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Kim Dotcom Launches Skype Competitor MegaChat

Jan 22, 6:41AM

MegaChat Kim Dotcom, the infamous entrepreneur behind Megaupload, has released his latest product. Currently in beta, MegaChat is a browser-based encrypted video calling and file-sharing platform that is being positioned as a Skype competitor. Read More



Saavn, 'India's Spotify', Reveals It Has 11M Monthly Users And Hires Ex-Google Exec

Jan 22, 5:12AM

headphones It’s looking like 2015 will be a big year for India’s music streaming space. Fresh after Rdio’s arrival in the country, Saavn — a New York based startup that was among the first to cater to India — is pushing its credentials after hiring former Google India executive and startup figure Mahesh Narayanan as its COO. Read More



BlackBerry CEO Wants Legislators To Make Developing BlackBerry Apps Mandatory

Jan 22, 4:28AM

BlackBerry Classic Front At this point, BlackBerry and Windows Phone fans are probably used to having a much smaller selection of apps than their counterparts on iOS and Android smartphones. After all, diehard devotees of BlackBerry and Windows Phone, which both lag dramatically behind Android and iOS in terms of market share, still bought their smartphones in spite of their limited app ecosystems. BlackBerry CEO… Read More



Microsoft's New Holographic Nerd Helmet Is Awesome

Jan 22, 1:13AM

Screen Shot 2015-01-21 at 4.27.38 PM At an event held for the media at its corporate campus in Redmond, Washington, Microsoft unveiled HoloLens, a face computer that blends holographs into your world using see-through lenses. After the morning’s keynote wrapped, the company guided the accumulated technology press through a series of demos using non-final hardware and software. And it’s awesome. Read More



Microsoft Is Building Software For The Future Where Interfaces Fade Away

Jan 22, 12:34AM

2015-01-21_1043 Despite giving no information about release date, price, or technical specs, Microsoft surprised many tech bloggers today with the announcement of Windows Holographic and the HoloLens, an operating system and headset for augmented reality computing. Read More



We Put A Monkey In Front Of A Keyboard And You Won't Believe What Happened Next

Jan 22, 12:28AM

crunchies monkey Years ago, when TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington was dreaming up ideas for what the original Crunchies statuette would look like, he drew inspiration from 2001: A Space Odyssey. In particular, that scene in the early part of the movie in which the apes start using bones as tools and weapons for the first time. Read More



#PasstheBag Could Be Silicon Valley's New Ice Bucket Challenge

Jan 22, 12:25AM

Screen Shot 2015-01-21 at 1.32.55 PM Who can forget the Ice Bucket Challenge? Thousands of people dumped buckets of freezing ice over their heads in 2014 to raise awareness (and money) for Lou Gehrig’s disease. Mark Zuckerberg, Elon Musk, Dick Costolo and several other Silicon Valley technorati drenched themselves for the cause, which raised more than $95 million last year. Other challenges soon followed, including the… Read More



Google Shuts Down Maps Coordinate, Its Mobile Workforce Management Service

Jan 21, 11:58PM

2015-01-21_1409 Back in 2012, Google announced the Maps Coordinate service, a tool for managing mobile workforces with the help of mobile apps and a web-based dashboard. Using Maps Coordinate, businesses could track and dispatch their mobile employees, whether they were truck drivers, pizza delivery guys or plumbers. Now, it looks like Google is about to call it quits on Maps Coordinate. Google today sent… Read More



Twitter Officially Launches Its "While You Were Away" Recap Feature

Jan 21, 11:44PM

twitter-analyst Twitter’s “While You Were Away” feature, which helps you catch up on tweets that you missed, is officially launching on iOS today (with Android and web coming soon). The company previewed the feature at its analyst day last fall and started rolling it out at the end of December. Read More



Uber Closes On Another $1.6 Billion In Convertible Debt From Goldman Sachs

Jan 21, 11:28PM

uber-money It’s hard to believe, but ride-hailing company Uber has closed on even more financing to expand its operations around the world. Fast on the heels of raising $1.2 billion in equity financing, the company brought on $1.6 billion in convertible debt from Goldman Sachs, a person with knowledge of the deal has confirmed. Read More



The Bay Guardian, SF's Legendary Weekly Paper, Publishes Its Final Issue With Help From Gumroad

Jan 21, 11:13PM

bay guardian You might not all be fans of the San Francisco Bay Guardian (in fact, I bet a few of you haven’t heard of it), but I think it’s fair to call the weekly paper a San Francisco institution. It also meant a lot to me personally — not only was my first journalism internship in the Bay Guardian’s news department, but as a reader, the paper introduced me to both progressive… Read More



NASA And Microsoft Using HoloLens To Make It Possible To Work Remotely… On Mars

Jan 21, 10:55PM

mars20150121-16 Microsoft and NASA are teaming up to make remote working on the Red Planet a reality, using the newly announced HoloLens headset, and the Windows Holographic technology that it supports. The platform is called OnSight and is being developed out of NASA’s Pasadena-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). It uses the Mars Curiosity rover as effectively a telepresence bot for scientists… Read More



New "Dry" EKG Sensors Pave The Way For Advanced Wearable Heath Devices

Jan 21, 10:55PM

85362_web Researchers at North Carolina State University have built a new form of “dry” EKG/EMG sensors that allow doctors to get high-density data on a patient’s heart performance in a package that can be worn for extended periods of time. Traditional EKG sensors require a wet gel layer to be placed down between a patient’s skin and the sensor and cannot be left on the body for… Read More



Here's Everything That Went Down At Microsoft's Windows 10 Event

Jan 21, 10:38PM

2015-01-21_1104 It was a very Windows day, with Microsoft unveiling lots more about Windows 10, the next generation of its operating system, including how it will work across mobile, tablet, desktop and other platforms. The biggest surprise was probably the new HoloLens augmented reality headset Microsoft created, and the Windows Holographic software it built to support said gadget. But there was more, too,… Read More



eBay Trades Higher After Reporting $4.9B In Q4 Revenue, 2,400 Q1 Layoffs

Jan 21, 10:31PM

ebay-earnings This afternoon following the bell, eBay released its fourth-quarter financial performance. The company had fourth-quarter revenues of $4.9 billion, with GAAP earnings of $0.75 per share on profit of $936 million. Non-GAAP earnings were $1.1 billion or $0.90 cents per diluted share, just in line with analysts expectations that the company would earn $0.89 per share on revenue of $4.93… Read More



Tule Is A Crop-Hydration Sensor For The Tech-Savvy Farmer

Jan 21, 10:29PM

caTwm2FauiRfaeu1uwn9Vt1W91ry4DNCcOr9enIcc_g Thanks to several technological improvements over the last century, life for farmers is much easier than it used to be. But managing water consumption and distribution on farms is still a fairly manual process. Farmers have traditionally hired farm hands to drive through acres of fields and manually check the health of their crops and wetness of the soil. Read More



Brandfolder Raises $2M To Help Companies Manage Their Logos And Other Brand Assets

Jan 21, 10:05PM

brandfolders Brandfolder, a startup that helps companies manage their brand assets, announced yesterday that it has raised $2 million in new funding. The idea might sound, um, a little dry, but the Denver-based startup has attracted some famous customers, including the Seattle Seahawks, MapQuest (which, like TechCrunch, is owned by AOL), the Dallas Mavericks, and Groupon. Read More



Uncle Sam Needs More Geeks

Jan 21, 10:00PM

3552166252_1d219c19ba_o One of President Obama’s guests at this year’s State of the Union address was Kathy Pham, a health IT expert formerly of Google and IBM. Pham recently joined the federal government to make it easier for veterans to access the benefits they have earned – like her brother, who earned a Purple Heart for his service in Afghanistan. Kathy is exactly what this country needs. Uncle… Read More



Everything Microsoft Announced Today

Jan 21, 9:47PM

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Microsoft Just Fired Latest Volley In The Face Computer Battle

Jan 21, 9:40PM

Woman wearing face computer. Microsoft shocked the world today when they debuted a set of holographic goggles they are calling the HoloLens. Think Google Glass meets Oculus Rift and you should have a good idea of this device. With this announcement, the market for computers on our faces is suddenly heating up. We now have Microsoft, Facebook and Google trying to build one. While we have yet to see such an attempt… Read More




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