jan 10, 2:00PM

centralised-decentralised-distributed They gave us a fully decentralized Internet and we used it to build web services–Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, iCloud–so massively centralized they verge on being quasi-medieval fiefdoms. Now we’re building the Internet of Someone Else’s Things, wherein every room of every home will contain devices controlled by servers the homeowners don’t know, control, or understand. Read More



Preventing Digital Memory Loss

Jan 10, 2:00PM

Google Plus Photos Wall 5% (1) Editor’s Note: Kevin Skobac is a senior vice president for innovation, digital and social at SS+K and the co-founder of SS+K Labs, an in-house incubator of creative technologies.  For many years we’ve been blissfully riding a personal digital media revolution.  Better technology has solved more problems, enabling us to do more, consume more, and create more. The excitement… Read More



Twitter Plans To Increase Revenue With Ads On Publisher's Apps

Jan 10, 3:31AM

twitter nyse ipo Twitter reportedly has a new advertising strategy – sell ads within third-party apps. According to the Wall Street Journal, the social media network revealed the new plan to expand advertising revenue during a presentation at CES. “Advertisers and agency executives said that was a big focus of Twitter’s pitch during CES this week,” writes the WSJ. “The company… Read More



Gymwatch Is A Fitness Tracker That Helps Make Your Workouts Better

Jan 10, 2:00AM

GYMWATCH Gymwatch is a wearable that you strap on during your workouts that not only captures data on pretty much any exercise you’d like to try out — it also helps you train. The device captures a full range of motion and can tell you if you’re doing a certain exercise too fast or too slow, and it can also help make sure you’re doing it with the correct form. Read More



Imint Wants To Bring Real-Time Video Stabilization To Android

Jan 10, 1:30AM

Screenshot 2015-01-09 at 16.48.55 We saw a number of companies launch apps for video stabilization in the last year — including Instagram’s Hyperlapse for iOS — and Apple brought stabilized video to the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus camera. Now,  Imint wants to do something similar for Android phones with the launch of Vidhance Mobile. Before you get too excited, though, it’s worth noting that Imint… Read More



This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: CES, CES, And Some More CES

Jan 10, 1:13AM

Screenshot 2015-01-09 17.11.56 The holiday season is over. January-style dread hangs thick in the air. And yet, the Consumer Electronics Show in the middle of the desert has found a way to lift our spirits. We looked at all kinds of gadgets, from 8K televisions to analog-style wearables to a whole host of Internet of Things-type products. There were robots. There was virtual reality. It was like Christmas happened all… Read More



Ad Company Crossboard Mobile Acquired By Flatiron Media And The Berry Company

Jan 10, 12:53AM

crossboard mobile Crossboard Mobile, an ad-tech company with a focus on helping businesses find sales leads, has beed acquired by two different companies, according to CEO Steven Oriola. Founded in 2008 as Pontiflex, the company rebranded as Crossboard Mobile midway through last year. Read More



Toshiba Got Real Weird

Jan 10, 12:13AM

Toshiba isn’t a name you hear thrown around a whole lot at CES. It’s in the same league as the mammoths — Samsung, LG, Sony — but it’s never quite as exciting or overwhelming as the others’ booths. This year, however, Toshiba had a couple surprises up its sleeve. Read More



Pick Aims To Take The Frustration Out Of Finding A Meeting Time For Everyone

Jan 10, 12:04AM

banner-software-overlay-ce5dc391d11e79c5f405a818a6c4e7d3 Pick is a desktop and iOS app that aims to help you find time a good meeting time for a group of people. Instead of blasting an email out to everyone with a bunch of random times in hopes one of those works out, it collects info from all your calendars and determines when everyone has time to get together. The app quietly launched on the App Store a couple of days ago without much fan fare. Read More



Disney Builds An Adorable Robot To Etch Massive Pictures Onto The Beach

Jan 10, 12:02AM

Screen Shot 2015-01-09 at 3.49.06 PM Look — I love my job. But damn do the folks at Disney’s research labs have a fun looking gig. Their latest crazy creation: a robot that can draw sprawling pictures across the beach. Read More



WeMo's CES 2015 Lineup Prefaces Big Advances For Home Automation

Jan 10, 12:00AM

WeMo Sensors_group 12.17.14 Belkin’s WeMo home automation gadgets started off pretty modest in scope, but over the past few years they’ve launched more and more WeMo devices, first on their own and later with partners who have far more experience in specific verticals. This year at CES, WeMo expanded its LED smart lighting lineup with bulbs from OSRAM Sylvania and TCP. It also debuted new home sensors, which… Read More



Break Down And Rebuild This Little Computer In Moments

Jan 09, 11:57PM

Screen Shot 2015-01-09 at 3.49.07 PM During a 40 minute trawl through the CES floors with TechCrunch’s Frederic Lardinois, we ran into Xi3, a company that makes small, modular computers. It turns out you can fit a full PC into pretty much any size, or shape box. Meet the X7A! We forgot to ask about the decor, but the company seems to be building some pretty cool stuff. Spoiler: I have to assemble a computer on camera.… Read More



'Anonymous' Member Calls For Revenge On Terrorists For Charlie Hebdo Massacre

Jan 09, 11:50PM

B629jqSCYAIEFEc “Anonymous from around the world have decided to declare war against you, terrorists” a purported member of the hacktivist group said in a video uploaded to YouTube, referring to the killers responsible for the attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Speaking in French on Anonymous’s Belgian channel, the cybervigilante warned terrorists, “We will track all… Read More




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