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Building Smart City Security

Sep 12, 6:00PM

digitalcity As urbanization intensifies and public sector technology initiatives advance quickly, the once-futuristic promise of “smart cities” is coming to fruition. Cities have always been “smart” to a degree, using technology to boost the productivity and efficiency of municipal services. But today, the proliferation of digital connectivity and big data explosion are creating… Read More



Ras Labs Is Testing Futuristic Muscle Material That Could Make Robots Feel More Human

Sep 12, 4:35PM

Synthetic Muscle1 Synthetics startup Ras Labs is working with the International Space Station to test “smart materials” that contract like living tissue. These “electroactive” materials can expand, contract and conform to our limbs just like human muscles when a current moves through them – and they could be used to make robots move and feel more human to the touch. Ras Labs… Read More



For Media And Gaming, Virtual Reality Is The Wolf Standing Just Outside The Door

Sep 12, 3:30PM

Sequoia_Wolf_at_the_Door For the last 20 years VR has been just around the corner, but there have been three major hurdles in the way to mainstream adoption. Today, all three hurdles have been removed. It is no longer a case of crying wolf. The wolf is real, and standing just outside the door. Read More



BlockTrail Launches Multi-Platform Bitcoin Wallet With No Access To Your Coins

Sep 12, 3:00PM

unnamed (1) Does the Bitcoin community need another wallet? Amsterdam-based BlockTrail reckons there’s space for another player, despite some sizable and well-funded wallet entities already — such as Blockchain.info and Coinbase, to name two. Read More



What We Talk About When We Talk About Ad Blocking

Sep 12, 2:00PM

mobile ad blocking So here’s an awkward question … How many of you are reading this article without ads? Don’t be shy if you are. You’re definitely not alone. You’ll be getting even more ad-blocking options with next week’s launch of iOS 9, which is supposed to support content blocking extensions. That could be a big step forward  for the technology, which has been a… Read More



Surviving The Technical Cambrian Explosion

Sep 12, 1:00PM

Hallucinogenia I’ve been doing a lot of recruiting lately. My employers HappyFunCorp are in the midst of another growth spurt. One of my most illuminating questions is: “What’s your strategy for keeping up-to-date with the Cambrian explosion of technical frameworks, languages, databases, templating systems, and so forth?” Everyone has a strategy — but nobody seems to feel… Read More



Tackling A $5.5 Trillion Market, Betterment Enters The 401(k) World

Sep 12, 12:32AM

7027606047_c90c2cf992_k Betterment, the New York-based automated asset management company, is announcing a 401(k) retirement service, called Betterment for Business, aimed to make it easier for employers to establish, administrators to manage, and employees to monitor retirement savings plans. Read More



Apple Addresses Privacy Questions About 'Hey Siri' And Live Photo Features

Sep 11, 11:42PM

Screen Shot 2015-09-11 at 4.28.16 PM Though Apple has long been vocal about its stance on security and privacy, it has recently begun utilizing that stance as a sales tool. If you’d like to keep personal data — anonymized or not — to yourself as much as possible, the company has messaged, then you should invest in Apple hardware. Read More



Study: Free Stuff Won't Convince Bloggers To Write About Your Startup

Sep 11, 11:25PM

How-To-Get-Free-Stuff-As-A-Blogger Once upon a time a startup sent me a full gasoline can full of coffee beans. These beans, once infused by the malodorous fumes of the plastic container, were useless. The can, which was fairly small, was never used and eventually recycled. In the end, a PR company probably charged a startup $10,000 to send me and about 200 other bloggers trash. The pitch was memorable in itself but I cannot… Read More



CrunchWeek: Slack, Diversity, And Have You Heard Of Apple?

Sep 11, 10:06PM

crunchweek-4-3 Welcome back to CrunchWeek, friends. We are glad that you are here. Very glad in fact, because the TC crew has new digs. New in that we just rebuilt a large chunk of the office — not new in that it’s the same space as before. But now it’s better, so we dragooned Megan Rose Dickey and Lucas Matney to come in and chat about the week’s most important stories:… Read More



Welcome To Hipster Hell, Tumblr Now Has Its Own Clothing Line

Sep 11, 9:49PM

Screen Shot 2015-09-11 at 2.52.08 PM If the pervasiveness of shitty memes on the web weren’t enough, it seems they’re soon going to be inhabiting the real world… worn by people walking on the streets of Earth. Tumblr just announced a new clothing line designed by 10 different Tumblr artists at New York Fashion Week, The New York Times reports. Read More



Rep A Cause With Facebook's New Temporary Profile Pics

Sep 11, 9:27PM

11667534_10102203860243201_2713296330820668368_n Your profile picture is the message you send most. There’s no easier, more ubiquitous way to raise awareness for a cause then splashing your pic rainbow for gay rights or green to promote the Arab Spring. Now Facebook is giving people a tool to leverage this tiny billboard. With its new Temporary Profile Picture feature that’s slated for a broader rollout, you can change your pic… Read More



Performance Evaluations In A Results-Focused Culture

Sep 11, 9:00PM

evaluation Netflix’s culture deck has been a source of inspiration for many businesses since it was first published five years ago. In it, Netflix argues that companies must find a balance between flexibility and responsibility: Afford employees the freedom to thrive and they will reward the company with outstanding performance; emphasize purpose, honesty and good judgment to attract top-tier talent. Read More



The Nest Is Being Robbed

Sep 11, 8:50PM

2495538130_9f01ab1a01_b Another day, another Tweetstorm by Chris Sacca about Twitter’s CEO situation. His tune is the same, with the volume turned up ever so slightly. Most importantly, the signal he’s sending out is very similar to an S.O.S. Since July 1st, Twitter’s interim CEO has been Jack Dorsey, and the chatter around who would be the next permanent CEO, succeeding Dick Costolo, has been nonstop. Read More



Translation Startup Unbabel Unveils New Smartcheck Technology

Sep 11, 8:46PM

Foreign language dictionaries on a keyboard to illustrate online translation. Unbabel, a startup backed by Y Combinator, that combines human editing and machine learning into an online translation platform, announced a new feature today called Smartcheck. The system consists of a translation service built on top of an intelligent translation engine. Translators sign up for work, then customers looking for translators can search by language, business skills and so forth.… Read More



Gillmor Gang LIVE 09.11.15

Sep 11, 8:40PM

Gillmor Gang Artcard Gillmor Gang – John Borthwick, Keith Teare, John Taschek, Robert Scoble, and Steve Gillmor. LIVE recording session has concluded for today. Gillmor Gang chatroom (during live show broadcast) on Chat Center Gillmor gang on Facebook HERE Gillmor gang Studios presents G3 – Tech – Women – Opinions G3 on Facebook HERE Read More



3D Touch Will Change The Way You Use Your iPhone

Sep 11, 7:39PM

AppleEvent_2015_46 Don’t call it Force Touch — Apple’s new flagship feature 3D Touch is a completely different software implementation of the technology that is already available on the Apple Watch and the new MacBook trackpad. 3D Touch is by far the most important improvement in the new iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus. It’s going to change the way we interact with our phones. Read More



Pitch Your Startup In The TC Radio Pitch-Off On Sirius XM

Sep 11, 7:08PM

techcrunch-radio1 Calling all entrepreneurs! The TC Radio Pitch-Off goes down every Tuesday at 6pm on TechCrunch Radio on Sirius XM Insight 121, and we need you to make it happen. Each week, five early-stage startups are selected to participate in the pitch-off, wherein they’ll have exactly sixty seconds to pitch to a panel of esteemed judges, including local VCs and (ahem!) John Biggs and myself. After… Read More



Legendary Productivity And The Fear Of Modern Programming

Sep 11, 7:00PM

codecode JavaScript master Douglas Crockford once said that software is the most complex thing that humans have ever created. It’s made up of intricate bits and bytes pieced together like virtual puzzles. The greatest programming minds are capable of using software to multiply massive integers that are bigger than the universe. Read More



This Week On The TC Gadgets Podcast: Toutes Les Pommes

Sep 11, 7:00PM

Screen Shot 2015-09-11 at 12.08.04 PM In case you missed it, which would actually be quite difficult, Apple had a press event this week. The company unveiled new Apple Watch wristbands, a new Apple TV and remote, the iPad Pro (which is massive), the Apple Pencil (lol) and two new generations of the iPhone. Suffice it to say, it’s been a long week, even with Labor Day Monday. We discuss all this and more on this… Read More




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