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Baby, We Won't Drive Our Cars: The Future Of Automotive Transportation

Aug 29, 5:30PM

2782304329_aee16082bb_b “Transportation tech is not only changing how we get from A to B, it’s fundamentally altering the underlying infrastructure of our cities.” Read More



Gillmor Gang: Dog Days

Aug 29, 5:28PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard The Gillmor Gang — Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. Recorded live Friday, August 28, 2015. A surprise guest in the chat center, benevolent Zuckership, and the psychosocial benefits of dogs. Alternate title: Save the Robots. Plus, the latest G3 with Halley Suitt Tucker, Mary Hodder, Rebecca Woodcock, Gené Teare, and Tina Chase Gillmor. Read More



The Tactico Geomaster Is A Crowdfunded Watch I Could Get Behind

Aug 29, 4:46PM

633bfc86baafa5eff269d1e0c408a542_original There are more Kickstarter watches out there these days than grains of sand on the beach. Everyone with a quartz movement and a NATO strap figures they can make and sell some kind of fashion watch to the masses, a concept that is as silly as it is flawed. That’s why the Tactico Geomaster GMT is actually interesting. First, it uses a mechanical ETA movement – an rare movement these… Read More



Opening Pandora's Dox: The Unintended Consequences of an Internet That Never Forgets

Aug 29, 4:00PM

Opening Pandora's Dox There’s some leaks that can’t ever be taken back or patched over or fixed–and they’re generally things that, as things stand, aren’t even illegal. Read More



The Surreal Emotional Cadence Of Tech Notifications, Illustrated

Aug 29, 3:00PM

BuzzFeed News notification Notifications have a dirty job to do to grab the flittish eyeballs of tech users. But some of these digital chat-up-lines go about this unlovely task by attempting to pull the kind of weird moves that would get a human swiftly ejected from the conversation… Read More



The Honeywell Bubble Count Revisited

Aug 29, 1:00PM

count-zero I am a tall straight white cisgendered Canadian man in excellent health, i.e. I won pretty much every available lottery on the day I was born. People expect me to excel at things, or at least they don’t expect me not to. Concierges at five-star hotels are eager to help me, and rarely even ask me whether or not I am a guest. Read More



Designing New Mobile Experiences For The Music-Loving Generation

Aug 29, 3:00AM

Apple-music As music fans go mobile, music festivals are following suit. The kids in America are rocking out to T-Swift with a Natty Lite in one hand and a mobile phone open to native festival apps in the other. Schedules, venue maps, artists and vendors are all in the palm of partygoers hands. And festivals are even designing other features specifically to engage the throngs of eager event-goers,… Read More



GOAT Lets You Cop Kicks Without Getting Jacked

Aug 28, 11:19PM

Screen Shot 2015-08-28 at 4.15.49 PM Buying used collector-level sneakers, which can run from a couple hundred bucks to $8,000 easy, is fraught with danger. This, says Sugano, is what they wanted to fix with GOAT. To make things safer for sneakerheads. Read More



The Math Behind SaaS Startup Valuation

Aug 28, 11:00PM

mathematics One of the most critical metrics for software companies — but also one of the most difficult to measure — is the lifetime value of their customers (LTV). The lifetime value dictates how a company should spend its marketing and sales dollars. Unfortunately, many early stage startups struggle to measure LTV, because they haven’t been around very long and, consequently… Read More



CrunchWeek: Tech Stocks Fumble, Facebook Announces 'M,' And YouTube Takes On Twitch

Aug 28, 10:24PM

crunchweek-4-3 Welcome back to another episode of CrunchWeek. We’re very glad that you are here. This time ’round, our fearless Matthew Lynley headed the ship, while our own Josh Constine and your humble servant were on hand to help out along the way. We dug into the very turbulent global markets, and what that means for technology shares, along with a dive into the latest from Facebook, and,… Read More



Judge's Order To Shut Down NSA Phone Surveillance Reversed By Federal Appeals Court

Aug 28, 9:05PM

nsa headquarters A federal appeals court has just ruled against a 2013 decision ordering the NSA to stop its bulk metadata collection program. The three-judge panel issued its ruling Friday, contending that conservative privacy activist Larry Klayman had not adequately argued the likeliness that his own data had been collected as a part of the metadata collection program. Judge Stephen Williams wrote… Read More



SocialBattles Is A Photo App For People Who Think Instagram Isn't Competitive Enough

Aug 28, 9:01PM

socialbattles Andre and Sandro De Moraes must really like to see people compete. The brothers previously created GoldMic, a now-defunct social network for hip hop battles. Now they’ve launched a new iOS app called SocialBattles, where users compete to post the most popular photos. Read More



Google's App Search Results Now Look More Like An App Store

Aug 28, 8:48PM

Screen Shot 2015-08-28 at 4.30.31 PM Google has been working for some time to improve how it highlights mobile apps, and the data they contain, in its search results. And now, Android users performing Google searches for apps outside the Play Store will notice a big change in how apps are being presented in search results. Where before, apps were listed one-by-one with each app on its own line followed by a link to see… Read More



Uber Hires Security Researchers Behind That Crazy Jeep Hack

Aug 28, 8:48PM

uber Uber has hired the duo behind a spectacular hack earlier this year that involved taking remote control of a Jeep Cherokee. Wired writer Andy Greenberg experienced this firsthand. He wrote that he was driving on a St. Louis highway when Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek used a laptop 10 miles away to make the radio, air conditioning and windshield wipers go haywire. Then they cut the… Read More



Gillmor Gang LIVE 08.28.15

Aug 28, 8:03PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard Gillmor Gang – Dan Farber, Robert Scoble, Keith Teare, Kevin Marks, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Gillmor Gang chatroom HERE Gillmor Gang on Facebook HERE G3 on Facebook G3 video archives on ustream Read More



Mobile Gaming Live-Streaming Service Mobcrush Has Raised Around $10M

Aug 28, 7:06PM

Screen Shot 2015-08-25 at 9.57.54 AM We’ve heard from sources that Mobcrush, a live-streaming service centered around mobile games much in the same way Twitch is known for streaming popular eSports desktop games, has raised around $10 million in new financing, though the number could have gone beyond that. Mobcrush’s bet is that mobile game streaming will be as big — if not bigger — than some of the… Read More



This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: CarPlay, Booze, And Keyboards

Aug 28, 7:00PM

Welcome to the second edition of the TC Gadgets Podcast on Minecraft. This week, we’re discussing Apple CarPlay, the MixStik (which helps you to be an awesome bartender), the new full-size keyboard for mobile devices from LG, and the Sensel Morph (a totally different kind of keyboard). This week’s episode of the TC Gadgets Podcast features John Biggs, Matt Burns, Natasha Lomas,… Read More



Everything You Need To Know About iOS 9's New Content Blockers

Aug 28, 6:35PM

safari-ios One of the lesser-known, but potentially groundbreaking, features arriving in the new version of Apple’s next mobile operating system, iOS 9, is support for “content blocking” extensions in Safari. While that label doesn’t sound too dazzling in and of itself, users who install content blocking apps will see dramatic speed improvements when surfing the mobile web,… Read More



IBM's Dr. John Kelly Is Bringing Watson To Disrupt SF

Aug 28, 6:34PM

John E. Kelly III, IBM Senior Vice President and Director of IBM Research introduces IBM's Watson computer system to the media during a press conference at IBM's Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights, NY on January 13, 2011. Watson will compete against Jeopardy!'s two most successful and celebrated contestants -- Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter -- in the first-ever man vs. machine Jeopardy! competition, which will air on February 14, 15 and 16, 2011, with two matches being played over three consecutive days. IBM’s Dr. John Kelly is joining the TechCrunch crew onstage at this year’s Disrupt SF. But he won’t be alone. Instead, Kelly is bringing Watson along with him. Watson is an IBM project that answers questions using artificial intelligence to accept and process natural language queries. It became known to the public for its exploits in the Jeopardy game show, if you recall. Read More



Our Marketplace Obsession And Bubble

Aug 28, 6:00PM

shutterstock_137342978 Service marketplaces have recently become Silicon Valley darlings. The marketplace model has been a popular way for VCs to efficiently tap into the local economies at scale, specifically the $800 billion home services space. It’s a model that dates back to the initial concept of Yellow Pages in 1883. And it makes sense — giving homeowners a convenient way to find local… Read More




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