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Adobe's Lightroom Mobile Arrives On Android

Jan 15, 5:00AM

lightroom-mobile-android Adobe Lightroom mobile is one of the first attempts at bringing some of the more recent Adobe releases on iOS to Android – and it’s available now with compatibility for a range of devices spanning Jellybean to Lollipop. The Lightroom mobile experience on Android is optimized for smartphones, though it’ll also work serviceably on tablets, and it’s available for anyone… Read More



Obama Calls On The FCC To Clear The Way For Community Broadband

Jan 15, 1:30AM

Municipal broadband is a rapidly heating battleground among the president, his administration, and Congressional and FCC Republicans. Should all cities and communities be free to build municipal broadband networks to serve their citizens? The issue is perhaps surprisingly contentious. In a speech this morning, President Obama called for a full-court press against rules that bar communities… Read More



Smart Helmet Maker Skully Has Raised Another $1.5 Million

Jan 15, 12:53AM

Skully Last summer, Skully, the motorcycle helmet with a heads-up display, became the fourth-most popular Indiegogo campaign in history. According to an SEC filing, it’s raised another $1.5 million. The financing, which took the form of convertible securities, was added to existing cash that Skully had raised through its crowdfunding campaign and previous fundraising. Read More



Facebook Where? The Enterprise Reacts To Facebook At Work

Jan 15, 12:30AM

Facebook Like button on a work bulletin board. Facebook released a public pilot of its long-awaited enterprise social app called Facebook at Work today, but will businesses actually want to use it? Enterprise Social as a category has been with us for almost a decade, with companies like Jive, Yammer (now part of Microsoft) and Socialcast (now part of VMware) trying hard to get organizations to embrace social tools — often being… Read More



This Fake Phone Charger Is Actually Recording Every Key You Type

Jan 14, 11:47PM

keysweepah “Whose phone charger is that sticking out of the wall? Oh. It must be Ben’s. Ben always leaves his charger at work. Classic Ben!” Alas, it’s not Ben’s charger. Hell, it’s not a charger at all. It’s actually a little spy device disguised as a phone charger, capable of sniffing out every key you type on that wireless keyboard. Read More



DigitalOcean Now Supports FreeBSD

Jan 14, 11:22PM

FreeBSD-Blog-6a3c9a83 DigitalOcean, the fast-growing cloud-hosting service, today announced that it now supports FreeBSD. This marks the first time the company offers developers the option to run a non-Linux operating system on its servers. Read More



BlackBerry's Shares Drop 15% After Denying Samsung Acquisition Rumor

Jan 14, 11:16PM

Wall Street This is a snapshot of BlackBerry’s public shares, which spiked nearly 30 percent at the very end of trading today after rumors spun that Samsung “recently approached” the company for a potential $7.5 billion pickup. Read More



8 Smart Kitchen Gadgets Of The Future

Jan 14, 11:10PM

future-kitchen-cover1 The Internet of Things has entered the kitchen space. Everything from an app to turn on your coffee maker to a pan that monitors heat on your iPhone to cook the perfect steak is so close we can (almost literally) taste it. Here are some of the top tech gadgets making their way to our cookery in the near future. Read More



In Aol Alpha App Starlike, Faves And Likes Take On A Life Of Their Own

Jan 14, 11:08PM

7107118693_72a2fc89b3_k Apps like Flipboard, SmartNews, Nuzzel and a rush of others have tapped into the rise of social networking to offer a new way of discovering things to read and see online. Now add another app to the mix called Starlike that’s taking this idea to a new level. Like the others, Starlike (out on iOS and Android) creates a social newsfeed of a sort based on our friends’ and… Read More



TC Droidcast Episode 33: Wherein We Fix Project Ara

Jan 14, 10:53PM

droidcast-33-banner Our first Droidcast back in 2015 includes ample CES discussion, as well as first-hand accounts of Google’s Project Ara news from Kyle Russell. Darrell Etherington talks about the YotaPhone 2 dual-screen smartphone with e-ink tech, and Greg Kumparak spurs us all on to greater heights. The holiday cobwebs and CES hangovers are gone, and we’re eager to see what comes in 2015 for… Read More



An Actual Teen Wrote About Apps, And You'll Never Believe How Many Pageviews It Got

Jan 14, 10:44PM

Screen Shot 2015-01-14 at 2.36.57 PM To kick off the new year, University of Austin sophomore Andrew Watts decided to write an essay about his thoughts on social apps, which was meant just for himself and his friends and maybe their friends to read. He put it up on Medium, one of the social apps he wrote about, and the post blew up — and even received some backlash. Eleven days later, he found himself on a plane to SF,… Read More



Lower The Wall, Lift The Market

Jan 14, 10:00PM

wall The tech IPO market is booming, but only when you compare it to the lean years of the past decade. If we look back a little further, to the healthy days that preceded the dot-com bubble, the 51 tech startups that have gone public so far this year appear paltry in comparison. Read More



Zuck Defends Facebook For Operating In Countries With Free Speech Restrictions

Jan 14, 9:41PM

1932707_10101856181379431_805607187913961174_o Terrorists tried to silence the voices of people with different opinions in the Charlie Hebdo attack, and that’s why Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke out against these terrorists and not others elsewhere in the world. At a public Q&A today, Zuckerberg explained his perspective on Facebook’s quest to give people a voice, and why it’s the company’s mission, not… Read More



Samsung Reportedly Approached BlackBerry With A Takeover Bid (Update: BlackBerry Denies)

Jan 14, 9:21PM

BlackBerry Classic Front Update: BlackBerry has responded with an official denial of takeover talks, while somewhat paradoxically also claiming it doesn’t comment on rumors or speculation. Full statement below: BlackBerry Limited (NASDAQ:BBRY)(TSX:BB) (“BlackBerry”) is aware of certain press reports published today with respect to a possible offer by Samsung to purchase BlackBerry. BlackBerry has… Read More



Sulon's Cortex Developer Hardware Impresses With A Blend Of AR And VR

Jan 14, 9:09PM

Cortex 1 The virtual reality space is pretty much Oculus Rift, and then everyone else. Even Sony’s Morpheus VR project was conspicuously absent from CES 2015, but one startup stood up and made sure that there was more to VR at the event than just the excellent Crescent Bay demo: Sulon Technologies were showing off an early prototype of their Sulon Cortex, a headset that merges augmented reality… Read More



Duke Researchers Create Artificial Human Muscles

Jan 14, 8:10PM

muscle-figure-005-red As a representative of M.U.S.C.L.E., I find artificial muscles a bit unseemly. However, researchers at Duke University have been able to grow their own twitching tissue, a first that could allow researchers to test drugs on working muscle without damaging a live host. Read More



Zenefits Financials Reveal It Is One Of The Fastest-Growing SaaS Businesses Ever

Jan 14, 8:00PM

zenefits-hero-shot We all knew that cloud HR startup Zenefits is growing fast, but how fast exactly? At the 33rd Annual JPMorganChase Health Care Conference today, Zenefits CEO Parker Conrad plans to share some of the company’s financials, which will put its growth numbers into perspective. Read More



TechCrunch Pitch-Off Applications Are Open For Atlanta And Boston Right Now!

Jan 14, 8:00PM

game-of-meetups It’s that time of year again. TechCrunch has survived Holiday Gift Guides and CES adventures in Vegas and is ready once again to hit the road. Boston and Atlanta, you’re up to bat first. Get your game face on. We’re bringing our world famous TechCrunch Pitch-Off all over the country over the next few months, and we can’t wait to get started in two of our all-time… Read More



Dyson Cinetic Big Ball Animal + Allergy Vacuum Review

Jan 14, 7:55PM

IMG_4611 The Dyson Cinetic Big Ball Animal + Allergy vacuum cleaner is pinnacle Dyson, in that it makes the vacuum cleaner as maintenance free as possible. The Cinetic line, of which the Big Ball Animal + Allergy is one of the first to hit U.S. shores, gets rid of the requirement to maintain the filter via cleaning. That means Cinetics don’t have bags, and don’t have to go through the… Read More



How Facebook At Work Could Shrink Faceless Enterprises

Jan 14, 7:33PM

fb-work When you have a question at a small company, you always know who to ask. But as corporations grow, it becomes impossible to remember everyone’s names, let alone their areas of expertise, and communication channels flood with noise. Facebook At Work, the company’s new enterprise collaboration suite, could change that. Read More




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